Paris

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Clear spots on the second board.
Autograph dedication signed by Raymond Queneau to Jean-Marc Lambert.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Precious autograph dated and signed by Philippe Sollers Jacques Lacan.

First edition of this exhibition plate held at the Galerie Bert from June 6 to September 30, 2012.
Pleasant illustrated copy of works by Lucien Clergue and Jean Cocteau.
Autograph signed and dated by Lucien Clergue to Joseph Brown.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Insolated back with two tears in the head and foot.
Signed autograph Pierre Drieu la Rochelle to Gaston Rageot: "... this novel is nothing romantic or even romantic ..."

First edition, one of 25 copies on Japan, head print.
Wrinkled back with two small gaps.
Signed autograph Henry Torres to his friend Gaudel: "... the most loyal, the bravest of the opponents, the fairest judge, the most chic of friends, in memory of five days together ..."

First edition on current paper.
Pleasant full copy of his prayer to insert.
Rare handwritten signature of Kees Van Dongen who added the word "painter" after his name on the fake title page.

Edition translated by Edouard Grenier and illustrated with in-text drawings by Wilhelm von Kaulbach.
Half red shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with triple gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one upper corner slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.

First edition illustrated with 27 lithographs and 254 etchings of Jean Frélaut.
Our copy is full of original etching taken separately and printed on laid.
Binding to the bradel caramel half sheepskin, back with four nerves with some traces of friction, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper.
Nice interior state.
Our copy is enriched with a watercolor full-page painter and engraver Jean Frelaut representing a beautiful unsigned marine and includes this autograph signed by his son Denis: "To my dear Denis, his dad, Sept. 42."
The copy had previously been offered to Denis and bears this handwritten mention, above the watercolor...

First illustrated edition of 72 original compositions by Jean Picart The Sweet.
Publisher's binding, burgundy linen smooth back, glued head label on the back, apple green cardboard, blunt corners, some snags on the cuts.
Nice interior state.
Signed autograph from Charles Vildrac to Marie Gevers: "... this little sister of Milot ..."

First illustrated edition of 80 original compositions by Henri Mirande.
Publisher's binder, smooth back of partially faded blue cloth, glued head label on the back, apple green cardboard, blunt corners.
foxing on the guards, otherwise nice interior state.
Signed autograph from Charles Vildrac to Marie Gevers: "... this story for school children ..."

New edition.
Two clear wettings at the top of the first board, upper edges slightly soiled.
Signed autograph of Louis Aragon to Marie-Berthe Jehl: "... the eyes that I no longer have ..."

First Edition, one of 300 numbered copies on lightweight Featherweight, only great papers after 50 strong Featherweight.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of the author by Charles Hoffman.
Insolated back, otherwise nice copy enriched with erotic ex-libris glued next to the page of fake title.
Autograph signed by Albert Ayguesparse Marcel Bougniet.

KARR Alphonse & DELORD Taxile & Comte FOELIX
illustrated by GRANDVILLE Jean-Jacques
Les Fleurs animées [Animated Flowers]
Garnier frères, Paris 1867, 17 x 27,5 cm, navy-blue half shagreen
Edition illustrated by Grandville with 29 insert watercolor plates in the first volume, and 23 insert watercolor plates and 2 black plates in the second.
Navy-blue half shagreen, spine divided into five compartments with curved fillets, gilt double fillets and floral motifs to compartments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one corner frayed. Occasional spotting, a transparent dampstain at the base of all leaves in the first volume.
Text by...

Illustrated edition with black and color drawings by Louis Morin both in text and on plates.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth red cloth spine, illustrated front cover.
Handsome copy.

First edition of the French translation, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Spine sunned.
Autograph inscription signed by Curzio Malaparte to Gaston Rageot.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back insolated, yellowed paper as generally.
Signed autograph Paul Eluard Gaston Rageot.

First edition on current paper.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of the author by Dignimont.
Insolated back.
Autograph dedication signed by Emmanuel Bove to Gaston Rageot.

First edition.
Binding of the editor in full cream canvas, smooth back, title piece of blue cloth, first flat illustrated with an allegorical medallion on a gilded background, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head.
Rich iconography.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by the publisher J. de Brunoff to Chief Engineer Harlaut: "... in memory of his precious collaboration ..."

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
A small spot on the lower edge.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy to the sculptor Raymond Mason.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy to the sculptor Raymond Mason.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy to the sculptor (Raymond Mason) on a business card glued on the page of fake title.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Iconography.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Anne Clancier to Marie-Louise Canard.

New edition, one of the numbered examples.
Iconography.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Anne Clancier to Marie-Louise Canard.

New edition after the first, very rare, published in 1670. Huet's Treatise on the Origin of Novels, in the form of a letter to Segrais, appears at the end of the first part of Zaïde.

Armorial copy of Charlotte Emilie Le Fèvre de Caumartin de La cour de Balleroy, daughter of Louis-François Le Fèvre de Caumartin, lord of Boissy, and wife of the Marquis de la Cour de Balleroy. Feminine arms are rare and sought after, as few women formed libraries with their coat of arms. The Marquise de Balleroy, who died in 1749, settled in Normandy, and maintained an intense correspondence with the highest nobility from which she descended.

Full speckled...

First edition without false statement of edition and complete with with the right justification page dated 25 septembre 1951.
A nice copy.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on laid bulging and reserved for the press service.
Insolated back with small tears in the foot.
Precious autograph signed by Henri de Montherlant to Joseph Kessel.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved for the press service.
Back slightly insolated with a little lack in the foot, some spots in the margin of the first board.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Georges Bernanos to Georges Gaillard: "... this book that has shed the tears of a hundred thousand chaisières and prohibits me, temporarily at least, any hope of promotion advantageous to the Vatican Academy as to the French Academy..."

First edition for which it was not drawn great papers for the first volume, one of the 35 copies out of trade reserved to the author and numbered on "pur-fil" paper, only leading copies for the second volume.
Back of the first cracked volume, a tear restored at the foot of the first plate of the first volume, a small spot at the foot of the first plate of the second volume.
Signed autograph of Gilbert Lély to Jean Hugues on the second volume: "To my friend from Provence, Jean Hugues, bookseller of the king, affectionately, Gilbert.A height of solitude, an unknown accent of grace and fury ... GL"

First edition, on current paper, of the French translation.
Pleasant copy despite a small stain at the bottom of the second board.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Lawrence Durrell to Mrs. Rolingher.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Montval, head print.
Binding in half red shagreen with corners, back with four nerves, golden tail date, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and backs preserved, binding signed Encalcat.
Book decorated with illustrations by Pierre Devaux.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph Joseph Delteil to Jean-Paul Allardin: "... this beautiful Corisande which we will never know if Henry preferred, or if history humiliated Arques and Ivry ..."

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Binding in half red shagreen with corners, back with four nerves, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, signed binding of Encalcat.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Joseph Delteil to Jean-Paul Allardin: "... here is this book in which I put my most secret complacency ..."

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Binding in half red shagreen with corners, back with four nerves, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, signed binding of Encalcat.
Nice copy.
Beautiful autograph signed by Joseph Delteil to Jean-Paul Allardin: "... this Napoleon, the game, the great game between man and circumstances (and yet where the man is a trump ..."

CREVECOEUR Michel Guillaume Saint Jean
Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie et dans l'état de New-York, par un membre adoptif de la nation Oneida
De l'imprimerie de Crapelet, Paris 1801 (An IX), In-8 (13 x 20 cm), xxxj (1) 467 pp. et xiij (1) 434 pp. et xij, 409 pp. (1), old half-vellum
First edition illustrated with 11 paper boards and 4 charts, of which 7 can be folded out, with one big map of Northern United States, one of the Southern part, several charts of cataract in Nigeria, a warrior in the Oneida nation, the portrait of Washington featured in a medallion… Dedicatory epistle to George Washington.
Old half-vellum binding with small...