First edition, Signed book

Paul VERLAINE

Bonheur

Léon Vanier, Paris 1891, 12x19cm, relié.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on Hollande paper as justified and initialed by the publisher, the only large paper copies
Half grey morocco by J
Weckesser, spine in six compartments, place and date at foot of spine, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, covers and spine preserved, top [...]

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MOLIERE

Oeuvres de Molière

Imprimerie de P. Prault, Paris 1734, 6 vol. in-4 (21,5x29,5cm), (6) lxxij ; 330pp. et (6) 447pp. et (6) 442pp. et (6)

Masterpiece Boucher as an illustrator and unquestionably one of the finest books made ??in the first part of the eighteenth ^century. Second edition. We rarely see Note that this edition.

The illustration includes a beautiful portrait by Coypel engraved by [...]

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Maurice BLANCHOT (Nicolas-Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE)

Sade et Restif de la Bretonne. Tapuscrit avec de nombreux ajouts autographes [Ensemble] Un livre ...

S.n., s.l. 1948, 50 feuillets (21x27cm); 3 feuillets in-8 (12x22cm), un feuillet 13,5x10,5cm; 17 feuillets in-4 (21x27cm).

Original typescript of 50 leaves, comprising Blanchot’s collected writings on Restif de la Bretonne, which appeared successively in Critique n°22 in March 1948, under the title “Un livre vivant [A Living Book] ”, and Les Cahiers de la Pléiade n°4 [...]

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Charles-Marie-René LECONTE DE LISLE

Hésiode, Hymnes orphiques, Théocrite, Biôn, Moskhos, Tyrtée, Odes anacréontiques. Traduction ...

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1869, 16x24,5cm, relié sous emboitage.

first edition of the French translation by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle.
Bound in red half-morocco with corners, back with five nerves, gilded head, contreplats and paper guards to the tank, blankets and back preserved, a few rare foxinges, beige canvas casing, modern [...]

5 000 €

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Jean-Marie Gustave LE CLEZIO

Le procès-verbal

Gallimard, Paris 1963, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, of which there were no large paper copies, an advance (service de presse) copy
Handsome autograph inscription from Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio to Maurice Blanchot
A good copy with the right justification page dated 3 September 1963.

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Alexandre DUMAS

Histoire d'un casse-noisette. - La bouillie de la comtesse Berthe

Hetzel, Paris 1845, 13,5x20,cm, 2 volumes reliés en 1.

First edition of each volume, for which there were no large paper copies.
Contemporary half brown shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments, the bands with gilt fillets and triple gilt compartments with gilt decorative motifs, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. [...]

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Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT

Journal des Goncourt - Mémoires de la vie littéraire

Charpentier & Cie, Paris 1887-1896, 12x19cm, 9 volumes reliés.

Edition on paper for each of the current volumes. Binders bradel the full percaline cherry, smooth back adorned with a golden central floral pattern, dates and double gilt in tails, marine parts as shagreen, preserved covers, binders then signed by Durvand. Precious autograph signed by Edmond de [...]

3 800 €

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Gustave FLAUBERT

Salammbô

Michel Lévy, Paris 1863, 15x23cm, relié.

Original edition on the current paper.
Binding half fir sorrow, back with five nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate pasted on a guard, contemporary binding.
Some light spots without gravity.
Rare autograph signed by the author (Louis) [...]

15 000 €

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