Gilbert LELY

New edition with some parts in first edition as entirely revised.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Gilbert Lely: "Pour monsieur Thierry de Clermont-Tonnerre qui a bien droit à la reconnaissance du marquis de Sade, auquel il a donné par deux fois l'hospitalité de sa belle collection 10/18. Mais n'est-il pas son parent par alliance ? (Voyez ci-après pages 458, 461, 489, 644.) Hommage très distingué de Gilbert Lely" ["For Monsieur Thierry de Clermont-Tonnerre who has every right to the gratitude of the Marquis de Sade, to whom he has twice given hospitality in his beautiful collection 10/18. But is he not his relative by marriage? (See...

First edition of the second work of Gilbert Lély, one of 200 numbered copies on laid Rives, only draw after 4 Japan.
Some stings mainly affecting the guards.
Signed autograph Gilbert Lely to Jacques Einstein, the autograph had to be initially written for another dedicatee, Gilbert Lély erased the first name and replaced it with the legible, the ink having flowed on some letters.

New edition printed on Alfa paper, he was fired 9 Japan in leading copies.
Signed autograph of Gilbert Lely Professor Georges Blin: "... Professor at the Sorbonne, with my thanks for his prompt and helpful response in which I noted the existence of a eulogy of Helen by Isocrates I did not know, and of which this book is the implied comment. Our dedicated and attentive ... "
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies, reimposed on green paper, the only large paper copies with 7 Japon.
A very good copy retaining its leaf "conditions".

First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on vellum, ours one of the few hors commerce copies, the only issue after 20 copies on orange paper.

Spine slightly sunned as usual, with a small tear to head of spine; a fine copy.

Illustrated with a frontispiece by Max Ernst.

Whimsical inscription on a presentation copy to Surrealist painter Yves Tanguy: "in memory of a past not unlike a Henri III sideboard. Lély." (A monsieur Yves Tanguy en souvenir d'un passé pareil à un buffet Henri III)

First edition for which it was not drawn great papers for the first volume, one of the 35 copies out of trade reserved to the author and numbered on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies for the second volume.
Back of the first cracked volume, a tear restored at the foot of the first plate of the first volume, a small spot at the foot of the first plate of the second volume.
Signed autograph of Gilbert Lély to Jean Hugues on the second volume: "To my friend from Provence, Jean Hugues, bookseller of the king, affectionately, Gilbert.A height of solitude, an unknown accent of grace and fury ... GL"

first edition, one of the 450 copies numbered on Rives vellum, the only print after 9 Japan.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author of Gilbert Lélyà Gisèle Moline: "... Maya seems to me a piece condemnable, but I would like to have made it, since you admire it."
We enclose a business card of Gilbert Lély on which he added by hand the address of Georges Crès.
Some small foxinges.

First edition on ordinary paper.
A good copy.