Calmann-Lévy

First edition on ordinary paper.
Half-brown shagreen binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt typographical motifs, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Guellier.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Loti to Alphonse Cillière, French consul in Trebizond during the Armenian massacres of 1894-1896 ordered by the Red Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the first step in a genocidal escalation that would culminate in 1915.
Our copy contains an autograph note signed by Pierre Loti to Alphonse Cillière (envelope included, the ensemble mounted on tabs) in which he expresses his wish, before leaving France, to meet his correspondent.

New edition.
Half morocco binding with corners in red, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets and decorated with triple black compartments, olive green morocco title-label and author's name, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy beautifully executed of one of the rarest and most sought-after titles by Prosper Mérimée.

New edition.
Half red morocco with corners, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets and decorated with triple black compartments, title-label and author's name in bottle green morocco, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy, beautifully bound.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half yellow cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at tail, brown shagreen title label with scratches, combed paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
A library shelf label pasted at upper corner of one pastedown, bookseller's description label pasted on one endpaper.

Les Plaisirs et les Jours

First edition on ordinary paper, illustrated with drawings by Madeleine Lemaire including 14 inset, preface by Anatole France and scores by Reynaldo Hahn.

Bound in half red shagreen, spine in five compartments, marbled endpapers, large gilt lace tooling frame on the inner covers, wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, gilt fillet on the leading edges, contemporary binding signed by Franz.

Exceptional handwritten dedication signed by Marcel Proust to the painter Jean Béraud followed by a long, entirely unpublished, handwritten, artistic profession of faith by Marcel Proust disguised as a false quotation “extrait[e] d'un vieux livre d'esthétique” (“extract from an old aesthetic book”).

Copy enriched with a signed original watercolour by Madeleine Lemaire.

First edition in French.
Half black shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, speckled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, illustrated covers preserved, corners slightly bumped.
Work illustrated with wood engravings by Adolfo de Carolis.
Gift inscription in ink by a former owner on the title page.

New edition.
Half navy blue morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed in blind by Petitot.
Handsome copy despite slight scratches to the spine.
Amusing signed autograph inscription by Anatole France to Madame Félix Roussel: "... ce livre que j'ai oublié, en la priant d'en faire autant..." ["...this book that I have forgotten, asking her to do the same..."]

First collective edition, one of the 260 numbered copies on vélin teinté, the only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Nice copy.

First edition of the adaptation and the free French translation established by René-Louis Piachaud.
Insolated back, small marginal tears with tiny gaps on the boards.
Full copy of his prayer to insert.
Autograph dedication signed by René-louis Piachaud to Maurice Martin du Gard.

New edition.
Binding half hazelnut, smooth back decorated with black and golden threads, piece of black sheepskin, small traces of rubbing on the back, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers (two small gaps on the boards).
Some small foxinges.
E autograph signed and dated by Aurore Sand to Jean-François Jouvion .