First edition illustrated by Myrbach with plates, headpieces and vignettes, from the Guillaume and Lemerre collection.
Contemporary half grey morocco binding with corners. Slipcase with morocco entry and covered with peacock-eye paper. Original wrappers preserved, lacking spine. Spine with 4 raised bands in Jansenist style. Top edge gilt. Uncut paper, with wide margins, fresh paper, free from foxing. Light rubbing to slipcase.
Very handsome copy.
After "Mon frère Yves" and "Pêcheur d'Islande", "Matelot" completes, in 1893, Pierre Loti's trilogy of sea novels and recounts the adventures of Jean Berny who, after failing the Naval Academy entrance exam, enlists in the merchant marine as an ordinary sailor.
New illustrated edition with vignettes by Tony Johannot. Single-volume reprint by Dubochet of the 1835 Paulin edition, with some new vignettes, notably on the title page. 800 Vignettes.
Contemporary full navy blue shagreen binding. Spine with false flat raised bands decorated with grotesque compartments. Boards stamped in blind with a large central decorative frame with multiple borders, in blind, with triple gilt fillets, bold... Interior frieze. Edges gilt. Signs of rubbing. One upper corner pushed in. White watered silk endpapers darkened. Apart from 2 leaves in the preface on Molière that are browned, paper very white and fresh. Dubochet used different paper for his edition whereas the 2-volume edition is almost systematically always foxed.
Handsome copy in full contemporary binding.
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 rubbing traces, corners and raised bands. Very handsome copy, with fresh paper.
Collection of all masses for the days of the year, holy days, Easter, Pentecost, etc...
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.
First edition printed in 150 numbered copies on vellum.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth spine with rubbing, lower headcap rubbed, boards marginally soiled, lower corners slightly bumped, top edge gilt.
Handsome interior condition despite a clear dampstain at head of the final leaves.
Introduction by Mrs Meynell.
Complete with its 62 plates outside the text under tissue guards reproducing works by John Singer Sargent.
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 of 6 theatrical pieces. "First dramatic manifestation, in France, of Romantic creation, the Théâtre de Clara Gazul is an original pastiche that shows a moralist's irony, but also a parodic exaggeration of Spanish culture (cries, tears, revenge, killings)." "More intended for reading than for performance, the work achieved considerable success from its publication." Larousse Encyclopédie
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.
