Idées cadeaux XXᵉ siècle – Avant-garde & Zazous

First edition, one of the rare press copies. No deluxe limited issue printed.

Full yellow box calf binding, smooth spine lettered in palladium, boards tooled in blind, upper board with inlays of grey box calf, yellow box calf pastedowns, beige suede endpapers, original wrappers and spine preserved, no gilt edges like every binding by Jean-Luc Honegger, half yellow box calf custom slipcase, smooth spine lettered in palladium, yellow lustrine cloth boards, beige suede lining, very fine set signed Jean-Luc Honegger (2023).

4400 copies of this first edition of The Stranger were printed on April 21, 1942: 400 press copies, 500 copies without a statement of...

Text “Les chapeaux pliants” over a double-page by Vaudreuil, illustrated with five original colour drawings in the text.

Original print by Mario Simon on the last page of the double sheet. 

La Gazette du Bon Ton, one of the most beautiful and influential fashion magazines of the 20th century, celebrating the talent of French designers and artists at the height of the Art Deco movement.

First edition printed by "Cercle nouveau du livre" before the deluxe edition by Julliard a few months later, one of the numbered copies, the only printing.

Very handsome copy complete with its rhodoid.

Publisher's binding in full green cloth, smooth spine, title and author's name stamped in gilt on the front cover.

 

« En ces jours périlleux "d'équilibre par la terreur", de massacres et de calculs...

First edition on standard paper.
Minor tears of no consequence to the margins of the boards, spine slightly sunned with minor wear.
Signed autograph inscription by Léo Ferré to Caro Mame.

 

First edition, one of 106 numbered copies on vergé de Vizille, only deluxe issue.

Nice copy of this 1999 Goncourt Prize winner.

Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust, two pages written in black on two leaves of watermarked "Imperial diadem" paper, with his autograph address "102 boulevard Haussmann". The two leaves are detached along the fold, a usual trace of horizontal fold, adhesive trace on the back.
Not included in his correspondence edited by Philip Kolb.

Interesting letter of thanks by Marcel Proust, after receiving autographs from his correspondent's grandfather.


"Sir,
You were very kind to have our friend Mr. [Constantin] Ullmann send these autographs of your grandfather. I would thank you at greater length if I were not extremely unwell tonight. I am...

First edition, with no deluxe paper copies issued.
A pleasant copy.
Amusing signed autograph inscription by San Antonio to a friend : « Pour Jean, Michel, cette littérature à mords-moi la France. En toute sympathie. San Antonio. 1980 »

First edition printed with 750 numbered copies on Arches Velin and planned for the exhibition of Léger's works organised at the Louis Carré gallery from 19 November to 31 December 1954, for which the catalogue has been published only two years after the retrospective.

Work illustrated with original lithographs by Fernand Léger: 6 unpaged colour plates, two of which are double pages, 5 black and white unpaged plates and 10 within the text.

A beautiful copy despite slight rubbing to the caps.