Paris

First edition printed in 600 numbered copies on laid chamois paper
A handsome copy.

New edition, with some parts in first edition, of the French translation.
Spine browned, two names inscribed on the half-title page, handsome interior condition.

First edition of the French translation established by Marcel Ollivier.
Handsome copy.
Preface by Michel Collinet.

First edition of the French translation.
Publisher's binding with full black boards, boards illustrated, two corners slightly flattened.
Handwritten presentation signed by Tomi Ungerer, signed Tomi to a woman named Simone, enriched with a handwritten quatrain on the title page, as well as two original drawings showing a mischievous moon causing a man to stumble by unbalancing him with the point of his crescent on the title page, a green and orange flower growing on a mound of earth shaped like a buttock.

New edition adorned with 44 drawings by L. Benett and a map. It is only in 1907 that the insert illustrations appeared for this title. Catalogue BC in-fine.
Publisher's board with “a Steamer” on a gilt badge.
Spine very lightly faded, gold on the interior of the badge on the first board a little faded, two lower corners flattened. A loose section, a corner piece missing skillfully filled on the title page and a marginal restoration of the paper on page 33.
Le Rayon vert (The Green Ray) is a sentimental novel inspired by the Scottish legend of the eponymous phenomenon: it allows those who have observed it to see clearly in their hearts as well as in those of others.

New collected edition. A medal-style portrait as frontispiece.
Early 20th-century binding in black morocco-backed boards with corners. Spine with four raised bands, featuring three mosaic compartments adorned with tawny morocco onlays and two tawny morocco lettering-pieces, gilt fillets. Top edge gilt. Minor traces of rubbing.
Original wrappers and spine preserved.
A very handsome copy, perfectly fresh.

Le Moine [The Monk]
Denoël & Steele | Paris 1931
| 14,5 x 19 cm | original wrappers
First edition on ordinary paper of the French translation of this gothic novel established by Antonin Artaud.

Photographic cover representing Antonin Artaud as a monk.
Precious handwritten autograph inscription by Antonin Artaud to Germaine Beaumont on the front endpaper page.

Very nice copy as issued with its preserved advertising slip quoting Horace: “Dreams, magical terrors, prodigies, pythonisses, night appearances and terrifying prestige”.

The autograph inscriptions of Antonin Artaud on this title are very rare.

First edition on ordinary paper.
A small tear on the spine continuing onto the back board.
Signed autograph inscription from Jean de La Varende to Jean Fleury.

First edition published in a small number of copies.
Boards detached with small corner losses, black ink stains opposite the page where the autograph inscription was written.
Fine autograph inscription dated and signed by Achille Le Roy: "Au camarade Briollet rédacteur de "Vérités", témoignage confraternel de l'auteur "l'académicide" Achille Le Roy. Congrès du Havre 19 Sept. 1912" ["To comrade Briollet editor of "Vérités", fraternal testimony from the author "l'académicide" Achille Le Roy. Le Havre Congress 19 Sept. 1912"].
Rare but in this condition.