Paris

Ubu Roi
Second edition, partly unpublished, printed with 300 copies using the autographic facsimile reproduction method: the handwritten text by Alfred Jarry is carefully written in calligraphy like the score written by Claude Terrasse, which is itself in first edition, one of 10 copies on Japan paper, the tirage de tête before 10 Holland paper.

Binding in full garnet morocco, spine decorated with curved gilt fillets continuing on the boards, names of the author and the artist embossed in white, boards stamped with gilt and tricoloured (green...

Bibliothèque de La Pléiade edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full green grained sheepskin, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Handsome copy complete with its glassine wrapper and dust jacket.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper.

Pléiade Library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, grey top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Fine copy complete with its glassine wrapper, dust jacket, soft slipcase and the booklet "genealogical tables of the principal families mentioned in the complete works of Machiavelli".

First edition in French, one of 66 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two small traces of sunning at head and foot of spine as usual.

First illustrated edition with 33 compositions by Léon Morin in colors. Unique printing of 200 copies on white Marais vellum numbered and initialed by the publisher.
Half cherry red morocco mosaic with green and brown corners signed A. Taffin at the top of the first endpaper. Smooth spine with 2 floral compositions in green and brown mosaic in mirror pattern and a central tool with satyr bust. Title within gilt frame, date at foot. Dividing fillets on boards. Light rubbing traces on joints. Covers preserved. Uncut copy with full margins.
Very handsome copy of this charming illustrated work.
Preface by Maurice de Tourneux who tells the story of this work and reproduces the...

Original wood engraving signed on the plate by the artist and engraver. Composition by Gustave Doré and engraved by Héliodore Pisan on China paper and mounted on Dutch laid paper at the request of publisher Hetzel to illustrate his folio edition of Perrault's Contes in 1862.
A pale marginal dampstain, not touching the image.
These illustrations of the Contes are considered the most successful of this text: Gustave Doré offers an unprecedented dramatic vision. With him, everything contributes to the dramatization of the tale, from the theatrical staging of the tableau to the smallest details that generate a terrifying realism through the technique known as "tinted...

Original wood engraving signed on the plate by the artist and engraver. Composition created by Gustave Doré and engraved by Louis Brevière on China paper and mounted on Dutch laid paper at the request of publisher Hetzel to illustrate his folio edition of Perrault's Contes in 1862.
Rare worming and soiling in the margin not touching the image.
These illustrations of the Contes are considered the most successful treatment of this text: Gustave Doré presents an unprecedented dramatic vision. With him, everything contributes to the dramatization of the tale, from the theatrical staging of the tableau to the smallest details that generate terrifying realism through...

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Les Nuls: "Pour toi, cordialement. Ton ami. Les Nuls." ["For you, cordially. Your friend. Les Nuls."]

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Téka, the only issue after 1 Arches and 20 Marais.
Spine browned, small tears to joints.
Cover illustrated by Wifredo Lam.
Autograph inscription signed by François Valorbe on this text paying homage to literary and musical "Négritude" to the surrealist Georges Goldfayn: "... avec mes sentiments les plus mélano-surréalistes..." ["... with my most melano-surrealist sentiments..."]

Jésus-Christ rastaquouère
First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies, only print after 10 China and 50 on pur-fil paper.
Spine and joints remarkably restored, skilful paper restoration to the lower margin of the two pages 29 and 31, without affecting the text.

Our copy is enriched with an exceptional full-page drawing in black pencil with the following presentation “à Germaine Pittet très sympathiquement Francis Picabia 25 mars 1940 Golfe Juan” “to Germaine Pittet very sympathetically Francis Picabia 25 March 1940 Golfe Juan” in the top...

First edition of the French translation, one of 26 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Small worming at the foot of the spine.