First edition, Signed book

José Maria de HEREDIA

La nonne Alfarez

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1894, 8,5x15cm, relié.

Edition on current paper. Binding to bradel half calico indigo, smooth back with a gold floral pattern, golden double thread tail piece as shagreen navy boards marbled paper wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding. Autograph signed by the author Eugene Pailleron. --- Please note that [...]

300 €

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Gaston SCHEFER

Premières poésies

Georges Barba, Paris 1875, 12,5x18,5cm, relié.

First Edition. Bound in half morocco cherry back with five nerves, date tail marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, binding signed companying. Nice and rare example. Mention the back of a bibliophile contreplat. --- Please note that the [...]

150 €

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Henry MURGER

Les buveurs d'eau

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1855, 11x18cm, relié.

First French edition, the first having appeared the year before in Brussels, published by Lebègue.
Half navy blue shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine (very slightly faded) in six compartments a little rubbed (but not significantly), marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
A very rare [...]

1 200 €

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Francis PICABIA, Georges RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES

Jésus-Christ rastaquouère

Collection Dada, s.l. [Paris] s.d. (1921), 16,5x23cm, broché.

Francis PICABIA
Jésus-Christ rastaquouère
Collection Dada | [Paris] [1921]| 16.5 x 23 cm | original wrappers
First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies, the only printing with 10 Chine and 50 pur fil paper.
Illustrated with drawings by Georges [...]

800 €

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Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foix, Chevalier d' ARCQ

Le palais du silence. Conte philosophique

S.n., à Amsterdam [Paris] 1754, 2 tomes en un Vol. in 12 (10x17cm), (2) 229pp. , 270pp., relié.

Rare first edition of this literary hoax falsely attributed by the translator Cadmus Millet in a long explanatory preface. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Cochin. Full sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Threadbare cap head portion and the upper joint open [...]

650 €

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Hyppolite Léris de la Tude CLAIRON

Mémoires d'Hyppolite Clairon, et réflexions sur l'art dramatique

Chez Buisson, à Paris An VII, In 8 (12,5x20cm), (4) 360pp. (1), relié.

First Edition. Sheepskin full of marbled time. Smooth back adorned with jewels and 5 casters. Two corners lightly bumped. Good copy. Memoirs of the famous actress Hyppolyte the Tude Clarion (1723-1803), who was revered by the greatest (Diderot, Voltaire, Louis XV ...). The actress was not content [...]

250 €

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Comte de CHAMPAGNY

Les antonins

Ambroise Bray, Paris 1867, 14x23cm, 3 volumes brochés.

Second edition. A slight lack angular head of the first flat of the first volume, a small marginal tear on the front cover of the second flat, otherwise nice copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any [...]

100 €

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Francis CARCO

Prisons de femmes

Les Editions de France, Paris 1931, 13x20cm, broché.

First edition, one of 70 numbered on "pur-fil" paper, leading copies 37 with Holland paper. Small tears stuck back in heads and feet of the jaws, tiny angular gaps in the first flat foot. Rare copy with all margins. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize [...]

100 €

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