Paris

First edition illustrated with 2 frontispiece portraits and 100 hors-texte plates by Gustave Doré engraved by Bellanger, Pannemaker, Pisan...

Publisher's binding in full vermillion percaline cloth signed Magnier. Smooth spine decorated with 6 richly ornamented compartments. Large plate on the upper cover with a cross with pointed ends at center, 4 swords, 4 blazoned shields and 4 crescents in the corners. The second cover repeats the central part of the decoration of the first cover. Spine slightly sunned. Minor cuts at head and tail. Some foxing on otherwise white paper. Corners slightly turned.
Fine copy of this capital text, the fruit of 30 years of research, wh

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on surfine colored paper.
Work illustrated with 3 aquatints by Mimi Parent.
One scratch with three light stains on the first cover.
Handsome copy.
Precious and surrealist autograph inscription signed by José Pierre to Marie Cermínová Toyen: "A Toyen, les violons monégasques fabriqués secrètement dans les presbytères en partant de l'anémone de mer, José." (To Toyen, the Monégasque violins secretly manufactured in presbyteries starting from the sea anemone, José.)
Signatures of José Pierre and Mimi Parent below the justification page.

Edition illustrated by Julien Le Blant with 7 hors-texte etchings and a portrait of the author as frontispiece. Small print run on vellum. Fine engravings engraved by Champollion. Ornaments (initials, headpieces...) by Giacomelli.

Copy with the monogram G. A., unidentified. Interlaced English initials.

Contemporary full tender green morocco binding signed at bottom of front pastedown Bonleu. Smooth spine decorated with a fleuron at head and a special tool, the whole within elegant frames. Triple fillet frame on boards. Monogram at center of upper board. Wide inner decorative border. Top edge gilt. Light traces of rubbing. Spine having turned uniformly to light brown.

Bilingual edition in Provençal with the French translation printed opposite.

Contemporary half brown shagreen, smooth spine sunned and decorated in gilt with floral tools and ornamental motifs, gilt initials at foot, cat’s-eye paper sides, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers preserved.

A few minor foxing spots, the first gathering tending to loosen.

Precious dated autograph inscription signed by Frédéric Mistral in Provençal to his friend, the félibre poet Paul Arène.

First edition, with the false statement of 16th edition.

Light discoloration at the head of the spine and along the left margin of the upper cover.

Autograph inscription signed by Léon Blum to Charles-André Julien: "à André Julien, son camarade fidèle et son ami reconnaissant, Léon Blum."

Charles-André Julien was one of the leaders of the Communist Party in Algeria. He left it in 1926 and contributed to the journal Clartés edited by Henri Barbusse.

A committed anti-colonialist and activist, he established contacts with independence movements, notably with the group formed around Habib Bourguiba, who became his friend. Durin

Second edition.

Rare and pleasing copy, with an International Red Aid membership form loosely inserted.

First edition, one of the ordinary issue, with no deluxe paper copies noted.

Small angular losses at the upper margins of the first leaves, paper occasionally brittle in the margins of certain leaves.

Signed autograph inscription from Rachilde to Léon Frapié.

Rare first edition.

Some foxing, spine slightly cocked.

Third edition, revised and augmented by the author, published during his lifetime. The copy is complete with the title-frontispiece depicting a "portico of Tuscan architectural order" according to the description of the 1805 edition, whose terrace shows a man ploughing the fields, indicating the content of the book. It is likewise complete with the folding plate and the eight elaborate vignettes. The first edition of this major text was issued from the press only five years earlier, in 1600.

Con

First edition of the French translation established by Alexandre Vialatte, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe paper issue.

A handsome copy.

First edition of the French translation, one of 50 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe paper copies.

Illustrated wrappers.

A handsome copy.

First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe paper copies.

Frontispiece with a photographic portrait of Léon Blum.

A pleasant copy.

First edition of the French translation, for which no deluxe paper copies were issued.

A very slight loss to the head of the spine.

A rare and pleasing copy.

First edition of this work devoted to the oeuvre of Ania Staritsky.

Illustrated with an original work by Ania Staritsky on the cover.

A rare and very attractive copy, spine plain and unlettered, boards slightly and marginally sunned, without seriousness.

Copy enriched with an artist’s proof engraving, justified and signed by Ania Staritsky in pencil

First edition, one of the press review copies.

A pleasing copy.
It is the work for which Patrick Modiano was awarded the "Prix Goncourt" in 1978.
Rare signed autograph inscription from Patrick Modiano to his friend, the actor and dubbing artist Roger Lumont.
 

First edition of the French translation, illustrated with a photographic portrait of Albert Einstein as frontispiece.

A small loss at the foot of the spine, which also shows rubbing along the joints, upper right corner of the front board starting to come loose, a slight marginal tear just below, pleasant internal condition, manuscript bookplate at the head of a flyleaf.

Annotations and markings in red pen on pages 8 and 9.

Work illustrated with figures in the text.

First illustrated edition issued for the Club français des bibliophiles, one of the numbered copies.
Publisher’s full olive-green cloth bindings, smooth spines, gilt medallions in relief depicting General de Gaulle and Free France stamped at the centres of the upper covers, fine copies complete with their original glassine wrappers.
A complete set in three volumes, richly illustrated.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Charles de Gaulle in the first volume, manuscript signatures dated in the second and third volumes.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on japon paper, deluxe issue.

Minor tears and two small losses at the foot of the spine at the level of the deckle edges, a stain in the left margin of the upper cover, a wide-margined copy.

Illustrated with a photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece.

A fine large-paper copy on vellum of the 1796 edition, which contains several previously unpublished texts by the author, a frontispiece portrait, 13 illustrations and 2 maps, engraved by Pierre-Alexandre Tardieu, Claude-Nicolas Malapeau, P. F. Tardieu, A. Girardet, Jean Louis Charles Pauquet, François Denis Née, Emmanuel-Jean-Népomucène de Ghendt, Charles Emmanuel Patas, Noël Le Mire and Vincent-Marie Langlois (in order of appearance).

Contemporary half long-grain red morocco bindings, smooth spines divided by

First edition on standard paper.

Bradel binding in full moiré silk with a leaf pattern, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron and gilt date at the foot, green morocco lettering piece, fore-edge and tail edges untrimmed, binding signed in blind on the upper pastedown [E.T.] Pierson, the Goncourt brothers' binder of choice.
Silk at the headcaps slightly rubbed, corners worn, light rubbing to the lettering piece.

A fine copy, with a few very faint fox spots and one paragraph marked with a pencilled marginal bracket at p. 61.

New edition.

Photographic covers and numerous illustrations, both in-text and on plates.

A pleasant copy.

Autograph inscription signed by Eric Tabarly to Jean-Pierre Clément.

First edition of the French translation, one of 21 numbered copies on pur fil paper, deluxe issue.

Bradel binding in half blue percaline, smooth spine, floral motif, date and double gilt fillets at the foot, hazel morocco title label with some scuffing, marbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding.

The text by Friedrich Sieburg is followed by a letter from Bernard Grasset to the latter.

Fine dated and signed autograph inscription, from London, by Friedrich Sieburg to Monsieur de Fleuriau, then French ambassador in London: "... en le priant de ne voir dans ce livre que l'attrait que la France exerça sur son auteur. Homma

Partly original edition, with 8 of the 12 stories in this collection appearing here for the first time.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with black and gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges.

A small angular loss to the headcap, light rubbing to the spine.