Paris

Edition with 15 original woodcuts in 2 colors by P.E. Vibert, one of 1050 numbered copies on vélin de Rives paper.
A good copy.

New edition.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 2000 numbered copies on vélin paper.

Paper yellowed as usual, one small spot, not serious, to lower cover.

First edition, one of 285 numbered copies on alfa.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 530 numbered copies on alfa, the only large paper copies after 120 pur fil.
A good copy.

New edition of which there were no large paper copies.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Chine, tirage de tête.
A good copy with good margins.

First edition of which there were no large paper copies.
With illustrations by Madame Favrot-Houlleville.

New edition in French published a few days after the first edition.
Spine very slightly sunned and wrinkled to head and foot.

First edition printed in 500 copies hors commerce numbered on vellum.
Binders half grief fir corners past five nerves back, when golden tail, flat marbled paper, custody and contreplats of handmade paper, a scratch at the top of the first dish of the volume of plates, small traces of friction slices, gilded heads, binders of the time.
Rare and valuable autograph dedication signed by Gustave Eiffel, the amount of text to the school library of Levallois-Perret.
Levallois-Perret was heavily involved in the development and construction of the tower, Gustave Eiffel entertained a lifelong close relationship with the city.
"As early as 1866, the creation of the...

First edition, one advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome autograph inscription from Albert Camus to Maurice Blanchot : « avec l'amicale et très fidèle pensée d'Albert Camus ».
Spine and covers slightly and marginally faded, with occasional spots.

« Trois ans pour faire un livre, cinq lignes pour le ridiculiser - et les citations fausses. »
La réception de L'Etranger par les critiques fut pour Camus une douloureuse déception.
Dans son refuge du Panelier, Camus reçoit les "feuilletons" que lui envoie Pascal Pia avec quelques commentaires souvent désabusés comme sur l'article d'Henriot paru dans le Temps : « Je n'avais...

First edition, of which there were no large paper copies, an advance (service de presse) copy
Handsome autograph inscription from Jean Marie Gustave Le Clézio to Maurice Blanchot
A good copy with the right justification page dated 3 September 1963.

First edition of which there were no large paper copies.
Handsome autograph inscription from Marise Querlin to Maurice Blanchot.

PITOU Louis-Ange
Voyage à Cayenne, dans les deux Amériques et chez les anthropophages
Chez l'auteur, Paris 1805 An XIII, in-8 (12,5 x 20,5 cm), xlvij-312 p & 404 pp., 2 volumes, contemporary sheep
First edition with two folding frontispieces (transportees on a frigate and Black people burying transportees).
Contemporary half brown sheep. Spine with a number of series of triple fillets. A little rubbing. Corners bumped.
A royalist and anti-Revolutionary, the chronicler and singer Ange Pitou, having been arrested several times, was finally sentenced to transportation to the penal colony of Cayenne. He was later pardoned by the Emperor...