Paris

First edition for each volume, one of 60 numbered copies on pur fil paper for "Avant l'exil", one of 35 numbered copies on pur fil paper for "En exil", each one of the 10 hors commerce, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Spine of the first volume sunned, otherwise nice set.
Illustrated with photographs.
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Prince Félix Youssoupoff to Gérard Mainguet on the first volume.

First edition of which it was not drawn of great papers.
Nice copy.
Cover illustrated by Piem, incomplete copy of his flying sheet "Sketch of a classification of songs".
Beautiful signed autograph of Boris Vian: "To you Françoise Prévost who dries the tears of the least graminagrobées this book of initiation completely true and my friendship ..."

First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine very slightly sunned.
Humorous autograph inscription signed by Antoine Blondin : "Pour Claude Aubry qui se brule (sic) les doigts avec une belle constance et conscience professionnelles. Avec amitié. Antoine Blondin."

New edition, thousand mention.
Back slightly insolated with small gaps in the head and foot stings on the boards.
Signed autograph of Jerome Tharaud who also signed for Jean to Monsieur Girardin.

First edition, one of 50 copies on Japon, this one not included in the justification, the tirage de tête.
Spine and covers marginally sunned as usual, otherwise nice copy with edges preserved.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Nice copy.
A precious autograph signed by Paul Morand: "To André Malraux, in memory of his visit to the Saigon Hospital (October 1925), thinking that it would be nice for Lazare to be resuscitated as immortal, very faithfully Paul Morand".

First edition, one of 24 numbered copies on Alfa paper, ours one of 14 out of trade, only leading copies.
Nice copy.
Preface by Emmanuel Berl.
A beautiful autograph dedication dated and signed by Pascal Jardin to Monsieur Bos: "... who, like at the Quai des Brumes, finally knows the hidden things behind the things." The war at the age of nine, because it's him, because it's is me, Pascal. "

First edition, one of numbered copies on roto blanc for each copy.
One trace of folding to lower cover of the first volume.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Charles De Gaulle to Michel Hacq : "en souvenir de ces grandes épreuves..."
A nice copy with a moving autograph inscription signed.

First edition, one of 37 numbered copies on pur fil paper, this copy one of 12 hors commerce, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Slight traces of sunning, not serious, on the spine.
Nice and rare copy.

First edition, one of 97 numbered copies on vergé blanc de Hollande paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Half shagreen, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
A nice copy.

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 a friend named Bertrand: "A little beauty my dear Bertrand (pity it's not me!) To tell you both my very faithful affection, to which I tell you my warm wishes, I kiss you one and the other, Jean. "

Illustrated edition of 40 original etchings by Jacques Touchet stained with stencil, one of 290 numbered copies on vellum Lana, ours one of the first 10 with an original watercolor Jacques Touchet he signed and a suite in black illustrations on Malacca.
Some friction on the case and the back of the shirt.
Nice copy.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"...

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...

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.