Paris

First edition.
Binding in aubergine half calf, smooth back adorned with gold cartridges decorated with golden florets, golden monogram tail tail, marbled paper plates, paper guards to the tank, very slightly posterior binding signed Closs in foot of the back.
Some foxinges.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Jules Lefèvre to Mr. Beauchesne on the fake title page, the ink has faded.

Second edition.
Binding in aubergine half calf, smooth back adorned with gold cartridges decorated with golden florets, golden monogram tail tail, marbled paper plates, paper guards to the tank, very slightly posterior binding signed Closs in foot of the back.
Some foxinges.
Illustrated book of a vignette on the title page.
Rare autograph dedication signed from Edouard d'Anglemont to Alcide de Beauchesne on the fake title page.

First edition.
Binding half green calf, browned smooth back adorned with gold cartridges decorated with golden florets, golden monogram tail tail, marbled paper plates, scuffs and paper shortages in the margins of the boards, a hitch at the head of the first board, guards and flats of paper in the bowl, very slightly posterior binding signed Closs in foot of the back.
A pale wetting at the head of most leaves.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Alexandre Duval to Alcide de Beauchesne on the fake title page.

First edition on current paper.
Back very slightly insolated, annotations of the dedicatee in pencil on the last guard.
Autograph signed by Alain Robbe-Grillet to his friend Georges Raillard.

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers.
A fold at the top of the first board, nice copy.
Signed autograph of Jean-François Lyotard Georges Raillard.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated.
Signed autograph of Jean-François Lyotard Georges Raillard enriched with the signature of Jean-Loup Thébaud.

First edition on current paper.
Back insolated, page 7 is removed.
Precious autograph dedication signed by Maurice Roche to Georges Mathieu enriched, on the page opposite, a drawing.

First edition.
Binding of the publisher in full cream canvas, smooth back, complete copy of his jacket.
Some marks of reading of the dedicatee in pencil of margins of certain leaflets.
Illustrated book reproductions of works by Antoni Tapies.
Autographed and signed autograph by Antoni Tapies to his friend Georges Raillard, who was director of the French Institute of Barcelona and great specialist of the work of Antoni Tapies and his wife Ailce: "To friends Raillard very friendly souvenir" enriched a small drawing of a heart pierced with an arrow.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full white canvas, smooth back, first plate illustrated with a vignette representing a work of Claude Garache.
Illustrated book of reproductions of works by Claude Garache.
We are adding two invitation cards to the Claude Garache exhibition in Nîmes at the Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Autograph signed by Claude Garache to his friend Georges (Raillard).

First edition on current paper.
Binding of the publisher in full cream canvas, smooth back, first flat illustrated with a drawing by Jean Picart the Sweet.
Beautiful complete copy of its rhodoïd which includes a tear glued together with an adhesive piece and its flexible cardboard case.
Illustrated book reproductions of works by Jean Picart the Sweet.
Signed autograph of Jean Picart the Sweet to Gerald Pierrat.

First Edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Japan, leading print after 15 China.
Binding half brown chocolate shagreen with corners, back with five nerves with traces of friction, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, paper guards to the bowl, covers and back preserved, gilt head, Contemporary binding.
Copy at all margins.
Autograph signed by Emile Henriot Gerard Bauer.
Our copy is enriched, mounted on tabs, three and a half pages of the manuscript of "The lost child".

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Pleasant full copy of his illustrated jacket.
autograph dedication of the author signed autograph Gérard Genette Georges Raillard.

Signed handwritten letter to Hélène Rochas: “It's a crazy life that devours everything.” Handwritten letter signed by the fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent addressed to Hélène Rochas. 38 lines written in black marker, envelope attached.
A moving and previously unseen letter from the fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent, declaring his deep friendship for Hélène Rochas, Parisian beauty icon and superb business woman, who for 50 years ran the fashion and perfume label founded by her husband Marcel Rochas.
This letter from Yves Saint-Laurent is a beautiful and extremely rare declaration of...

Published a few months after the first edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Slight marginal tears, not serious, on the covers and to foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Albert Camus to Jean Gervais.

First edition.
Beautiful illustrated copy of drawings by Pierre Alechinsky.
Autographed and signed autograph by Yves Peyré to his friend Georges Raillard: "For you, dear Georges, who has measured the gap and the proximity between the words and the images so well, this accompaniment of the freedom of Alechinsky by my poetic thought, friendship. "

First edition of these excerpts from the collection of poem entitled "From the tree and the rock".
Nice copy.
Signed autograph François Cheng to Georges Raillard on a card.

First edition.
Bindings in half black shagreen with corners, back with four nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with double gilded boxes decorated with fleur de lys gilded, golden monograms in tails of backs, plates of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded heads, three rugged corners, Bibolet era signed binders.
Some foxinges.
Autograph dedication signed by Louis-François de Villeneuve-Trans to Mr. Beauchesne on the first volume, autograph tribute to the third.

Second illustrated edition of a frontispiece and a plate on China.
Binding half shagreen green back with four nerves nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with double gilded boxes, golden monograms tail tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, binders of the time.
Some small foxinges.
Our copy is enriched, on a slip, of an instructive autograph signed by Alexandre Dumas to Mr. Beauchesne as a present of this book: "My dear Beauchesne, I send you the work of General Dermoncourt: read it carefully and you will see that he has only blown the lady of the dagger, only to make one forget his republican temperament, to you anyway. "

First edition of the French translation, one of 31 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies.
Binding in half morocco of Russia green bottle with corners, smooth back entirely discolored adorned with golden cartridges decorated with gilded typographic florets, golden date in tail, golden shield of the castle of Vertcoeur at the head of the first board, framing of golden nets on the boards of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, two ex-libris glued on a contreplat, covers and back preserved, yellow head, Contemporary binding signed by Yseux.
Some small foxinges.
Our copy is enriched, tab mounted, of an autograph ticket signed Ernst...

Second illustrated edition of a frontispiece and a plate on China.
Binding half shagreen green back with four nerves nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with double gilded boxes, golden monograms tail tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, binders of the time.
Some small foxinges.
Our copy is enriched, on a slip, of an instructive autograph signed by Alexandre Dumas to Mr. Beauchesne as a present of this book: "My dear Beauchesne, I send you the work of General Dermoncourt: read it carefully and you will see that he has only blown the lady of the dagger, only to make one forget his republican temperament, to you anyway. "

First edition on current paper.
Some small gaps in the foot of the back, a tear in the head of the first board, a few small foxing.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Déroulède to François Le Gay: "... to the patriot, to the friend ..."

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Maurice Druon to the Roux de Lusignan.

First edition handsomely illustrated with 6 frontispiece titles and 60 figures, all on strong vellum, under silky paper ; engraved after François Louis Couché by Bovinet.
Contemporary bound in half blond basane, richly decorated spine. Red morocco title-pieces, black basane volume-pieces, framed with foliage ornaments. Small tear at the upper part of the joint in volume I. Very small loss at the head of volume III. Some foxing and spotting, in the margins and around the engravings (due to the silky paper left over them). A very nice copy with a particularly elegant and decorative binding.
Ex libris on the back cover : "Vloemans". Second ex libris from the XXth century...

First edition.
Binding half cardboard vellum wedges, smooth back adorned with a calligraphy in the medieval way, paper plates with flowery patterns, covers and back preserved, Italian binding of the era signed at the end of the volume by Giuseppe Rizzi, binder at Varese.
Nice copy.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Gauthier Ferrieres in verse: "To Madame Louis Loriot / Tribute Hamlet to Arlequine: If someone mixing to give advice / Find bad worms and condemns en masse / Let say! when I wrote them, / Your smile, and I only had a grimace. "

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine and rare copy.

Éditions Jeanne Bucher | Paris 1942 | 14 x 19.5 cm | original wrappers

Part first edition, one of 400 numbered copies on featherweight vellum.
Illustrated with 4 original engravings by Pablo Picasso.
Discreet restorations to the margin of the second board.
Beautiful copy.
Beautiful signed, handwritten presentation by Georges Hugnet to his close friend, Parisian bookseller and member of the resistance, Pierre Berger: «à mon ami Pierre Berger en souvenir de tout ce qui nous lie par la pluie et le beau temps. De tout coeur. Georges Hugnet. 1953.» («To my friend Pierre Berger in memory of everything that joins us through rain and...

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on vergé d'Arches, the only large paper copies. A nice copy.

Le Centaure, complete collection
Le Centaure | Paris 1896 | 19 x 24.5 cm | 2 bound volumes
First edition of the complete collection of this luxurious magazine founded by André Gide,Pierre Louys and Paul Valéry, copy numbered by hand offered to the publisher Henri Floury.
Publisher’s binding in full green cloth, gilt titles and volume numbering on the first boards of the bindings, first cover boards and publisher’s catalogues preserved.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on papyrus Navarre, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
A very nice copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies of luxury, ours unjustified, only leading copies.
Autograph signed by the author.
Rare and beautiful complete copy of its ilustrate jacket which has some tears and small marginal gaps.

First edition of this catolgue exhibition presenting the recent works of Hans Hartung at the Galerie de France from November 19, 1971 to February 12, 1972.
Illustrated book of reproductions of works by Hans Hartung, nice copy.
Poem of Jean Proal.
Signed autograph of Hans Hartung to Georges and Alice Raillard

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Iconography, nice copy.
Autograph signed by Marcel Bigeard Christiane Créjon.

Edition of the year of the original and for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back with small tears in the head and foot, nice interior state.
Autograph signed by Michel Tournier to Monsieur Ducaux.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, head print.
Small marginal tears on boards that are marginally soiled.
Foreword by François Mauriac
Spiritual and beautiful autograph signed by Rémy Pasteau Jean (Legrand) and his wife Simone.
Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter dated and signed by Rémy Pasteau a double-sided page, the head of the journal Rencontre (Christian Movemetn of Social Professions) about an article he has written on Father Cruchon and submitted to his correspondent.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Our copy is enriched with handwritten notes of the dedicatee on two sheets as well as markings and annotations in pencil on the margins of some leaflets.
Signed autograph Jacques Dupin to his great friend and biographer Georges (Raillard) and his wife Alice.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy, iconography.
Signed autograph Jacques Dupin to his friend Alice Raillard, the wife of his great friend and biographer Georges Raillard: "For Alice, gracious presence on our side, my friendship (my remorse) Jacques Dupin."

First edition on current paper.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated, some marks of reading and annotations of the dedicatee in pencil of margins of certain leaves.
Autograph dedication signed by Alain Robbe-Grillet to his friend Georges Raillard and his wife Alice: "... where things get complicated."

First edition on current paper.
Small gaps on the margins of the sheets that was poorly cut at the end of the volume.
Binding in the burgundy velvet full velvet, smooth back, piece of morocco burgundy title, guards and contreplats of gold paper, covers and back preserved.
Signed autograph of René Crevel to the princess Lucien Murat: "... because the clavevin Diderot played a music to which we have never been insensitive in the Russia of the Great Catherine."

Rare first edition printed on yellow paper.
Braid binding in full marbled paper, smooth back decorated with double gilded nets, title label of red morocco, top corners blunt.
Autograph signed by Hugues-Marie-Humbert Bocon de Lamerlière.

Edition printed on laid paper and illustrated with a portrait of Pierre Ronsard by Orlande de Lassus.
Half brown shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt cartouches ornamented with gilt lyres, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some minor tears to leading edges, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Some foxing affecting the music plates at the end of the volume.

Printed edition.
Binding in full brown percaline, smooth back, marbled paper plates, first board illustrated with a gilded decoration representing a locomotive evolving on a suspension bridge, guards and contreplats of white moire silk.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph dedication of Maximilian de Leber to Mr. Siegler enriched with the handwritten signature of Charles Bricka.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full white cardboard, smooth back.
Beautiful complete copy of his illustrated jacket with very light tears without gravity.
Illustrated book of drawings by Oscar Niemeyer.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Oscar Niemeyer Henri (Raillard).

First edition on current paper.
Well complete book of part of his trailer: Schism in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Open letter to André Breton. End of surrealism?
Iconography.
Signed autograph dedication from Ernest de Gengenbach to Robert Laffont: "... hoping to be part of a day of his avant-garde flight."

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper
Binding in half shagreen red with bands, back with five nerves set with black threads, initials gilded tail, paper plates with moiré effect, guards and contreplats of marbled paper, covers and back preserved.
Pleasant copy, printed bibliophile stamp on the title page as ex-libris, ex-libris of the same glued on a guard.
Signed autograph of Julien Green Jean-Claude Lachnitt.

First edition on current paper.
Binding in half shagreen red with bands, back with five nerves set with black threads, initials gilded tail, paper plates with moiré effect, guards and contreplats of marbled paper, covers and back preserved.
Pleasant copy, printed bibliophile stamp on the title page as ex-libris, ex-libris of the same glued on a guard.
Signed autograph of Julien Green Jean-Claude Lachnitt.

First edition of this review directed by Maurice Raynal and Efstrathios Tériade, and illustrated by Georges Braque, Balthus, Roger Vitrac. The collection is complete with eight issues published between April 1935 and February 1936. Joints, three newsletter subscriptions to the magazine accompanied by a humorous text.
Folds, marginal tears.
A rare complete collection of The Black Beast, an artistic and literary magazine created by the writers Maurice Raynal and Michel Leiris. It was conceived as an attempt at intellectual counter-attack to the rise of fascism in France, awakened by the Parisian demonstrations of February 1934 . The magazine was baptized by...

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly insolated.
Autographs signed by André Frénaud and Bernard Pingaud to Georges Raillard and his wife Alice.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back wrinkled and dirty, some marks of readings in pencil and black pen on the margins of some leaflets, probably from the dedicatee.
Autograph dedication signed by Antoine Compagnon to Georges Raillard.

First edition.
Small light spots without gravity on the boards, two slight snags in the foot of the back.
Preface by Denis Roche.
Autograph dedication signed by Claude Simon to his friend Georges Raillard and his wife Alice.

First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, deluxe copy.
Work illustrated with original color lithographs by Daniel Louradour.
Fine copy.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by André Malraux to Edith Sorel

First Edition, one of 40 numbered copies on pure vellum wire, ours one of the 10 off trade, only leading copies.
Pleasant copy despite a small tear at the top of the first board.
Signed autograph of Paule Henry-Bordeaux to Gerard Mainguet on the page of fake title: "... the reflection of this Europe of the Renaissance which strangely resembles ours ...

First Edition printed 315 numbered copies on vellum, ours unjustified.
Pleasant copy despite very slightly and marginally insolated boards as generally.
Illustrated book of 15 drawings in black by Jean Boullet.
Signed autograph of Jean Boullet to Pierre Dumayet: "... this book not like the others ... Tribute to the image."

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Severo Sarduy Georges Raillard.

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers.
A small clear spot in the middle of the first board, nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by Jean-François Lyotard to Anne Sarraute.

Original bilingual edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice full copy of his trailer.
Humoristic autograph dedication dated and signed by Pierre Alechinsky, in pencil, to his friend Georges Raillard

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Illustrations, copy retaining its illustrated dust jacket and its advertising slip.
Autograph inscription signed by Serge Gainsbourg on half-title page to a Marie-Laure.