Pierre Horay

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip.
Rare and fine autograph inscription signed by Yves Salgues to the hussard writer and lawyer Stephen Hecquet in which he references Antoine Blondin: "Cher Stephen Hecquet, voici (non pas en hommage mais en amitié) le premier livre de la collection qui vous attend, qui vous espère, qui vous veut. Cette histoire est étrange et je crois qu'elle vous plaira. J'ai vu Antoine Blondin l'autre jour et nous avons parler de votre grand talent avec joie et tendresse. Mille bons voeux. Du fond du coeur. 30. Dec.58 Yves Salgues." (Dear Stephen Hecquet, here is (not as homage but in...

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Paper yellowed.
Rare and fine autograph inscription signed by Yves Salgues to the Hussar writer and lawyer Stephen Hecquet: "Pour monsieur Stephen Hecquet, dont j'admire la redoutable plume d'or et de sang mêlés. En respectueux hommage d'un journaliste : Yves Salgues." ("For Mr. Stephen Hecquet, whose formidable pen of gold and blood mingled I admire. In respectful tribute from a journalist: Yves Salgues.")

First edition illustrated with humorous drawings by Trez, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Trez to the historian of Paris Gilbert Guilleminault.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
First cover marginally shaded, small sunning at head and foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Roger Rabiniaux to his friends Gilbert and Geneviève Lafragette: "... ce livre burlesque et lyrique mais qui n'est pas un jeu Gilbert, qui est le témoignage du désarroi d'un homme et d'une société... Mais qui est un cri tragique..." ["... this burlesque and lyrical book which is not a game Gilbert, which is the testimony of the disarray of a man and a society... But which is a tragic cry..."]

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine slightly sunned with a small light stain at head, minute corner chip at foot of front cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Alain Sergent to the great Céline scholar Pierre Monnier: "... ce portrait d'un farceur dont les imitateurs se prennent trop au sérieux..." ["... this portrait of a joker whose imitators take themselves too seriously..."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Affectionate autograph inscription dated and signed by Angelo Rossi to a friend: "A Maurice, cette tentative d'explication d'une époque qui nous a été commune, en amical hommage." ["To Maurice, this attempt to explain an era we shared, in friendly homage."]
A small and light dampstain of no consequence at the foot of the spine.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from André Dhôtel.

Pierre Horay, Paris 1955, 15.5 x 20.5 cm, originale wrappers
The first edition on ordinary paper.
A good, illustrated, copy.
A very handsome authograph inscription signed by Cléo de Mérode on ffep and continued on half title to Henri Devaux : "To monsieur H. Devaux! with best wishes and a thousand apologies for being so tardy in sending you my humble book of "memories". Cléo de Mérode. 1 June 1959. Music! Music, my passion that gave me so much pure and profound joy, besides dance! Cléo de Mérode."

First edition.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Pierre-Edouard Deldique to a friend named Monique: "... thank you for all the work of communication around this book.The" stooge "is so important.Thank you also for reading carefully. -Edouard. " enriched with an original drawing by Cabu representing the dedicatee, with a smile on his lips and two suitcases in his hand, with these few words: "Bon voyage Monique, Cabu."

First edition.
Spine and covers marginally sunned, a small white stain at head of rear cover, handsome interior condition.
Rare.
Contributions by Sandor Petofi, Gyorgy Paloczi-Horvath, Lajos Kassak, Laszlo Németh, Gjula Illyès, Imre Szasz, Miklos Hubay...

First edition, one of 3,000 copies of the edition printed on gift Alfa paper foam.
autograph dedication of the author autograph signed and dated Andre Dhôtel to Bernard Privat and his wife: "... in memory of good meetings, and hoping to make new Coulommiers" which is not the country where the it never comes "..."
Back slightly insolated.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly insolated without gravity.
Autograph signed by André Dhôtel to Pierre Loiselet.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph Maurice Henry Raymond Thevenin.
Illustrated book of humorous drawings of the author