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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...

Illustrated edition featuring 9 original full-page etchings by Eugène Decisy, along with numerous in-text color wood engravings by Serge de Solomko. One of 800 numbered copies printed on Arches wove paper.
A handsome copy.

First edition of this work considered to be Grandville's masterpiece, with illustrations in first print.

Illustrated frontispiece, 36 colored illustrations and 146 in-text woodcuts in black.

Contemporary binding in blue half glazed calf, sunned spine with gilt arabesques, small holes at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, mould made endpapers and flyleaves, speckled edges. 
This exuberant and prodigious production of Grandville and Delord (whose name is printed at the bottom of page 292), judged by its contemporaries as already being mad, was rediscovered by the Surrealists.

"Published in 1844 by éditions Fournier, Un autre monde is Grandville's...

Edition published in the same year as the first edition.

Minor traces of creasing to the margins of the wrappers.

A pleasant copy.

Edition published in the same year as the first edition, stated eighteenth edition. 

Spine sunned.
Dated and signed autograph inscription from Henri Calet to Claude Couffon, a scholar and translator of the leading Spanish-language writers of the second half of the twentieth century: "... ce roman-promenade..."

First edition, one of 50 copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe-paper copies (cf. Claude Menguy).

A rare and fine copy, mistakenly lettered "alfa" halfway down the spine, though certainly printed on Lafuma pur fil paper (no copies were printed on alfa paper). White wrappers reserved for the deluxe-paper copies, the photographic wrappers being used only for the ordinary issue.

Illustrated with staged photographs by J. Constantinesco.

First edition, one of 50 copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe-paper copies (cf. Claude Menguy).

A rare and fine copy, mistakenly lettered "alfa" halfway down the spine, though certainly printed on Lafuma pur fil paper (no copies were printed on alfa paper).

White wrappers reserved for the deluxe-paper copies, the photographic wrappers being used only for the ordinary issue.

First edition, one of 50 copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe-paper copies (cf. Claude Menguy).

A rare and fine copy, mistakenly lettered "alfa" halfway down the spine, though certainly printed on Lafuma pur fil paper (no copies were printed on alfa paper). White wrappers reserved for the deluxe-paper copies, the photographic wrappers being used only for the ordinary issue.

Illustrated with staged photographs by J. Constantinesco.

First edition, a review copy.

Wrappers printed on both covers.

Sewing a little weak, wrappers slightly soiled, spine creased, wrappers and leaves browned.

Autograph inscription signed by the author to Paul Feuga (1863-1939), mayor of Toulouse and senator for Haute-Garonne, in the Occitan dialect.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Foreword by Raymond Queneau.
A fine copy.

 

First edition, one of the 200 numbered alfa paper copies reserved for the press service.

Spine with a few rubbed areas along the joints.

Signed autograph inscription from Marcel Pagnol to the writer Raymond Magne.

 New edition with some parts in first edition, expanded with a new preface.

Minor tears at the head and foot of the spine, a few small stains and marginal tears to the covers.

Presentation inscription signed by Marguerite Yourcenar to Jane Bathori, the French mezzo-soprano, choral conductor, teacher, theatre director and film-maker, enriched with a Greek epithet used to describe to the Emperor Hadrian, the "supremely musical sovereign": "βασιλευς Μουσικοτατος", as a tribute to the dedicatee's artistry.

New edition of the French version of the celebrated poem "Tu seras un homme mon fils", a complete reworking of Rudyard Kipling's poem "If", one of the numbered copies on Lafuma wove paper.

Bound in half forest green morocco with corners, the spine faded and sunned, with four raised bands ruled in gilt and decorated with gilt compartments enhanced by red, brown and dark brown onlaid morocco inlays, gilt date at the foot, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.

A few light spots of foxing.

A handsome copy in an attractive binding.

Signed autograph presentation inscription from André Maurois to...

First edition.

Contemporary half brown shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands framed by blind fillets, gilt floral tools at head and tail, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplates mounted at the head of the pastedowns, sprinkled edges.

A few minor spots of foxing, with press cuttings loosely inserted and leaving offsetting to the front endpapers of the first volume.

Signed autograph presentation inscription by Jules Claye, the printer of this work, to Ferdinand Taillefer on the front of the first volume: "... souvenir typographique à mon ancien et excellent collaborateur..."

First edition of each of the 9 issues of this important literary magazine published in Carcassonne by Joë Bousquet and René Nelli.

Contributions by Joë Bousquet, André Cayatte, Paul Éluard, Max Ernst, Henri Féraud, Benjamin Fondane, Ferdinand Alquié, Pierre and Jean Audard, André Gaillard, Abel Gance, Marcel Jouhandeau, Michel Leiris, Georges Malkine, René Nelli, Claude-André Puget, Zdenko Reich, André de Richaud, Carlo Suarès, Gilbert Trolliet, André Gaillard, among others...

A few minor, inconsequential tears to the foot of the spine on some issues, a few spines slightly sunned; a handsome set.

A rare complete set of the literary and poetic periodical...

First edition, one of the numbered copies bound to Paul Bonet's original design.
Publisher's full cream cloth, smooth spine lightly sunned, lacking its illustrated dust jacket.
Profusely illustrated.
Inscribed, dated and signed by André Malraux to Nicole Briquet.
 

First edition of Aristide Bruant’s electoral manifesto, written in his signature chansonnier style, for the legislative elections of May 8, 1898, covering the Belleville–Saint-Fargeau district, the first constituency of the 20th arrondissement of Paris.

The fourth leaf of this fragile electoral document features a hagiography of Aristide Bruant, "poet of the outcasts and the wretched," by Michel Morphy.

The manifesto is illustrated with a drawing by Borgey.

First edition on standard paper.
Minor tears of no consequence to the margins of the boards, spine slightly sunned with minor wear.
Signed autograph inscription by Léo Ferré to Caro Mame.

 

First edition of the French translation, one of 60 numbered copies on Lana vellum paper, this being one of 10 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe paper issue.

Wrappers illustrated with a drawing by Kees Van Dongen, with a prefatory letter by Jean Cocteau and a preface by Somerset Maugham.

Spine very lightly sunned, with a few minor nicks at the head.

Edition illustrated by Gaston Barret.

Publisher's full beige paper boards, smooth spine, a complete copy retaining its illustrated dust jacket, the latter with a few small marginal tears.

Precious signed autograph inscription from René Maran: "A M. Maurice Genevoix, qui honore l'Académie Française de son caractère et de son talent. René Maran."

First edition on ordinary paper.

A pleasing copy, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.

Important presentation copy inscribed by Romain Gary to the jeweller Alexandre Reza: "To Alexandre Reza, in memory of the precious stones of our youth. Romain Gary, 1 December 1970."

Loosely inserted in a folded sheet of tracing paper is an original colour drawing by the jeweller Alexandre Reza depicting a ring and captioned 'Jonquille" No. 33'

First edition on ordinary paper.
Contemporary half navy blue morocco, spine in পাঁচ raised bands decorated with gilt dotted tooling and gilt fillets, marbled paper sides, endpapers and pastedowns, wrappers preserved.
Our copy is complete with the author’s printed dedication to Marshal Pétain, later suppressed in subsequent editions.

First Gallimard edition, one of 1050 numbered copies on alfama du marais paper.

Publisher's boards executed after the original design by Paul Bonet.

Spine slightly faded, as often encountered, two neatly repaired splits at the head and foot of one joint, 

First edition, one of 1,550 numbered copies on alfama paper.

Publisher's paper boards designed after Mario Prassinos' original artwork.

Spine lightly sunned, as usual, otherwise a very good copy.