Arthaud

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on handmade laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half-cherry red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front wrapper preserved, speckled top edge.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.

New edition bearing a fourth edition statement at the foot of the front board, one of 200 numbered copies on handmade vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Half-shagreen red binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front wrapper preserved, top edge speckled.
Illustrated, handsome copy complete with its folding plates at rear.

First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on handmade laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half-red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands dotted in gilt and decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front wrapper preserved, top edge speckled.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on handmade laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
This work curiously bears a statement of fifth edition.
Binding in half red shagreen, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt dots and adorned with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front wrapper preserved, top edge speckled.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on pur fil vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, first cover preserved, top edge speckled.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on handmade vellum, the only deluxe copies.

Bound in half-red shagreen, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt dots and ornamented with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front cover preserved, top edge speckled.

Preface by General Roques.

Handsome copy complete with its folding map at the end of the volume.
 

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Half-cherry red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt stippling and ornamented with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front wrapper preserved, top edge speckled.
Iconography.
Handsome copy, complete with its folding map at the beginning of the volume.

New edition, first edition in part as completed with the account of the 1953 expedition, limited to one thousand copies.
Preface by Félix Trombe, work illustrated with 46 heliogravures.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has small tears at head of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Haroun Tazieff to Jean Libbe.

First edition illustrated with photographs by the author.
Handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of Freddy Boller on the title page.

First edition illustrated with 47 color photographs and 12 maps.
Handsome copy despite the spine being very slightly faded.
Signed autograph inscription from Alain Colas to a couple of friends named Karin and Laurent.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine creased, some minor foxing to edges.
Complete with its folding map at end of volume.
Iconography.
Signed autograph inscription from Alain Bombard to Gilbert Guilleminault.

First edition in French.
Publisher's full grey cloth binding, smooth spine, front board decorated with chiseled vignettes, black paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Work illustrated with 40 heliogravures.
Small stains on verso of first endpaper and on the following page.
Rare autograph signature of Heinrich Harrer in Tibetan and Roman characters on the endpaper.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Amusing autograph inscription signed by Antoine, the famous singer-navigator, to a close friend: "Salut vieux camarade 250 pages pour te faire baver d'envie ! Antoine" ["Hello old comrade, 250 pages to make you drool with envy! Antoine"].

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy of the account of the shipwreck of Catherine Plessz and Lucien Schiltz in 1972 in the western Mediterranean.
Preface by Alain Bombard.
Signed autograph inscription by Lucien Schiltz: "... hommage du héros de cette aventure salée" ["tribute from the hero of this salty adventure"] and Jacques Vignes to Madame Baurey: "... quel courage pour faire chaque année ce salon... peut-être autant que pour s'en sortir quand on a fait naufrage..." ["what courage to organize this salon every year... perhaps as much as it takes to get out of a shipwreck..."]

Illustrated edition with drawings by Piem.
Publisher's full white cardboard binding, smooth spine, illustrated front cover.
Handsome copy.
Amusing signed autograph inscription by Piem enriched with a drawing showing Piem watching a television whose screen is replaced by the two figures to whom this copy is dedicated: "Georges et Gilles, ça me change un peu. Amicalement. Piem." ["Georges and Gilles, this is a nice change for me. With friendship. Piem."]

Illustrated edition with 144 heliogravures in and out of text.
Publisher's full white cloth binding, smooth spine, illustrated relief boards.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper.

Edition illustrated with numerous photographs by Samivel and Michel Gidon.
Handsome copy complete with its glassine wrapper.

First edition on current paper.
Binding half blue half shagreen corners, smooth back discolored and brightened adorned with nets and gold friezes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head.
Iconography.
Signed autograph of Henri Gheon: "To the unknown reader under the sign of" spiritual "..."

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on grand vélin pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with original watercolors by Migueline d'Attanoux.
Handsome copy, complete, as stated in the justification page, with its separate suite of the color plates.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Work illustrated with 66 black and white photographs and 23 in color.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper which has a small lack at head of spine.

Second edition.
Publisher's Bradel binding in full black boards, smooth spine, covers ornamented with a tricolour geometric design.
The work is illustrated with 36 photogravures as well as 10 colour reproductions.
Pleasant copy lacking its illustrated dust jacket.

First edition in French.
Illustrated with 59 heliogravures.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally sunned without consequence, lacking dust jacket.

First edition.

Publisher's full grey cloth binding, complete with its dust jacket illustrated by Yves Brayer.

Rich iconography.

A small tear at head of spine partially and slightly browned, occasional foxing.

First edition with no mention of deluxe copies.
Bradel binding in half pink cloth, smooth spine decorated with central gilt floral motif, gilt coat of arms at foot, black shagreen title label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved.
Work illustrated with engravings, panoramas and plates.
Our copy lacks the folding map at the end.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on handmade vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Half-shagreen red binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front wrapper preserved, top edge speckled.
Handsome copy bringing together these two texts: Comment j'ai réussi ma dernière évasion by Jean Mauriange and Mémoires d'un évadé by Marcel Payerne.

New illustrated edition of color photographs.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Alain Colas to a friend named Remy.

First edition.
Nice copy despite small foxing on the upper edge.
Photographic covers, iconography.
Handwritten signature of Haroun Tazieff on a white guard.

First edition.
Full copy of his illustrated jacket that includes a marginal tear and traces of creases on the first plate, nice interior state.
Illustrated book of 90 black and color photographs by Jean-Jacques Languepin, Marchel Ichac and Jacques Masson.
Autograph dedication dated and signed Paul-Emile Victor to Madame Janvier.

first edition.
Binding of the publisher in full canvas old rose, smooth back, complete copy of his illustrated jacket.
Autographed and signed autograph from Robert Ciapa to Françoise and Pierre Dumayet.
Book illustrated with photographs by Patrick Jacob.

first edition on the current paper.
Dated and signed autograph dedication of Henry Pourrat to his friend Robert Garric Auvergne: "... in Belleville and its silence in memory of our day hike in Saint-Saturnin, his friend ..."
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, remembers him in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench" "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Illustrated cover of François Angeli book decorated with 218 heliogravures.
A few bites on the guards, a small tear in foot of the back.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph of his friend Henri Pourrat Auvergne Robert Garric: "... I want to see well at some length ..."
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, remembers him   in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench"   "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Illustrated cover of François Angeli book decorated with 150 heliogravures.
Marginal light scratches on the first board, a few bites of the guards and the second board.

New edition, one of 300 numbered copies on ordinary paper.
Endpapers faded, internally good.

First edition in French.
With 68 illustrations hors texte.
One small tear to head of upper cover.

First edition.
Signed autograph inscription by Pierre Morel.
Work illustrated with photographs and complete with its folding map at rear.
A light pale stain on front cover, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Work illustrated with 167 heliogravures, cover illustrated by A. Hambourg.
Spine slightly faded with two small tears at head and foot, a marginal strip of adhesive paper on the front endpaper, handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full mouse-grey cloth binding, smooth spine, first cover illustrated with a photograph.
Work illustrated with original photographs.
Handsome copy.

First edition in French.
Spine sunned with light pale dampstains of no consequence.

First edition.
Cover by François Angeli, work illustrated with 218 heliogravures and complete with its loose map.

First edition.
Work illustrated with 277 photographs reproduced in photogravure, a folding map on a loose leaf and a color cover by W.F. Burger.

First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Work illustrated with 184 photographs reproduced in heliogravure, illustrated cover in colors, very handsome copy.

First edition.
Work illustrated with 150 heliogravure photographs.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Illustrated with 33 photographies by Sougez.
A very good copy.

New edition, one of the copies bound in full cloth after a design by Claude Arthaud.
Work illustrated with 202 photographs reproduced in heliogravure and a frontispiece by Berthold Mann.
Handsome copy, complete with its folding map.