First edition, Signed book

Blaise CENDRARS

Enveloppe envoyée à son ami Jacques-Henri Levesque à son adresse parisienne

Lourmarin 21 Février 1945, 14,5x11,5cm, une enveloppe.

Envelope addressed by Blaise Cendrars to his friend Jacques-Henri Levesque and posted on February 21, 1945 from Aix-en-Provence.
"Mr. Jacques Levesque.
6 rue Armand Moisant
Paris XV. "

80 €

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Hector BERLIOZ

Les grotesques de la musique

A. Bourdilliat & Cie, Paris 1859, 11,5x18cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

Les Grotesques de la musique [The Musical Madhouse]
A. Bourdilliat & Cie | Paris 1859 | 11.5 x 18 cm | publisher's original binding
First edition.
Publisher's green cloth, spine and boards ruled in blind, yellow endpapers and pastedowns, pastedowns soiled, edges spotted.
A [...]

6 800 €

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Francis CARCO

L'homme traqué

Albin Michel, Paris 1922, 10,5x17,5cm, relié.

First Edition, printed stamp of press service at the bottom of the second plate.
Binding half shagreen havana corners, back with four nerves set with gilded nets, paper plates effects moiré and gold, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers.
Autograph signed by [...]

80 €

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Yves BRAYER, Prosper MERIMEE

Lettre de Madrid - Les combats de taureaux

Editions de la couronne, Paris 1945, 20,5x28,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

Illustrated edition of a frontispiece and 19 drawings by Yves Brayer, one of 15 numbered copies on Japan Ot-Su-Ki, leading print after 1 Auvergne.
Nice copy.
Preface by Henri de Montherlant.
The book is full of his suite of 16 bullfighting boards presented in a separate [...]

1 200 €

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Louis ALTHUSSER

Eléments d'autocritique

Hachette, Paris 1974, 13x20cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Ex-dono feather above the signature of Louis Althusser.
Handwritten signature of Louis Althusser on the first guard.

120 €

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Pierre LOTI

Prime jeunesse suite au Roman d'un enfant

Calmann Lévy, Paris s.d. (1919), 18x19,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Two small tears in the head and foot of the spine, nice copy wide-margined.
 

450 €

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Théophile GAUTIER

Le capitaine Fracasse

Charpentier, Paris 1863, In-12 (12x18cm), 373pp. ; 382pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Rare and sought after first edition, according to Clouzot, especially in contemporary binding
Binding half black shagreen vintage. Back with nerves adorned with 4 irons and various nets, dotted on the nerves, double as the caps, cold to delimit the boxes. title label in black morocco. A slight [...]

2 000 €

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Georges GUIERRE

Pirouettes et sarcasmes suivis de poèmes excentriques

Editions des presses modernes, Paris 1939, 15,5x21,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of the few non-trade copies on vellum BE.
Nice copy.
Prefaces of Pierre Mac-Orlan and Roland Dorgelès.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, drawing by Gus Bofa.
Autograph signed by Georges Guierre, in the form of an unpublished quatrain entitled "Bells", to Jules Kaehrling

50 €

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