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Idées cadeaux de Noël | Grandes écrivaines : Le génie féminin 
  1. The Old English Baron : a gothic story
    Clara REEVE

    The Old English Baron : a gothic story

    Printed for Charles Dilly|London 1780|10.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
    Second edition, rare. A frontispiece by Hamilton. The first edition dates from 1778.
    Contemporary English binding in full mottled brown sheep. Smooth spine decorated with foliage. Red morocco title-label. Border frieze on boards. 3 corners slightly bumped.
    After The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole published in 1764, The Old English Baron is the second Gothic novel in literature, and the author, Clara Reeve writes in her preface: "this Story is the literary offspring of the Castle of Otranto, written upon the same plan, with a design to unite the most attractive and interesting circumstances of the ancient Romance and modern Novel, at the same time it assumes a...
    €900
  2. Zayde, histoire espagnole. Par M. de Segrais. Avec un traité de l'origine des romans par M. Huet
    Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne LA FAYETTE, Jean Regnault de SEGRAIS

    Zayde, histoire espagnole. Par M. de Segrais. Avec un traité de l'origine des romans par M. Huet

    Par La Compagnie des libraires|à Paris 1719|9 x 16 cm|relié

    New edition after the first, very rare, published in 1670. Huet's Treatise on the Origin of Novels, in the form of a letter to Segrais, appears at the end of the first part of Zaïde.


    Armorial copy of Charlotte Emilie Le Fèvre de Caumartin de La cour de Balleroy, daughter of Louis-François Le Fèvre de Caumartin, lord of Boissy, and wife of the Marquis de la Cour de Balleroy. Feminine arms are rare and sought after, as few women formed libraries with their coat of arms. The Marquise de Balleroy, who died in 1749, settled in Normandy, and maintained an intense correspondence with the highest nobility from which she descended.


    Full speckled...

    €800
  3. Les imprudences de Peggy
    Meg VILLARS, WILLY

    Les imprudences de Peggy

    Sté d'éditions et de publications parisiennes|Paris s. d. [circa 1910]|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
    First edition of the French translation by Willy, of which there is no mention of great papers.
    Cover illustrated with a blood Garnier Salbreux.
    Binding half brown shagreen, discolored smooth back and adorned with gold cartridges, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, preserved covers, golden head, ex-libris engraved by Walter Furst pasted on a contreplat.
    Autograph dedication dated and signed by Meg Villars, who was the mistress of Willy while he was married to Colette, Walter Furst enriched with an autograph dedication signed by Willy.
    Both shipments are written in English and made on the illustrated cover.
    Our copy is also...
    €450
  4. Lettres de Madame Du Montier a la Marquise de *** sa fille, avec les reponses
    Jeanne-Marie LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT

    Lettres de Madame Du Montier a la Marquise de *** sa fille, avec les reponses

    Chez Pierre Bruyset Ponthus|à Lyon 1756|9.50 x 17 cm|relié
    First edition published anonymously and presenting the correspondence as real.
    Full brown marbled and glazed calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Spine rubbed with some cracking. 2 corners slightly bumped, 2 others rubbed.
    Epistolary novel in which a young girl destined for retreat finds herself married against all expectations. The narrative encounters numerous intrigues and twists. This is a moral and educational work in which the author, through the character of Madame Du Montier, addresses the education of girls. Pedagogy held a significant place in the work of Madame Le Prince de Beaumont, who was a governess and author of numerous...
    €350
  5. Le vert paradis - Exemplaire de Paul Valéry
    Victoria OCAMPO (inscribed to Paul VALÉRY)

    Le vert paradis - Exemplaire de Paul Valéry[The Green Paradise – Copy from Paul Valéry’s Library]

    Lettres françaises|Buenos Aires 1945|11.50 x 18 cm|broché
    first edition, on current paper, of the French translation.
    A precious autographed and signed copy of Victoria Ocampo: "To Paul Valéry, this little book - a testimony of my love for France - has nothing to say to her from the literary point of view, with admiration, friendship and so much desire To see him again Victoria Ocampo Mar del Plata February 1945. "
    A small tear and slight marginal bites on the second board.
    €1,200
  6. Le comte de Guiche
    Sophie GAY

    Le comte de Guiche

    L. de Potter|Paris 1845|12 x 19 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
    first edition.
    Binding half black shagreen, spine slightly thinned to four nerves decorated with black boxes, flat black cardboard, guards and contreplats paper to the tank top corners bumped, small rips on the cuts, sprinkled edges, contemporary binding.
    Rare autograph signed by Delphine Gay: "To his dear Delphine" topped the first volume of the title page.
    Nice copy.
    €300
  7. Films parlés
    Irène NÉMIROVSKY

    Films parlés

    Nrf|Paris 1934|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, a service de presse (advance) copy.
    Autograph inscription from Irène Némirovsky to monsieur Parmentier.
    Spine sunned, with two small tears, not serious, to foot.
    €800
  8. Lettres d'une Péruvienne
    Françoise de GRAFFIGNY

    Lettres d'une Péruvienne

    De l'imprimerie de Migneret|à Paris 1797|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    Bilingual edition illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Gaucher and 6 handsome captioned figures by Le Barbier, engraved by Patas, Halbou, Lingée. Printed on laid paper. Translation by Deodati, with French facing the Italian.
    Contemporary full sprinkled and glazed sheep binding. Smooth spine richly decorated with 2 diamond-patterned grotesque compartments and 2 large fleurons. Red morocco title label. Framed border on covers. Upper joint split over the first 2 compartments. One crack at head, same at tail. One corner bumped. Joints and corners rubbed. Foxing. 2 scratches on lower cover.
    Handsome esteemed edition. The first edition of this work, which was abundantly reprinted...
    €500
  9. Pêle-mêle. Chroniques de l'Humanité
    Régine DEFORGES

    Pêle-mêle. Chroniques de l'Humanité

    Arthème Fayard|Paris 2004|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on vergé paper Ingres de Lana, this copy one of 10 hors commerce, the only large paper copies.
    A good copy.
    €250
  10. Oeuvres choisies de Madame Deshoulieres
    Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde DESHOULIERES

    Oeuvres choisies de Madame Deshoulieres

    De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné|à Paris 1795|9.50 x 15.30 cm|relié
    Fine edition published by Didot printed on laid paper with figures before letters, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Rochard and 3 figures by Marillier engraved by Pouce, de Ghendt. This charming edition is said to have been limited to 100 copies.
    Full ripe orange morocco binding, late 19th century, signed David. Raised spine handsomely decorated, with roulettes at head and foot. Brown morocco title and volume labels. Triple fillet frame on covers. Rich interior border. Edges gilt. A very slight tear to outer edge.
    Very handsome copy in a rare shade, perfectly executed in a master binding.
    €850
  11. Poësies de madame et mademoiselle Deshoulieres
    Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde DESHOULIERES, Antoinette Thérèse DESHOULIERES

    Poësies de madame et mademoiselle Deshoulieres

    Chez François Foppens|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1708|9.70 x 15.70 cm|relié
    New edition after the original published in 1688 (a second volume was added later).
    A handsome frontispiece portrait in medallion and a title vignette repeated in volume II. Title pages in red and black. Full red morocco binding late 19th century signed Thompson. Spine with raised bands decorated. Title and date gilt. Triple fillet frame on covers. Rich interior border. Edges gilt. Light rubbing at tail and lower edge. Scattered foxing. Handsome copy, perfectly executed. Madame Deshoulières was regarded as the foremost poetess of her time, and became moreover the first female academician. She held one of the most brilliant salons of the period, she was a refined and remarkably cultured...
    €800
  12. Guerres militaires et guerres sociales
    Marie BONAPARTE

    Guerres militaires et guerres sociales

    Flammarion|Paris 1920|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition for which there was no mention of large paper copies.
    Autograph inscription from Marie Bonaparte to Monsieur Gouse.
    Spine and covers slightly and marginally faded as usual.
    €300
  14. Memoires de Hollande
    [Madame de LA FAYETTE] [ou Gatien COURTILZ DE SANDRAS]

    Memoires de Hollande

    Chez Estienne Michallet|à Paris 1678|10 x 15.50 cm|relié
    The rare first edition, long attributed to Madame de La Fayette, and published the same year as La Princesse de Clèves, then to Courtilz de Sandras and even to Pierre Daniel Huet.
    Late nineteenth-century full morocco binding signed Bellevallée glazed old red. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Wide gilt inner border. Date at foot. Very fine copy, perfectly established, with wide margins, and unwashed.
    Unlike La Princesse de Clèves, or La Princesse de Montpensier, the Mémoires de Hollande is not a historical novella, but presents itself as a novel of manners that uses modern first names. The work describes, through the love affair between a Jewish woman and a Lusignan, life in the...
    €1,800
  15. Les petits émigrés, ou correspondance de quelques enfants
    Madame de GENLIS

    Les petits émigrés, ou correspondance de quelques enfants

    S. n.|à Hambourg [Hamburg] 1798|8 x 13 cm|4 tomes reliés en 2
    First edition in small format following the original published in Berlin and Paris on the same date.
    Contemporary full marbled calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with urn tools and roulettes. Black morocco title and volume labels. Roulette on edges. Lacking at head of volume I; a tear with loss at tail. Rubbing. 3 corners slightly bumped.
    The novel is an exchange of letters about the atrocities committed in France during the revolutionary period, by a noble family who fled France in 1792 due to persecution. Although this novel remains a bildungsroman with pedagogical and moral purpose, Madame de Genlis warns in the preface that it is not intended for children. The Countess de...
    €300
  16. Histoire et aventures d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas
    Marie Catherine, Baronne d' AULNOY

    Histoire et aventures d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas

    Chez Valleyre, Cailleau|à Paris 1764|8 x 14.50 cm|4 parties reliées en 1 volume
    New edition, after the original published in 1690. Illustrated with 4 figures serving as frontispieces to the four books, finely engraved in etching but unsigned. Titles within frames of small engraved tools.
    Contemporary half speckled sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with 5 fleurons, green paper title-label with gilt title, two gilt tools slightly faded, boards covered with remarkable contemporary domino paper decorated with a decidedly modern dotted pattern, some rubbing to leather.
    Madame d'Aulnoy's first literary adventure, this novel belongs to the tradition of historical nouvelles whose emblematic model is the Princesse de Clèves. This collection also contains the...
    €250
  17. Le somnambule, oeuvres en proses et en vers, ou l'on trouve l'histoire générale d'une isle très singulière, découverte aux grandes indes en 1784. Suivi de FEUTRY Nouveaux opuscules et Suppléments aux nouveaux opuscules
    Fanny de BEAUHARNAIS, FEUTRY

    Le somnambule, oeuvres en proses et en vers, ou l'on trouve l'histoire générale d'une isle très singulière, découverte aux grandes indes en 1784. Suivi de FEUTRY Nouveaux opuscules et Suppléments aux nouveaux opuscules

    A l'Isle de France • Chez P. Fr. Didot le jeune, imprimeur de Monsieur|Paris 1786, 1779|19.50 x 12.50 cm|relié
    First edition. Absent from the BN de France and French catalogues, one copy at the British Library and several in English catalogues. Le somnambule is on deluxe paper. Les nouveaux opuscules de Fleury are in first edition.
    Half blue cloth binding from the first half of the 19th century. Corners slightly bumped.
    French woman of letters (1737-1813), Countess Anne Marie Françoise de Beauharnais wrote novels, tales, plays and verse pieces, which are collected in this volume. Besides containing verse fables, les nouveaux opuscules de Feutry brings together a collection of texts on the birth and development of Castilian, Arab and Italian, Portuguese poetry of great interest. Biography of...
    €500
  18. Poèmes de la libellule
    Judith GAUTIER, Kinmochi SAIONJI

    Poèmes de la libellule[Poems of the Dragonfly]

    Imprimerie Gillot|s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1885]|24.50 x 32 cm|broché
    First edition of the French translation by Judith Gautier, printed on imitation Japan paper.
    Foxing to the covers of the folded wrapper.
    Fully illustrated with full-page color wood engravings by Yamamoto.
    Rare.
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  20. Ourika
    Madame de DURAS

    Ourika

    Chez Ladvocat|Paris 1826|11 x 17.10 cm|relié
    Edition illustrated with a frontispiece and engraved vignette title. Published three years after the first edition.
    Full olive green glazed calf, spine elaborately decorated and ruled in gilt, French fillet framing the boards also framed in blind, marbled paper endpapers and flyleaves, all edges gilt. Slight rubbing to joints, scattered foxing mainly on the first few leaves.
    A fine copy of the Duchesse de Duras's most famous novel with wide margins, housed in an elegant contemporary calf binding.
    A best-selling novel celebrated by Goethe, Ourika tells the tragic story of a young Senegalese woman raised in the French aristocracy after the Revolution, who succumbs to racial...
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  21. "Je vous assure que je n'ai rien signé avant 1904. Et pour cause, M. Willy y voyait mille inconvénients..."
    COLETTE

    "Je vous assure que je n'ai rien signé avant 1904. Et pour cause, M. Willy y voyait mille inconvénients..."Autograph letter addressed to his friend Jean-Joseph Renaud concerning his early career bullied by his husband Willy

    Paris 18 Octobre 1948|21 x 13.50 cm|Une page + une enveloppe
    Autograph note signed by Colette addressed to her friend Jean-Joseph Renaud on her famous blue letter paper (9 lines in black ink) concerning her difficult beginnings in literature.
    Crease mark inherent to postal delivery, envelope included.
    Taking advantage of a question from her correspondent, Colette recalls the first works of her career, when her husband Willy, a great socialite who employed many talented ghostwriters such as Jean de Tinan, Curnonsky, Paul-Jean Toulet and Tristan Bernard to write his books, appropriated her productions: "From the midst of a slow storm of work I assure you that I signed nothing before 1904. And for good reason, M. Willy saw a thousand...
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  23. La Princesse de Clèves
    [Madame de LA FAYETTE]

    La Princesse de Clèves

    La compagnie des libraires associés|Paris 1719|9.80 x 16.80 cm|relié
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  24. Victor Hugo raconté par un témoin de sa vie
    (Victor HUGO) [Adèle HUGO]

    Victor Hugo raconté par un témoin de sa vie[Victor Hugo as Told by a Witness of His Life]

    Lib. internationale A. Lacroix & Verboeckhoven & Cie|Paris • & Leipzig • & Bruxelles [Brussels] 1863|14 x 21.50 cm|2 volumes reliés

    First edition.

    Contemporary half brown shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands framed by blind fillets, gilt floral tools at head and tail, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplates mounted at the head of the pastedowns, sprinkled edges.

    A few minor spots of foxing, with press cuttings loosely inserted and leaving offsetting to the front endpapers of the first volume.

    Signed autograph presentation inscription by Jules Claye, the printer of this work, to Ferdinand Taillefer on the front of the first volume: "... souvenir typographique à mon ancien et excellent collaborateur..."

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  26. La chatte
    COLETTE

    La chatte

    Grasset|Paris 1933|17 x 22.50 cm|relié sous étui
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  27. Embellissez-vous!
    Lucie DELARUE-MARDRUS

    Embellissez-vous!

    Les éditions de France|Paris 1926|12 x 19 cm|broché
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  29. Truismes
    Marie DARRIEUSSECQ

    Truismes

    P.O.L.|Paris 1996|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Handsome copy.
    Autograph inscription signed by Marie Darrieussecq to Michel Contat.

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  31. Le Ravissement de Lol. V. Stein
    Marguerite DURAS

    Le Ravissement de Lol. V. Stein

    Gallimard|Paris 1964|13 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 130 numbered copies on laid paper, ours one of the 75 copies reserved for the Club de l'édition originale, the only deluxe copies.
    Handsome copy despite two small areas of sunning at head and foot of spine.
    Unavailable
  32. Photographie originale représentant Leonor Fini coiffée d'une tête de crocodile
    (Leonor FINI) Robert COHEN

    Photographie originale représentant Leonor Fini coiffée d'une tête de crocodile

    Paris 1949|13 x 18.10 cm|une photographie

    Original gelatin silver print depicting Leonor Fini wearing a crocodile headpiece and holding a large bouquet of flowers.
    On the verso, photographer Robert Cohen’s Agip agency stamp and an affixed caption slip reading: "Le Bal des Quat'saisons. Des personnages de la haute couture, des arts, de la diplomatie, ont assisté la nuit dernière chez le baron et la baronne de Cabrol, avenue Foch, à un bal auquel les invités devaient arriver transformés en légumes et en animaux domestiques. Le peintre Leonor Fini en costume rappelant un chou. 25 Mars 1949" [“The Four Seasons Ball. Last night, prominent figures from fashion, the arts, and diplomacy gathered at Baron and Baroness de Cabrol’s...

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  34. Les Samouraïs
    Julia KRISTEVA

    Les Samouraïs

    Fayard|Paris 1990|15 x 23.50 cm|broché
    The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Handsome copy.
    Autograph inscription dated and signed by Julia Kristeva to Ulrike (Bergweiler): "... qui fait partie de l'esprit des samouraïs..." ["... which is part of the spirit of the samurai..."]

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  36. Photographie dédicacée par Natalie Clifford-Barney
    CAROLUS-DURAN, Natalie Clifford BARNEY

    Photographie dédicacée par Natalie Clifford-BarneyInscribed photograph signed by Natalie Clifford Barney

    S. n.|s. l. s. d. [ca 1966]|8 x 10.90 cm|une photographie
    Inscribed photograph signed by Natalie Clifford Barney
    [ca 1900] | 8 x 10,9 cm | one photograph
    Original photograph in albumen print from the early 20th century, showing the black and white childhood portrait of Natalie Clifford Barney, painted by Carolus-Duran in 1887.

    On the back in blue ink, a later (ca 1960) handwritten inscription by Natalie Clifford Barney: “Triste et doux petit page, – moi-même de jadis... peint par Carolus Duran” ("Sad and sweet little page, myself of yesteryear...painted by Carolus-Duran.")
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  37. Lettres réunies, présentées et annotées par Stéphane Michaud
    Flora TRISTAN, Stéphane MICHAUD

    Lettres réunies, présentées et annotées par Stéphane Michaud

    Seuil|Paris 1980|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Handsome copy.
    Signed autograph inscription from Stéphane Michaud to Claude Duchet enriched with a calling card on which Stéphane Michaud made this manuscript remark: "Perhaps Romantisme will one day open to a Flora Tristan dossier that I have ready. Best regards."



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  39. Myrrhille
    Liane de POUGY

    Myrrhille

    Librairie Nilsson|Paris 1899|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
    First edition illustrated with 14 hors-texte illustrations obtained through photography.
    Spine and boards slightly and marginally lightened, two pale dampstains at foot of first board, light stains on second board, pleasant interior condition.
    Rare.
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  40. Oeuvres
    Elena RICCOBONI

    Oeuvres

    Chez Humblot|à Paris 1781|10 x 17.50 cm|8 volumes reliés
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  42. Un homme infidèle
    Madeleine CHAPSAL

    Un homme infidèle

    Grasset|Paris 1980|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 24 numbered copies on Lana laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
    Fine copy.
    Our copy is enriched with an autograph note signed by Madeleine Chapsal which bears a paper adhesive mark at head.
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  43. Inscribed to her greatest friend, "my double in this life"
    Histoire de ma vie
    George SAND (inscribed to François ROLLINAT)

    Histoire de ma vie[Story of my Life]

    Victor Lecou|Paris 1854|13.90 x 22.20 cm|20 volumes reliés

    Very rare and sought-after first edition of one of the most important autobiographical works in the history of French literature, masterpiece and major work by George Sand.
    Beige half sheepskin bindings, spine with four raised bands gilt tooled and framed in gilt and black, gilt tooling at top and bottom of spines, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved for each of the volumes, elegant imitation bindings.
    Provenance: Pierre Boutellier, with his ex-libris on the front pastedown of the first volume.
    Presentation copy signed by George Sand to his great friend the poet Maurice Rollinat, on the half-title of the first volume.
    Pleasant and extremely rare...

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