Jean AJALBERT

First edition, one of the rare copies printed on laid paper.
This issue consists of 4 pages and is illustrated with a comic strip by Henry Somm "... Et que Boudha t'accompagne ! ..."
Literary contributions by Alphonse Allais "Le temps bien employé", Jean Ajalbert "Paysages de femmes", Pierre Mille, George Auriol...
Le Chat noir is a weekly review created by Rodolphe Salis and Emile Goudeau, published from 1882 to 1897, with the aim of promoting the famous cabaret of the same name, serving as its memory. It published texts recited during the performances. It constitutes, moreover, an important literary and artistic testimony of the end of the 19th century, centered around bohemian life and the Parisian effervescence that characterized it.

Edition printed on pure Lafuma thread paper and illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Eugène Carrière engraved by Paul Bornet
Half chocolate brown morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with a gilt cartouche adorned with gilt and blind typographic motifs, marbled paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, lower corners slightly bumped.
Handsome copy.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine lightly browned with a small tear at head.
We include documents relating to the town of Beauvais.
Work illustrated with 108 plates.
Striking autograph inscription signed by Jean Ajalbert to Jean Lefranc: "... en marge de la littérature empoisonnée de tous les virus de la politicaille arrondissementière et locale..." ["... on the margins of literature poisoned by all the viruses of local and district politics..."]

First edition, one of 465 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Jean Ajalbert to Henri Béraud "... que j'ai suivi postérieurement à Berlin comme partout..." ["... whom I followed later in Berlin as everywhere..."]
Light foxing affecting mainly the margins of leaves, spine sunned with a light dampstain in the middle.
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library in Ré.

First Edition, one of the 16 numbered copies on Holland paper, small print in the smallest paper before 18 Japan.
Autograph dedication signed by Jean Ajalbert on the title page of the first volume.
Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter dated and signed by the author, three pages, addressed to an attorney in which he defends the mother of Roland Garros about legal problems related to the exploitation of the name of the "Garros" family, whom she was deprived of as she fought for the glorious memory of her son and has always maintained good relations with him ..., envelope attached to the letterhead of the Academy Goncourt.
We also enclose a photographic postcard representing J. Ajalbert signed in foot .
Covers illustrated by Busset with discharges of the illustration on the first two guards volumes.
Nice copy at all margins.

First edition of 51 numbered copies, initialed by the author on Whatman paper.
Modern pastiche Bradel binding of paper boards by T. Boichot, black morocco title piece, covers preserved.
With an original frontispiece lithograph by Paul Signac.
Worming to covers, a little foxing.
Rare.

first edition on current paper.
Binding in half shagreen burgundy, smooth back decorated with triple cold fillets at the head and tail, back with slight scratches without gravity, marbled paper plates, blunt upper corners badly reinforced with adhesive pieces, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, preserved covers and back, Contemporary binding.
Autograph signed by Jean Ajalbert to Armand Charpentier.
Our copy is complete with the amusing leaflet beginning thus: "the author absent from Paris came back there expressly for this 'press service'. Old habit of a man of letters, over sixty years old, who still grant some charm to a dedication, and do not reserve their signature to the passer-by in search of an autograph at a fixed price ... "to which Jean Ajalbert added a few words.

First edition published in a small number of copies, with no mention of deluxe copies.
Our copy lacks the drawing by J.F. Raffaelli as frontispiece.
Minor scattered worming of no consequence.
Rare copy of the author's third work.

First edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Preface by L. Bérard. Handsome copy.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A rare and handsome copy.

First edition, one of 292 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies with 200 on alfa.
Autograph inscription by the author to Jean Ajalbert.
Minor stains on spine and front cover without consequence, handsome interior condition.