First edition, one of 1,450 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches paper, the only large paper copies after 50 on pur fil.
Spine slightly and insignificantly sunned.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Paul Eluard to his friend Léo Malet.
Letter signed by Saint Vincent de Paul, addressed to Father Firmin Get, Superior of the Priests of the Mission in Marseille, the text except the signature written in Paris by his secretary and twice dated 27 December 1658. Two pages in black ink on a folded bifolium, with the manuscript address on the verso of the bifolium, a dry seal impressed under paper, and usual folds.
In this exceptionally rare letter, Saint Vincent de Paul fights to save the Christian captives of Tunis, having himself been captured and held as a slave in that very city for two years.
The letter, recently cited in Vincentian scholarship, is an essential document for...
Portrait of Émile Zola by Nadar, printed as a Woodburytype and taken from the Galerie contemporaine des illustrations françaises, a publication comprising 200 biographical sketches devoted to 132 figures of the day (writers, artists, musicians and statesmen), illustrated with 267 photographic portraits.
Photograph mounted on card. Light rubbing, a few marginal tears and losses, not affecting the image.
Erotic playing card with hidden image, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with pochoir, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic scene.
A curiosity!
Original gouache on paper, inscribed in German Ruine des Mercur Tempels in Schwetzingen, dated 1818 and signed with the initials P. v. L. in the lower margin.
This gouache belongs to the tradition of souvenir painting, which arose in eighteenth-century Italy with the views offered to travellers on the Grand Tour and whose vogue later spread to other European countries. German landscape gardens shared the same taste for Antiquity, notably through the construction of artificial ruins evoking the vestiges of ancient Rome. The Temple of Mercury is one such example: it was erected facing the Mosque, in the gardens at Schwetzingen, at the...
First edition, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece (copperplate) depicting the Virgin Mary tenderly embracing the Christ Child.
Bound in contemporary full mottled brown sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt bands and fleurons, title label, gilt roll on board edges, shell-marbled paper pastedowns. Some rubbing to the binding, joints slightly weakened, losses to the edges of the lower board, upper margin a little short, the trimming having affected the manuscript inscription on the title page.
Bookplate of Victor Duchâtaux, dated 1887, on the front pastedown. A lawyer in Reims, he served several terms as president of the Académie nationale de Reims...
First edition of the fifth part of Michel Butor’s Revue rêvée - Le rêve du déménagement, complete with the original etching by Ania Staritsky, numbered and signed in pencil. One of 64 numbered copies.
Illustrated wrappers lightly soiled, minute tears at head of spine, otherwise a fine copy.
First edition; no large-paper copies were issued.
A fine copy.
Amusing autograph inscription, signed and dated by André Comte-Sponville, to a couple of friends named Frédérique and Christian: "... ce livre qui devrait être offert à tous les jeunes mariés ! ... (Au fait, avez-vous déposé une liste de mariage quelque part ?)"
First edition, limited to 200 copies on pur fil de Rives paper; this is one of the few hors commerce copies printed with the recipient's name.
A pleasing copy despite a small vertical cut to the front cover.
Illustrated with 7 engravings by Marcel Gromaire, 4 of them double-page and printed in colour.
First edition, one of 28 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only large-paper copies after 10 on China paper and 12 on vieux Japon.
A fine and rare copy.
First edition, limited to 200 copies printed on pur fil de Rives paper.
A pleasant copy.
Illustrated with 11 engravings by Jacques Villon, including 4 full-page plates.
First edition, one of 21 numbered copies on Japon impérial paper, part of the deluxe issue (tirage de tête) after 10 copies on Japon nacré.
A fine copy with full margins.
First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on Vosges vellum, the only large paper copies.
A fine copy.
1898 edition, presented as the eighteenth year of publication of this London guide, revised and updated annually, illustrated with twenty bird’s-eye views of the city’s principal thoroughfares and a folding map of the streets of central London. The guide was founded in 1880 by Herbert Fry, editor of another annual publication, the Royal Guide to the London Charities, and was continued under his name after his death.
Publisher’s ochre cloth Bradel binding, printed boards, smooth spine with title and price printed lengthwise. Some light rubbing and soiling to binding, corners bumped, a substantial 13-centimetre tear to the folding map, margins of leaves...
First edition for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed.
Small marginal pieces missing at the top of the first board, a clear remnant of adhesive paper at the bottom of the first endpaper.
Copy complete with the facsimile at the end of the volume.
Precious handwritten inscription signed by Gabriele d'Annunzio to Natalie Clifford Barney: « à miss Barney et au Temple de l'Amitié attentive, cette légère torpille ‘sine litteris' est offerte par la ‘tête d'ivoire'. Gabriele d'Annunzio » (“To Miss Barney and the attentive Temple of Friendship, this light ‘sine litteris' torpedo is offered by the ‘ivory head'. Gabriele...
Rare first edition of the first series of Le Parnasse contemporain featuring works by thirty-seven poets, most of them previously unpublished, issued in 18 parts.
The fifth part, devoted entirely to Charles Baudelaire, contains the first appearance in print of several poems from his Nouvelles fleurs du mal: Epigraphe pour un livre condamné - Madrigal triste - L'avertisseur - Le rebelle - Bien loin d'ici - Recueillement - Le gouffre - Les plaintes d'un Icare, together with some of the poems also published in the Epaves.
The collection also includes the earliest works...
First edition of the French translation, one of 34 numbered copies on Japan bamboo paper, the only large-paper copies.
A rare and handsome copy of this political spy thriller recounting a neo-fascist coup d'état.
The novel was adapted for the screen in 1981 by Peter Zinner, starring Franco Nero, Anthony Quinn, Christopher Lee, Claudia Cardinale, Eli Wallach...
New edition; no copies were printed on large paper.
A pleasant copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Gilles Deleuze to Doctor Wiel.
First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pur fil du Marais paper, this being copy no. 1, the only large-paper copies apart from a few hors commerce copies on pur fil du Marais.
A fine copy.
First edition of the French translation, one of 100 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only large-paper copies.
A pleasant copy.
Album of the 1876 class of the École polytechnique, produced by François Gobinet de Villecholle, known as Franck, the official photographer of the polytechniciens.
Full brown cloth, smooth spine, blind-stamped frames on covers, "École Polytechnique" lettering and ornament in gilt on upper cover, publisher's name blind-stamped, combed paper pastedowns, all edges gilt. Binding lightly rubbed, a few marks to spine, headcaps and edges, tears at head of spine, leaves slightly browned and cockled.
The personal copy of E. Magnant, a member of the class who graduated 168th and entered the artillery: his manuscript ownership inscription appears on the front free...
Illustrated edition, with 28 fine plates and 4 maps.
Bound in half midnight-blue russia with corners, smooth spines decorated with gilt Romantic arabesques, gilt fillet frame on navy blue paper-covered boards, some minor rubbing to boards and to spines, yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Contemporary Romantic bindings signed by Rivage.
Some foxing, as is usual.
Provenance: from the library of Count Septime des Garets, with his autograph signature facing the half-title of the first volume, and blind stamps of the Château St Beron at the head of the half-titles.
First edition, one of 62 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe issue after 16 copies on Japan paper.
Spine and covers sunned, copy with full margins.
Below the limitation statement, autograph inscription signed by Gaston Riou to his friends the Linossiers.
Illustrated by Willy Pogány with twenty-four mounted colour plates. Decorative ornaments and borders printed in colour. The first edition illustrated by Pogány appeared in 1909, but the work was subsequently reprinted many times without date, in various bindings and with a varying number of plates. Some of these later printings likewise contain twenty-four plates and bear the same printer’s imprint (Vincent Brooks, Day & Son Ltd), so that the date of this copy cannot be established with certainty.
Publisher’s full olive sheep, slightly faded at the edges, upper cover with blind-stamped fillet border and vine-leaf and grape-cluster motif, flat spine with gilt title and...
First edition of the first two volumes of the jurist François Richer’s collection Causes célèbres et intéressantes avec les jugements qui les ont décidées, published in twenty-two volumes between 1772 and 1788.
The first volume is decorated with a few headpieces and tailpieces.
Bound in contemporary full brown mottled calf, spines with five raised bands, compartments decorated with gilt bands and fleurons, brown morocco title and volume labels, gilt roll on board edges, French curl paper pastedowns, red edges. Corners worn, headcaps damaged, rubbing and scuffing to spines, small marginal tears to pages 101, 365 and 473 of the second volume.
...
Twenty-two menus illustrated with a composition by Marie Laurencin, listing the wines and seafood served at the meal held on 24 March 1938 by the Cercle des Gourmettes. This women’s gastronomic club, one of the first of its kind in France, was founded in Paris in 1929 in response to the exclusion of women from the Club des Cent, an exclusively male gastronomic society.
Folding leaflets very slightly browned, a few minute creases to some, otherwise a very fine set.
First edition, one of the review copies.
A pleasant copy of this work, awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1961.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Jean Cau to Marcel Arland.
First edition, one of 120 numbered copies signed by André Gide at the colophon, the only limited issue after 10 copies on Japan paper.
Some light foxing, mainly affecting the edges and the soft card slipcase.
Edition published the same year as the first edition.
Full burgundy limp boards, smooth spine, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front wrapper preserved (some foxing); a modest binding.
Signed autograph inscription from André Malraux to Monsieur Pinty.
Two copies of the first edition presented together in a single wrapper: one on butcher’s paper, from the limited issue of sixty numbered copies printed for private distribution (hors commerce), unopened; the other on pure linen laid paper, from the limited issue of fifteen numbered copies.
This poem by Charles de Jonquières, written in 1944-1945, was published in 1959 as a token of gratitude to those who had supported him in founding the Union des intellectuels indépendants, an association established in 1950.
Illustrated with headpieces and tailpieces.
Very light soiling to the illustrated wrapper; the copies are otherwise in...
New edition.
A small tear at the foot of the spine.
Rare and precious autograph inscription, signed and dated by Tchicaya U Tam'si to Anne Sarraute: "... ces légendes qui sont plus vraies que les péripéties du quotidien de ces temps d'aujourd'hui.."
Provenance: from the library of Claude Mozis, with his African-inspired bookplate on the inside front cover.
First edition, of which no copies on large paper were issued; a review copy.
Light foxing to the edges, insignificant loss to the lower left corner of the final endpaper, which was clumsily cut.
A pleasant copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio to Madame Vivier.
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on vélin de Lana, the only large-paper copies; ours is one of the few copies marked hors commerce.
A rare and attractive copy.
First edition, printed in a small number of copies.
Spine and covers marginally sunned, as is usually the case; a horizontal crease running through the entire pamphlet, which was circulated clandestinely in folded form; a small tear at the foot of the spine.
Rare.
New edition. According to Brunet (III, 720), all editions containing the key are foreign counterfeits. Michallet's ninth edition is generally dated 1696, and the tenth and last edition issued by the same publisher 1699; this 1697 edition bearing Michallet's imprint must therefore be regarded as a counterfeit. The first volume is in two parts, each with its own title page, the second entitled: Suite des caracteres de Theophraste, et des pensées de Mr. Pascal; a few pages further on, the subtitle reads: Ouvrage nouveau dans le goût des Caracteres de Theophrastes et des Pensées de Pascal.
Contemporary full old red morocco. Spine with raised bands, compartments decorated with small...
First edition, handsomely illustrated with six engraved title-frontispieces and seventy plates on thick wove paper, with tissue guards, whereas most recorded copies contain only sixty; all etched by François Louis Couché and finished with the burin by Bovinet.
Bradel-style half grey percaline bindings, spines decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, brown morocco title labels, French curl paper pastedowns.
Light rubbing to the bindings, some foxing and soiling, rather conspicuous restorations and small marginal losses to a few leaves, not affecting the text.
Manuscript ownership inscription on the half-title of each volume, in the barely legible name of a lieutenant...
Three typescript screenplays, signed by Martine and René Pagnol, for a film project that was never been produced and whose title had not yet been settled at this stage of the work: La Belle au bois or Isabelle au bois. Two copies, titled La Belle au bois, contain an identical text, whereas the third, titled Isabelle au bois, includes additional scenes and bears pencil annotations.
Illustrated covers sunned, some soiling, weakened spines with minor tears.
Together with two typed letters: one addressed to René Pagnol by the Hungarian-born British producer and director Alexander Korda, dated 16 April 1947 and...
First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies on vellum paper.
Publisher's binding in full burgundy morocco-grained sheepskin, smooth spine, gilt double fillets framing the covers, burgundy paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, slipcase edged in burgundy morocco with burgundy paper sides.
Richly illustrated.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by André Pieyre de Mandiargues to the lawyer and politician Georges Kiejman, enhanced with a large multicoloured drawing signed by Bona de Mandiargues depicting a human hand, covering the entire half-title page.
First edition; no large-paper copies were issued.
A pleasant copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Guy Bedos: "Pour Florence et Maurice pour rire entre amis, affectueusement. Guy.
First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Holland paper, part of the deluxe issue (tirage de tête), preceded only by 12 copies on Japan paper.
Red half shagreen with corners, spine with five raised bands framed by black fillets, moiré-effect paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, small black spots on the spine, binding signed by Caffin, Parisian binder of the rue Saint-Lazare.
First edition of the French translation, one of 45 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only large-paper copies.
Preface by Joseph Kessel.
A rare and very fine copy.
First edition, with all the first printing points (price of $5.95 at the upper right corner of the front inner flap of the dust jacket, "First printing" stated at the head of the copyright page).
Publisher's full burgundy cloth, smooth spine, complete with the illustrated dust jacket, showing light rubbing and some tears to the corners, not serious.
A pleasing copy of this work, masterfully adapted for the screen by Richard Brooks in 1967, starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe and Paul Stewart.
First edition. A printed slip bearing the new date of 1757 has been pasted over every date (the 1754 printings were sold under the date 1757 in order to pass them off as a new edition; Brunet, moreover, records no edition dated 1754, since all copies carry such a slip). Illustrated with three title vignettes and four headpieces by Eisen. Titles printed in red and black. Wide margins. Good impression, with numerous footnotes. Translated by Mallet.
Contemporary full tortoiseshell calf. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. Interior generally fresh. Some rubbing.
A fine copy.
First edition; no large paper copies were issued.
A crease with a small tear to the lower right corner of the front cover, light foxing to the last endpaper.
A rare and attractive copy.
Preface by Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Provenance: from the library of Claude Mozis, with his African-inspired bookplate on the inside front cover.
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, the deluxe issue, preceded only by a single unique copy on Japon impérial reserved for General de Gaulle.
A fine copy, complete with its chemise and slipcase.
First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on vélin pur fil paper, the deluxe issue.
A rare and attractive copy, illustrated with drawings on plates.
First edition of the French translation, one of 50 numbered copies on alfama marais paper, the only large-paper copies.
Preface by André Maurois.
A vertical crease mark to the lower cover, a few faint and insignificant spots to the edges; a rare and attractive copy.
First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre laid paper, reimposed in quarto tellière format, forming the deluxe issue (tirage de tête).
Half aubergine morocco with corners, spine with four raised bands outlined with black fillets, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt. Binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
An attractive and handsomely bound copy of this work, awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1926.
First edition of Le Parnasse contemporain, a rare complete set of all three series, published in 1866, 1869-1871 and 1876, featuring works by some one hundred poets, most of them previously unpublished.
The first series includes the first printing of several poems from Charles Baudelaire's Nouvelles fleurs du mal, in the fifth instalment, which is devoted entirely to him: Epigraphe pour un livre condamné - Madrigal triste - L'avertisseur - Le rebelle - Bien loin d'ici - Recueillement - Le gouffre - Les plaintes d'un Icare, together with some of the poems published in the...
Cultural events programme of the Fnac Saint-Lazare for October 1999, signed by Salman Rushdie above his portrait on the front cover.
The brochure announces a literary event with Salman Rushdie on 5 October, held to mark the publication of the French translation of his novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet (La Terre sous ses pieds).
Original poster by Andry-Farcy for this exhibition, intended to promote both the hydroelectric industry and tourism in a city whose industrial expansion was then closely bound up with hydroelectric power: the expression "houille blanche" (literally "white coal") referred to the hydraulic energy of waterfalls and watercourses, converted into electrical power.
Sheet slightly yellowed, with traces of folding and a few tears, some of them along the folds.
First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper.
Half navy blue shagreen with corners, spine with five raised bands (slightly faded), moiré-effect paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Caffin, binder in rue Saint-Lazare, Paris.
Some light foxing, mainly affecting the edges.
First edition, illustrated with drawings by Pierre Joubert.
Spine lightly sunned, with minor rubbing to the joints.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Joubert to Henri Le Roy, enhanced with an original blue ballpoint pen drawing of a smiling scout's face.
New collected edition, following the first complete edition published in 1682. It is illustrated with a portrait and 33 plates (one frontispiece to each play) by Punt; these captioned plates are reductions of Boucher's quarto plates, which first appeared in the celebrated deluxe edition of 1734. Punt's charming plates are dated 1738 or 1739. Title pages printed in red and black.
This edition appears to be the first to use the reduced Boucher plates. It also follows the famous quarto edition by only a year, and is rather well printed. These reduced plates were reused in several later editions, notably that of 1765, which includes Voltaire's notes. The Life of Molière runs to some...
First edition, one of 103 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only large-paper copies apart from 6 hors commerce copies on Holland paper.
Preface by Henri Pourrat.
A monogrammed roundel pasted to the upper right corner of an endpaper, serving as a bookplate.
A fine and rare copy.
Erotic hold-to-light playing card, maker unknown, produced in France around the 1860s. Stencil-coloured lithograph, blank verso.
When held up to the light, the card reveals an erotic consultation scene between a lecherous physician and his unclothed female patient.
A true curiosity!
Erotic playing card with hidden image, unknown manufacturer, produced in France around 1860. Lithograph colored with stencil, blank verso.
The card, when held to the light, reveals an erotic urolagnic scene: a fireman urinating on a lady's crotch while a complicit valet holding a basin looks on.
A curiosity!
Erotic hold-to-light playing card, maker unknown, produced in France around the 1860s. Stencil-coloured lithograph, blank verso.
When held up to the light, the card reveals an erotic zoophilic scene between a lady and her dog.
A true curiosity!
First edition, one of 13 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches, the deluxe issue after a single copy on Japon.
A pleasant copy.
New issue of the 1539 Wechel edition of this celebrated grammar, first published in Louvain in 1529.
Contemporary full parchment binding, traces of ties, darkened boards, contemporary manuscript vellum endleaf guard showing on the front pastedown; waterstaining up to p. 85, occasionally affecting the pen annotations.
A precious copy of the Hebrew grammar by the humanist Nicolas Clénard. The great majority of its pages are extensively annotated in Latin by a most studious contemporary owner.
The didactic clarity of this grammar secured its wide popularity: the Tabula...
First edition of Verfall und Wiederaufbau der Kultur, the first part of Albert Schweitzer's Kulturphilosophie.
Publisher's Bradel binding in cream half cloth, author and title lettered lengthwise on spine, blue-green paper boards, author and title printed on upper cover. Binding sunned and lightly soiled, a few leaves with creased corners. One passage marked out and accompanied by pencil drawings.
Signed and dated autograph inscription from Albert Schweitzer to Isidor Philipp on the front free endpaper: "A I. Philipp avec mes bonnes pensées Albert Schweitzer Sept 1923".
New edition, printed in 1,020 numbered copies on châtaignier.
Copy slightly warped, the spine a little sunned, as is often the case.
Publisher's binding after the original design by Mario Prassinos.
First edition, edited by Frédéric Masson, illustrated with a portrait of Cardinal de Bernis as frontispiece to the first volume and a facsimile of a letter as frontispiece to the second.
Contemporary Bradel bindings in full sienna cloth, smooth spines decorated with double gilt fillets, black sheepskin title labels.
A pleasant copy.
New edition published a few months after the first, with a “9ème édition” statement.
Some foxing to covers, two small tears at head and foot of spine, which also shows a light, pale dampstain.
Signed and inscribed by Samuel Beckett to Daniela Munieri and dated November 1953.
Inscriptions contemporary to the book’s publication and the play’s first staging in 1953 are of the utmost rarity. We have traced only seven such copies ever to have appeared on the market (inscribed to Maurice Nadeau, Philippe Bernstein, Henri and Josette Hayden, Robert Carlier, Leventhal, Geer van Velde and Louise Barbier).
First edition, with no copies printed on large paper, one of the review copies.
Spine faded, as is usually the case.
A rare copy.
First edition, with no copies printed on large paper.
Spine slightly creased, a stain to the top edge extending into the margins of several leaves.
Complete with the original publisher's insert.
Rare and important dated and signed autograph inscription from Tchicaya U Tam'si to Jacques Duchateau.
Provenance: from the library of Claude Mozis, with his African-themed bookplate on the verso of the front wrapper.
Third edition of Benjamin Laroche's French translation.
Contemporary half polished tan calf over speckled paper boards, spines with four raised bands, decorated with gilt and blind-tooled fillets, tawny calf title and volume-number labels, marbled pastedowns, speckled edges. Some rubbing to the bindings, minor surface wear to the leather, occasional foxing, and a small area of paper loss, not affecting the text, on page 503 of the first volume.
Stamp of Bourdery, an attorney practising in Aubusson, on the half-title of each volume. This former owner can in all likelihood be identified with Judge Bourdery, a magistrate at the Aubusson court...
First edition, bringing together articles previously published in the Revue générale and the Revue maritime, illustrated with thirty-one figures, including five maps.
Publisher's brown half-cloth binding in the Bradel style, authors' names and title gilt-lettered on the spine. Rubbing to the binding, bumped corners, occasional light foxing to a few leaves, and a small marginal loss to page 7, not affecting the text.
We have located only one copy of this work in WorldCat, held by the Smithsonian Libraries.
Signed autograph presentation inscription from Edouard Deburaux to M. Jean Benoit on the front free endpaper: "affectueusement à M. Jean...
First edition of the French translation.
Creasing to the spine, a few crease marks to the wrappers.
Section of photographic illustrations at the end of the volume.
Full-page autograph inscription signed by Yehudi Menuhin to the Caron family.
First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in bottle-green half morocco, smooth spine darkened and showing signs of rubbing, date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, original wrappers and spine preserved.
First edition, one of the press copies.
Bradel binding in full marbled paper, smooth spine slightly faded, caramel shagreen title label, covers and spine preserved.
First edition, one of 330 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Light foxing to the endpapers.
A fine copy, the blue wrappers unfaded.
First edition, one of only 6 copies numbered in Roman numerals on Holland paper, this copy being No. I, the only deluxe copies issued.
Endpapers partially darkened.
A rare and attractive copy.
First edition, limited to 195 numbered copies on pur fil paper, each printed with the name of its recipient.
A rare and attractive copy.
First edition of Ernest Weill's French translation of the Pirqué Abhoth (Pirkei Avot). Weill was Chief Rabbi of Colmar and the Haut-Rhin.
A rare pamphlet in exceptionally fine condition, apart from a few minor ink smudges on occasional leaves.
WorldCat records only five copies in public collections, held by the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, the Bibliothèque œcuménique et scientifique d’études bibliques (Paris), the National Library of Israel, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard Library.
A rare French-language rabbinical publication printed in Colmar during the first decade following Alsace's return to France.
First edition, illustrated with a photographic reproduction of Mistinguett alongside the writer Maurice Verne.
Publisher's original boards, somewhat soiled, spine missing.
Signed autograph inscription from Mistinguett to Jean Henri Guilhaumet, in purple ink, on the half-title page: "A Jean Henri Guilhaumet ma sympathie Mistinguett".
First edition, one of the numbered copies printed on alfa paper.
A very good copy.
Edition edited and annotated by Drs Gabriel Legué and Georges Gilles de la Tourette.
Preface by Dr Jean-Martin Charcot.
Contemporary Bradel binding in blue half cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleur-on, double gilt rule at foot, brown morocco-grain leather title label with minor rubbing, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, corners bumped.
Complete with the folding facsimile of a letter by Jeanne des Anges at the end of the volume.
First edition, one of an unspecified number of copies printed on China paper, not mentioned in the limitation statement.
Contemporary Bradel-style binding in brown straight-grain half morocco, smooth spine with a few minor scuffs and an incorrect date gilt-stamped at the foot (1895 instead of 1890), comb-marbled paper boards, original wrappers and spine preserved, corners slightly bumped.
Some inevitable foxing to the edges, owing to the nature of the China paper.
First edition, one of the review copies.
Spine slightly faded.
Signed and inscribed by the author to Françoise Giroud.
First edition, one of the copies printed on Japanese paper.
Small tears and minor losses to the corners of the wrappers, which are partially faded along the edges; a tear at the foot of the spine.
Internally in very good condition.
First collected edition, one of 36 numbered copies on Holland paper, constituting the deluxe issue.
A very good copy.
New edition, one of 1,050 numbered copies printed on alfa paper.
Publisher's original illustrated boards designed by Paul Bonet.
A fine copy.
First edition of this issue of the richly illustrated review, reproducing the wash drawings Marc Chagall had created to illustrate Boccaccio's Decameron tales, alongside paintings on the same theme from the Manuscript of the Dukes of Burgundy.
Publisher's full boards, complete with the dust jacket illustrated with a drawing by Marc Chagall.
Small tears with minute losses at the head and foot of the dust jacket spine, otherwise a fine copy.
Inscribed, dated and signed by Marc Chagall to Dr Rodolphe Wiel.
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the deluxe issue after 10 copies on Japan paper.
A rare and handsome copy.
