Desclée de Brouwer

Edition with numerous illustrations by Marc Chagall including 8 in color at the beginning of the volume.
Publisher's full sand-colored cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has some minor marginal tears of no consequence.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Finland vellum.
Spine sunned and faded.
Signed autograph inscription from Pierre Emmanuel to Charles Westphal: "... en union de pensée..." ["...in unity of thought..."]

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
Adhesive paper stains at head and foot of endpapers, otherwise a handsome full-margined copy.

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Jean Vincent to Jean-Marie Depaix.

First edition with no mention of deluxe copies.
Spine slightly sunned.
Signed autograph inscription from Monseigneur Chevrot to Maurice Martin du Gard.

First edition of this offprint from the issue of the Revue Générale of 15 March 1928, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half navy blue shagreen binding, spine in two compartments, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt.
Fine autograph inscription from the author to A. Godoy.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 880 numbered copies on white laid, only leading copies after 120 vellum Arches paper.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend Georges Raillard.

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 of the French translation for which it was not drawn great papers, one of the review copies service.
Insolated back.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Nicolas Berdiaeff from the author to Daniel-Rops.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Jacques Maritain Robert Garric.
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 the Institut Sainte-Marie 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! "
A small marginal browning dish on the second and last book.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription from the author.
A handsome copy.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy, with a date discretely inscribed at the head of the front endpaper.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Iconography.
Reading marks in ballpoint pen on some pages.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
A tear at head and foot of one joint, slight corner losses to boards which also show pale marginal dampstaining, light interior foxing.
Rare.

First edition for which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
With a photographic portrait of Edgar Poe as frontispiece, spine slightly sunned, publisher's slip laid in.

First French edition.
Work illustrated with 2 illustrations.
Spine and boards marginally faded, one stain to spine, small corner lack to front board.