Paris

Les Contes de Perrault [The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault]
Hetzel, Paris 1880, 28,5x39cm, bound.
New edition illustrated with 40 full-page engravings by Gustave Doré. One of the copies beautifully printed on thick paper H. Odent & C^ie.
Red cloth publisher's binding. First cover, spine and part of the second cover uniformly lightened, covers and corners a little rubbed. A few quires slightly sticking out.
Rare copy scarcely without any foxing.

New edition, one of 130 numbered copies on alfa paper reserved for the press service.
Important autograph inscription signed by Paul Valéry to his muse, the sculptor Renée Vautier, who notably created the famous bust of the poet in 1935: "A Renée Vautier. Le décapité parlant et ami. P. Valéry" ["To Renée Vautier. The speaking and friendly decapitated one. P. Valéry"]
Handsome copy.

The best edition of Diderot's works, complete with the Oeuvres inédites which contain the important first French edition of Neveu de Rameau (translated from the German edition, the original French manuscript not being found until 1891), and the volume of Mémoires Historiques et Philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Diderot by Naigeon, a volume most often lacking as it was suppressed by order of the Royal Court of Paris. Some plates, notably in the Lettre sur les aveugles and la Lettre sur les sourds et muets; a portrait of Diderot as frontispiece to the volume of Memoirs. Printed on strong laid paper.
Contemporary half green morocco...

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on alfa paper reserved for the press.
Handsome copy despite some worming to the edges.
Autograph inscription signed by Kléber Haedens to Paris historian Gilbert Guilleminault: "... son vieux complice..." ["... his old accomplice..."]

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre, the only grands papiers (deluxe paper)..
Rare and beautiful copy.

Exceptional set of archives from the Rudier foundry: a manuscript register of castings (45 leaves and 8 loose leaves) and a set of 11 original silver print photographs. Housed in a box covered with a decorative paper. Register bound in a cloth, first cover detached; consolidated with a re-used cover from an insurance company sheet. Numerous tears on the covers, tears on a few pages not affecting the text, a few pages loose.
Extremely rare documents, to our knowledge unique set of archives to have survived the destruction of the molds and records of the Rudier foundry in 1952. The only other archives known to date only concern castings commissioned by the Rodin...

Keepsake lyrique. Recueil de 12 romances, chansonnettes et cavatines
Leduc, Paris 1835, 24,6x31cm, full morocco binding.
First edition of this music collection by Rossini, Meyerbeer, Halevy, Bellini, Caraf, Donizetti... with 12 lithographs by Eugène Isabey, Gavarni, Devéria, Charlet, Bellange, Camille Rogier, Monthelier, on chine paper, mounted on thick paper.
Contemporary full purple morocco binding, housed in a goffered cloth case, spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, covers decoratively stamped in blind, pink moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt, printed on fine paper.
Slightly rubbed.
Superb copy.
Remarkable example of salon music that...

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy complete with its publisher's wraparound band.

First edition.
Bradel binding in green half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt fleuron, date and double gilt fillet at foot, burgundy morocco title-label with very slight marginal scratches, marbled paper boards, a small light stain on the first cover, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding signed Vié & Sevin.
Endpapers partially shaded.
Autograph inscription from Emile Zola to Henri Lavedan.

First edition on laid paper printed in a small number of copies.
Minor paper losses to head and foot of spine, tiny marginal tears to boards.
Manifesto-poem, inspired by the Armenian genocide and dated late April 1916, Max Jacob then qualified himself as "terrified interpreter of human suffering".
Rare

Théâtre de Paris, Paris 7 October 1949, 20.9 x 26cm, 2 pages 1/4 on 3 leaves.
Two complete autograph manuscripts of the preface by André Breton for the program of the show by the American dancer Katherine Dunham at the Paris theater:
– The first, written in blue ink on one leaf with many crossings out, includes several variations to the version published at the top of the programme.
– The second, also written in blue ink on two leaves, matches almost word for word with the published version. Signed by André Breton on the second leaf.
Attached: the original version of the show programme for which André Breton...

First edition for each of the two volumes.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine set with double gilt fillets, decorated with double cold-boxes and gilt stippling, double gilt fillets at head and tail, marbled paper boards, vat paper endpapers and back covers, speckled edges.
Autograph address signed by Victor Hugo at the head of the title page of the first volume: "... to my excellent friend Léon Masson...".
Le Roi s'amuse is complete with frontispiece by Tony Johannot printed on Chine paper.
A few small brown spots, a pleasant copy.