Paris

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy of his trailer.
Michel Houellebecq's signature on the fake title page.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Binders of the editor in full beige canvas, smooth back.
Illustrated book of 96, 102 and 49 plates inset.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Roux-Spitz to a friend at the head of the first volume.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Two traces of vertical folds on the first board.
Rare autograph dedication signed by François Mitterrand to a friend named Evelyne: "This battle book will tell you, dear Evelyne, over the subject he is dealing with, my very faithful thought, François Mitterrand."

First edition, one of 112 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, leading print after 43 Holland paper.
Binding in half brown shagreen with corners, slightly lightened back with five nerves, small traces of friction on the nerves, date golden tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head on witnesses, blankets and back retained.
Shaded guards.
Handwritten signature of Marcel Prévost below the justification of the draw.

First edition consisting of a copy of the first edition, published in 1921 to "The Mermaid" and remained unsold, the print was taken by René Hilsum for its publishing house "Au Sans Pareil" with a new title page.
Binding in full black canvas, smooth back, guards and contreplats of marbled paper, preserved covers.
Signed autograph of Blaise Cendrars to Louis Brun: "... this big black book ..."

Autographed signed acknowledgments addressed to Jules Bois, on a printed business card of the sender's name at his address of 21bis rue de Bruxelles. Envelope attached.

New edition.
Binding half hazelnut, smooth back decorated with black and golden threads, piece of black sheepskin, small traces of rubbing on the back, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers (two small gaps on the boards).
Some small foxinges.
E autograph signed and dated by Aurore Sand to Jean-François Jouvion .

La Maison de la peur [The House of Fear]


Henri Parisot | Paris 1938 | 12.5 x 17.5 cm | original wrappers
First edition, one of 100 copies on Le Roy Louis teinté de Champagne paper, the only printing following 20 on Holland paper.
With a preface and three full-page collages by Max Ernst.
A good and rare copy.

First edition, one of 190 numbered copies on Arches paper, only draw after 10 Madagascar.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated.
Autograph signed by Edouard Champion C. Belliot.

Le Diable à Paris [Devil in Paris]
J. Hetzel | Paris 1845 & 1846 | 18.5 x 27 cm
| contemporary romantic shagreen
First edition and first printing of the 207 plates by Gavarni and 4 plates by Bertall. Many vignette illustrations.
Contemporary Romantic binding of half red shagreen over red paper boards, spines with gilt Romantic arabesques, gilt name of a previous owner to foot, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Contributions from George Sand, Charles Nodier, Honoré de Balzac, Gérard de Nerval, Théophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Léon Gozlan and others.
This copy without any trace of foxing. A few pale and tiny dampstains to margins of some leaves.
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Jules VERNE
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers
[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]
Hetzel | Paris 1898 | 8vo (18 x 27.5 cm)
| 434 pp | publisher's cloth
New edition, illustrated with 111 drawings by Neuville and Riou. Catalogue AJ for 1898-1899.
Publisher's illustrated cloth with the gilt Globe. Upper plate signed Blancheland, Engel bookbinder. Beautiful upper plate with bright golds. Corners and joints showing signs of rubbing. Good spine, with clean golds, but 2 small cuts in the spine-ends and one tiny cut at the bottom. Small brown mark on the lighthouse vignette. Beautiful second board, despite a mark on the upper right corner. Some leaves slightly protru

First edition.
Binding of the editor in full cardboard, smooth back, first flat illustrated with a phootgraphy.
Illustrated book of many reproductions of works of Pierre-Yves Trémois.
Text by Raymond Cogniat.
Our copy is enriched with an original drawing by Pierre-Yves Trémois depicting the face of a young woman in profile and an eagle.

PROUST Marcel A la recherche du temps perdu
Gallimard, Paris 1946-1947, 11.5 x 18 cm, 15 volumes in publisher's binding
New edition, one of the 2200 numbered copies on vellum toil.
The series is composed as follows: Du côté de chez Swann (2 volumes), À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (3 volumes), Le côté de Guermantes (2 volumes), Sodome et Gomorrhe (2 volumes), La Prisonnière (2 volumes), Albertine disparue (1 volumes), Le Temps retrouvé (2 volumes).
Publisher's boards bound after Paul Bonet's original specimen volume.
Pleasant overall despite the yellowed back on most of the volumes.

First edition including the completed print of 25 September, false mention of thousand on the title page.
Back slightly warped and insolated, a tiny hole in the foot of the page where the shipment appears.
autograph dedication of the author autograph dated January 4, 2007 and signed Julien Gracq Paul Sivety: "... in good memory of his stay in Saint Florent and with all my wishes for his work."

First edition on current paper.
The second volume is missing, two small tears in the foot of the back.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Eluard, on the first volume, to Michel Couppé.

First edition of the illustrated version by Tony Johannot, preceded by a historical notice by Jules Janin. 18 plates on China paper laid down on heavy paper and 90 in-text vignettes; frontispiece in camaïeu by Wattier. On the title page, the title displays Manon Lescaut in white letters, a detail indicating a first printing. Beautiful typographical ornaments inspired by the 17th century. The copy is complete with the two half-titles separating the two parts, with a gilt cartouche. Uncut copy with full margins.
Binding in half cherry red glazed calf with marbled decoration. Smooth spine decorated with 2 mirrored tools joined by fillets. Gilt title. Superb handmade wave-patterned paper in

First edition, one of the numbered copies on vellum superior.
Bound in half blue heart shagreen corners, back with four nerves, paper plates with moire effect, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers.
Our copy is enriched by an autograph dedication signed by Jean Marais which has been trimmed in the head and which includes a scratch on the word piece which remains legible: "I would have you, these two letters were cut off by the binder" play this piece and make you happy, my hands in yours, Jean Marais. "

New edition.
Autographed and signed autograph dedication from Henry de Monfreid to Charles Perret on the title page which has, at the top, an indication of library storage.

First edition on current paper.
Signed autograph dedication of Henry de Monfreid to Jean-Pierre Dumont.

New printed edition a few months after the original, false mention of 57th edition.
Back insolated, yellowed paper as often.
Iconography.
Signed autograph of Henry de Monfreid to Mr. Goulden.

First Edition for which he was not drawn from large paper.
Publisher's binding in full black cardboard, smooth back, first flat illustrated with a photograph.
Nice copy despite small gaps in film covering the cover plates at the level of the caps.
Preface by Maurice Druon, text by Maurice Béjart.
Illustrated book of photographs of Serge Lido.
Signed autograph of Ludmila Tcherina to a woman named Nadine.

L'Université libre, série mensuelle n° 2


no publisher | [Paris] February | 1942 | 22 x 28 cm | one leaf
First edition, clandestinely printed, of this Parisian Resistance journal, only two issues of which appeared in September/October 1941 and February 1942.
Small marginal tears, not serious, two folds as originally folded.
hough taking the name of the «L'Université libre» Resistance group of intellectuals created by Georges Politzer, Jacques Decour, Paul Langevin and Jacques Solomon, this «monthly review» more than likely was not the work of this group. The 103 issues of Politzer's newspaper were roneotyped and not, like the present i

Les Lettres françaises. Special issue on the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane


Les Lettres françaises | Paris 1er Août 1944 | 22x27,5 cm | one sheet

First edition of this clandestine journal of the intellectual Resistance, established by Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan.
A rare copy of this special issue that denounces and raises awareness of the awful massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, carried out by the «Das Reich» division of the SS on the 10th June 1944. he account of the massacre is followed by an extract of the call to arms by Victor Hugo in 1871 against the Prussian army.
his final issue before the liberation was printed in 20,000