Justiciers, saints, sages & parangons de vertu

First edition, one of the press service copies.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Paul Éluard to Benjamin Fondane.
Spine with three small expertly repaired tears, of no consequence.
A moving dedication from poet to poet, written on the eve of the war during which the two friends would contribute together to poetic resistance journals such as l'Honneur des poètes.
The deportation and death of Fondane in 1944, along with many other artist and poet friends, would profoundly affect Éluard, who composed in their memory a magnificent poetic tribute, "Eternité de ceux que je n'ai pas revus," listing the names of each of the departed:
"Visages...

Partly first edition, gathering the most famous speeches by Victor Hugo, including some of his most memorable addresses delivered at the tribune of the Legislative Assembly—most notably the speech on constitutional revision and the powerful plea he gave at the trial of his son, on 11 June 1851, before the Cour d'assises of the Seine, in defense of the inviolability of human life. Spurious mention of “eighth edition.”
Complete with the rare portrait of the author by Masson printed on China paper, as frontispiece.
Scattered occasional foxing.
Precious inscribed copy signed by Victor Hugo to Juliette Drouet : « à mon pauvre...

First collected edition, one of 260 numbered copies on tinted wove paper, the only deluxe issue after 45 copies on white Holland paper.
Some light spotting in the margins of a few leaves and on the endpapers. 

First edition.
Copy in its original wrappers with printed title labels at head of spines.
Some discreet restorations to spines and wrappers' edges.
Occasional foxing.

New edition, after the original published in 1680. Copy entirely ruled.
Contemporary binding in full glazed burgundy morocco. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Gilt title. Interior fillet. Gilt edges.

Inner hinge split and reglued. 
Work inseparable from the life of Madame de la Vallière, which she wrote upon recovering from a long illness, during her years of retreat at the Carmelite convent. Mistress of King Louis XIV, and abandoned after 7 years, she withdrew from court to enter the convent. Nothing would make her renounce this path, and she spent the last 36 years of her life in this retreat, where in her later years, she wrote this work with the concern of repairing the...

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, most limited issue.

The book Camus dedicated to his friend René Leynaud. Our copy is housed in a custom black half morocco chemise, handmade striped paper boards, title and author gilt stamped, brown pastedowns, slipcase edged with morocco, handmade striped paper boards, a handsome set signed by Boichot.

Rare and handsome copy.

"La Revue Libre, a clandestine review, published in February 1944 an anonymous Lettre à un Ami allemand. It was by Camus. By Camus, too, was the second letter that appeared at the same date, under the pseudonym Louis Neuville...