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<p>Copies inscribed by the author, i.e. a handwritten dedication to a close friend. As moving accounts of the genesis of the book and the writer's links with the people of his time, inscriptions are a unique record of the author's life.</p>

Inscribed Books

Copies inscribed by the author, i.e. a handwritten dedication to a close friend. As moving accounts of the genesis of the book and the writer's links with the people of his time, inscriptions are a unique record of the author's life.

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  10. Muse populaire. Chants et poésies
    Pierre DUPONT

    Muse populaire. Chants et poésies

    Garnier frères|Paris 1858|9.50 x 14.50 cm|relié
    Fifth edition partly original as augmented by 70 new poems.
    Braid binding in solid pebbled paper, smooth back, burgundy morocco piece, elegant modern binding by T. Boichot.
    Signed autograph of Pierre Dupont: "To my friends Madame and Mr. Delignières in memory of their cordial hospitality, at the farm of the monks of Audignicourt November ten eighteen hundred and fifty two Pierre Dupont".
    Some letters from the autograph were cut off by the binder.
    Copy nicely established.
    €400
  19. La famille Cardinal
    Ludovic HALÉVY

    La famille Cardinal

    Calmann Lévy|Paris 1883|13.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
    first edition, one of 200 numbered copies on vergé, only large papers after 50 Japan.
    Binding in half morocco blue, smooth back decorated with double golden cartridges, date golden in tail, golden nets on the plates of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper with the vat, golden head on witnesses, covered blankets and backs, signed binding of Creuzevault.
    Signed autograph signed by Ludovic Halévy to Jules Claretie.
    Book with 8 illustrations inset.
    Beautiful copy pleasantly established.
    €300
  20. La gondole aux chimères
    Maurice DEKOBRA

    La gondole aux chimères

    Librairie Baudinière|Paris 1928|12 x 18.50 cm|relié sous étui
    first edition, one of the 30 numbered copies on Imperial Japan, draw of head.
    Half-morocco binding olive green with corners, smooth discolored and illuminated back decorated with pieces of morocco brown green mosaic forming geometric compositions with diamond-based, black threads on marbled paper boards with geometric patterns, paper guards and counterplates The tank, golden head, covered blankets and backs, case in full soft cardboard covered with marbled paper with geometric patterns, Belgian Contemporary binding signed R. Beenkens & son.
    Autographed and signed by Maurice Dekobra to Edouard Paligny: "... this gondola composed in the moonlight with a ghostly dogaresse!"
    €180
  21. Thérèse et Isabelle
    Violette LEDUC

    Thérèse et Isabelle

    S. n. • [ Jacques Guérin]|s. l. 1955|22 x 27.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise à lacet
    first edition entirely out of trade and printed with 25 numbered copies.
    Signed autograph signed by Violette Leduc: "... in remembrance of Italy and Spain too." With my friendship, January 24, 1956. Violette Leduc, the name of the dedicatee was cleanly scratched.
    Our copy is enriched with an engraved portrait of Violette Leduc embellished with a handwritten precision of Jacques Guérin.
    Very rare work consisting of the facsimile of the autograph manuscript and presented under a shirt in floral and lace-patterned wallpaper, title tag sticking on the first flat.
    Pleasant copy.
    €6,000
  22. Les pendules à l'heure. A l'ombre des grandes têtes molles 1939-1951
    Pierre MONNIER

    Les pendules à l'heure. A l'ombre des grandes têtes molles 1939-1951

    Le Flambeau|Paris 1992|15.50 x 24.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition under this title and for which there is no mention of large papers.
    Binding of the publisher in full cartonnage.
    autograph dedication of the author autograph signed Pierre Monnier full-page to Pierre-Robert Leclercq: "... free man (which today does not go unnoticed) this disrespectful and necessary remission of the clocks on time ..."
    Pleasant copy.
    €50
  29. Judas ou le vampire surréaliste
    Ernest de GENGENBACH

    Judas ou le vampire surréaliste

    Les éditions premières|Paris 1949|12 x 19 cm|broché
    first edition, one of the numbered copies on Alfa paper, only large papers with 62 "pur-fil" paper.
    Our copy is enriched with an autograph signed letter of 4 pages from Ernest de Gengenbach, probably addressed to Eric Losfeld, dated September 10, 1976 in which he complains of pecuniary misdeeds due to the great delay in the publication of "The Mass Notwithstanding the conditions inherent in the signature of the contract with Philipacchi and in particular the advances on copyright which would enable it to avoid expropriation and pay its bills of daily living ... This critical material situation Encouraged Ernest Gegenbach and his wife to play their interpersonal skills: "... My wife who (fortunately) has retained her relations with the bourgeois, diplomatic and ecclesiastical world has had enough of these palinods. , Promoted to high positions that offer financial intervention to prevent us from being expropriated.I can not both accept their help and let publish the "Mass Of gold "which is a sacrilegious anti-clerical work ..."
    A precious handwritten letter informing us of the financial difficulties of a sulphurous writer who was divided by the dilemma of his literary existence conditioned by his fragile material security.
    €350
  31. L'armoire
    Pierre BOURGEADE

    L'armoire

    Gallimard|Paris 1977|12.50 x 20 cm|broché
    first edition, one of the 10 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper excluding commerce and reserved to the author, only large papers.
    A moving autograph dated and signed by Pierre Bourgeade to the lawyer Thierry Lévy on a leaf torn from a diary and pierced by a twig at the end of which remains a dried leaf: "For Thierry Levy, all that remains of the devoured forests page 123, the day after the extradition of Klaus growing, a dark day. "
    Pleasant and touching copy.
    Beautiful copy.
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    €300
  39. Le ça ira
    José PIERRE, Mimi PARENT

    Le ça ira

    Editions Surréalistes|Paris 1967|15 x 25.50 cm|en feuilles

    First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on couleurs surfine paper, ours being one of 25 containing the three aquatints by Mimi Parent retouched in watercolor which she signed and justified, deluxe copy.
    Autograph inscription signed by José Pierre to Paul Aveline.
    Signatures of José Pierre and Mimi Parent below the justification page.
    Work illustrated with 3 aquatints by Mimi Parent.
    Spine very lightly sunned without gravity, otherwise handsome copy.

    €1,500
  41. From poet to poet, from comrade-in-arms to kindred spirit... "Rien que le temps de n'être plus / Et rien que le temps d'être tout"
    Donner à voir - Exemplaire de Benjamin Fondane
    Paul ÉLUARD (inscribed to Benjamin FONDANE)

    Donner à voir - Exemplaire de Benjamin Fondane[To Make Visible – Benjamin Fondane’s Copy]

    Gallimard|Paris 1939|12 x 19 cm|broché

    First edition, one of the press service copies.
    Precious signed autograph inscription from Paul Éluard to Benjamin Fondane.
    Spine with three small expertly repaired tears, of no consequence.
    A moving dedication from poet to poet, written on the eve of the war during which the two friends would contribute together to poetic resistance journals such as l'Honneur des poètes.
    The deportation and death of Fondane in 1944, along with many other artist and poet friends, would profoundly affect Éluard, who composed in their memory a magnificent poetic tribute, "Eternité de ceux que je n'ai pas revus," listing the names of each of the departed:
    "Visages clairs souvenirs sombres
    Puis comme un grand coup sur les yeux
    Visages de papier brûlé
    Dans la mémoire rien que cendres
    La rose froide de l'oubli
    Pourtant Desnos pourtant Péri
    Crémieux Fondane Pierre Unik
    Sylvain Itkine Jean Jausion
    Grou-Radenez Lucien Legros
    Le temps le temps insupportable
    Politzer Decour Robert Blache
    Serge Meyer Mathias Lübeck
    Maurice Bourdet et Jean Frayse
    Dominique Corticchiato
    Et Max Jacob et Saint-Pol Roux
    Rien que le temps de n'être plus
    Et rien que le temps d'être tout"

    €3,000
  64. La mort du condor. Où il est question d'un gorille bombardé ambassadeur de France dans un petit monde aux rivages perdus
    Dominique PONCHARDIER

    La mort du condor. Où il est question d'un gorille bombardé ambassadeur de France dans un petit monde aux rivages perdus

    Gallimard|Paris 1976|14 x 21 cm|relié
    The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
    Bradel binding in full grey boards decorated with abstract decorative motifs, smooth spine, endpapers and pastedowns of yellow paper, covers and spine preserved in one piece, modern binding signed by Fortin.
    Signed and inscribed by Dominique Ponchardier to madame Huret.
    Handsome copy beautifully executed.
    €50
  69. Musée impérial du Louvre - Description des sculptures modernes
    Henry BARBET DE JOUY

    Musée impérial du Louvre - Description des sculptures modernes

    Vinchon et Charles de Mourgues|Paris Août 1855|12 x 20 cm|relié
    Rare first edition printed on laid paper.

    Full binding green shagreen, back with five nerves decorated with a grotesque decor, back with five nerves decorated with a grotesque decor, triple net gilded framing boards, double net gilded on the cuts, domestic gold lace all edges gilt, contemporary binding signed Lortic father.

    Signed autograph from the author: "To His Excellency the Minister of State and the home of the Emperor's very obliged and grateful H. Barbet de Jouy".

    Bookplate engraved (J. Pelletier).

    Very nice and valuable copy in a binder perfectly established time Lortic, bookbinder Charles Baudelaire.
      €800
    • Far rockaway
      Pierre ALECHINSKY

      Far rockaway

      Fata Morgana|Montpellier 1977|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
      first edition printed in 720 copies on laid, one draw after 30 Arches paper Ingres.
      Signed autograph of Pierre Alechinsky at the art editor Alex Grall: "... a luxury painter: a pamphlet without image ..."
      Our copy is enriched with a humorous bristol autograph Alechinsky thanking Alex Grall "for the price of ink to my retrospective of Carnegie."
      Alex Grall stamp printed in the cover page on which the dispatch as an bookplate.
      Pale waterstains on the back.
      €150
    • Contes et facéties
      Gérard de NERVAL

      Contes et facéties

      D. Giraud & J. Dagneau|Paris 1852|9.50 x 15.50 cm|relié
      First edition, of which there were no large paper copies.
      Early 20th century pastiche half brown calf over marbled paper boards, blindtooled fleurons and double gilt fillets to spine, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers preserved.
      A very rare autograph inscription signed by Gérard de Nerval to Monsieur Ferdinand Langlé, the founder of the Pompes Funèbre in 1828, but also involved in literature, theatre and journalism under the pseudonyms of Ferdinand, Eusèbe and Charles Odry.
      A little spotting.
      Autograph inscriptions by Gérard de Nerval are of the utmost rarity.
      €12,000
    • Actes et paroles 1870 - 1871 - 1872
      Victor HUGO

      Actes et paroles 1870 - 1871 - 1872

      Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1872|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
      First edition on current paper, it was printed 100 copies on Holland paper in large papers.
      Binding half shagreen red, back with four purposes nerves set with golden dots adorned with gilded fleurons and nets cold patches of marbled paper, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, speckled slices, Contemporary binding signed Derveaux son.
      Rare foxing mainly affecting the margins of some leaves.
      Exceptional autograph signed by Victor Hugo to his son François-Victor on the fake title page: "To my beloved Victor. V. »
      In 1872, only two of the five children that Victor Hugo had with his wife Adèle Foucher are still alive: François-Victor, whom he calls simply Victor and on whom he defers his affection, and Adèle, walled in madness, who has just been interned on his return from Barbaspine. Hugo notes in his notebooks: "Just a year ago, I was leaving for Bordeaux with Charles [his other son] who was not going back alive. Today I see Adele again. What shagreen! But the tragedies will continue to strike the old writer: the "beloved" Francis Victor will succumb the following year, in 1873, tuberculosis.
      François-Victor Hugo is the author of a monumental translation of the complete works of William Shakespeare, the first respectful of the language of the English playwright: "For those who, in Shakespeare, want all Shakespeare, this translation was missing", wrote with emotion Hugo in the preface.
      Nice copy enriched with a very moving dedication of Victor Hugo to his son.
      €7,500
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