Les Belles Lettres

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Arches vellum, the deluxe issue with 50 unnumbered laid paper copies hors commerce.
Iconography.
Handsome copy despite a shadow in the left margin of the first endpaper.
Contributions by Paul Morand, Albert Béguin, Antoine Livio, Paul Vallotton, Elie Gagnebin, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Scialom, Freddy Buache...

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jacqueline de Romilly to Patrice de Plunkett.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Fine copy retaining publisher's wraparound band.
Precious autograph inscription dated and signed by Félicien Marceau to Gisèle Halimi: "Pour vous deux, chère Gisèle, ce badinage de votre ami Félicien. Le 15 Mars 94" ["For you both, dear Gisèle, this playful work from your friend Félicien. March 15th 94"].
Provenance: from the library of Gisèle Halimi.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Félicien Marceau to Michel Serres.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Arches vellum, the deluxe issue with 50 unnumbered hors commerce copies on laid paper.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.
Contributions by Paul Morand, Albert Béguin, Antoine Livio, Paul Vallotton, Elie Gagnebin, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Scialom, Freddy Buache...

First edition.
Index in-fine
Spine faded.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half red shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Hustner.
Autograph inscription from J. Second to A. Godoy.
Handsome copy.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Colette to Monsieur Lesgouvé.

First Edition printed on Alfa paper.
Nice copy.
Superb autograph dedication signed by Colette to Willy Michel: "Ex-president of the court of Pondicherry ... (page 1) Imagine, dear Willy Michel, that this young president held at receptions, official so little that it is, imagined one day, to use punch in his home, in human skulls ... The next moment, his house was empty, and he was smoking quietly and alone on his little flat mattress.I give you his infallible way to get rid of unwelcome ... Colette. "

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Back slightly thinned without gravity.
Autograph dedication signed by the editor, for Louis Edouard Tabary, René Dumesnil.

First edition on current paper.
A small tear on the sidelines of pages 7 & 8.
Bound in brown half morocco with corners, back with five nerves, golden tail date, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blankets ert back preserved, gilded head, binding signed Semet & Plumelle.
Provenance: from the PG Castex library with its ex-libris glued on a contreplat.
Signed autograph Colette: "To my country Pierre Fortin heartily!".

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Binding of the editor in full blue fabric, smooth back, full copy of its rhodoïd which includes a foot tear in the first flat
Signed autograph of Jacqueline de Romilly Professor Georges Blin.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Lafuma only leading copies.
Binders half shagreen cherry with corners, back with five nerves decorated with gilded nets set with triple gold boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, wrappers and back preserved and bound in, gilded heads.
autograph dedication of the author signed autograph dated Jean Mazières on the first volume, Robert Garric, "... who, better than anyone, knows Vermenouze and knows about him, this book which, deprived of its generous contribution, would have been incomplete. .. "
Catholic reformist, he was the   founder of "social Teams" in 1920, which aimed to establish a social elite and bring the good word about the brotherhood born of the trenches to the workers, in the tradition of patronage. Simone de Beauvoir, then student of Robert Garric in philosophy at Sainte-Marie Institute of Neuilly, remembers him   in his "Memoirs of a Tidy Wench"   "Garric appeared; I forgot everything else and myself; the authority of his voice subdued me. In twenty years we he explained, he had discovered in the trenches the joys of camaraderie that removed social barriers. [...] To deny all limits and all separations, get out of my class, out of my skin: this slogan electrified me. [...] Must serve my life! Must serve all my life! "
Beautiful copy pleasantly established.

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

First edition with no mention of deluxe copies.
Photographic frontispiece depicting Duranty, writer and natural son of Prosper Mérimée.

New critical edition established by Pierre Deloffre.
Illustrations, handsome copy.

First edition. Boards very slightly and marginally faded, otherwise a handsome copy.