First edition, one of the review copies.
A \"Collection Goncourt\" bookplate affixed to the centre of a flyleaf.
A very good copy of this novel, winner of the 1961 Prix Goncourt.
Fine signed presentation inscription from Jean Cau to Jean-Louis Bory: \"Pour J.L. Bory ce livre plein d'espoir et de soleil et d'amour en amical hommage.\"
First edition of the French translation, one of 40 numbered copies printed on rag wove paper, the only deluxe issue.
Minor offsetting at the foot of the final blank flyleaf, otherwise a rare and attractive copy.
First edition, printed in a small, numbered edition on alfa paper.
Rare and fine copy.
Signed presentation inscription from Jean de La Varende to the bibliophile Maurice Gorrée.
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies printed on imitation Japan paper.
A fine copy.
Signed presentation inscription from Jean de La Varende to the bibliophile Maurice Gorrée.
First edition, one of 135 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
Foreword by Jean Cocteau.
A rare and attractive copy, with full margins.
Dated and signed autograph inscription from Roger Peyrefitte to the bibliophile Maurice Gorrée.
First edition, one of 11 numbered copies on Hollande paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
A rare and attractive copy.
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Hollande paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
A rare and attractive copy with full margins.
Three works bound in one volume, comprising one first French translation and two first editions.
Half fawn calf, paste-paper boards, green corners, smooth spine decorated with six gilt bands and three blind-stamped tools, two titles stamped on the spine (that of the Mémoire sur l'université is not present), speckled edges. Some rubbing and soiling to the binding, light foxing.
A curious gathering of two scientific texts, one devoted to the telegraph and the other to optical instruments, together with a polemical pamphlet by the founder of the Collège Stanislas.
Edition published in the same year as the first edition, one of the numbered copies bound to an original design by Massin.
Publisher's full orange cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with the original wraparound band and transparent acetate dust jacket.
Signed autograph inscription from André Malraux to J. C. Lévêque on the half-title page.
On the preceding page, a stamped impression featuring the Cross of Lorraine and the inscription \"Exposition Charles De Gaulle- mairie de Vincennes du 2 au 9 novembre 1973\".
First edition, one of 140 numbered copies on Arches pur fil paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
An attractive copy with full margins.
First edition, one of only 11 numbered copies on Hollande paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
A rare and attractive copy, illustrated with two drawings by Jean de La Varende, engraved on wood by H. Cols.
First edition, one of 130 numbered copies printed on Arches pure rag paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
A very good copy.
Signed and inscribed by Jean de La Varende to the bibliophile Maurice Gorrée.
First edition of the French translation with a plate of the alphabet, a large folding map at the end of the first volume (cf. Quérard V, 561), and a few headpieces and tailpieces.
Contemporary full marbled fawn calf, smooth spines gilt with fillets and bands, blond morocco title labels, volume labels, gilt roll to board edges, French curl paper pastedowns, marbled edges. Pages 333 to 348 of the table of contents are bound between pages 304 and 305 of the text in the second volume. Significant losses to the boards caused by worming, especially to the lower board of the first volume, other leather defects to the joints and spines, headcaps damaged, pastedowns lifting, dampstains and...
First edition.
Original ochre publisher's boards, black title label to spine. Complete with the original illustrated dust jacket, featuring a photograph of a submachine gun on the front panel, with a small tear at the head of the spine.
A fine, full-page autograph inscription signed by Luciano Lutring, dated 9 February 1968: « Ai fratelli Pierrot e Jean-Pierre Noël per ricordarsi anche nella lontananza, che un futuro migliore ci attende... La mia stima, amicizia e riconoscenza ; non vi sarà mai di troppo ! Luciano Lutring. » (To the brothers Pierrot and Jean-Pierre Noël, so that they may...
Edition illustrated with 20 original Art Deco etchings by Jacques Mauny, one of 200 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only deluxe issue apart from 25 copies on Japon.
Full caramel morocco binding, spine with four raised bands outlined in black fillets, date gilt at foot, gilt rolls on the headcaps, turquoise morocco doublures framed by triple gilt fillets, brown moiré silk endleaves followed by moiré-effect paper endleaves, original wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, gilt fillets on board edges. Matching slipcase with caramel morocco edges, blue-grey felt lining and sides covered in moiré-effect paper. Magnificent binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
An...
First edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies printed on vélin labeur paper.
Publisher's binding after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
A fine copy.
First edition on ordinary paper, with a press copy punch mark at the foot of the rear wrapper.
Green half morocco with corners, spine faded, smooth spine decorated with gilt arabesques incorporating red morocco onlays, gilt fillet borders to the marbled paper boards, slightly faded at the edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, two bookplates affixed to one pastedown. Binding signed by Le Douarin.
Signed autograph inscription from Colette to her friend Andrée Laferté.
Our copy is further enriched with an autograph postcard from Colette to her friend André Laferté, mounted on a stub at the...
First edition on ordinary paper.
Bound in burgundy half morocco, spine with five raised bands outlined in black, boards covered in moiré-effect paper, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, speckled edges.
Signed autograph inscription from André Malraux to Madame Simone Sivry.
First edition on ordinary paper, without edition statement, bearing the correct colophon dated 30 November 1918.
The 128 deluxe paper copies would only be issued six months later, during the summer of 1919.
Light spotting to the margins of the endleaves, small l and a faint dampstain to the title page and following leaves, a bluish stain to the margins of pp. 339-340 inherent to the quality of the paper.
Bound in contemporary half forest-green morocco over corners, spine with five raised bands ruled in black, gilt date at foot, cat’s-eye patterned paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed...
Edition limited to 150 numbered copies on wove paper, illustrated with 32 magnificent original colour compositions by Paul Jouve: one on the wrappers, 13 full-page illustrations, 12 headpieces and 6 tailpieces.
The work is further embellished with 25 decorative initials designed by François-Louis Schmied.
Our copy is housed in the publisher's original paper-covered board slipcase, lined with rice paper, and matching vellum-style board portfolio with ties.
Minor splits to the head and foot of the slipcase.
A rare and beautifully preserved copy.
First edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies, the only deluxe issue apart from 13 copies on Hollande paper.
Publisher's pictorial boards after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
Spine slightly compressed at head and foot, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, one of 515 copies printed, of this catalogue published on the occasion of a Surrealist exhibition held at the Galerie Nina Dausset from 7 to 30 October 1948.
Preface by André Breton.
Booklet with an illustrated frontispiece.
Rare and attractive copy.
Definitive edition, one of 1,040 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Publisher's binding after the original design by Paul Bonet.
Spine slightly faded, as is commonly the case.
First edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Two very faint areas of sunning at the head and foot of the spine, otherwise a very good copy.
Publisher's illustrated boards after the original design by Mario Prassinos.
First edition.
Contemporary red half morocco, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt and decorated with gilt ornaments, the initials "L.B." gilt at foot, olive-green morocco lettering-piece, marbled-paper boards, marbled endpapers, corners rubbed.
Scattered foxing, some rubbing to spine and boards.
Printed library stamp of Léon Bienvenu on the title-page.
Precious presentation copy inscribed and signed by Emile Zola to the journalist and man of letters Léon Bienvenu, known as Touchatout.
The first editions of two major works by Jacques Necker, bound together.
Half green calf, stone-marbled green paper boards, smooth spine decorated with gilt bands and blind-stamped tools, three blind-stamped ornaments, black title labels, stone-marbled paper pastedowns, sprinkled edges. Very slight rubbing to the binding, an ink stain on the first free endpaper and the first title page, occasional light soiling to a few leaves.
Two works published on the eve of the Revolution, in which Necker, formerly Director-General of Finances under Louis XVI, defends his management of the public accounts and goes on to examine the religious foundations of the...
First edition, one of 39 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre pure rag laid paper, specially printed in quarto tellière format, the deluxe issue after a single copy on Chinese paper.
Contemporary burgundy morocco-backed corners, spine with four raised bands bordered by black fillets, boards covered in geometrically patterned decorative paper, marbled endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
A rare and handsome copy, attractively bound, of this novel awarded the 1933 Prix Goncourt.
First collected edition, with no deluxe copies issued, this being one of the press copies.
A very good copy.
Fine signed presentation inscription from Jean Cocteau to the writer, art critic and television personality Max-Pol Fouchet: "à Max Pol cette moëlle de mes os. Jean 1956."
First edition, one of the copies on ordinary paper.
Losses and tears to spine, small losses to corners of the boards, which are slightly sunned at edges.
Printed stamp "Fondation Dufraine - Institut de France" at head of upper wrapper.
Fine signed presentation inscription from René Maran to his friend Charles Kunstler: "A mon bon vieil ami Charles Kunstler pour lui rappeler que, la plupart du temps, notre vie est tissée de petites joies et de grandes peines de coeur. Tout affectueusement. René Maran."
New edition, one of 2,200 numbered copies on vélin labeur paper, the only deluxe issue apart from 16 copies on pur fil paper.
Publisher's boards after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
Slight, inconsequential fading at the head and foot of the spine, endpapers uniformly browned, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe issue.
A fine and rare copy.
First edition of the French translation.
Illustrated with 147 reproductions of works by Marc Chagall, and complete with the four original lithographs, two of which are double-page.
Publisher's full grey cloth binding. A fine copy, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
First edition on ordinary paper.
Small loss to the lower right corner of the title page.
Contemporary Bradel-style binding in indigo-blue half cloth, smooth spine with brown sheep label, marbled paper boards.
Provenance: from the library of Marcel Allain, co-creator of Fantômas with Pierre Souvestre, with his manuscript bookplate on a paper label pasted to the inside front board.
First edition, without edition statement, published simultaneously with the Paris edition issued by Pagnerre.
Contemporary red half-morocco bindings, smooth spines decorated with double gilt fillets, broad blind fillets and gilt floral tools, gilt rolls at head and foot, slight rubbing to two headcaps, red cloth boards decorated with blind-stamped floral motifs, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, a few corners slightly bumped, a few minor nicks to some edges, contemporary bindings.
Some foxing and pale marginal staining, as usual, a small black ink stain in the margins of one gathering in the second volume, a slight loss to the upper right-hand corner of the first leaves of the...
First edition, one of 212 numbered copies on pur fil paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
Occasional light foxing, chiefly affecting the edges.
Accompanied by a newspaper clipping and a photographic postcard reproducing a portrait of Georges Bernanos by Laure Albin-Guillot.
Half red morocco over marbled paper boards, with morocco corners, spine with four raised bands outlined in black, minor abrasions to the bands professionally restored, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt with the original deckle edges preserved, original wrappers and spine bound in.
A handsome copy in an attractive binding.
First edition, one of the numbered copies.
Publisher's binding after the original binding design by Paul Bonet.
Richly illustrated.
A fine copy.
First edition, with no deluxe copies issued.
A small loss to the upper right-hand corner of the title and half-title pages.
Signed presentation copy from Roland Barthes to the writer, art critic and television personality Max-Pol Fouchet.
First edition, with no deluxe issue.
A very good copy.
Illustrated with drawings by Bernard Buffet.
Extremely rare original edition of this notice compiled by the director of the Museo Michoacano, exploring the development of indigenous medicine from the era of the Tarascan Kingdom (c. 1300–1530), which encompassed nearly the entire state of Michoacán.
No copies recorded in the CCF (Collective Catalogue of France).
Spine with minor losses, some foxing, and marginal tears to the boards.
desde los tiempos pre-columbianos hasta el ano 1875. Morelia [Michoacán de Ocampo], Government Printing Office, 1886, 16mo, original printed wrappers, uncut, soiled covers. 2 blank leaves, pp. 5–80, 47 pp., one colored figure in the text. No copies recorded in the CCF. Extremely rare...
First edition, one of 100 copies specially printed on a quarto format (in-4 couronne), ours one of 64 numbered copies on annam de rives paper.
Two faint dampstains to the spine, internally in attractive condition.
Illustrated with 5 drawings by Giorgio de Chirico.
As stated in the limitation, our copy does indeed contain the two original etchings by Giorgio de Chirico, each signed and numbered by him in pencil.
Long unpublished autograph letter signed by Marcel Vertès to Carlo Rim, six pages. Written in a large, flowing hand in black ink on three leaves, stapled together with an envelope and a newspaper clipping. Some light foxing and folds.
A long polemical letter in which Marcel Vertès, a year before his death, defends his attack on abstract art and reproaches his old friend Carlo Rim for failing to support him.
First collected edition, with no deluxe issue; one of the press copies.
Two small tears at head of spine.
Rare and fine signed autograph inscription from Robert Desnos: " à toutes les sirènes de "Fontaine" (quand boirai-je de ton eau ?)..."
First edition, one of 415 numbered copies on pur fil paper.
Endpapers lightly browned in places.
An attractive copy.
First edition of Michel Seuphor's poems with drawings by Ania Staritsky.
Illustrated wrappers slightly yellowed and soiled, a light corner crease to the upper cover.
First edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Publisher's binding after the original design by Mario Prassinos.
Spine very slightly sunned, as usual, with a small nick to the upper headcap.
First edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies on vélin labeur paper.
Publisher's boards after the original design by Mario Prassinos.
Spine very slightly faded, as usual; a pleasing copy.
First fascicle of the abridged Chinese translation of My Life and Loves, the erotic autobiography of Frank Harris, the Irish-American writer also known for his biography of Bernard Shaw. In the title of this edition, Harris's work is likened to the Jin Ping Mei, the great classical Chinese erotic novel.
Printed wrappers lightly soiled, toned and creased, small tears to spine, first leaf detached, some further soiling and tears to the leaves.
Extremely rare Chinese adaptation of a long-banned licentious autobiography.
First edition, illustrated with 4 plates (including the portrait of Gustave Eiffel as frontispiece), 103 text figures and, at the end, 7 plates, including a folding color map showing the points visible from the top of the Eiffel Tower.
Publisher's cloth binding, flat spine slightly faded and decorated with compartments adorned with blind-stamped ornamental motifs, blind-ruled frame to covers, slight and inevitable rubbing to joints, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns marginally faded as often, speckled edges.
Exceptional presentation copy, inscribed by Gustave Eiffel to Gabriel Hanotaux on the half-title of his great work on the history of the tower from its origins...
First edition on ordinary paper.
Light foxing to the top edge.
A pleasing copy complete with its publisher's belly band.
Signed presentation copy from Georges Perec to the writer, art critic and television personality Max-Pol Fouchet.
Illustrated edition with drawings by Pierre Alechinsky.
A few minor spots to the boards.
A fine copy, complete with its publisher's wraparound band.
Signed and dated presentation inscription in pencil by Pierre Alechinsky to his friend Georges Raillard, a friend of and specialist in the work of the painters Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies, who also served as director of the Institut Français in Barcelona.
First edition, one of 950 numbered copies on vélin labeur paper.
Publisher's binding after the original design by Paul Bonet.
A fine copy complete with its original acetate dust jacket.
Definitive edition illustrated with 7 plates and a map.
Spine and boards marginally sunned, with a small loss to the upper right corner of the front board.
Stamped "Fondation Dufraine - Institut de France" on the verso of the front board.
Fine signed presentation inscription from René Maran to his friend Charles Kunstler: "A mon bon vieux Charles Kunstler ce petit témoignage d'amitié pour ses étrennes de 1952. Bien amicalement René Maran."
Thirteenth volume of the Création series edited by Marie-Jeanne Durry, containing poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Andreu, Pierre Autin-Grenier, Marc Baronheid, Pierre Borghero, Jacques de Bourbon Busset, Andrée Caraire and others. Illustrated with reproductions of the manuscripts of the poems and with compositions by Ania Staritsky, Survage, Bernard Moninot, Lydie Chantrell, Michel Seuphor, Victor Segalen, Madeleine Follain-Dinès, Max Jacob and others.
Illustrated cover by Ania Staritsky, slightly yellowed.
First edition, one of 260 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Fine copy.
Illustrated edition with in-text and full-page woodcuts.
Publisher's bindings in red half shagreen, spines with four small raised bands decorated with gilt double compartments set with gilt ornaments, publisher's name gilt at foot of spines, blind-ruled frame on red paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, contemporary bindings.
Some damage to the bindings, rubbing and scuffing to some volumes, light foxing.
First edition.
Publisher's full pink boards, smooth spine, covers illustrated with drawings by Jean Effel.
A pleasant copy, accompanied by an invitation card to an exhibition of drawings by Jean Effel in Saint-Denis.
Illustrated with drawings by Jean Effel.
Signed and dated presentation inscription from Jean Effel to his friend Jacques Courreye: "... mon très cher copain, un ami qui ne l'oubliera pas..." embellished with a drawing of a small bird holding a flower in its beak.
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe issue.
Contemporary half aubergine morocco over marbled-paper boards, with corners, spine very slightly faded, four raised bands, decorated with green morocco onlays, blind-stamped fleurons and arabesques, date gilt at foot, gilt fillet borders to the boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, original wrappers and spine preserved, binding signed Zendel.
A handsome wide-margined copy in an attractive contemporary binding.
First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Edouard Manet by Bracquemond and an etching by Edouard Manet after "Olympia".
Black half morocco over corners, spine with five raised bands ruled in blind, date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, stone-patterned endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, binding signed by Stroobants.
A rare and handsome copy, attractively bound.
Rare first edition.
Not recorded by Sabin, who lists for the same year, published by Pagnerre, a work entitled France et Amérique, ou Des Institutions américaines.
Contemporary red half morocco, spine with four raised bands, compartments and blind fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, minor rubbing, speckled edges.
Some foxing, a pale dampstain to the upper right-hand corner of the leaves, and a small pasted label at the foot of one pastedown.
Very rare first edition of this theological pamphlet by Edmond de Chazal (1809-1879), a convert to Protestantism, opposing an attempted Catholic reintegration.
No copy recorded in the CCF.
Boards soiled with losses at the corners, some foxing.
First edition, uncommon, of this account of a journey through Italy following a thoroughly classical itinerary: Sens, Dijon, Lucerne, Reinthal, Pfeffers, the Grisons, Tyrol, San Bernardino, Locarno, Bellinzona, Lugano, Como, Milan, Pavia, Turin, Genoa, Lucca, Pisa, Naples, Salerno, Caserta, Rome, Florence, Milan, the Simplon Pass, etc.
Small losses and tears to the margins of the covers, some foxing.
The author was clearly determined to preserve his anonymity: not only has his identity never been established, but he also left unsigned the autograph presentation inscription in our copy to the Comtesse Duplessis de Pouzillac, written opposite the title page of the...
First edition, one of 18 numbered copies on imperial Japan paper, the deluxe issue.
A tear at the foot of the front wrapper near the spine, small marginal tears to the wrappers, with a minute loss to the rear wrapper.
An attractive and rare copy, untrimmed and retaining its full margins.
First Gallimard edition, one of 13 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after a single hors commerce copy on Holland paper and 12 copies on coloured paper, likewise hors commerce.
A pleasant copy complete with the publisher's review slip.
Half black shagreen binding with bands, smooth spine, title and author's name gilt-lettered, boards, endpapers and pastedowns of cat's-eye paper, original wrappers and spine preserved.
Fine signed autograph inscription from Joë Bousquet: "Au camarade attentif dont le nom flotte sur des pensées, et flatte mes longs espoirs, avec mon amitié reconnaissante à Monsieu Hirsch. JoeBousquet Carcassonne le 5 juin...
First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe issue.
Contemporary red half shagreen bindings by Bellevallée, spines slightly faded, raised on five bands tooled with black fillets, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt on the rough, original wrappers and spines preserved.
A rare and handsome copy, attractively bound.
Rare first edition (cf. Sabin, 18331. Not in Leclerc.)
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched state, under modern marbled-paper wrappers.
Some foxing.
Uncommon first edition.
Contemporary full almond-green cloth, spine faded and decorated with a gilt fleuron and double gilt fillet at foot, brick-red morocco lettering-piece, boards slightly faded at the edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
In this historical survey, Father Raphaël (1883-1961) traces the story of the cedar, emblem of Lebanon, from ancient Phoenicia to the French Mandate.
First edition (cf. Monglond I, 944. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths or Einaudi).
Interesting Revolutionary-era document printed in opposition to the restoration of the Compagnie des Indes, which had lost its monopoly in 1769, and in support of freedom of trade in Asia: "Nos besoins, ceux de nos Manufactures mêmes nous rendent indispensable le Commerce de l'Inde. Toutes nos Colonies, celles des Isles de France et de Bourbon sur-tout, sont intéressées à le soutenir : si nous l'abandonnions, ces dernières nous échapperoient peut-être à leur tour, et nos rivaux qui sacrifieroient tout pour elles, et pour nous voir renoncer à cette partie du Monde, nous rendroient d'autant plus leurs...
First edition of Antonin Artaud's French translation.
Repaired tears and small areas of loss at the head and foot of the spine, with minor marginal tears to the covers.
Signed presentation copy inscribed by Antonin Artaud to Alin Laubreaux.
Edition illustrated with two frontispieces, one of them a portrait of Fénelon, and twenty-four full-page plates, one for each of the twenty-four books of the Avantures de Telemaque. Copy printed on thick Dutch laid paper.
Bound in full red straight-grain morocco, covers framed with dotted borders, smooth spines decorated with seven dotted fillets, gilt titles and volume numbers, dotted rule on board edges, gilt inner roll-tooled borders, marbled paper pastedowns, all edges gilt. Some very slight rubbing and soiling to bindings, spines sunned, some foxing, offsetting from the plates onto the half-titles.
Bookplate of Thomas Pares (1716-1805), a lawyer in...
Rare first edition, illustrated with a contemporary photographic print mounted as a frontispiece.
Tears and small losses to the spine, boards slightly faded at the margins, contents in pleasing condition.
No copy recorded in the CCF and only three copies listed in WorldCat (British Library, National Library of Australia, University of California).
Extremely rare pamphlet devoted to the unveiling of the monument to Edward VII erected in the centre of the Champ de Mars in Port Louis.
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Annales de chimie et de physique, 3rd series, vol. VIII.
Our copy is preserved in its original stitched state under temporary blue paper wrappers.
A rare and attractive copy.
Only two copies recorded in the French Union Catalogue (CCFr), at the Sorbonne and the Institut de France.
Autograph presentation inscription from Benjamin Lewy to the physicist Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) on the upper wrapper.
First edition, with no deluxe issue, and bearing the correct printer's imprint date.
An unusual copy, with no edition statement on the title page but with the spurious mention « deuxième édition » at the head of the rear wrapper.
Minor tears at the head and foot of the spine neatly repaired, small losses at the head and foot of the front wrapper restored, paper browned as usual.
First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Kaji pearlescent Japan paper, the deluxe issue.
As stated in the limitation, our copy is complete with the separately printed facsimile on 18th-century laid paper of a manuscript page specially written by Jean de La Varende.
A few small spots of foxing to some leaves, boards lightly discoloured, otherwise a pleasant copy complete with its chemise and slipcase.
Signed presentation inscription from Jean de La Varende to the bibliophile Maurice Gorrée.
Typed letter, dated and signed in blue ink by Fernandel, addressed to his close friend Carlo Rim, the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker who was also his biographer, concerning their joint film, L'Armoire volante.
One page on Fernandel's letterhead.
Some light soiling and folds from mailing.
A document that sheds light, through the exchange between an actor and his director, on the inner workings of French film production in the late 1940s.
First edition, one of the review copies.
Text and photographs by Claude Arthaud and François Hébert-Stevens. A fine copy despite some foxing to the lower edge.
Publisher's full beige cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its polychrome photographic dust jacket.
Signed presentation inscription from Claude Arthaud to (Christian) Melchior-Bonnet, additionally signed by François Hébert-Stevens.
First edition, with no deluxe copies printed.
Publisher's full sand-coloured cloth, smooth spine, complete with the illustrated dust jacket.
Illustrated with photographs by Glasberg.
A fine copy.
Rare first edition.
According to the CCF, copies are held only in Paris and Nancy.
Our copy is preserved in its original state, in plain yellow wrappers.
The only edition, considerably expanded from a 28-page pamphlet published in 1860 under the title Essai sur le régime alimentaire des Anciens.
Born into a Lorraine dynasty of physicians, Antoine-Constant Saucerotte was born in Moscow in 1805 and died in Lunéville in 1884.
He received his medical degree in Paris in 1828 before settling in Lunéville, where he successively became chief physician of the civil and military hospital (1838) and professor of natural history at the lycée. A member of...
First edition, one of 200 copies printed on hollande, the only deluxe issue.
Bound Bradel-style in three-quarter dark green morocco, flat spine with date at foot, cat's-eye paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved; binding signed by Carayon.
A few minor foxmarks to the boards and some of the deckle edges.
A rare, untrimmed copy of Guy de Maupassant's masterpiece, handsomely bound by Carayon.
Signed autograph manuscript, 6 pages, of Georges Courteline's story Le Phénomène, later published by Flammarion in 1897 in Un client sérieux.
Numerous deletions; one passage does not appear in the printed versions of the text.
Green Bradel boards, author and title lettered in gilt lengthwise on spine. Manuscript on fragments of leaves of lined paper, pasted onto six pages. Some rubbing and soiling to boards, figures in blue pencil written over the text, traces of glue and light soiling to leaves.
Original manuscript of a story full of self-mockery, in which Georges Courteline recounts...
First illustrated edition, with original lithographs by Renée André-Piot, one of 600 numbered copies on Vidalon royal wove paper.
Some foxing.
Autograph presentation inscription signed by Joseph Kessel to Jacques Lengrand.
Accompanied by an original Roger-Viollet photograph, with the agency's stamp on the verso, showing Joseph Kessel seated at a table in the La Cloche d'Or restaurant in Paris in 1952, cigarette in hand, beside a young woman.
Creasing to the right-hand margin of the photograph.
Manuscript annotations by Roger-Viollet and two stamps on the verso of the photograph.
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on Holland paper, comprising the deluxe issue.
Fine copy.
First edition on ordinary paper.
A fine and rare copy.
First edition, one of 247 numbered copies on laid paper, the only issue after 3 copies on deluxe paper.
Only one copy recorded in the CCF (BnF).
Rare copy of the second play written by the Mauritian author Arthur Martial (1899-1951), one of the notable figures of French-language literature on the island.
New edition from Furne illustrated with 47 figures (Johannot, Raffet, Scheffer) including 27 portraits, and a large folding map of the theater of war at the end of the last volume. Although the edition saw multiple reprints after 1850, all editions from the 1830s, close to the first and to the first illustrated edition, are much rarer. This edition differs from the first illustrated by a greater number of portraits that replaced the suite created by Ary Scheffer, of which a selection is present. At the end, the speech by M. Thiers upon his reception at the Académie française.
Contemporary half-cherry red glazed calf binding. Smooth spine with two Restoration tools, a central mirrored...
First edition of the French translation.
Contemporary half green chalgrin, spine very slightly faded, with five raised bands ruled in gilt, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners very slightly bumped, a minor nick to one edge, speckled edges.
Preface by Emile Bergerat.
First edition, one of 85 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, the deluxe issue.
Two minute losses to the upper right corners of the endpapers.
Red half shagreen over marbled paper boards with corners, spine with two slender raised bands decorated with gilt cross-hatching and black fillets, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Montval paper, the deluxe issue after 6 copies on nacré Japan paper.
A few minor foxing spots, chiefly affecting the edges.
Complete with the duplicate wrappers and spines.
