Paris

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice full copy of his trailer.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Jean d'Ormesson to Pierre (Moinot): "A little beauty my dear Pierre - Alas, it is not mine ... - to tell you and Madeleine to you my old and deep affection What kind of memories do we share ... They are dear to me, I kiss you both. "

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Yellowed paper as generally.
Autograph signed by Henri de Montherlant to Pierre Moinot.

First edition on current paper.
Back slightly insolated.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Henri Bosco to his friends Georges and Alice Raillard: "For Georges and Alice Raillard, here is the hawk, personal raptor (and friendly) of Henri Bosco."

First edition, one of 12 numbered copies on cloth including the original engraving of Herbert H. Pagani that he signed and numbered , head print after 1 cloth enriched with the autograph manuscript of the book.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Jean Rousselot Michel Guilmet.

Illustrated edition of original compositions by Adrien Moreau etched by Xavier Lesueur, one of 160 copies justified and numbered by the editor on Japan, head print.
Binding in full morocco green, discolored back with five nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with gilded and decorated boxes, date and place gilded tail, golden wheels on the headdresses, small friction head and feet of the joints, framing a triple golden net on the plates, guards and contreplats of red paper, framing of five golden nets on the contreplats, covers and back preserved, golden slices, elegant Contemporary binding signed Noulhac.
Pleasant copy containing a double state of etchings.
Nice copy nicely established in full morocco by Noulhac.

First edition on current paper.
Binding in brown full morocco, smooth back adorned with a set of nets and tracery gilded framed by black nets and dotted golden repeating on the boards, black rollers on the caps, guards and contreplats of marbled paper, framing of a large golden lace on the contreplats, covers and back preserved, golden head.
Pleasant copy enriched by an autograph letter signed by Henri Barbusse, dated July 25, 1899, headed by the Ministry of Agriculture, thanking his correspondent for an invitation he will soon be honoring.

Fables
Fournier | Paris 1838 | 14.5 x 22.5 cm | contemporary full glazed calf
First print of this edition illustrated with 14 half-titles included in the page numbering and 120 plates by Grandville.
Contemporary full glazed red calf binding, spine set with gilt garlands adorned with richly decorated double gilt compartments, gilt friezes at the top and the bottom, gilt roll-tooling on the spine ends, some rubbing and restoration on the joints, boards adorned with a large decoration of blind-stamped arabesques framed with a pattern of gilt fillets and gilt arabesques in the corner pieces, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelle framing on the paste-down endpaper, double gilt fillets on the leading edges, all edges gilt, corners very lightly flattened, contemporary binding signed Boersch at the foot of the spine of the first volume.
Small restorations to the binding on the joints, some slight foxing.
Beautiful copy.

Rodolphe & François TÖPFFER
Histoire de Mr. Jabot
Imprimerie Caillet | Paris [1860]| 28 x 19.5 cm | publisher's binding
New edition, original for parts, texts and drawings reviewed by Töpffer's son. The first edition was published in Geneva in 1833. The title page of the first edition was also used for the Parisian edition. 52 pages of illustrations.
Publisher's illustrated cloth in full red glazed calico, spine decorated at the top and bottom with gilt fillets and motifs with a gilt title, boards framed with black fillets and friezes, the first with a large golden illustration in the centre, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
The glazed calico in the joints has some cracking, without weakening the volume. Very fresh copy without any foxing whatsoever.
The very first of Töpffer's stories to be published and the very first comic book, which will be an inspiration to future author's vocations around the world.

Rodolphe TÖPFFER
Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois
Paris 1860 | 28 x 19.5 cm | publisher's binding
New edition, original for parts, texts and drawings reviewed by Töpffer's son. 92 pages of illustrations
Publisher's illustrated cloth in full red glazed calico, spine decorated at the top and bottom with gilt fillets and motifs with a gilt title, boards framed with black fillets and friezes, the first with a large golden illustration in the centre, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
A damaged corner and glazed calico cracked around the top of the joint on the second board. Very fresh copy without any foxing whatsoever.

Rodolphe & François TÖPFFER
Le Docteur Festus
Garnier Frères | Paris [c. 1860] | 28 x 19.5 cm | publisher's binding
New edition, original for parts, texts and drawings reviewed by Töpffer's son. 92 pages of illustrations.
Publisher's illustrated cloth in full red glazed calico, spine decorated at the top and bottom with gilt fillets and motifs with a gilt title, boards framed with black fillets and arabesques, the first with a large golden illustration in the centre, all edges gilt.
Spine ends a little damaged. Very fresh copy without any foxing whatsoever.

Rodolphe TÖPFFER
Histoire de Mr. Crépin
Imp. E. Dufrénoy | Paris [c. 1900]| 28 x 19.5 cm | publisher's binding
New edition. 88 pages of illustrations.
Publisher's illustrated cloth in full red glazed calico, spine decorated at the top and bottom with gilt fillets and motifs with a gilt title, boards framed with black fillets and friezes, the first with a large golden illustration in the centre, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt. Glazed calico slightly cracked on the second board. Very fresh copy without any foxing whatsoever.

First edition of the French translation of W. L. Hughes with permission from the author, illustrated with in-text black and white drawings by Achille Sirouy.
Publisher's illustrated boards in full cream glazed calico, title along the spine in red and black, first board signed A. Souze representing Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn on their boat on the Mississippi, second board with a small colour illustration in the centre, bevelled boards, original blue endpapers, all edges gilt.
Corners lightly rubbed. Copy free from any foxing.
Beautiful copy of this great classic, rare and in its original boards.

Edition printed with 1500 numbered copies on Japan, illustrated with 88 compositions by Arthur Rackham: 1 bicolour illustration for the cover, 16 captioned colour plate illustrations under tissue paper, 6 plate illustrations in black, 10 in-texts, 16 vignettes, 17 culs-de-lampes and 22 decorative letters.
First cover board very lightly cracked at the top and the bottom, otherwise a beautiful copy.

Albert ROBIDA
Le Dix-Neuvième Siècle
Georges Decaux | Paris 1888 | 21 x 31 cm | publisher's binding
First edition, illustrated with in-text and hors-texte color drawings by Albert Robida.
Publisher's illustrated cloth in full green glazed calico signed Engel, a large polychrome gilt and palladium heightened Souze illustration continuing onto the spine and the boards, first cover board in preserved color, all gilt edges.
“What follows under an ambitious title taken simply as a label of numbers, is, of course, not a story, or a painting, or a summary, it is a series of outlines, of sketches in ink and pencil, of familiar portraits of our century at different times of his tormented life. [...] this century, if he introduced us to dark days, has had good times and rays of cheerful sunshine. This book is an outline review of the dark and joyful times of the great show piece that is being played before our eyes, of the significant events and the facts, of men and of things, of emerging types, thriving and disappearing, of fashions and of characters, – a journey in short, or rather a hundred-year cruise on the eternal river of life.” (preface)
Copies with publisher's illustrated cloth are rare and sought-after.

BERTALL
Pierre l'Irrésolu
Librairie Hachette et Cie | Paris 1876 | 22 x 30 cm | publisher's binding
First edition illustrated with drawings in color by Bertall.
Publisher's cloth, upper board with a large illustration engraved by Souze. A nice copy without foxing.

BERTALL
Jean le Paresseux
Librairie Hachette et Cie | Paris 1880 | 22 x 30 cm | publisher's binding
First edition illustrated with drawings in colors by Bertall.
Publisher's cloth, upper board illustrated by Souze. A very nice copy without foxing.

Garnier brothers, Paris s.d(1906), 30.5 x 22 cm, bound
Rare first edition of this set of 50 anthropomorphic full-page, colour illustrations.
Publisher's illustrated boards in full red glazed calico, blank spine, first board decorated with a large colour drawing, second board framed with triple fillets as well as a blind tooled central typographical fleuron. Some small, minor scratches on the first board, some signs of folding and two small marginal tears without any sections missing on the first blue endpaper and the half-title.

Original photograph of Alexandre Dumas

Paris [ca 1860] | 6.4 x 10.4 cm | one photograph

Original photograph on albumen paper laminated on card taken by Gustave Le Gray and showing a bearded Alexandre Dumas in white trousers. Contemporary print.
Model name written in pencil at the bottom of the shot. Deep blacks and beautiful contrast.
Very beautiful full-length portrait of the writer looking intensely at the camera.
About this photo, which he prints on the front page of the Monte-Cristo review dated 5 January 1860, Alexandre Dumas writes: «I only want to state the first, the most essential, quality of this portrait: resemblance. It's up to you, dear readers, to see if the photograph has gone any further. It is also that I must say to you that I did not allow myself to be guided by chance in the choice of the photographer, and that in Mr Gray I simply met an artist of the best quality. Go and find him, judges of photography told me great things, and you will be happy. I went to see him and I was amazed. I understood – something that after having had a hundred portraits by a hundred different photographers, you may not yet suspect, dear reader – I understood that, as a photographer, Le Gray is both an artist and a scholar.»

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Patrick Modiano to Félicien Marceau on his second book.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by Patrick Modiano to Jean Guéhenno.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Slight snags without gravity and a trace left by a glass on the first board.
Signed autograph of Eugene Ionesco: "For Ms. Gallot, advising him to go see the piece, which is much more beautiful in the staging of (Jorge) Lavelli." With my tributes. Eugene Ionesco. "

First edition Gallimard, one of the review copies service.
Nice full copy of his jacket.
Signed autograph of Marguerite Yourcenar Miss Jacqueline Shoemaker on a card on which is printed "Tribute of the author Marguerite Yourcenar" .

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph dedication of Jean-Marie-Gustave Le Clézio, in pencil, to Michel Droit

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Small bites on the margin of the first board, three small spots on the second board.
Autograph signed by Alejo Carpentier to Francine Vigneau.

Illustrated edition of 21 original compositions by Marcel Pille engraved with engraving and etching by Lesueur and Manesse of the French translation, one of 200 numbered copies on Japan.
Binding half morocco red corners, back with five nerves set with golden dots adorned with double gilded boxes and decorated with golden floral motifs, gilt fillets on the plates of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and back preserved , golden head on witnesses, Contemporary binding signed Alfred Farez.
Nice copy pleasantly established.

First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on vélin du Marais, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
A press clipping tipped in.
A nice set complete in 6 volumes.

First edition of the French translation, one of the 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, only leading copies.
Some small foxing on some leaves at their margins.
Nice copy at all margins.
Our copy is enriched, on the entire page of the title, an original watercolor signed by Georges Tisset depicting a forest scene in which Nils Holgersson is preparing to start his wonderful journey perched on the back of a goose on the point to fly away.

First edition of the French translation, one of 7 numbered copies on Holland paper, only leading copies.
Binding in half ....
Nice copy at all margins.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Iconography, nice copy.
Autograph signed by Claude Levi-Strauss to Pierre Moinot.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Iconography, nice copy despite a small stain on the last guard.
Signed autograph of Claude Levi-Strauss to Pierre Moinot and his wife: "... in sympathy confraternelle ..."

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Christine de Rivoyre to Mrs. Andrée Joseph.