Paris

first edition from which no large papers have been taken.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from Charles Maurras to Emile Berr.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Chine, the tirage de tête.
A small tear, not serious, to foot of spine.
Nice and rare copy with edges preserved.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from Pierre Daix to Pierre Dumayet.
Iconography.

Rare original photographic portrait of the writer in full, realized by Achille Mélandri, enriched with an autograph signed signed "A Madame the Countess Potocka, his respectful friend, Guy de Maupassant".
For a long time, Maupassant, like Balzac or Flaubert, was resistant to the diffusion of his portrait in photography as in engraving. In an autograph note kept in the library at Rouen, he summarized his idea on this subject: " I have made an absolute rule to never let my portrait be published whenever I can prevent it. The exceptions took place only by surprise. Our works belong to the public, not our figures. In 1890 he even threatened to sue one of his...

Letter autograph signed by Guy de Maupassant to Countess Potocka, 70 lines in black ink, embellished with an original drawing in ink, on a double headed sheetlet "83, rue Dulong". Envelope attached.
Published in Marlo Johnston, "Unpublished Letters of Maupassant to Countess Potocka", Literary Histories, No. 40, October-November-December 2009.
Maupassant has, for years, been one of the most assiduous sighs of Countess Potocka. He is about to go and see her at the invitation of her husband: " You know, do not you, that I'm dining at your house tomorrow, invited by your husband. Her husband, Count Potocki, lived in total liberty with the Countess...

Handwritten, signed letter in an envelope addressed to the Countess Potocka. Maupassant on England: “J'en ai eu plein les yeux ; mais j'en aurais plein le dos si je les avais entendus.” “I had an eyeful; but I would have been sick and tired if I had understood them.”

Aylesbury, England 10 August 1886, 10.1 x 15.3 cm, 4 pages on a double sheet

Amusing handwritten letter signed by Guy de Maupassant to the Countess Potocka, 76 lines in black ink on a double sheet with the Waddesdon, Aylesbury letterhead. Envelope attached.

Published in Marlo Johnston, “Lettres inédites de Maupassant à la comtesse Potocka”, Histoires littéraires, n°40...

"I do not say I loved you - but that I was touched, as others, by your power"
An exceptional autograph letter signed by Guy de Maupassant, 123 lines in black ink on two sheets. With an envelope addressed to the Countess at 14 bis rue Chateaubriand.
This remarkable missive, probably unpublished, summarizes Maupassant's years of waiting and suffering in his love for the Countess Potocka. The writer finally lays his cards bare in a last and bitter confessional letter and reveals the desperate inner struggles that he faced since his meeting with this woman of irresistible charms.
This confession, put off by Maupassant for a long time, who until...

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autograph signed by Jacques Dupin to Pierre Dumayet.
Yellowish boards, pleasant interior condition.

first edition from which no large papers have been taken, one of the review copies service.
Autographed and signed autograph from Albert Simonin to Marcel Thiébaut.
Pleasant copy.

first edition published anonymously.
Precious autograph signed by Sacha Ricas: "To Madame Colette Willy with the sharp literary admiration of the shadow (Sacha Ricas)".
About Gabriele d'Annunzio, Marguerite Audoux, Maurice Barrès, Pierre Louÿs, Rémy de Gourmont, Octave Mirbeau ...
A clear wetting on the back and in the margins of the first board, some foxinges mainly on the margins of the leaflets.
Ex-libris by Renaud de Jouvenel pasted on the back of the first board.

first edition, one of the 210 copys numbered on pure vellum wire, drawing of head after 35 Holland paper.
Binding with the bradel in full paper with vegetal motifs, smooth back, piece of title of morocco chocolate brown, preserved covers, golden head.
autograph dedication of the author an autograph dated 1967 and signed by Jean Giono to Madame Alméras.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph letter signed by a page of Jean Giono presenting especially his wishes for the year 1967 to come.
Beautiful copy.

first edition for which no large papers were taken, one of the review copies service.
Autographed tribute signed by Albert Ollivier to Pierre Dumayet.
Iconography.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed tribute signed by Philippe Contamine to Pierre Dumayet.
Iconography.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Signed autograph signed by Eugen Weber to Pierre Dumayet.
Iconography.

first edition on paper.
Binding of the publisher in full navy blue leather, smooth back, guards and flat blue paper.
Autograph signed by Julien Green to Pierre Dumayet.

first edition for which no large papers were taken, one of the review copies service.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author of Pierre Dac: "To Pierre Dumayet (I do not know what to put as dedication) then very friendly.
The peliculate film covering the boards peeling off the sides of the boards, a trace of folding in the center of the first board.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from Jacqueline Risset to Pierre Dumayet enriched with the handwritten signature of Marcelin Pleynet.
Annotations in pencil of paper on the margins of certain sheets probably from the hand of Pierre Dumayet.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
An autograph signed by Jean Bouvier to Pierre Dumayet.
Iconography.

first edition, one of the review copies service.
Binding of the publisher in full white cardboard, smooth back.
Autograph signed by Jacques Faizant to Pierre Dumayet.
Illustrated book of cartoons by Jacques Faizant.

first edition.
Binding of the publisher in full canvas old rose, smooth back, complete copy of his illustrated jacket.
Autographed and signed autograph from Robert Ciapa to Françoise and Pierre Dumayet.
Book illustrated with photographs by Patrick Jacob.

first edition for which no large papers were taken, one of the review copies service.
Signed autograph signed by Luba Jurgenson to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant copy.

Autographed letter-card from Guy de Maupassant to the Countess Potocka, 16 lines in black ink on a letterhead "GM 83, rue Dulong", envelope attached.
Maupassant replied to his correspondent that he was trying to see: " Yes, certainly, madam, I was even going to go there, always about five o'clock, for Madame Pasca told me that you never came home sooner. Alix-Marie Pasquier, known as Madame Pasca, was a member of the Comedie Francaise, a very close friend of Maupassant and close to Flaubert, accustomed to the Countess Potocka's salon.
Further on, he recalled his recurring boredom: " I warn you that the Reverend Father is not in vain of...

Signed autograph letter from Guy de Maupassant to the Countess Potocka, 26 lines in black ink on a letterhead "GM 83, rue Dulong", envelope attached.
Maupassant was sorry that he could not see his friend the Countess: " Alas, Madame, you despair me! I just signed up for tonight! And I can not now make myself free. He would like to: "... well see you a minute before you leave ." "The author was indeed often on the move whether it was for health or visits. In order to greet the Countess, he proposes: " If the Count has returned to-morrow, can I not ask you to come and have lunch with him in some cabaret?" Count Potocki...

first edition.
Book illustrated with reproductions of works of Louis Pons.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author of Louis Pons to Françoise and Pierre (Dumayet) enriched with a drawing representing a bird resting on a branch of a tree.
Text by Gilbert Lascault.
Pleasant copy.

first edition illustrated with photographs by Marc Garanger.
Binding of the editor in full black canvas, smooth back, complete copy of its illustrated jacket which includes three marginal tears.
Autograph signed by Marc Garanger to Pierre Dumayet.
Preface by Francis Jeanson.
Pleasant copy.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed by Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt to Pierre Dumayet: "... very cordial homage to an attentive spectator who admired the little film so right on Peter Handke very close to Tardieu ..."
Back and boards very slightly and marginally insolated without gravity.

first edition on plain paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Bernard Noël to Pierre Dumayet: "... dreaming anyway even where everything would remain in white except friendship" ... "
Pleasant copy in spite of all small spots without gravity at the head of the first board.

first edition on plain paper.
Autograph signed by Vercors to Pierre Dumayet.
Paper yellowed as a rule, a snag in the middle of the back affecting almost the entire body of the work.

first edition on plain paper.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from Claude Roy to Pierre Dumayet.

first edition.
Signed autograph signed by Gilbert Lacault to Françoise and Pierre Dumayet.
About Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol ...
Pleasant illustrated copy of reproductions of works of the artists evoked.

first edition, one of 800 copies on vergé.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated from Gérard Titus-Carmel to Françoise and Pierre Dumayet: "... pages that still flourish the essence (of turpentine) ..."
Pleasant copy.

first edition on plain paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Bernard Noël to Pierre Dumayet: "... always the language forgets the mouth a book likewise opens ..."
Pleasant copy despite the second flat stained.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Bernard Noël to Françoise and Pierre Dumayet.

first edition on plain paper.
Autograph signed by Ivan Alechine to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant full copy of his trailer.

first edition for which no large papers were taken, one of the review copies service.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated from Jean-Marc Théolleyre to Pierre Dumayet.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author of Raoul Girardet to Pierre Dumayet: "... this example of literature (too) committed ..."

first edition of this choice and the presentation established by Alain Bosquet.
Autograph signed by Alain Bosquet to Pierre Dumayet.
Back insulated.

first edition, one of the numbered copies on "bouffant" paper, single draw.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Jacques Dupin to Françoise and Pierre Dumayet.
Back and boards very slightly and marginally insolated without gravity.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed and dated autograph signed by Valère Novarina to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant copy in spite of a trace of folding at the head of the last leaves and the second flat.

Collective first edition, one of the review copies service.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Bernard Noël to Pierre Dumayet: "... to go to meet him in spite of the feather words and the knife-words and the white shadow that falls from the bones ..."
Pleasant copy.

Original collective edition on paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Bernard Noël to Françoise and Pierre Dumayet: "... this long journey what?"
Pleasant copy.

first edition.
Signed autograph signed by Henri Cueco to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant illustrated copy of reproductions of Henri Cueco's works and photographs.

first edition.
Handwritten signature of Hassan Massoudy.
Preface by Michel Tournier, rich illustration.
Pleasant copy in spite of the back and boards slightly and marginally insolated.

first edition on plain paper.
Original signed and signed autograph from Robert Pinget to Pierre Dumayet.
Back very slightly insolated without gravity.

first edition on plain paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Bernard Noël to Françoise and Pierre (Dumayet): "... to try the song as before ..."
Pleasant copy despite a trace of fold in feet of the first leaves and the first board.

first edition for which no large papers were taken, one of the review copies service.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from Gérard Genette to Pierre Dumayet.
Back insulated.

first edition in paperback format.
Signed autograph signed by JDaniel Guérin to Pierre Dumayet.

first edition of the French translation and presentation by Philippe de Rothschild.
Autograph signed by Philippe de Rothschild to Pierre Dumayet.
Introduction by André Pieyre de Mandiargues, preface by Stephen Spender.
Pleasant copy.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from François Taillandier to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant copy.

first edition on plain paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated Bernard Noël to Pierre Dumayet: "... with the desire to finally speak the other language which, between words, would thank him for his attention and support ..."
Pleasant copy in spite of a small spot in the foot of the first board.

first edition on plain paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated from Claude Esteban to Françoise and Pierre (Dumayet).

first edition, one of the review copies service.
Preface by Maurice Vaussard.
Original signed and signed autograph from Maurice Vaussard to Pierre Dumayet.
Back and boards slightly and uniformly insolated without gravity, small patches in feet of boards.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from Pierre Citron to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant copy.

first edition for which no large papers were taken, one of the review copies service.
Autograph signed by Serge Viderman to Pierre Dumayet.
Back and boards slightly and marginally insolated, pleasant interior condition.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autograph signed by Gilles Ragache to Pierre Dumayet enriched with the handwritten initials of Alain Delale.
Rich iconography.
Pleasant copy.

first edition for which no large papers were taken, one of the review copies service.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author from Alain Hus to Pierre Dumayet.
Iconography.

first edition, one of the 505 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only large papers after 15 vellum of Renage.
Autographed by Andrée Chedid to Pierre Dumayet.
Back and boards very slightly and marginally thinned without gravity.

first edition on plain paper.
Autograph signed by Conrad Stein to Pierre Dumayet.
Back and boards slightly and marginally insolated, pleasant interior condition.

first edition of the French translation prepared by S. & G. de Lalène and for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autographed autograph dedication of the author of one of the translators to Pierre Dumayet.

first edition for which it was not taken from large papers.
Autograph signed by Françoise Héritier to Pierre Dumayet.
Pleasant copy.

first edition on plain paper.
Handwritten signature of Georges Simenon on the first cover.
Fussiness on the boards, small tears and marginal deficiencies on the boards,

first edition on ordinary paper of this text presented and established by Bernard Pingaud.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Bernard Pingaud to Pierre Dumayet enriched with an autograph tribute signed by Monique Frénaud on a bristol.
Beautiful copy.