SCHOOLBOY HUMOR AND OPERA. 3 handwritten notebooks: - Lot 255

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SCHOOLBOY HUMOR AND OPERA. 3 handwritten notebooks: - Lot 255
SCHOOLBOY HUMOR AND OPERA. 3 handwritten notebooks: - ANONYMOUS. [Manuscript] - Journal of the Lyon Hospitals’ Boarding School. Saturday, September 29, 1928, published by Berryer and Millet. The Big Dummies Up Against the Wall... Fire! Lyon, (1930s?), school notebook, 17.5 x 22 cm, unpaginated. Paperback, cloth spine. - Document in good condition. Written in black ink, very legible, no cross-outs. Medical student’s musings, in prose, transcribed later. Following this, in the same hand: “We’re in the Journal!” (First magazine upon the return of the troops). 1919, published by Berrier and Millet. - ANONYMOUS. [Manuscript] - Magazines of the Lyon Hospitals’ Internship Program. Let’s Talk and Let’s Shoot. Sept. 1924. Lyon, (1930s?), school notebook 17 x 21 cm, unpaginated. Paperback, cloth spine. - Document in good condition. Written in black ink, very legible, with no cross-outs. Medical student’s musings, in prose, transcribed later. Also included: Songs from the 1932 Internship Revue (The Waltz of the Venereals; Hymn to the Brothel; Freudism...); 1920: En tic et en toc (play in verse); The Unwed Mother; I Pee in the Sink; etc. - MARCERON (L.). [Unpublished manuscript]. *Fraichaurore*. Draft of a fairy tale in five episodes and eleven scenes. Paris, (1944), school notebook with “large squares,” “Sully” cover, 90 numbered folios. - The last few pages are blank. Cover is very slightly soiled. Manuscript in black and red ink, fine and legible handwriting, very few erasures, a few lines redacted. This is an (unpublished) draft of an opera libretto intended for the composer Henri Cuallau, which his colleague Maurice Fouret had presented to the author. A short preface and a synopsis are dated Paris, June 1941. This is followed by a note in which the author explains that he continued writing despite the composer’s growing lack of interest. This note is dated Paris, August 2, 1944 (in a different ink).
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