Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE

First edition.
Contemporary green half morocco bindings, spines uniformly sunned, with gilt fillets and dentelle motifs, marbled paper covers, morocco label "Marie Seillan" pasted on each volume, spine-ends rubbed, otherwise a handsome copy. Scattered foxing, paper on some issues a little browned.
Detailed volume contents :
- Volume 1: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores, 2 lithographs with the first two scores, an engraved portrait of Rossini, vignettes in the text.
- Volume 2: 25 issues (nos. 27 to 52) and 26 scores, vignettes in the text.
- Volume 3: 26 issues (nos. 1 to 26) and 26 scores (two scores are missing and have been replaced by three others). Complete...

Autograph manuscript by Louis Aragon, one page in blue ink on a leaf.

Precious study by Louis Aragon accompanying the serial publication in Les Lettres Françaises of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's novel L'Atelier d'un peintre (1833). Aragon rehabilitates the female poet-novelist canceled from the history of literature and snubbed by Existentialists, placing her in the tradition of socialist realism.

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Autograph manuscript by Louis Aragon, one page in blue ink on one leaf. Numerous crossed out words and rewritings. Slight rusting due to a paper clip, slight shadows of an ink transfer from another page. Published in Les Lettres Françaises, episode 16, 23...

First edition published by Gustave Revilliod.
Full bottle-green morocco binding, spine slightly darker decorated with compartments framed by quintuple blind fillets, date at tail, boards with frames of ten blind fillets, morocco doublure in water-green morocco framed with gilt fillet and bottle-green morocco listel, watered green silk endpapers, gilt-ruled edges, tooled headcaps, original wrappers preserved, gilt edges on deckled paper, slipcase lined with felt and edged in bottle-green morocco, binding signed by A & R Maylander.
Autograph inscription from the publisher to Monsieur [Alphonse] de Lamartine.
Superb copy, that of Alphonse de Lamartine.

First collected edition with some parts in first edition. Illustrated with two engraved and repeated titles and 4 out-of-text figures engraved on copper by Frilley, Cousin and Durand after Tony Johannot, Pujol, Devéria and Henri Monnier, on China paper laid down. Another edition by the same publisher in 3 volumes in-12, with unpublished pieces occupying the entirety of the third volume.
Contemporary half-glazed cherry red calf binding. Spine with false flat raised bands decorated with a large central blind stamp, with 2 compartments with multiple frames. Black glazed calf title and volume labels. Scattered foxing, one gathering browned pp. 250 to 256 in volume 1. A wide brown stain in...

First edition, one of 1500 numbered copies on alfa bouffant paper, the only issue after 18 on pur fil.
Spine and covers marginally discolored and sunned as usual, occasional foxing.

First edition reissued under new covers and relay title.
This rare collection was initially published in December 1833 under the title: L'amulette. Étrennes à nos jeunes amis.
Half dark green Russia morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt arabesques, gilt date at foot, gilt fillet on marbled paper boards, three scratches on first cover, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on pastedown, covers and spine preserved, elegant pastiche binding signed by Pouillet.
Work illustrated with a title vignette and 8 plates.
Some foxing of no great consequence.

Selection of 38 pieces for children.
Full tawny sheep binding with root-grain pattern. Smooth spine with gilt tooling, fleurons and decorative borders, rubbing notably to headcaps and joints. Fine stylized roll-tooled border. Orange shagreen title-label. Speckled edges. Contemporary binding. Leading edges rubbed, two small lacks at foot of second board. Scattered foxing. Illustrated with two engravings, including a frontispiece and title vignette. Initial letters and tailpieces.
Our copy is complete with all its pages, but ff. 121 and 123, 125 and 127, 137 and 139, 141 and 143 have been transposed.

First duodecimo edition of this selection compiled by Sainte-Beuve.
Half bronze sheep binding, spine in four compartments decorated with gilt fillets and dotted lines, chocolate shagreen title label, contemporary binding.
A few scattered light foxing spots of no consequence.

First edition of this very famous anthology.
Contemporary half dark green shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 4 fleurons. Top edge gilt. Light traces of rubbing. Fine copy, very fresh.
Rich and numerous contributions including those by Arthur Rimbaud, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Alphonse de Lamartine, Victor Hugo, Alfred de Vigny, Pétrus Borel, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, André Chénier, François-René de Chateaubriand, Charles Nodier, Ulrich Guttinguer, Alphonse Daudet, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Léon Dierx, Théodore de Banville, Léon Cladel, Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Goudeau, Paul Verlaine, Guy de Maupassant...

Anthologie des poètes français du XIX^è siècle
First collective edition for each of the volumes. The very first and early anthology of all the most important 19th century's French poets, including the contemporary ones like Rimbaud or Mallarmé.

Publisher's bindings in full grey cloth, spines decorated with a polychrome floral motif, floral freizes at the top and bottom of the spines, bevelled boards illustrated with a polychrome decoration consisting of an allegory of poetry and a floral decoration, brown or blue paper endpapers, all...

First in-12 edition and first edition of this choice made by Sainte-Beuve.
Notice from Sainte-Beuve.
Binding of the era in full shagreen aubergine, back with four false nerves decorated with double black nets, framing of a broad black fillet and a gilded fillet on the plates, guards and counterparts of white moire silk, framing of a golden lace on the counterplates, golden thread on the cuts, all golden edges.
Some traces of discoloration on the boards, small foxinges.
Beautiful and touching autograph shipment signed by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore to Madame Angélique-Félicité Bosio, Marquise de Lacarte, daughter of the famous neo-classical sculptor François-Joseph...

Second edition illustrated with two engravings, one in frontispiece.
Rare autograph signed by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore to Mr. C. Piellat.
Bound in half eggplant, smooth back decorated with golden dots, cold filets and double golden cribs decorated with golden arabesques, slightly rubbed upper cups, marbled paper plates, two light snaps on the cuts, guards and Paper to the vat, Contemporary binding.
Some small foxinges mainly on the margins of some leaves.

The rare first edition and the first separate edition of Marie, under another title.
Charming contemporary Romantic marbled sheep, spine with gilt arabesques, title-piece and volume labels of red morocco, gilt friezes to head and foot of spine, two joints slightly cracked, small lack to foot of one joint on second volume, gilt roulettes to edges of covers, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, one upper corner slightly bumped.
With two frontispiece engravings.
A good and rare copy in an attractive contemporary Romantic binding of the author's third work.

The first collected edition of his poetic works, first in parts (for the third part), with four hors-texte illustrations copper engraved by Frilley, Cousin and Durand after Tony Johannot, Pujol, Devéria and Henri Monnier.
This copy is enriched with five autograph letters from the author's son Hippolyte from between 1888 and 1891 to Félix Delhasse (1809-1898), a Belgian journalist who was a close friend of the Desbordes-Valmore family.
Contemporary half purple morocco over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments richly gilt with compartments and fleurons as well as blindstamped typographic motifs, gilt fillet to covers.
Spotting and staining to several...

First edition of this keepsake, illustrated with 7 steel engravings by English painters and engravers.
Full glazed midnight blue calf Restoration binding. Smooth spine decorated with romantic tools and rolls, as well as a central hot tool. Boards decorated with a large central oriental tool and blind border frames. Gilt edges. Watered endpapers. Magnificent Romantic binding in perfect condition.
Some foxing in the margins of the engravings, due to the tissue guards.
Texts by Heine, Valmore, Dumas, Lamartine, Girardin, Deschamps...