Jules ROMAINS

Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1932-1946. Twenty-seven octavo volumes.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Outhenin-Chalandre pure wove paper, the third deluxe paper after 10 copies on Japan paper and 30 on Dutch handmade paper, preceding 1,000 copies on alfa wove.

Volumes I-XVIII and XXV-XXVII are first editions. Volumes XIX-XXIV, first published in New York between 1941 and 1944 by the Éditions de la Maison française during Jules Romains’s wartime exile, are present in their Paris reissues of 1945 and 1946, uniformly printed on the same pure wove paper and incorporated into...

First edition dedicated to Louis Jouvet, one of 108 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre laid paper, reimposed in quarto tellière format, deluxe issue.
Half red morocco-backed marbled boards, spine with five raised bands framed with blind fillets, date gilt at foot, marbled paper sides, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by D.H. Mercher.
Premiered by Louis Jouvet at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées on 14 December 1923. The actor also oversaw the staging and set design; in 1933, the play was later adapted for the screen by Roger Goupillières, again starring Louis Jouvet in the leading role.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies printed on Lafuma-Navarre laid paper, the only deluxe copies.

A light halo stain to the upper edges of the front endpaper and half-title, otherwise a pleasing copy.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 28 on pur fil.

A handsome copy.

Autograph note dated and signed by Jules Romains, one page addressed to Thierry Maulnier regarding his production project of Knock (11 lines in blue ink on a card with the letterhead of his Paris address on rue de Solférino).
Lower left corner bears a printed stamp: "Fonds archives privées Th Maulnier".

First edition, with printed press service stamp at head of one endpaper.
Two small stains to margin of front cover, otherwise handsome copy complete with publisher's slip.
Precious autograph inscription from Jules Romains to his fellow Immortal of the Académie Française, General Weygand.

Autograph letter signed by Jules Romains to André Dignimont, two pages penned in black ink on a sheet of his personal letterhead.
Folding marks from mailing.