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** Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. Germinie Lacerteux. Philadelphia: Printed for Subscribers by George Barrie & Son, (1897).  Octavo,  full blue crushed morocco, morocco and gilt inlays of flowers on covers and spine, lettered in gilt, inner inlaid morocco and blue moirée silk doublures, all edges gilt.  Spine a little darkened, light rubbing of joints, else fine.   A charming scene of Germinie  in a diaphanous white gown gazing out a window is painted on the fore-edge.
With etchings by Louis Muller and drawings by George Jeanniot. Each plate comes in four variants: one in bistre on Japanese etching-paper, remarque; one on papier de Chine, mounted on plate paper; one on India paper impressed on Japanese vellum; and one on Dutch handmade paper, in colours. Missing the 3rd plate of “Germinie tempted to Murder”.
Edition Magnifique of Chefs-d’oeuvre du Roman Contemporain.     One of five copies, printed for Warren R. Fales. With the bookplate of Adolph Zukor.
http://RandallHouseRareBooks.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6e6a3e109b701be58e2c88fe2&id=4587bcb79f&e=bd2fd632c5 Laid in is a holograph letter by Edmond de Goncourt, dated 31 October, [18]74 to “Monsieur” in which Goncourt regrets that he is unable to find some notes the gentleman is asking about. He says “...mais le bombardement de 1871 y a jeta ‘un tel disordre que je n’ai pas retrouver la note ...” (but the bombardment of 1871 has made such a mess that I will never find the note).
Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896) and his brother Jules Alfred de Goncourt (1830 - 1870) collaborated on several books, of which Germinie Lacerteux is considered their finest. It was first published in 1864 and  the authors described Germinie  as 'the first truly working-class novel'. http://RandallHouseRareBooks.us7.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=6e6a3e109b701be58e2c88fe2&id=f8d798dc89&e=bd2fd632c5
Edmond established the Academie Goncourt which since 1903 has awarded a prize for to  contemporary French writers, considered the highest honour possible in French literature.
Although he was more of a businessman than a film buff, Adolph Zukor, the longtime head of Paramount Pictures during its heyday, was a key figure in the development of the powerful studio system that ran Hollywood from the late '20s through the '60s. One of the very first studio moguls, Zukor's was truly a rags-to-riches story, and his success was borne of hard work, ambition, and a shrewd ability to understand the public's whimsical taste. Adolph Zukor was born in Risce, Hungary in 1873, and at age 16 immigrated to the U.S. and found a job working as a sweeper at a New York furrier. Within a few years, Zukor was running his own fur shop in Chicago. In 1903, Zukor branched out and bought an amusement arcade. Two years later, he and Marcus Loew teamed up to buy a chain of arcades. Eventually he became the treasurer to Loew's chain of movie theaters. It was Zukor who saw an enormous untapped fortune within the pockets of the upper and middle-class folk who considered moving
pictures vulgar and refused to go to the tacky little theaters and arcades to see them. Using the motto "Famous Players in Famous Plays. He signed beautiful Mary Pickford, the actress who captured the nation's heart and was Famous Players' headline star for years. Zukor purchased the tiny Paramount distributions and began buying up movie theaters until Paramount had a monopoly on making, distributing, and exhibiting films. Soon it became one of the biggest studios in Hollywood. Interestingly, Zukor had almost nothing to do with the actual filmmaking process, preferring to run the company from New York so he could remain closely tied with the financial end. Paramount thrived until the early '30s, when financial woes nearly destroyed it. Though many wanted Zukor out, he tenaciously remained at the company's helm. In 1935 he was succeeded as president by Barney Balaban. Zukor then became chairman of the board, a position he would hold until his death at age 103 in 1976. Zukor
substantially added to an already vast fortune when he bought into Gulf & Western Oil. In 1948, Zukor was awarded a special Oscar for his contribution to the industry. He published his autobiography, The Public Is Never Wrong, in 1953. - Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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