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Very rare first edition for Le Gouté des porcherons, with the complete title Nouv. ed. augm. des Citrons de Javotte, histoire de carnaval. Et enrichie d'une Lettre amoureuse de M. Jambe de Creux, charbonnier à mademoiselle Catau, ravaudeuse. Le tout pour servir de Dessert au Déjeuner de La Rapée.
Third edition of La Pipe cassée and fourth for Bouquets poissards and Bouquets galants.
Contemporary half-sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and a blonde sheep title-label, paste-paper boards. Some rubbing and minimal paper lacks to boards. First leaves somewhat stained without gravity.
Les Porcherons is a former district of the Pa

Autograph letter signed, partly unpublished, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, addressed to his lawyer, Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; numbered “575” in Céline’s hand in red pencil at the top left corner.
Fold marks from mailing.
This letter was only partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005, p. 64.
 
A moving and bitter letter by Céline, who had just lost his aunt Amélie (the “Aunt Hélène” of Death on Credit), and witnesses the slow disappearance of the world he once knew. The writer finds solace in the memoirs of Élisabeth de Gramont, another witn

Handwritten letter signed by Samuel Beckett addressed to Alain Bosquet.
Some lines written in black ink on watermarked paper.
“I do not have the slightest novelty to offer you [...] I very much regret.”

First edition.

Armorial copy of the Dukes of Luynes, at this date, most certainly of Marie Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes, 5th Duke of Luynes. Armorial copies of the Luynes always bear only the heraldic device of the crowned lion on the spine in the 18th century.
Full glazed and marbled brown calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with the heraldic device of the Dukes of Luynes, with crowned lion. Red morocco title and volume labels. Small crack to lower joint at head of volume II. On the lower joint of volume 3, crack along one compartment for 2cm. In volume IV, small cracks to joints at foot, for a few millimeters. P.403, volume II, hole with loss of on

Autograph letter signed by Philippe Sollers addressed to his friend Jani Brun (8 lines in black ink) advising her on works by Samuel Beckett: "... Il faut prendre Molloy, je crois, si tu veux un "personnage" et montrer comment tout va vers l'Innommable (plus de "personnage", ça parle et reparle et déparle tout seul, pour toujours..." ["... You should take Molloy, I think, if you want a 'character' and show how everything moves toward The Unnamable (no more 'character', it speaks and speaks again and speaks away by itself, forever..."] 
Envelope included on which Philippe Sollers simply indicated the surname and first name of his correspondent, a date i

"Léger comme une antilope / Il dansait, fumant son clope / Une java pleine de syncopes / Elle en eut le coeur cassé"

"Palmiers de Tahiti / Chansons des plages bleues / Soleil de Tahiti / Que j'étais heureux"

Amis que je vous raconte / La vie triste et pleine de honte / D'un horrible mécréant / Qui mourut voici cent ans / Doué d'une nat

Beautiful autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Bolette Natanson. Two pages written in ink on blue paper. Transverse creases inherent to the folding of the missive.
This letter was probably addressed to Bolette following a gift made to her "old friend": "Ah! dangerous Bolette! I can say nothing in front of you. Here are the two charming thick little vessels that emigrate to my home." This is an opportunity for Colette, very pleased with this new gift, to humorously devalue the designer's previous works: "From now on your frames are ugly, your mirrors troubled like an honest man's conscience, and your butt