Paris

First Edition, one of 575 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only leading copies after 100 "pur-fil" paper.
Pleasant copy decorated with 19 insets including 4 in color and a portrait of the author, frontispiece, in blood by Alexander Iacovleff.
Autograph signed by Henriette Pascar to Paul Gregorio.

First edition on current paper, false mention of third edition.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph dated March 1965 from Charles Vildrac, who had taken under his wing Lucienne Desnoues, Lydie Dubourg-la-Gentille: "... to let him know this Lucienne, who calls me his spiritual father."

First edition for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Illustrated cover of a drawing by Charles Léandre.
Back restored and reinforced.
Autograph dedication signed by André Barde to comedian and singer Georges Chepfer: "... in memory of good nocturnal chats with a friendly spirit."

New edition partly original because revised and increased and for which it was not drawn of great papers.
Small marginal tears on the boards
Illustrated book of a portrait of the author by Pablo Picasso.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Eluard to his friends Madeleine and Jean Sarigny: "... in memory of the black and white years ..."

New edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Ingres, only leading copies.
Nice and rare copy.
Handwritten signature of Radovan Ivsic on colophon.


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First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Ingres, only leading copies.
Nice and rare copy.
Handwritten signature of Annie Le Brun colophon.


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First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Ingres, only leading copies.
Nice and rare copy.
Handwritten signatures of all the protagonists at the colophon.


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First edition.
Book decorated with illustrations by Marc Chagall.
Nice full copy of his trailer.
Signed autograph of Claire Goll to Pierre Gamara: "... poet and traveler ..."


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First edition, one of the review copies service.
A tiny tear without gravity in the foot of the back.
Autograph signed by Louis Aragon Maurice Nadeau.

First edition, on current paper, of the French translation by Yves Bonnefoy.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Yves Bonnefoy Jacqueline Lebrun.

First edition, on current paper, of the French translation by Yves Bonnefoy.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Yves Bonnefoy Robert Ellrodt: "... who knows what it is ..."

First edition established, prefaced and annotated by Marie-Thérèse Eychart and for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Marie-Thérèse Eychart to Charles Dobzynski: "... this other face of Elsa that, perhaps, he already glimpsed ..."

First edition on current paper, mention of ninth edition.
Back cracked and with small gaps.
Autograph tribute signed by Philippe Soupault.

First edition for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Pleasant copy coimportant a rare autograph dedication signed by the Venezuelan poet.
Beautiful autograph signed Orlando Pichardo, full page, a friend named Brigitte for which he specifies his address to Barquisemito.

First edition, one of 30 copies out of commerce numbered and signed by Yves Bonnefoy colophon .
A tear stuck in the foot of the back.
The 5 original lithographs of Bram Van Velde to appear in the book are lacking our copy.
Autograph signed by Yves Bonnefoy to Professor Georges Blin.

BEAUMARCHAIS Pierre-Augustin Caron de La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro

The true first edition with all the characteristics of the first issue, including the correct collation of p. 237. Title with blank verso, list of eleven booksellers distributing the work and note to reader on verso of half-title; half-title following preface with, on verso, the list of characters, official approval and imprimatur at beginning dated the 25th and 31st January 1785 under the names of Bret and Lenoir, while at the end, the two official approvals are dated 28th February 1784 from Coqueley de Chaussepierre and 21st March 1784 from Bret. Bottom of final page: A Paris, de l'imprimerie de Ph...

First edition, one of the review copies service.
second board marginally insolated.
Autograph tribute signed by Léon Blum at the head of the fake title page.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine slightly sunned, tiny spots, not serious, on the covers.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Verlaine to Emile Le Brun.

First edition on current paper.
Bradel binding in half cardboard blue sky, smooth back slightly adorned with a gilt finial, double gilt tail, marbled paper plates, title piece of brown shagreen, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers , Contemporary binding.
Some small foxing.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Déroulède to the painter Jean Béraud on a guard which is completely burnished and which has a small tear in its back and has been restored using an adhesive piece.

First edition of which it was not drawn of great papers.
Publisher's binding in full gray cardboard, nice complete copy of his illustrated jacket that has two very slight tears in the head and foot of the back.
Iconography.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Arno Breker to Pierre Drancey (whom Arno Breker spelled Drancay) .

First edition, one of the copies on alfama paper, ours being one of the hors commerce copies, the only printing after 30 Renage vellum and 25 hors commerce.
Contributions by Pierre-Jean Jouve: "Langue d'Orphée", Daniel Anselme: "L'accusée de Barcelone", Maurice Blanchard, Guy Lévi-Mano, Jean Cayrol, Georges Schéhadé...
Issue illustrated with 4 illustrations by Mario Prassinos.
A small tear at the foot of the spine, two fold marks on the front cover.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Jacques Réda to Charles Dobzynski: "... who will perhaps be my only accomplice reader in this area where he precedes me ..."

Collective first edition in paperback format.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by André Frénaud to Charles Dobzynski.

First edition on current paper.
Back and flat slightly and marginally discolored as often, otherwise nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by François Mitterrand to François Gloaguen.

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on vergé de Hollande paper, the tirage de tête.
Half shagreen, spine faded, printed ex-libris, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.

First edition, one of 67 numbered copies on vergé de Hollande paper, the tirage de tête.
Half shagreen, spine slightly faded , printed ex-libris, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
A very small spot on the back of the back, otherwise nice copy.
Autograph signed by André Malraux to Pascale and André Dervavrin enriched with a drawing of a fierce dog, gaping mouth and tail erect, and dedicated to their son Thierry.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
A small spot on a bit, otherwise nice copy.
Autograph signed by André Malraux to Mrs. Ernest Mercier.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by André Malraux to Mrs. Ernest Mercier.

BERNARD Pierre & COUAILHAC Louis
Le Jardin des plantes. Description complète, historique et pittoresque du museum d’histoire naturelle, de la ménagerie, des serres, des galeries de minéralogie et d’anatomie et de la vallée Suisse.
[The Jardin des Plantes. Complete, Historical, and Picturesque Description of the Museum of Natural History, Menagerie, Glasshouses, Mineralogy and Anatomy Galleries of the Swiss Valley]
L. Curmer, Paris 1842, in-8 (18 x 26 cm), contemporary half green morocco
First edition richly illustrated with 186 plates of animals (including birds, reptiles, fishes, crustacean insects, corals), 33 of which are very finely hand-colored...

First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on pure wire.
Binding in full black shagreen, date at the foot of the spine, first board with a piece of red mosaic shagreen forming a spiral in the style of the pataphysicians ending with the word “mots”, marbled endpapers, ex-libris printed at the head of an endpaper, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Beautiful copy pleasantly set.

First edition, one of 310 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies with 80 Hollande paper.
Half shagreen, printed ex-libris, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
A nice copy elegantly bound.

First edition.
Binding full carton vellum style, smooth back slightly faded decorated with a central floret almost dimmed, golden date almost faded tail, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, Contemporary binding.
Some small foxing.
Autograph dedication signed by Maurice Barrès to Arsène Alexandre.

First edition.
Binding caramel half calf, burnished back with five nerves with small rubs, golden name tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, Contemporary binding.
A owner of the book has written, with blue ballpoint pen, a sharp criticism of the book and punctuated his acid remarks ponirs exclamation margins of some leaflets.
Autograph dedication signed by Pierre Delbet to Professor Samuel Pozzi.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Four reading marks with black ballpoint pen in margins of three sheets, iconography.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication dated 1982 and signed by André Berne-Joffroy to Professor Marcel Bessis.

Edition illustrated with original compositions by Julien Le Blant and original etchings by Louis Muller, one of 38 numbered copies on China paper.
Half red morocco binding, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Creuzevault.
Our copy is incomplete of the quadruple suite of etchings as stipulated in the justification.
Handsomely bound copy.

Edition illustrated with 43 original engravings by Jean Frélaut and printed with 235 numbered copies on vellum Arches paper, ours one of the 15 copies of artist signed by Jean FRELAUT in pencil.
Some friction and a bit split on the case, the back of the shirt with two clear wets.
Nice copy.
Provenance: from the library of Anne-Marie Frélaut with her ex-libris engraved by her father.

First edition on current paper.
Illustrated book reproductions of works by Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard, Paul Sérusier ... and full, frontispiece, facsimile portraits of Paul Gauguin and Camille Pissarro.
Back faded and poorly restored using an adhesive piece, guards lightly and partially shaded.
Autograph signed by Charles Chassé to the painter and engraver Jean Frélaut.

First edition on current paper.
Back and flat slightly and marginally insolated.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by René Depestre to Charles Dobzynski: "... as a fraternal homage (sic) to the peaceful" grand wide "of his poetic talent ..."

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Nice copy.
Yves Jacquemard signed autograph dedication to a couple of friends enriched with an autograph dated and signed by Jean-Michel Sénécal embellished with an original drawing in black felt representing an African, caricatured in the manner of the Roaring Twenties, presenting a placard on which the autograph is inscribed.