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Printed business card of Gérard Genette on which he added these few words in order to present his wishes for 1965 to his friend Georges Raillard: "you address his best memory and his sincere wishes for 1965. (If you have not already taken a decision about vacation courses at the Sorbonne, it would be possible for me to take the first fortnight, from July 1 to July 15. Is this still possible? "

Edition decorated with the French translation established by Alphonse Tournier and for which it was not drawn great papers.
Back slightly insolated, first board with a small marginal spot.
Handwritten signature dated Wilhelm Kempff on the first guard.

Intérieurs en couleurs. Exposition des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1925
[Interiors in color. Arts Décoratifs exhibition]
tAlbert Lévy | Paris 1925 | 26 x 44 cm
| one volume in leaves in a laced board chemise
First edition.
Publisher’s binding, red cloth spine fraying at the top and the bottom, red and silver boards, the boards are complete with their laces.
Preface by Léon Deshairs.
Rare copy complete with its 50 color insert plates reproducing works by Chauchet-Guilleré, J. Ruhlmann, P.P. Montagnac, P. CHareau, R. Gabriel, M. Dufrène, E. Quibel, Ecole Boulle, F. Jourdain, L. Sognot, T. Berst, P. Follot, C. Delmas, R. Lalique, M. Sougez...

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Important and exceptional autograph dedication signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery to Vicente Almonspine Amonacid: "For the Almonacid Hoodo hero of the Argentine and French aviation with the deep affection of Antoine de Saint-Exupery".
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 535 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Spine and boards lightly sunned as usual, bookplate pasted with glue offset on the facing page where it was placed, handsome interior condition.
A full-margined copy.

Edition printed with only 545 numbered copies, ours printed on Arches.
Work illustrated by Léonard Foujita with 60 original pochoir coloured compositions, including 1 frontispiece, 16 insert, 43 compositions on cut and pasted paper, and 12 culs-de-lampes.
Binding in half brown morocco with colour recovery, spine richly decorated with gilt geometric motifs and a hexagonal cartouche containing gold-stamped cranes and a bouquet of roses in mosaic, gilt fillet on the boards, marbled endpapers, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on the rough, contemporary binding.
Rare and beautiful copy, pleasantly set.

First edition of this book devoted to art ferronry.
Work illsutré 4 boards inset, one of the boards was removed from the book.
Preface by Paul Léon.
Beautiful and rare copy.
Signed autograph of Richard Burgsthal to Mr. Kaehrling: "... tribute to the artist, dedication to the architect."

Devantures, vitrines, installations de magasins à l’Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1925[Store windows, vitrines, shop installations for the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs]
tCharles Moreau | Paris 1925 | 33.5 x 25.5 cm | in leaves in a chemise
First edition.
Publisher’s binding, black cloth spine bearing a tear at the foot, green boards and without their two laces, a vertical scratch on the top edge of the first board.
The cover was composed by René Herbst.
Rare copy complete with its 60 illustrated insert plates reproducing the works of R. Prou, E. Bagge, Sézille, Dulong Crémier, P. Petit, F. Jourdain, G. Wegener, R...

New illustrated edition of color photographs.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Alain Colas to a friend named Remy.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Preface by Michel Boujut.
Signed autograph Willy Ronis to a friend.

First edition.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Guy Bespine to Farid Chopel: "... to make him laugh, my very old and definitive sympathy."

First Edition, printed stamp of press service at the top of the last guard.
boards slightly dirty, a tiny hitch on a bit.
Precious and beautiful autograph dedication signed by Jean Dutourd to François Cavanna: "In Cavanna, with the cordial memory of Dalida, Jean Dutourd."

First edition illustrated with many reproductions of works of Ben.
Nice copy despite a tiny tear in the foot of the back.
Signed autograph of Ben enriched with a drawing of a man's head at the Ben.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed Jacqueline de Romilly Paul Rigail.

De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, considéré d'après cette loi The first edition, complete with the two folding tables in the text volume. The second volume has 40 plates, making up a hundred or so illustrations, partly coloured and all signed by Chevreul. These show examples of colour contrasts through lithographed colour spots on light or dark backgrounds. At the end of this volume, there is also a text by Condorcet printed on 9 different-coloured leaves.
Contemporary half...

First edition.
boards very slightly soiled without gravity.
Precious and beautiful autograph signed by Régis Debray Claude Mandret.

First edition on current paper.
Binding in brown half morocco, back with five nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and back preserved, gilded head, elegant binding signed P. Goy & c. Ugly.
Precious autograph dedication signed in pencil by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle: "To Henri Béraud and exercised his rough frankness Drieu la Rochelle."

First illustrated collected edition. 36 drawings by Georges Roux for Sans dessus dessous, 41 drawings and two maps for Le chemin de France.
Publisher's binding with two elephants, Lenègre type 3, existing only in red. Back cover of Lenègre type e, with central roundel with black frond. Beautiful first plate, with bright gilt, with scratched areas in the lower border. Headcaps slightly turned in. Spine good, but slightly sunned. Back cover very good, with scratched area in the lower border, and a small area at the top, a fine horizontal scratch. Upper corners slightly turned in. Paper perfectly fresh, completely free of foxing. Cohesive and solid volume.
Very handsome copy.

First edition, illustrated with a large title vignette with the coat of arms of Louis XIII, as well as numerous fine woodcut head-and tailpieces as well as initials. Preceded by an epistle to Marie de’ Medici. Printed entirely in italic in 2 columns per page, each canto has divisional half-title page. At the end of the privilege one reads: “Achevé d’imprimer pour la première fois en italien le 24 avril 1623.” 

 

Modern full vellum binding, spine with five raised bands, manuscript title label, boards...

Illustrated edition of 13 original compositions of Paul Avril, one of 75 numbered copies on Japan with a double suite (before the letter and the print in the text).
Binding in full morocco blue, back slightly discolored with four nerves, contreplats and guards of the handmade paper, guards following paper moiré effect and gold, covers and back preserved, golden slices, holster lined with blue morocco, paper plates marble.
Nice copy very pleasantly established.
Our copy is exceptionally enriched with the frontispiece of Félicien Rops, which he signed with his initials in red pencil , for the edition of "Point of Next Day" published by...

Bristol autograph signed 25 lines of Jean Ricardou Georges Raillard, literary critic of the New Roman and professor at the University of Vincennes-Saint Denis, about the good reception of an article that he wrote on Nathalie Sarraute : " I find the reprinted from your article on Nath Sarraute, I thank you for it immediately and say to you, whereas an urgent work prevents me from reading it immediately, how attractive to me the constellations misogynical and metaphysical that a seductive table proposes. "
Jean Ricardou explains the progress and organization of the next symposium Cerisy : "There will be in Cerisy, for each participant, a small folder containing...

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph from Elie Wiesel to Pierre Moinot.

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, head print.
Nice copy despite two small traces of sunstroke in the head and foot of the back.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Jacques Chardonne to his friend the writer and publisher Jean-Paul Caracalla: "To Jean-Paul Caracalla, universal man and yet rich in the (illegible word) and Jeanine who is several women between whom ( I hesitate, but each of them has my highest affection, Jacques Chardonne. "

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on Alfa paper, ours one of the 10 out of trade, only leading copies after 35 vellum Marais.
Nice copy despite the back very slightly insolated.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Jacques Chardonne to his friend the writer and publisher Jean-Paul Caracalla and his wife: "For Jeanine and Jean-Paul Caracalla with the warm and well-known friendship

First Edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, only leading copies after 25 China, 25 Whatman and 25 Japan.
Bound in half morocco red corners, back with five nerves adorned with double gilded boxes, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, contreplats and handmade paper guards, covers and back preserved, gilded head witnesses, case lined with red morocco, red paper plates, white felt interior, elegant binding signed Alix.
Nice copy at all margins very pleasantly established.
Our copy is enriched with the quatrain manuscript of the poem entitled "Villula" which was mounted on tab next to page 56 where it appears printed in this collection.

Later edition of 15 days to the first edition (completed printing on May 23, 1936, the first edition dated May 8), mention of 49th edition.
Some small foxinges.
Binding half black morocco, smooth back, golden date tail, boards decorated with a marble paper plate, a small hitch with lack of paper at the bottom of the second flat, guards and contreplats of black paper, blankets and lined backs with small angular gaps restored conserved, golden head, elegant binding signed Loutrel.
Signed autograph of Louis-Ferdinand Céline: "A mons Dumoulin, cordially," Champlain "LF Céline."
This copy of Death on credit was to be initially attributed to another dedicatee...

Partly first edition in paperback format, one of the review copies service.
Scorers in margins of slips and on slices.
Precious autograph dedication signed by Raymond Queneau to his close friend and biographer Jean Queval, like him, figure and creator, of the Oulipo: "To Jean Queval well oulipotement Queneau."
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Later edition of a few months to the original.
Back slightly insolated.
Autograph Thought signed Henri de Montherlant taking a sentence of Abesse page 136: "What we want is to see the opposite of what is".
Our copy is enriched, on the page of false title, of the signatures of the majority of the actors of this play.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly insolated, two small spots on the first board.
Signed autograph of Henri Bosco to his friends Georges and Alice Raillard: "For Georges and Alice Raillard, the path of Monclar, modest country road, Henri Bosco May 4, 1962 - (and later for Henri Raillard, godchild remarkable. ) HB "

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on vellum Alfa paper, only deluxe printing ("tirage de tête".
Very nice copy.

Postcard dated January 19, 1943 and addressed to the writer, journalist and chronicler Noël B. de la Mort about the book recently published by his friend Michel Mohrt "French intellectuals before the defeat of 1870".
Henri de Montherlant wishes to draw the attention of his correspondent to this book, which "seems to me to be a burning issue, and I believe that nothing would be easier than to quote it in one of your brilliant chronicles".
Finally, he thanked him in advance for the service he would render to his friend, whose third book he published, and which in 1943 published the book entitled "Montherlant, a free man".