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Œuvres complètes de Balzac [enriched with] handwritten letter signed by Balzac
First edition, one of the extremely rare copies all with the Furne address, including the last three volumes, complete with all its first print plates, set in an elegant, strictly contemporary, uniform binding. Our copy is also complete with the portrait of Balzac, on the frontispiece of the Comédie humaine and the biographical preface by George Sand which is most often missing.

“First collective edition under the title of Oeuvres, presenting a...

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Japan, the “tirage de tête”.
Full blue morocco binding, spine illustrated with a dusky pink mosaic morocco decoration showing a jar containing a lush plant made with a piece of green mosaic morocco, all resting on a balustrade running the entire width of the binding and produced using fawn mosaic morocco, first board decorated with a large brown and green mosaic morocco composition depicting a tree and its foliage enriched with gilt edging for the veins, paper endpapers with stylized geometric motifs handcrafted by Marguerite de Félice, black mosaic framing in the corners of the endpapers evoking bushes crossed by gilt veins, covers and spine...

New edition, second printng. lllustrated with 111 drawings by Neuville and Riou, with 6 full-page color illustrations bearing the page numbers on which they are placed (92, 108, 124, 245, 268 and 276) and the mention 'Imprimerie Belin Frères' at rear.
Publisher's cloth binding 'au Globe doré type 4', spine decorated with the lighthouse motif, upper cover signed Blancheland, Engel relieur, back cover 'type i' (Jauzac).
A corner a little worn and the covers very slightly rubbed. Scattered foxing more pronounced at the beginning and end of the volume and a few sets of pages sticking out.

A nice copy. Probably the most famous of Jules Verne's novels.

Bruges la Morte
Edition illustrated with pastel compositions by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, engraved by Lorrain, printed with 160 copies, ours being one of the few hors-commerce copies printed on Japan, specially printed for M. le Colonel Sicklès, the tirage de tête (deluxe copy) with 15 other numbered copies on Japan.

Our copy is complete with its five versions of illustrations planned for the copies on Japan, namely, a final version in color (in-text), an annotated color version, a blue version, a green version and a bistre version.

First edition.
Publisher's full black cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with illustrated dust jacket, black paper endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted to one endpaper.
Handsome copy illustrated with reproductions of works by Piero della Francesca.
Dated and signed autograph inscription from Bernard-Henry Lévy to Alain Kerlorc'h.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Some worming affecting mainly the spine.
Signed and inscribed copy from Jean Galtier-Boissière to Alfred Fabre-Luce.

First edition, first issue without mention.
Bound in half red chagrin, spine in five gilt-tooled compartments with double gilt boxes decorated in the corners with gilt typographic motifs, framed with blind-tooled fillets on the covers, marbled paper endpapers, speckled edges. Contemporary binding.
Some scarce foxing.

Rare copy without mention, especially rare in a pristine binding made at the time of its publication.

Original color print, on laid paper, signed at bottom right of the plate.
Original engraving created for the illustration of La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
Famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148...

Original color print, on laid paper, signed at top left of the plate.
La Gazette du bon ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the twentieth century, celebrating the talent of French creators and artists during the flourishing of Art Deco.
The famous fashion magazine founded in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton was published until 1925 with an interruption during the War from 1915 to 1920, due to the mobilization of its editor-in-chief. It consists of 69 issues printed in only 2000 copies and is illustrated notably with 573 color plates and 148 sketches representing models by great...

Photographic portrait of René Maran in his office
s.l(Paris) s.d(ca 1940), 16.8 x 12.1 cm, one photograph pasted in a two-sided card wallet.

Black and white photographic portrait of René Maran, contemporary silver print on gloss paper. Signature of the photographer Robert Davis (Paris) printed on the bottom right of the photograph.
The photograph is fixed with two dots of glue in a two-sided card wallet and recovered in glassine protection paper.
It is enriched with a signed handwritten presentation: “A M. Henri Devaux. Bien cordialement. René Maran.” “To Mr Henri Devaux. Best regards. René Maran.”
Photographs of the very discreet Goncourt Prize are rare and...

[Gérard de NERVAL] Félix Tournachon known as NADAR

Photographic portrait of Gérard de Nerval
Original photograph on albumen paper, in carte-de-visite format, mounted on a board from the Nadar studio, depicting Gérard de Nerval.
“There remains this face on Nadar's photo, which is arguably the most revealing portrait of a man that the darkroom has never held in its night. Nevertheless, this face is Nerval, this intelligent look, a little worried, and above all good and humble. It is this uncared for chinstrap beard, this baldness so unlike the bald skulls of the Louis-Phillipe...

Second print, after the very rare first edition published the same year, of this poem-object composed in the form of a leaflet illustrated in colour by Fernand Léger about the poem Liberté by his friend Paul Éluard.
Serigraphy printed copy on strong beige paper.
Discreet blue discharge at the bottom of the third section and first and last boards very lightly yellowed, otherwise a beautiful, extremely rare, copy.

First edition, one of 95 numbered copies on laid paper, deluxe copy with 95 Holland.
Half brown shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded with five raised bands decorated with cold fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on laid paper.
Half brown shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded with five raised bands set with cold fillets, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.