Edition-Originale

wishes you a hoot of a new year

We are not one to shy away from the traditional New Year's greetings,

this sympathetic pagan resurgence celebrating

the performative power of language.

But what can we hope for that escapes the monotony

of the same wishes of a happiness always to come? 

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Since there is not even one of these wishes that cannot be satisfied by reading and artistic contemplation,

the Librairie Le Feu Follet wishes

to all readers and art lovers a... new year.

Investigation.

A new year under the auspices of the aptly named Felice Beato

A final and moving tribute to the end of a world hitherto unknown to the majority of Westerners

In the early days of 2023, Edition-Originale takes you to the Land of the Rising Sun at the dawn of its opening to the Western world, exactly one hundred and sixty years ago, when the famous photographer Felice Beato arrived in Tokyo to immortalise the final splendors of traditional Japan.

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Based in Yokohama, Beato was a pioneering photographer who quickly understood the European interest in the habits, customs, and culture of the Japanese. His albums, the very first to depict Japan, were both intended for the rare Western visitors wishing to bring back souvenirs to Europe or to be directly exported to the West. For decades, they were the only images known to Westerners: they could dream of an idealized Japan through these photographs...

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This Week's Theme

« Women's Time »

Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Mesdames de Sévigné, de La Fayette and de Staël, Sand, Colette, Nemirovsky, Beauvoir, Duras, Yourcenar, Sarraute...

Women have marked the history of literature that has not always done them justice...

This week's newest acquisitions

A super Mann, John feat. Kennedy, a Cervantes of the Mancha and Rapin over it,

Ellis about an island, a major keepsake and a not minor Zola

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Émile ZOLA

Germinal

Charpentier | Paris 1885

First edition. One of the 150 numbered copies on Hollande paper. 

A rare copy perfectly set with an outstanding signed autograph letter about Germinal and Zola's position within the "École Naturaliste".

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Thomas MANN

Buddenbrooks – Verfall einer Familie

Bermann-Fischer Verlag |  Stockholm 1945 

New edition. 
Publisher's hardback binding. Nice copy with its dust jackets in perfect condition.
Rare autograph signature by Thomas Mann on the first volume's title page. 

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Miguel de CERVANTES & Enrique ATALAYA

Rinconète et Cortadillo

H. Launette & C^ie |  Paris 1891

Illustrated edition with 77 original plates in black by Enrique Atalaya, one of 50 copies on China paper. Our copies is complete with the full set of compositions.

Very nice copy perfectly set in a morroco mosaic binding by Charles Meunier.

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William ELLIS

Autograph letter signed on the first settlers in Madagascar: the Vazimba

Hoddesdon Herts. | 28 februrary 1871

Fascinating and well-documented study about the customs and origins of Madagascar's inhabitants. In this private correspondence, we discover the evolution of ethnological views and the questions raised by one of the island's main historians in the 19th century. 

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Philippe HALSMAN

(John Fitzgerald KENNEDY)

Photographic portrait inscribed by Kennedy

[ca 1952-1960]

Photographic portrait inscribed by JF Kennedy, contemporary silver print in black and white offered to a teacher and her pupils.

Autograph inscription signed by then Senator and future president of the United States: “To Miss Annegers and the boys and girls to Horace Mann Junior High School with very good wishes. Senator John Kennedy.”

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Paul de RAPIN THOYRAS

Histoire d'Angleterre

A La Haye 1749

New edition.

Contemporary full calf binding.

Very nice copy, paper in outstanding condition. 
This monumental history of England is the first comprehensive work on England's history from the Roman invasions to the rise of William III, continuing through the first 20 years of George II's reign.

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Paul GAVARNI & Eugène ISABEY & Eugène DEVERIA

Keepsake lyrique

Chez Leduc | à Paris 1835

First edition of this book of music by Rossini, Meyerbeer, Halevy, Bellini, Caraf, Donizetti... with 12 lithographs on China paper. 

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