2025 I WRITE YOUR NAME

In 1942, in the midst of wartime turmoil, Eugène Grindel was only armed of his pseudonym and a mighty sword of ink when he wrote his majestic poem Liberté [Freedom].

There is no better guardian angel to wish “health returned” and “vanished risk” to all those who, thanks to “all the pages already read” under “lamp that shines” and in “wonders of night”, believe in the power of the word...

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Autograph poem signed by Victor Hugo,

in Les Rayons et les Ombres [The Rays and the Shadows]

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Long before the "tomorrows at dawn", Hugo was already calling on to Nature to console a pained soul.

For Vacquerie, the Words penned and offered by his friend were a ray of hope cast over the shadows of fate.

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Set of photo proofs with autograph corrections by André Malraux for his Musée imaginaire de la Sculpture mondiale [Imaginary Museum of World Sculpture]

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O Mai-thu’s like a red, red rose – The Accursed Wishes

We are the world, we are the Jules Verne – Emile’s Torture Garden Party

Mary on a cross-eyed – Nicolas sees red – Montand’s colt-case

Alex’s going into labour  – We miss You[ki]

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Alexandre SOLJENITSYNE

[The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation]

Архипелаг ГУЛаг: 1918-1956: опыт художественного исследования

YMCA-PRESS | Paris 1973-1975

First edition for each volume. 

Exceedingly scarce signed and inscribed copy by the author to Sam Yossman, journalist and Jewish immigrant, who worked for 20 years at the BBC's Russian news service.

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MAI-THU

Young lady with a flower

Original color print

December 1960

Original color print, exceptionally signed and inscribed by Mai-Thu : « To my dear Quéniart this oriental harmony in remembrance of our fond attachment. Dec 1960 MAI-THU. » 

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Émile ZOLA

Autograph letter dated and signed to Octave Mirbeau thanking him for a positive review of his novel Le Travail : « 

I endeavor to live happily amidst injustice and hate...»

Paris | 14 May 1901

Important letter by Zola to his great friend Octave Mirbeau who supported him during the Dreyfus Affair and paid his fee after the second trial of « J'accuse ! ».

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Yves MONTAND

Original signed photograph of actor and singer Yves Montand at the start of his career

[ca 1946]

Original silver print. 

Signed and inscribed by Yves Montand below the photograph: « For Michel with affection. Y. Montand. » 

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[Youki DESNOS] PICABIA & PICASSO & UTRILLO & DOMINGUEZ & FRIESZ

Invitation card to the opening of  the exhibition of modern painting organized by Youki Desnos at the Galerie Fontan

Galerie Fontan | Paris 1946

Nice and rare copy.
The exhibition was held from 21 June to 15 July 1946 featuring paintings by Picasso, Picabia, Utrillo, Dominguez, Alde, Clavé, Coutaud, Espinouze, Fobra, Garcia, Friesz, Labasque, Labisse, Morand, Para, Riba-Rovira.

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Nicolas BOILEAU DESPREAUX & 

Valentin Jean-Antoine FOULQUIER

Œuvres poétiques

Alfred Mame et fils | Tours 1870

Illustrated edition with 21 plates by Valentin Foulquier including a frontispiece, one of 20 numbered copies on chine.

Handsomely bound in red morocco by Chambolle-Duru.

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Maurice DRUON

La Fin des hommes : Les grandes familles - La chute des corps - Rendez-vous aux enfers

Julliard | Paris 1948-1951

First edition.
Handsome and rare signed copy of this trilogy. Inscribed to the great book collector Robert Moureau : « in great homage ».
The first volume was awarded the 1948 Prix Goncourt and had a masterful film adaptation ten years later by Denys de La Patellière with an all-star cast featuring Jean Gabin, Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Blier and Jean Desailly with dialogues by Michel Audiard.

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Georges SIMENON

Marie qui louche

Presses de la Cité | Paris 1951

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on pur fil, only deluxe issue.

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Jules VERNE

Maître du monde – Un drame en Livonie

Jules Hetzel | Paris 1904

First edition in 8° format, illustrated by George Roux.
Publisher's cloth binding Hetzel signed Engel upper board « au globe » type 4, spine decorated with a gilt lighthouse, second board type Engel « i » (Jauzac), all edges gilt.
Nice copy.

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