Paris

Photographic portrait of Edmond Rostand taken by Otto Wegener, contemporary albumen print in cabinet card format. A trace of moisture in the lower margin and rubbed corners with small pieces missing, not affecting the image.
Handwritten dedication by Edmond Rostand, dated January 1901 in Cambo-les-Bains at the bottom of the photograph.
After the success of L'Aiglon in 1900 Edmond Rostand, suffering from pleurisy, took refuge seeking a thermal cure at Cambo-les-Bains in the Basque Country. Charmed by the region, he acquired land and built the sumptuous Arnaga villa, today a museum dedicated to the playwright.
A very beautiful portrait, taken only a few months before Edmond...

Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full green grained sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, blue top edge.
Fine copy complete with its slipcase and cellophane wrapper.

First edition. Copy n° CXXVIII of the 100 copies on deluxe Japan paper numbered CI to CC. There were two other issues printed: one on Vélin de Hollande numbered 1 to 1000, and another on "large paper" of Japan numbered I to C. Edition handsomely decorated with numerous illustrations in black, bistre, blue and colors by Paul Avril.

Japanese style publisher's binding in a brown and polychrome (gold, silver, colors) slipcase, decorated with vegetal, floral and insects motifs in relief. Smooth spine with gilt title in Japanese style. Gilt title on the upper board. Turquoise silk endpapers with leather corners. Rubbed head of spine. Traces of rubbing on corners and edges. The binding...

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Spine lightly sunned.
Rare signed autograph inscription, on this text, from Marguerite Duras to Philippe Bernheim.
This work was adapted for cinema two years later by Peter Brook with, in the leading roles, Jeanne Moreau and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

First illustrated edition, by Bertall. Eight plates hors texte (on China paper mounted on heavy paper), including a portrait of the author, engraved by Ch. Geoffroy and numerous figures in the text engraved by Midderigh. Introduction and biography by Alphonse Karr.
Contemporary half brown shagreen binding with marbled paper boards. Spine with raised bands decorated with compartments in blind and blind fleurons. Traces of rubbing. Some pale scattered foxing. Handsome copy.
Delightful and humorous illustration.

First illustrated edition with 350 compositions by Edouard Zier. Claude Motteroz printing house. Color cover. Printed on grand velin blanc paper. A deluxe edition was produced: 75 copies on Japan paper, some with the original drawings.
Contemporary half red morocco binding with corners, glazed, signed at the top of the first endpaper A. Jonquières. Spine with raised bands decorated with 17th-century inspired tools in compartments. Gilt titles and date. Covers and spine preserved. Some pale foxing on title page, very occasional foxing thereafter. Very fresh overall.

First edition on vergé d'édition.
Handwritten ex-libris of a former owner of the work in black ink at the head of one of the endpapers.
Tiny amount of foxing on the endpapers, otherwise a pleasant copy despite small signs of rubbing on the spine as is usual.

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Covers lightly sunned without consequence.
A full-margined copy.
Work illustrated with 11 engravings.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on Montfourat paper, the only deluxe copies after 20 on pur fil.
Covers lightly sunned without consequence, a tear at foot of front cover.

Claude Monet - Auguste Rodin
Galerie G. Petit, Paris 1889, 16 x 24,5 cm, in original wrappers
First edition of this exhibition brochure dedicated to Claude Monet and Auguste Rodin at the Galerie Georges Petit.
Presentations by Octave Mirbeau and Gustave Geffroy.
A small tear at the head of the spine.
A pleasant and rare copy.

Three publicity leaflets for Les Cahiers du Cap, an anti-Semitic and anti-modern magazine: “Matisse, is Bernheim! Picasso is Rosenberg!” – “Living art is a new Panama scandal” – “Trafficking of modern painting is nothing but a snatch-and-grab robbery”
First edition of each of these scarce publicity leaflets presenting the magazine created and led by Marcel Hiver in 1924 Les Cahiers du Cap:
– Picasso, c'est Rosenberg !” “Matisse, is Bernheim! Picasso, is Rosenberg!”
– “What Mr. André Salmon, the prince of the mumblers of contemporary criticism, baptized with...

First edition, one of 50 numbered and named copies on pure Johannot paper, the only deluxe copies.
Light worming on spine.