Paris

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Binding in half red Russian morocco with corners, smooth back adorned with golden romantic arabesques, title pieces and name of the author of black morocco, gilded nets on embossed and black plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blankets and back preserved, gilded head, ex-libris glued to the head of a guard, case lined with morocco boordeaux, black cardboard boards, binding signed Lavaux.
Nice copy.
Notes and introduction by Jean de Mitty.
autograph dedication of the author autograph, almost faded with regard to the pallor of the ink, Gustave...

First edition.
Iconography.
Stains on page 27, otherwise nice copy.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Gabriel Voisin to Commander Denis.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Pleasant full copy of his prayer to insert.
Precious autograph dedication signed by Raymond Queneau Roland Dorgelès.

First edition on current paper.
Pleasant copy despite tiny bites without gravity on the back.
Autograph tribute signed by Léopold Sédar Senghor.

First edition on current paper.
Pleasant full copy of his illustrated jacket.
Autograph dedication signed by Philippe Sollers to Paul Camons.

First Edition, printed stamp of press service in foot of the back.
A small tear in the foot of the back.
Autograph dedication signed by Charles Maurras to Jacques Reynaud.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Small tears in feet and heads of the backs.
Signed autograph Charles Maurras to Dr. Préhon: "... in memory of his wonderful hospitality, his host full of gratitude ..." on the first volume.

First edition on current paper, thousand mention.
Autograph signed by Charles Maurras to Dr. Préhon.

First edition on current paper.
Two traces of creases at the top of the first board and at the bottom of the second.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Romain Gary to Mrs. AJ Fayard.

First edition on current paper, thousand mention.
Pleasant full copy of his illustrated jacket.
Signed autograph of Jacques Benoist-Méchin to Jean Préhon.

Réflexions sur la question juive [Anti-Semite and Jew]
First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only leading copies.
Back and boards marginally discolored and insolated, pleasant interior state.
Autograph dedication signed by Pierre Brisson to Maurice Noël.

Autograph letter signed by Paul Claudel, written in blue ink.
Date and address at the top of the letter, signature at the bottom of the letter.
A scratch of the author's hand.

Paul Claudel thanks his correspondent who sent him a book, "Pages choisies". He also thanks him for his books which are the "true testimony of a beautiful artist and a Christian conscience that leaves no one indifferent".

New edition of the French translation by Jacques Bour and first edition of the famous preface by Albert Camus, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper mousse.
Slight bites on the guards and slices of some leaflets.
Autograph signed by Albert Camus: "To Henri Petit, to thank him for his solidarity and tell him my faithful and friendly thought."

Unpublished handwritten and signed postcard from Max Ernst to his friend Joë BousquetUnpublished handwritten and signed postcard from Max Ernst, 21 lines written in blue ink in a compact, elegant hand.
Several strikethroughs and underlinings in Max Ernst's hand.
Photograph of the work 68 by Max Ernst on the recto, representing busts of two women and which are painted with two numbers forming the figure “68.” We have not located another copy of this postcard, which does not appear to have been put on sale. Two original photographs representing each of the busts are catalogued in the André...

First Edition, one of 27 numbered copies on Holland paper, ours one of the 12 out of trade, draw of head.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated without gravity, a small clear spot in the foot of the second flat, nice copy at all margins.
Autograph dedication signed by André Dhôtel to Georges Duhamel.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
A trace of price tag on the second board, a tiny hitch without gravity on the back.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Roland Barthes to Anne Villalaur.

First edition on current paper.
Illustrated book of drawings by Jean Hugo.
Very light bites without gravity on the back.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Louise de Vilmorin to Françoise de Beaulieu inscribed in a drawing representing her four-leaf lucky clover.

First edition of this article published in Volume 1 of "Psychoanalysis" devoted to the use of speech and language structures in the conduct and field of psychoanalysis.
Back slightly insolated, small marginal snags on the boards.
Signed autograph Jacques Lacan to his friend surgeon (François de) Gaudard d'Allaines: "... he knows he follows the good fighting wherever they go, hoping he will recognize his own. .. "

First edition for The man with suitcases, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly insolated without gravity.
Autograph signed by Eugène Ionesco to François Billetdoux.

L'étranger [The Outsider]
Gallimard, Paris 1942, 11.5 x 19 cm, half brown morocco
First edition first issue for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed, one of the rare first printed copies, no false statement of edition.
Half brown morocco, spine in five compartments, lettered in gilt and dated at foot, marbled covers and endpapers, wrappers and spine well preserved, top edge gilt, case edged with brown morocco, binding signed by Alix.
This first edition of L'Étranger was printed on April 12, 1942, with a print run of 4 400 copies,
divided into eight notional “editions” of 550 copies. Thus, most of the copies have a false statement of...

VERNE Jules
Bourses de voyage
[Travel Scholarships]
Hetzel, Paris 1903, 18 x 27,5 cm, publisher’s binding
First edition, only a small number of copies were printed according to Jauzac. 74 illustrations by Banett, among which 13 photographs (Barbados, Saint Lucie) and 12 polychromes plates and a map of the West Indies.
Publisher's binding au globe doré in type 3, that is the most successful type for this binding, with the upper plate by Blancheland, binding by Engel. Second cover type h, with the letters intertwined on a black background.
A beautiful first plate in gleaming gold with discreet stains on the cartouche, and in the...

New Edition. Several in-text drawings by Férat engraved by Barbant.
Type 4 publisher's boards known as “Au globe doré”, with the second board of type Engel i, the two vertical letters JH against a background of horizontal stripes. Spine with the lighthouse.
Beautiful first panel stamp, very fresh, with dazzling golds. Small marks on the cartouche. Sun-lightened spine. Caps and corners skillfully restored. Foxing on the spine. Second board with marks. Scattered foxing.
One of the author's most famous adventure novels in which Michel Strogoff, messenger of the Russian Tsar, from Moscow to Irkutsk (Capital of eastern Siberia), must warn the Tsar's brother of the arrival of the...

Signed autograph card of Claude Farrère to a critic, written in black ink.
Signature at the bottom of the letter.
An ink stain on a word, "principium".

Claude Farrère sends this card to thank a journalist for the article he wrote about him: "thank you for the minutes of joy you gave me this morning" . He compliments him especially for his knowledge and understanding of the models of Farrère he quotes in the letter: Virgil - "my god, from the day I read for the first time ab jove principium Musae ... " - and André Bellesort .

Autograph letter signed by Marcel Dommergues, written in black ink.
Date and place at the top of the letter, signature at the bottom of the letter.
Central fold caused by mailing.

Marcel Dommergues writes this letter in response to a letter from his correspondent. This one pointed out to him the lack of analysis on the way to present a sheet except for a work of Mr. Lebouc and proposed to him his method. He invites her to send it to him so that he reads "by sifting through a stern criticism" and asks him to come and see him in Paris to exchange with her.

Signed autograph card of Henri Bergson to Mr. Turquem, written in black ink.
Personal card of Henri Bergson, signature at the end of the letter, envelope attached.

Sick since 1925, Henri Bergson nevertheless adds to his map a few handwritten lines for his addressee. He writes that his letter touched him and thanked him for it.

Typed letter signed by André Malraux at Christmas B. de la Mort, Malraux's signature at the bottom of the letter in black ink, envelope with typewritten address attached. Paper and NRF envelope.
Fold of the letter caused by mailing.

André Malraux informs Noël B. de la Mort that he transmitted the project of the latter and that he was promised an answer.

Letter autograph signed by Jean Fontenoy, written in blue ink on school paper with large squares.
Calligraphic drawing "Tuesday" at the top of the letter, Paris address and telephone number of the writer in the margin of the last sheet.
Several erasures and additions of the author's hand.

Fontenoy writes this letter by putting himself in the place of a schoolboy: " I write to you on school paper because I seem to have returned to school ". He submits to his addressee the last modifications that he wishes to make to the manuscript of the Dream of the Traveler but also the text of presentation of the book. The author seems...

Signed autograph letter of Jacques Laurent said Cecil Saint-Laurent to proclaim his powers to Mr. Jean the Merchant in the discussion with editions Je Sers.
Date and place on the upper part of the letter.

Jacques Laurent, novelist and journalist associated with the literary movement of hussars, writes this letter so that Jean Le Marchand, with whom he worked in the magazine Combat during the Second World War, can discuss on his behalf with Editions Je Sers. Jacques Laurent published in 1950 Do not touch the ax in the Oedipus collection of these editions. This letter dates from the year when Jacques Laurent was elected to the French Academy.

BALZAC Honoré de Les Français peints par eux-mêmes

First edition, one of the de luxe copies with a double state of the illustrations: one in black and white on colored paper and one of the same plates heightened in colors in "colori gommé" on white paper, protected by yellow silk paper guards, a sign of the first printing. This copy complete with all its hors-texte illustrations as well as its frontispieces, of Napoleon on a horse after Horace Vernet and the double-page map of France in Volume III, Province [The Countryside]. The work also has more than 1,500 illustrations to text. Volumes I and II (Paris) are from 1840, while Volumes III and IV (Paris) and...

Letter autograph signed by Romain Rolland, one page and two lines, to Gustave Geffroy (whose name has been added in pencil), 10 lines in purple ink, without date and appropriately written in Paris.

Traces of folds inherent to a letter slipped into an envelope.

In this post, Romain Rolland gives appointment to Gustave Geffroy: "We are convened tomorrow evening 9am at the Revue d'Art dramatique" by requesting his presence that he considers important : "It would be necessary for you to be there for us lend your help against a government that is really too enthusiastic about our project. "

New edition partly original because revised and increased, it was not drawn from great papers.
Pleasant copy, joint clipping left a shadow on the guards.
Autograph dedication signed by Raymond Aron to Nicolas-Jean Brehon.

Signed autograph letter of Henri Mahé, painter, director and friend of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, a page and a half, (to Daniel Giraud he nicknamed the Homodivorous Autodestructor), 28 lines in black felt, dated 15 February 1970 and written from his home in Paris rue Greuze in the sixteenth arrondissement.

Traces of central folds inherent to a letter slipped into an envelope.

In this letter, all imprint of Celinian verve but also modesty and independence, Henri Mahé refuses to write an article because: "We do not make articles on Pythagoras, on Jesus, on Gandhi or Celine ... " mocking his style :" You see it's bad, you're overestimating me!...

Letter autograph signed by Stanislas de Guaita, two pages, addressed to Eugene Vallée who was a close friend of the family, of 27 lines in black ink, undated but probably written, from his Parisian home, shortly after the publication of his "Rosa mystica" in 1885 at Alphonse Lemerre.

Traces of central folds inherent to a letter slipped into an envelope, foxing.

In this letter with his crown of marquises, Stanislas de Guaita shows his gratitude and gratitude to his correspondent who has always been the benevolent protector of his mother and himself and to whom, as a thank you, he offers one of the very first copies of Rosa Mystica: "I bring you a copy of Rosa...

Autograph signed by André Malraux, one page, envelope attached and bearing a postal stamp of May 18, 1928, André Suarès, 25 lines in black ink, and written in Paris.

Traces of central folds inherent to a letter slipped into an envelope that we enclose to the letter and on which Andre Suares indicated in angle of the first board "Malraux".

André Malraux agrees to honor an invitation he has received from André Suarès to come and visit him on a Saturday at the beginning of the afternoon at his Parisian home on rue Cassette: "... I will have the pleasure of go home, Saturday, about 2 hours 1/4 ".

Edition of the year of the original, one of the numbered copies.
Publisher's binding in full purple fabric, smooth back slightly discolored in foot, nice copy.
In-fine iconography.
Fun autograph dedication signed by Alphonse Boudard to Lucienne de Rozier: "... wishing him a quick cure ... Frivolous fighters by way of FFiography ..."

LEVI Primo
J'étais un homme - Se questo è un uomo
[If This Is A Man]
Buchet/Chastel, Paris 1961, 14 x 19 cm, original wrappers
First edition of the French translation of one of the authoritative works on the Nazi concentration camp system.
Exceptionally rare, this French translation of Primo Levi's first book would go as unnoticed as the original Italian edition that was published in 1947. It was only upon the suicide of its author in 1987 that a second French edition was published and this fundamental testimony on the Shoah became the emblematic work of concentration camp literature.
Michèle Causse's translation reflects the difficulty of transcribing...

First edition.
Small foxing on the guards.
Iconography.
Signed autograph dated Gérard Serbanesco to Mrs. J. Pochard

First edition on current paper.
Small foxing mainly affecting the slices.
Autograph signed by Ambroise Vollard to miss Andrée Chariot.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
boards very lightly soiled without gravity in their margins.
Signed autograph dedication of Gérard Titus-Carmel to his friends Janine and Jean-Jacques Prévost: "... news of the forge delivered with friendship ..."

New edition.
Half chocolate brown shagreen binding with corners, spine with five fine raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt compartments adorned with gilt decorative motifs, double gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, light scratches on first cover, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sully Prudhomme.

First edition on current paper.
Slight stains on the boards, otherwise nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by Claude Roy to Charles (Dobzynski): "To continue with Charles ..."

New edition, stated tenth edition.
Spine lightly sunned with small tears and splits, two marginal lacks to front cover.
Complete with its rare wraparound band.