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DALI Salvador. La Conquête de l'irrationnel [The Conquest of the Irrational]
éditions surréalistes, Paris 1935, 12 x 15,5 cm, Bradel binding
First edition on ordinary paper.
Elegant Bradel half grey cloth over decorated paper boards with abstract motifs by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine with title and author's name in palladium, top edge palladium, covers preserved.
Autograph inscription dated 1935 and signed by Salvador Dali to his friend the gallerist Georges Wildenstein.
Illustrated with 35 reproductions.
A very good copy nicely bound.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph Raymond Queneau to Mr. and Mrs. Giebbels.
Back insolated.

first edition printed in small numbers on Alfa paper, only 6 draw with China.
Signed autograph Tristan Tzara Henri Bernard won the first board.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Signed autograph of Michael Manoll to Marcel Arland: "... for the night and the wind, pain and absence, these poems written in memory of dear Rene Guy Cadou ..."
illustrated book of two portraits of the author and René Guy Cadou by Roger Toulouse.
A fold without traces of the first flat head gravity.

first edition.
Binding half shagreen chocolate brown, cleared back with five nerves set with golden dots and decorated with gilded finials, some rubbings on spine, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges, then binding .
Signed autograph of Louis Edmond Duranty Emile Marius Roux topped the half-title page.
Two missing paper Length of the second flat, a restored tear Length of the title page, small foxing mainly affecting the first and last pages.

Third edition, first for some parts, 25 poems appearing here for the first time.
Pastiche paper Bradel binding by T. Boichot, caramel morocco title-piece, covers and spine preserved.
With a frontispiece steel-engraving of Charles Baudelaire.
With a notice by Théophile Gautier.
This copy bears the date 1869, as often, and is part of the complete works of the poet.
Small spotting affecting primarily the first and final leaves, covers with small repairs to margins.
A rare copy, nicely bound.

Edition printed on vellum top.
Signed autograph Tristan Bernard Lucien Dorbon.
Nice copy.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph Theophile Briant to Mr. and Mrs. R. Pelleguer "... neighbors Coecilian mansion in which I find friends of a good friend" of enriched autograph Divine Saint-Pol-Roux, daughter the poet.
Iconography.
Three small tears leading the second flat and walk back.

First edition, one of 150 copies hors commerce numbered on "pur-fil" paper Marais, only large paper after 50 Holland paper.
Signed autograph of Louis Charles Royer Jacqueline Zay below the justification of the draw ". ... Hoping that this bold deceive the Naiad"
Cover art by Jean-Denis Maillant.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on Alfa paper and reserved to the press service.
Precious autograph signed Andre Suares to Jacques Chardonne "... scholar to enter the characters, and that talent makes them live almost without seeming ..."
Calligraphic letters, probably at the hands of Andre Suares, the last guard.
Back insolated, spots on boards.

first edition, one of the review copies service.
A precious autograph signed by François Mauriac to Jacques Chardonne: "... who is not of this sheepfold, his admirer (more than ever at the rereading of the complete works) and his friend ..." and his wife.
Some discreet restorations on the back and flat covers.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph of Georges Suarez Charles Laval.
Small tear in the back head, complete copy of his prayer to insert.

First edition, one of 180 copies on vélin à la forme paper.
Spine skillfully restored.
With 132 original lithographs by Alfons Mucha.
A good and rare copy.

first edition.
Binding of full blue canvas editor, smooth back, full copy of his illustrated jacket.
Signed autograph Ionel Jianou Francoise Giroud.
Art editor Alex Grall stamp printed on the half-title page where the shipment as an bookplate.
Iconography.

GAVARNI Paul. œuvres choisies. Études de mœurs contemporaines. Notices par P. J. Stahl.
J. Hetzel & Cie, Paris 1846, 19 x 27 cm, 4 volumes, publisher's binding
The first edition and first printing of the engravings.
Contributions from Théophile Gautier, Laurent-Jan, Léon Gozlan, Auguste Lireux and Jules Hetzel under the pseudonym of P.-J. Stahl, as well as others.
Contemporary Romantic publisher's navy blue paper boards, spine with gilt decorative motifs, a few repairs to head and foot of some joints, illustrated covers, yellow paper pastedowns and endpapers, a few endpapers soiled, all edges gilt.
With a general frontispiece, 14 vignettes (one repeated) and 320 plates, all woodcut.
References: Vicaire, III, 953-955; Brivois pp.168-171; Carteret, III-260-264.
Scattered foxing, the occasional tear to margins of some leaves.
A rare copy in Romantic paper boards.

First edition of the French translation by José Maria de Heredia.
Half brown morocco over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments (slightly sunned), gilt date to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Autograph inscription signed by José Maria de Heredia to Paul L. de Viefville to first volume.
This copy is enriched with an autograph letter of one and a half pages from José Maria de Heredia to Paul de Viefville in which he recommends that the latter obtain a copy from Alphonse Lemerre, having no more copies of the work to hand.
Tears to upper headpieces.
A nicely bound copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on vellum ivory only leading copies.
Signed autograph of Claude Seignolle his friend Paul Aveline.
Introducing Jacques Bergier.
Cover art by Drouin.
spine wrinkled, otherwise good copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Restored spine with reglued tears, small lacks and corner creases to boards.
Colportage stamp on title page.
Rare.