Paris

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Insolated back.
Signed autograph of Jerome Tharaud who also signed for Jean Maurice Martin du Gard.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back insolated, yellowed pigeon.
Autograph dedication signed by Alexandre Zévaès to Maurice Martin du Gard.

First edition, on current paper, of the French translation prepared by Madame Marcel Girette.
Insolated back with a tear with missing head, paper yellowed, some marginal gaps on the boards.
Rare autograph dedication signed Israel Zangwill Maurice Martin Gard.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on Arches paper, ours unjustified.
Slightly insolated back with a tear with a tiny lack in mind.
Autograph dedication signed by Francis Jammes to Maurice Martin du Gard.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Philippe Léotard to a couple named Thomas and Marylène.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
A small spot at the head of a guard, nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by Alphonse Boudard to Raymond Mary.

First Edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vellum Rives pure cloth, head print.
Pleasant copy despite a slight sunshine in the margin of the first board.
Handwritten signature of Fernando Arrabal to the colophon.

Collective first edition, one of 1200 numbered copies on vellum Plutarch, only leading copies after 20 Arches paper.
Back and flat slightly and marginally discolored as usual.
Illustrated book of 4 drawings by André Masson.
Autograph signed by Michel Leiris to François Maspéro.

First edition on current paper.
Nice full copy of his trailer.
Autograph signed by Gabriel Matzneff to Colette Chérot.

First Edition, one of 500 numbered copies on vellum Arches paper, only draw after 6 Japan.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Ivan Goll to Jean-Daniel Maublanc.

First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies after 13 Hollande paper.
Publisher's paper boards with an original design by Mario Prassinos.
Two folding traces, not serious, to foot of lower cover, two tiny tears not touching text on top edge.
Autograph inscription signed by Albert Camus to Max-Philippe Delatte : "A Max Delatte, prince des livres, chaleureusement. Albert Camus"

First edition, on current paper, of the French translation.
Pleasant full copy of his jacket iluustrée.
Handwritten signature dated Milan Kundera on the fake title page.

First edition on current paper.
Nice full copy of his trailer.
Autograph dedication dated and signed from Milan Kundera to Jacques Duchâteau.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by René Fallet to Henri Krakovitch: "... with the best musical memories of Paris in August and those of René Fallet in December 64."

First edition, on current paper, of the French translation prepared by Maurice Betz.
Insolated back with a tear in the foot.
Autograph signed Maurice Betz Maurice Martin du Gard: "... in testimony of mpa keen sympathy for the New Writings"

First edition, on current paper.
Slightly insolated back with a small tear in the foot.
Autograph signed by Leo Larguier Maurice Martin du Gard.

First edition and first print of the insert illustrations, full page and in colour by Albert Robida.
Publisher's binding in full grey glazed calico, first board illustrated with a polychrome composition by Albert Robida, the Paris coat of arms gold stamped on the second board, blue-grey endpapers, gilt edges.
Two blunted corners, first board slightly soiled.
Pleasant copy.

Illustrated programme-booklet of the film “La roue”
Paris 1922, 27.6 x 22.6 cm, stapled
Rare first edition of the Abel Gance screenplay for the film “La Roue,” illustrated with drawings and photographs from the film. Elegant printing in black and red by Ducros, Lefèvre & Colas.
A missing corner at the top of the first board, the first two letters of the name Pathé are missing, another at the top of the spine, a stain on the second board.

Rare invitation card to attend the exhibition of tunics created by Raymond Duncan, in the theater-gallery he founded at 34, rue du Colisée, from April 25 to June 1, 1922.
Beautiful and rare copy.
Raymond Duncan, brother of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, installed in 1911 in Paris an academy on the model of Plato: "Raymond Duncan was fascinated by ancient Greece since childhood: the aesthetics and the way of life that he promoted to the Akademia were imbued with this influence. The press of the time glossed over the clothes worn by Raymond Duncan and his followers: "Greek-style" tunics that he / she made themselves. Behind the supposed ridiculousness of this acco

First edition of the French translation, one of 40 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Beautiful copy despite the back very slightly insolated which has a tiny tear in the foot.

First Edition, one of 25 non-business copies literati on vellum superior, ours printed specially for Jean-Marc Campagne.
Beautiful copy despite a small tear glued back foot.
Illustrated book of watercolors by André Dignimont.
Autograph signed by Sacha Guitry below the justification of the draw.

Jules LEVY
Invitation program to the Bal des Incohérents, 11 March 1885
A. Stelmans | Paris 11 March 1885 | 15.2 x 22 cm | one leaf
Rare first edition of the invitation to the very first “Bal des incohérents” given on 11 March 1885 “at 11.30pm in the former Liberal Arts premises, 49 Rue Vivienne.”
The laid paper invitation, in a perfectly preserved state, is printed in elegant red letters and illustrated with a magnificent dry-point engraving by Henry Somm (pseudonym of François Clément Sommier).
The “Arts incohérents” was born in Paris, under Jules Lévy's initiative, writer, actor and ex-Hydropath, who organises a series of seven Parisian exhibitions betwe

Rare original prospectus of the play "Impressions of Africa", adapted for the theater by its author Raymond Roussel. It was performed during three evenings at the Théâtre Antoine in the spring of 1912, and counted among its spectators the artists Guillaume Apollinaire, Francis Picabia, Gabrielle Buffet and Marcel Duchamp.
The flyer printed in black and red contains two reproductions of posters of the play on the first and the last dish. Inside, we find its complete distribution and the title of the main scenes, including "The one-legged Lelgoualch playing the flute on his own tibia", "the evocative wall of a priest" ...
"Will the theatrical performance of the Impre

Very rare first edition of the pamphlet "Hungary, rising sun", printed on blood red paper and written following the crushing of the Hungarian revolution, in November 1956.
Two traces of vertical and horizontal fold.
The leaflet was co-signed by Yves Elléouët, Elie-Charles Flamand, Georges Goldfayn, Louis Janover, Nora Mitrani, Jacques Sautès, Jean Schuster, Jean-Claude Silbermann, Jacques Sénelier, Robert Benayoun, Andre Breton, Jean-Louis Bédouin, Adrien Dax, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Jose Pierre, André Pieyre of Mandiargues and Benjamin Péret.

Banknote from the
«Banque des soirées fantastiques»
[«Bank of fantastic evenings»]
Paris [1845-1852]
| 23.8 x 14.6 cm | one leaf
Extremely rare invitation to the «fantastic evenings,» of the famous illusionist and magician Robert-Houdin, which were held in his theatre on Rue de Valois between 1845 and 1852. The document entitled «Bank of fantastic evenings: come and see us five hundred times» is lithographed on silk paper and has adhesive remains on the back of the four corners.
The invitation is magnificently framed by a decorative frieze of dancing playing cards and imps; two humorous notes are written on the drums: «the law punishes forced labor, any individu

Rare first edition of the double invitation programme to a "Groupe des Six" concert on June 19, 1920, and to the second "Jeune Peinture française" exhibition from June 17 to July 4, 1920 at the Galerie Manzi-Joyant et Cie.
This document combines a musical event (with works by Francis Poulenc, Louis Durey, Arnold Schoenberg, Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud and Germaine Tailleferre) with a paintings exhibition by Paul Cézanne, Auguste Renoir, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Félix Vallotton, Paul Sérusier and Paul Signac, among others, as well as sculptures by Aristide Maillol and Antoine Bourdelle.
The program announces the avant-garde concert of the "Groupe des Six" f

Original print by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec created for the performance of Emile Fabre's play entitled "L'argent", premiered on May 5, 1895 at the Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau (then called Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs). First state of the poster, which will be reissued a few years later in a smaller format with white margins.
Very rare and beautiful lithograph of the greatest freshness, printed in six colors on wove paper .
This work of a rare symbolist intensity subtly suggests the bourgeois satire of Fabre through the silhouettes barely sketched by his two main characters.
Embodying the paradigm of the modern poster, the prints of Toulouse-Lautrec enjoy toda

first edition.
Binding half black morocco with corners, back with four nerves set with golden dots and adorned with double gilded boxes decorated with angles, date and mention "Ex. J. Drouet" gilded tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and back preserved, gilded head, binding signed René Aussourd.
The preserved back presents some gaps and was reassembled on a strip of paper.
Precious and fun autograph signed by Victor Hugo Juliette Drouet, the great love of his life : "to Madame Juju signed Mr. Toto "
The copy comes from the library of Pierre Duchy. The latter had bought the library

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Hollande, the tirage de tête.
A very nice copy.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Hollande, the tirage de tête. A nice copy, exceedingly rare.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Back and boards of the second volume partially and slightly insolated, otherwise pleasant together.
Signed autograph of Jean Bourguignon Gérard Mainguet on the first volume.

First edition, one of 59 numbered copies on Alfa paper, ours one of 9 out of trade, only leading copies.
Insolated back, otherwise nice copy.
Illustrated book of a photographic portrair of Pierre Brossolette in frontispiece.
Autograph signed by Colonel Passy Gerard Mainguet.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Pleasant copy despite a trace of crease at the head of the second board.
Beautiful autograph dated and signed by Michel Butor, full page, his friend Georges Raillard and his wife Alice: "Thank you for your rain still dear Alice and for your reading, dear Georges, my copies of Vanity begin to arrive. It takes at least 20 days to make the trip Paris-Nice How much for the return of it? We leave for Japan on April 5th, Mari-Jo, Mathilde and me, return on the 19th, and resume classes in Geneva ( A. Artaud this time) from the 22. It will be hard, a thousand friends, your Michel, M. Butor at the antipodes / Terra amat

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
We are attaching a "Minuit Editions" pamphlet on which Claude Simon has made an autograph dedication signed to his friend Georges (Raillard) and his wife Alice.

First edition on current paper.
Small spots on the boards.
Signed autograph of Nathalie Sarraute to Georges Raillard: "... by thanking him with all my heart, with my deep friendship."

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back very slightly insolated without gravity.
Signed autograph dedication of Jean Echenoz to a friend named Lucienne: "... from Jean-Louis and Catherine with all the symparhie of the author."

First edition for which there is no mention of large paper.
Binding in half marbled base, back with four nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers (first board with a marginal restoration), gilded head, Contemporary binding.
Some small freckles without gravity.
Signed autograph of Camille Flammarion: "To my kind colleague in search of the unknown Mr. Georges Lemarechal, very nice homage, his perpetual student."

First edition.
Binding full black canvas, smooth back, complete copy of its illustrated jacket.
Pleasant copy despite a small discharge of the black guard at the head of the next white page.
Rich iconography.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Alain and Patrick Mauboussin to Evelyne Pagès.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Numerous annotations of the dedicatee, in pencil of paper, in margins of certain leaflets.
Signed autograph Jacques Dupin to his close friend Georges Raillard and his wife Alice.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly insolated and warped.
Autograph signed by Paul Morand Maurice Martin du Gard.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back very slightly insolated.
Autograph signed by André Suarès Maurice Martin du Gard: "... that I do not curse and who, however, always makes me a little endéver."

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Imperial Japan for “Marius” and “Fanny”, one of 25 numbered copies on Imperial Japan for César, the tirage de tête for each volume.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally discoloured as always, a full-margined pleasant copy.

These three volumes are presented in a box with a flap in half olive green morocco, paper boards with a decorative motif, slipcase lined in olive green morocco, set signed Thomas Boichot.
Extremely rare set complete and as published, the tirage de tête o

New edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Marcel Pagnol to Mr. Contamine: "... I send Merlusse Christmas tale, and Cigalon comic film that has never made me laugh."

Collective first edition on current paper.
Binders in the bradel of the publisher in full red canvas, smooth backs, complete copies of their rhodoïds which comprise small tears without gravity.
Nice together.
Autographs signed by Marcel Pagnol to Alice Galais on each volume.

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Texts by Michel Leiris, Jacques Prévert, Vercors, Hervé Bazin and commentaries by Jean-Paul Sartre.
A pale dampstain to foot of the first leaves and of first cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean-Paul Sartre to Mademoiselle Ira Lewin.

New edition.
Two small tears on the back.
Signed autograph of Roland Dorgelès to Mrs. Dominique Blanchard: "... in memory of the fighters of 14-18 who have not returned.Hunted homage of a corporal."

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Illustrated cover of a drawing by Henri Cueco.
Autograph dedication signed by Louis Foucher to Edith Nora: "this theatrical company in perfect" non khongrisme "and in all friendship.And your husband, who will not blame me I hope acr it is not those of which I speak! ... "

First Edition published anonymously.
Binding half brown shagreen, smooth back adorned with black and gold threads, traces of rubbing on the back, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blunt corners, speckled edges, Contemporary binding.
Some small freckles without gravity, the book was trimmed at the head by the binder, which was the letters of the words of the first line of the handwritten dedication.
Autograph signed by AMA Guynemer in Ch (arles) Delescluze: "... tribute of my highest consideration."

First complete edition, partially original, printed in in-4 format, in italics and presenting the mark of Robert Estienne on the title page. This collection contains 80 pieces more than the First edition 1569. Works Only our edition is indicated by Tchemerzine. Our copy is complete of the sheet a ii , often missing.
Posterior Binding (early seventeenth ^century) in the calf mottled brown, back with five nerves decorated with iron griffin and cross fleur-de-lysed, double net gilded framing boards struck them weapons center Cauchon and of Hesselin, all slices speckled with red. joints and upper inner corner of the second flat skillfully restored with

First edition, rare, illustrated at the end with 7 folding plates, 6 of which are numbered (they have been bound in relative disorder) presenting different tables of chemical elements including the one proposed by Demachy.
Contemporary binding in full glazed blonde calf. Spine with raised bands ornately decorated. Red morocco title-label. Triple-ruled gilt frame on boards. A lack to the lower joint at head affecting the headcap. Scuffing on the boards and edges wearing away the gilding of the fillets or roll on the fore edges. A handsome copy in a quality binding nonetheless.
Collection composed of 16 studies that were submitted to European Academies or learned societies, from 1753

Programme of the American dancer Katherine Dunham's show at the Théâtre de Paris
Théâtre de Paris | Paris October 1949| 21 x 27 cm | stapled
First edition of Katherine Dunham and her company's dance show programme at the Théâtre de Paris in October 1949.
Beautiful copy.
Photography by Raymond Voinquel, Chadel.
Introduction by André Breton, text by Georges Huisman, president of the Association française des Amis de la danse (French Friends of Dance Association).
Program illustrated with a drawing by Paul Colin representing Katherine Dunham on the cover.

first edition, one of 13 numbered copies on Holland paper, only leading copies.
Binding in full black morocco, Jansenist smooth back, guards and contreplats of red paper with florets, covers and back preserved, all golden slices on witnesses, case in full red paper with jewels edged with morocco, binding signed Alix.
The rarest, in large paper, books of Albert Camus.
Our copy was presented during the exhibition devoted to the centenary of Camus in Lourmarin in September 2013: "Albert Camus Tipasa Lourmarin".