COLLECTIF

First edition.
Contributions from Karl Boès, Ernest Raynaud, Mécislas Golberg, Félicien Fagus "Notes sur Pissarro"...
With 3 illustrations.

First edition and complete run of this bi-monthly journal by university students from Brittany.

A unique collection on coloured paper of L'Étudiant Breton, from issue no. 1 of the first year (January 20, 1906) to no. 39 of the third year (February 8, 1908), bound in one volume. The journal continued publication until March 1910 (no. 63), cf. BnF - Catalogue collectif des périodiques, vol. II, p. 537.

Contemporary half marbled calf with corners, smooth spine decorated with two gilt ermines, red morocco lettering piece laid horizontally, gilt fillet borders on marbled paper boards, hand-marbled endpapers and paste-downs, some original wrappers preserv

Rare edition presenting the bilingual text in two facing columns (French–Piedmontese).

No copy recorded in the CCF.

A scarce version in the Piedmontese dialect (then the vehicular language for much of the population of the former duchy), issued by one of the Protestant Bible societies, likely intended for the Waldensian and related communities still well established in the valleys.

Contemporary full black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands ruled in blind, rubbing to the spine, triple blind-ruled panels on the covers, yellow endpapers and pastedowns, inner hinge split, all edges gilt, corners lightly worn.

Copy presented to Wilbraham Taylor by The Fo

First edition of this issue entirely devoted to Le Douanier Rousseau.
Includes contributions by Guillaume Apollinaire, featuring "Le Douanier", René Dalize, Adolphe Basler, three poems and letters by Le Douanier Rousseau...
Illustrated with seven reproductions of Rousseau's works.
A rare and appealing copy despite minor marginal tears on the covers and a small stain along the right margin of the front cover.

First edition, printed in 1,500 copies on bouffant paper.

Includes numerous contributions by Marcel Béalu, Pierre Béarn, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Follain, Paul Fort, Max Jacob, Pierre Jean Jouve, Pierre Mac Orlan, Michel Manoll, Pierre Reverdy, André Salmon, Jules Supervielle...

A minor tear without consequence at the foot of the spine, which shows light sunning.

A fine and moving signed autograph inscription from Dominique de Roux, founder of the Cahiers de l'Herne, to his brother Xavier: "Pour Xavier qui est à l'origine de [L'Herne] ce premier cahier dont le second verra son nom au comité en témoignage de mon affection reconnaissante son vieux et

First edition in book form of this Mexican manuscript, printed in only 100 numbered copies.

Illustrated with 40 pages of color facsimiles.

Minor tears with losses to spine and covers, but internally clean and well-preserved.

Named after its inclusion—until 1882—in the magnificent collection of Mariano Téllez-Girón y Beaufort-Spontin (1814–1882), twelfth Duke of Osuna, this codex is only a fragment of a much more extensive text (the first surviving leaf bears the number 464), consisting of a 1565 legal memorandum by the Nahuatl Indians against the administration of Luis de Velasco.

It was acquired by the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid following the Duke’s death.

Very rare first edition published by the French Committee for the Defense of Immigrants, in tribute to and in memory of the 23 members of the "Manouchian-Boczov-Rayman Group" executed by the Nazis on 21 February 1944 at Mont Valérien.

Preface by Justin Godart (President of the French Committee for the Defense of Immigrants); afterword by Charles Tillon (Commander-in-Chief of the F.T.P.F.).

Illustrations.

Two horizontal shadows on the upper cover, spine very slightly sunned, minor tears and marginal losses to the pages of the final gathering.

“Sire, At a time when the different orders of the state are occupied with their interests; when everyone seeks to make the most of his titles and rights; when some anxiously recall the centuries of servitude and anarchy, while others make every effort to shake off the last links that still bind them to the imperious remains of feudalism; women—continual objects of the admiration and scorn of men—could they not also make their voices heard midst this general agitation?”