Editions du siècle

First edition, one of the numbered copies on pure laid paper, ours being one of 100 hors commerce copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine and covers very slightly and marginally sunned.
Signed autograph inscription from Marcel Coulon to Fernand divoire.

First edition in French, one of 265 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe edition.
Handsome full-margined copy despite a small tear at head of spine and light foxing.
These are pastiches of Solomon, Homer, Bossuet, Voltaire, Plato, Theocritus, Virgil, Ovid, Saint Paul, Plutarch, de Voragine, Dante, Shakespeare, La Rochefoucauld, Perrault, La Fontaine, Boileau, Fénelon, Swift, Buffon, Florian, Goethe...
Facsimiles of the manuscript signatures of those parodied on the front endpaper.

First edition in French, one of 200 numbered copies on alfa paper, ours one of 10 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 725 numbered copies on laid paper.
Illustrated with a portrait of Rémy de Gourmont by Raoul Dufy.
Light rubbing to spine, handsome interior condition.

First edition, one of 23 hors commerce copies lettered on pur fil and reserved for the author, ours specially printed for Jean de Gourmont.
Fine full-page autograph inscription signed by Constant Bourquin to Jean de Gourmont: "... je vous adresse ce volume publié sous votre égide, comme au meilleur et au plus sûrs des amis, comme à l'être le plus essentiellement et le plus naturellement intelligent, et en témoignage d'une sympathie et d'une admiration qui seront toujours vivaces dans mon coeur et dans mon esprit en même temps que ma reconnaissance." ["... I send you this volume published under your aegis, as to the best and surest of friends, as to the most essentially and...

First edition, one of the numbered copies on Lafuma paper.
Work illustrated with a portrait of Moréas as frontispiece as well as facsimiles by the poet.
Two small and light stains of no consequence at head of front cover, handsome copy.

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Hollande, the only large paper copies.
Endpapers shaded, otherwise a rare and good copy with edges preserved.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine and rare copy.

First edition of the French translation by Georges Bataille and T. Beresovski-Chestov printed on Alfa paper and why it was not drawn large paper, review copy.
Rare autograph signed Leon Shestov in fraçais, Gabriel Alphand.
Back insolated and with a lack and a foot tear, keeps it appears the autograph fully shaded.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph from the author to the French journalist Paul Mathieix Action.
A few bites on the back and the guards.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, deluxe copy.
Spine sunned and cracked, foxing, tears and marginal stains to boards, erased gift inscription at head of first endpaper, handsome interior condition.

Definitive edition collated from the original manuscript by René Maublanc, one of 100 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only deluxe copies.
Le cocu en herbe, le cocu absorbé, le cocu pot-au-feu, le cocu loup-garou, le cocu de par la loi...
Light foxing to first endpaper, otherwise a rare and handsome full-margined copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
A very good copy.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
List of prefects and alphabetical index at the end.

First edition in French, one of 515 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies with 15 on Holland paper.
A handsome copy.

First edition, printed on ordinary paper, false statement of sixth edition.
The situation of Germany before A. Hitler's rise to power.
A tiny lack at head of spine.
Rare.