François MAURIAC

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved to the press office.
Precious autograph signed by François Mauriac at Lucien Descaves.
Light gaps at the head and foot of the back, small pits mainly affecting the guards.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph of François Mauriac Robert Garric.
Catholic reformist, he was the   founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him   in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench"   "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered i

First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved to the press service.
Signed autograph of François Mauriac Robert Garric.
Catholic reformist, he was the   founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him   in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench"   "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice s

First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on Alfa paper reserved to the press service.
Signed autograph of François Mauriac Robert Garric.
Catholic reformist, he was the   founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him   in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench"   "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdu

First edition, one of the copies of the press service.
Precious autograph signed by the author Marcel Ayme "... ah theater of others ...!"
Complete copy of his please insert back slightly insolated.

First edition on ordinary paper.
With 100 original photographs by Jean-Marie Marcel.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on Japan paper, the tirage de tête.
Superb black morocco by Semet & Plumelle, spine in five compartments, gilt date to foot, gilt roulettes to headpieces, seven gilt fillet frame to pastedowns of light green moiré silk, endpapers of moiré effect paper, gilt fillets to edges of covers, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt; slipcase edged with the same morocco and lined with rust-colored felt.
Autograph inscription signed by François Mauriac to the Countess Du Bourg de Bozas.
Ex-libris of the latter laid down on endpaper.
A fine copy, perfectly bound.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on light green paper, the tirage de tête, along with 10 hors commerce copies on China and 30 on Japan paper.
Half navy blue morocco over marbled paper boards by Bernasconi, spine in six compartments, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
This copy retaining its portrait of the author by Raymonde Heudebert, here in two states as in the copies of the tirage de tête.
A very good copy in a nice binding.

First edition on ordinary paper of the first book of the author, of wich there were only 5 large paper copies on China paper and 5 on Japon.
With an autograph inscription from François Mauriac to the Marquis d'Argenson.
A rare and good copy.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa.
A very good copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Signed autograph inscription by the author.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally soiled without significance, handsome interior condition.

First edition, one of 675 numbered copies on alfa.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on alfa.
A copy with good margins.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved to the press service.
Signed autograph of François Mauriac to a friend.
Tears stuck back in the top and bottom of the back.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa.
A very good copy.