Gallimard (1911 - )

First edition, one of the advance copies ("service de presse").
Nice copy.
Signed handwritten inscription by Marcel Aymé to Luc Vincent.

First edition published in the Bibliothèque de La Pléiade.
Publisher's binding in full green grained sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, complete with its cellophane wrapper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of the 36 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Very nice copy.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on chestnut paper, the only issue with 13 on pure thread paper.
Handsome copy.

Edition en format livre de poche, un des exemplaires du service de presse.
spine légèrement insolé.
Envoi autographe signé de Michel Leiris à un ami : "Pour Jacques, qui a vécu avec moi une bonne part de tout cela ! Affectueusement."

L'Étranger [The Stranger]First edition first issue for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed, one of the rare first printed copies, no false statement of edition.
Bound in chocolate-brown box calf, spine in five compartments, smooth date, spine and boards recovered with a geometric and abstract decoration produced with the help of inlaid, glazed pieces of Havana box calf set with gilt and silver fillets, marbled Havana box calf inner covers, chocolate-brown buckskin endpapers, wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, slipcase lined...

First edition of the translation in French, one of the 110 numbered copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma-Navarre and re-imposed in quarto Tellière format, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite the covers being marginally and lightly sunned at heads.
Our copy includes the mezzotint by Le Maréchal and the etching by Guillain Siroux which they have signed and numbered.
Manuscript signatures in pencil by André Pieyre de Mandiargues and Henri Thomas on the colophon.