Americana

First edition, one of 106 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.

First edition in French, one of 106 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Spine and covers slightly discolored and sunned as usual, otherwise handsome copy.

Autograph signed postcard sent from Chicago and addressed to Émile Mignard
Handwritten signed postcard from Victor Segalen, sent from Chicago and addressed to Emile Mignard. A few lines written in pencil in the corner of the black and white photographic reproduction of a view of South Water Street in Chicago, handwritten address on the verso. Some minor stains and folding.

Emile Mignard (1878-1966), also a doctor and Brest-born, was one of Segalen's closest friends of youth whom he met at the Jesuit Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours School in Brest. The writer interacted with this comrade in an abundant and closely followed correspondence in which he described, with humour and intimacy, his daily life in all corners of the world. It was at Mignard's wedding, on 15 February 1905, that Segalen met his wife, Yvonne Hébert.

This postcard had been addressed by Segalen to his friend from Chicago as he travelled to Tahiti via San Francisco. It is the first time that the Breton has been to the United States and his impressions are rather pessimistic: “Chicago. The deplorable pinnacle of acute budding Americanism. Imagine a mass of sandstone that has crystallised following the Cubic system. A childlike museum: close to the Apollo Belvedere a reproduction of the Hôtel des Postes. I leave tonight for a straight through journey to San Francisco where I will be on Tuesday at 4am.”

First edition in French, one of 129 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy of this antifascist novel that Thornton Wilder published in 1948, inspired by Sartrean existentialism and drawing parallels between Julius Caesar and Benito Mussolini.

First edition in French on ordinary paper.
A tiny spot in the margin of the first cover, handsome copy.
Rare manuscript signature of William Styron on an endpaper.

Signed handwritten letter sent from San Francisco addressed to Emile Mignard on Asian wood paper
San Francisco Thursday 10 December 1902, 11.2 x 17 cm, 2 pages on one leaf
Handwritten signed letter from Victor Segalen addressed to Emile Mignard, two pages written in black ink on a leaf of Asian wood letter paper printed in the margin with blue Asian silhouettes and landscapes.
Emile Mignard (1878-1966), also a doctor and Brest-born, was one of Segalen's closest friends of youth whom he met at the Jesuit Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours School in Brest. The writer interacted with this comrade in an abundant and closely followed correspondence in which he described, with humour and intimacy, his daily life in all corners of the world. It was at Mignard's wedding, on 15 February 1905, that Segalen met his wife, Yvonne Hébert.
Segalen, who left Le Havre on 11 October 1902 for Tahiti, had his journey interrupted by contracting typhoid fever, which kept him in San Francisco for two months. This was the opportunity for the young man to discover China Town, the Asian quarter that he mentions in this letter: “Je t'ai déniché chez un petit singe à figure jaune du quartier japonais un petit porte-carte qui aura toujours, à défaut d'autre chose, l'intérêt de «venir de loin» et de son authenticité...et aussi peut-être celui d'être donné avec la plus profonde affection que je puisse dédier à un Ami.” “I have unearthed you in a little yellow-faced monkey in the Japanese quarter, a little card wallet that will always have, in the absence of anything else, the interest of “coming from afar” and its authenticity...and also perhaps that of being given with the deepest affection that I can dedicate to a Friend.” Segalen left San Francisco for Tahiti on 11 January 1903.
Handwritten letters from Victor Segalen are very rare.

First edition in French, one of 106 numbered copies on handmade paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.

First edition published in the Bibliothèque de La Pléiade and printed on Bible paper.
Rich iconography.
Small harmless stains on the lower edge of the slipcase.
Handsome copy

First edition in French, one of 55 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy of this work evoking, in a novelistic manner, the condition and situation of Black people in the southern states of the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War.

First edition on ordinary paper, with fourth edition statement.
Handsome copy.

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Iconography.

First edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Photographic wrappers with flaps.

First edition, on ordinary paper, of the French translation by Boris Vian, with eighth edition statement.
Very fine copy.

First edition in French, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Juan Goytisolo to Gilbert Guilleminault.

First edition of the transposition of the poem by Walt Whitman by Francis Viélé-Griffin, one of 100 copies on Holland, only print.
Small tears and gaps on the back and in the margins of the boards which have been internally patched at the head and the foot, spine and boards marginally sun-damaged, good internal condition.
Modern ex-libris glued to the foot of the verso of the first board.
Rare.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, ours unnumbered, but properly watermarked Madagascar, the only issue after 10 Japan paper copies.
Work illustrated with 19 original woodcuts by Frans Masereel.
Very fine copy.

Visiting card of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States of America from 1977 to 1981, on "The White House" Washington letterhead bearing a reproduction of his autograph signature.
Fine copy.

Printed visiting card of California Governor Ronald Reagan
Handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of Ronald Reagan in blue ink below the printed mention "Governor Ronald Reagan".

Photographic portrait of Henry Alfred Kissinger shown from the front and wearing a pair of glasses.
Handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of Henry Alfred Kissinger in black ink at the foot of his portrait.

Photographic portrait of United States President George Bush shown slightly in profile and posing before the American flag in his White House office.
Handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of George Bush in black ink at the foot of his portrait.

First edition of these letters selected and presented by A.H. Saxon, French translation by L.R. Dauven, one of 1000 numbered copies, the only printing with 100 hors commerce copies.
Publisher's full fawn chamois binding, smooth spine.
Iconography, handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from L.R. Dauven to publisher Bernard de Fallois.

First edition of the English translation established by John Dos Passos and printed in 300 copies on Utopian laid paper.
Bookplate pasted to verso of front cover, spine sunned with a tear at foot with minimal lacks, a stain in margin of front cover, small adhesive paper marks at head and foot of last endpaper and inner flap.
Work illustrated with original illustrations by John Dos Passos.
Autograph signatures of B. Cendrars and J. Dos Passos on the justification page.

Bilingual Franco-Spanish edition, printed in 300 numbered copies on Arches paper, translated from Quechua by Miguel A. Mossi and Gavino Pacheco Zegarra.
Bookplate of a bibliophile pasted at the foot of the verso of the first cover of the chemise, the latter with three small tears and splits.
Handsome copy complete with its chemise and full straw-pattern paper slipcase.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece and 15 wood-engraved colored headpieces by the Argentine and Montparnos artist Pablo Curatella Manes who was a student of Antoine Bourdelle and Aristide Maillol at the "Grande Chaumière"
Our copy was printed for the Peruvian diplomat and writer Garcia Ventura Calderon.

First edition, a service de presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Robert Saint-Jean to Alfred Fabre-Luce: "...cette esquisse d'une Amérique qui essaie des valeurs nouvelles..." ["...this sketch of an America trying new values..."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Signed and inscribed by Bertrand de Jouvenel to Alfred Fabre-Luce and his wife Charlotte: "... ce travail de documentation d'où l'on peut tirer des faits à l'occasion. Il a été fait pour servir de 'silo à faits' avec respectivement, mes hommages et mes amitiés..." ["... this work of documentation from which one can draw facts as needed. It was made to serve as a 'silo of facts' with respectively, my respects and my friendship..."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Complete with publisher's (advertising) slip.
Signed autograph inscription from Bertrand de Jouvenel to Alfred Fabre-Luce.

First edition in French, one of 45 numbered copies on handmade paper, the only deluxe copies.
Bookplate pasted on the page facing the front free endpaper.
Spine and boards slightly discolored as is generally the case.

First edition in French, one of 41 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Bookplate pasted on the page facing the half-title page.
Spine and boards slightly faded as usual, handsome copy.

First edition in French, one of 41 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Bookplate pasted on the page facing the half-title page.
Spine and boards slightly faded as usual, handsome copy.

First edition in French, one of 41 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Bookplate pasted on the page facing the half-title page.
Spine and covers slightly faded as usual, handsome copy.

First edition in French, one of 31 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Bookplate pasted on the page facing the half-title page.
Spine and covers slightly faded as usual, handsome copy.

[NEW YORK SCHOOL] Alfred L. COPLEY

Collection of six photographic negatives showing haemorrhages under a microscope
Collection of six photographic negatives (5 on plastic and 1 on glass) showing haemorrhages under a microscope made in the 1950s by Alfred L. Copley in his Parisian laboratory. Each negative, except one, is accompanied by a technical sheet on Copley's laboratory letterhead.

Under the pseudonym L. Acopley, this scientist and artist from the School of New York produced emblematic works of abstract expressionism. A doctor by training, he was particularly interested in hemorheology, in other words the study of the flow properties of blood. The negatives that we have to offer are a valuable testimony to his research and were an undeniable inspiration for his pictorial works.

His works today are preserved at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Edition illustrated with 31 original etchings by Jacques Ramondot and printed in 145 nominative copies on Fabriano laid paper.
Spine of chemise and slipcase lightened, boards lightly and marginally shaded without gravity.
Bookplate pasted opposite the colophon.
Our copy is complete with the very beautiful multicolored poster folded in 4, reproducing the decoration of the chemise and slipcase.
Each of the three texts is printed on laid paper of different color: grey for "Les Pâques à New York", taupe grey for "La Prose du Transsibérien" and mustard yellow for "Le Panama ou les Aventures de mes sept Oncles".

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Dated and signed autograph tribute from Jean Raspail.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Iconography.
With the illustrated dust jacket.
Autograph inscription signed by Etienne Falck to Alfred Fabre-Luce.

New edition published in the author's complete illustrated works.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jorge Amado, in Portuguese, to his translator (Alice) Raillard.

First edition of the French translation established by Jean and André Camp, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Two small tears at foot of spine very slightly sunned.
Beautiful autograph inscription dated and signed by Miguel Angel Asturias to René Wilmet enhanced with André Camp's signature.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
A bookseller's label from Mexico pasted on the front endpaper.

First edition.
Contributions by Lionel Abel "A B and C on Lautreamont", Man Ray "Ruth Roses and revolver", Giorgio Di Chirico "Hebdomeros", André Breton "Full margin", Jean Helion "Salute"...
Cover illustrated by Esteban Frances, illustrations by Ossip Zadkine, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, Alexander Calder, Gustave Doré...

First edition.
Contributions by Roger Caillois "Vertigo", Parker Tyler "The endless island", Nicolas Calas "The new Prometheus", Paul Eaton Reeve "Homage to battling Siki", Charles Henri Ford "Epigrams"...
Cover illustrated by Hanani, illustrations by Kurt Seligmann, André Masson, Pavel Tchelitchew, Gustave Doré...

First edition.
Contributions by Francis Ponge "A new introduction to the pebble", Edouard Roditi "William Harnett: american necromantic", Wallace Fowlie "The example of Max Jacob", Parker Tyler "I see the pattern of Nijinski clear"...
Cover illustrated by Leon Kelly, illustrations by Marc Chagall, Georgia O'Keeffe, Max Jacob, Joan Miro, Paul Klee, Georges Rouault...

First edition.
Contributions by Paul Nougé "Music is dangerous", Marius Bewley "Death in America", Paul Goodman "The musical dogs"...
Cover illustrated by Pavel Tchelitchew, illustrations by Ruffino Tamayo, André Masson, Joan Miro, Esteban Frances...

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Lacking the plastic film covering the covers at the head of the front cover.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Marie-Claire Pasquier to Gisèle Halimi: "Pour Gisèle Halimi, de canotière à canotière. Amicalement." ["For Gisèle Halimi, from boater to boater. With friendship."]
Provenance: from the library of Gisèle Halimi.

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine and covers marginally sunned.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Juan Goytisolo to Gisèle Halimi.
We include a press clipping from the newspaper "Le monde" about the modification of the law of July 1st 1901 with the manuscript note: "Le Monde 22 juillet 1971" ["Le Monde July 22, 1971"] in Gisèle Halimi's hand.
Provenance: from the library of Gisèle Halimi.

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..."]

First edition in French, one of 164 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite a small repaired tear at the foot of one joint.

New edition.
Half wine-red cloth with corners, smooth spine, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved.
Handsome copy.

New edition of the French translation illustrated with original compositions by Henri Deluermoz engraved by Louis-Joseph Soulas, one of 35 copies on Holland paper, the most limited deluxe paper printing after 1 unique Japan copy.
Full chocolate brown morocco binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré-effect paper, frame of triple vertical gilt fillets separated by gilt squares on the pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, a small lack at head of second cover, top edge gilt retaining its deckled edges.
A shadow on one endpaper and its facing page.
A full-margined copy handsomely bound.

First edition in French, printed on ordinary paper.
Complete with its dust jacket which has small corner losses.
Preface by Henry Miller.
Manuscript signature by Milton Mezz Mezzrow in turquoise ink on the half-title page.

First edition.
Handsome copy.

First edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
The French text appears alongside the original English text.
A small tear to the protective film covering the first cover at the head.
Autograph inscription dated and signed, in French and written from Paris, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, publisher of the Beat Generation writers, to a lady named Marie-Odile.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally yellowed, handsome interior condition.
Signed autograph inscription from Claude Lévi-Strauss to Claude Roy.

First edition.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Worming to margins of covers, handsome interior condition.

Autograph postcard dated and signed with 9 lines, entirely written in Brazilian, by the writer Antonio Torres addressed to the translator of his works into French Alice Raillard from Guyana.

First edition published in Prague at the request of the General Association of Students of Martinique.
Some leaves slightly creased at head.
Rare and handsome pamphlet concluding with this exclamation: "Vive la patrie antillo-guyanaise ! " ["Long live the Antillean-Guianese homeland!"]

First edition.
A small lack to head of title page, some foxing.
Iconography.

First edition.
spine faded, sinon Nice copy.

First edition published by the French Committee for Action in support of the twelve leaders of the Communist Party of the United States.
Text preceded by a statement by Bernard Shaw.
Small lack at head of front cover.

First edition.
Some rubbing to spine and board margins.

First edition.
nice copy.

First edition of this issue.
Spine very lightly sunned with also a small stain at head.
Contributions by Paul J. Weber & Henri de Lavalette "Réflexions sur ls émeutes aux Etats-Unis", Pierre Chauleur "L'Afrique noire à l'heure des militaires", Raphaël Terdjian: "Le journal en miettes de Ionesco", Jean Collet "La chinoise de Jean-Luc Godard", Louis Beirnaert "L'irréductible violence"...

First edition illustrated with photographs.
Publisher's full yellow paper boards, smooth spine, with the illustrated dust jacket whose spine is slightly faded and has a tear at the head.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on vellum, the only printing after 100 copies on Arches vellum.
Work illustrated with 24 reproductions of works by Ben Silbert.
Handsome copy despite small lacks to headcaps.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Ben Silbert to a couple of his friends: "To my "sister" Andrée and my friend Linzeler as a souvenir of their visit to my studio from Ben Silbert. Paris Sept. 1933"

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy despite a marginal crease to the front cover.

First edition of the translation in French.
nice copy.

First edition printed on laid paper.
Some foxing concentrated mainly on the endpapers.

First edition, one of 600 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Iconography.
Spine slightly creased.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Raymond de Becker: "En hommage à Alain Delon pour lui dire mon admiration et ma sympathie et le désir que j'ai de le connaître autrement que sur les écrans." ["In homage to Alain Delon to tell him of my admiration and sympathy and my desire to know him other than on screen."]

First edition of the translation in French, one of the 26 numbered copies on pur fil, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Nice copy despite a small slight stain on the second cover.

French first edition translated by J. J. Pacaud, librarian at Saint-Geneviève.
Contemporary half glazed navy calf binding. Spine with false raised bands decorated with blind and gilt fillets, roulettes at head and tail. Gilt title. Very handsome copy in superb condition.
Letters written from Santa Cruz, Saint Thomas, Saint Christopher, Antigua, Dominica, Jamaica and Cuba. Joseph-John Gurney made numerous journeys with his sister, Elizabeth Gurney in order to obtain the emancipation of black slaves in the colonies. This travel account appeared in France with the aim of converting the anti-abolitionist party, the emancipation of slaves and abolition dating in England from 1834.

New edition with illustrations.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Jorge Amado, in Portuguese, to a friend named André.

First edition.
Handsome copy despite pale dampstaining affecting the last leaves at foot.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Darcy Ribeiro, in Portuguese, to the translator Alice (Raillard).

First edition, one of 790 numbered copies printed on alfa paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition for which it was not drawn from large papers.
Publisher's binding in full cardboard, smooth back.
Iconography.
Pleasant copy.
Autograph signed by Jacques Darras to Charles Dobzynski.

First edition in French, one of the copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies with 50 on pur fil.
Fine copy.

first edition on current paper.
Publisher's binding in full cardboard, full copy of its illustrated jacket which includes small marginal tears without gravity.
Autorgaph autograph dedication of the author signed by André Maurois to the historian Parias.
Iconography, nice copy.

first edition on current paper.
Slightly curled copy.
Autograph signed by Georges Blond to Maurice Gaït.
Complete copy of his illustrated jacket.

First illustrated edition, 53 drawings by Riou and Férat engraved by Hildibrand and Pannemaker. Catalogue J for 1876.
Publisher's binding known as "Aux initiales" in the rarest havana color, signed Magnier at foot. Back board of Magnier B type.
Fine first cover with well-marked and brilliant gilding (small black spots in a thin area). Clean spine with clearly readable gilding. The 2 bottom corners slightly bumped. Headcaps worn. Back board very good. Light scattered foxing more present on the first leaves, rather discreet thereafter. Handsome copy.
Le Chancellor, initially published in 1874 is a maritime adventure novel inspired by the raft of the medusa. Martin Paz is set in Peru. One of Verne's only titles dealing with discourse on races and hatred of mixed race, the hero being an Indian in love with a Jewish woman.

First edition, one of 106 numbered copies on pure Lafuma thread paper, the only deluxe copies after the 92 copies on selected bouffant paper reserved for Editions de Minuit.
Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip.

First edition, rare. Tables in fine of the routes and camps of Count Rochambeau's army.
Contemporary full brown porphyry calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Tawny morocco title label. Light rubbing. Very fine copy, very fresh.
This account forms one of the finest French testimonies on the American War of Independence. Abbé Robin was chaplain to the French corps under Rochambeau's command, on Benjamin Franklin's recommendation. Valuable information on the march of French troops during 1781. Robin landed in Boston in May 1781. Description of Boston, Cambridge University, Providence, fauna and flora, portrait of Washington, Philadelphia, Baltimore.

Edition illustrated with numerous in-text illustrations.
Half bottle-green shagreen bindings, spines with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, author's name gilt at foot of spines, some rubbing to spines without serious damage, blind fillet frame on bottle-green paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some corners slightly bumped, contemporary bindings.
Handsome interior condition.

Diptych of twenty original photographic portraits front and back of Michael Jackson with the golden cape embroidered
1999 | Photograph: 29.7 x 25 cm / Frames: 62 x 52 cm | two contact-sheets framed under a mount
Unique original prints of these color photographs, presented like contact sheets, signed by the artist, numbered 1/1 and dated 2010 – date of sale of these unpublished shots by Pierre Bergé et Associés.
Original photographs of Michael Jackson by Arno Bani

It is in 1999 during a stay in London that Michael Jackson noticed Arno Bani's work in an issue of the Sunday Times magazine. Fascinated by his fashion shots, he brought the young 23 year old photographer to New York and asked him not only to photograph him, but also to define his look for the next ten years. This meeting will be followed by several working meetings and finally a three-day photoshoot at the Malakoff studios in the southern suburbs of Paris.
These photographs, supposed to serve as an illustration for the Invincible album cover, were claimed by Michael Jackson's record company and were not revealed to the public until 2010, the year after the King of Pop's death.
«This collaboration will finish Arno Bani's installation as one of the most talented photographers of his generation. Subsequently, he was contacted by fashion and luxury institutions such as Lacroix, Givenchy and Cartier and by musicians such as the duo Air, David Guetta and Bob Sinclar. At 25 years old, Arno Bani is a photographer recognised beyond the borders of fashion. Made of oppositions, mixing classicism and modernity, his monochrome approach to image is now inescapable and is seen on the pages of Citizen K, Spoon, Visionaire and Jalouse. He also photographed Monica Bellucci, Mélanie Thierry and Noémie Lenoir.» (Pierre Bergé et Associés sales catalogue, December 2010)
Ten original photographic portraits of Michael Jackson with the embroidered golden cape

First edition of the French translation, one of 330 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 40 on pur fil.
Spine slightly sunned.

First edition of the French translation by José Maria de Heredia.
Bindings in half brown morocco with corners, back with five nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with crossed golden swords overcoming a honorific golden distinction, golden dates in tails, framing of gilt fillets on marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of paper in the tank, golden heads.
Signed autograph of José Maria de Heredia to Leon Charmolüe on the first volume.
A small snag on an upper corner of the third volume.
Nice copy pleasantly established.