L'âge d'homme

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, with gift inscription in blue ink to upper right corner of front endpaper.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges Mathieu to Pierre Troillard.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Vladimir Volkoff to the Immortel Jean Hamburger.

First edition in French, one of 17 hand-numbered copies, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome full-margined copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Pierre Gripari to Serge Marion: "... avec le bonjour de Quilp..." ["... with greetings from Quilp..."]

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pure Lana rag vellum, ours one of 7 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies
A handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
First endpaper marginally creased without significance.
Autograph inscription signed by Vladimir Volkoff to Bertrand Poirot-Delpech: "Pour monsieur Poirot-Delpech, souvenir fidèle de l'auteur." ["For Mr. Poirot-Delpech, faithful regards from the author."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Spine faded, small lacks to the plastic film covering the boards.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Gripari to the great Céline scholar Pierre Monnier: "Pour Pierre Monnier, avec tous mes voeux pour la publicité de Ferdinand Furieux et pour beaucoup, beaucoup de livres édités à la suite." ["For Pierre Monnier, with all my wishes for the publicity of Ferdinand Furieux and for many, many books to be published afterwards."]

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Photographic cover.
Very handsome copy despite a small tear at the foot of the back cover.
Rare.

First edition, of which no deluxe copies were printed.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Lawrence Durrell to his close friend Janine Brun.

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only in a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (Les citrons acides), he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the "Tartès house," his large dwelling surrounded by trees, he wrote the second part of his work, his monumental Avignon Quintet, devoted himself to painting and received his illustrious friends, including the couple Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, violinist Yehudi Menuhin, London publisher Alan G. Thomas, and his two daughters Penelope and Sappho.
Among the olive trees and under the Mediterranean sun, in the mid-1960s he met the young and sparkling "Jany" (Janine Brun), a woman from Montpellier in her thirties with devastating beauty, who worked in the Antiquities department of the Sorbonne in Paris. She was nicknamed "Buttons" in memory of their first meeting, where the young woman wore a dress covered with buttons. Henry Miller also fell under the charm of "Buttons," praising her beauty and eternal youth in exceptional unpublished letters. The three companions spent memorable Parisian evenings of which we keep precious autograph traces through their epistolary exchanges. Recommended by Durrell, she made numerous trips notably to England from where she received vast correspondence from the writer as well as original artworks signed with his artist pseudonym, Oscar Epfs.

first edition illustrated with photographs of Louis Monier.
Preface by Jean Dutourd, comments by Alain Paucard.
Pleasant copy.
autograph dedication of the author auotgraphe dated and signed by Louis Monier to Charles Dobzynski.

First edition.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Alain Paucard: "To Claude who resists cretinization by culture."

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Pierre Gripari Patrick Rizzi.
pleasant copy

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph of jean dutourd to a couple of his friends, Philippe (Guerin) and Aimee (born Lemercier): "... with the loving and faithful thoughts of their old Pym."
Nice copy.

First edition for which it was not drawn from large papers.
Pleasant copy.
Autograph signed by Giovanni Lista to Pierre Abraham.

First edition.
Autograph signed by Alain Paucard: "A Brigitte Level who leads the fight against cretinization by culture, asking him to read page 124 ..."
Nice copy.

First edition for which there were no large paper copies.
A good copy.