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Madame BovaryFirst edition.
Elegant contemporary purple shagreen (uncommon according to Clouzot), spine in five compartments with gilt fillets and triple blind-ruled compartments, blindstamped fillets to head- and tail-pieces and edges of covers, quintuple gilt fillet frame and large blindruled fillet to covers, gilt dentelle frame to pastedowns, cream moirée silk endpapers and pastedowns, a little light spotting to endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, ex-libris to one pastedown, light dampstain to foot of first few leaves.
A very rare autograph inscription...

First edition, one of the copies of the press service.
Signed autograph from the author to Louis Mignon.
Nice copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Autograph inscription from Samuel Beckett to a friend.
Spine slightly sunned, a marginal tear to head of the last text page.

First edition in French, one of 26 numbered copies on pur fil paper, this one of a few hors commerce copies, the only large paper ones.
Spine faded as usual, internally good.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Arches, only draw with Japan.
Signed autograph of Edward Champion Jacques Boulenger editor.
Few bites without gravity.

First collected edition, one of 33 numbered copies on pur fil, the only large paper copies.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on vélin paper de Renage, the only large paper copies.
A very good copy.

First edition, one copy of the press.
Signed autograph Michel Deon Henry Gouhier enriched with the handwritten signature of Felicien Marceau.
Nice copy.

First editionon ordinary paper.
Autograph inscription in pencil from Pierre Drieu la Rochelle to the writer José Germain.
Spine sun,ned and slight marginal lacks to upper cover.
Rare.

New edition in the original part because revised and expanded.
Signature autograph Georges Brassens a photograph representing the 129 page.
Iconography.
Marginal abrasions on the dishes, a trace of the second label foot flat that caused a lack of paper.

First edition, one copy of the press.
Precious autograph dedication signed by the author Marcel Carné "... as a token of my admiration very ..."
A small tear in the back foot.

The rare first edition.
Elegant late 19thC half brown morocco-grained shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, bands with gilt fillets and double gilt compartments richly decorated with gilt decorative motifs, dates gilt to foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Ex libris of Alexis Martin, engraved by Aglaüs Bouvenne to pastedowns.
Marginal repair to foot of several leaves; the index of the second volume has been cut out and laid down on a piece of vergé paper.
A very good copy in a nice binding of this novel, which presents one of the finest portraits of the lady of the Divine Comedy.

First edition, published under the pseudonym of Horace de Saint-Aubin.
Elegant Romantic pastiche binding from the second half of the 19th-century in half tan calf over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt and blindruled fillets, gilt friezes to head and foot of spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
A little light spotting and light dampstains (not serious), lacking the advertising leaf at the end the second volume.
In a pretty, near-contemporary pastiche binding.

First edition in French, translated by Charles Baudelaire, of which there were no large paper copies.
Elegant half black morocco over marbled paper boards by Bernasconi, spine in six compartments with double gilt frames, gilt date to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved (five marginal repairs to covers and spine), top edge gilt.
Printed ex libris to title, occasional spotting, not serious.
A very good copy in a nice binding.

First Edition for which there is no mention of major papers.
Bound in half brown grief, back with five nerves set with double black lines, traces of friction on the back, when golden tail, flat marbled paper, and guards contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, gilded head, binding time.
Signed autograph from the author to poet John Ott Rosati.

First edition of the French translation of the current paper, false entry of the eleventh edition.
Binding to bradel open cardboard way vellum, smooth spine, guards and contreplats green paper covers and spine preserved, gilded head, contemporary binding.
Very rare autograph dedication signed and dated by the author Jacqueline and Francis Sommer: "... this imperfect book, written in youth and Acknowledged on 01/07/57 from Ernest Hemingway Their friend Paris from 1924 to 1957..."
François Sommer was an industrialist and a French resistance, he was also a great hunter very invested in hunting legislation. It certainly met Hemingway on safari in Africa in the...

Original, one of 12 numbered copies on Japan justified and initialed by the author, drawing head Edition.
Bound in half black morocco, spine with five nerves, when golden tail, flat marbled paper, and guards contreplats of handmade paper, covers preserved, red head, nice bookplate engraved by Felix Bracquemond glued on contreplat elegant modern binding.
Autograph signed and dated by the author to his friend, the engraver and lithographer Aglaüs Bouvenne.
Book decorated with illustrations of the author whose coverage.
Nice copy, with all margins, perfectly prepared and enriched with a beautiful engraved bookplate by Félix Bracquemond.