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First edition illustrated by Myrbach with plates, headpieces and vignettes, from the Guillaume and Lemerre collection.

Contemporary half grey morocco binding with corners. Slipcase with morocco entry and covered with peacock-eye paper. Original wrappers preserved, lacking spine. Spine with 4 raised bands in Jansenist style. Top edge gilt. Uncut paper, with wide margins, fresh paper, free from foxing. Light rubbing to slipcase.
Very handsome copy.
After "Mon frère Yves" and "Pêcheur d'Islande", "Matelot" completes, in 1893, Pierre Loti's trilogy of sea novels and recounts the adventures of Jean Berny who, after failing the Naval Academy entrance exam, enlists in...

First edition for each of the volumes published from 1973 to 1975, no deluxe issue printed.
Spines slightly wrinkled as usual, first cover of second volume marginally faded.
Photographic softcovers.

Exceptional and extremely rare signed and inscribed copy by Solzhenitsyn dated May 1983 to Sam Yossman, on the first volume of this literary keystone of anti-Soviet resistance.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on laid paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.

First edition with numerous illustrations.
Publisher's beige canvas binding with its dust jacket - slightly rubbed around the edges with some very small loss of paper. 

Association copy signed and inscribed by Le Corbusier to his literary agent: “For Hélène Strassova, guardian of the lamps. The lamps being these books full of gibberish that she has miraculously spread among the people... yellow, red, white and black. In the tower of Babel... With my thanks and friendship. Le Corbusier Nov. 14, 1959.” With an autograph thank you note signed by Jean Petit.

“Helena Strassova mostly represented German authors in France, and French authors abroad. Born...

First edition of Jacques Lacan's doctor­al thesis. The most precious of the 20 known copies gifted by the author. The copy's existence was hitherto only ev­idenced by the thanks Sigmund Freud sent Lacan after receiving it.

Exceptional association copy inscribed by Jacques Lacan: “Au Professeur Sig­mund Freud, père de la nouvelle psy­chiatrie, à laquelle je voudrais avoir contribué un peu par cet ouvrage, bien que j'aie dû m'y exprimer trop souvent en fonction de l'ancienne./en témoi­gnage de mon immense admiration,/Jacques Lacan / le 3 janvier 1932 [sic]” [”To Professor Sigmund Freud, father of the new psychiatry, to which I would like to have contributed a...

First edition on ordinary paper, with the false statement of “third edition,” complete with the errata bifolium. Discreet repairs to the spine; a handsome copy as issued. With a desirable signed presentation from Marcel Proust to the playwright Jacques Darval: “à Monsieur Jacques Darval / Hommage reconnaissant / Marcel Proust.” ["To Monsieur Jacques Darval / With grateful homage / Marcel Proust.”] Darval, born Louis Valeton, authored several plays and numerous dance revues during the 1920s.

First 12° edition published two years after the very scarce first edition.
Light damp stains to the joints of the volumes, a small hole at the foot of spine of first volume, light rubbing to the spine, one upper corner of first volume dulled.
Half roan binding, smooth spines framed in gilt and blind, modern black morocco title-labels, marbled paper boards, speckled edges, contemporary bindings.

Provenance: library of Michel Marie de Pomereu, with his engraved bookplates pasted on the flyleaves.

First 12^o edition published a year after the very rare first edition.
Light dampstains to the joins of the volumes, a small hole at foot of a joint on the first volume, slight rubbing to the spines, an upper corner of volume 1 rubbed, small part of leather lacking and a hole to a joint of the third volume.

Bound in half bronze sheep, smooth spines framed in gilt and cold-stamped fillets, modern black morocco title labels and volume labels, marbled paper boards, spotted edges, contemporary bindings.

Provenance: from the library of Michel Marie de Pomereu with his engraved bookplates pasted on the pastedowns.