Paris

First edition. Translation by Louis Viardot with the participation of the author.
Contemporary half brown shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fillets on the raised bands. Traces of rubbing. Spine uniformly sunned. A copy of fine freshness.
Dimitri Roudine, written in 1855 by the author, is one of Turgenev's most important stories, who constructed in Roudine one of the most emblematic characters in Russian literature.

Voyage au bout de la nuit [Journey to the End of the Night]
First edition, one of 200 service de presse (advance) copies, the very first print and the shortest after the 23 Arches, including 10 numbered and before the 219 Alfa, including 100 numbered.
Slight sunning to the top and bottom of the spine, three tiny pieces missing from the top of the first endpaper which has signs of writing on the back that have been scratched. Custom box, reproducing the wrappers, signed by Julie Nadot.

Rare and precious handwritten in

Histoires extraordinaires. – Nouvelles histoires extraordinaires. – Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. – Eurêka. – Histoires grotesques et sérieuses Complete collection, in the firsts editions, of these famous French translations established by Charles Baudelaire.
Bound in half-black morocco, spine in five compartments, gilt dates at the foot, marbled paper boards, comb patterned endpapers, wrappers preserved for the first volume and wrappers and spine persevered for the following four, top edge gilt, binding signed Semet & Plumelle for the last four volumes.
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New edition.
Contemporary full tawny calf bindings, smooth spines richly decorated with gilt fillets and tools as well as black morocco title and library labels, boards framed with a cold fillet and gilt corner dots and stamped in their centers with the arms of the Duchess of Berry, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, pastedowns surrounded by gilt dentelle, all edges marbled. Some minor rubbing without consequence, otherwise a handsome copy.
Handsome armorial copy that belonged to the library of the Château de Rosny where the duchess assembled no fewer than 8,000 titles.