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First edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Bindings in half green sheepskin fir, discolored back with four nerves, golden stars as tomaison in tails back, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and back preserved.
Our copy is enriched, at the head of the first volume, of an autograph ticket mounted on a tab dated and signed by Charles De Gaulle in which he splits a thank you.

Posterior edition of three months to the original.
Back slightly cleared, small spots on the margins of the second board which also has a foot fold.
Rare autograph dedication, written in London, dated and signed by Michel Houellebecq: "The epilogue was a science fiction hypothesis or departure - but, the more it goes, the more I find the idea good".

First edition illustrated with 13 folding plates engraved by Mad. De Lusse, unsigned portrait of the author on the frontispiece.

Contemporary binding in full calf, spine in five compartments with double compartments and gilt fleurons, red morocco title label, triple gilt fillet border on the boards, double gilt fillet highlighting the leading edge, marbled endpapers, all gilt edges.
Joints, heads, leading edges and corners skillfully restored, a marginal water stain on the frontispiece (without damaging the illustration), as well on the upper margin of some...

Canadensium Plantarum Historia Enchiridion Botanicum First edition, illustrated with 68 full-page figures.
Contemporary full-parchment binding, ink title to spine. Later handwritten annotation (19^th-century) on verso of first endpaper: “Ouvrage vanté par Linné [Work extolled by Linné] phylos.bota. article 17”.
A work steeped in the tradition of Renaissance herbalism, the Canadensium Plantarum Historia is set apart by its modern system of classification: it contains the very first descriptions of over 70 species of...

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn great papers, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly thinned with two small tears glued to the head and foot.
Precious autograph dated and signed by Ernst Jünger: "To his friend Marcel Jouhandeau".

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Signed autograph Christian Jambet to a couple of friends: "... these dreams of a traveler ..."

Second edition partly original because revised and increased.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Claude Hertzfeld to Fabrice Carlier.

First edition on current paper.
Signed autograph of Louis Aragon to Jacques Doucet.

LACAN Jacques
Fonction et champ de la parole et du langage en psychanalyse. Rapport du congrès de Rome tenu à l'Instituto di Psicologia della Universita di Roma les 26 et 27 Septembre 1953 [Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis: Report of the Congress of Rome, Held at the Instituto di Psicologia della Universita di Roma on September 26 and 27, 1953]
P.U.F., Paris 1953, 14 x 23 cm, stapled
First edition.
Ex-libris printed at the base of the verso of the front cover.
Dated autograph inscription by Jacques Lacan: “à Jean Cocteau. Pour qu'il me dise où est ici la poésie.” [To Jean Cocteau. So that he tells me where...

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
A nice copy retaining its illustrated dust jacket.
Autograph inscription signed by Romain Gary to André Wurmser.

First edition.
Some small foxing, slight light spots on the boards.
Braid binding in full blue cloth, smooth back decorated with golden nets, preserved covers.
Autograph signed by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle to miss André Meraux.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Some small foxing mainly affecting the slices.
Illustrated book of 6 cards drawn by Paul Chack and 5 engravings.
Handwritten signature of Paul Chack on the fake title page.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
A small tear in the foot of the back slightly discolored.
Signed autograph of Daniel Halévy to the Countess of Noailles.

First edition on current paper.
Signed autograph of Daniel Halévy Jean de Fabrègues.
Our copy is enriched with 2 handwritten corrections of Daniel Halévy on page 12.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on vellum.
A little lack in the back of the head.
Illustrated book with a frontispiece by Edmond Céria.
Our copy is enriched, throughout the page of half-title until the half of the following page, of a passage of the text that Daniel Halévy copied.

New edition, thousand mention.
A vertical spot at the top of the back of the first cover plate.
Signed autograph of Julien Gracq to Lise (Deharme): "For Lise, hoping she will not be shocked by some of these (malignant) remarks with my old friendship."

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
A nice copy retaining its advertising slip.
Autograph inscription signed by Romain Gary to André Wurmser.

First edition in volume, one of 15 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Half morocco, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by T. Boichot.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges Clemenceau to Marie Denizou to head of first cover.

First edition printed 200 copies of the second book of the author, there is no mention of leading copies.
Two small tears and a small lack on the back, nice interior state.
Autograph signed by Charles Maurras, the name of the dedicatee has been scratched.

First edition on current paper.
Small foxing at the beginning and end of the volume.
Binding full percaline gray moire, smooth back decorated with a decorative golden pattern, title piece of heartbreak blue, guards and contreplats of paper with decorative patterns, binding of the era signed Victor Wachter binder in Cairo.
Autograph signed by Maurice Barres Fernand Braun.

First edition on current paper.
Small foxing at the beginning and end of the volume.
Binding full percaline gray moire, smooth back decorated with a decorative golden pattern, title piece of heartbreak blue, guards and contreplats of paper with decorative patterns, binding of the era signed Victor Wachter binder in Cairo.
Autograph signed by Maurice Barres Fernand Braun.

First edition, one of 112 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper and reimposed format quart quartet.
Pleasant copy under double cover and full of his shirt and his case.
Our copy is enriched by an autograph letter, pasted on a guard, dated May 29, 1929 and signed by Jacques Chardonne in which he asks his correspondent to intercede with Maurice Donnay he reads the copy of "Varais" that he sent her recently to support him in the imminent awarding of a literary prize.

First edition, one of 180 numbered copies on Japan, only leading copies.
Binding in full black morocco, smooth back very slightly faded adorned with gold cartridges richly ornamented with gilded typographic motifs, date and place gilded tail, golden wheels on the headdresses, framing octuples gilded nets on the boards embellished in spandrels of gilded florets , guards and contreplats of red moire silk, framing of stylized and gilded floral motifs on the contreplats, guards following of handmade paper, blankets illustrated by René Lalique preserved, gilded head on witnesses, golden edges on the cuts, case inside brown felt, marbled paper plates, superb Contemporary binding signed by...

First edition illustrated with folding frontispiece as well as 46 engravings on 45 plates, at times folded. Armorial vignette on the reserve of the title leaf.

Contemporary binding in full pigskin on wooden boards, spine in four compartments decorated with blind tooling presenting the author's name, the title, as well as a library shelf mark in ink, boards framed with multiple fillets and blind-tool stamped dentelle, initials in black ink R. W. A. T. and dated 1663, upper board stamped in the centre with the Austrian Guttenstein coat of arms...

First edition on ordinary paper.
Illustrated with a frontispice and a title vignette by Marold.
Half morocco, covers preserved, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Alphonse Daudet to Emile Zola.
A very nice copy elegantly bound and with a remarkable provenance.

First edition on current paper.
A small discharge of adhesive paper at the bottom of the fake page and in her look.
Autograph dedication signed by Gaston Bachelard to Henri Pichette: "... the young poet ..." on the fake title page.

First edition.
Bindings in red half morocco, back with five nerves slightly burnished and with scratches, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, wrappers preserved and bound in for the first two volumes, gilded heads.
Ex-donos at the pen of a previous owner of the book on the pages of the title, some foxinges.
A complete book of his pamphlet at the end of the first volume.
Autograph signed by the son of General Dumas to Mr. Larnac at the head of the first volume.

Samuel BECKETT
Molloy
Les éditions de Minuit | Paris 1951| 12 x 19 cm | original wrappers
First edition of the French translation by Robert Pinget, one of 50 numbered copies on vélin supérieur paper, the tirage de tête.
Ex-libris to one pastedown.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 790 numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Some small foxing mainly affecting the guards and some leaves at their margins.

First edition, one of 200 copies numbered on Arches paper, only draw after 10 Japan.
Binding half black box, smooth back, paper plates wood way enriched in their margins of triple fillets of colors, guards and contreplats of paper wood way, covers and back preserved, gilded head, binding signed by Daniel-Henri Mercher.
Nice copy pleasantly established.
Autograph signed by Valery Larbaud: "AAM Stols in friendly tribute and with all my wishes for 1934".

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn great papers.
boards very slightly and marginally insolated without gravity.
Signed autograph of Ilya Ehrenburg, in Spanish, to Julian Garavito.

First edition.
Binding in half percaline Siena bradel, smooth back decorated with a golden floret, double gilded nets in tail, title piece of shagreen bronze, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, Contemporary binding .
Some small foxing, small black spots on the second board.
Illustrated book of 3 portraits and 2 facsimiles.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Cottin to Captain Pineau.

New edition dated 1904 on the first cover.
Some spots to endpapers.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Joris-Karl Huysmans to Séverine.