Bruxelles (Belgique)

Edition printed 160 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Nice copy despite a trace of crease at the head of the first board.
Back and flat very slightly and marginally insolated without gravity.
Autograph dedication signed by André Frénaud to his friend Georges Raillard: "... since he loves this poem ..." enriched with a handwritten rectification to a verse.

New edition.
Pleasant full copy of his illustrated jacket.
Foreword by Norge.
Norge signed and dated autograph dedication to the publisher of this book Jacques Antoine: '... in a thousand ricochets of admiration for OJP and deep friendship ...'

New edition.
Pleasant full copy of his illustrated jacket.
Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter dated and signed by Elie Rodenbach, grandson of Georges Rodenbach, to the publisher of this book Jacques Antoine in which he is delighted to rediscover the text of his grandfather and is critical of Gaston Compère's preface reproaching him for over-emphasizing the defects of the work.

First Edition, one of 500 copies on laid edition, only draw after 20 Arches paper.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated.
Signed autograph of Leo Malet to Roland Stragliati: "... still unpublished, but nothing in the novel, alas!"

First edition.
Texts by Fernando Arrabal, Michel Wittock, Michel Butor, Lucien Scheler, Michel Deon, Kenneth White ...
Illustrated book of reproductions of works of Julius Baltazar.
Our copy is exceptionally enriched, on the page of fake title, of an autograph dedication signed and dated by Julius Baltazar to Paul Culot accompanied by a beautiful original drawing: "Long live Belgium! Long live the King! For you, Paul Culot, this French-Belgian recuerdo hey, Baltazar 1988. " which continues on the title page: "And especially viva! Paul Culot (to follow)" she also embellished with a drawing.

Les Nécessités de la vie et les conséquences des rêves précédé d'Exemples [The Necessities of Life]
Illustrated edition with 12 drawings by René Magritte, one of 500 copies numbered on pur-fil paper, the only printing after 12 copies on Madagascar paper.

A nice copy.

New edition.
Binding half shagreen red corners, back with five nerves set with golden dots and adorned with double richly decorated gilded boxes, traces of friction on the joints, framing of gilt fillets on marble paper plates, guards and contreplats of paper à la bowl, golden head, three blunt corners.
Signed autograph of Sainte-Beuve to the historian R (egis) of Chantelauze in Latin: "Amico R. of Chantelauze Juvenilia senere non tamen preniteus" of which here is the translation in French: "the youth does not however suffer to grow old. "

First edition.
Text by Jean Laude.
Illustrated book of reproductions of works of Zao Wou-KI
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by Jean Laude enriched with the handwritten signature Zao Wou-Ki to Marc Le Bot.

DUMAS Alexandre
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
[The Count of Monte Cristo]
Société belge de librairie & Meline, Cans & Cie, Bruxelles 1845-1846, 10 x 15,5 cm, 8 volumes bound in 4, contemporary half sheep
Very rare Belgian counterfeit edition published the same year as the first edition.
Brown half sheep bindings, spines slightly discolored and decorated with gilt romantic arabesques, marbled paper boards, contemporary bindings.
Small chafed patches on the upper cover of the last board, some rare spotting, a slight lack to the margin of page 73 in the seventh volume, not touching the text.
Very rare.
$ 5 500

LAUTRéAMONT, Isidore Ducasse, Comte de
Les Chants de Maldoror [The Songs of Maldoror] Chez tous les libraires, Paris & Bruxelles 1874, 120 x 190 mm
(4 3/4 x 7 1/2 ”), full morocco gilt, custom slipcase
The rare first edition, with the cover and title dated 1874.
Superb black morocco by Semet & Plumelle, spine in six compartments with septuple blind-ruled compartments, gilt date to foot, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, 12 blind-ruled fillet frame to covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, large gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns, gilt fillets to edges of covers, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, slipcase edged in black morocco over marbled paper boards.
Printed in 1869 by Lacroix, this edition was not circulated for sale for fear of the censor. Only a dozen copies were sewn into paper covers and sent to the author (five have been located so far). In 1874, Jean-Baptiste Rozez, another publisher-bookseller in Belgium, acquired the stock and published the work with a cover and title page with the date 1874, and with no imprint.
It was in his bookshop that the poets of La Jeune Belgique would first discover this text.
Literature of the void that takes us to the edge of the bearable, with an adolescent outspokenness and a total darkness, the Chants de Maldoror, or the epic of an evil figure wandering through the world, became famous thanks to the Surrealists who made it a veritable aesthetic manifesto.
Provenance : from the collection of François Ragazzoni with his ex-libris to one endpaper.
A fine copy in a splendid morocco binding by Semet & Plumelle, retaining its covers.

First edition of the theatrical adaptation of Victor Hugo's masterpice by his son, one of rare copies on Hollande paper.
Marbled paper boards, covers preserved, binding signed by Thomas Boichot.
Rare and nice copy with edges preserved, elegantly bound.

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on vellum of Rives, only leading copies after 30 vellum in the tank and some hors commerce on paper of chapel.
Illustrated book frontispiece of an original engraving by Louis Fernandez that he signed in pencil.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by the publisher of the book, Colophon, Hélène and Nicolas Braci.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on ordinary vellum, only large papers after 20 vellum in the tank of the Marais and 60 on white vellum BFK Rives.
Illustrated book in frontispiece of 4 original etchings with René Mels burin.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Signed autograph dedication of JHean-Luc Despax to Charles Dobzynski: "... a poet with a keen sense and a deep humanity ..."
Nice copy.

first edition.
Foreword by Pierre Alechinsky.
Pierre Alechinsky's autograph signed and dated by Pierre Alechinsky in a pencil of paper: "Pierre and Francoise, this would be a very good biau if it were a treat." Pierre and Micky.
Iconography.
Small spots in the foot of the first board, pleasant interior condition.

True first edition in the good publisher and on the right date, one of the copies on verge of edition, it was pulled only 10 Japan and 30 Holland paper in big papers
Half-morocco binder with bands, back with four nerves set with golden threads and decorated with double golden boxes set with a listel of morocco green bottle, date golden in tail, golden nets on the plates of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of Paper to the vat, preserved blankets and backs, golden head, binding of the signed era of Franz.
Handwritten signature of Leon Bloy below the justification of the draw.
Autograph signed by Leon Bly to Adolphe van Bever.
A split bit then restored at the head.
Exemplary pleasantly established in a signed Contemporary binding.

Illustrated with 30 engravings and 36 original woodcuts by Gus Bofa, one of 320 numbered copies on Hollande paper.
This copy, as called for by the justification page, is retaining its suite of illustrations in black.
One slipcase slightly cracked to foot, one joint of a chemise very slightly rubbed.
A nice copy.

first edition printed in small numbers by the care of some friends of Jean de Bosschère and why it was not drawn large papers.
Signed autograph of John Bosschère "For Claude Tilly, these sheets published outside trade, for they reach that beings of choice, so you offer."
Our copy has two corrections probably from the hand of the author crossed twice the second "s" from his name in blue pencil.
Two pale spots on upper cover.

first edition for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Signed autograph of Fretwell Emile Monsieur Vauquelin.
Back slightly thinned.

Edition printed on laid, one of 1240 numbered copies on laid Navarre, ours unjustified.
half gray maroquiné shagreen Binding mouse with corners, back with five nerves with traces of friction, golden tail date boards, guards and contreplas marbled paper, preserved covers, gilded head, contemporary binding signed Creuzevault.
Illustrated book ornaments Theo van Rysselberghe.
Some spots on flat binding, nice interior state.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Saint Victor Degrange Lus.
Illustrated book of drawings by Fabien Vermoesen.
Rare copy and pleasant.

First edition, one of 600 copies Featherweight.
Signed autograph of Maurice Carême Renee Garcia.
Sticker pasted title on the cover, silent back.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on light Featherweight only leading copies on strong after 25 Featherweight.
Dated and signed autograph tribute to Ernst Moerman.
marginal miss on the boards.
Rare.

First edition in French by Francis Wilder.
Two small tears to head and foot of spine.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Binding of the editor in full black fabric, smooth back, full copy of his jacket that has only a few minor flaws.
Signed autograph André Beguin to his friend the painter and engraver Jacques Castex.
Iconography, nice copy.

First edition.
Autograph inscriptions by André Béguin to the painter and engraver Jacques (Castex) and to his wife in each volume.

First edition.
Autograph inscription from André Béguin to the painter and engraver Jacques (Castex) and to his wife.
A good copy.

First edition in French, one of 50 numbered copies on featherweight paper, the tirage de tête.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of 5 copies numbered on Holland paper and justified by the publisher, deluxe edition with 5 Japan.
Binding half morocco red with corners, flat spine decorated with gilt and two mosaiced parts marine morocco cartridges, golden tail dates framing double gilt fillets on marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, gilded head.
Late autograph signed Valere Gille: "A Henri Leclercq bibliographic sympathy ..."
Ex-dono in pen on the first flat cover, a shadow on the half-title page.
Nice copy pleasantly established.