Paris

Les Ballets de Madame Ida Rubinstein - Académie nationale de Musique et de Danse
L'édition artistique, Paris November 1928, 15.5 x 20.5 cm, stapled
First edition.
Cover illustrated with the reproduction of an illustration pasted on the first board.
Illustrations.
Some pages detached in the centre of the book.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.

Official program of the twenty-second season of the Ballets Russes, May-June 1929
Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris 1929, 24.5 x 31.5 cm, stapled
First edition.
Programme presented in a nicely illustrated cover by Giorgio de Chirico.
Illustrations.
Copy lightly warped and showing a small stain on the second board.

Et les chiens se taisaient
[And the dogs shut up]
First edition for which there has not been any grand papier (deluxe copies) printed.
Beautiful copy perfectly set.

A beautiful handwritten inscription signed by Aimé Césaire: “à Jean-Paul Sartre dont l'étude sur la “négritude” a puissamment contribué à éclairer la route. Avec amitié et admiration. A. Césaire. 11 Oct. 1956.” (“To Jean-Paul Sartre whose study on “negritude” powerfully contributed to shedding light on the way. With friendship and admiration...

First and only edition of this wonderful romantic illustrated book. It is profusely illustrated with woodcuts after Bertall, 50 hors-texte, including the frontispiece, and 310 vignettes.
Modern cloth boards inspired by romantic bindings, signed at the top of the title page by A. Lavaux. Romantic-style gilt spine. Title label in orange shagreen. Top edge gilt. Very rare illustrated covers and the spine preserved, restored to the corners, spine with missing parts has been strenghtened. Spine slightly lightened. One leaf at the beginning and one at the end (half-title page and p. 332) have a slight restoration to the spine in the margin. Perfectly white, immaculate paper. Uncut copy, with...

New edition illustrated with drawings by Avoine.
Publisher's binding in full boards, front cover illustrated with a drawing by Avoine.
Fine copy retaining publisher's wraparound band.

Greetings card from the Galerie Maeght for the year 1969
Galerie Maeght, Paris 1969, 25.4 x 17.5 cm, other
Greetings card from the Galerie Maeght for the year 1969. On one separated leaf of fine vellum, an original woodcut by Eduardo Chillida.
A beautiful copy despite some shading on the outside, without any damage whatsoever to the print.

First edition. The half-title indicates: Publications de la Revue des deux mondes, where the novel had indeed appeared in pre-publication form in 1834.
Contemporary half glazed tender green calf binding. Smooth spine with false flat raised bands decorated with blind tooling and roulettes. Cherry red glazed shagreen title label. Spine now light brown. Scattered foxing.
Romantic work written during her stay in Italy where her liaison with Musset ended, George Sand admits to having been inspired by Manon Lescaut in Leone Leoni but by reversing the characters. The novel relates the harmful passion of a naive woman for an Italian nobleman with destructive vices. She is taken in by Don...