Jean ANOUILH
Ardèle ou la marguerite
La Table Ronde|Paris 1949|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 87 numbered copies on handmade paper, the only deluxe copies.
Spine and covers very lightly faded, otherwise handsome copy.
€400
Marc CHAGALL, Izis BIDERMANAS
Le cirque d'Izis[Izis’ Circus]
André Sauret|Monte-Carlo [Monte Carlo] 1965|25 x 33.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of Jacques Prévert's text on the circus and first printing of the 76 photographs (including 27 double-page) in black by Izis Bidermanas printed in photogravure.
The work is also illustrated with 4 original color compositions by Marc Chagall.
Handsome copy complete with its glassine wrapper which has tears and lacks.
Autograph inscription signed by Izis Bidermanas: "En hommage pour André Rouly "Limousin" et l'amitié d'Izis en souvenir des années difficiles" (In tribute to André Rouly "Limousin" and Izis's friendship in memory of the difficult years).

€500
Anatole FRANCE
Les contes de Jacques Tournebroche
Calman-Lévy|Paris 1908|14 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition, superbly illustrated by Léon Lebègue with 44 illustrations in gold and colors (chromolithographs) including 9 full-page plates. Copy marked HC, hors commerce. Vellum printing. The justification states 161 deluxe copies including 100 vellum, 60 China paper and 1 Japan paper. Covers and spine preserved. Fine printing by the Draeger brothers.
Contemporary half-brown shagreen binding with corners in burgundy cloth slipcase. Smooth spine decorated with a pattern of small rosettes and small tools within blind-ruled frames. Ruled fillets on boards. Light traces of rubbing. Spine slightly faded. Very fresh except for some foxing on front cover.
Fine copy.
Illustrated bo
€450
Honoré de BALZAC
Histoire des treize
Charpentier|Paris 1840|11.20 x 18.60 cm|relié
First duodecimo edition, with a revised version, after the original of 1833 and 1834. It comprises two short novels: Ferragus and La duchesse de Langeais (which takes this title in this edition after Ne touchez pas la hâche). About the Charpentier editions, which form a sort of first collected edition, Clouzot states: "A collection of great interest because for all texts, it presents a revised version, often profoundly so. Increasingly sought after, they have nevertheless remained (for how much longer?) very reasonably priced." Guide du bibliophile français. XIXe siècle.
Contemporary half glazed red calf binding. Smooth spines decorated with a large mirror tool mosaic in red and black i
€400
Honoré de BALZAC
Balthasar Claës ou La recherche de l'absolu
Charpentier|Paris 1839|11.20 x 18.60 cm|relié
First duodecimo edition and first separate edition, with a revised version, after the original of 1834. The first edition appeared in Les scènes de la vie privée, the novel was integrated into the Etudes philosophiques in 1845. This version is different from the first. About the Charpentier editions, which form a sort of first collected edition, Clouzot states: "A set of very great interest because for all texts, it presents a revised version, and often profoundly so. Increasingly sought after, they have nevertheless remained (for how much longer?) very affordable." Guide du bibliophile français. XIXe siècle.
Contemporary half glazed red calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with a large
€400
Honoré de BALZAC
Le lys dans la vallée
Charpentier|Paris 1839|11.20 x 18.60 cm|relié
First duodecimo edition, with a revised version, following the 1833 original. Regarding the Charpentier editions, which form a kind of first collected edition, Clouzot states: "A collection of very great interest because for all texts, it presents a revised version, and often profoundly so. Increasingly sought after, they have nevertheless remained (for how much longer?) very reasonably priced." Guide du bibliophile français. XIXe siècle.
Contemporary half red glazed calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with a large mosaic mirror tool in red and black in the Restoration style. Series of fillets, monastic rolls at head and foot. Moiré and glazed red paper on boards. Signs of rubbing, par
€400
George BARBIER, Henri de RÉGNIER
La pécheresse
Editions Mornay|Paris 1924|15 x 20.50 cm|broché
Edition decorated with original color illustrations by George Barbier, one of 921 numbered copies on Rives.
A fine copy.

€400
Honoré de BALZAC
Eugénie Grandet
Charpentier|Paris 1839|11.20 x 18.60 cm|relié
First duodecimo edition and first separate edition, with a revised version, after the original of 1834, which appeared in volume I of Scènes de la vie de province. Concerning the Charpentier editions, which form a sort of first collected edition, Clouzot states: "A collection of very great interest because for all the texts, it presents a revised version, often profoundly so. Increasingly sought after, they have nevertheless remained (for how much longer?) at a very affordable price." Guide du bibliophile français. XIXe siècle.
Half vermillion red glazed calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with a large rocaille tool in mirror. 2 black calf title labels. Fillets at head and tail. Light
€500
COLLECTIF, Alfons MUCHA
Numéro de La Plume consacré à Alphonse Mucha
La Plume|Paris 1897|17.50 x 24 cm|broché
First edition of this issue entirely devoted to Alfons Mucha.
Two tears and a lack to spine, a light dampstain at head of first cover, small stains at head of second.
Numerous literary contributions including those by Léon Deschamps, Frantz Jourdain, Sarah Bernhardt, Paul Redonnel, Yvanoé Rambosson, Charles Chincholle...
Issue decorated with 127 illustrations by Alfons Mucha, including the cover, and a portrait of the latter by David Ossipovitch Whidhopff.
€500
Paul VERLAINE, Stéphane MALLARMÉ
La revue indépendante tome II de Novembre 1884 à Avril 1885
La Revue Indépendante|Paris Novembre 1884-Avril 1885|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in half grey cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, gilt initials and double fillet at foot, brown shagreen title-label showing traces of rubbing and lacks, bookplate pasted on pastedown, top edge gilt.
Numerous contributions including those by Paul Verlaine "Le Parnasse contemporain" "Notes jetées en chemin de fer" "La Pendule" "Mon Hameau", Joris-Karl Huysmans "L'Emblème" "Le nouvel album d'Odilon Redon", Stéphane Mallarmé "Prose pour des Esseintes" "Sonnets", André Lefèvre "L'Intelligence" "Le fond des Religions", "Lettres inédites de Jules Vallès à M. Emile Gautier", Jules and Edmond de Go
€500
Edmond DULAC, ANONYME
Sinbad the sailor & other stories from the arabian nights
Hodder & Stoughton|London s. d. [1914]|21 x 28.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First printing of the 23 color plates by Edmond Dulac.
Publisher's full brick-red cloth binding, smooth spine richly decorated with Arabesque design on a background of blue roses, front board decorated with large gilt Arabesque design on a background of blue roses, small spots of discoloration on the boards, endpapers and pastedowns of brick paper on a background of blue roses.
Half-title and final endpaper pages spotted, otherwise handsome interior condition.

€500
CRAFTY
Paris - sportif. Anciens et nouveaux sports
Librairie Plon|Paris 1896|17.50 x 24 cm|relié
First edition. The illustration consists of very numerous in-text drawings and approximately 45 plates. The work has a thoroughly satirical and humorous design characteristic of the author, even though the text contains solid information on the practice of sports in Paris at the end of the 19th century, notably the new sports.
Publisher's periwinkle blue cloth binding with special decoration for the edition. Smooth spine decorated with a fleuron. Light soiling. Headcaps rubbed with small cuts. Corners slightly turned and rubbed. Paper very fresh except for some rare and pale foxing.
The sports are classified into 3 groups: natural sports (walking, boxing, racing...), mechanical spo
€500
Sacha GUITRY
Le taureau, le veau, le maquereau, le chat, le lapin, la bête à bon dieu, le crapaud, la vache, la poule
Grande Imprimerie de Montrouge|Paris s. d. [1906]|19 x 27 cm|agrafé
First edition consisting of nine plates of characters caricatured by Sacha Guitry to whom he gave animal names, one of the few copies on johannot montgolfier d'Annonay paper.
Blind stamp in the lower right margin of the last caricature "La poule" (The hen).
Rare and fine copy of the author's second work.
€400
ANONYME
Paroissien romain, d'après les imprimés français du XVe siècle
Gruel & Engelmann|Paris 1858|11.50 x 16 cm|relié
First edition of this Roman missal. Each text page within an engraved border containing multiple vignettes that change throughout the pages, after French manuscripts of the 15th century. Engraved title and 10 engravings in borders. The 5 chromolithographs may have been added, as they are not part of most copies. A frontispiece is sometimes mentioned, but the presence of a chromolithographic title with Curmer's name suggests they were added.

Contemporary full chocolate morocco Jansenist binding signed L. Curmer, in gold letters at the top of the first endpaper. Decorative gilt board-edges. All edges gilt. Scarlet silk endpapers with a monogram on the first endpaper. Light
€450
Jean-Emile LABOUREUR, Jacques CAZOTTE
Le diable amoureux
Aux dépens de Camille Bloch|Paris 1921|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
Edition printed in 575 numbered copies on Arches laid paper and illustrated with 6 original engravings as well as 6 original wood-engraved vignettes by Jean-Emile Laboureur
Spine very lightly faded with two small tears at foot, one stain and black foxing framing the title vignette on the first cover, handsome interior condition.

€500
Georges DUHAMEL
Vie des martyrs
René Kieffer|Paris 1924|13 x 25.50 cm|relié
First edition under this title, one of 500 numbered copies on white laid paper containing a state of the etchings.
Full old rose morocco binding, spine with four wide false raised bands decorated with fillets and compartments with cherry branch designs stamped in blind, boards decorated with a large plate framed with fillets representing a war helmet abandoned in a landscape of ruins surmounted by a cherry branch, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed Kieffer.
Work illustrated with etchings and wood engravings by Paul Baudier.
Large manuscript signature of Georges Duhamel on the half-title page.
Handsome copy well establis
€500
Edgar Allan POE, Maurice SACHS
Le sphinx et autres contes bizarres - Exemplaire enrichi de deux dessins originaux et d'un envoi autographe en anglais et à pleine page de Maurice Sachs
Gallimard|Paris 1934|12 x 19 cm|broché
First collected edition of this selection of tales translated into French by Marie Bonaparte, Maurice Sachs and Matila C. Ghyka, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Boards marginally soiled and foxed, light foxing to edges.
Original preface by Paul Morand.
Our copy is enhanced with an exceptional autograph inscription, in English, by Maurice Sachs accompanying his two drawings representing a sphinx and a bear: "The Sphinx asked the Bear: who likes honey and trout, and candies and ginger ? We do, said the Big Bear, we bears. So the Sphinx changed into a bear and they lived happy together, 1934" ; Maurice Sachs's inscription continues in the lower left margin: <
€400
Jean COCTEAU
Lettre autographe signée à Roger Nimier à propos d'un dessin qu'il lui a envoyé pour illustrer l'un de ses ouvrages
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 23 Janvier 1961|21 x 27 cm|une page
Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau, on letterhead from Villa Santo-Sospir in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat which he decorated, 13 lines in blue ink, to Roger Nimier.
Fold marks inherent to mailing.
"23 Janv. 1961,
Très cher Nimier,
voici pour accompagner le portrait dessin. Si vous le trouvez trop bref demandez chez Grasset un exemplaire de journal d'un inconnu. Dans le chapitre de l'amitié, je raconte un déjeuner entre Simenon, Pagnol et moi.- sans nommer personne. Mais le passage est très significatif de ce que je résume en q.q. lignes. Votre fidèle, Jean. P.S. Dites moi vite si tu as reçu cette note et son P.S." ("23 Jan. 1961, / Very dear Nimier, / here
€450
Jean COCTEAU
Lettre autographe adressée à l'écrivain et journaliste Olivier Quéant à propos d'un projet d'édition
Kietzbühel [Kitzbühel ] 8 Février 1954|13.50 x 21 cm|une page + une enveloppe
Autograph letter signed by Jean Cocteau addressed from the Grand Hotel Kietzbühel, 16 lines in black ink, to Olivier Quéant.
Fold marks inherent to mailing, envelope included.
"Grd Hotel Kietzbühel, 8 Feb. 1954,
my dear Olivier
dans le poème "J'ai dans un train" il y a les chevaux noirs et l'homme le lotte du guerre et paix de Picasso (isti guerre) on pourrait prendre le motif séparé du livre qui flambe sous le pied d'un cheval noir. Il ferait une belle image. Si tu ne l'as pas demande le catalogue illustré de Rome [...] Eugenio Réale 3 rue Mangili Rome." (in the poem "J'ai dans un train" there are the black horses and the man the lotte of Picasso's guerr
€400
Stefan ZWEIG
Balzac-Dickens
Kra|Paris 1927|12 x 19 cm|broché
First French edition, one of 200 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 5 Holland and 10 pur fil.
Endpapers lightly and marginally shaded without concern.
A handsome copy.
€500
Boris VIAN
Ronéotype avec titre autographe du manuscrit complet de la nouvelle : L'amour est aveugle.
S. n. • [chez l'auteur]|s. l. s. d. [1952]|21 x 27 cm|20 feuillets agrafés
Ronéotype réalisé par Boris Vian de son manuscrit original, avec ajout autographe du titre : "L'amour est aveugle", nouvelle initialement parue dans la revue Paris-Tabou n°1 de 1949, puis publiée dans le recueil posthume Le Loup-Garou en 1970.

Sans doute réalisé pour conserver une copie de sa nouvelle, avant l'envoi à la revue Paris-Tabou, ce ronéotype du manuscrit originale signé a été conservé dans les archives de l'écrivain jusqu'à sa mort.
Ecrit d'un seul jet et comportant très peu de corrections, il témoigne de la créativité de l'écrivain et de son univers onirique hors du commun.

Provenance : Fondation Boris Vian
€450
Louis ARAGON
Théâtre / Roman
Gallimard|Paris 1974|15 x 22 cm|broché
First edition, one of 55 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
A very handsome copy.
€500
Claude Hilaire CHAMOUIN, Adolphe ROUARGUE
Paris actuel. Choix de 26 vues et monuments
Chamouin|Paris 1865|24.50 x 31 cm|relié
First edition. One map and 25 views by Rouargue engraved by Chamouin. One can distinguish the Tuileries Palace and the town hall which were destroyed during the Commune. A view of the new Louvre is interesting as well as that of the central markets, the new palace of justice, the recent Gare de l'Est, the new church of Saint Vincent de Paul. All these animated views are set in the contemporary Paris of the Second Empire.
Publisher's binding in half red shagreen with red percaline boards. Smooth spine decorated with 4 compartments with tools and fillets. On the upper board, decorated with several blind frames, Paris in gilt letters. Rubbing to joints, headcaps and corners. A micro crack
€500
Jean GIONO
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Roger Nimier
s. l. [ca 1952]|21 x 27 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter signed by Jean Giono (9 lines in black ink) addressed to Roger Nimier.
Fold mark inherent to postal handling.
"Dear Nimier,
thank you for your letter; and for letting me hope for your visit. I should point out right away that I will be absent Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th. Apart from those two days your collaborators can come whenever they wish.
My friendship. Jean Giono."
Very visual letter bearing the beautiful signature of Jean Giono.

€400
(Michel FOUCAULT) Bruno de MONES
Michel Foucault - Portrait 4
S. n.|s. l. • [Paris] avril 1984|24 x 30.50 cm|une feuille
Original photograph. Vintage black and white gelatin silver print. Artist's proof signed on verso.
Portrait of philosopher Michel Foucault at his desk.
In 1983, Bruno de Monès began a regular collaboration with Le Magazine littéraire which would continue until the mid-1990s.
€400
Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE
"Vous me rappelez, en effet, des temps déjà bien anciens, mais que ce qui a fini n'a pu effacer de ma mémoire"Autograph letter, dated and signed, congratulating his correspondent on the quality of his latest work
s. l. 15 juillet1860|13.50 x 21 cm|une page et demi sur un double feuillet
Autograph letter signed by Sainte-Beuve, 1 and a half pages on a double sheet. 25 lines in black ink.
"J'ai été très sensible, cher monsieur, à votre bon français et à l'envoi du très sage et instructif volume qui en est la cause. Vous me rappelez, en effet, des temps déjà bien anciens, mais que ce qui a fini n'a pu effacer de ma mémoire : car, à vous parler vrai, quoi qu'il y ait bien de l'espace et bien de l'intervalle d'aujourd'hui à ce temps-ci, il me paraît souvent qu'il y a du vide : et le tourbillon de la vie littéraire dont vous me parlez, je ne le ressens guère. Ce qui me frappe, c'est plutôt le contraire du tourbillon, c'est à dire l'isolement, la disparition
€450
Jacques ZOUBALOFF
Clos joli. Etudes de fleurs et fruits
Charles Moreau|Paris 1929|32 x 35.50 cm|2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur sous étui
First edition printed in 325 copies, ours unnumbered.
Publisher's binding in half sky blue flexible boards, smooth and unlettered spine in sand-colored cloth, a vignette representing a rose glued to the center of the first board of the first volume, a vignette representing a pear at the center of the first board of the second volume.
Work illustrated with 100 watercolors hors-texte reproduced by Daniel Jacomet.
Introduction by Guillaume Janneau.
Handsome copy.
€450
Joseph SIMA
Le livre de mariage
S. n.|Paris 1922|12 x 20 cm|en feuilles
First printing of the 31 original woodcuts in black by Joseph Sima, one of 210 numbered copies on Montval laid paper, ours unnumbered.
Handsome copy complete with its fragile glassine paper covers.

€450
Jacques PRÉVERT
Fatras
Gallimard|Paris 1966|13.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition illustrated with 57 images by the author.
Traces of rubbing to the joints as usual.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Jacques Prévert to his friend and neighbor Baudy.
€500
Michel HOUELLEBECQ
Quelque chose en moi. In La nouvelle revue de Paris : Le surréalisme et ses insoumis
In La nouvelle revue de Paris • Editions du Rocher|Paris 1988|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of the first published text by Michel Houellebecq.
Other contributions by Malcolm de Chazal "Lettre à Pierre Demarne", Alain Jouffroy "L'incurable retard des mots", Philippe Soupault "Raymond Roussel", Olivier Larronde "Soigner ses roses"...
€500
Michel HOUELLEBECQ
L'homme qui devint une légende. In La nouvelle revue de Paris : Les infréquentables
In La nouvelle revue de Paris • Editions du Rocher|Paris 1989|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of the second published text by Michel Houellebecq.
Other contributions by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly "Disjecta membra", Jacques d'Adelsward Fersen "Ceux-là", Paul Morand "Franck Harris", Jean-Marie Rouart "La passion de Luc Dietrich"...
Michel Houellebecq's text is devoted to Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
€500
Françoise SAGAN
Un certain sourire
Julliard|Paris 1956|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Two restorations to the joints, one stain to right margin of first board, small lack to lower right margin of first endpaper, paper yellowed as is often the case.
Signed and inscribed by Françoise Sagan to Max-Pol Fouchet.

€500
(Louis PASTEUR) Pierre PETIT
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Louis Pasteur
s. n.|Paris 1910|10.50 x 15.60 cm|une photographie
Silver gelatin photograph from the original plate by Pierre Petit who took this photograph around 1880. Cabinet card format.
A photograph. Superb print, with strong contrast, very sharp.
Several portraits exist from this famous sitting in Pierre Petit's studio, where we always see the scientist up close, in more fashionable attire. He wears the rosette of the Legion of Honor. The sessions at Nadar's appear to be a few years older. In this sitting, Pasteur hints at a smile and wears more elegant clothing. We know of prints from this sitting session but frontal, not in profile. Pierre Petit's framings are quite unusual for the period, tightly focused on the subject.

€400
COLLECTIF
Alpes et Pyrénées. Arabesques littéraires composées de nouvelles historiques, anecdotes, chroniques...
P. C. Lehuby|Paris 1842|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
First edition composed of 33 short stories (travels, historical anecdotes, descriptions...) by Amable Tastu, Champagnac, Léon Guérin, J. de Mirval, Eugénie Foa... illustrated with 12 lithographs.
Publisher's binding in full black shagreen signed Boutigny, with his label at the top of the first endpaper. Smooth spine decorated with rococo tools. Boards hot-stamped with a large central decorative ornament and a black frieze on gilt ground forming a border. Edges gilt. Traces of rubbing, particularly at corners. Scattered foxing.
Very handsome copy in its publisher's binding by Boutigny.

€500
COLLECTIF
Book of the poets. Chaucer to Beattie. Modern poets
Scott, Webster and Geary|London 1842|13.50 x 21.80 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition of this famous anthology reflecting Romantic taste. Printed on tinted vellum illustrated with 90 steel-engraved vignettes as headpieces and tailpieces. 2 title-frontispieces on heavy vellum.
Publisher's binding in full pale green striped boards. Smooth spine composed of interlaced foliage forming cartouches for the titles. Gilt urn at center of boards, blind-stamped decoration framing the urn. Spines uniformly darkened. Minor traces of rubbing. Micro-cuts to joints at head. Copy with very fresh paper, entirely free of foxing except the two title-frontispieces. Some engravings with ink offset on facing page. In margins of some engravings the tissue guard has been removed le
€450
André BRETON
Lettre autographe datée et signée à propos d'un règlement qu'il vient de recevoir pour une de ses contributions chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert
S. n.|Paris 12 Mai 1964|21 x 26 cm|une page
Autograph letter dated and signed by André Breton (11 lines in black ink from his Parisian residence on rue Fontaine) acknowledging receipt of a cheque he received from Jean-Jacques Pauvert's publishing house.
Crease mark inherent to folding for mailing.
He apologizes for responding so late to his correspondent, asks him to thank Jean-Jacques Pauvert and to convey his regards.

€400
Jean-Paul SARTRE
La mort dans l'âme
Gallimard|Paris 1949|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition, one of 105 numbered copies on pure thread paper, deluxe copies after 8 on antique laid paper.
Endpapers lightly shadowed, small sunning mark at foot of spine where ink from three letters has run, some foxing to boards.
€450
Camille de SAINTE-CROIX
Poème autographe inédit signé intitulé "Surprise"
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1890]|16 x 26 cm|une feuille
Unpublished autograph poem signed by Camille de Sainte-Croix entitled "Surprise" and dedicated to his wife whom he nicknamed Lène, mentioned in one stanza. Fold mark inherent to mailing.
At the top of the poem, 17 lines in black ink on a leaf, Camille de Sainte-Croix added this remark: "Mon cher Alphonse, veux-tu vers pour insérer ? Croix" ["My dear Alphonse, do you want verses to insert? Croix"], with a view to having it published in a review:
"Sous le sourire grave et fin d'un crépuscule
Et du fond de l'allée au feuillage rouillé,
J'ai vu venir un bel Amour tout dépouillé,
Et je lui fis un geste obscène et ridicule,
Presque fou, cheva
€450
Roger MARTIN DU GARD
"Mes fenêtres s'ouvrent sur une école, et c'est la cloche des élèves qui règle mon lever, mon travail, mes repas. Pendant les récréations, je fume ma pipe, entre les deux coups de cloche. C'est admirable. C'est la vie de couvent, à domicile."Signed autograph letter addressed to his friends Carlo and Alice Rim to whom he conveys all the happiness of a regained joie de vivre
S. n.|Nice 1er Novembre 1934|13.50 x 21 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter signed by Roger Martin du Gard addressed from Nice to his friends Rim (3 pages, 46 lines in black ink) great suppliers of sweets and other delicacies for the author of Les Thibault who seems to rediscover, under the Provençal sun and tranquility; a soothed sweetness and carefree spirit of living simply, the proximity of a school further facilitating this ideal peace :
"Nice. 1er novembre 34
Chers amis, pour si agréable qu'il soit, c'est un rôle bien gênant à tenir que celui du vieux monsieur qu'on gave de sucreries ! Je suis attendri jusqu'aux larmes que vous pensiez ainsi à me régaler à distance, et le coeur me fond dans la poitrine en mê
€450
Jean ANOUILH
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Carlo Rim le remerciant d'avoir à sa demande embauché son gendre "... c'est moi qui le pousse vers la production avec le sentiment soucieux de l'avenir d'un beaupère de Labiche, que j'ai endossé avec une jaquette, le jour du mariage... Cher Carlo Rim, si vous avez une fille faites la religieuse, le rôle de beaupère rend con."
Chesières-sur-Ollon [Chesières-sur-Ollon] s. d. [circa 1960]|21 x 29.50 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter signed by Jean Anouilh addressed to the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker Carlo Rim who was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of André Salmon and Max Jacob (37 lines in blue ink) from his chalet in Chesières-sur-Ollon in Switzerland.
Two letters and one word having smudged: the "C" of dear Carlo Rim, the "L'" of the intermission and, just above the word "avec"
Jean Anouilh warmly thanks Carlo Rim who intervened in favor of his son-in-law, Alain Tesler, so that he would join the staff of the Marseillais filmmaker. He nevertheless recommends not to spare him, a way for Jean Anouilh to exorcise his thorny role as father-in-la
€400
Maximilien de WIED-NEUWIED
Vue de la Mission de Saint Fidèle - Voyage au Brésil, Dans les années 1815, 1816 et 1817, par S. A. S. Maximilien, Prince de Wied-Neuwied.
Chez Arthus Bertrand|Paris 1822|52 x 36.40 cm|une feuille
Fine original plate of a Brazilian landscape after Christian Haldenwang by Johann Jacob Wagner in copperplate engraving in folio format. It comes from the atlas of the French first edition of this travel account to Brazil, first published in 1820-1821 under the title Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815 bis 1817 and illustrating the account of the first voyage to Brazil by Maximilian, Prince of Wied-Neuwied.
Some marginal worming.
€500
Agricol-Joseph, marquis de FORTIA D'URBAN
Essai sur l'origine de l'écriture, sur son introduction dans la Grèce et son usage jusqu'au temps d'Homère, c'est-à-dire jusqu'à l'an mille avant notre ère
H. Fournier jeune|Paris 1832|13 x 21.50 cm|relié
Rare first edition.
Full glazed fawn calf binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt and blind-stamped typographical motifs, title and author labels lacking, gilt friezes at head and foot, one joint cracked at head, gilt roulettes (faded) on headcaps, frame of gilt frieze on boards struck at their centers with a blind-stamped mandorla, some angular rubbing to boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, gilt edges at head and foot of leading edges, marbled edges, contemporary romantic binding.
Foxing.
Work decorated with one engraving as well as 4 folding plates hors-texte (the first of these with a tear in its left margin), two leaves of m
€450
Charles DICKENS
Vie et aventures de Nicolas Nickleby
Chez L. Hachette et Cie|Paris 1857 (S.d)|10.50 x 17.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First French edition translated by P. Lorrain with the authorization and approval of the author contained in Charles Dickens's bilingual preface, dated January 17, 1857.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with false flat raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets. Gilt titles and volume numbers. Boards rubbed. 4 signatures slightly proud in volume 1. Signature 251 with 2 loose pages in the second volume. Corners bumped. Some foxing.
It was in 1856 that Louis Hachette acquired the rights to Charles Dickens's works, with P. Lorrain as collection director and translator, he would greatly develop the offering of foreign literature in France, and notably English liter
€400
Remy de GOURMONT, Jean Gabriel DARAGNÈS
Le livret de l'imagier
Editions du Sagittaire|Paris 1920|16 x 16.50 cm|en feuilles
First edition established by André Malraux, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe printing.
Preface by Gabriel-Albert Aurier.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece, 6 headpieces as well as 3 tailpieces engraved on wood by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès.
Fine full-margined copy complete, as stipulated in the print run justification, with the suite of woodcuts on China paper.
€450
[Boris VIAN as] Vernon SULLIVAN
Affiche originale du film "J'irai cracher sur vos tombes" [Ik zal uw graven schenden !]
Edicolor|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1959|36 x 48 cm|un affiche
Original Belgian poster for J'irai cracher sur vos tombes adapted from the book by Vernon Sullivan alias Boris Vian who died during the first screening of the film.
Light horizontal folds.
€400
Honoré DAUMIER
Les cent et un Robert Macaire
Chez Aubert & Cie|Paris 1839|21 x 27.50 cm|2 tomes en un volume relié
First edition illustrated with 101 lithographs by Daumier and 2 frontispieces by Nanteuil. Each issue contains 3 pages of text and one captioned lithograph. The volumes dated 1840 are reprints. These lithographs were originally published separately from 1836 to 1838, and were reduced in size for this volume.
Contemporary half calf binding with lavender tint. Smooth spine decorated with mirror rococo tooling. Spine uniformly darkened. Joints cracked. One scratch on the upper cover. Evidence of rubbing. Lithograph 36 has a repaired tear running lengthwise across the entire page. Very light scattered foxing. Small dampstain to lower margin of lithographs 48 to 57. Paper generally somewhat
€500
Prosper MÉRIMÉE
Théâtre de Clara Gazul
H. Fournier jeune|Paris 1830|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
Second edition with some parts in first edition as expanded with two new pieces: "L'occasion" and "Le carrosse du Saint Sacrement".

Half red straight-grained morocco binding with corners signed Blanchetière at the top of the first endpaper. Smooth spine decorated with a large mirror tool and roulettes. Separating fillets on the boards. Very fresh copy, uncut, however some brown spots on Le carrosse du saint sacrement.

Very handsome copy.

Provenance: from the library of Jacques Crépineau, famous collector of Romantic books, with his bookplate. Theater historian and director of the Michodière theater.

This is Prosper Mérimée's first work composed
€500
Joseph CONRAD, Carlo RIM
Jazz N°9 de la première série
Jazz|Paris Septembre 1929|24.50 x 31.50 cm|agrafé
First edition of this issue.
Two tears to the spine, some stains to margins of covers.
The magazine "Jazz" celebrated for the quality of its illustrations and photographs, was founded in 1929 by Titaÿna with Carlo Rim as editor-in-chief, and appeared monthly between December 1928 and March 1930, totaling 15 issues plus 2 supplements.
Contributions by Joseph Conrad "Atterrissages et départs", Henri de Montherlant "Les conduites de taureaux en Camargue", Florent Fels "La route", Titaÿna "Panama", Pierre Lazareff "Vie intime des artistes du music-hall", Paul Chauveau "Jean Cocteau l'imposteur", Urbain Faure "plongeurs de nacre... pêcheurs de perles"...
Issue illustrated with
€400
Carlo RIM
Humoristique bande dessinée originale au feutre noir mettant en scène son célèbre personnage Monsieur Virgule faisant le pitre devant un miroir pour finalement le traverser et être remplacé par son cubiste reflet
s. l. s. d. [circa 1945]|50 x 11.50 cm|une feuille
Humorous original comic strip executed in black felt-tip pen illustrating Monsieur Virgule intrigued before a mirror reflecting back a cubist image of himself, then indulging in capers to finally be replaced in reality by his reflection.
Central fold.
Monsieur Virgule is the creation of Carlo Rim for "Les nouvelles littéraires" in the 1930s then for "Les lettres françaises" after 1945.
Manuscript notes by Carlo Rim in pencil and red pencil on the verso of the strip.
Carlo Rim was a Provençal writer, author of "Ma belle Marseille", a caricaturist, a filmmaker and was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of Max Jacob an
€400
TITAŸNA, Carlo RIM
Jazz N°11 de la première série
Jazz|Paris Novembre 1929|24.50 x 31.50 cm|agrafé
First edition of this issue.
Very light marginal worming to covers, handsome copy.
The magazine "Jazz," celebrated for the quality of its illustrations and photographs, was founded in 1929 by Titaÿna with Carlo Rim as editor-in-chief, and appeared monthly between December 1928 and March 1930, comprising 15 issues plus 2 supplements.
Contributions by Titaÿna "La vie à bord des grands paquebots," Carlo Rim "Lubaki, peintre nègre," Georges Altman "Vladimlir Iliitch Lénine," Serge "Promenade en avion," André Hunebelle "Images du verre," Legrand-Chabrier "Contorsions," Ivan Goll "Sodome et Berlin," Georges Thiry "Antoine, photographe nègre"...
Issue illustrated with works by C
€400
Martin LE FRANC
L'estrif de fortune et de vertu - Etude du manuscrit 9510 de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique provenant de l'ancienne librairie des "Croy" de Chimay par Alphonse Bayot
Oeuvre nationale pour la reproduction de manuscrits à miniature de Belgique|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1928|21 x 29 cm|en feuilles sous chemise à lacets, chemise et étui
New edition, one of 42 nominative copies on heavy Arches paper, deluxe issue.
Work illustrated with 21 plates hors-texte presented in a separate chemise and at the end of the volume.
Our copy, as stipulated in the justification page, is complete with a suite of 11 color separations of the frontispiece plate.
Fine and rare copy.

€400
Françoise SAGAN
Les violons parfois
Julliard|Paris 1962|12.50 x 20 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, deluxe copy.
Fine copy.
€480
Louis Isaac LE MAISTRE DE SACY
Le Nouveau Testament, avec les actes des apôtres ; traduits en Français par Sacy
Prudhomme fils|Paris 1808|12.50 x 20.20 cm|2 volumes reliés
Second edition, bringing together in 2 volumes the 4 volumes of the New Testament published in 1793 and The Acts of the Apostles which is always missing from this edition, in 1798. It is illustrated with 112 numbered figures by Moreau Le Jeune. The plates are clean and well printed, with good inking. Complete with the binder's notice.
Empire binding in full black Russia leather. Smooth spine decorated with 2 grotesque compartments with various motifs, roulettes and other tools. Gilt title and volume labels. 2 framing roulettes on boards. Interior border. Gilt edges. Signs of rubbing. Small fragments of leather missing at head of volume 1. Small light dampstain at corner of pages 22 to 2
€500
Gustave FLAUBERT
Salammbo
Alphonse Lemerre|Paris 1886 (S.d)|9 x 15.80 cm|2 volumes reliés
New edition, undated, with the characteristics of the 1879 edition: identical collation and printing on tinted laid paper. Copy expanded with the eight etchings drawn and engraved by Pierre Vidal, including a frontispiece, published by Lemerre in 1884; All these plates have been printed on Holland paper. The Lemerre edition of 1879 forms the definitive edition corrected by the author, with 470 variants compared to the 1874 Charpentier edition, removing and modifying passages and words. Original wrappers preserved.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Smooth spine decorated with a mirrored iron tool lengthwise, gilt fillets, traces of staining on the spine. Top edge gilt. Foxing conce
€400
Georges BATAILLE, Jacques BARON
Documents N°1 de la deuxième année
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1930|22 x 27.50 cm|broché
First edition of this issue of this important journal dealing notably with archaeology, fine arts and ethnography and whose principal editors were Georges Bataille and Carl Einstein.
Fine copy despite a light stain affecting the margins of the leaves which are slightly and partially cockled.
Contributions by Marcel Griaule: "Légende illustrée de la reine de Saba", Jacques Baron: "Jacques Lipchitz", Georges Bataille "Le bas matérialisme et la gnose", Jiujiro Nakaya: "Figurines néolithiques du Japon", Robert Desnos: "Pygmalion et le Sphynx", Carl Einstein, Michel Leiris, Georges Henri Rivière...
Issue illustrated with photographs by Jacques-André Boiffard.
€400
Georges MONTORGUEIL, Pierre VIDAL
La vie des boulevards Madeleine-Bastille
1896|18.50 x 28 cm (In-8)|relié
First edition illustrated with 200 color drawings by Pierre Vidal. Limited to 700 numbered copies, No. 294. Original illustrated covers and spine preserved. Printed on tinted coated vellum.
Modern chocolate half morocco Bradel binding with corners. Jansenist spine with 4 raised bands. Leaf 49 with censoring in lower margin (a hole with paper rubbing). Spine faded on the first 2 compartments. Good copy.

€500
Georges BATAILLE, Georges RIBEMONT-DESSAIGNES
Documents N°6 de la deuxième année
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1930|22 x 27.50 cm|broché
First edition of this issue of the important review dealing notably with archaeology, fine arts and ethnography, with Georges Bataille and Carl Einstein as its principal editors.
Very handsome copy.
Contributions by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes: "Giorgio de Chirico", Emile Waldamnn: "The Schmitz Collection", Dr Eckart von Sydow "Janus Masks from Cross River (Cameroon)"...

€500
FERNANDEL
Billet autographe signé à son grand ami le metteur en scène Carlo Rim "... tu auras ainsi tous les détails depuis ma naissance et mes différents métiers avant d'être un artiste (du moins je le crois)..."
S. n.|Carry-le-Rouet 18 Septembre 1951|16.50 x 10.50 cm|une feuille
Autograph signed letter card from Fernandel, on letterhead from his property L'Oustau de la Mar at Carry-le-Rouet, addressed to his great friend the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker Carlo Rim, who was also his biographer.
(10 lines in turquoise ink, the ink having smudged on three words).
"18 Sept 1951
My dear Carlo,
I leave tomorrow for Italy, but I haven't forgotten you. You will receive documentation and manuscript pages "My memoirs" published by "Ce soir" in 1938, you will thus have all the details from my birth and my different jobs before being an artist (at least I believe so). Affectionately Fernandel."

€400
J. J. PREVOST
L'Irlande au dix neuvième siècle
Léon Curmer|Paris 1845|22.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 62 steel-engraved plates by Bartlett including a frontispiece and engraved title, all on heavy laid paper. Introduction by Baron Taylor. One map.
Contemporary binding in half black shagreen with corners, spine with four false raised bands elaborately gilt in compartments, paper boards in the manner of cardboard highlighted with double gilt fillets, marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Some rubbing, marginal foxing.
Provenance: from the library of Henri Gouin, founder with André Malraux of the Royaumont Foundation.
€400
Auguste BARTHOLDI
Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Emile Straus
A. Bartholdi|Paris 1er janvier 1900|13.90 x 8.90 cm|une carte postale
Autograph postcard signed by sculptor Auguste Bartholdi addressed to Emile Straus: "Avec mes remerciements pour vos bons souhaits." ["With my thanks for your good wishes."] The recto features a reproduction of a black and white drawing showing the citadel of Belfort and its famous lion, as well as the statue of the three sieges.
A great enthusiast of epistolary art, Emile Straus founded in 1899 La Carte postale illustrée, newsletter of the association he had just launched, the International Poste-Carte Club.
€480
Théophile GAUTIER, Arsène HOUSSAYE
Le palais pompéien de l'Avenue Montaigne
Au palais pompéien • Librairie Internationale|Paris s. d. [1866]|18.50 x 28 cm|relié
First edition.
Bradel binding in red half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron and double gilt fillet at foot, brown shagreen label, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Our copy contains a folding engraving depicting a theatrical rehearsal in the atrium of His Majesty Napoleon III.
Handsome copy.
Rare.
€450
Julien GREEN
Pourquoi suis-je moi ? Journal 1993-1996
Fayard|Paris 1996|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on Ingres Lana laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Very handsome copy.

€450
Julien GREEN
Ce qui reste de Jour. Journal 1966-1972
Plon|Paris 1972|13.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition, one of 28 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, deluxe copy.
Very handsome full-margined copy.

€450
Julien GREEN
Journal 1946-1950
Plon|Paris 1951|13.50 x 22 cm|broché
First edition, one of 26 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Very fine full-margined copy.

€450
Paul ÉLUARD
Lettres de Jeunesse avec des Poèmes inédits
Seghers|Paris 1962|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition, one of 32 numbered copies on Hélio neige Libert paper, ours being one of the 12 hors commerce copies, deluxe issue.
Very handsome copy.

€500
Julien GREEN
L'Arc-en-Ciel. Journal 1981-1984
Seuil|Paris 1988|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on Ingres de Lana laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Very handsome copy.

€450
Julien GREEN
On est sérieux quand on a 19 Ans. Journal 1919-1924
Fayard|Paris 1993|14 x 23 cm|broché
First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on Lana Ingres laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Very handsome copy.

€450
Julien GREEN
La Lumière du Monde. Journal 1978-1981
Seuil|Paris 1983|15 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on Lana Ingres laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
A very handsome copy.

€450
Claude LÉVI-STRAUSS
Du miel aux cendres
Plon|Paris 1966|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip, press cutting included.
Autograph inscription signed by Claude Lévi-Strauss to Nadine Nimier: "Pour Nadine, en lui souhaitant que cette nouvelle année soit tout miel et rien cendres, amicalement Claude Lévi-Strauss." ["For Nadine, wishing her that this new year be all honey and no ashes, with friendship Claude Lévi-Strauss."]
€500
Théodore CAHU, Maurice LELOIR
Richelieu
Boivin et Cie|Paris 1910|30 x 37 cm|relié
New edition, illustrated with 40 color illustrations after watercolors by Maurice Leloir, including 29 in-text and 11 full-page, printed in chromotypography. Leaves entirely mounted on guards.
Publisher's green and gold boards. Smooth spine with gilt title running lengthwise. Large special polychrome and gilt plate on the upper cover depicting Richelieu in armor under his cardinal's habit. Plate signed J. Fau. Binding signed Poensin. Headcap and joints rubbed, edges and corners as well. Corners turned. Paper very fresh, free of foxing. 2 micro tears along the lower joint, caused by rubbing, the fabric is composed of threads. A dark comma mark on the lower cover. Binding slightly loose,
€450
Renée VIVIEN, Camille LEMERCIER D'ERM
La Muse aux violettes
Sansot|Paris 1910|13 x 19 cm|broché
First edition printed with a small number of copies.
A poem by Renée Vivien at the top of the work.
A beautiful and very rare copy.
In memoriam...
€480
(Pablo PICASSO) (Jaime SABARTÉS)
Montage photographique original autour de Jaime Sabartés et Picasso
s. l. s. d. [ca 1973]|39.40 x 29.30 cm|autre
Original photographic montage of Jaime Sabartés and Picasso
s.ls.d(ca 1973), 39.4 x 29.3 cm, other
Unique original photographic montage produced from a large photograph showing Jean-Pascal Lorriaux and Jaime Sabartés, on the right-hand margin an original stamp is glued on which there is a portrait of Sabartés by Pablo Picasso, in the lower margin there are other collages of printed paper forming the title “Sabartés welcoming recevant J-P Lorriaux - 45 années de vie avec Picasso” “Sabartés welcoming receiving J-P Lorriaux - 45 years of life with Picasso”.
Jean-Pascal Lorriaux was a passionate collector who had the idea of publishing a collection of lithographs presenting the ha
€500
COLLECTIF
La Belgique monumentale, historique et pittoresque
A. Jamar et Ch. Hen|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1844|16.50 x 26.20 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, abundantly illustrated with 68 plates including 7 in colors hand-colored and gum arabic highlights (costumes in picturesque scenes), all on tinted paper.
Contemporary half light green glazed calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with rocaille tools throughout and panels. Gilt title and volume number in medallions. Small leather loss at head of volume 1, headcap present. Traces of rubbing. One corner bumped, the others slightly turned. Relatively fresh set, with pale scattered foxing mainly in margins. Good copy.
The descriptions proceed by province (Hainaut, Liège, Brabant...). In addition, current state of literature and sciences in Belgium.

€450
Henriette-Marie-Sarah Bernhardt, dite Sarah BERNHARDT
Carte postale photographique signée de Sarah Bernhardt
S. n.|s. l. 1909|9 x 14 cm|une feuille verso
Photographic postcard depicting the great tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt creating the role of Elizabeth I of England.
Handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of Sarah Bernhardt dated 1909 to the right of her portrait.

€400
Adolphe LALAUZE
Le petit Monde
A. Cadart|Paris 1875|29 x 36 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition consisting of an album of 10 original etchings by Adolphe Lalauze and a sanguine frontispiece around the theme of childhood.
Publisher's full red cardboard binding, smooth spine without lettering, some scratches on the headcaps, title and illustrator's name stamped in gold on the first cover, blind-ruled frame on covers, covers slightly faded at foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Pleasant interior condition, three of the ten etchings being signed in the plate.
Presentation by Eugène Montrosier.
Provenance: from the library of Ludovic Halévy with his bookplate pasted on a pastedown.
€400
Frédéric SOULIÉ
La lanterne magique. Histoire de Napoléon
Alphonse Henriot|Paris 1838|14 x 22.20 cm|relié
First illustrated edition with 50 vignettes by Charles Jacque. Chronological table at end.
Half red straight-grained morocco binding, late 19th or early 20th century. Raised-band spine decorated with 4 fleurons and roll-tooling on bands and headcaps. Top edge gilt. Original wrappers preserved. Front wrapper with restorations. Uncut throughout, full-margined, of superb freshness.
Very handsome copy. Rare in this condition.
Popular and entertaining history of Napoleon. In narrative form, the narrator tells how as a child, he witnessed the arrival of two soldiers who, by means of a magic lantern, recounted Napoleon's story to him. The vignettes thus correspond to the magic lante
€400
[Marcel SCHWOB as] LOYSON-BRIDET
Moeurs des diurnales
Mercure de France|Paris 1903|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition published under the pseudonym of Loyson-Bridet, one of the copies from the first printing bearing, on the justification page, Schwob's personal vignette: a goose holding a quill in its beak.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral and typographical motifs, light rubbing to spine, scratches to marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, corners slightly bumped, contemporary binding.
A small stain at foot of title page and on the facing page.
Signed autograph inscription from Marcel Schwob, under his pseudonym of Loyson-Bridet: "A Emile Despax, son ami. Loyson Bridet."
€500
Léon LEBEGUE, Pierre LOUŸS
Les trois roses de Marie-Anne
A. Ferroud - F. Ferroud, Successeur|Paris 1909|16 x 23.50 cm|broché
Illustrated edition with original etchings by Léon Lebègue, one of 30 numbered copies on grand Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Our copy, as stipulated in the justification page, is complete with the triple state of the engravings.
Handsome copy.
€450
Lucien DAUDET
"Vous, moi, quelques uns avons aimé Céline quand il avait un grand talent"Unpublished signed autograph letter addressed to Lucien Descaves
Paris 29 décembre 1942|13.60 x 17.90 cm|6 pages sur un double feuillet et un feuillet simple
Autograph letter signed by Lucien Daudet addressed to Lucien Descaves; six pages written in black ink on a double sheet and a single sheet. Creases inherent to the mailing.
Fine and long unpublished letter addressed to Lucien Descaves, to whom Daudet had not given news for two years. He outlines broadly the tragic events that occurred since: "Since that time, I remained in Paris, I witnessed the days of June 40 [...] I undertook, to forget my life, to write a life of my father [...] Then in August, I understood that I was very ill [...] I was operated on, reoperated on, in November I was dying, I knew nothing anymore, then a phlebitis. [...] A month later I lear
€450
Thérèse LE PRAT (Marcel AYMÉ)
[PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Marcel Aymé
Paris s. d. [ca 1950]|22.70 x 30 cm|une photographie
Black and white photographic portrait of Marcel Aymé by Thérèse Le Prat in a period silver gelatin print on baryta paper. Manuscript signature by Thérèse Le Prat in white ink at the bottom left of the photograph.Photographer's stamp on verso and pencil annotation.
Fine copy despite a fold to the upper right corner.
We have been able to locate only one other example of this photograph at the Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine in Charenton-le-Pont.
€400
Victor HUGO
Le Sacre de Charles X, Ode
Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1828|20.50 x 27 cm|relié
Second edition, published the same year as the first, printed by the royal printing house in 500 copies.
Two leaves browned.
Bradel binding in full marbled paper, smooth spine decorated with a black morocco label, title lengthwise, binding signed Thomas Boichot.
€450
Paul VALÉRY
Dessin original signé au crayon représentant une femme en pied
s. l. s. d. [ca 1940]|10.70 x 18 cm|une feuille
Original drawing signed by Paul Valéry, executed in pencil and depicting a full-length female figure.
Traces of kraft paper tape on the verso.
Connected to the Manet and Rouart families and the author of several texts on the fine arts, Valéry himself practiced drawing throughout his life, notably adorning the margins of his celebrated Cahiers.
€500
ANONYME
« L'insouciance » [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Album photographique amateur. Tennis 1914
s. l. s. d. [1914]|26 x 17.50 cm|8 photographies dans un album cousu
Eight period albumen photographs depicting an amateur tennis team.
Blue paper album sewn with red cord, title and date in silver ink on the first cover.
Very fine condition.
€400
Violette LEDUC
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Adriana Salem
9, 10 et 16 janvier 1963|16.60 x 21.90 cm|3 pages sur 2 feuillets
Autograph letter signed by Violette Leduc addressed to Adriana Salem, written in three stages in blue ink on two sheets detached from a schoolchild's notebook.
The three stages of this letter concern the regretted purchase of a record player that Violette Leduc wishes to exchange for a transistor radio.
€450
Jean GIONO, Pierre FONTEINAS
Fragments d'un paradis
G. Dechalotte|Paris 1948|22.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 12 original compositions outside the text by Pierre Fonteinas colored by stencil, one of 839 numbered copies on B.F.K. de Rives paper.
Half blue morocco binding with corners, spine lightly darkened with four raised bands decorated with a red mosaic morocco piece representing a wave emerging from gilt wavelets rising up to gilt stars, gilt fillets on the marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of another marbled paper, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed P. Nichon.
The work is also illustrated with 8 initial letters and 1 tailpiece by Pierre Fonteinas.
Handsome copy.

€500
André MASSON
Le Titan - Lithographie originale signée sur BFK de Rives d'André Masson
Aubier|1972|65 x 50 cm|une feuille
Original lithograph printed on BFK de Rives paper. "Artist's proof" notation written in pencil at lower left. Artist's signature in pencil at lower right of the plate.
Margins soiled with small creasing marks.
Mysterious landscape with luxuriant vegetation, fire at center, depicts the titan against a background of hills in green and orange tones.
€450
Jules VERNE
La maison à vapeur. Voyage à travers l'Inde Septentrionale
Hetzel|Paris s. d. [1880]|18.50 x 28 cm|relié
First illustrated edition with 101 drawings by Benett including a frontispiece engraved by Meaulle and 2 full-page maps. Catalogue AI for the year 1881.
Red publisher's binding with the two elephants, back cover of Lenègre b type, with blind-stamped medallion, conforming to Jauzac's description.
Volume very slightly warped, a small black mark at the level of the lower cut of the back cover
Adventure and science fiction novel set in India. The steam house is a sort of train whose locomotive is a steam elephant, the machine runs without rails and can even be amphibious.
€500
Raymond QUENEAU
Courir les rues
Gallimard|Paris 1967|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Foxing on covers, a light dampstain on spine.
Printed bookplate representing the lion of Saint Mark at head of an endpaper.
Touching and precious signed autograph inscription from Raymond Queneau: "A Serge Reggiani comédien, chanteur et poète. Queneau."
€450
Jules VERNE
Seconde patrie
Jules Hetzel|Paris 1900-1902|17.50 x 27.50 cm|relié
First edition large octavo illustrated with 68 drawings by George Roux as well as 2 maps.
Publisher's Hetzel binding signed Engel known as "au globe doré" type 3, lighthouse spine, second cover type Engel "h" according to Jauzac, all edges gilt. Publisher's BH catalogue at end.
Volume very slightly warped, spine lightly stained, some small losses of gilt on the plate. Original blue endpapers very marginally lightened as usual. Plate from page 249 detached, some foxing.
Seconde patrie is a robinsonade. A great admirer of the novel Le Robinson suisse written in 1812 by the Swiss-German pastor Johann David Wyss, Jules Verne imagines a sequel to the adventures of
€500
COLETTE
"Voilà La Cigale qui me réclame demain soir..."Signed autograph letter addressed to Adrien Peytel
Marseille s. d. [circa 1920]|19.80 x 25.20 cm|une page sur un feuillet
Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend, the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel, nine lines written in black ink.
Some folding marks inherent to the mailing of the letter.
"And then damn it, enough already. Here La Cigale is calling me for tomorrow evening, and I haven't stolen it, since I accepted, and even asked, to do the café-concert criticism on the same level as the other."
€500