Paris

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Nice copy despite small foxing affecting mainly slices.
Autograph signed by one of the translators, Albine Loisy, to Claude Arland.

First edition illustrated with 172 photographic reproductions in and off-text, a photographic frontispiece and 3 in-thin flyers.
Covers and back uniformly insolated as generally, a little lack in foot of the back.
Pleasant interior state despite tiny foxing margins of some leaflets.
Signed autograph of a member of the scientist misson Léon Bérard, then Minister of Education.

New edition.
A clear and small wetness without gravity in foot of the back, nice copy.
Autograph signed by Simone de Beauvoir to Henri Merremans.

New edition.
Nice copy.

Edition partly original on current paper.
Braided binding in full paper with gold and silver effects, smooth back and silent, names of authors and publisher registered red ballpoint pen by André Verdet, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, blue head, binding by André Verdet.
Autograph dedication signed by André Verdet: "For the art shop, under the sign and the magic of the flowers and landscapes of the friend Victor Bauer, in friendly tribute" accompanied by a small wind rose framed by the inscription dated March 1955.

First edition, one of 84 numbered copies on Montval, head print.
Binding brown half corners, discolored back to two big nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved cover, Contemporary binding.
Autograph signed by Henri Pourrat to Gilbert Kempf on a piece of Auvergne paper glued on a guard: "... on his white sheets of our mills, the green leaves picked up under the apple tree ..."

First Edition printed 750 copies numbered on Auvergne.
Illustrated book of 66 drawings by Henri Charlier.
Binding brown half corners, discolored back to two big nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved cover, Contemporary binding.
Autograph dedication signed by Henri Pourrat to Gilbert Kempf.

Final edition printed with 1050 numbered copies on Auvergne.
Beautiful copy despite slight dumps of adhesive paper heads and feet of the guards.
Illustrated book of woodcuts by François Angeli.
Beautiful autograph dedication dated and signed by Henri Pourrat to Gilbert Kempf on the first guard of the first volume: "... to whom I aspire one day shake hands on these old paths Gaspard mountains - and I remain well touched friendships he made with this book, with this paper of the paper mills, and no doubt with the country of Ambert.
We attach 6 commemorative stamps of the masterpiece of Henri Pourrat, worth 1.90 francs and published in 1987 by the French...

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back and marginally insolated boards, complete copy of his jacket that includes tears and small marginal gaps.
Book decorated with illustrations by Philippe Olivier.
Signed autograph of Henri Pourrat Anne-Marie Kempf: "... in his Paris, in the middle of the green meadow of France, - and because she is all, very young, perhaps will please to these old tales. "

New edition, one of the numbered copies on white vellum.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Georges Duhamel to Gilbert Kempf.

First edition, one of 725 numbered copies on Auvergne, only leading copies.
Pleasant copy decorated with illustrations by Henri Charlier.
Autograph signed by Henri Pourrat on a piece of paper Auvergne to Gilbert Kempf: "This book of the mountain and its people, - and he can make friends with them ..."

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Auvergne, only leading copies.
Binding half shagreen red corners, back two big nerves, paper flat effect moiré, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, preserved covers, Contemporary binding.
Autograph signed by Henri Pourrat to Gilbert Kempf: "... this pursuit of an old peasant ghost through the woods, pastures ..."

First edition, one of 280 numbered copies on Auvergne, only leading copies.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Henri Pourrat on a piece of paper Auvergne pasted on a guard to Gilbert Kempf: "... this blessed passion if he wants to follow these fourteen stations amount to the work ..."

First edition, one of 400 numbered copies on Auvergne.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated.
Nice copy illustrated with color and black images of Albert Uriet.
Autograph dedication dated and signed Henri Pourrat to Gilbert Kempf: "... since he wants to love these old inspirations of the mountain ..."

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which shows some tears and lacks to the protective film covering it.

Kalifala Sidibé peintre soudanais [Soudanese painter]


[Galerie Georges Bernheim] | Paris [1929] | 11.5 x 15 cm | original wrappers
First edition of an extraordinarily rare Georges Bernheim Gallery catalogue for the Kalifala Sidibé exhibition, Malian painter, considered the first African painter on canvas, the precursor of modern African Art.
Texts by Roland Dorgelès, Le Corbusier and Georges Huisman, cover illustrated with a photograph of the painter in his village.
This catalogue of the first Kalifala Sidibé exhibition, who went on to tour Europe, was thought to have been lost until now, and of the fifty or so paintings...

BRETON, André
Invitation card to the G. de Chirico exhibition at the Paul Guillaume Gallery
Galerie Paul Guillaume, Paris 1922, 10.5 x 14 cm, stapled
Rare invitation card to the exhibition of 55 works by Giorgio de Chirico shown at the Galerie Paul Guillaume from 21 March to 1 April 1922.
One tear, repaired, to a joint, two areas of internal fading.
The card is illustrated with a reproduction of a work entitled "Le vaticinateur".
Text by André Breton.

New edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Madagascar, leading print after 50 Japan.
Bound in full brown morocco, back with five nerves, first board embellished at its center with a knight's cross of the Legion of Honor, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing of a golden lace on the contreplats, head golden.
Illustrated book of 73 plates inset (including 9 in color) and many facsimiles inset.
A photographic portrait of Jules Kaerhling, knight of the Legion of Honor in July 1936, collapsed next to the justification page of the draw and accompanied by the diploma of the national order of the Legion d'Honneur were linked at the beginning of the volume .
Our copy...

Illustrated edition of 7 original etchings by Terry Haass and printed with 173 numbered copies, ours is one of the exemplars of artist justified by Terry Haass .
Nice copy despite slightly and marginally soiled boards, a small stain on the fringes of the first board.
Signed autograph dedication of Terry Haass, in French, below the justification of the draw.

First Edition printed in a small number of this reprint from the Archives of Scientific and Literary Missions.
Margins slightly soiled and having an angular wetting, three tears on the boards.
Rare illustrated brochure of 61 figures in the text.
Signed autograph dedication of Joachim Mister Dorigny at the head of the first board and is partially erased.

First Edition, printed stamp of press service on the last guard.
Binding of the editor in full cardboard, smooth back with two snags in the head and foot, illustrated boards, dumps of adhesive paper heads and feet of the guards.
Autograph dedication signed by René Goscinny to Yves Gandon enriched with the handwritten signature of Jean-Jacques Sempé.

First edition on current paper, whimsical mention of seventeenth edition.
Small dumps of adhesive paper in feet of boards.
Signed autograph of Jules Roy to Mrs. Labathut.

First edition because revised and increased, one of the few copies on Japan of which there is no mention.
Bound in brown half morocco with corners, back with five nerves set with golden dots and adorned with double gilded boxes, small traces of rubbing on the back, a slightly fragile bit, framing of double golden nets on the mottled paper plates marbled, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, cover preserved, gilded head, elegant unsigned binding.
Nice copy pleasantly established.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Adrien Bertrand: "To Mr. J. Van Melle that the sadness of the invasion have forced Nancy to establish this book, under the bombing."

Original photograph, vintage silver print, laminated on cardboard made by Bernes, Marouteau & Cie and representative François Pompon slightly in front.
Photo studio stamp on the back of the cardboard.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by François Pompon, at the foot of his portrait, to his friends Deshairs.