Paris

First edition of this issue entirely devoted to Le Douanier Rousseau.
Includes contributions by Guillaume Apollinaire, featuring "Le Douanier", René Dalize, Adolphe Basler, three poems and letters by Le Douanier Rousseau...
Illustrated with seven reproductions of Rousseau's works.
A rare and appealing copy despite minor marginal tears on the covers and a small stain along the right margin of the front cover.

First edition, printed in 200 numbered copies not for sale.

A fine copy.

First edition of the French translation by Georges Sautreau, review copy punch on the lower cover.

Spine slightly sunned, otherwise a pleasant copy.

Signed autograph inscription by Georges Sautreau, in Norwegian, to the philologist and literary historian Gunnar Fougner Høst, wishing him a joyful winter solstice: "Til Gunnar Høst glaedelig Jul Georges Sautreau Paris Nöel 1932;"

First edition in deluxe-paper, issued only a few days after the ordinary trade edition, which was printed in 950 copies on Marais paper. This copy is one of 200 numbered on Outhenin-Chalandre, the only deluxe issue. Rare signed presentation copy of Romain Gary’s first published work, inscribed: “À Roland Feuvrier, bien amicalement Romain Gary \ 15 nov. 1945.”

A pleasant copy despite a few small spots and minor marginal tears to the boards. 

Rare first edition illustrated with one table and two plates showing cranial shapes and portraits of the insane.

See Garrison Morton, 4922. En français dans le texte, 203. Kelly, p. 326. Foucault, Histoire de la folie, 523. Jan Goldstein, Console and classify, 65. Bariéty & Coury, 882.

Half calf binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral and ornamental motifs, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges; modern pastiche binding.

Some foxing mainly affecting the second volume.

Bound at the end of the volume is Jean-Etienne Esquirol’s "Des Établissemens consacrés aux aliénés en France, et des moyens de les...

First edition, one of 750 numbered copies on vélin paper, this not justified, the only printing along with 50 on Japan.

A good copy.
Aesthetic Surrealist autograph inscription by Benjamin Péret: '...Pourquoi la chevelure, me direz-vous? Oui, pourquoi? Parce que les cheveux remplacent les parapluies...' to his friend Léo Malet.

First edition.

A fine copy.
Inscribed and signed by Romain Gary.

First edition, one of 52 copies printed on Montval paper, ours being the second of 12 hors commerce copies, a deluxe issue.

Half anthracite-grey long-grained morocco, smooth spine lettered with the author’s name, title, date, and the palladium-stamped inscription “EXEMPLAIRE J. KESSEL”, abstract patterned paper boards, dove-grey paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, binding signed by Thomas Boichot.

Some light foxing mainly affecting the first and last leaves.

Exceptional and deeply moving full-page signed presentation inscription from Maurice Druon to Joseph Kessel: “Il fallait bien, mon grand Jef, que le premier livre que je...

Original colour print printed on laid paper and signed in the plate lower left.

Original engraving produced for the illustration of La Gazette du Bon Ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion journals of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French designers and artists at the height of the Art Deco era.

First edition, one of 95 hors commerce copies on pure wove paper, the only deluxe paper issue.

Half fawn morocco binding, smooth spine with gilt lettering of the author's name, title, date, and the mention “EX. J. KESSEL”, fawn paper boards, rust-colored endpapers and pastedowns, original covers and spine preserved, binding signed by Thomas Boichot.

Some foxing mainly affecting the covers as well as the first and last leaves.

Exceptional and moving signed autograph inscription from Maurice Druon to Joseph Kessel: "A toi mon grand Jef, prince des Cavaliers, avec la joie de t'avoir rejoint parmi les Immortels, cette histoire de famille en...

First edition, of which no copies were printed on deluxe paper.

A fine copy.

Precious signed presentation inscription from Robert Badinter: “Pour Christine Okrent et Bernard Kouchner ce livre sur la difficulté d’être libres et égaux en 1789, en amical hommage. R. Badinter.”

First edition, now rare according to Clouzot.

Endpapers partially toned, occasional scattered foxing, light dampstains in the upper margins of some leaves.
Contemporary half tan sheep binding, spine skilfully restored, marbled paper boards, first endpaper partly toned, a modest period binding (most copies were simply bound at the time, cf. Clouzot).
Exceptional signed autograph inscription by Victor Hugo: "A mon cher et respectable monsieur de la Rivière. Hommage de profond et reconnaissant attachement. Victor."
 

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 25 on vélin de lana.

Illustrated, with a preface letter by Pablo Casals.

Rare and appealing copy complete with its photographic dust jacket.

Autograph signature of Pablo Casals on the half-title page.

First collected edition.

Publisher’s full flexible boards, smooth spine.

Richly illustrated.

Inscribed and signed by Siné, with an original red felt-tip drawing depicting a little man holding a glass of wine and exclaiming: "À Gérard Verroust santé! Siné."

First edition.
Book illustrated with a lithographed cover by Joan Miró in seven colors, along with six color lithographs, including two original ones.
Text by Jacques Prévert and Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes.
Publisher’s flexible full paper binding, smooth spine, lacking the original rhodoid jacket.
Richly illustrated.
A handsome copy.

Our copy is enriched with an autograph inscription signed by Joan Miró accompanied by an original drawing depicting one of his characteristic figures, as well as an autograph inscription signed by Jacques Prévert, enhanced with an original drawing showing a little man offering a flower to the dedicatee.

New edition published three months after the first.

A pleasant copy.

Inscribed and signed by Boualem Sansal to a woman named Suzan.

First edition, with no deluxe copies printed.

Spine faded with a small tear at the foot.

Inscribed by Roland Barthes to Pierre Dumayet.

First edition, of which no deluxe copies were printed.

Boards slightly and marginally yellowed without significance; a pleasant copy overall.

Signed autograph inscription from Robert Badinter: "Au haut conseiller Frank, en témoignage d'amitié. R. Badinter."

First edition, one of 2,080 numbered copies on alfa paper.

Publisher’s binding designed from the original layout by Mario Prassinos.

Spine faded as usual.

First bilingual edition presenting the text in English with its facing French translation by Marie-Claude White, one of 28 numbered copies on vellum de Labna, the only deluxe copies printed.

Rare and handsome copy.

The rare first edition.

Half caramel morocco, spine in five compartments, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, restored wrappers preserved, marbled edges.
Foxed.

With an important autograph inscription signed by Honoré de Balzac to his friend Laurent-Jan, to whom Vautrin was dedicated, and the model for Bixiou, Léon de Lora and several other characters in The Human Comedy.
He was at the same time Balzac's best friend, trusted secretary, ghost writer and perhaps even… “beloved.”
“…the singular phenomenon of the inventor who moved, in 16^th century Barcelona, a vessel by steam past three hundred thousand spectators; that today...

Portrait of Tsuguharu Foujita, original photograph on albumen paper. Blue stamp of the studio "Photographie Simon's, 40 rue de Passy, Paris" on the back of the print.

Splendid portrait inscribed by Foujita on his birthday: "A Lolotte Rabinovitz / Avec mes amitiés / Je suis toujours / prêt à toi [sic] / à Yoshinoya New York / ma fête 27 nov 1930". "To Lolotte Rabinovitz / With my friendship / I am always / close to you / at Yoshinoya New York / my birthday 27 Nov 1930".

First edition of this issue of La Revue musicale dated December 1, 1930, entirely devoted to Serge de Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.

With numerous contributions by Anna de Noailles, Gabriel Astruc, Maurice Brillant, Émile Henriot, Michel-Georges Michel, Mikhail Larionov, Auguste Gilbert de Voisins, André Warnod, among others.

Illustrated in black and in color with works by Jean Cocteau, Léon Bakst, Georges Braque, André Derain, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Pablo Picasso, Maurice Utrillo, and others.

Two small light dampstains at the foot of the spine and rear cover, otherwise a pleasant copy.

First edition of the French translation prepared by Pierre Klossowski, one of 15 copies on pur fil paper, ours unnumbered but duly justified "pur fil", copy from the head of the print run.

A handsome copy.

First edition, no deluxe paper copies issued.

Complete copy with its illustrated dust jacket, showing as usual a few small marginal tears, two repaired tears at the foot of the spine, and a faint dampstain on the verso of the rear cover.

Rare signed and inscribed copy by Georges Brassens: "à yoyo amical souvenir georges brassens." 

First French edition, no deluxe paper copies issued.

Minor, insignificant spotting to the edges.

A handsome copy.

Partly original edition, entirely revised and corrected.

Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands framed with black fillets, gilt "N" at the foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, four bookseller's description labels pasted beneath the bookplate on the pastedown, contemporary binding.

A pleasant copy.

Provenance: from the library of Nadar with his celebrated engraved bookplate "Quand même !"

First edition, one of 340 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe paper issue.
Bound in brown half morocco with corners, smooth spine, marbled endpapers, original wrappers preserved.

Some discreet restorations to the spine and joints.
Our copy, with full margins, retains the folding genealogical table of the Rougon-Macquart.

First edition, illustrated throughout the text.

Some foxing, light rubbing without consequence to the spines, small losses of green paper on the endpapers.

Contemporary manuscript ex-donos on the endpapers as a gift.

Publisher’s full blue cloth, smooth spines decorated with black Greek key motifs, black Greek key borders on the boards, upper boards adorned with a marine illustration, publisher’s black monograms stamped on the lower boards, green paper endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers preserved.

First edition. One of 385 numbered copies on Vélin d'Arches. Six original lithographs by Georges Rouault and initialled by the author and the publisher, preface by André Suarès and catalogue of the E. Frapier gallery in fine.

The six lithographs are captioned and signed in the plate. Some foxing, shading caused by the protective paper facing the lithographs.

The copy contains an autograph post card signed by Georges Rouault to the publisher about the publication of the book:
“What a terrible job [...], don't change anything, I have reviewed it word for word – twice. I have retouched all the little sketches and the...

First edition of the French translation, one of 25 numbered copies on alfa vellum, the only deluxe paper copies.

Handsome copy.

Partly original edition, expanded with a preface and entirely unpublished fragments.

Bound in contemporary half black shagreen, spines with five raised bands decorated with gilt garlands, gilt dates at the foot, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers, gilt edges.

Some foxing, mainly at the beginning and end of the volumes.

Complete with the folding table bound at the beginning of the second volume.

First edition, with no mention of copies on deluxe paper.

Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands framed by gilt garlands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edge, contemporary binding.

Pleasant copy.

First 12mo edition, partly original as it is entirely revised.

Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt garlands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edge.

Some foxing,

First edition, one of 137 numbered copies on pure thread vellum, the deluxe issue following 80 on Montval.

A pleasant copy.

Fine signed autograph inscription by René Bazin: "Pour monsieur Dubois en très amical hommage. Cette vie d'une sainte  - agressive et qui du reste n'avait pas la foi - Hervé Bazin. 18.9.52."

Autograph manuscript by the author, two and a half pages in-8, published in the issue of May 11, 1944 of the Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous erasures, corrections, and additions. Literary column published on the occasion of the release of Gaston Bachelard's L'air et les songes. Accompanied by the complete typescript.

« L'homme est d'abord rêverie, puissance d'imaginer avant d'être sensibilité et raison », Blanchot’s analysis of this new essay by Bachelard provides an opportunity to confront the philosopher with the uncertainties of his theory, which tends to fragment in the plurality of its forms...

Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light.

First edition on ordinary paper.

Purple half-cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine with a gilt floral motif, gilt initials and double fillet at foot, marbled paper boards, lower corners rubbed, contemporary binding.

Spine sunned, a few small spots of foxing mostly affecting the margins of the leaves.

Precious presentation copy inscribed by Emile Zola to a major inspiration for Germinal: "A Yves Guyot son dévoué confrère. Emile Zola."

Edition adorned with original color illustrations by Alain Tercinet.

Publisher's full brick cloth binding, smooth spine, copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket showing minor marginal tears and a sunned spine.

Slightly warped copy, internally in pleasant condition.

Inscribed and signed by Alain Tercinet to Robert Sabatier.

First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author in the first volume, 6 maps and plans, and 70 engraved portraits hors-texte, including 65 depicting the Grand Masters of the Order of Malta. (cf. Brunet, V, 1149. Cohen 1011. Saffroy 5420.)

Some restorations to the joints, early marginal annotations at the bottom of pages, library stamp on all three volumes, the third of which is bound slightly differently with regard to the gilt tooling; a loss on the endpaper of the first volume, which has been partially cut out.

A good copy.

The illustrations are distributed as follows:

Volume 1: 1 frontispiece, 3 folding maps, and 26 full-page...

First edition. One of 50 copies on Rives vellum, ours one of 15 hors commerce copies numbered in Roman numerals, a deluxe issue following 7 copies on Japan paper.

A fine copy with full margins, presented in a chemise and slipcase of half brown shagreen, smooth spine, sides in wood-grain paper, the ensemble signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.

The volume includes a full-page map of the city and its surroundings.

The author’s first book, it opens with the now famous sentence: "J'avais vingt ans. Je ne laisserai personne dire que c'est le plus bel âge de la vie".

On the half-title, signed autograph inscription in red ink by Paul Nizan to his publisher Frédéric...

First edition of the French translation, one of 200 numbered copies on pure wove paper, the only deluxe issue.

Handsome illustrated cover by Paul Colin, the volume adorned with 16 previously unpublished illustrations.

Slight sunning marks at head and tail of spine.

A rare and appealing copy.

First edition printed on vélin d'Angoulême. Complete copy with the six banned poems and every misprint on page 29, 31, 43, 45, 108, 110 and 217 specific to first edition copies, except for the error to "s'enhardissant" on page 12, corrected at the beginning of printing. Very rare cover in "first state" (Jean de Schelandre 1385-1636 on the second cover and the price of 3 frs on the spine). Small marginal tears to the covers, discreet restorations to the spine, rare and light scattered foxing attesting to the original condition of the copy, unwashed and unglued unlike most copies.
Our copy is housed in a custom clamshell box with the design of the original cover and spine, signed...

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half navy blue morocco, smooth spine, burgundy morocco title-piece, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, bookplate affixed to a pastedown, binding signed by Kauffmann.
Precious signed autograph inscription by Guy de Maupassant: « À mon aimable cousine Lucie Le Poittevin et à mon cher cousin, beau-fils de Cornudet lui-même, leur bien dévoué... »
Our copy is further enriched with two autograph letters signed by Léon Hennique and Henri Céard.

First edition, printed in 1,500 copies on bouffant paper.

Includes numerous contributions by Marcel Béalu, Pierre Béarn, Blaise Cendrars, Jean Follain, Paul Fort, Max Jacob, Pierre Jean Jouve, Pierre Mac Orlan, Michel Manoll, Pierre Reverdy, André Salmon, Jules Supervielle...

A minor tear without consequence at the foot of the spine, which shows light sunning.

A fine and moving signed autograph inscription from Dominique de Roux, founder of the Cahiers de l'Herne, to his brother Xavier: "Pour Xavier qui est à l'origine de [L'Herne] ce premier cahier dont le second verra son nom au comité en témoignage de mon affection reconnaissante son vieux et...

First edition, on ordinary paper, of the French translation.
A small tear restored at the foot of the spine, a pleasing copy.
Letter-preface by Jean Cocteau, preface by Somerset Maugham.
Illustrated cover with a portrait of the Aga Khan by Kees Van Dongen, with iconography.

Rare and precious signed autograph presentation from the Aga Khan to Madame Avrillier.

 

First edition on ordinary paper with the correct colophon dated 22 June 1999.

Pleasant copy despite two light spots on the right margin of the lower cover.

Inscribed and signed by Jean Echenoz to Jean-Pierre Métais.

First edition, one of 85 copies on pur fil paper, from the deluxe issue after 26 on Hollande.

Spine and covers slightly sunned, marginal tears to the covers and at the foot of the spine.

Rare copy with full margins.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil, the only copies on deluxe paper.

Minor, insignificant foxing to some edges, a handsome copy.

First edition, one of the rare press copies. No deluxe limited issue printed.

Full yellow box calf binding, smooth spine lettered in palladium, boards tooled in blind, upper board with inlays of grey box calf, yellow box calf pastedowns, beige suede endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, no gilt edges like every binding by Jean-Luc Honegger, half yellow box calf custom slipcase, smooth spine lettered in palladium, yellow lustrine cloth boards, beige suede lining, very fine set signed Jean-Luc Honegger (2023).

4400 copies of this first edition of The Stranger were printed on April 21, 1942: 400 press copies, 500 copies without a statement of...

Entrance card (22.2 x 27.4cm), two tone recto print wood engraving on strong beige paper, central fold. One corner restored but a good copy.
Entrance ticket (n°1334 price 25) for the Grand Bal des Artistes organized at Bullier Hall, 31 rue de l'Observatoire in Paris on 23 February 1923 “for the benefit of the mutual aid fund of the Union of Russian Artists”.

Illustrated with a large, two tone wood engraving by Mikhail Larionov (1881-1964). On the back, the signature-stamp of S. Gourevitch, treasurer of the Union of Russian Artists.

Mikhail Larionov was a naturalized French, Russian painter and decorator, close to Kasimir Malevitch and Vladimir Tatline, husband of Nathalie...

The first edition of this review headed by Pierre Guégen, Eugène Jolas, Joseph Csaky and Frédéric Joliot.
Numerous contributions, including from Le Corbusier, Henry Miller, Raymond Queneau, Eugène Jolas, Léonce Rosenberg, Jacques Audiberti, Jean Hélion, Armand Robin, Paul Guth, Roger Caillois, Joë Bousquet, Jean Follain, Jules Monnerot, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Pierre Klosssowski, Michel Leiris, Aimé Césaire, and others.
Number 20 of Volontés contains a first edition, the entire “Cahier d'un retour au pays natal [Notebook on a Return to my Native Land]” by Aimé Césaire, a foundational and fundamental text of the “Négritude” movement.
Two plates worn, otherwise a good and rare set...

First edition of the translation by F. de Bretonne, assistant curator at the Sainte-Geneviève Library, based on a comparison of all earlier versions. The work is enriched with a suite of 10 vignettes by Charlet, retaining its original pink paper wrapper with vignette dated 1831; the volume also includes a portrait of Cervantes.

Half long-grain claret morocco binding with corners, signed at the head of the front endpaper S. David, late 19th century. Spine with four raised bands, decorated with complex and stippled tools within compartments. Gilt fillets on the bands. Double gilt ruling along boards and corners. Minor rubbing to some bands, joints, and corners. One corner slightly...

First edition, printed in a small number, of this offprint from the Bulletin hebdomadaire de l'Association scientifique de France of 16 and 23 December 1883.

Slight losses to the corners of the wrappers, a small stain at the head of the upper cover.

Rare offprint providing the report of the scientific mission of the Talisman [1882-1883] directed by Léon Louis Vaillant, whose results were considerable, particularly regarding the ichthyological fauna of the great depths.

Alphonse Milne-Edwards [1835-1900], professor of zoology at the Muséum and member of the Académie des Sciences, was one of the members of the scientific commission of the Talisman expedition...

First edition.
Publisher’s binding in full old red Russia leather. Smooth spine richly decorated, with two compartments in grotesque style (stars) and two others featuring a central bee within a dotted lozenge. Surrounding the title, four bees. Two successive border friezes on the covers. Gilt edges. Headcaps rubbed with a 1 cm split. One gathering slightly protruding. Wormhole on page 668, then a 2 cm gallery from page 751 to 803, with some letter loss but no impediment to reading. Paper remarkably fresh.

A handsome copy.

First edition, complete with all 12 issues of this luxurious and short-lived review founded and directed by Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, one of the exceedingly rare copies on japon, the only deluxe paper, with four states of the colour engravings.

Bound in half sand-coloured cloth, morocco lettering pieces, marbled paper boards, spines and wrappers preserved for each issue, a fine copy with wide margins.

Our copy indeed contains the four colour states reserved for the deluxe issue, printed on various papers, of each of the 23 photogravures in Arts & Crafts, Symbolist, Renaissance, Art Nouveau, and Classical styles, after Maxwell Armfield, Henri...

Original colour print, printed on laid paper and signed in the plate lower left.

Original engraving produced for the illustration of La Gazette du Bon Ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion journals of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French designers and artists at the height of the Art Deco era.

Original colour print, printed on laid paper and signed in the plate lower left.

Original engraving produced for the illustration of La Gazette du Bon Ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion journals of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French designers and artists at the height of the Art Deco era.

Original colour print, printed on laid paper and signed in the plate higher left.

Original engraving produced for the illustration of La Gazette du Bon Ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion journals of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French designers and artists at the height of the Art Deco era.

Original colour print by Pierre Mourgue, on laid paper, signed lower left within the plate. Text on verso announcing the forthcoming publication by Éditions Lucien Vogel of Antony and Cleopatra by W. Shakespeare, translated by André Gide and illustrated by Drésa.

Original engraving produced for the illustration of La Gazette du Bon Ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion journals of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French designers and artists at the height of the Art Deco era.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Tiny and very discreet restorations to the verso of the first blank leaf.

Significant and fine signed autograph inscription by Antonin Artaud:
« à M. Fernand Pouey qui a voulu comprendre mon aride effort. Antonin Artaud. 13 décembre 1947. »
Signed autograph inscriptions by Antonin Artaud are exceedingly rare in this text.