First edition, Signed book

Herbert George WELLS

War and the future. Italy, France, Britain at war

Cassell and Company, LondonNew YorkTorontoMelbourne 1917, 13,5x20,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

War and the Future. Italy, France, Britain at War

Second issue, printed in March-April 1917, one month after the first edition published in February of the same [...]

4 500 €

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Claude Joseph ROUGET DE L'ISLE

Essais en vers et en prose

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris An V de la République, 1796, 11x18,5cm, broché.

One of the very rare copies enriched with an autograph - there are fewer than a dozen - of this first edition, featuring the Marseillaise.
First edition illustrated with an engraving inset engraved by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Octave MIRBEAU

Farces et moralités

Charpentier, Paris 1904, 12x19cm, relié.

First edition on current paper.
Binding in half red percaline, smooth back adorned with a golden floret, double golden net tail, black titan title piece, marbled paper plates, preserved covers.
Stamp printed from the archives of the French Comedy on the title page.
Precious [...]

800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Michel FOUCAULT

Folie et déraison - Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique

Plon, Paris 1961, 14x20,5cm, broché.

Folie et Déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique

First edition, of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Spine [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Etienne DINET & Sliman BEN IBRAHIM

L'Orient vu de l'Occident

H. Piazza & P. Geuthner, Paris s.d. (1921), 11,5x19cm, relié.

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Small foxing on covers marginally and slightly sunned, one joint cracked and glued down to foot, a small tear to head of spine.
Illustrated, as frontispiece, with a drawing by Etienne [...]

1 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Julien BENDA

Tradition de l'existentialisme

Grasset, Paris 1947, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 42 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
A nice copy with edges preserved.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Julien Benda to Gaston Bachelard.
 

680 €

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First edition, Signed book

Paul VERLAINE

Jadis et naguère

Léon Vanier, Paris 1884, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition printed in 500 copies, of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Half morocco, covers preserved, binding signed by Thomas Boichot.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Paul Verlaine to Émile Le Brun.
This copy includes handwritten [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Giuseppe GARIBALDI

Les mille

Charles Silvain, Paris 1875, 13,5x22cm, relié.

First edition of the French translation.
Bound in red half heart with corners, back with four nerves adorned with nets and golden dots, a small snag on a nerve and two tiny holes in the head and foot of the back, name of the owner stamped in gold foot, boards of marbled paper, gilded nets in [...]

2 300 €

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