Paris

[PHOTOGRAPH] Photographic portrait of Ivan Tourgueniev

Alphonse Giroux, Paris s.d. (circa 1855), 6.2 x 9.7cm, one photograph

Exceptionally rare original albumen print photograph, in visiting card format, mounted on card, showing Ivan Tourgueniev.
We have only been able to find one single copy of this photograph in the Hulton Archive collection.

Edition original sur papier courant.
spine légèrement insolé, une petite tache sur le premier plat.
Envoi autographe daté et signé de Pierre Morhange à son ami le poète Charles Dobzynski se terminant en vers : "Que voulez-vous la ville était cernée / Que voulez-vous nous nous sommes aimés."

Gallimard | Paris 1934 | 12 x 19 cm | bound
First edition, one of 77 numbered copies on esparto, ours is one the 27 hors commerce copies, only large paper after 45 pure wire.
Bound in half red morocco, spine in five compartments, gilt date at the foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, wrappers and sun exposed spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed Montecot.

Precious handwritten presentation signed by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle: “à Roland Dorgelès qui connait la question. Drieu La Rochelle.” “To Roland Dorgelès who has knowledge of the matter. Drieu La Rochelle.”
A story of a WWI French soldier given to a WWI French soldier by a WWI French soldier.
A beautiful copy, pleasantly set.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Nice copy.

Original lithograph in black and white in third state, created for La Caricature and printed on heavy paper.
Delteil, 330.
Light foxing throughout the plate.

s. n. | Paris Monday 13 October [1947] | 13.5 x 21 cm | one leaf
Handwritten letter dated 31 March 1956 and signed Albert Camus, written on 26 lines in black ink, addressed to the then suffering Vivette Perret and in which he evokes the completion of his adaptation of Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun which he plans to rename “Le cri”.
Beautiful state despite one sign of a fold due to having been placed in an envelope.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Holland, only large papers after 10 Japan.
Binding in half red morocco, spine in five compartments set with blind tooled fillets, gilt date at the foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, wrappers (a tiny piece missing from the margin of the second board) and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed Patrice Goy.
Beautiful copy pleasantly set.

Original black and white lithograph - in China - “L'envoyé américain obtenant une audience de l'Empereur de la Chine” “The American envoy obtaining an audience with the Emperor of China”
Maison Martinet, Paris 1859, 36 x 27.3 cm, one leaf
Original black and white lithograph, in second state, produced for Le Charivari and printed on strong paper.
Delteil, 1694
Monogram stamp “AB” from the collection of Dr Albert Bloch on the back of the plate.
Good copy despite some marginal tears.

First edition.
Spine sunned.