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First edition of the French translation, one of 200 copies numbered on Marais vellum, the only deluxe paper issue.
Minor rubbing along the joints. A rare and attractive copy.
First edition on ordinary paper.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt garlands, marbled paper boards, comb-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt top edge, original covers and spine preserved.
Scattered foxing mostly affecting the edges.
First collected edition, one of 25 copies printed on Japan paper, the deluxe issue.
Contemporary brown half shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands ruled with gilt dotted lines, adorned with double gilt compartments and decorative motifs, moiré paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on witnesses.
A handsome copy in an attractive period binding.
First edition, 15 issues in 15 separate installments, abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Complete with the special issue "Hommage à Picasso" (No. 3, 1930) and the index for the year 1929, published as a separate 8-page stapled booklet.
Presented in a custom slipcase with a flat spine in blue morocco, title stamped in palladium and spine framed in palladium, decorative blue paper boards, sky-blue suede doublures; a handsome ensemble signed Boichot.
Some spines slightly faded not affecting the text, occasional minor foxing along the margins of certain covers.
Complete series of this legendary and non-conformist magazine founded by Georges Bataille, which gave voice to "fields of art and knowledge unrecognized by official culture or considered controversial: popular literature, jazz, cabaret, advertising, everyday life" (Annie Pirabot), along with so-called primitive art and objects.
First edition, illustrated with 39 full-page plates and numerous in-text vignettes (cf. Lorenz IX, 494).
Bradel binding in full brown buckram, smooth spine gilt-stamped with a floral tool, gilt double fillet at foot, green morocco label, modern binding signed by Lobstein-Laurenchet.
Some foxing, mostly to the first and last leaves.
A pleasant copy.
First edition of the French translation, one of 200 numbered copies on white wove paper, the only deluxe paper issue.
Bound in full mouse-grey shagreen, spine with five raised bands ruled in black, covers framed with a single black fillet, endpapers and pastedowns in cat’s-eye patterned paper, wrappers (with a small loss at the foot of the lower cover) and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
A pleasing copy.
New edition for the first volume, first edition on ordinary paper for the three other ones.
Bound in dark blue half morocco, five raised bands on spine, marbled paper boards, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, original wrappers preserved, gilt top edges, contemporary bindings with blind-stamped signature of bookbinder Petitot.
A fine set despite minor scuffing to the spines.
Signed and inscribed by Anatole France to Madame Félix Roussel on each of the four volumes. The author penned an amusing first dedication on the opening page of text of the first volume:
"A Madame Félix Roussel, ces quatre volumes d'un cours de littérature qui aura du moins cet effet de ne lui apprendre absolument rien
Affectueusement Anatole France
[To Madame Félix Roussel, these four volumes of a litterature lesson which will at least have the effect of teaching her absolutely nothing]"
Madame Félix Roussel, née Pauline Gérard, was a devoted reader of Anatole France's works. The author gifted her a great number of his books, and even the original manuscript of his lectures on Rabelais.
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Two small tears in the head and foot of the spine, nice copy wide-margined.
