Paris

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, 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. »

The works signed by...

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...

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pure rag Rives paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.

Original portrait of Antonin Artaud signed and inscribed by Denise Colomb
Original signed portrait of her close friend Antonin Artaud by Denise Colomb, silver print made by the artist in the 1990's after a photograph taken in 1947.
A moving large-format shot of the writer at the very end of his life, looking almost Christ-like, seated in an armchair hands folded in his lap, as if resigned to his tragic fate.
Antonin Artaud was the first of her famous series of artists portraits which also included Giacometti, Picasso, Soulages and Miro pictured in their studio.
Signed and inscribed by Denise Colomb in the lower left and right corners of the...