Paris

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy with the illustrated dust jacket.
Rare signed and inscribed copy from Orhan Pamuk to Christian Le Guerrone.

Edition from the same year as the first edition.
A discharge mark from adhesive tape at the foot of the page featuring the autograph inscription.
Half brown shagreen binding with corners, faded spine with five raised bands, some scratches on the spine, date and "Prix Goncourt" mention gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, modest binding.
Autograph inscription signed by Robert Merle to Georges Feutrel who was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1949.

Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full green grained sheepskin, blue top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Handsome copy complete with its glassine wrapper, slipcase and dust jacket.
Stains on the upper edge of the slipcase.

Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Iconography.
Fine copy complete with its glassine wrapper and slipcase.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Half bottle-green shagreen binding, browned spine with five raised bands outlined with black fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, modest contemporary binding.
Some light foxing to the endpapers.
Provenance: from the library of Marcel Augagneur with his curious bookplate pasted on a pastedown.
Signed and inscribed copy from Marcel Aymé to journalist Marcel Augagneur ("Gringoire" and "L'écho de Paris") who used the pseudonym Marc de Saligny for his writing.

Autograph letter dated and signed by André Gide, 10 lines in black ink on laid paper, addressed to his cousin Marguerite de Flaux, Baroness de Charnisay.
Fold marks inherent to mailing, envelope included.
André Gide expresses his longing to see his cousin again and hopes she will contact him upon her return to Paris: "... vous me savez, très impatiemment votre affectueusement et respectueusement dévoué." ["... you know me to be, very impatiently your affectionately and respectfully devoted."]

First edition, one of 160 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Very fine copy.

Original albumen print portrait of Edmond Rostand by Otto Wegener.
Minor damage to mount on verso of the photograph.
Signed and inscribed by Edmond Rostand to René Thorel, dated June 1903 in Cambo-les-Bains at the bottom of the photograph.
After the success of L'Aiglon in 1900, Rostand ill with pleurisy took refuge for a spa treatment at Cambo-les-Bains in the Basque country. Charmed by the region, he acquired land and built the sumptuous Villa Arnaga, now a museum dedicated to the playwright.