Jean-Jacques SEMPÉ

First edition illustrated with drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé.

A pleasing copy.

Presentation copy inscribed by Jean-Jacques Sempé to a woman named Bernadette, with an original drawing depicting a street corner and a traffic light turning green.

Dear Sempé, as in a sentence by Proust, one does not immediately see where your drawing is heading, until suddenly some microscopic detail becomes the most important thing on the page and illuminates the whole with a prodigious clarity. The mountains you scribble (traffic jams, crowds, buildings, shops) are placed at the disposal of mice (grandmothers...

First edition, illustrated with 10 compositions by Jean-Jacques Sempé, one of the numbered copies.

Publisher's full wood-grain style marbled boards, plain flat spine.

An attractive copy of this fable recounting the sudden disappearance of every form of paper, bringing modern society to a standstill.

New edition illustrated with drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé.

An attractive copy.

Signed presentation inscription from Jean-Jacques Sempé to Roger Karenvent, enhanced with an original drawing depicting a seated painter at work on a canvas.

First edition illustrated with drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempé.

Publisher’s binding in full beige cloth, smooth spine, blue endpapers and pastedowns; a handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket.

Dated and signed presentation inscription from Jean-Jacques Sempé to a woman named Christiane, embellished with an original drawing depicting a cyclist towing, in his trailer, an enormous flowerpot.