Tournai

New edition, front and rear pastedowns and free endpapers signed by Gérard Grée.

Publisher's binding with pictorial boards, smooth spine, light rubbing to spine-ends, illustrated endpapers and boards.

Superb original blue pencil portrait of Martine by Marcel Marlier, drawn within the tondo on the first free endpaper, surrounded by his presentation inscription: "For Andrée Alcaraz with all my sympathy. August 86 M. Marlier"

 

"This eternally well-behaved little girl, forever aged around ten, invented for Éditions Casterman in 1954 by the author Gilbert Delahaye and the illustrator Marcel Marlier, whose pencil stroke has been so...

First edition illustrated with drawings by Alain Grée.
Publisher's polychrome paper boards, smooth spine.
Small lack to film covering at head of one joint, five fine blue ballpoint pen marks in margins of two pages, a small light stain on the fore edge, otherwise handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Guth to Stéphanie de Gonneville.

First edition illustrated with humorous drawings by the author.
Full paper boards binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Avoine to Jean-Pierre Richard and his wife Michelle.

First edition of the French translation established by René de Maricourt.
Half red calf bindings, smooth spines with gilt stippling ornamented with black fillets and double gilt fillets, dark green long-grained morocco title and volume labels, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, corners slightly bumped without significance, contemporary bindings.
Some light foxing.
Rare.

First edition of the twentieth album of the Les Aventures de Tintin series (back cover B29).
Comic book with 62 four-color plates.

Publisher's boards with color illustrations, red cloth spine. Spine-ends slightly rubbed, titles crossed by Montherlant on back cover, very good condition.

Exceptionally signed and inscribed by Hergé, with a black ink drawing of Tintin and Snowy, on the verso of the flyleaf: "To Henry de Montherlant. Since Tintin (a bul) has had the favor of being evoked by Le Cardinal d'Espagne... As a token of particular admiration. Hergé october 1960"

"A Henry de Montherlant. Puisque Tintin (a bul) a eu la faveur d'être...

New edition of the twelfth album in the Tintin comic book series.
62-plate comic strip in full colour.

Publisher's boards with colour illustrated covers, saffron yellow cloth spine, faint rubbing to the margins of the boards.

Exceptional presentation copy signed by Hergé, with an original ink drawing of Tintin and Snowy with his bone, on the verso of the flyleaf : "A Roland Menard, en toute sympathie. Hergé."

 

First Edition with 9 full-page green illustrations including the frontispiece.
Half Havana binding, back with four nerves set with golden garlands and adorned with double gilded boxes decorated with golden typographical motifs, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blankets and back preserved.
Our copy includes after page 210 "The words of Professor Martin Thausing", which is consistent with the description of the "Bibliography of Belgium" of 1897 (No. 1457) and seems to be the first edition.
Autograph dedication dated and signed Maurice Maindron: "To Louis Bourdery for his children when he will ... what I do not wish him."

First edition of the French translation by Louis Gillet.
Publishers'binding with full percaline flexible fir, smooth back,
Signed autograph of Louis Gillet to Robert Garric: "... in remembrance of those we love with all our soul, and we made ??him a hundredfold, as a tribute of fraternal collaboration ..."
Catholic reformist, he was the   founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly...

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Inscribed by the author.
Illustrated cover, complete with publisher's slip.

Second edition. This work is part of "L'épopée de l'histoire de France" which forms a collection of romanticized passages from French history.
Half green calf binding, the front cover shows fold marks, the back cover has paper losses, the corners, head and foot of spine are bumped, smooth spine decorated with quadruple gilt fillets, numerous tears and losses remain on the spine, scattered foxing, stamp on title page, pencil marks.
Rare but in this condition.

First edition of the French translation printed in small numbers as an offprint.
One angular tear to the front board, otherwise rare and handsome copy.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Two lacks at head and foot of spine, spine and front board slightly and marginally sunned, otherwise handsome copy.
Rare.