Jean ANOUILH, Jane PECHEUR
Antigone
La Table Ronde|Paris 1945|25.50 x 33.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui
First edition illustrated with 11 original watercolor by Jane Pécheur, one of the 190 numbered copies on vélin crèvecoeur.
Nice copy.
€600
BRASSAÏ
Histoire de Marie
Les éditions du point du jour|Paris 1949|12.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa vellum.
Introduction by Henri Miller.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Brassaï to Alex and Nadia Bloch.

€300
ALAIN
Vingt et une scènes de comédie
Paul Hartmann|Paris 1955|11.50 x 16 cm|broché
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Rives vellum, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.

€120
Jehan RICTUS
Les petites baraques
Chez l'auteur|Paris s. d. [1908]|14 x 20 cm|broché
First edition printed at the author's expense on laid paper.
Handsome and rare copy.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Jehan Rictus to Jules Clarétie.
€200
Henri CALET (inscribed to Francis PONGE)
Les murs de Fresnes - Exemplaire de Francis Ponge[The Walls of Fresnes – Francis Ponge’s Copy]
Editions des quatre vents|Paris 1945|14.50 x 21 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition on ordinary paper.

Publisher’s full cloth binding, flat spine, minor inconsequential wear to headcaps and corners.

Illustrations.

Rare and valuable presentation copy to Odette and Francis Ponge.

€1,200
Johann Gottlob LEHMANN
L'art des mines, avec un traité des exhalaisons minerales ou moufettes & plusieurs mémoires sur différens sujets d'histoire naturelle. Essai d'une histoire naturelle des couches de la terre, avec des considérations physiques sur les causes des tremblemens de terre & de leur propagation
Chez Thomas Herissant|à Paris 1759|10 x 17.20 cm|3 volumes reliés
Rare first edition, illustrated with 4 pictures in the first volume and 6, including 5 folded pictures, in the third. Translated from German with the translators notes. Half title common to the 3 volumes: Treatises on physics, natural history, mineralogy and metallurgy.
Bound in contemporary, full, granite-patterned brown sheep. Spine in decorated compartments. Title pieces in red morocco, gilt volume labels at the bottom. Signs of rubbing, especially on the joints. Slight accident to the lower joint at the bottom of volume 3, narrow split to the upper joint at the top of volume 1 of 0.5cm. Very pale and scattered foxing. Beautiful copy.
Considered the father of modern geology and
€3,500
Julien GREEN
L'homme et son ombre
Seuil|Paris 1991|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 80 numbered copies on vergé Ingres de Lana, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Nice copy.
€450
Julien GREEN
L'avenir n'est à personne. Journal 1990-1992
Fayard|Paris 1993|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 80 numbered copies on vergé Ingres de Lana, le nôtre non justifié, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Nice copy.
€450
(to Pablo PICASSO) Marcel JOUHANDEAU
Algèbre des valeurs morales
Gallimard|Paris 1935|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, an advance copy.
Spine and covers lightly soiled without significance.
Very precious autograph inscription signed by Marcel Jouhandeau: "Pour Pablo Picasso avec mon souvenir ému. Marcel Jouhandeau." ["For Pablo Picasso with my fond remembrance. Marcel Jouhandeau."]
€1,800
Marcel AYMÉ
Gustalin
Gallimard|Paris 1937|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Marcel Aymé to Germaine Rouanet.
€170
John DOS PASSOS
La belle vie
Mercure de France|Paris 1968|15 x 22 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 25 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Pale stains to head of front cover, otherwise a handsome copy.
€250
Boris VIAN
En avant la zizique
Le livre contemporain|Paris 1958|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition of which there were no deluxe copies.
Nice copy.
Cover illustrated by Piem.
Signed handwritten inscription by Boris Vian to Christine Gouze-Raynal : "... avec toute mon amitié et mes respectueux hommages..."
€2,800
Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE
Rêveuse bourgeoisie
Gallimard|Paris 1937|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 245 numbered copies on Alfa paper, the only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Nice copy.
€1,200
Joseph-John GURNEY
Un Hiver aux Antilles en 1839-1840, ou Lettres sur les résultats de l'abolition de l'Esclavage, dans les colonies anglaises des Indes-Occidentales, adressées à Henri Clay, du Kentucky
Chez Firmin-Didot|Paris 1842|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
French first edition translated by J. J. Pacaud, librarian at Saint-Geneviève.
Contemporary half glazed navy calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with blind and gilt fillets, roulettes at head and tail. Gilt title. Very handsome copy in superb condition.
Letters written from Santa Cruz, Saint Thomas, Saint Christopher, Antigua, Dominica, Jamaica and Cuba. Joseph-John Gurney made numerous journeys with his sister, Elizabeth Gurney in order to obtain the emancipation of black slaves in the colonies. This travel account appeared in France with the aim of converting the anti-abolitionist party, the emancipation of slaves and abolition dating in England from 1834.
€800
Jules VERNE
La maison à vapeur. Voyage à travers l'Inde Septentrionale
Hetzel|Paris 1892|18.50 x 28 cm|relié
First illustrated edition with 101 drawings by Benett including a frontispiece engraved by Meaulle, and 2 full-page maps. GK catalogue at the end.
Polychrome boards known as "au portrait collé", a portrait of the author taking place in a cartouche on a board with a world map. Plaque signed Paul Souze on a cannonball. A. Lenègre on the ink. Fine upper board with some traces at the top of the binding. The 2 lower corners slightly bumped. Spine faded with dulled gilt. Head slightly sunken. Rear board bearing 3 fine scratches and scraped areas along the joint. Pale browning on the endpaper and title page, thereafter occasional browning.
Adventure and science fiction novel set in India.
€600
Paul MORAND, Marcel PROUST
Tendres stocks[Tender Stocks]
Nrf|Paris 1921|16.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 120 numbered copies on vergé pur fil, ours unnumbered, and re-imposed in quarto Tellière format, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Important foreword by Marcel Proust.
Rare.
€2,000
Prosper MÉRIMÉE, Gaston VUILLIER
Colomba
A. Ferroud|Paris 1913|16 x 25.50 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with 31 original compositions by Gaston Vuillier etched by Omer Bouchery, one of 100 numbered copies on Japan paper containing the etchings in two states.
Full brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with triple compartments as well as gilt fillets, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frame of quadruple gilt fillets on covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of gilt dentelle on pastedowns, double gilt fillets on leading edges, covers preserved, top edge gilt, superb full morocco binding signed by Blanchetière.
Superb copy.
Copy established in a very handsome full morocco binding by Blanchetière.
€2,000
Antoine BLONDIN, Pierre BOUTANG
La dernière lanterne. Collection complète[The Last Lantern. Complete Collection]
Chez tous les vrais libraires|s. l. • [Paris] Octobre 1946 - Juin 1948|12 x 15.50 cm|7 fascicules en 6 volumes agrafés
First edition of this polemical review chiefly led by Antoine Blondin, with contributions from Pierre Boutang, Julien Guernec, and others.
Some tears affecting a few spines.
Rare complete set.
€400
Jean LORRAIN
La forêt bleue
Alphonse Lemerre|Paris 1882|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition printed on laid paper.
Half navy blue morocco-grained shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, top edge gilt, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Precious and handsome autograph inscription signed by Jean Lorrain: " A Charles Maurras aëde de la mer thyrenienne (sic), un bohémien de forêt bleue"
€1,700
Marcellin BERTHELOT
Recherches sur le soufre
Annales de chimie et physique|Paris s. d. [1857]|14.50 x 23 cm|cousu sous couverture
First edition of this offprint, extracted from Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 3rd series, vol. XLIX.
Blue temporary wrapper, with the author's name and title written in pen at the head of the first cover.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Marcellin Berthelot to his colleague and elder Michel-Eugène Chevreul: "A Monsieur Chevreul membre de l'Institut hommage respectueux".
€450
Paul CLAUDEL (inscribed to Charles MAURRAS)
Connaissance de l'est[Knowledge of the East]
Mercure de France|Paris 1900|13.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition printed in a small number on laid paper.
Half bottle-green morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, top edge gilt, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Paul Claudel to Charles Maurras.
€1,800
Robert BRASILLACH, Maurice BARDÈCHE
Histoire du cinéma[History of Cinema]
Denoël & Steele|Paris 1935|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 25 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Rare.
€1,700
Antoine Isaac, Baron SILVESTRE DE SACY
Mémoires sur diverses antiquités de la Perse, et sur les médailles des rois de la dynastie des Sassanides Suivis de l'histoire de cette dynastie, traduite du persan de MIRKHOND
Imprimerie Nationale exécutive du Louvre|à Paris 1793|20.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 9 plates (medals, inscriptions).
Full jasper paper binding, smooth spine, black shagreen title-label, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Trace of dampstain to upper margin of 3 folding plates, and to left margin of the first, otherwise fresh throughout. Faint trace of dampstain to right margin of first leaves. Several leaves show traces of dampstain to upper margin over a few millimeters.
Archaeological studies composed of 4 memoirs that were read at sessions of the Académie des Inscriptions et de Belles-Lettres in the years 1787, 1788, 1790 and 1791: Memoir on the inscriptions and monuments of Nakschi-Roustam; Memoir on the Arabic and Persian inscri
€1,200
Raymond ROUSSEL
Impressions d'Afrique
Alphonse Lemerre|Paris 1910|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition of which there were no deluxe copies ("grands papiers"), statement of second edition on the first cover and no statement of edition on the title page.
Binding in half morocco, signed by Goy & Vilaine.
Rare handwritten inscription dated and signed by Raymond Roussel to Monsieur Pally.
€3,300
Pierre PETIT
Photographie d'Alexandre Dumas
Paris 1860|6.10 x 10.50 cm|une photographie
Original albumen photograph mounted on card by Pierre Petit, showing Alexandre Dumas in medallion format, mustachioed at about 60 years of age. Deep blacks and fine contrast.
Photograph mounted on heavy paper. Very fine condition.
On verso, the author's name in manuscript and a stamp: Paris. Besançon. Pierre Petit. Photographe. 31 Place Cadet. Paris.
It was in 1858 that Pierre Petit established his photographic studio at Place Cadet, and the following year he began his gallery of famous men of the era. The portrait of Alexandre Dumas certainly forms part of this series.

€700
Jean PAULHAN
Les causes célèbres
Gallimard|Paris 1950|12 x 19 cm|broché
First collected edition on ordinary paper, sixth edition statement.
Paper yellowed.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Jean Paulhan to Maurice Garçon: "La pampa du Brésil abonde en rhinocéros, animal que l'on peut imaginer si l'on a vu des licornes. (Thévenet, singularités de la France antarctique, 1585). A Maurice Garçon, ces quelques causes célèbres (ou licornes choisies) avec amitié. Jean Paulhan. 19.3.1950." ["The Brazilian pampas abound in rhinoceros, an animal one can imagine if one has seen unicorns. (Thévenet, singularities of Antarctic France, 1585). To Maurice Garçon, these few famous cases (or chosen unicorns) with friendship. Jean Paulhan. 19.3.1950."]
€120
Maxime ALEXANDRE
Le juif errant
Gallimard|Paris 1946|12 x 19 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Maxime Alexandre on this text to Marcel Arland: "Est-il rien sur la terre qui soit plus surprenant que la grande misère du pauvre Juif errant ? (la complainte). Hommage de ma sympathie respectueuse." ["Is there anything on earth more surprising than the great misery of the poor wandering Jew? (the lament). Tribute of my respectful sympathy."]
€150
François FEJTÖ
Dieu et son juif
Grasset|Paris 1960|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of the advance copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from François Fejtö to Jean Blanzat.
€60
Jean-Paul SARTRE
Situations, IV. Portraits
Gallimard|Paris 1964|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 Holland.
Handsome copy.
€120
Honoré de BALZAC, Louis HUART
Paris marié [Ensemble] Paris au bal
J. Hetzel • Aubert & Cie|Paris 1846|-|relié
First separate edition, illustrated by Gavarni with 20 plates and 40 vignettes. The text had originally appeared in Le diable à Paris, a collective volume to which Balzac contributed several texts.
First edition of Louis Huart's work illustrated with 50 vignettes by Cham, published without date in 1846.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with false raised bands handsomely decorated. Head and tail rolls. Corners slightly rubbed, one turned in. Some pale foxing on half-titles and indexes. Tinted paper for Paris marié, white for Paris au bal. Good copy.
Satirical and humorous writings in the style of physiologies.

€400
Pierre-Louis HANET-CLERY
Mémoires de P. L. Hanet Cléry, ancien valet de chambre de Mme Royale
Librairie d'Alexis Eymery|Paris 1825|13.50 x 20.60 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition illustrated with 2 portraits of the Cléry brothers as frontispiece, lithographed by Morin. Complete title: Mémoires de P. L. Hanet Cléry, ancien valet de chambre de Madame Royale, aujourd'hui Dauphine, et frère de Cléry, dernier valet de chambre de Louis XVI; Munitionnaire général des armées, agent général des hôpitaux militaires à Saint-Domingue, conservateur des forêts dans l'ile de Corse, etc., Chevalier de la Légion-d'Honneur.
Contemporary half brown binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Gilt titles and volume numbers. Minor crack to upper joint at head of volume 1 extending a few mm. Traces of rubbing, notably to corners. Leather used for volume 2 lighter than
€500
Lionel RAY
Joaquin Ferrer
Editions Palantines|Paris 2001|14 x 19.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
Bilingual first edition, with the French text preceding the English.
Publisher's full black cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Handsome copy illustrated with reproductions of works by Joaquin Ferrer.
€60
Henry FIELDING
Histoire de Jonathan Wild le Grand
Chez Duchesne|A Londres& [London] • se trouve à Paris 1763|9.50 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
Rare French first edition. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full green vellum binding. Smooth Jansenist spine. Red morocco title and volume labels. Upper joint of volume I split for most of its length, from tail to near the head; the lower joint also split at head. Headcap of volume II worn away, upper joint split, lower joint split at head. Russet stains on the last leaf of volume II.
Bookplate: Bibliothèque de M. André de Champcourt, Chevalier de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint Louis.
Jonathan Wild was the most famous criminal of the 18th century, and the most popular. Daniel Defoe composed a biography of him in 1725. Fielding writes a satirical biography of a
€450
Etienne CARJAT, Émile ZOLA
Portrait de Emile Zola
Goupil & Cie|Paris 1880|24 x 33 cm|une feuille
Photoglyptie from the Galerie contemporaine. Portrait of Zola at the age of 35-40 years.
Mounted sheet on which a 19x24cm photoglyptie has been laid down. Caption at bottom of mount: Galerie Contemporaine, 126 boulevard de Magenta. Phot. Goupil et Cie. Cliché Carjat, 10, rue Notre-Dame de Lorette. One tiny white spot in the beard. Very fine condition.
Similar to a carbon print in its warm and deep tones, photoglyptie is a complex photomechanical process for photographic reproduction which was used by publishers for about 20 years, from 1875 to 1895. Seeking an ideal and aesthetic image of famous men, the plates were always retouched and repainted, to smooth out an unsightly wrinkl
€600
NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]
Portrait de Edmond Goncourt
Goupil & Cie|Paris 1880|24 x 33 cm|une feuille
Photoglypty from the Galerie contemporaine. Portrait of Edmond Goncourt.
Mounted sheet on which a photoglypty of 19x24cm has been laid down. Caption at the bottom of the mount: Galerie Contemporaine, 126 boulevard de Magenta. Phot. Goupil et Cie. Cliché Nadar, 51, rue d'Anjou-St-Honoré. Superb condition.
Handsome portrait of the writer seated, with a fixed and fierce gaze, a cigarette in his right hand, his elbow resting on attributes that represent him.
Close to a carbon print by its warm and deep tones, photoglypty is a complex photomechanical process of photographic reproduction which the publishing industry used for about 20 years, from 1875 to 1895. Seeking an ideal and
€500
Alexandre de LABORDE
Versailles ancien et moderne
Imprimerie Schneider et Langrand|Paris 1841|17.50 x 26.50 cm|Relié
First edition, illustrated with a frontispiece, a map (route from Paris to Versailles) and numerous wood engravings in the text by Trimolet, Daubigny, Français, etc. in the romantic manner (text frames, tailpieces, headers, in-text illustrations...). On pages 316, 317, 341 and 412 are empty frames for engravings that were never published. Bibliographers make no distinction between the same work published by Everat printing house in 1839 and this printing by Schneider and Langrand.
Full old red shagreen binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated in gilt compartments. Large ornamental cold-stamped plate on boards with rich frame. Edges gilt. White watered silk endpapers with some st
€500
Pierre LOTI
Madame Chrysanthème
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1888|16 x 23.50 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper. Drawings and watercolors by Rossi and Myrbach. Figaro edition.
Contemporary half navy blue morocco with corners. Spine with raised bands richly decorated with bouquets of foliage. Original wrappers preserved. Gilt fillets on boards. Top edge gilt. Spine sunned, uniformly turning blue-green. Micro crack to upper joint at head. Scratch to upper right corner, bumped and re-colored. Foxing spots on dedication otherwise perfectly fresh throughout.
Armorial bookplate: Count de Launac.
One of Pierre Loti's great successes, which would inspire Puccini to compose the famous Madame Butterfly.

€300
Anna LANGFUS
Les bagages de sable
Gallimard|Paris 1963|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
New edition published a few days after the first edition.
Some small foxing to spine, covers and edges.
Autograph inscription signed by Anna Langfus to Madame Goasguen: "... en souvenir de notre "bizarre rencontre" et de tout coeur..." ["... in memory of our "strange encounter" and with all my heart..."]
€120
Henry de MONTHERLANT
Romans et oeuvres de fiction non théâtrales
Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1959|10.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full brown grained sheep binding, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, handsome copy complete with its glassine, dust jacket and soft slipcase which has small marginal tears.
€30
Henry de MONTHERLANT
Théâtre
Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1965|10.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
La Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheepskin, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper, dust jacket and soft slipcase which shows small marginal tears.
€30
Victor BRAUNER, Jacques HÉROLD
Le merveilleux
Les éditions des quatre vents|Paris 1946|12.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition illustrated with a frontispiece by Victor Brauner and an hors-texte by Jacques Hérold.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally lightened as usual.
€80
Maurice BLANCHOT
Au moment voulu
Gallimard|Paris 1951|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly sunned.
€50
(Lawrence DURRELL) Vladimir VOLKOFF
Lawrence le magnifique. Essai sur Lawrence Durrell et le roman relativiste
L'âge d'homme • Julliard|Paris 1984|13 x 20 cm|broché
First edition, of which no deluxe copies were printed.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Lawrence Durrell to his close friend Janine Brun.

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only in a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (Les citrons acides), he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the "Tartès house," his large dwelling surrounded by trees, he wrote the secon
€300
Lawrence DURRELL
L'île de Prospero
Buchet / Chastel|Paris 1962|13.50 x 18 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, of which no deluxe copies were printed, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally spotted and sunned.
Autograph inscription signed by Lawrence Durrell to his close friend Janine Brun: "Janine pour Lawrence. Souvenirs 1968." ["Janine for Lawrence. Memories 1968."]

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only in a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (
€300
Pere GIMFERRER
Miro catalan universel
Editions Hier et demain|Paris 1978|26.50 x 27.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition in French.
Publisher's full beige cloth binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has minor marginal tears of no consequence.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with numerous reproductions of works by Joan Miro.
€50
Georges d' HEYLLI
L'évasion de La Valette (1815)
P. Rouquette & fils|Paris 1891|13 x 19 cm|broché
First edition printed in 200 numbered copies on laid paper of this offprint from La Gazette anecdotique.
Rare and handsome copy.
€80
ANONYME
La vie mystique de Maximilien de Meck
Editions Drouin|Paris s. d. [1931]|13 x 20 cm|broché
First edition.
With a photographic portrait of Maximilien de Meck as frontispiece.
Handsome copy despite the spine and boards being lightly and marginally sunned without consequence.
€40
Arnold BENNETT
Le spectre
Nrf|Paris 1926|17 x 23 cm|broché
First edition in French, one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
Some light foxing.
€45
COLETTE
La jumelle noire (IIe journée)
Ferenczi|Paris 1935|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on bibliophile vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
€250
Jacques CHARDONNE
Matinales
Albin Michel|Paris 1956|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 1100 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jacques Chardonne to Claude Martine: "... avec beaucoup de considération..." ["... with much consideration..."]

€150
Alexandre SOLJENITSYNE
Zacharie l'escarcelle et autres récits
Julliard|Paris 1972|13.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by two of the translators Lucile and Georges Nivat to Mr. and Mrs. Toboul.
€70
Arthur ADAMOV
Paolo Paoli
Gallimard|Paris 1957|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Arthur Adamov to Marcel Arland.
€80
Arthur ADAMOV
Le printemps 71
Gallimard|Paris 1961|11.50 x 17.50 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Arthur Adamov to Marcel Arland.
€80
Joseph CONRAD
Le nègre du Narcisse
Gallimard|Paris 1945|11.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
New edition of the French translation printed in 1000 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Publisher's binding after Paul Bonet's original design.
Handsome copy despite a small tear to one lower corner.
€80
Xavier Boniface SAINTINE
Picciola
Charpentier|Paris 1845|11 x 18 cm|relié
Sixteenth edition revised and corrected.
Full pine green shagreen binding, lightened spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt compartments adorned with gilt typographical motifs, gilt roulettes on headcaps, one joint slightly cracked at head, frame of black, blind and gilt fillets on boards decorated at their centers with gilt romantic arabesques, endpapers and pastedowns of white moiré silk in lace pattern, frame of double gilt fillet on pastedowns, all edges gilt, gilt fillets on leading edges, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.
€60
Démétrios GALANIS, Marcel ARLAND
Edith
Nrf|Paris 1929|11 x 17 cm|broché
First edition, one of 527 numbered copies on vellum.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with 2 etchings by Démétrios Galanis.

€80
Roger GRENIER
Le palais d'hiver
Gallimard|Paris 1965|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 105 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Roger Grenier on the half-title page.
€80
Paul VIALAR
La caille
Denoël|Paris 1945|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on alfa, ours one of 10 hors commerce, the only deluxe copies.
Spine browned.
€70
Marcel AYMÉ
Le Minotaure précédé de La Convention Belzébir et de Consommation
Gallimard|Paris 1967|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 105 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies after 30 Holland.
Handsome copy.
€120
José CABANIS
Les jeux de la nuit
Gallimard|Paris 1964|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 135 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Two bookplates pasted on an endpaper.
Handsome copy.
Signed and inscribed by José Cabanis to Monsieur Régnier.

€80
José CABANIS
Des jardins en Espagne
Gallimard|Paris 1969|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 135 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

€80
Jean-Pierre LUMINET, Élisa BRUNE
Bonnes nouvelles des étoiles
Odile Jacob|Paris 2009|14.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
A small stain at the foot of the first cover.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Jean-Pierre Luminet to the poet Charles Dobzynski: "... grand-maître de l'opéra comique..." ["... grand master of comic opera..."]

€80
Charles NODIER (ed.)
Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont
N. Delangle|Paris 1825|10 x 15.30 cm|relié
Edition from the Petits Classiques françois collection, printed in 500 copies at the expense and under the supervision of Charles Nodier and the publisher using Didot l'Aîné typefaces.
Half navy blue morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with double blind-stamped compartments, a few small scratches to the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, two corners slightly bumped.
Handsome copy despite some light foxing.
€80
le chevalier d' ACEILLY [Jacques de CAILLY]
Diverses petites poésies
N. Delangle|Paris 1825|10 x 15.30 cm|relié
Edition forming part of the Petits Classiques françois collection, printed in 500 copies at the expense and under the care of Charles Nodier and the publisher with the typefaces of Didot l'Aîné.
Half navy blue morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with double blind-stamped compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, two corners slightly bumped.
Handsome copy despite some minor foxing.
€80
Jean-François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de RETZ
Conjuration du comte de Fiesque
N. Delangle|Paris 1825|10 x 15.30 cm|relié
Edition forming part of the Petits Classiques françois collection, printed in 500 copies at the expense and under the care of Charles Nodier and the publisher with Didot l'Aîné typefaces.
Half dark blue morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with double cold-stamped compartments, small traces of rubbing on the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, corners slightly bumped.
Some light foxing.
€50
Henri de BESSÉ
Relation des campagnes de Rocroi et de Fribourg
N. Delangle|Paris 1826|10 x 15.30 cm|relié
Edition forming part of the Petits Classiques françois collection, printed in 500 copies at the expense and under the care of Charles Nodier and the publisher with Didot l'Aîné typefaces.
Half navy blue morocco binding with corners, spine slightly faded with five raised bands decorated with double blind compartments, minor rubbing traces of no significance to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges.
Some minor foxing.
€70
Gustave COURBET
Portrait photographique de Gustave Courbet
Carjat|Paris s. d. [circa 1870]|6.50 x 10.40 cm|une photographie
Rare original photograph on albumen paper, in carte de visite format, mounted on a board, depicting Gustave Courbet.
Handwritten annotations on the back.
We have been able to find only one other copy of this photograph at the New York International Center of Photography.
€1,600
Michel BUTOR, Gregory MASUROVSKY
Obliques. Numéro spécial Michel Butor & Gregory Masurovsky
Borderie|Paris 1976|21 x 27 cm|broché
First edition illustrated with numerous illustrations by Gregory Masurovsky.
Numerous contributions including Michel Butor, Georges Raillard, Grégory Masurovsky, Shirley Goldfarb...
Spine lightly sunned.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Gregory Masurovsky to Georges Raillard.
€60
Gregory MASUROVSKY
Carte de voeux autographe signée adressée à Georges et Alice Raillard
Paris 6 Janvier 2008|15 x 10.50 cm|une carte de voeux sous enveloppe
Autograph signed Christmas card from Gregory Masurovsky addressed to art critic Georges Raillard and his wife Alice, with envelope.
The front of the card is illustrated with a reproduction of a pictorial work by Gregory Masurovsky titled "L'apparition de la vierge et l'enfant".
€50
Gregory MASUROVSKY
Carte de voeux autographe signée adressée à Georges et Alice Raillard pour Noël de l'année 1995 et de bonne année pour 1996
Paris 26 Décembre 1995|15 x 21.50 cm|une carte de voeux sous enveloppe
Autograph signed Christmas card from Gregory Masurovsky, for Christmas 1995 and the New Year 1996, addressed to art critic Georges Raillard and his wife Alice, with envelope.
The front of the card is illustrated with a reproduction of a pictorial work by Gregory Masurovsky titled "L'homme à la Pomme-Adam".
The Christmas card is printed on Arches paper.
€50
COLLECTIF
Esprit. L'américain de la guerre froide. N°6 de la 17ème année
Esprit|Paris Juin 1949|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Stringfellow Barr "L'amérique est déprimée" ["America is depressed"], Georges Friedmann "De Boston au Mississipi" ["From Boston to Mississippi"], other contributions by Rabi "Méditations au sortir des ténèbres" ["Meditations on emerging from darkness"], V. Siebrecht "La situation sociale en Allemagne" ["The social situation in Germany"]...
Occasional light foxing.

€60
CAROLUS-DURAN
Lettre autographe signée sur son portrait de jeune fille présenté au Salon
Paris 6 mai 1890|11.60 x 17.90 cm|une feuille rempliée
Autograph letter signed by Charles Auguste Émile Durant known as Carolus-Duran, famous portraitist of high society during the Third Republic. One folded sheet.
The artist gives his authorization to the famous journal L'Illustration to reproduce one of the portraits ("le portrait en gris de Melle XXX") ["the grey portrait of Miss XXX"] that he presented at the first Salon du Champ de Mars, in 1890. This painting received good reviews, notably in the Revue des Deux mondes: "[...] M. Carolus Duran est pourtant un portraitiste rare et supérieur par la sincérité qu'il apporte à rendre, dans tout son éclat et toute sa variété, la première et sai
€180
Claude ROGER-MARX
Odilon Redon
Nrf|Paris 1924|12.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper, with sixth edition statement.
Booklet illustrated with an unpublished portrait of the artist by himself engraved on wood by G. Aubert as well as reproductions of works by Odilon Redon.
Spine slightly sunned, handsome interior condition.
€20
Francisque DURET
Lettre autographe signée au chef du secrétariat des beaux-arts : Adolphe Saint Vincent Duvivier
Paris s. d. [vers 1860]|10.40 x 13.10 cm|une feuille rempliée
Autograph letter signed by sculptor Francisque Duret to Adolphe Saint Vincent Duvivier, head of the secretariat of the École impériale des beaux-arts.
"J'ai retenu Paul Armand, modèle arabe pour ma quinzaine à l'école et je prie Monsieur Duvivier de lui donner les instructions nécessaires et de prendre son adresse [...]" ["I have retained Paul Armand, Arab model for my fortnight at the school and I ask Monsieur Duvivier to give him the necessary instructions and to take his address [...]"]
€80
COLLECTIF
Osmose N°5
Osmose|Paris 1950|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Some worming to the second cover.
Contributions by Federico Garcia Lorca "La Doncella, el marinero y el estudiante", André Salmon "Poèmes", Jean Rubin "An apology", Paul Weiss "Poèmes en prose"...
€40
Samuel Ustazade SILVESTRE DE SACY
Variétés littéraires morales et historiques
Didier & Cie|Paris 1858|13.50 x 22 cm|2 tomes reliés
First edition.
Some light foxing, three small paper lacks to the head of the covers of the second volume.
Contemporary half red shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
€60
Jean-François SARRAZIN
Œuvres choisies
N. Delangle|Paris 1826|10 x 15.30 cm|relié
Edition illustrated with vignettes, from the Petits Classiques françois collection, printed in 500 copies at the expense and under the supervision of Charles Nodier and the publisher, using Didot l'Aîné's typefaces.
Half navy blue morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with double blind-stamped compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, two corners slightly bumped.
Handsome copy despite some light foxing.
€120
Evelines DESORMERY
Poésies de madame Evelines Désormery
N. Delangle|Paris 1828|10 x 15.30 cm|relié
Edition from the Petits Classiques françois collection, printed in 500 copies at the expense and under the supervision of Charles Nodier and the publisher, using Didot l'Aîné's typefaces.
Half navy blue morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with double blind-stamped compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, two corners slightly bumped.
Handsome copy despite some light foxing.
€120
Antoine BAUDERON DE SÉNECÉ
Oeuvres choisies
N. Delangle|Paris 1826|10 x 15.30 cm|relié
Edition from the collection Petits Classiques françois printed in 500 copies at the expense and under the care of Charles Nodier and the publisher with the typefaces of Didot l'Aîné.
Half navy blue morocco with corners, spine with five raised bands decorated with double blind compartments, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, two corners very slightly bumped.
Handsome copy despite some minor foxing.
€100
Jean-Baptiste ISABEY
Lettre autographe signée au collectionneur Alphonse Mennechet de Barival
Paris s. d.|13.50 x 21 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter signed by the painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey to the collector Alphonse Mennechet de Barival regarding the acquisition of a painting by Nicolas Lancret. One folded sheet.
€180
Jean-Baptiste ISABEY
"voulez-vous remettre au porteur les deux tableaux"Autograph letter signed to the collector Alphonse Mennechet de Barival
Paris s. d.|13 x 19.90 cm|une feuille
Signed autograph letter from the painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey to the collector Alphonse Mennechet de Barival regarding the transport of two paintings. One folded sheet, multiple tears.
€100
Nicolas-Toussaint CHARLET
"Il faut battre le fer tant qu'il est chaud"Signed autograph letter
Paris 19 décembre 1859|13.40 x 20.60 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter signed by the painter specialized in Empire scenes Nicolas Toussaint Charlet to his publisher: "Avez vous eu l'obligeance de voir avec M. Bostein au sujet de mon traité c'est on ne peut plus urgent car il va falloir livrer. Vous savez combien il y a de raisons de traîner ces affaires ; donc il faut battre le fer tant qu'il est chaud. [...]" ["Have you had the kindness to see M. Bostein about my treatise, it is most urgent as we will have to deliver. You know how many reasons there are to drag out these affairs; therefore we must strike while the iron is hot. [...]"]
€80
Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES
Autograph letter signed to engraver Emile Boilvin
Paris 16 mars 1895|11.10 x 14 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter card signed by the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes to the engraver Emile Boilvin.
The painter addresses a resigning member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts, which Puvis de Chavannes had founded and was in charge of the Salon du Champ de Mars, a dissident event from the official Salon des artistes français: "Cher Monsieur Boilvin, c'est avec le plus vif regret que je vous vois vous séparer d'une société où vous ne comptiez que des admirateurs et des amis. Qu'il soit fait selon votre désir, mais encore une fois, votre démission nous cause à tous un réel chagrin. Cordialement, P. Puvis de Chavannes" ["Dear Mr. Boilvin, it is with the dee
€300
Nicolas-Toussaint CHARLET
"Il en faudrait au moins 4 bouteilles [de champagne]"Autograph letter signed to the Gihaut engravers
Paris s. d.|12 x 18 cm|une feuille
Amusing autograph letter signed by the engraver Nicolas Toussaint Charlet to the Gihaut brothers, engravers, inviting them to dinner and asking them to bring Champagne wine.
"Charlet invite M.M. Gihaut frères, éditeurs de l'oeuvre de Géricault etc...
à venir dîner dimanche avec lui, s'ils étaient hommes à envoyer dimanche matin quelques bouteilles de Champagne ou les acompterait.
Nous serons 12. Il faudrait au moins 4 bouteilles
Il compte sur eux il n'y a aucun moyen de refuser
Salut et amitié
Charlet" ["Charlet invites MM. Gihaut brothers, publishers of Géricault's works etc...
to come dine with him on Sunday, if they were me
€180
Jean MARCENAC
Le livre des blessures
Editeurs français réunis|Paris 1971|13.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy despite a crease mark at the foot of the text block.
Signed autograph inscription from Jean Marcenac to the poet Charles Dobzynski and his wife Eliane: "... ce livre écrit pour eux..." ["... this book written for them..."]
Our copy is enhanced with two manuscript corrections by the author on pages 48 and 144.
€50
Henri PICHETTE, Jean BAZAINE
Les revendications
Mercure de France|Paris 1958|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
First collected edition.
Illustrated with lithographs by Bazaine, Gromaire, Picasso, Villon...
Handsome copy despite the spine very lightly sunned without consequence.
Autograph inscription signed by Henri Pichette to Charles and Eliane Dobzynski: "... ce livre écrit souvent avec des déchirements..." ["... this book often written with heartbreak..."]
The illustration by Jean Bazaine, as frontispiece, has been heightened by him in watercolor.
€250
Christian GALI, Françoise BLANC
Surface d'un secret
Parler|Paris 1961|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition, one of the numbered copies.
Illustrated with 2 drawings by Françoise Blanc.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Christian Gali to Charles Dobzynski on the title page enhanced with an original signed drawing by Françoise Blanc on an endpaper.
€50
COLLECTIF
Esprit. Poètes portugais. N°7-8 de la nouvelle série
Esprit|Paris Juillet-Août 1967|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of this issue of the important humanist journal founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on Alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
This issue features a main section titled "Portuguese Poets: Ruy Bello, Adolfo Casais Montero, Raul de Carvalho, Fernando Echeverria, José Gomes Ferreira, Herberto Helder...
Other articles: M. Moreira Alves "Repression in Brazil", R. Federman "Happiness in S. Beckett"...
Stains to second cover and some light foxing.

€60
COLLECTIF
Esprit. Révision du pacifisme. N°2 de la 18ème année
Esprit|Paris Février 1949|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
This issue features a main section entitled "Révision du pacifiisme" ["Revision of pacificism"] with articles by: Franck Emmanuel "Le pacifisme des forts" ["The pacifism of the strong"], Emmanuel Mounier "Les équivoques du pacifisme" ["The ambiguities of pacifism"], Paul Ricoeur "L'homme nonviolent et sa présence à l'histoire" ["The nonviolent man and his presence in history"]...
Other articles: Louis Pauwels "Commencement" ["Beginning"], Charles Piquois "Le bagnard" ["The convict"]...
Some light foxing of no conse
€60
COLLECTIF
Esprit. La révolte des étudiants dans le monde. N°5 de la nouvelle série
Esprit|Paris Mai 1969|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
This issue features a main section entitled "La révolte des étudiants dans le monde" ["Student revolt around the world"]: Latin America, Japan, China, United States, Germany, Italy, England, Spain, Poland, France with articles by Ida Berger, Yoshihiko Hanawa, Luigi Longo, Jacques Julliard, Manuel Tunon de Lara...
Some minor foxing of no consequence.

€60

Paris

Antigone

Histoire de Marie

Vingt et une scènes de comédie

Les petites baraques

Les murs de Fresnes - Exemplaire de Francis Ponge[The Walls of Fresnes – Francis Ponge’s Copy]

L'art des mines, avec un traité des exhalaisons minerales ou moufettes & plusieurs mémoires sur différens sujets d'histoire naturelle. Essai d'une histoire naturelle des couches de la terre, avec des considérations physiques sur les causes des tremblemens de terre & de leur propagation

L'homme et son ombre

L'avenir n'est à personne. Journal 1990-1992

Algèbre des valeurs morales

Gustalin

La belle vie

En avant la zizique

Rêveuse bourgeoisie

Un Hiver aux Antilles en 1839-1840, ou Lettres sur les résultats de l'abolition de l'Esclavage, dans les colonies anglaises des Indes-Occidentales, adressées à Henri Clay, du Kentucky

La maison à vapeur. Voyage à travers l'Inde Septentrionale

Tendres stocks[Tender Stocks]

Colomba

La dernière lanterne. Collection complète[The Last Lantern. Complete Collection]

La forêt bleue

Recherches sur le soufre

Connaissance de l'est[Knowledge of the East]

Histoire du cinéma[History of Cinema]

Mémoires sur diverses antiquités de la Perse, et sur les médailles des rois de la dynastie des Sassanides Suivis de l'histoire de cette dynastie, traduite du persan de MIRKHOND

Impressions d'Afrique

Photographie d'Alexandre Dumas

Les causes célèbres

Le juif errant

Dieu et son juif

Situations, IV. Portraits

Paris marié [Ensemble] Paris au bal

Mémoires de P. L. Hanet Cléry, ancien valet de chambre de Mme Royale

Joaquin Ferrer

Histoire de Jonathan Wild le Grand

Portrait de Emile Zola

Portrait de Edmond Goncourt

Versailles ancien et moderne

Madame Chrysanthème

Les bagages de sable

Romans et oeuvres de fiction non théâtrales

Théâtre

Le merveilleux

Au moment voulu

Lawrence le magnifique. Essai sur Lawrence Durrell et le roman relativiste

L'île de Prospero

Miro catalan universel

L'évasion de La Valette (1815)

La vie mystique de Maximilien de Meck

Le spectre

La jumelle noire (IIe journée)

Matinales

Zacharie l'escarcelle et autres récits

Paolo Paoli

Le printemps 71

Le nègre du Narcisse

Picciola

Edith

Le palais d'hiver

La caille

Le Minotaure précédé de La Convention Belzébir et de Consommation

Les jeux de la nuit

Des jardins en Espagne

Bonnes nouvelles des étoiles

Voyage de Chapelle et de Bachaumont

Diverses petites poésies

Conjuration du comte de Fiesque

Relation des campagnes de Rocroi et de Fribourg

Portrait photographique de Gustave Courbet

Obliques. Numéro spécial Michel Butor & Gregory Masurovsky

Carte de voeux autographe signée adressée à Georges et Alice Raillard

Carte de voeux autographe signée adressée à Georges et Alice Raillard pour Noël de l'année 1995 et de bonne année pour 1996

Esprit. L'américain de la guerre froide. N°6 de la 17ème année

Lettre autographe signée sur son portrait de jeune fille présenté au Salon

Odilon Redon

Lettre autographe signée au chef du secrétariat des beaux-arts : Adolphe Saint Vincent Duvivier

Osmose N°5

Variétés littéraires morales et historiques

Œuvres choisies

Poésies de madame Evelines Désormery

Oeuvres choisies