Paris (France)

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back slightly cleared.
Signed autograph of Georges Dumézil to Jacques Soustelle: "... these reveries Euro-Asian ..."

New edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Binding in full white canvas, smooth back, complete copy of his jacket which has very slight tears without gravity head boards and back.
Nice copy.
Rare autograph dedication dated and signed by Alexandre Soljénitsyne, in English, to Angel Gil-Sastre.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved for the press service.
Nice copy despite small scratches on the caps.
Signed autograph of Julien Green to the reverend father Lucien Guissard.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Holland paper, head print.
Nice copy at all margins.
Signed autograph dedication of Vercel to detective novelist Jean Bonnefond: "... this story of brave people, with the author's thanks for an approval, to which he attaches a great price."

First edition of the French translation prepared by Louise Servicen, a copy of the press service.
Back slightly burnished and marginally soiled boards.
Autograph signed by Louise Servicen to (Lucien) Rebatet.

First Edition, one of 196 numbered copies on Arches paper, only draw with 4 Japan.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by André Suarès to Edouard Bernard.

La Guerre et la Paix [War and Peace]
Éditions du Cercle d'art | Paris 1954
| 29.5 x 37.5 cm | publisher's binding
First edition.
Publisher's sand cloth, copy complete with its rhodoïd plastic jacket.
Text by Claude Roy, attached press cuttings.
Pleasant copy illustrated with reproductions of works, as well as 6 original color lithographs, by Pablo Picasso.
Autograph inscription, dated and signed by Pablo Picasso to Miss M. Schuir using four color pencils.

Edition partly original, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved for the press service.
Insolated back with two small gaps in the head and foot, angular gaps on marginally insolated boards.
Signed autograph of Jean Giraudoux to Gaston Rageot.

First Edition printed 1000 copies numbered and justified by Georges Hurtrel .
Binding half brown chocolate shagreen with corners, back thinned with nerves, golden nets framing marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, binding signed C. Maillet.
Some small foxing, a trace of folding in the head of the first few sheets, ex-donos in the pen of a previous owner on the first guard and the page of false title.
Book decorated with in-text illustrations in black and a frontispiece in color.

First Edition printed in small numbers on Alfa paper this pulled apart from the Nrf of January 1, 1956, only leading copies.
Stains on the second board.
Signed autograph of Marcel Jouhandeau to his neighbor named Pierre.

First edition.
Some small foxinges.
Autograph signed by Abel Fabre to his cousin.

First edition, one of 6 numbered copies on Japon nacré, this copy one of 3 hors commerce numbered in Roman characters, the tirage de tête.
Full morocco, all edges gilt, covers and spine preserved, slipcase lined with morocco, beautifiul binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Superbe copy elegantly bound par Semet & Plumelle.
Provenances : from the libraries of Raoul Simonson with his ex-libris, Robert Moureau with his ex-libris and René Gaffé with his ex-libris on Chine designed by Max Ernst.

First edition.
Three gaps in the head and foot of the back, a pale wetness affecting the leaves, stains on the boards.
Autograph signed by Auguste Choisy to Monsieur Collignon.

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn large papers, printed stamp of press service on the last guard.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Severo Sarduy, in Spanish, Georges Raillard.

Very nice lot of 17 photographic postcards printed in the years 1915-1920.
Each photograph has a handwritten dedication.
These cards show the movie stars of the time: Jean Murat, Jaque Catelain, Robert Burnier, Bach, Meg Lemonnier, Simone Cerdan, Marcelle Chantal, Josseline Gael, Fernand Gravey, Raymond Galle, Andre Roanne and Jacqueline Francell.

First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on Holland paper, head print.
Tiny bites without gravity on the back, nice copy.

Very nice lot of 11 photographic postcards of the Cinémagazine editions, printed in the 1930s.
Each photograph has a handwritten dedication.
These cards show the movie stars of the time: Jean Murat, Jaque Catelain, Robert Burnier, Bach, Meg Lemonnier, Simone Cerdan, Marcelle Chantal, Josseline Gael, Fernand Gravey, Raymond Galle, Andre Roanne and Jacqueline Francell.

First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on Whatman, justified and signed by P. Mouillot.
Illustrated work of 64 engravings, 2 of which are in colour: the first and the fourth.
Bound in publisher's full grey and red bevelled glazed calico, flexible red board inner flaps complete with red silk laces.
Some light foxing in the board margins.
Rare and pleasant copy.

First Edition printed 120 copies numbered on Balkis 180 grams justified and signed by Michel Butor and Georges Perros .
Rare and nice copy.
Book illustrated with an original screenprint by Georges Perros that he signed and justified .
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend Georges Raillard.

First edition on current paper.
Insolated back.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange Georges Raillard: "Through Jacques Hérold, Hauts-Facts, today, friendly to Georges Raillard."

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly insolated.
A little gri-gri in black felt, probably the hand of Nathalie Sarraute, on the sidelines of the first board, trailer attached.
Signed autograph of Nathalie Sarraute to Georges Raillard: "... in memory full of friendship."

(COLLECTIVE)
Stéphane MALLARMé
Prince PONIATOWSKI
Léon TOLSTOI
Alphonse DAUDET
Marcel SCHWOB
Jules RENARD
R. de MONTESQUIOU
Camille MAUCLAIR Tristan BERNARD
Maurice LEBLANC
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
Paul-César HELLEU
CARAN D'ACHE
Félix VALLOTTON
Jean-Louis FORAIN
Eugène GRASSET
Revue Franco-Américaine n° 1
Revue Franco-Américaine| Paris & New York June 1895| 19.5 x 28.5 cm| original wrappers
First edition of the first issue of this ephemeral magazine that ended at issue 3, two months later, and was taken over by La Revue Blanche, one of 50 copies on Japan paper the tirage de tête.
Literary contributions from Léon Tolstoï: “Science et religion”, Georges Clemenceau: “France et Amérique”, Alphonse Daudet “Un raté littéraire du XVIIIe siècle”, Maurice Barrès: “Le boulangisme n'a pas été vaincu”, Tristan Bernard “Sous le voile de l'incognito”, Marcel Schwob “Sismé”, Jules Renard “Le fou”, Stéphane Mallarmé “études de danse”, Robert de Montesquiou “Des vers”, Maurice Leblanc “L'ami de la logique”, Catulle Mendès “Le Prince Lys”, Camille Mauclair “Le théâtre”...
Pictorial contributions: an hors texte leaf on Japan paper, by Jean-Louis Forain: “Le monde”, Caran d'Ache: “Un chapitre inédit des mémoires du général Marbot...”, Paul-César
Helleu with an original lithograph: “Femme et enfant”, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec with an original lithograph: “Zimmerman et sa machine” with some small sections missing of the right-hand margin.
Elegant magazine in Nabis style, whose relief wrappers were illustrated by Eugène Grasset and the typography done by Félix Vallotton.
Published under the auspices of Prince André Poniatowski, this magazine is decorated with in-texte illustrations by Jean-Louis Forain, Caran d'Ache, Paul-César Helleu, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Félix Vallotton.
Rare copy of the luxury print on Japan, 50 copies printed, complete with the 4 inserts, 2 of which are original lithographs by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Paul-César Helleu.

Picasso – Dessins [Drawings]
éditions des deux mondes | Paris 1950
| 13.5 x 19.5 cm | publisher’s binding
First edition.
Preface by Jean Bouret.
Publisher’s full cream binding, copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has some small angular missing pieces that have been skillfully and discretely filled.
Light foxing on the endpapers.
Work illustrated with 96 reproductions of works by Pablo Picasso.
Autograph inscription signed by Pablo Picasso to Madame Denizot on an endpaper.

First edition of the French translation, one of the 1000 ex numbered on centaur ivory.
Nice copy.
Ray Bradbury's signature on the front page .

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full black canvas, smooth back, complete copy of his illustrated jacket that includes small tears and gaps in the corners of the boards and head of the back.
Illustrated book of many reproductions of works by Antoni Tapies.
Signed Antoni Tapies autograph dedication, written in Catalan in Saint-Paul de Vence, to his friend Georges Raillard, who was director of the Institut Français of Barcelona and a great specialist in the work of Antoni Tapies, and his Alice's wife.

First edition on current paper.
Some foxing on the boards, a small tear in the back of the head.
Autograph dedication of Henri Massis to Georges Raillard.

Louis-Eustache AUDOT
La Cuisinière de la campagne et de la ville, ou la nouvelle cuisine économique ; précédée d’observations très importantes sur les soins qu’exige une cave, et d’une instruction sur la manière de servir à table, et sur la dissection des viandes
Audot | Paris 1818 | 11 x 20 cm | half shagreen
Rare first edition published anonymously and illustrated with 8 bistre plates showing the dissection of meats and fish.
Bound in half black shagreen, spine in five thin compartments decorated with blind tooled fillets, gilt name at the foot of the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, corners lightly worn.
A small section missing at the head of the half-title page, some small foxing and light water stains at the top of certain pages.

First edition on current paper, whimsical mention of twelfth edition.
Small bites on the first board.
Signed autograph of Jean Giono Jacque Sylf (sic).

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
A hitch without lack in the middle of the second course, a tiny marginal lack at the foot of the first flat, back slightly insolated, nice copy of the very poor quality of this paper war.
Autograph Thought dated June 1944 and signed Jean Hérold-Paquis: "Tribute of an antimilitarist who waged war voluntarily."