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First edition

Guillaume APOLLINAIRE

Le guetteur mélancolique

Gallimard, Paris 1952, 12,5x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 26 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, the tirage de tête. 
Illustrated with a frontispiece by Pablo Picasso, preface by André Salmon.
Rare and nice copy despite a small tear in the margin of lower cover.

1 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Louis ARAGON

Poème manuscrit : Amour d'Elsa "Jaloux des gouttes de pluie..."

s.d. (circa 1944-1945), 20,5x27cm, 2 feuilles sous chemise et étui.

autograph poem published in The New Heartbreak, 1948, part "Love of Elsa", 2nd poem "Jaloux ..."

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First edition

Gaston BACHELARD

La terre et les rêveries du repos

José Corti, Paris 1948, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 30 numbered copies on Lafuma, the only deluxe printing ("tirage de tête").
Very nice copy despite a slight shadow on the half-title page.

1 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Gaston BACHELARD

La terre et les rêveries du repos

José Corti, Paris 1948, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome autograph inscription from Gaston Bachelard : "A Raymond Queneau avec mes souhaits d'un jonastique bonheur."
Spine sunned with two small and clear dampstains to foot.

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First edition

George BARBIER, (Charles Frederick WORTH)

Le Tombeau des secrets. Robe d'intérieur, de Worth (pl.7, La Gazette du Bon ton, 1922 n°1)

Lucien Vogel éditeur, Paris 1922, 18x24cm, une feuille.

Original color print heightened with gold, printed on vergé paper, signed in the plate.

An original print used to illustrate the Gazette du bon ton, one of the most attractive and influential 20th century fashion magazines, featuring the talents of French artists and other contributors [...]

170 €

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First edition, Signed book

Lewis CARROLL, Arthur RACKHAM

Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles

Librairie Hachette et Cie, Paris s.d. [1908], 23,5x28,5cm, relié.

Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles [Alice in Wonderland]

Librairie Hachette et Cie | Paris n. d. [1908] | bound
With 13 illustrations by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece portrait of Alice, a nominative hors [...]

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First edition

Marc CHAGALL

[Moïse et le buisson ardent] Then the Angel of the Lorde appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out ...

Léon Amiel, Paris, New-York 1966, 36x49.5cm, une feuille.

Original color lithograph, one of 15 proofs on Japon impérial paper reserved for the artist and his collaborators, the only printing with 20 more on Japon and 250 on Arches paper. Unsigned proof, as all proofs in this series, other than the frontispiece.
A superb proof on Japon paper specially [...]

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First edition, Signed book

René CHAR

Dehors la nuit est gouvernée

GLM, Paris 1938, 19,5x29cm, en feuilles.

Edition originale, un des 25 exemplaires numérotés sur Holland papere, tirage de tête.
spine et plats légèrement et marginalement décolorés comme généralement.
Bel et rare exemplaire.
Envoi autographe signé de René Char : "A Louis Broder. Ami, quel goût ont les [...]

2 500 €

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First edition

Albert COHEN

Solal

Nrf, Paris 1930, 17x22cm, relié.

First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on vergé Lafuma Navarre, re-imposed in Tellière quarto, tirage de tête.
Half light brown morocco by Goy & Vilaine, the spine in six compartments, covers and spine preserved, slightly soiled, top edge gilt.
A nicely bound copy. 

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First edition

COLLECTIF & Marcel AUBERT

La cathédrale de Metz

Auguste Picard, Paris 1931, 27,5x35,5cm, 2 volumes en feuilles sous chemises et étuis.

First Edition, one of 550 numbered copies on laid "pur-fil" paper, single draw with Holland paper 30. The volume of text is illustrated with numerous figures in Text. The volume of plates 63 has its well plates numbered in Roman numerals as well as its 2 color plates of stained glass and its board [...]

450 €

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First edition

René DAUMAL, Etienne COURNAULT

Le contre ciel

Université de Paris, Paris 1936, 15,5x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 230 numbered copies on Auvergne, only printing after 10 Chine and a few hors commerce.
Illustrated in frontispiece with an original lithograph by Etienne Cournault.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally faded as usual.
A complete copy, retaining its advertising band.

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First edition

Fedor DOSTOIEVSKI

Le joueur et les nuits blanches

Librairie Plon, Paris 1887 (S.d.), In-12 (12x18cm), 276pp., relié.

First french edition translated by E. Halpérine.
Binding half gray sheepskin contemporary. Back with false nerves adorned with nets. Golden titles. Binding clears evenly in its upper part. Good copy, fresh.

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First edition

W. HOWARD

Les plantes à feuillage coloré : Recueil des espèces les plus remarquables servant à la ...

J. Rothschild, Paris 1865, 136pp. 60Pl., relié.

First french edition illustrated with 60 color plates and 46 in-text figures in black. Translation by J. Rothschild, with the help of several horticulturists.

Binding in half red shagreen contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. Title and date golden. Golden slices. White guards moiré. [...]

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Kimbei KUSAKABE

Yokohama shashin

1890, 14,6x19,5cm, autre.

Recueil composé de 24 photographies à l'albumine colorisées à la main. 
Album laqué rouge relié à la japonaise en acordéon. Premier plat laqué avec une scène figurant un homme tirant une jinrikisha avec une femme portant une ombrelle. En arrière plan, le mont Fuji de [...]

1 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Emmanuel LEVINAS

A l'heure des nations

Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1988, 13,5x22cm, broché.

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Emmanuel Lévinas to Jacques Bonniet.

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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, dit [...]

Les hymnes à la nuit

GLM, Paris 1949, 11x19cm, broché.

Nouvelle édition de la traduction française, un des exemplaires numérotés sur Alfa paperma, seul tirage après 16 vélin du Marais.
Agréable exemplaire.

 

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First edition

OVIDE & F. DESAINTANGE

Traduction en vers des Métamorphoses d'Ovide, poème en quinze livres, avec des commentaires.

Chez Déterville, à Paris An IX - 1800, in-8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) xlv ; 406pp. 16pp. et (4) 465pp. (1f. errata), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition of the translation and notes from St. Angelo, adorned with a frontispiece and fifteen figures from Picart engraved by Jourdan. Note that during the Revolution and again in 1800 the name of the author was shot in Desaintange.
Full blond marbled calf contemporary. Back smooth [...]

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First edition

Edgar Allan POE & Charles BAUDELAIRE

Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1857, 10,5x17,5cm, relié.

First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire. No limited issue on luxury paper printed.
Contemporary navy blue binding, spine decorated in blind and gilt, marbled paper covers, marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, speckled edges.
Copy slightly trimmed.

800 €

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Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

La Nouvelle Héloïse ou Lettres de deux amans, habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes

Chez Duchesne, à Paris 1764, in-8 (12,5x19,7cm), iv ; 454 pp. et (4) 478 pp. et (4) 504pp. et (4) 431 pp. (1), 4 volumes reliés.

Contrefaçon parisienne de la première édition sous ce titre, les précédentes s'intitulaient en effet Lettres de deux amans (dont l'originale a paru en 1761). L'éditeur Duchesne a pris la liberté de changer la division originelle des lettres (Tome 1 : 65 lettres, tome 2 : [...]

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First edition, Signed book

Jean-Paul SARTRE

La nausée

Rieder, Paris 1938, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of the advance copies ("service de presse").
Discreet and small restorations on the spine
Handwritten inscription signed by Jean-Paul Sartre to Louis Tesson.

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Friedrich von SCHILLER

Théâtre

Charpentier, Paris 1841, 11x18,5cm, relié.

Edition of the French translation.
Binding navy blue glossy half calf, back smoothes decorated with double gilded coffered, gilded friezes at the head and tail, a joint with traces of friction, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, marbled, bookbinding romantic [...]

100 €

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First edition

William SHAKESPEARE, Arthur RACKHAM

Le songe d'une nuit d'été

Hachette et Cie, Paris 1909, 23x30cm, relié.

Le Songe d'une nuit d'été [A Midsummer Night's Dream]


Hachette et Cie | Paris 1909 | 23 x 30 cm | publisher's paper boards
First edition in French, one of 300 numbered copies on vélin à la forme paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies after 30 on [...]

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First edition

Fernand SIMEON, ( RODIER)

Vous avez vu ? Cette petite. Robe de promenade en Parquetine de Rodier (pl.24, La Gazette du Bon ...

Lucien Vogel éditeur, Paris Mai 1920, 18x24cm, une feuille.

Original color print, printed on vergé paper, non signed.

An original print used to illustrate the Gazette du bon ton, one of the most attractive and influential 20th century fashion magazines, featuring the talents of French artists and other contributors from the burgeoning Art Deco [...]

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First edition

STEPHEN-CHAUVET

L'île de Pâques et ses mystères

Editions "Tel", Paris 1935, 24,5x31cm, broché.

First edition, one of 1300 numbered copies
Beautiful and rare copy.
Illustrated book of 68 inset boards (all boards printed on one side) and an unprecedented watercolor by Pierre Loti reproduced in colors.

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First edition

Joseph Mallord William TURNER, LEITCH RITCHIE

The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner

Henry G. Bohn, London 1857, Fort grd. in-8 (18,5x28cm), 336pp., relié.

First edition illustrated with a title engraved with a vignette of the chateau Gaillard and 61 inserts on steel by Turner and engraved by Higham, Brendard, Smith, Willmore ... The whole on strong vellum.
Publisher's binding in full shagreen green leather. Richly decorated false nerves back. [...]

700 €

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First edition, Signed book

André VELTER, Ernest PIGNON-ERNEST

Zingaro suite équestre et autres poèmes pour Bartabas

Gallimard, Paris 1998, 14x20,5cm, broché.

Edition originale sur papier courant.
Une petite tache marginale sans gravité sur le premier plat.
Ouvrage illustré de dessins d'Ernest Pignon-Ernest.
Envoi autographe signé d'André Velter au poète Charles Dobzynski : "... ce grand galop de mots jeté à tous les horizons..."
 

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First edition

Dominique VIVANT DENON

Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : Divinités Egyptiennes. (Planche 96).

Didot, Paris 1803, 40x54cm, une feuille.

Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the “Imperial edition” of the Description de l'Égypte, or ‘Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the [...]

230 €

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