Mercure de France

First edition, one of 945 numbered copies on vélin paper, the only large paper copies after 20 on Hollande paper and 30 on Arches paper.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 460 copies on vergé à la forme.
Autograph inscription from Marcel Schwob to Paul d'Armon.
Illustrated with a lithograph by Maurice Delcourt on the cover.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Arches paper on our unjustified, deluxe edition after 15 Holland paper.
Signed autograph of Michel Leiris to Professor Jean-Philippe Mery and his wife.
Nice copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Autograph inscription from Michel Tournier to Ginette Guitard-Auviste, literature journalist.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 945 numbered copies on vélin paper, the only large paper copies after 20 on Hollande paper and 30 on Arches paper.
A good copy.

First edition, published in a small number of copies.
Contemporary half blue cloth over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt floral motif (faded), initials and double gilt fillet to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Rare autograph inscription on this work signed by André Gide to E. Vigié-Lecoq on half-title.
Small insignificant marginal tear to half-title.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies and justified by Remy de Gourmont on tinted vellum.
Binding to bradel half gray calico, smooth back with a gold floral pattern, date and dual gold tail filet, rubbed caps, marbled paper boards, some rubbings on the cuts, then signed binding cold Lemardeley.
Book illustrated with two original lithographs by Henry de Groux.
Sources: libraries Edouard Wassermann with his bookplate engraved by Marie Laurencin, Hubert Heilbronn and his bookplate.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph Francois Gibault at crime reporter Raymond Thevenin.
Iconography.
Volume 1 only of this magisterial biography counts 3 volumes.

first edition on the current paper.
Bel autograph signed by Eugène Ionesco at Frederick Tourvarnicki ". To my dear F. Tourvarnicki, and his wife, present and future (three in one) and for his great kindness and their"
Nice full copy of his illustrated jacket that has slight tears in mind.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Flora Groult Madeleine Naudin.
Iconography.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête.
Autograph inscription from Eugène Ionesco to Claude Bénédick.
A good copy.

First edition, one of the copies of the first issue.
full paper Binding paper mottled, smooth back, date and dual tail golden thread, as part of hazelnut shagreen, preserved covers, contemporary binding.
Precious autograph signed Eugene Demolder to Octave Mirbeau.
Provenance: Library of Augustus Lambiotte library with its bonded storage label head of a guard.

First edition, one of the first issue copies numbered to the press, it has been printed only 23 Holland paper in large papers.
Soft bradel binding in full black embossed paper with floral motifs, smooth back, title label of morocco plum, golden tail date, guards and contreplats of paper with floral and silver motifs, preserved covers, binding signed by P. Goy & Naughty.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire by Pablo Picasso.
A tiny angular miss at the foot of the first guard where the consignment appears.
Rare autograph dedication signed by Guillaume Apollinaire: "A Edouard Gazanion, his friend, Guillaume Apollinaire".
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JARRY Alfred
Les Jours et les Nuits [Days and Nights] Mercure de France, Paris 1897, 115 x 185 mm
(4 1/2 x 7 1/4 ”), Bradel binding
First edition in part, a advance (service de presse) copy.
An elegant floral cloth pastiche Bradel binding by Laurenchet, spine with red morocco title label, wrappers preserved (with very slight angular lacks).
With a fine inscription by Jarry to Edouard Dujardin on the front free endpaper.
Provenance: from the library of Edouard Goerg, with his printed ex-libris at the foot of the ffep.

First edition, one of 515 numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Signed autograph Yves Bonnefoy to his friend Professor Georges Blin.
spine and partially shaded and insolated boards, a marginal tear restored with an adhesive ppaier sidelines of the second flat, nice interior state.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on vellum.
Signed autograph Yves Bonnefoy to his friend Professor Georges Blin.
spine and flat and slightly discolored marginally harmless, pleasant inner state.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph Yves Bonnefoy to his friend Professor Georges Blin.
Copy slightly curled, small traces of insolation in the top and bottom of the back.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph Yves Bonnefoy to his friend Professor Georges Blin: "... this new book come to you, as so often my thoughts ..."
Back slightly discolored without gravity, nice copy.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph Yves Bonnefoy to his friend Professor Georges Blin.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 3000 numbered copies on vélin pur fil paper.
Spine slightly sunned, internally good.

 

First edition of the French translation by Patrick Levy why he was not drawn large papers.
Signed autograph of Patrick Lévy Professor Georges Blin.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph Yves Bonnefoy Professor Georges Blin.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on vellum, ours unjustified.
Signed autograph Yves Bonnefoy to his friend Professor Georges Blin.
Nice copy.

First edition, one of 300 copies hors commerce numbered on vellum.
Signed autograph Yves Bonnefoy to his friend Professor Georges Blin.
spine and boards and marginally slightly discolored, otherwise nice copy.

Sésame et les Lys [Sesame and Lilies]First edition of the French translation by Marcel Proust. Notes and preface also by Proust. A first impression copy numbered in the press.
Presentation copy inscribed by Marcel Proust to the writer, musical critic and journalist Edouard Trogan, (also known under pseudonym of Louis Joubert).
A small tear, not serious, to foot of upper wrapper.
A pastiche chemise and slipcase in half light brown cloth by Goy & Vilaine.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Half vellum-effect Bradel binding over patterned paper boards by de Gauché, red morocco title-piece, black paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Handsome and fine autograph inscription signed by Remy de Gourmont to Charles Maurras : "... orateur athénien...[…Athenian orator…]"
One small repaired tear to head of page with inscription.
A very good copy nicely bound.

Edition partly original and printed 350 copies on laid Arches paper, "Roadmaps" being published previously.
Precious autograph signed Gide to Maurice Barres.

The dedication that the young Gide addresses his prestigious elder on this collection of travel notes proves to be more than just respectful salutation to the "guru" of French Letters since 1880.
Like many other young writers, Gide - bars that introduced early in the circle of Mallarmé - is his literary debut in the "consecration of authority" that represents Maurice Barres, whose intellectual and literary authority at the turn of the twentieth century continues to grow.

Yet in 1906, when

First edition collective on ordinary paper, falsely stated the sixth edition.
A good copy.

first edition on the current paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated by Eugene Ionesco Bernard Duhamel.
Nice copy.

first edition on the current paper.
Signed autograph of Eugene Ionesco André Serre.
Nice copy.

Edition, one of the copies of the first issue.
Bound in half red shagreen, slightly faded back smoothes decorated with gilded nets, marbled paper plates, wrappers preserved and bound in with marginal restorations, mottled head, contemporary binding.
Humorous autograph signed Rachilde to Mr. Michelet namesake of the historian Jules Michelet: "... his old comrade Merovingian time ..."

First edition of some parts, falsely stated the sixth.
With a frontispiece portrait of Arthur Rimbaud by Henri Fantin-Latour.
Three tiny tears without lack to head and foot of spine, a good copy.

First edition, one of 27 numbered copies on Madagascar, head print.
Autograph signed by Yves Bonnefoy to Max-Philippe Delatte.
Nice copy.

first edition of the second book of the author.
Binding in full decorative paper, smooth back, shagreen as Exhibit maroquiné fir, wrappers and back preserved and bound in (slightly dated back), signed binding Boichot.
Precious autograph signed by Louis Pergaud the poet Georges Duhamel.
Pleasant beautifully drawn copy.

first edition on the current paper.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Eugene Ionesco Sylvie Ulmann: "... my colleague excess wrong ..."
Small bites without the first flat head gravity back slightly insolated.

First edition, now rare.
Modern Bradel binding by Boichot of brown paper boards with gilt floral motifs in a turn of the century style, brown shagreen title piece, covers and spine preserved.
Introduction and notes by Paterne Berrichon, as well as the facsimile of a letter from Ménélick to Rimbaud.
A very good copy in a very attractive binding.

First edition.
Small tears in the margins, not serious, to the covers.

First edition.
Three small angular lacks and a black ink stain to head of lower cover.

First edition, review copy.
Binding to open bradel paper decorative Art Nouveau, smooth back, shagreen as Exhibit maroquiné fir, wrappers and back preserved and bound in (slightly dated back), signed binding Boichot.
Precious autograph signed by Louis Pergaud the poet Georges Duhamel and his wife, the actress Blanche Albane.
Clear spots on edges.
Pleasant beautifully drawn copy.

First edition, one of the copies of the first issue numbered press.
Binding to open bradel paper decorative Art Nouveau, smooth back, shagreen as Exhibit maroquiné black, wrappers and back preserved and bound in (slightly dated back), signed binding Boichot.
Precious autograph signed by Louis Pergaud Georges Duhamel.
Clear spots on edges.
Pleasant beautifully drawn copy.

First edition, one of 19 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only major paper.
Binding to bradel way to open carton flaps vellum, flat spine, black initials GV Length back, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, red head, preserved covers, binding of unsigned time.
Precious autograph signed Binet-Valmer Augustus Gilbert Neighbors for that book dedicated to the mother of dedicatee Countess Gilbert Neighbors: "A brother Augusto milk, Gustave."
Provenance: the Augustus Gilbert library with its black neighbors initial tail back.
Rare and pleasant nicely drawn copy.

First edition, one of numbered copies for each volume.
A good complete set, despite some spots and foxing.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph of Georges Duhamel Robert Garric "... fraternal homage ..."
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 expla

New edition.
Signed autograph of the author André Serre.
Pleasant copy.

First edition in French, translated by Marcel Proust. Notes and preface also by Proust. A first impression copy numbered in the press.
Handsome autograph inscription from Marcel Proust to Madame de Pierrebourg : "... hommage de respectueuse reconnaissance..."
Repairs and lack (filled in) to the first leaves, a good copy with fragile paper.

La baronne Marguerite Aimery Harty de Pierrebourg, femme de lettres et maîtresse de Paul Hervieu, tenait un Salon littéraire brillant où se sont croisés notamment Raymond Poincaré, Henri de Régnier, Paul Valéry, Alfred Capus, Abel Hermant, René Boylesve, Edmond Jaloux, Gérard d'Houville, Edouard Estaunié, André Gide, G

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy with printer's device to head of upper cover.
Contemporary half dark red Bradel cloth binging over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt fleuron and double gilt fillet to foot, brown shagreen titlepiece, covers preserved.
Autograph inscription signed by Léon Bloy to Abbé Henri Lebel : " à mon bien cher ami Henri Lebel. / "Sibboleth quod interpretatur spica [To my dear friend Henri Lebel…]".
Ink annotations by the dedicatee to the margins of the page with the bibliography of Léon Bloy.
With two engravings, one a frontispiece.
Provenance : from the library of the noted collector Louis Barthou with his

First edition, stated the second edition.
With portrait of the author as frontispiece.
A good copy.

La Bible d'Amiens [The Bible of Amiens]First edition of Marcel Proust's translation of Ruskin's work into French. One of the first issue copies numbered at the press, there were only seven copies printed on Hollande luxury paper.
Half brown hard-grained morocco, covers preserved. Contemporary binding.
Rare autograph inscription from Marcel Proust to Georges Goyau:
“à Monsieur Georges Goyau. Son admirateur affectueux et reconnaissant Marcel Proust” (“To Monsieur Georges Goyau. His affectionate and grateful admirer Marcel Proust”)

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vélin paper pur fil Johannot paper, the tirage de tête.
A good copy.

First edition, one of 550 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Montgolfier paper.
Spine slightly sunned and cracked, internally good.

PROUST Marcel & RUSKIN John. Sésame et les lys [Sesame and Lilies]
Mercure de France, Paris 1906, 12 x 19 cm, original wrappers with custom slipcase
First edition in French on ordinary paper, notes and preface by Marcel Proust.
Rare autograph inscription from Marcel Proust to Pierre du Breuil de Saint-Germain.
Tiny angular lacks (not serious) to spine and foot of covers as well as title and half-title, the paper fragile as usual.
This copy has a chemise and slipcase of black morocco, gilt date at foot of spine, lined with khaki suede, by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.