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The first edition, with 201 illustrations hors texte and 120 vignettes by Grandville.
Contemporary dark-green half shagreen over marbled paper boards by Werner, spine in five compartments with gilt garlands and triple gilt decorated compartments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, corners bumped.
There’s no need to introduce this famous work, a satire of Second Empire society. The work was initiated by Hetzel who – under the pseudonym of de Stahl – authored several of the texts and commissioned others from the most notable writers of the day : Balzac, Musset, Sand, La Bedollière, and so on. The final chapter includes a fantasy of various writers being imprisoned in...

first edition, one of the 50 numbered copies on Holland paper, ours bearing the N ° 1, drawing of head.
Binding in full morocco green fir, back discolored and thinned with five nerves, golden date in tail, golden wheels on the headdresses, boards ornamented of florets stamped with cold and framed of a set of quintuple golden nets, guards and plies of paper to The vat, framed by quadruple golden threads on the counterplates, golden head on witnesses, first cover plate preserved, gold edging on the cups, case bordered with green morocco which turned brown over time, inside cream felt, Paper to the vat, elegant binder of the unsigned era.
Handwritten signature of Marcel...

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pur fil paper Lafuma, the tirage de tête.
Full morocco, top edge gilt, covers and spine preserved, slipcase lined with morocco, binding signed by Bichon.
Rare and nice copy elegantly bound.

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on pur fil paper Lafuma, the tirage de tête.
Full morocco, top edge gilt, covers and spine preserved, slipcase lined with morocco, binding signed by Bichon.
Rare and nice copy elegantly bound.

first edition, one of the 445 copies on Alfa paper, ours one of the 60 reserved for the press service, only large papers with 15 "pur-fil" paper.
A precious autograph signed by Edouard Dujardin to Léon-Paul Fargue "... who still remembers the" End of Antonia "!
A small tear glued to the head of a bit.

first edition printed on Alfa paper.
Autographed and signed autograph of Henri Weitzmann: "To my old friends Robert and Léo Digue, this invitation to return to a country that they know well ..."
Preface by Louis Guilloux, a work adorned with illustrations by Jean Mordant.
Back insolate, a spot in the foot of the first flat, pleasant interior condition.

Envelope addressed by hand by the Marquis de Sade
Envelope addressed by hand by the Sade to the Présidente de Montreuil, his mother-in-law and worst enemy.
Determined to see her downfall, it was nonetheless her that the Marquis asked for help again and again.
Red wax to reverse sealing the sides of the envelope.
Provenance : family archives.

Histoires extraordinaires
First edition in French, translated by Charles Baudelaire, of which there were no large paper copies.
Contemporary half red sheep over marbled paper boards, modestly bound as usual for copies from this time, spine with blindtooled dots, black sheep title-piece with author's name, gilt initials to foot of spine, speckled edges.
One endpaper creased, occasional spotting.
The first work of Poe's translated by Baudelaire, with his preface on Sa vie, son oeuvre, [His life, his work], the first step in Baudelaire's conquest of his doppelganger in prose, destined to join Baudelaire's name to Poe's once and for all.

Envelope addressed by hand by the Marquis de Sade
Envelope addressed by hand by Sade to Mademoiselle de Rousset, upper cover and flap preserved and later reused on verso as notepaper for some calculations.
To add to his elation, [Sade] had found on his arrival at la Coste a delightful woman, Marie-Dorothée de Rousset, who was engaged as a governess…she had previously been a playmate of the young Donatien’s at Saumane, despite being four years younger. It was Madame de Sade who had had the idea of bringing her to the castle to run the house. Marie-Dorothée won over the Marquis from their very first meeting, not so much by the features of her face, less shapely than those of the...

first edition on plain paper.
Original signed and signed autograph from Georges Duhamel to Georges Crucy.
A small lack in the back, clear discharges of red traces on the second board, annotations in pencil on the last guard.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
In voi autograph signed Serge Gainsbourg to a friend named Philip.
Slight traces of angular minor scrapes on the boards and joints as usually.

First edition, review copy.
Precious autograph signed by Claude Mauriac Marcel Jouhandeau.
Back and boards slightly and marginally insolated, a stain on the back.

First edition, one of 35 copies hors commerce, numbered on Alfa paper.
Bel autograph signed by Albert Camus and written using two inks: "A Mr. Albert Blain since loves freedom with the memory of sympathy Albert Camus and the state of siege that is nothing other than the small dramatic comment to a large "free man, you will always cherish the sea!"
Some small minor foxing mainly affecting the margins of some leaves and guards, a vertical fold trace on the second course.

Yellowed paper as generally insolated back, full copy of its blurb.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph of Maurice Chevalier Clemence Gambier.
Nice copy.

Collective Edition, a 400 numbered copies on vellum of the Vosges and reserved to the Friends of Fort Paul.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated Paul Fort Dr. Jean Lacroix: "... from a French poet these songs to the taste of France in honor and remembrance very friendly."
Foreword by Guillaume Apollinaire.
Nice copy wide-margined despite a tear in the lead of the second flat.

First edition of the French translation by Ely Halpérine-Kaminski.
Binding half morocco brown with corners, back with five nerves and containing traces of friction, golden tail date marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, wrappers preserved and bound in, gilt, signed the binding time Pierson.
Precious autograph signed Ely Halpérine-Kaminski: "At first President Raymond Poincaré in faithful and respectful devotion ..."
Pleasant and rare copy.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph Claude Roy Marcel Arland.

First edition, one of 3000 numbered copies.
Signed autograph of Louis Pauwels Paul Aveline.
Illustrated book of drawings and a cover Robert Lapoujade.
Nice copy.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists, review copy.
Signed autograph of Paul Pint: "To me Marx admiration for the wonderful work he did to the fiery cross Pint His friend..."
Small gaps in the top and bottom of the back.

First edition of this choice made by LG Damascus, one of the review copies service.
Signed autograph LG Damascus Pierre Debray.