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First edition, one of 25 nominative numbered copies on hollande, deluxe copies after 12 Japan enriched with a suite of illustrations on chine and 12 nominative hors commerce and numbered copies on rose paper.
Work illustrated with two portraits and seven facsimiles, our copy containing, as stipulated in the justification page, the suite of illustrations on vergé d'arches.
The slipcase is lacking, spine very lightly sunned without consequence.
Fine full-margined copy of this unpublished short story by Honoré de Balzac.

First edition, one of 1000 copies on Arches laid paper, ours unnumbered.
Spine and boards faded as usual, endpapers very lightly and partially shadowed without severity, some small foxing affecting certain leaves at their right margins.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges Bernanos to Robert Lejeune.

Photographic postcard inscribed by Maurice Chevalier to Alice Rim, whose pen name was Caro Canaille, depicting Mistinguett in 1903.
"Chère Caro Canaille, comme vous êtes généreuse de vous donner le mal de me faire savoir une si touchante opinion de petite fille. Mais vous m'avez toujours montré votre amitié. Bonnes vacances. Maurice Chevalier. 8.6.63." ["Dear Caro Canaille, how generous you are to take the trouble to let me know such a touching opinion from a little girl. But you have always shown me your friendship. Happy holidays. Maurice Chevalier. 8.6.63."]
Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker and was...

First edition, one of 1050 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Half black shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled top edges.
A photographic portrait of Charles Maurras mounted on a pastedown of the first volume.
Minor rubbing to spines without significance.
Handsome set uniformly bound.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally lightened as is generally the case.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Handsome full-margined copy despite spine and boards lightly and marginally discolored as usual.
Autograph inscription signed by René Benjamin to historian Jean Longnon.

First edition, one of 5 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Handsome full-margined copy despite two small traces of sunning at head and foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Lucien Dubech to historian Jean Longnon: "... en souvenir affectueux de nos voyages à l'été de 1928..." ["in affectionate memory of our travels in the summer of 1928..."]

First edition, one of 10 lettered and named copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Fine full-margined copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Lucien Dubech to historian Jean Longnon in the form of a quatrain.

First edition, one of 12 nominative copies numbered and justified on pink paper by the publisher, ours printed for the wife of historian Jean Longnon, deluxe issue after 12 Japan copies expanded with a suite of illustrations.
Spine of slipcase slightly browned.
Work illustrated with 4 facsimiles.
Handsome copy of No. 4 of the "Cahiers balzaciens".

First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only issue after 10 on Japan paper.
Endpapers partially shadowed, otherwise a handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Henri Massis to Pol Neveux.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on laid Arches paper.
Endpapers marginally shaded, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on laid to shape.
Back and marginally insolated boards, nice interior state.
Autograph dedication signed by François-Paul Alibert to André Nadal: "... these poems which were mostly designed under the sign of music".

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Japon, the tirage de tête.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally faded and sunned as usual.
Rare and nice copy with edges preserved.

First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, ours unnumbered.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 1500 copies on laid in the form of Arches paper.
Funny autograph signed Marcel Bouteron "! Bedouck wear my wishes to my friends Ripert MB!"
Nice copy.

First collected edition, one of 290 numbered copies on Rives vellum.
Full lemon yellow shagreen binding, smooth spine, the letters composing the title of the work are inlaid in grey shagreen and set in gold on the first cover which bears at foot the author's name in a grey shagreen rectangle, grey box endpapers and pastedowns, two endpapers marginally soiled, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt.
The work is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author by André Derain.
Handsome copy pleasantly bound.

First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies on Arches laid paper.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally faded as usual, handsome interior condition.

New edition, one of 25 non-trade copies numbered on Holland paper, head print.
Binding in full old pink morocco, smooth back adorned with incisions of pieces of brown, pink and beige morocco representing floral motifs as well as bands of morocco covered with seedlings of gold dots, golden borders on the caps, ornate boards of two garnet and light pink morocco roses as well as five morocco bands terminated in spikes and covered with a sowing of gold dots, guards and undersides of fabric embroidered with gold or silver threads and with floral motifs , framing on the counterplates of the same decor as on the boards, following guards of paper in the tank, preserved covers and back, gilded...

Edition printed on laid paper and illustrated with a portrait of Pierre Ronsard by Orlande de Lassus.
Half brown shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt cartouches ornamented with gilt lyres, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some minor tears to leading edges, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Some foxing affecting the music plates at the end of the volume.

First edition, one of 950 numbered copies on Lafuma, ours unjustified
Signed autograph from the author to the French journalist Paul Mathieix Action.
Back and boards slightly and marginally thinned as usual.

First edition printed in 440 copies. One of 30 hors commerce copies. No. XXVIII. From the L'Alphabet des lettres collection.
Autograph inscription from Jean-Louis Vaudoyer: "A monsieur P. Balmot. Sincère hommage. Vaudoyer. Mars 1927." ["To Mr. P. Balmot. Sincere homage. Vaudoyer. March 1927."]
In original wrappers. Pink folded cover.
Unopened copy. Very fine condition.

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First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on Arches.
A very good copy.