Paris

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.

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"

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".

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.

First edition, one of the 25 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Rare.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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."]

First edition, one of the advance copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from François Fejtö to Jean Blanzat.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 Holland.
Handsome copy.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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..."]

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.

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.

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.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly sunned.

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...

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...

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.

First edition printed in 200 numbered copies on laid paper of this offprint from La Gazette anecdotique.
Rare and handsome copy.

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.

First edition in French, one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
Some light foxing.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on bibliophile vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

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..."]

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.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Arthur Adamov to Marcel Arland.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Arthur Adamov to Marcel Arland.

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.

First edition, one of 527 numbered copies on vellum.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with 2 etchings by Démétrios Galanis.

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.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on alfa, ours one of 10 hors commerce, the only deluxe copies.
Spine browned.

First edition, one of 105 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies after 30 Holland.
Handsome copy.

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.

First edition, one of 135 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

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..."]

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.

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.

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.

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.

First edition.
Half shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands with gilt decorations, date at foot, marbled paper covers, original soft front cover preserved.
Rare and precious signed autograph inscription by the composer: “à mon ami Seligmann - Hector Berlioz” ("to my friend Seligmann - Hector Berlioz")
Hippolyte-Prosper Seligmann (1817-1882), cellist and composer, was an active member of the Philharmonic Society founded by Berlioz in 1849.
Provenance: R. & B. L. library, with his bookplate pasted on the back of the first endpaper.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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 [...]"]

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"...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. [...]"]

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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 is devoted to the proletarian condition and the workers' struggle with articles by Francis Jeanson "Définition du prolétariat", Jacques-René Rabier "L'évolution quantitative du prolétariat", Jean Daric "Mortalité et classes sociales", Emile Rideau "Conscience extra-prolétarienne", Jean-Marie Domenach "La combativité ouvrière", Jean Lacroix "Prolétariat et philosophie"...
Occasional light foxing.

First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies printed on Japan paper and not on Holland paper, contrary to what is indicated in the table of contents of each issue.
Contributions by Albert Mérat "Vers", Charles Morice "Dans le marbre", Maurice du Plessys "Pour Marie-aux-fleurs", Ernest Raynaud "L'opale", Ernerst Raynaud "Albert Mérat", Ernest Delahaye "Etude sur Rimbaud"...
Handsome copy complete with its double wrapper covering only the rare deluxe copies.

First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies printed on Japan paper.
Contributions by Albert Mérat "Chambres anciennes", Jean Bourguignon "Humour et humoristes", Léon Maillard "Honoré de Balzac", Henri Marsac "La prairie et le ruisseau", Emile Maison "Ceci n'est pas une bluette", Ernest Delahaye and Cazals "Pauvre Lélian"...
Handsome copy complete with its double wrapper covering only the rare deluxe copies.

First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies printed on Japan paper and not on Holland paper, contrary to what is indicated in the contents of each issue.
Contributions by Jean Moréas "Poésie", Jules Laloue "Eglogue", Frédéric-Auguste Cazals "Un café littéraire", Ernest Raynaud "Promenade au salon", Henri Marsac "Douze aquarelles d'Albert Trachsel"...
Handsome copy complete with its double wrapper covering only the rare deluxe copies.

First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies printed on Japan paper.
Contributions by Jean Moréas "L'amour dérobé", Eugène Ledrain "Louis Ménard", Frédéric-Auguste Cazals, Lucien Hubert "Bibelots", Albert Mérat "Les prêtres" and "Les moines"...
A handsome copy complete with its double wrapper covering only the rare deluxe copies.

First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies printed on Japan paper and not on Holland paper contrary to what is announced in the table of contents.
Contributions by Albert Mérat "Les exemples", Aimé Passereau "Les joyeusetés", Léon Frapié "Léon Riotor", Léon Maillard "Jules Valadon", Paul Fleurot "La fête de Diderot"...
Handsome copy complete with its double wrapper covering only the rare deluxe copies.

First edition, one of the rare deluxe copies printed on Japan paper and not on Holland paper contrary to what is announced in the table of contents.
Contributions by Paul Verlaine with the unpublished poem "A mon fils", Georges Izambard "Mai", Frédéric-Auguste Cazals "Le Procope", Ernest Raynaud "Promenade au salon", Lionel des Rieux "Stances", Albert Mérat "Trois âges : Attique ; Moyen-Age ; Renaissance française ; le triomphe de la république"...
Handsome copy complete with its double wrapper covering only the rare deluxe copies.

First edition.
Handsome copy despite a crease mark at the head of the first cover.
Dated autograph inscription signed by René Depestre, in Spanish, to a woman named Elisa.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Bradel binding in full pebbled paper, smooth spine, grey sheep title label, two corners slightly bumped, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Jean Martet to Tristan Bernard: "... qui n'a pas l'air d'y toucher et qui va jusqu'au fond des âmes..." ["... who doesn't seem to be affected by it and who goes to the depths of souls..."]

First edition, one of 160 numbered copies on Stella coated paper, ours specially printed for Monsieur Gottraux.
Publisher's full beige cloth binding, smooth spine very slightly browned.
Photographs by Robert Doisneau.
The work consists of the presentation of 97 painters and sculptors and 18 writers.
Our copy includes, like the 160 deluxe copies, the original lithograph by André Lhote which he signed on the plate.

Invitation card to the evening "Présence de Nazim Hikmet," organized in tribute to the poet who had died the previous year and which took place at Salle Pleyel on December 8, 1964, with notable attendees including Aragon, Charles Dobzynski, Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Piccoli.
A very fine copy in excellent condition.
A citizen of a society with heavy constraints, the Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet (1901-1963) aspired from his earliest age to freedom. Initially through his poems which he composed - and he was one of the very first poets in his country to dare - in free verse, but also through very early political engagement. From 1920, he joined the independence movement led by Mustafa...

First edition of this journal edited by Charles Dobzynski, which, according to our research, only published four issues in three volumes.
A handsome and rare set despite the slightly sunned spines and a repair using adhesive tape at the head of issue number 1.
Contributions by C. Dobzynski, H. Sloves, S. Aleichem translated by E. Fleg, S. Asch translated by Claude Paris, E. Kaganowski, R. Feigelson, H. Barbusse with an unpublished letter, B. Chagall translated by I. Chagall, I. Opatochou translated by Claude Paris...
The double issue 3-4 being devoted to the centenary of Sholem Aleichem's birth.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Illustrated cover by P. Paquet soiled, one joint cracked and reglued, stains to endpapers, rear cover soiled, handsome interior condition.
Rare copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Jean-Pierre Luminet to the poet Charles Dobzynski: "... pour commencer en littérature cette année mondiale de l'astronomie 2009, 400 ans tout juste après que l'oeil de Galilée se soit (sic) tourné pour la 1ère fois vers les étoiles..." ["... to begin in literature this world year of astronomy 2009, exactly 400 years after Galileo's eye turned for the first time towards the stars..."]

Extremely rare original albumen photograph, carte-de-visite format in a medallion, mounted on cardboard.
We have been unable to find any copy of this photograph in international public collections.

Edition illustrated by Fontanarosa, one of the numbered copies on pure thread paper.
Publisher's full brown leather bindings, faded spines with four raised bands, front covers enhanced with Gothic lettering and a border of stylized floral motifs, owls stamped in blind on rear covers, top edges gilt.
Some small dark spots on the spines.
Handsome complete set with slipcases.

First edition illustrated with drawings by Vladimir Velickovic.
Handsome copy.
Signed and inscribed by André Velter to Charles Dobzynski "... de la pratique du scalp : un poème à blanc." ["... on the practice of scalping: a poem in white."] enriched with the manuscript signature of Vladimir Velickovic.

Illustrated edition with 144 original color compositions by Georges Lepape, one of the numbered copies on Rives laid paper.
Handsome set despite minor soiling to the bottom edges of the slipcases.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets, double gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing, corners slightly bumped.