First edition

Jules VERNE

L'étoile du sud. Le pays des diamants

Hetzel, Paris 1884, 242pp., relié.

Illustrated first edition. 63 engravings and a map after Benett. CH catalog in fine.
Cartonnage of the publisher said "To the initials" of fir green color signed Magnier tail. second board in the rosace cold. Beautiful first plate with particularly brilliant golds. Coins rubbed, and the 2 of [...]

500 €

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First edition

Jean TARDIEU, Elie LASCAUX

Il était une fois, deux fois, trois fois... ou la table de multiplication en vers

Gallimard, Paris 1947, 25,5x33,5cm, broché.

First edition illustrated with 92 original compositions in color by Elie Lascaux, one of 65 numbered copies on pur fil de Lana paper, the tirage de tête.
Lightly sunned covers, small tears to spine.
Nice copy. 

500 €

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François RABELAIS, Albert ROBIDA

Oeuvres

La librairie illustrée, Paris 1885 - 1886, In-4 (24,5x32cm), 494pp. et 484pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Edition illustrated by Robida First printing of 49 plates inset (8 in color, 35 in monochrome and 6 in black), and many illustrations in the text (about 600).
Carton illustrated polychrome publisher signed Souze and connected by Engel. Gold and blue special plate on a red background. spine [...]

950 €

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First edition, Signed book

Arthur Christian, sous le pseudonyme de CARLOCHRISTI

Contes pantagruéliques

Louis Conard, Paris 1903, 17x22cm, relié.

Rare and probably the only test of "Pantagruelian Tales".
The work dates from 1903 before the addition of Jules Clarettie's preface and illustrations by Edmond Malassis.
The text, printed in Gothic characters is included in frames foliage, different from those of the edition marketed in [...]

400 €

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First edition

André DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC

Notes prises au front

Société littéraire de France, Paris 1917, 26,5x35,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise à lacets.

First edition consisting of a series of 12 boards illustrated drawings of Dunoyer de Segonzac, one of six numbered copies on China, head print.
Publisher's shirt in half red percaline, smooth back mute, flat cardboard cream, label of title glued on the first board, shirt full of all its [...]

800 €

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First edition, Signed book

André PIEYRE DE MANDIARGUES & Henri THOMAS, Jacques [...]

Un mot pour un autre

Gallimard, Paris 1968, 17x26cm, en feuilles.

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on vellum Arches paper, head print.
Nice copy.
Our copy includes the dark manner of The Marshal and the etching Guillain Siroux they signed and justified .
Handwritten signatures, in pencil, of André Pieyre of Mandiargues and Henri Thomas with the colophon.

250 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pierre ALECHINSKY

Pierre Alechinky à la maison de Balzac

Fata Morgana, Montpellier 1989, 14,5x22,5cm, broché.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Afterword by Judith Petit.
Illustrated book of drawings by Pierre Alechinsky.
Signed autograph dedication of Pierre Alechinsky to his friend Georges Raillard: "If you have time to spend Nov. 9, it would be amazing dear George (illegible word)."

120 €

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Maurice LELOIR, Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU

Les confessions

H. Launette & Cie, Paris 1889, 22x32cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 96 original compositions by Maurice Leloir engraved with etching.
Bindings in full red morocco, back with five nerves set with gold friezes and adorned with richly decorated gilded boxes, golden floral friezes in tails, gilded casters on the headdresses, framing of triple [...]

1 200 €

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