Gallimard (1911 - )

First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite two slight sunning marks at head and foot of spine.

La Peste [The Plague]
Gallimard, Paris 1947, 12 x19 cm, original wrappers
First edition, an advance, service de presse copy.
A very good copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Albert Camus to the Surrealist Roland Tual.
Copies of this text with inscriptions are rare and sought-after. Gallery-owner, journalist, producer and literary critic, Roland Tual met Camus in 1943 at Gallimard, both of them going on to be members of the jury for the prestigious but short-lived prix de la Pléiade prize. It was at the final occasion that the prize was awarded that Camus gave him this handsome copy of his second novel.
A friend of Michel Leiris and...

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph Antoine de Saint Exupéry Roland and Denise Tual: "... in memory of a friend forgotten but faithful ..."

First edition on current paper.
Pleasant full copy of his rhodoïd.
Autograph signed by Edgar Faure.

First edition for which it was not drawn great papers of this book for children posing as a tourist postcard Baladar Islands to send to friends.
Binding of the editor in full cartonnage, illustrated boards.
Illustrated book of drawings by André François.
Inevitable traces of rubbing on the back due to the fact that Jacques Prévert sent by post the autographs made on this book: the addresses and names inscribed by Jacques Prévert at the bottom of the first board and in the middle of the second board.
Oniric autograph signed by Jacques Prévert: "To Anne-Marie Meurant, St Leu la Forêt, in very happy memory, Jacques Rêve-vert." enriched with a very...

Later edition, a few months after the first.
Nice copy.
Autograph inscription by Marguerite Yourcenar to Jean-Daniel Bross.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy despite the back slightly insolated.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Raymond Queneau: "To Henri Thomas thanks to whom I discovered the Black Cat looking at the Saint-Jacques Tower, I offer him in exchange, a little further, the sirens of the Sebastopol P. 22. Bien cordially."

First edition for which it was drawn only 23 "pur-fil" paper in large papers, one of the review copies service.
Insolated back with restorations.
Signed autograph on this text from Henri Michaux to Gilbert Charles.

New "first edition", impimed 500 copies on laid Arches paper and consisting of the second edition of this text (completed June 20, 1911).
This posterior edition of less than a month to the original published May 29, 1911, is considered the original of this text, because the latter was almost completely destroyed, André Gide being dissatisfied with the draw because three pages had not the regular number of lines.
Nice copy blue blankets not passed as generally, rare bites without gravity.
Autograph dedication signed by André Gide to Jean Croué written in Cuverville on July 3rd.

First edition of the French translation for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Nice copy despite small foxing affecting mainly slices.
Autograph signed by one of the translators, Albine Loisy, to Claude Arland.

New edition.
A clear and small wetness without gravity in foot of the back, nice copy.
Autograph signed by Simone de Beauvoir to Henri Merremans.

First edition on current paper, whimsical mention of seventeenth edition.
Small dumps of adhesive paper in feet of boards.
Signed autograph of Jules Roy to Mrs. Labathut.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Important and exceptional autograph dedication signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery to Vicente Almonspine Amonacid: "For the Almonacid Hoodo hero of the Argentine and French aviation with the deep affection of Antoine de Saint-Exupery".
Nice copy.

First edition.
boards very slightly soiled without gravity.
Precious and beautiful autograph signed by Régis Debray Claude Mandret.

First edition on current paper.
Binding in brown half morocco, back with five nerves, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers and back preserved, gilded head, elegant binding signed P. Goy & c. Ugly.
Precious autograph dedication signed in pencil by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle: "To Henri Béraud and exercised his rough frankness Drieu la Rochelle."

Partly first edition in paperback format, one of the review copies service.
Scorers in margins of slips and on slices.
Precious autograph dedication signed by Raymond Queneau to his close friend and biographer Jean Queval, like him, figure and creator, of the Oulipo: "To Jean Queval well oulipotement Queneau."
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Later edition of a few months to the original.
Back slightly insolated.
Autograph Thought signed Henri de Montherlant taking a sentence of Abesse page 136: "What we want is to see the opposite of what is".
Our copy is enriched, on the page of false title, of the signatures of the majority of the actors of this play.