Paris

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
A handsome copy.

Second edition, published one year after the first, published by Coustelier in Paris. It is illustrated with 30 plates outside the text including two frontispieces engraved by Duflos after Boucher and Hallé and three folding views: the Hellespont and the Propontis, the city and port of Constantinople and a view of the grand seraglio of Constantinople. The plates represent scenes of daily life: prisoner, charity for animals, prayer, religious figures and places of worship, marriage, burial, noble figures (vizir, sultana, grand lord, bostangi, muphti, chiaou, capigi), punishments and historical scenes. Numerous ornate headpieces and decorated initials and tailpieces.
A detailed table of c

First edition, one of 26 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Double bookplate pasted on the first endpaper.
Very handsome copy.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Double bookplate pasted on the first endpaper.
Very handsome copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Double bookplate pasted on the first endpaper.
Very handsome copy.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on wove paper, deluxe copy.
Double bookplate pasted on the first endpaper.
Very handsome copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pure rag Rives paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on pure rag paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on pure rag paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 32 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full brown grained sheep binding, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography assembled and annotated by Georges Poisson, autograph inscription signed and dated by the latter to Madame Durand on the half-title page.
Handsome copy complete with its rhodoid which has a small cut at the level of the first cover, its dust jacket and its flexible slipcase.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pure linen paper, ours one of 5 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine being lightly sunned.

First edition, one of 1050 numbered copies on alfa Navarre paper, the only deluxe copies after 8 on antique laid paper.
Publisher's Bradel binding following the original design by Mario Prassinos.
Spine with two small areas of sunning at head and foot of spine.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vélin pur chiffon de Lana, the only deluxe issue (grands papiers).
A very fine copy.
Moving and beautiful inscription by Daniel Pennac to his great friend Franklin Rist (to whom he dedicated Comme un Roman) added below the printed dedication: "Et grâce à ton amitié, Franklin, qui nourrit chaque ligne, et dont un lecteur attentif trouverait même la trace entre les mots. D. Pennac" [And thanks to your friendship, Franklin, which influenced each line, an observant reader would even find its trace between the words. D. Pennac] with a drawing of a little man carrying, like Atlas or Sisyphus, a

First edition of this speech delivered by Collot D'Herbois at the session of 14 Prairial Year IV of the National Convention assembly.
Some foxing and small tears at the foot of the leaves.
Copy presented in its original wrappers.

First edition of this speech delivered by Bertrand Barère at the session of 4 Prairial Year II of the National Convention assembly.
Two light dampstains to margins of the last three leaves and small lacks to lower right corners of the final leaves.
Copy presented in its original wrappers.

First edition of this speech delivered by Philippe-Antoine Merlin, elected representative from Douai, to the National Convention assembly.
Handsome copy presented in its original wrappers of this report made the day after the royalist insurrection and which names the generals who crushed it with, in first place, the people's representative Barras designated general-in-chief of the army of the interior while omitting and ignoring any mention of Bonaparte.
The role of Bonaparte, soon nicknamed "General Vendémiaire", would only be recognized later in a report of 30 Vendémiaire by Barras himself who attributed all the merits of suppressing the uprising to himself and who cited "Buonapa

First edition, one of 150 copies on laid paper, deluxe copies after 100 on Holland paper.
Spine slightly sunned.
Letter-preface by the Count of Paris.
Precious autograph inscription dated and signed over a page and a half from Albert Pestour to Madame Léon Daudet in the form of a quatrain.

First edition of both issues of this magazine, each consisting of two folded sheets.
On the first sheet of each issue, a color woodcut representing Jules Verne and Jules Hetzel by André Gill.
On the following sheets, text by Pierre and Paul in first edition entitled "Jules Verne" and "P.J. Stahl (Hetzel)".
Handsome set bringing together one of the most popular and widely read writers of the very end of the 19th and very beginning of the 20th centuries and his famous publisher.

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Fine copy complete with its glassine and slipcase.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite the spine being slightly sunned.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine lightly sunned at head and foot.

First collected edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine lightly sunned, without gravity.

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands outlined with black fillets and decorated with gilt fleurons, small black stain to head of spine, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed Tripon at foot of spine.
Handsome copy with some minor foxing.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite minor sunning to foot of spine.

First edition, one of 7 hors commerce copies out of 87 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe issue (grands papiers).
Signed and inscribed by Claude Simon using a sentence of page 306: "Mais comment savoir, que savoir?" [But how to know, what to know?]
Rare first edition inscribed by the author.

First edition.
Publisher's full grained brown sheep binding, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket, glassine wrapper and flexible slipcase.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite the spine slightly sunned at head and foot.

First edition, one of 410 numbered copies on pure linen paper.
Spine very slightly sunned at head and foot, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition abundantly illustrated.
Publisher's full blue and pink cardboard binding, smooth spine, covers illustrated with drawings by Reiser and Cabu.
We include the historic issue number 1178 of Charlie Hebdo from January 14, 2015 with the famous front page "Tout est pardonné" ["All is forgiven"] showing Mohammed holding a sign reading "Je suis Charlie" ["I am Charlie"].

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 30 on pure thread paper.
Handsome copy despite two small sun-faded spots at head and foot of spine.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 177 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite tiny worming at head of front board.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Small rust stains on the first endpaper, small stains to the upper right corner of the title page, otherwise a handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Simone de Beauvoir to photographer Serge Tamagnot.

Original portrait of Nicolas de Staël signed by Denise Colomb

Silver pint portrait of Nicolas de Staël by Denise Colomb. Later print made by the photographer in the 1990s from her 1954 negatives.
Signed by Denise Colomb in the lower right-hand corner. On the back: "N. D. S. 1954" with a signed inscription by Denise Colomb to photographer Serge Tamagnot: "Pour mon cher ami Serge/ Le roi des collages. Denise Colomb 7-5-2000 Bon anniversaire à Serge, je penserai à toi le 9 mai" (For my friend Serge/The king of collages. Denise Colomb 7-5-2000 Happy birthday Serge, I'll be thinking of you on May 9).
An exceptional

First edition of this surrealist tale, one of the numbered copies, ours unnumbered, the only deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with 40 collages reminiscent of Max Ernst's style
Publisher's full red moiré cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket whose spine and covers are slightly yellowed as is usual.

Edition from the same year as the first.
A tiny stain to the upper right corner of the first cover.
Handsome copy complete with its wraparound band "Prix interallié 2012".
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Philippe Djian to a man named Franklin.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Bernadette Morand to a couple of friends.

First edition, one of 310 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after 80 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite the spine and boards being slightly and marginally sunned.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Hollande.
Spine lightly sunned without significance, handsome copy.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Two small areas of sunning at head and foot of spine.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on pure laid paper Lafuma
Handsome copy with full margins, a shadow at the head of the dedication left by a bookseller's description label.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Georges Duhamel to Monsieur Loret: "... qui guide notre barque par de très mauvais temps..."

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on vellum paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

Edition illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and a folding facsimile at the beginning of the volume.
Full marbled sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons and compartments, spine with some rubbing, red shagreen title-label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one inner gutter split, corners slightly bumped, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Copy free from foxing.

First edition, with printed service de presse stamp at foot of back cover.
Bradel binding in full sea-green boards, smooth spine with some light rubbing, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph inscription from Pierre Benoit: "A Madame Léon Daudet , pour lui dire mon amitié, et aussi qu'elle se trompe absolument en ce qui concerne le jeune Laboulbène. Son Pierre Benoit" ["To Madame Léon Daudet, to express my friendship, and also that she is absolutely wrong about young Laboulbène. Her Pierre Benoit"].

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite two small sunning marks at head and foot of spine.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pure paper, ours one of 5 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies.
Small dampstain at foot of spine, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 210 numbered copies on pure paper, the only deluxe copies with 45 on Holland paper.
Minor sunning at head and foot of spine, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on snow-white vellum, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite two small areas of sunning at head and foot of spine.

First edition, one of 355 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies after 120 on Holland paper.
Spine very lightly sunned without consequence.
Fine copy.

First edition, one of 24 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Spine slightly browned, otherwise handsome copy of this work set against the backdrop of the 1940 exodus.

First edition, one of 97 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite boards imperceptibly sunned at margins.

First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after 14 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite the slightly sunned spine.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very lightly sunned without significance.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on pure laid paper Lafuma-Navarre, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy despite the spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Some sunning to foot of spine, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition, one of 535 numbered copies, the only deluxe copies.
Spine slightly sunned, small marginal tears to boards, a full-margined copy.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Holland paper.
Fine copy despite the spine being lightly sunned.

First edition, one of 145 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after 50 on Holland paper.
Spine lightly sunned, final endpaper shadowed due to the presence of press clippings, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Sequana laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pure rag vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Spine very lightly sunned without gravity, a small tear at the head of the first gathering.

First edition, one of 63 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite the spine very lightly sunned without significance.

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy retaining publisher's wraparound band.
Rare signed autograph inscription by Léonid Guirchovitch with an original drawing of a violinist on the facing page.

First edition, one of 105 numbered copies on pure thread paper, deluxe copies after 8 on antique laid paper.
Endpapers lightly shadowed, small sunning mark at foot of spine where ink from three letters has run, some foxing to boards.

First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on pure thread laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 35 on Holland paper.
Two light sunning marks at head and foot of spine, handsome copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on wove paper, ours bearing No. 1, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy retaining publisher's wraparound band.

First edition, one of 112 numbered copies on bouffant select paper, the only deluxe copies after 80 on pur fil.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally sunned without consequence.

First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 40 on Holland paper.
Two spots of sunning at head and foot of spine, handsome copy.

First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 35 on Holland paper.
Two spots of sunning at head and foot of spine, handsome copy.

Edition printed in 104 numbered copies on Arches vellum, ours being one of 14 named copies reserved for collaborators, and illustrated with 74 original drypoints by Jean Frélaut.
The illustrations comprise: 3 full-page hors-texte including 1 frontispiece, 51 in-text and 20 tailpieces.
Our copy is enriched with a menu from a luncheon organized by the Société des Amis des Livres on Saturday March 13, 1943, the menu is illustrated with an original drypoint by Jean Frélaut which he justified.
Cover boards shaded, spine and boards of the chemise and slipcase marginally sunned.
Fine and rare copy.

First edition, one of 52 numbered copies on Hollande paper, deluxe copy.
Final endpapers slightly shaded and spotted, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on vellum alma paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite two light sunning marks at head and foot of spine.

First edition, one of 310 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies after 80 on Holland paper.
Fine copy despite two light instances of sunning to head and foot of spine.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine lightly sunned, a small light stain to lower right corner of front board.
Rare.

First edition, one of 18 numbered copies on pure laid paper, ours one of 3 lettered hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite two very slight sunning marks at head and foot of spine.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on pure laid paper, ours bearing No. 31, the only deluxe copies.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned, otherwise a handsome copy.
iconography.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Two small tears at foot of sunned spine.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Félicien Marceau to Jean Paulhan.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
With an autograph calling card from Madame Maurice Sachs.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on vellum, deluxe issue.
Minute worming to first cover, light foxing affecting some deckled edges, final endpaper marginally shaded, a full-margined copy.

First collected edition on ordinary paper, with only 10 deluxe copies on Holland paper printed.
Light tears and marginal lacks to spine and covers.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Francis Viele-Griffin to American symbolist poet Stuart Merrill.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Cover illustrated by Jean Hugo.
One joint slightly reglued at head, minor stains without consequence on the back cover.
Signed autograph inscription from Maurice Sachs to the tragedienne and theatre actress Andrée Tainsy.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph letter dated and signed by Maurice Sachs in which he inquires about the dedicatee.

First edition, one of 106 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches, the only deluxe issue (grands papiers).
A fine copy of this novel, winner of the 1984 Prix Goncourt.