Paris

First edition of this anti-Dreyfusard tract, published after “J'accuse”. This virulent pamphlet takes the macabre form of a death notice, with a black border as was usual at the time, calling on its readers to “come to the procession, service, and funeral of this pornographer and defender of the traitor Dreyfus”.
Nicknamed the “king of the street pedlars”, the publisher Léon Hayard specialized in political pamphlets and more specifically satirical obituaries and wills.
Two copies in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, one in the Musée Carnavalet and one in the...

Michel Strogoff suivi d'Un drame au Mexique With drawings by Jules Férat engraved by Charles Barbant.
Bradel binding in half bottle-green shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt fleurons, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, t.e.g.
Very rare autograph inscription signed by Jules Verne to Charles Hullot, who took part, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1881, in the staging of Michel Strogoff: “To Mr Charles Hullot, souvenir of the performances at Chatelet. With best wishes. Jules Verne.”
A very rare autograph inscription by Jules Verne on...

Le Petit Chaperon Rouge [Little Red Riding Hood]
With chromolithographs by Carl Offterdinger.
Red publisher's Bradel binding, upper cover with color illustration laid down and bordered with a number of gilt and blindruled frames, large typographic motif blindstamped to lower cover and several frames as on upper cover, covers bevelled, original blue endpapers and pastedowns.
Lower joint of upper cover with 1cm split, leading to marginal tearing to a few leaves, not serious.
We have found only one copy of this album at the Bibliothèque de...

Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles [Alice in Wonderland]With 13 illustrations by Arthur Rackham including a frontispiece portrait of Alice, a nominative hors commerce copy on Japan paper, this for Mme [Jane] Catulle Mendès, the tirage de tête before 20 more on Japan paper and 250 numbered copies on laid paper.

Autograph signed donorship inscription from Jane Catulle Mendès to Jenny Carré on justification page.

Publisher's vellum binding, gilt title and gilt illustration of the Cheshire Cat to spine, upper cover with...

Photographic portrait of Gustave Courbet “à la canne”
Original photograph on albumin paper, in a visiting-card format, laid down on card from the studio of Pierre Petit in Paris.
Manuscript annotations to verso.
Portraits of Courbet by Pierre Petit are very rare, the painter having been mostly photographed by Carjat, a pupil of Petit's.
We have been able to find only two copies of this photograph in the United States: one at the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, the other at the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco.

First edition, one of the 100 numbered copies on vélin pur fil du Marais, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Foreword by Raymond Queneau.
Binding in half morocco, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Alix.
Rare and nice copy.

La Ménagerie parisienne Very rare first edition and first issue of this album comprising a title sheet and 24 lithographs in black and white, the first print, engraved by Vayron and all captioned.
Copy with the publisher's green cover. Very skilled colour restoration on a small section of the cover's first board. Some folding on the cover, otherwise a beautiful copy as published.
Our copy is presented in a slipcase recovered in paste paper with a title label in black morocco.
Provenance: R. & B. L. library with its ex-libris on the recto of the...

The first edition of these three suites of 12 etchings each, monogram of the Brest artist Pierre Ozanne in each plate.
Later half dark blue morocco over marbled paper boards with a gilt filet, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns. Corners rubbed.
A very good and rare copy.

Edition parue la même année que l' édition originale collective.
spine légèrement insolé.
Envoi autographe daté et signé d'Elsa Triolet à Gaston J. Viala.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Small residue from adhesive tape at head and foot of endpapers, some foxing to edges.
Autograph inscription signed by Jacques Borel to Gaston J. Viala.