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First edition of this fervent issue, with its front page exalting the memory of the Paris Commune.
Texts by Alain Krivine, Camille Foutrier, André Marty and Léon Trotsky on the Commune, Alain Bertrand and various correspondents of the review.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition of this issue condemning the Francoist dictatorship.
Texts by various correspondents of the magazine.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition of this issue partly devoted to the Francoist dictatorship.
Texts by Michel Thomas, Michel Rotman and various correspondents of the journal.
Handsome and rare copy despite a small crease to lower right corner of front cover.

Musée du jeu de paume, Paris May-June 1933, 19 x 25cm, stapled.

First edition of this exhibition catalogue illustrated with 24 black and white reproductions of the exhibited works. Foreword by Paul Valéry. Facsimile of the René Étiemble handwritten quotation about Chinese painting at the bottom of the title page. Cover slightly soiled, a snag in the centre of the first board, rust staining near the staples.

Exceptional autograph inscription signed by the painter Xu Beihong (nicknamed in French Ju Péon) on the title page: “à Monsieur Auguste Dupouy en hommage de sympathie Ju Péon Paris 1933” (“To Monsieur Auguste Dupouy as a tribute of sympathy Ju Péon...

15 August 1940 | 18,7x24,8cm | journal issue
First edition of the first and only issue of the Bulletin Officiel de la France Libre illustrated with the 'Affiche à tous les Français'. It also contains the first printed occurrence of the original text of de Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June, as well as the 7 August 1940 agreement between de Gaulle and Winston Churchill and the legal bases of the French government-in-exile.
Three leaves pasted together, slightly bent to the margins.
This exceedingly rare first official platform of communication for Free France was most certainly printed in very small numbers, essentially aimed at the members of the nascent government still...

First edition.
Tears with lacks to spine.
Text by Pierre Volboudt.
Issue illustrated with 8 lithographs by Antoni Tapies.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Antoni Tapies, in French, to his friend Georges Raillard who was director of the French Institute of Barcelona and great specialist of Antoni Tapies' work, and his wife Alice.

(COLLECTIVE WORK) Antoine BOURDELLE illustrated by Auguste RODIN
& Jean SAUDÉ & Georges LEPAPE & Marguerite BEAUZEE-REYNAUD
& Géo DORIVAL & SEM & BRUNETTA & BENEDICTUS & HALOUZE

Traité d'enluminure d'art au pochoir
First edition, one of 440 numbered copies, the only printing after 60 copies with supplements, our copy signed by the author on the justification page.
Notes by Antoine Bourdelle, Sem and Lucien Descaves.
Illustrated with 18 in-text pochoir illustrations and 14 demonstrative figures in black and...

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper.

Catalogue of the exhibition entitled “L'Art brut préféré aux Arts culturels” at the Galerie René Drouin in October 1949
René Drouin, Paris 1949, 17 x 20 cm, stapled
First edition of this manifest text by Jean Dubuffet.
Foxing and faint water-stains on the first board, second board faded, pleasant interior condition.
Work illustrated with reproductions of works by Jean Mar, Sylvie Lec, Clotilde Patard, Miguel Hernandez, Auguste For, Pierre Giraud, Bert, Joaquim Vicens Gironella, Gustav, Xavier Parguey, Arn, Scottie Wilson, Maurice Charrieau, Heinrich Anton, Julie Bar, Aloyse, Antinea, Gaston Chaissac, Beguin, Gaston Duf, Salingardes...

Les Ballets russes - Issue supplement on 18 June 1910 by Comoedia illustré
Lucien Vogel publisher, Paris June 1910, 24.3 x 32 cm, stapled
First edition.
Cover illustrated by Léon Bakst.
Illustrations.
Detached cover.

Anna Pavlova - Programme published by Comoedia illustré
Comoedia Illustré, Paris June 1921, 24.5 x 32 cm, stapled
First edition.
Pochoir illustrated cover by Nicolai Remisoff.
Illustrations.
Cover a little warped and one page with a small minor tear in the upper margin.

Les Ballets de Madame Ida Rubinstein - Académie nationale de Musique et de Danse
L'édition artistique, Paris November 1928, 15.5 x 20.5 cm, stapled
First edition.
Cover illustrated with the reproduction of an illustration pasted on the first board.
Illustrations.
Some pages detached in the centre of the book.