Paris (France)

First edition of the French translation.
Publisher's binding with full black boards, boards illustrated, two corners slightly flattened.
Handwritten presentation signed by Tomi Ungerer, signed Tomi to a woman named Simone, enriched with a handwritten quatrain on the title page, as well as two original drawings showing a mischievous moon causing a man to stumble by unbalancing him with the point of his crescent on the title page, a green and orange flower growing on a mound of earth shaped like a buttock.

New edition adorned with 44 drawings by L. Benett and a map. It is only in 1907 that the insert illustrations appeared for this title. Catalogue BC in-fine.
Publisher's board with “a Steamer” on a gilt badge.
Spine very lightly faded, gold on the interior of the badge on the first board a little faded, two lower corners flattened. A loose section, a corner piece missing skillfully filled on the title page and a marginal restoration of the paper on page 33.
Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) is a sentimental novel inspired by the Scottish legend of the eponymous phenomenon: it allows those who have observed it to see clearly in their hearts as well as in those of others.

New collected edition. A medal-style portrait as frontispiece.
Early 20th-century binding in black morocco-backed boards with corners. Spine with four raised bands, featuring three mosaic compartments adorned with tawny morocco onlays and two tawny morocco lettering-pieces, gilt fillets. Top edge gilt. Minor traces of rubbing.
Original wrappers and spine preserved.
A very handsome copy, perfectly fresh.

Le Moine [The Monk]
Denoël & Steele | Paris 1931
| 14,5 x 19 cm | original wrappers
First edition on ordinary paper of the French translation of this gothic novel established by Antonin Artaud.

Photographic cover representing Antonin Artaud as a monk.
Precious handwritten autograph inscription by Antonin Artaud to Germaine Beaumont on the front endpaper page.

Very nice copy as issued with its preserved advertising slip quoting Horace: “Dreams, magical terrors, prodigies, pythonisses, night appearances and terrifying prestige”.

The autograph inscriptions of Antonin Artaud on this title are very rare.

Invitation card to the Max Jacob soirée at the Léonce Rosenberg “L'effort moderne” gallery, during which poems by Max Jacob were recited by Mademoiselle Raymone, Pierre Bertin and Max Jacob himself.
There was also a “talk on Max Jacob” by Paul Dermée and performances of works by Louis Durey: two pieces for piano: “Neige” and “Carillons” by Marcelle and Germaine Meyer, four epigrams by Theocritus and three poems by Petronious by Pierre Bertin and a string quartet composed by Madame Jourdan-Morhange, Mlle F. Capelle, Mr Jarecki and Mr Delgrange.
A rare and very beautiful copy.