Toronto (Canada)

Anne ETHUIN, Edouard JAGUER
Regards obliques sur une histoire parallèle
Editions Oasis|Paris • & Toronto 1977|26 x 33 cm|broché
First edition printed in 333 copies and illustrated with 6 drawings by Anne Jaguer.
Spine and covers marginally lightened, otherwise handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Edouard Jaguer to Nicole and Pierre Bourgeois accompanied by an original signed drawing by Anne Ethuin on the facing page.

€170
Mike JACKSON
Soldier - The autobiography
Bantam press|London • & Toronto • & Sydney • & Aukland 2007|15.50 x 24 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Publisher's full black paper boards binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Mike Jackson to Bernard Kouchner: " Bernard with many thanks indeed for our time together in Kosovo, and with every best widh for your present appointment. Comme toujours, Mike Jackson." (Bernard with many thanks indeed for our time together in Kosovo, and with every best wish for your present appointment. As always, Mike Jackson)
€200
Jerome David SALINGER
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
Heinemann|London • Melbourne • Toronto 1963|14.50 x 21.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First English edition.
Publisher's full black cloth binding.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket with slight marginal lacks to the boards.

The two novellas in this collection were first published in the New Yorker in 1955 and 1959.
€120
Jerome David SALINGER
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction
Heinemann|London • Melbourne • Toronto 1963|14.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
First UK edition.
Blue cloth publisher's binding.
Nice copy with its dust jacket. Slight traces rubbing at the foot and at the head of the dust jacket.
Corner missing at the foot of the first flap of the dust jacket, with a small trace of adhesive.

The two short stories were first published in the New Yorker in 1955 and 1959.
€120
Vladimir Vladimirovi? NABOKOV
King, Queen, Knave
McGraw-Hill Book Company|New York • & Toronto 1968|15 x 21.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
The American first edition, of which no deluxe copies were printed.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine.
Complete with dust jacket showing lacks and tears to spine and board margins, a letter inscribed in blue ink at head of front endpaper.

€80
COLLECTIF, Ezra POUND
Blast - Review of the Great English Vortex, n°1 et 2 June 1914 et July 1915
John Lane Company • Bell & Cockburn|New York • Toronto 1914-1915|23.50 x 31.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
Blast – Review of the Great English Vortex, n° 1 & 2 June 1914 & July 1915
John Lane Company & Bell & Cockburn | New York/Toronto 1914-1915| 23,5 x 31,5 cm | 2 volumes in Bradel binding

First edition of this rare and short-lived Vorticist magazine published only twice.
Rare.
Full red cloth Bradel binding, spine with title and date in black, original wrappers preserved.
€7,000
Herbert George WELLS (inscribed to André CITROËN)
War and the future. Italy, France, Britain at war - Exemplaire d'André Citroën
Cassell and Company|London • New York • Toronto • Melbourne 1917|13.50 x 20.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Second issue, printed in March-April 1917, one month after the first edition published in February of the same year.
Publisher's red cloth.
Exceptional inscribed copy signed by H.G. Wells to André Citroën: “To André Citröen who has to do his share in making a new world out of a very shattered old one. From H. G. Wells.”
The inscription echoes the chapter of the book entitled New arms for old ones, in which Wells describes the armament factory created by Citroën to remedy the French artillery weakness. Reconverted at the end of the war, the factory will become the first Citroën automobile manufacturer.
€4,500
Henry Corry Rowley BECHER
A trip to Mexico being notes of a journey from lake Erie to lake Tezcuco and back
Willing & Williamson|Toronto 1880|16.50 x 22 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's red cloth, spine with gilt frieze at head and foot, slightly rubbed at head and foot, upper cover with gilt Aztec decorative motif, top edge gilt, small marginal stains to second plate.
An exceptional copy enriched with 20 photographs (most detached); other copies sold never have more than 12 or 13.
With a map and a plate of Aztec hieroglyphs.
Ink ex-dono on title, practically no foxing.
€580
COLLECTIF, Ezra POUND
Blast - Review of the Great English Vortex, n°2 July 1915
John Lane Company • Bell & Cockburn|New York • Toronto Juillet 1915|24.50 x 29.50 cm|relié
First edition. of this vorticist periodical, which has had only two issues published.
Full marbled paper Bradel binding, spine with gilt title and date, covers preserved. Spine slightly faded and some tears to joints, a few spots to edges.
Rare.
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Raymond QUENEAU
Les fleurs bleues
Methuen educational limited|London • & Toronto • & Sydney • & Wellington 1971|13 x 20 cm|broché
First edition of the English translation by Barbara Wright.
Back slightly warped.
Autograph dedication signed by Barbara Wright to Jean Queval, close friend of Raymond Queneau and, like him, figure and creator, of the Oulipo.
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Paul ÉLUARD, Benjamin PÉRET
152 proverbes mis au goût du jour
Oasis publications|Toronto 1977|9.50 x 14.50 cm|agrafé
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W.F. KIRBY
The butterflies and moths of Europe
Cassell and Company|London • & Melbourne • & Paris • & New-York [New York] • & Toronto 1907|21.50 x 27.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
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John PHILLIPS
The italians face of a nation
Mac Grow-Hill book company|New-York [New York] • & Toronto 1965|22 x 28.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Autograph inscription from John Phillips to Dosia & Terence (Young).
Introduction by C. Ryan, iconography.
One tear without loss reglued at the foot of one joint, handsome copy.
€60