Félix Juven

Illustrated edition with color images by Job.
Publisher's full grey cloth binding, smooth spine, first cover illustrated with a polychrome plate depicting a battle scene, endpapers and pastedowns of blue paper marginally discolored without gravity, red edges, signed binding by Engel.
Handsome copy.

First edition, with service de presse stamp at end of volume.
Bradel binding in half brown cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron, double gilt fillet at foot, navy blue shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, one tear to lower edge, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Maurice Barrès: "A Léon Daudet, souvenir amical. Maurice Barrès."

First edition on ordinary paper.
Half marbled sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with a gilt cartouche showing some rubbing, navy blue shagreen title label, marbled paper boards, beige paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding.
Precious signed autograph inscription by Maurice Barrès: "A Léon Daudet , son vieil et reconnaissant ami. Maurice Barrès." ["To Léon Daudet, his old and grateful friend. Maurice Barrès."]

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in brown half cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, black shagreen title-label with minor scratches, marbled paper boards, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Maurice Barrès at the head of the half-title page: "A Léon Daudet, son ami Maurice Barrès"

New edition.
Bradel binding in half almond-green percale, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt fleuron, double gilt fillet at foot, burgundy shagreen title-label, pebbled paper boards, original covers preserved, contemporary binding.
Small lack at head of one endpaper.
Handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
A press clipping from Echo de Paris about the work pasted on an endpaper, having shadowed the facing page.
Bradel binding in full blue-green cloth, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt fleuron, havana shagreen title-label with minor rubbing, gilt date and fillet at foot, original wrappers preserved, contemporary signed binding by Desnaux.
Autograph inscription signed by Maurice Barrès to Charles de Peslouän.

First edition in French.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded with five raised bands set with dotted lines and decorated with gilt double compartments adorned with gilt typographic motifs, double gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Illustrated work with, as frontispiece, a portrait of Christian De Wet, photographic plates and a folding map at the end of the volume.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 12 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Spine slightly sunned and wrinkled.
Rare and handsome full-margined copy.

First edition on ordinary paper, only 10 Japan and 20 Holland copies were printed.
Small tears to spine, one joint cracked at head and foot.

First edition on ordinary paper.
A nice copy.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Japan paper, the tirage de tête.
Half maroon morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, maroon paper pastedowns and endpapers, covers preserved, top edge gilt.
A fine, well-margined copy in a lovely binding.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after 20 Japan.
Tears with lacks to margins of spine and boards and endpapers partially shaded.
Handsome full-margined copy.

First edition, with mention of sixth edition.
Bradel binding in half khaki cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt coat of arms, double gilt fillet at foot, chocolate brown shagreen title label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, bookplate pasted on pastedown, binding signed by Henry Joseph successor to Pierson.
Provenance: from the library of the Bourbon de Rouvre family with their engraved and pasted bookplate.
Handsome copy.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with in-text drawings by the author.
Gift inscriptions serving as bookplates on the front cover and half-title page, spine sunned.
Provenance: from the library of Noël Arnaud with his bookplate pasted on a pastedown.

Edition with some parts in first edition on ordinary paper.
Split spine with three small lacks.

First edition of which there were no deluxe copies mentioned.
Handsome copy.

First edition, no mention of deluxe copies.
Worming and a tear at head of spine, small tears at head and foot of joints, angular lack to rear board, occasional light foxing.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only deluxe copies issued after 25 on China paper.

Some minor marginal tears to the covers, not affecting the overall appearance.

A pleasing copy of this album of drawings portraying the characters involved in a late 19th-century fraud trial.

 

First edition of the French translation for which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Small tears repaired at head and foot of spine, slight tears to right margin of front board.
Rare and handsome copy presented in its original wrappers.

Collected edition.
Spine very lightly sunned with a small tear at head, some foxing on the leaves of the final gathering.

First edition on current paper.
Small foxing at the beginning and end of the volume.
Binding full percaline gray moire, smooth back decorated with a decorative golden pattern, title piece of heartbreak blue, guards and contreplats paper decorative pattern, binding of the era signed Victor Wachter binder in Cairo.
Autograph signed by Maurice Barres Fernand Braun.

First edition on current paper.
Bradel binding in half cardboard blue sky, smooth back slightly adorned with a gilt finial, double gilt tail, marbled paper plates, title piece of brown shagreen, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers , Contemporary binding.
Some small foxing.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Déroulède to the painter Jean Béraud on a guard which is completely burnished and which has a small tear in its back and has been restored using an adhesive piece.

First edition on current paper.
Bradel binding in half cardboard blue sky, smooth back adorned with a gilt finial, double golden net tail, a stain on the whole height of the back, marbled paper plates, title piece of brown shagreen, guards and contreplats of paper in the bowl, preserved covers, Contemporary binding.
Some small foxing.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Paul Déroulède to the painter Jean Béraud.

First edition of the françaie Translation by Serge Persky and for which there is no mention of leading copies.
Binding to bradel half red calico, smooth back, as part of shagreen blue with scratches, name of the author of shagreen brown, net gilded on the boards of marbled paper, upper corners bumped, contemporary binding.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated by Serge Persky in A. Brisson.

first edition on the current paper.
Binding half marbled fawn sheepskin, back with five nerves, part of title and name of the author of roan chocolate brown, marbled paper flat, rough and missing corner, two more blunt, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Maurice Barres to Robert de Flers, a leading figure of the Proustian universe.

Edition, press service of punch foot flat second and last pages.
Binding half marbled fawn sheepskin, rubbed back with five nerves, part of title and name of the author of roan chocolate brown, a little lack on top of spine, marbled paper plates, two corners bumped, guards and contreplats paper the tank, wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Maurice Barres to Robert de Flers, a leading figure of the Proustian universe.

Edition, press service of punch foot flat second and last pages.
Binding half marbled fawn sheepskin, rubbed back with five nerves, part of title and name of the author of roan chocolate brown, a little lack on top of spine, marbled paper plates, two corners bumped, guards and contreplats paper the tank, wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph Maurice Barres to Robert de Flers, a leading figure of the Proustian universe.

first edition.
Binding pine green half morocco with corners, evenly spent smooth back with a gold decorated with floral motifs cartrouche e (t of pellets mosaiced brown morocco, gilt tail date coaching gilded nets on marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, preserved covers, bookplate pasted on a contreplat, the time of Charles Lanoë signed binding.
Bel autograph signed Georges Esparbès: "In March Chief Oscar Méténier to the writer, the friend, his subordinate, Corporal G. Esparbès."
Illustrated by Adolphe Willette coverage.

First edition, illustrated with 16 plates outside the text after nature by Christian-Wilhelm Allers. Presentation copy.
Publisher's half red cloth binding, personalized front cover decorated in gilt with the title, publisher and the inscription "offered by Mr Maurice Berteaux, deputy - 1904.
Journey of journalist Jules Hoche (1859-1926) through Egypt, Suez, Ceylon, Pondicherry and Madras, Singapore, Java, Siam, Hong-Kong and Canton, Shanghai and the Yang-Tse-Kiang, Peking and its surroundings, Japan and America. Significant dampstain to covers, corners slightly bumped, edges rubbed, one hinge weakened at foot, interior fresh despite some foxing.

First Edition, one of 20 numbered copies on vellum Arches paper reserved for the XX for each of the three volumes.
Braziers bindings in brown half morocco with corners, smooth backs, tail dates, covers and back preserved, gilded heads on witnesses, bindings signed Canape.
The last two volumes are under double covers and the first two are signed to the justification by the author .
The copy of the Uprooted is enriched with a large page of the original manuscript in black ink, filled and mounted at the beginning of the book.
The Call to the Soldier is enriched by an autograph letter signed by Barrès to a friend in which he mentions the upcoming...

First edition. About this financial scandal that shook the Third Republic. Appendices. Two small tears repaired to the spine, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition. Work illustrated with 120 documentary engravings and photographs. Man's dream, the gas bubble, fish of the air, parachutes and kites, artificial birds, warfare in the air, the age of air. Spine cracked with small losses, spotting to boards. Rare.

First edition, false statement of 5th edition.
Spine very slightly warped with three tiny corner chips.
Rare.