Idées Cadeaux de Noël entre 1000 et 5000 euros

Comment je vois le Monde [The World as I See It], Paris 1934, 12x19cm, bound.
First edition of the French translation published a year before the English translation, one of 10 numbered copies on Hollande, most limited deluxe issue.
Dark gray half morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, patterned paper boards, gray paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved (slightly wrinkled and with small tears), top edge gilt over untrimmed edges, binding signed P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
A few foxing spots to endpapers and to some leaves on the untrimmed edges, bookplate on pastedown.
A very rare untrimmed copy of this fundamental text by the...

Les mémoires de Joséphine Baker recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage
Kra, Paris 1927, 20x21cm, half morocco
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on pur fil, only grand papier (deluxe copies).
Handsome copy, uncut.
Brown half brown morocco, gilt date at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, orange paper pastedown and endpapers, original wrappers preserved, gilt over untrimmed edges, binding signed T. Boichot.
Illustrated with 30 drawings by Paul Colin.
Signed and dated inscription by Joséphine Baker.

Histoire d'O [Story of O]
Jean-Jacques Pauvert | Sceaux 1954 | 12 x 19 cm | original wrappers

First edition, one of 480 numbered copies on Vergé paper, ours being one of the few "hors commerce" (advance copies), the only deluxe paper after 20 copies on Arches and 100 others on Vergé for the press.
Our copy is complete with the rare vignette drawn and engraved by Hans Bellmer in sanguine and present on about 200 copies only.
Preface by Jean Paulhan.
Beautiful copy of this masterpiece of erotic literature.

First edition of the French translation by Victor Serge, one of 26 numbered copies on deluxe paper, the only large-paper issue.
Half red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, grey paper endpapers and boards, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, signed binding by Goy & Vilaine.
Born in Belgium to anti-tsarist émigré parents, Victor Serge became politically engaged from the age of fifteen, militating within the ranks of the Young Socialist Guard. An antimilitarist and libertarian, he took part in numerous anarchist demonstrations and was sentenced for having sheltered members of the Bonnot Gang. In 1919, he placed himself at the service of the revolution and...

Illustrated edition with 92 original compositions engraved with burin by Albert Decaris including 38 hors-texte plates, one of 55 copies on Imperial Japan paper, deluxe copies after 30 handmade white Japan paper.
Full brown morocco binding, spine very slightly faded with three raised bands, beveled boards, front board ornamented with the large plate of the original copper that served for the illustration of the work's frontispiece, endpapers and pastedowns of Japanese paper, frame of two black and gilt morocco fillets on the pastedowns, all edges gilt, covers preserved, superb binding signed M.T. Aigner.
The subscription fascicle written by Henry de Montherlant is bound at the end...

Original period albumen photograph depicting Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly in an eccentric outfit consisting of a limousine and a Norman carter's cape.

The writer has added his signature in red ink at the bottom of the print.
The portrait is housed in a charming frame, unfortunately showing some tears and cracks, under a mat covered with pink tapestry.

We could only find two examples of this photograph: one, uninscribed, at the Musée Gustave Moreau and another, bearing an inscription, catalogued during the sale of J. C. D's library, a Norman collector, in 2005.
A rare and remarkable portrait of the writer who, in 1845 in his essay Du...

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jacques Audiberti to Nathalie Sarraute.
Spine sunned, complete with publisher's slip.