Jean COCTEAU

La belle et la bête - Journal d'un film

Editions du Rocher, Monaco 1958, 14,5x19,5cm, broché.

COCTEAU Jean. La Belle et la Bête – Journal d'un film [Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film]
éditions du Rocher, Monaco 1958, 14,5 x 19,5 cm, original wrappers
First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on vélin pur fil, the only grand [...]

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Antoine GALLAND & Charles NODIER

Les mille et une nuits, contes arabes

Chez Galliot, à Paris 1822-1825, 13x21,5cm, 6 volumes reliés.

New edition of the French translation review of the original texts and expanded and several new tales of translated languages ??orientales.bindings full sheepskin fawn, back smooth ornate gilded decorative motifs, parts of title and volume number of red morocco, rubbed caps with some gaps, gilded [...]

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First edition

Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU

De l'esprit des loix

Chez Barrillot et fils, à Genève 1749, In-4 (19,5x25,7cm), xxiv, 326pp. et (2) xiv, 398pp., 2 volumes reliés.

New edition, rare, after the original remarkable scarcity of published in 1748. It is one of two editions published in 1749 in Barrillot, the latter in two volumes and contains for the first time a large folding map . It is this issue that is referenced by Brunet.
Binders full mottled calf and [...]

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Antonin ARTAUD

Oeuvres complètes

Gallimard, Paris 1956-1994, 12x19cm pour les volumes 1, 2 et 3 - 12,5x19,5cm pour les volumes 1 bis et 4 jusqu'à 13 -

Collected edition, first for some parts, one of 415 numbered copies on vélin labeur fo each volume, the only large paper copies.
A small dampstain to foot of spine of the first volume.
A good and rare complete set in 28 volumes and 26 books (because of a supplement with the volume I and [...]

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First edition

Jean-Marie Gustave LE CLEZIO

L'extase matérielle

Gallimard, Paris 1967, 14,5x21,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 36 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête.
One small trace of sunning, not serious, to foot of spine.
A good copy.
 

1 000 €

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Michel de MONTAIGNE

Essais de Michel Seigneur de Montaigne

De l'imprimerie de la fonderie stéréotypes de Pierre Didot l'Aîné, et de Firmin Didot, Paris 1802, 11,5x20cm, 4 volumes reliés.

Edition established from that of 1595, established by Mademoiselle. Comments Naigeon, which was in the hands copy of Bordeaux. It is illustrated with a portrait of the author of the famous captioned "What do I know?" frontispiece.
Binders of the time in full red morocco of Russia, back smooth [...]

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First edition, Signed book

André BRETON

Manifeste du surréalisme. Poisson soluble

Editions du Sagittaire, Paris 1924, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph of the poet André Breton Guy Lavaud.
Back slightly insolated minor and as usual, a small spot on the sidelines of the first flat.
 

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First edition

Jean-Charles LE VACHER DE CHARNOIS

Recherches sur les costumes et sur les théâtres de toutes les nations, tant anciennes que modernes

Chez M. Drouhin, à Paris 1790, in-4 (19,5x26cm), (2) 150pp. (2) et 175pp., 2 tomes reliés en un volume.

Edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 54 engraved plates in the manner of wash, most in color, with Alix, Wrinkled and Sergeant from Chery.
Contemporary binding in full marbled fair calf, back with five nerves decorated with boxes and gilded florets, parts of title and volume number of [...]

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