Paris (France)

First edition for each of the volumes published from 1973 to 1975, no deluxe issue printed.
Spines slightly wrinkled as usual, first cover of second volume marginally faded.
Photographic softcovers.

Exceptional and extremely rare signed and inscribed copy by Solzhenitsyn dated May 1983 to Sam Yossman, on the first volume of this literary keystone of anti-Soviet resistance.

First edition with numerous illustrations.
Publisher's beige canvas binding with its dust jacket - slightly rubbed around the edges with some very small loss of paper. 

Association copy signed and inscribed by Le Corbusier to his literary agent: “For Hélène Strassova, guardian of the lamps. The lamps being these books full of gibberish that she has miraculously spread among the people... yellow, red, white and black. In the tower of Babel... With my thanks and friendship. Le Corbusier Nov. 14, 1959.” With an autograph thank you note signed by Jean Petit.

“Helena Strassova mostly represented German authors in France, and French authors abroad. Born in Prague in 1900, a German native speaker, she had been an opera singer in Berlin before fleeing Nazi Germany. Strassova considered Le Corbusier to be the most prestigious of the authors she represented, who included Konrad Lorenz, Marcel Pagnol, and René Char. For his part, the architect was sincerely friendly towards his agent, as can be seen from the dedication he wrote to her on a photographic portrait of him, taken in Chandigarh” (Catherine de Smet, Le Corbusier: un architecte et ses livres).

First edition of Jacques Lacan's doctor­al thesis. The most precious of the 20 known copies gifted by the author. The copy's existence was hitherto only ev­idenced by the thanks Sigmund Freud sent Lacan after receiving it.

Exceptional association copy inscribed by Jacques Lacan: “Au Professeur Sig­mund Freud, père de la nouvelle psy­chiatrie, à laquelle je voudrais avoir contribué un peu par cet ouvrage, bien que j'aie dû m'y exprimer trop souvent en fonction de l'ancienne./en témoi­gnage de mon immense admiration,/Jacques Lacan / le 3 janvier 1932 [sic]” [”To Professor Sigmund Freud, father of the new psychiatry, to which I would like to have contributed a little through the writing of this work, although I had to express myself too often according to the old [psychiatry]./as a token of my immense admiration,/Jacques Lacan/the 3rd of January, 1932 [sic]”]

Some restorations to the slightly dark­ened spine, some traces of folds to the cover margins, old manuscript inscrip­tion in red pencil “Zeitsch.” (Zeitschrift) on upper part of the front cover.

First 12° edition published two years after the very scarce first edition.
Light damp stains to the joints of the volumes, a small hole at the foot of spine of first volume, light rubbing to the spine, one upper corner of first volume dulled.
Half roan binding, smooth spines framed in gilt and blind, modern black morocco title-labels, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, contemporary bindings.

Provenance: library of Michel Marie de Pomereu, with his engraved bookplates pasted on the flyleaves.