ARLAUD (Jean) 1/ Carnets 1913-1938. Toulouse,... - Lot 232 - Briscadieu

ARLAUD (Jean) 1/ Carnets 1913-1938. Toulouse, Imprimerie Camilli et Fournier, 1965-66 (2 volumes) . Followed by : 2/ GAUBERT (Georges) : Un Grand Pyrénéiste Jean Arlaud. Toulouse, Privat, 1940. 1/ (CARNETS) : 2 volumes in-8 square : 550pp. 1f. / 482pp. 1f. ; photographic illustrations, drawings and maps in the text. Edition of 503 copies, one of 50 on Stella paper (no. 29). Both volumes are packed with original documents; - A/ (volume I): - 1 original photograph showing Arlaud on skis (signed, dated 1913) - 1 original photograph showing bearded Arlaud pouring a glass of Cointreau (Himalaya 1936?) - 1 autograph letter signed (to Roger Parant?) (dated June 1937): making an appointment for an evening when the film on the Himalayas will be shown, and advising his interlocutor not to walk on the border ridges "without being called out from everywhere" - The booklet entitled: Carnets de Jean Arlaud, 1913-1927. Foreword by Jean-Victor Parant. Pau, Librairie des Pyrénées, Paris, Champion, Slatkine, 1986 (plaq. in-8: 1f., XIIpp., 2 photographic plates) - A large portrait photograph of Arlaud with his sherpa cap (Himalaya, 1936) signed M. Grillet (reproduced inverted on the reverse of the title of volume 1) - B/ (volume II) : - 1 x 2-page typed letter to Roger Parant summarizing the costs and sales of the "Carnets" (signed by Jean Prunet and A. Viala) - 1 large photograph on heavy paper showing Arlaud sitting in the mountains writing his "carnets" (reproduced on page 149 of Volume 2) - The subscription form for the book. 2/ (GAUBERT): In-8: 132pp. 1f. frontispiece portrait, 17 photographic plates out of text. Edition of 150 nominative head copies reprinted in-8. Copy of Roger Parant. 3 volumes in a sheathed slipcase, ½ blue filleted chagrin, slightly sunned smooth spines, oblique titles on spines throughout, gilt heads. Publisher's covers preserved. A very fine copy, with numerous documents enriching these excellent texts. J. PRUNET, the moral heir of Jean ARLAUD and the "Groupe des Jeunes", is responsible for this veritable sum of modern Pyreneanism. Arlaud's character excited some and annoyed others. Such are the leaders of men. Whatever the case, he is a key figure in the history of Pyrenean mountaineering, and his aura would probably have grown if life had allowed him the time to carry out his current project: leading "his" expedition to the Himalayas.