André MAUROIS (1885-1967). 2 signed autograph manuscripts, Preface for Napoleon, and Napoleon and the Lift-Boy; 6 1/2 pages in-fol. in sheets, and 6 in-4 pages tabbed in a red semi-percaline vol. Preface for Jacques Bainville's Napoleon (André Sauret, collection "Douze meilleures œuvres historiques", 1967): "Napoleon remains one of the favourite heroes of the human race . " - Article on the "biographical fury" that has seized writers, publishers and readers since the war " .