From medieval illuminations to modern lithographs, images have often helped books cross the threshold to work-of-art status. However, successors of Doré, Grandville and Gavarni ended up shunned from the art world for a long time when they dared to break free from their literary shackles and decided to put speech in balloons.

So when Montherlant broke down the wall of prejudice against comics with a satirical stroke of his pen, Hergé sent him this magnificent ad hoc thank-you, probably one of the only literary presentation copies by the undisputed master of the Neuvième Art.

'I can show my arse in public, but not my heart, where your place is so great, you, my brother, not in blood, but in spirit and in choice’ (Théophile Gautier)

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Victor HUGO

Actes et paroles

Avant l'exil 1841-1851

A political manifesto signed by "Papapa", deluxe copy gifted to Jeanne and Georges

« It's our Papapa who, after playing like a little boy with the toddlers, talks to the teenager and advises the young man »

(Georges Hugo about Victor Hugo, whom he viewed as "twice a father, a lot more than just a grandfather")

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The search is over! – The Marquise defends her words

Vian's noir under white covers – Cohen of the Cohens –Gentleman robber

The General puts someone to the word – Louis steps into Marceline’s atelier

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Marcel PROUST

À la recherche du temps perdu

[In Search of Lost Time]

Grasset for the 1st volume & Gallimard for the following | Paris 1913-1927

First edition of every volume of La Recherche du temps perdu. The first two volumes in first issue without statement of edition, the following in deluxe issue. 

Handsome set in first edition, as issued.

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Marquise du DEFFAND

& WALPOLE & VOLTAIRE. Letters of the marquise du Deffand to the hon. Horace Walpole, afterwards earl of Oxford, from the year 1766 to the year 1780

Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme |  London 1810

First edition. Elegant English bindings in full beige calf. Our copy includes Marquise du Deffand's frontispiece portrait in the first volume, and a facsimile of her handwriting after the preface.
A fine copy, very nicely housed in fine bindings.

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Charles DE GAULLE & Valentin LE CAMPION

Le Fil de l'épée

Berger-Levrault | Nancy 1946

Illustrated edition with original vignettes and head-pieces by Valentin Le Campion, one of 20 lettered hors commerce copies on auvergne, most limited issue.

Signed and inscribed by Charles De Gaulle to Georges Wurm.

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Boris VIAN under the pseudonym of Vernon SULLIVAN

J'irai cracher sur vos tombes

[I Shall Spit On your Graves]

Les Éditions du Scorpion | Paris 1946

First edition on ordinary paper.

Fine copy.

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Louis ARAGON (Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE)

Original Manuscript on Desbordes-Valmore's L'Atelier d'un peintre "which makes existentialists cringe"

[ca 1950]

Autograph manuscript by Louis Aragon, one page in blue ink on a leaf.

Precious study by Louis Aragon accompanying the serial publication in Les Lettres Françaises of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's novel L'Atelier d'un peintre (1833). Aragon rehabilitates the female poet-novelist canceled from the history of literature and snubbed by Existentialists, placing her in the tradition of socialist realism.

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Albert COHEN

Solal

Nrf | Paris 1930

First edition, one of 109 in-quarto tellière format numbered copies on vergé Lafuma Navarre, most limited issue.

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Jacques MESRINE

Autograph love letter to his partner Jeanne Schneider  

Fleury-Mérogis | 29 December 1976

‘I love you, sweetheart... but this imprisonment is driving me crazy, I feel so powerless in the face of bullshit!’

Autograph letter signed by the famous wanted man and convict, addressed to his love interest of the time. She smuggled out of prison the manuscript of his famous autobiography L'Instinct de mort.

Mesrine, who was in Fleury-Mérogis prison at the time, talks at length about his autobiography and the many letters he received from those close to him.

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