Paris

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Binding in half brown morocco, back with five nerves, plates of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of brown paper, covers (a tear restored in the middle of the second plate) and spines preserved, golden head.
Precious autograph dedication signed by André Gide to Colette: "... in memory and smiling tribute ..."

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Binding in half burgundy morocco, back with five nerves, golden date at the tail, boards of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, preserved covers and back, golden head.
Precious autograph signed by André Malraux to Raymond Queneau and his wife.

first edition.
Iconography.
Autograph signed by Georges Sadoul to Charles Dobzynski close friend of Louis Aragon.

Original Parisian edition, without mention.
Binding in half red shagreened calf. Back to nerves decorated with boxes and cold net. Particularly fresh, free from freckles. Some blunt corners, the others rubbed. Beautiful series pleasantly bound.
In order to make a point on the various judgments of the bibliographers: While Vicaire indicates that the French edition is the true original, Clouzot affirming that the two are original, we must specify that the Belgian edition was published three days before (the 31 March for Brussels and April 3 for Paris), but the truth is not due to a history of date. Lacroix is the publisher of Hugo, Pagnerre is only the depositary in Paris, which...

Edition on current paper.
Back and boards slightly and marginally exposed, a small tear at the bottom of a bit.
Autograph dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend the art critic and specialist in the New Roman Georges Raillard with an original fold.
Annotations of the dedicatee in pencil at the beginning of the volume, reading marks made dedicatee in particular with the request to insert.

first edition in paperback format.
Back and flat with slight marginal tears without gravity.
Affectionate autograph signed by Henri Bosco to his godson Henri Raillard: "For Henri Raillard if Malicroix interests my godson (even in this popular edition) the old godfather will be happy. Henri Bosco."

first edition on current paper.
Paper generally yellowed.
Autograph dated and signed by Michel Leiris to Jean-Claude Paupert.

First edition of this reprint on vellum intended for the edition of Don Quixote by Sautelet and reproduced in 1874, in Portraits histoirques et littéraires.
It is the second writing by the young Prosper Mérimée after Clara Glazul's Theater published the previous year without an author's name and with an epigraph borrowed from Miguel de Cervantès.
Binding in half morocco long grain mint with corners, back with five fine nerves decorated with double golden threads with a slight snag, framing of golden threads on the plates of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of blue paper, golden head, binding of the 'time.
Rare autograph copy of Prosper...

Critical edition established by Pierre Mollier.
Illustrations, preface by Alain Bauer.
Pleasant copy.
Beautiful autograph shipment "dated masonic" and signed by Pierre Mollier to a Freemason sister named Annie: "To my TCS (the three Masonic points delimiting each TCS initial for very dear sister) who now knows the real (illegible word) discovered in the mists of the North! This invitation to travel to the sources of our Masonic tradition for the work done together and the projects to come ... "

First edition, one of the few non-commercial copies justified by the author.
Pleasant and rare copy despite a tiny lack at the top of the back and a small trace of fold at the top of the first cover.
Printed library stamps on the table of contents page and on the back cover.
Autograph tribute dated and signed by Maurice Francis Nouveau-Piobb

first edition .
Pleasant copy, silent back.
Autograph dated and signed by Aristide Bochot to a friend named Corbelletto: "Let us suppress the gods and there will be no more tyrants. Thought dedicated to my excellent friend Corbelletto."

First edition, one of 17 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, head print.
Back very slightly exposed, otherwise fine copy.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Autograph signed by Georges Hugnet to Albert Béguin.
Illustrated book with a cover by Pablo Picasso.
Beautiful copy despite a tiny marginal tear on the front cover.

first edition.
Binding in full ocher canvas, smooth back, piece of navy sheepskin, preserved covers with small angular gaps mostly filled.
Rare autograph shipment signed by Jules Tellier to Gaston Prunier.
Freckles, flying cover page.

first edition on current paper.
Binding in half shagreen burgundy, smooth back decorated with triple cold fillets at the head and tail, back with slight scratches without gravity, marbled paper plates, blunt upper corners badly reinforced with adhesive pieces, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, preserved covers and back, Contemporary binding.
Autograph signed by Jean Ajalbert to Armand Charpentier.
Our copy is complete with the amusing leaflet beginning thus: "the author absent from Paris came back there expressly for this 'press service'. Old habit of a man of letters, over sixty years old, who still grant some charm to a dedication, and do...

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies reserved for "Good sheets".
Binding in half shagreen, slightly back with four nerves, date in the tail, moiré paper plates, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, golden head, binding from the contemporary signed Saulnier.
Autograph dedication signed by Joseph Delteil to Jean-Jacques Brousson on the front cover.

first edition on current paper.
Small marginal tears on the front cover and the back.
Autograph dedication signed by René Benjamin to Félix Billot and André Lair.

New edition, entirely revised and considerably expanded. Illustrated with 21 steel engravings (Vicaire lists only 18) by Staal, engraved by Delanoy...
Half wine-red shagreen. Spine with raised bands decorated with roulettes and a large central mirrored ornament. Top edge gilt. Spine uniformly lightened. Minor scuffing to tail. Very good copy, particularly fresh. Printed on fine laid paper.
The excerpts are structured around qualities acknowledged as specifically feminine (prudery, modesty, jealousy, beauty, coquetry...).

New edition for which it was not printed from large papers.
Binding to the bradel in full red fabric of the editor, smooth back, complete copy of his rodhoïd as well as his trailer.
Autograph signed by Léopold Sédar Senghor to Jean-Paul Grand president of the Maison pour tous.
Pleasant copy.

First collective edition, one of 35 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only large papers.
Pleasant copy.