Paris (France)

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Johannot, deluxe edition.
Signed autograph Sacha Guitry to Mr. de Temmerman with all her best wishes.
Pleasant incomplete copy of his case and his shirt.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large paper copies.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Precious autograph signed by Jacques Chardonne: "To Jean Giono, her admirer."

Edit Original for which n'est not mention leading copies.
Binding full Havana morocco, back with five nerves crimped nets black ornate coffered black embellished with arabesque black, roller black on caps, frames quadruple nets and florets blacks spandrels on covers, guards and contreplats paper the tank, framing a black lace on contreplats, preserved covers, gilded head, elegant binding of unsigned time.
Precious autograph signed Edmond About: "To Madame George Sand, a tribute to religious admiration." Edmond About. "
Beautiful copy fully established.

New edition for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Signed autograph of John Rousselot a namesake: "... For André Rousselot Sincerely Jean Rousselot (happy coincidence!)."
spine and boards and marginally slightly discolored, attached press clipping.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on bulk, one draw after 10 Japan.
Signed autograph of Jean Cocteau: "To my dear little Gaudier, memory of Jean Cocteau, in May 1920."
Nice copy of this poem dedicated to Roland Garros recently disappeared.
Autographs shipments of Jean Cocteau this respect are rare, the author was too sick to honor his pen copies assigned to the press service.

First edition.
Text by Pierre Reverdy.
Illustrated with 5 original coloured lithographs among which 2 double pages by Fernand Léger.
A very good copy.

New edition published in the complete works of the author, one of 1240 numbered copies on laid Navarre, ours unjustified.
Binding half morocco burgundy with corners, back with four nerves set with dotted gold adorned with quintuple gilded boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate pasted on a contreplat, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, head golden, contemporary binding signed Kauffmann & Horclais.
Signed autograph of Georges Courteline: "To Jenny, the one word dispensation me, only relieves me, only relieves me, to say more (La Belle Hélène) ..."
Some foxing.
Copy nicely established.

New edition published in the complete works of the author, one of 1240 numbered copies on laid Navarre, ours unjustified.
Binding half morocco burgundy with corners, back with four nerves set with dotted gold adorned with quintuple gilded boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, bookplate pasted on a contreplat, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, head golden, contemporary binding signed Kauffmann & Horclais.
Signed autograph of Georges Courteline: "Courteline his friend the great Jenny (Sacerdote), between artists ..."
Some foxing.
Copy nicely established.

First edition.
Autograph inscription from Prosper Mérimée : "Amicissimo F. Michel. P.M."
Small angular repairs to the spine, one clear spot to upper cover, a good copy with hardly any spotting.

BRETON André. L'Amour fou [Mad Love]
Gallimard, Paris 1937, 14 x 19 cm, original wrappers
First edition, an advance [service de presse] copy.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by André Breton to Benjamin Crémieux.
Spine repaired, small tears and repaired marginal lacks to covers.
Illustrated.
A stunning “homage of deep affection” for the author of Inquiétude et reconstruction [Anxiety and Reconstruction], an unflinching portrait of Surrealism between the wars that remains to this day a key reference work. This moving inscription from André Breton on one of his major works is testimony of the respect of the Pope of Surrealism for Crémieux's realistic views in his polemics.

First edition, one of 985 numbered copies on vellum.
Signed autograph of André de Richaud a friend, a pencil, calligaphié in the manner of Joseph Delteil.
illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of Joseph Delteil by Mariette Lydis.
spine and boards slightly and marginally insolated not serious, otherwise nice copy.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph Raymond Abellio "For Annie Copperman, there is a beyond politics and love?"
spine and discolored boards and with a clear marginal wetting.

Edition printed on vellum BFK Rives.
Signed autograph of Louis Forest to Mr. Robinson.
Illustrated book 9 boards inset colored Charles Martin.
Our copy is complete the accompanying letter of Nicolas institutions.
Small tears on the back discolored, lack the head of the title page that has been poorly cut.

First edition, rare and very sought-after according to Clouzot.
Contemporary half spotted sheep over marbled paper boards, later dark-green title-pieces.
Occasional rare spotting, significant dampstain to inner margin of one volume, covers slightly scuffed, a close-cropped copy.
Provenance: from the library at the Château du Lac Tegern (Tegernsee), which belonged to Prince Charles-Theodore of Bavaria (1795-1875). Charles-Theodore of Bavaria, the son of the first King of Bavaria, Maximilian I, was "Generalfeldmarschall" and personal councilor to the King of Bavaria (stamp: "S.K.H.D Prinzen Carl V. Bayern Güter Administration Tegernsee").
A rare copy with a princely provenance in a strictly contemporary binding.

First edition on current paper.
Binding in the bradel half vellum vellum style, smooth back adorned with triple gilded boxes and decorated with angles of gilded florets, marbled paper plates, preserved covers, gilded head, corners blunt, contemporary binding.
Notes of a bibliophile covering all the guard compared to the first preserved cover plate.
Some foxinges mainly affecting the first and last leaflets, shadows, some spots on the handwritten letter.
Our copy is exceptionally enriched with a beautiful autograph letter, mounted on tab, 4 pages dated and signed by Louis de Grammont addressed to Villiers de l'Isle Adam in which he regrets that the writer of Axel has "fled the worries of the city "because against them" the countryside is your only asylum "and that the salons in which they participated both are" heartless without you "and" the house of Nina loses three quarters, not to say the five- sevenths of his charms ... "He encourages Villiers, in his exile," in his stay extramural "..." to bring him a tragedy altier, poignant, terrible and jester, where the grotesque elbows the scary,. .. a drama that finally cuts the whistle to the helpless and the envious ...

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph full page of Rene Fallet Pierre-Jean Launay: "... to whom I owe a lot, that I would not allow me to repeat it," the race of beast "(thank you) offers his second book dealing with the most beautiful thing in the world (okay?) love blue flowers and mousetraps. Good and very friendly. "
Yellowed paper as usually.

Collective Edition ur current paper.
Signed autograph of the poet Paul Eluard Jean Rousselot: "... the dramatic price of friendship I have for Max and Mony."
Back insolated.
Provenance: from the library of Jean Rousselot with ex-dono pen head of a guard.

First edition of the French translation, and of wich no leading copies exists.
Autograph signed and dated by Pierre Alechinsky to a friend: "... in Brabant version with the friendship of one of the brushes ..."
Iconography, manual Christian Dotremont.

First edition.
Contemporary half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments with double blindruled compartments, gilt fleurons at their centre, gilt date to foot of spine, one joint slightly rubbed, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, lower corners bumped.
With drawings hors texte and to text by Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Manet, Prosper Mérimée, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Ok'Sai, Grandville, and so on.
A little spotting principally affecting first few leaves.
Retaining its rare bande annonce (advertising strip) and a portrait of Champfleury tipped in.

Edition illustrated with 75 inset wood for Volume 1, Volume 2 66, 74 volume 3, 94 Volume 4, and 85 volume 5, all designed by Alphonse de Neuville, Philipoteaux .. . the fifth book was written by madame de Witt, the author's daughter, according to the notes left by one. Some cards colors.
Cardboard editor Magnier Charles signed tail, red and gold. Half red shagreen percaline dish. Back with false nerves decorated with four emblems of French royalty: the salamander, sun, dolphins and a crescent moon. boards decorated with a large red and gold plaque bearing in medallions figures of several kings on red background of foliage. shimmering white guards. Only the upper and lower flat of the first volume bears some gilding shortages in low margin and angular lilies otherwise magnificent example, in superb condition, perfectly fresh, well white paper pristine. Note that the fifth volume is subsequently appeared in a bright red and vermilion.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on bibliophile vellum, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.

first edition printed 600 copies Alfa paper.
Precious autograph signed and dated by Maurice Dubourg to Marcel Jouhandeau.
spine and boards slightly and marginally insolated, a small tear in the foot the first flat.

Edition
Handwritten signature of Maurice Barres won the first cover plate.
spine and boards and marginally insolated.

first edition.
Signed autograph of Charles-Louis Philippe Georges Ancey.
Four small and marginal gaps on the flat and back.