Paris (France)

first edition consisting of a double-state suite of 12 original etchings produced by Maurice de Becque composed for an edition of Les Fleurs du mal and printed in 150 copies on BFK vellum which he numbered and justified in pencil.
Each etching in double condition includes, at the bottom right, the handwritten signature of Maurice de Becque

First edition from which it was not drawn from large papers.
Book decorated with 8 maps, 18 engravings and 1 annex.
Binding in half black shagreen with corners, back four nerves decorated with golden decorative patterns of cironstance: two helmets of Poilus and a hairy loading bayonet with the barrel, framing of golden fliets on the plates of paper with geometric patterns, guards and counterplates of marbled paper , covers and back preserved, golden head, modern bookplate pasted at the head of a counterplate.
We attach a postcard representing the war memorial of Verdun and a prospectus of the Douaumont ossuary.
Rare autograph signed by Philippe Pétain: "To Jacques Braun so that he continues to work well. July 14, 1929".

first edition.
Preface by General Gouraud.
A small hole at the bottom of the title page.
Binding in half shagreen navy blue, back with four nerves enriched with a golden allegorical central motif, traces of friction on the nerves, boards, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, preserved covers, blue head.
Illustrated book of four inset photographic plates.
Autograph shipment dated 1944 and signed by Georges Thenault to Marius Bienaimé.

first edition on current paper.
Pleasant copy despite a small tear at the bottom of the back and a trace of folding without gravity at the bottom of the second board.
Text by Alexandre Cirici.
Illustrated number of 3 original color lithographs and double page as well as 8 color reproductions of works by Joan Miro.
Autograph signed by Joan Miro to Sophie Perrot in black pencil.

New edition, one of 25 non-trade copies numbered on Holland paper, head print.
Binding in full old pink morocco, smooth back adorned with incisions of pieces of brown, pink and beige morocco representing floral motifs as well as bands of morocco covered with seedlings of gold dots, golden borders on the caps, ornate boards of two garnet and light pink morocco roses as well as five morocco bands terminated in spikes and covered with a sowing of gold dots, guards and undersides of fabric embroidered with gold or silver threads and with floral motifs , framing on the counterplates of the same decor as on the boards, following guards of paper in the tank, preserved covers and back, gilded head on witnesses, gilded nets on the cuts, elegant typically Art Deco binding.
Autograph dedication signed by Colette on the false title page: "For Germaine, you who love what is simple, what is sincere, you undoubtedly love the simplest, most sincere book that your old woman wrote and faithful friend Colette. "
Our copy is enriched with an autograph letter signed by three pages from Colette to the same Germaine on blue paper in order to send her this beautiful copy: "thank god without images". Colette knows that her bibliophile friend will appreciate it because "apart from loving clean papers and beautiful characters, I only keep books for their text."
Colette also addressed, bound at the beginning of the volume, to this close bibliophile: "the end of the manuscript here ... It dates, unless I am mistaken, from 1912, it is unpublished, unfinished, badly worn, but that's where came the whole volume, because I was looking then to draw from my real childhood a little children's novel. " The manuscript, of three sheets signed and dated 1912 later, includes this precision : "Fragment, abandoned essay, of a children's novel."
Finally, is attached to our copy, a color proof, on a loose leaf, for the header of Chapter VIII with this autograph note by Colette : "I would keep this proof, if I were a bibliophile. But I am not not and ... you are. "

Illustrated edition of 12 original lithographs hors-texte by Henri Matisse and printed in 370 numbered copies on vellum to shape, ours one of the 315 numbered in Arabic numerals.
The book is also decorated with an original composition by Henri Matisse reproduced in stencil in yellow and white on the covers as well as with 6 linocuts: 2 headbands, 2 culs-de-lumière and 2 drop caps.
Back of the shirt slightly exposed, small spots on the flats of the case.
Pleasant copy in spite of small freckles without gravity mainly affecting some sheets in their margins.
Handwritten signatures of André Rouveyre and Henri Matisse, in pencil, below the justification for the print.

Original illustrated edition, at the end of the volume, of 39 black reproductions of works by François Pompon and of a portrait by Petitjean.
Pleasant and rare copy also illustrated, in frontispiece, of a portrait of François Pompon by Chana Orloff.
A shadow affecting the guard on which the shipment appears as well as on the last guard.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Robert Rey to the close friend of François Pompon Léon Deshairs: "... which is for such a large part at the origin of all this and which we see passing in these pages, I affectionately offer this little book, Robert Rey.
Léon Deshairs has, at the end of the text and in pencil, added an obituary to his friend François Pompon who died in 1933: "Pompon died on Saturday May 6, 1933, at 5 am in the clinic of the Brothers of St. Jean de Dieu, rue Oudinot, where he was treated by Dr Marion. "

first edition on current paper.
Binding in half navy blue canvas, smooth back decorated with a golden floral pattern, title label of red shagreen; initials and double gilt thread at the tail, marbled paper boards, paper guards and floral counterplates, modest binding from the contemporary.
Rare autograph shipment signed by Prince Félix Youssoupoff to Mademoiselle Colette Vincent.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on "vélin pur-fil" paper for each of the volumes, only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Beautiful copy.