Paris

Autograph letter signed by Reynaldo Hahn, dandy, composer and great love of Marcel Proust (20 lines in blue ink) addressed to Julia Daudet concerning the tragic death of her grandson Philippe who committed suicide at the age of 14; his father, Léon Daudet, accused anarchist circles or the police of the Third Republic of having disguised this "crime" as suicide.
Fold marks inherent to postal dispatch.
Reynaldo Hahn apologizes for not being as available as he would like for his friends and regrets having missed his correspondent at her home: "... à aller vous dire tout ce que je ressens si vivement..." ["to come tell you all that I feel so...

Autograph card signed by Pierre-André Benoit (8 lines in black ink written from his château at Rivières-de-Theyrargues in the Gard which he has occupied since 1970) addressed to bookseller Pierre Clerc, to whom he presents his wishes for 1984.
The card is illustrated on the recto with a reproduction of a drawing by PAB.
PAB is exhausted by the past year: "... j'ai besoin cet hiver de me reposer puis ce sera encore l'agitation..." ["I need to rest this winter then it will be agitation again..."] and is considering leaving his retreat at Rivières-de-Theyrargues: "dans un an au plus un an 1/2 je laisserai Rivières et me...

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

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in brown half morocco with corners, spine faded, gilt date at foot, a small black spot on the spine, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved and mounted on tabs.
Illustrated with a frontispiece by Félicien Rops, slightly sunned at the margins.
Provenance: from the library of Guy Seligmann, with his bookplate affixed to the head of a pastedown.

First edition, a service de presse (advance) copy.
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 autograph inscription from Marcel Aymé to the journalist Marcel Augagneur ("Gringoire" and "L'écho de Paris") who used the pseudonym Marc de Saligny for his writing.

Edition of the same year as the first edition, one of the numbered copies.
Publisher's binding in full purple cloth boards, smooth spine with slight discoloration at foot.
Autograph inscription signed by Simone de Beauvoir to Micheline Lalin.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
One bookplate pasted on an endpaper on the first endpaper slightly creased at head.

Nouveau cercle parisien du livre, Paris 1965, 35x45cm, morocco binding under custom chemise and slipcase.

"The idea of this book, bringing together poems by Jean Cocteau illustrated by Léopold Survage on the theme of Pegasus, had been submitted to the Poet and had pleased him. A few days before his death, he invited us to Milly-la-Forêt to hand over the texts and the preface he had specially written. But on the day of our appointment, he was no longer there" (afterword to Pégase).

Monumental folio edition illustrated with 10 original plates by Léopold Survage, one of 170 numbered copies on vélin d'arches, ours especially printed for...

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder Holland vellum, this copy being one of the 5 hors commerce copies, from the deluxe issue.
The book is housed in a slipcase signed by Julie Nadot, reproducing the upper and lower covers and the spine of the volume.
A very fine copy, as issued.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vélin, the only limited issue.
Bound in midnight-blue 3/4 morocco, spine decorated with in gilt with inlaid lozenges of sky-blue rhinestones, blue paper pastedowns and endpapers, original covers and spine preserved, edge gilt, custom slipcase lined with midnight-blue morocco, blue paper boards, white felt interior, elegant binding signed and dated 1976 by Pierre-Lucien Martin.
A rare and pleasant copy, handsomely bound by Pierre-Lucien Martin.

[Petition of Women of the Third Estate to the King]
8-page pamphlet, under paper wrappers.

“Sire, At a time when the different orders of the state are occupied with their interests; when everyone seeks to make the most of his titles and rights; when some anxiously recall the centuries of servitude and anarchy, while others make every effort to shake off the last links that still bind them to the imperious remains of feudalism; women—continual objects of the admiration and scorn of men—could they not also make their voices heard midst this general agitation?”

A very rare letter of grievance from the women of the Third Estate addressed to Louis...

First French edition issued at 12 750 copies numbered in red on the colophon "achevé d'imprimer" page at the end of the volume, only issue.
Illustrated with watercolors by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
Publisher's blue hardcover, spine slightly faded, illustrated dust jacket.
A fine copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket, rare in fine condition.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, with the correct imprint dated July 2010.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on Rivoli vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Very handsome copy.

First edition, with the complete 36 monthly issues which ran for three years. Over 300 full-page illustrations in black and in color, with illustrated drawings in black in the text.
Publisher's 3/4 grey cloth, smooth spines, upper boards decorated with Japanese prints - volume II depicting Mount Fuji, bindings slightly faded and rubbed although not heavily soiled.
Very good interior condition.
Exceptional set with contributions by Théodore Duret, Edmond de Goncourt, Hayashi, Louis Gonse, Burthy, etc., instrumental in the dissemination of Japonism in France.

La Révolution défigurée [The Stalin School of Falsification], Editions Rieder, Paris 1929, 13,5x20,5cm, original wrappers.

First edition, one of 15 lettered copies on pure wire, the only large papers. Our copy is lettered "N". The text, written in Russian by Trotsky during his exile, was first published in French in the translation by Victor Serge. It was not until 1931 that it appeared in Russian and it did not receive an English translation until 1937 under the title "Stalin School of Falsification".

Very rare autograph tribute dated and signed by Leon Trotsky: “6/IX 1929 My best regards L. Trotsky. »

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Signed autograph medical prescription for morphine chloride and opocalcium

Autograph medical prescription signed by the famous Docteur Petiot, written on his letterhead at 66 rue Caumartin and dated October 8, 1942. Stamped in red ink by the pharmacist Chapon, Boulevard de la Chapelle, Paris.
The infamous doctor prescribes morphine chloride and opocalcium guaiacol for his patient - a certain Henri Pain living at 66 rue des Flandres. We know of another prescription for heroin hydrochloride written for the same patient a few months earlier.
These two prescriptions closely spaced in time for heroin derivatives and morphine lead us to believe that they were fraudulent, since...