Inscribed Books

First edition on ordinary paper, only 60 copies were printed on deluxe paper.
Pleasant autograph inscription by the author.

Second edition, first in parts, printed in 539 copies, this one of 500 copies on paper from the Périgord works.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Joris-Karl Huysmans to (Edouard) Dujardin.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author. One small tear without lack to head of one joint, upper cover partially faded, one small marginal lack not touching text to page 23, otherwise internally good.

First edition, one of 145 numbered in the press copies, the only printing along with 5 Arches.
Autograph inscription from Paul Desmeth to his friends Lucien and Jérome Becker.
A good and rare copy of the author's first book.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Inscribed by the author.

Second edition printed immediately after the first one, one of 200 copies on vélin, the only printing with 2 Japon and 6 Hollande paper.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Max Elskamp to Paul Redonnel.
Spine repaired, angular filled-in lacks on the covers, internally good.

First edition on ordinary paper, no mention is made of deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with ornaments by L. Pissarro, L. Anquetin and F. Vallotton.
Our copy bears an autograph inscription from Marie-Blanche Arnac presenting this volume to Albert Morgan.
Lacks at head and foot of spine, a pale marginal dampstain at foot of first leaves, some minor foxing.

First edition on ordinary paper, with only 6 deluxe copies printed on Holland paper.
Autograph inscription from Nicolette Hennique to Michel Corday.
Spine slightly sunned with light cracking, occasional light foxing.

First edition on ordinary paper of the only novel by Hippolyte Taine published during his lifetime.
Half chocolate shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands slightly faded decorated with gilt floral motifs, marbled paper boards, two small nicks on edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped, original wrappers preserved.
Rare inscription by Hippolyte Taine "offert par l'exécuteur H. Taine" ["offered by the executor H. Taine"] on the first cover.
Some light foxing of no great consequence.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Half sheep, small repairs to head and to foot of joints, covers preserved, contemporary binding.
Autograph inscription signed by Joris-Karl Huysmans.

First edition with no mention of deluxe copies.
Half bordeaux shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands showing light rubbing, gilt initials at foot, one upper corner slightly bumped, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Double autograph inscription by Jules Lemaître to the same dedicatee on the first endpaper and the half-title page.
Light worming to edges.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half indigo cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, navy blue shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Signed autograph inscription from José Maria de Hérédia to Eugène Pailleron.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Half navy blue Bradel binding over marbled paper boards by T. Boichot, date to foot of spine, covers and spine preserved (wormholes to edges), top edge gilt.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes to Aldous Huxley.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author.

Second edition (the first one was only of 10 copies), with 23 original drawings by E. Tanguy. Affectionate autograph inscription from J.K. Huysmans.
A small tear glued to head of a joint, otherwise a good copy.

New edition
Handsome and rare autograph inscription from Ernst Jünger to Marie-Louise Bousquet, the wife of Joë Bousquet.
Publisher's cream-colored paper boards, spine very slightly warped.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Inscription from the author.
Spine very slightly warped, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition on ordinary paper, with no mention of deluxe copies.
Precious autograph inscription from the author to explorer Jean Charcot.
Light worming to first cover, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition with no mention of deluxe copies.
Half turquoise sheep binding, spine sunned with four raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved.
Fine autograph inscription from Emile Faisant.
Rare work dedicated to the memory of Leconte de Lisle.

First edition of which there is no mention of leading copies.
Some small foxing affecting essentially the very first and last pages.
Binding half cardboard vellum style, past smooth back, title label of cherry shagreen with small traces of friction without gravity, marble paper plates, preserved cover, Contemporary binding.
Precious autograph signed by Oscar Méténier to Georges Feydeau.

First edition, of which no deluxe copies were printed, one of the advance copies.
Two light fold marks of no consequence to the covers, otherwise handsome copy.
Very beautiful signed autograph inscription from Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes to the architect Jean-Charles Moreux.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Signed autograph inscription from Arden Quin, creator of the MADI artistic movement, to Josée Lapeyrère, a close collaborator.
A fine copy.

First edition in French, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Alejo Carpentier to l'Immortel Jean Bernard.

First edition on ordinary paper, with only 25 copies on Japan paper in deluxe format printed.
Half fir-green sheep binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt floral motifs, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Autograph inscription by René Maizeroy.
Some occasional light foxing mainly affecting the edges.

First edition on ordinary paper, only 25 copies were printed on laid paper as deluxe copies.
Half chocolate shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt floral motifs, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Rare inscription from Mirar-Yver.

First edition.
Bradel binding in full burgundy boards, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, hazel shagreen title-label with three small lacks, covers and spine preserved and mounted on guards as one piece at the beginning of the volume, modest contemporary binding.
Inscription from Jacques Bonhomme to Georges Berger, deputy of the Seine department.
Covers and illustrations by Maurice Graind'Orge, friend of the author.

First editions of the text and the preface by Charles Baudelaire.
Half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in five compartments with double gilt decorated compartments, blindruled fillets to covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Dupont to his friend the painter Jean Gigoux at head of first chanson of first volume.
With steel engravings by T. Johannot, C. Nanteuil, Gavarni, Andrieux.
Inkspot affecting 'Les louis d'or' (pages 37 to 41 of volume one), occasional light foxing.

First edition, one of a few copies on Hollande, the only large paper copies with 5 Chine.
With an autograph inscription from Albert Glatigny to Mr. Raynard, actor at the Châtelet theater and husband of the actress to whom is dedicated this book.
Rare and slight foxings.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, ours being one of 10 hors commerce, the only deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription from Philippe Dumaine to André Schuck.
Additionally, our copy is enhanced with a page from the manuscript of the work extensively corrected by the author.
Envelope addressed to the dedicatee and invitation card to the book signing session included.
A handsome and fine ensemble.

First edition, hors commerce, printed in a small number of copies and of which there were no large paper copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Auguste Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
Imitation spine skillfully remade to match covers, small angular tears and marginal restored lacks to covers, the occasional internal wormhole.

New edition, one of 100 hors commerce copies on pur fil from a total print run of 1300. No. 1247. A wood-engraved portrait by Belot.
Autograph inscription by Han Ryner: 'A Monsieur André Lacoste, en toute artistité. Han Ryner.' ["To Monsieur André Lacoste, in all artistry. Han Ryner."]
In original wrappers. Covers with turned-in edges. The spine has faded from blue to green.

NB: This book is available at the bookstore upon request within 48 hours.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Pleasant inscription by the author.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Half electric blue cloth Bradel binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, chocolate shagreen title-label with slight lack, double gilt fillet at foot, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Precious inscription from Jules Lemaître to Galipaux who created the role of Leplucheux in this play.
Numerous press cuttings regarding the cast of this play pasted to endpapers with manuscript annotations by a previous owner of the work.

First edition, one of 20 hors commerce copies printed on rag paper.
Signed autograph inscription by Claude Esteban.
Work illustrated with 5 drawings by Arpad Szenes.
Handsome copy.

New edition on ordinary paper.
Inscription from Gaston Chérau to Charles-Henri Hirsch.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on alfa paper, the most restricted deluxe edition and the only deluxe copies along with 34 on pur fil.
Moving autograph inscription signed by Charles-Henri Hirsch to his children.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on vellum, the only printing along with 12 Japan and 77 vellum copies.
Handsome copy despite small stains to the lower right margin of the first cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Eugène Jolas to Monsieur R. Harlong.

First edition.
Half bottle-green shagreen binding, spine in four compartments with double blind-tooled panels showing minor scuffs.
Autograph inscription signed by Gustave Nadaud.
Occasional light foxing.

First edition on ordinary paper, only 20 Rives deluxe copies were printed.
Half tan sheep binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, red shagreen title-label, traces of scuffs at head and foot of one joint and on corners, original wrappers preserved.
Autograph inscription from André Savignon.
Our copy is enhanced with 2 autograph notes and a visiting card from the author addressed to the same recipient.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on vélin du marais paper, the only printing with 6 on Japan paper and 12 on Hollande paper.
Autograph inscription from the author, a very good copy.

First edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from the author.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Autograph inscription from the author.

First edition, "remise en vente" wrappers for the Jeune parque, there was no large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from the author.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vélin paper, the tirage de tête.
Autograph inscription from Jean Galtier-Boissière.
A very good copy.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome autograph inscription from Claire Goll, retaining its advertising slip.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Autograph inscription signed by the author to Georges Adam.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Marcel Jouhandeau.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Marcel Jouhandeau.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Marcel Jouhandeau to François Erval.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only issue after 21 Madagascar.
Work illustrated with three compositions by Jean Marembert.
Autograph inscription from Fernand Marc to the poet Roger Richard, handsome copy.

New edition, no mention of deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
A small dampstain on the back cover marginally affecting the last two leaves.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean Paulhan to Paulette and René Wolfromm.

First collected edition, first edition for 'Egyptiennes', one of 1600 numbered copies on vellum, the only issue with 55 copies on Arches vellum.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean Paulhan quoting Bridges, handsome copy.

First collected edition.
Beautiful autograph inscription by Henri Pichette.
Work illustrated with lithographs by Bazaine, Gromaire, Picasso, Villon...
Handsome copy despite very light foxing on the front cover.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Henri Pichette to François Erval.

First edition of which there were only 30 large paper copies, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome autograph inscription from the author to Jean Le Marchand.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Bertrand Poirot-Delpech to Thierry Maulnier and Marcelle Tassencourt.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Autograph inscription from Henri de Régnier to Louis Bertrand.

First edition in French, with only 10 deluxe copies printed.
Inscribed by Salvador Reyes, introduction by Pierre Mac Orlan, handsome copy.

First edition, falsely stated the 1000th, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from the author.A very good copy.

First edition, one of 600 numbered copies on Rives laid paper, the only issue with 4 Japan copies.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Auguste Gilbert de Voisins to Alfred Vallette and his wife Rachilde.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Friendly autograph inscription to a couple of his acquaintance.
A trace of folding to upper cover.

First edition illustrated by Gilles Sacksick.
Handsome autograph inscription from Gaston Bonheur to Robert Giraud.
Our copy is complete with the illustrated invitation to the vernissage for the book's publication at the publisher. Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on pur chiffon, the only print run with 13 Chine and 37 Japan copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Francis Carco to Marcel Prévost.
Rare work illustrated with a wood engraving by Deslignières and an out-of-text drawing by Maurice Barraud.
Handsome copy.

First edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from the author.
Iconography.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of 700 numbered copies on laid paper, the only issue with 30 on Japan paper.
With frontispiece portrait of the author by Hoffmeister.
Spine lightly sunned.
Autograph inscription signed by Pierre Mac Orlan to Alin Laubreaux.
Born in New Caledonia, Alin Laubreaux was a writer and journalist principally known for his theatrical reviews published in the ultra-collaborationist, anti-Semitic and fascist newspaper Je suis partout.
Hated by a good part of the Parisian artistic milieu, he was publicly slapped in June 1941 by Jean Marais whom he had called "l'homme au Cocteau entre les dents" after having savaged the playwright's latest play La machine à écrire. The scene was freely adapted by Louis Malle in his Dernier Métro. Alin Laubreaux was also accused of having played a significant role in the arrest by the Gestapo, then in the deportation of poet Robert Desnos whom he execrated and who had also slapped him some years earlier. At the Liberation, he fled to Spain and was sentenced to death in absentia in 1947.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Autograph inscription from the author to Noël B. de la Mort.

First edition, one of 65 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies with 30 Holland.
Autograph inscription by Marcel Jouhandeau.
Handsome copy despite a corner crease mark on the cover.

First edition on ordinary paper, of which there were only 30 large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from the author.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half blue cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron, shagreen title-label, contemporary binding.
Autograph inscription by the author, bookplate.

First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from André Chaumeix on endpaper, a very good copy.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy, of which there were only 15 large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from Louis Calaferte to Marcel Haedrich.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome autograph inscription from the author to françois Nourissier.
A very good copy.

First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre paper and recomposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
Beautiful full-page autograph inscription from the author to a couple who were his friends.
Handsome copy.

First edition of which only 5 were printed on Holland paper.
Rare autograph inscription by Paul-Adrien Schaye.
Illustrated covers, rare.

First edition on ordinary paper, with only 46 deluxe copies printed.

Autograph inscription by the author.

Corner dampstain affecting the front cover.

Published the same year as the first edition.
Inscribed by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
Stains on the first and lower cover.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A stain on the first cover, three corner lacks to covers, some scattered foxing.
Rare and very fine autograph inscription signed by Emile Goudeau to one of his friends: "A mon frère Léo dit Montancey soldat-laboureur qui sème sur le bitume la parole, après avoir usé le fer au service des écoles militaires, j'offre ce plat de lentilles plus beau que celui d'Esaü. Emile Goudeau." (To my brother Léo called Montancey soldier-plowman who sows the word on the asphalt, after having worn down iron in the service of military schools, I offer this dish of lentils more beautiful than that of Esau. Emile Goudeau.)

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Blaise Cendrars to a friend.
With a photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece.
Handsome copy despite minor stains of no consequence to the front cover.

First edition.
Half-cardboard binding, spine with five raised bands showing two light rubbing marks at head and foot of no consequence, contemporary binding.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Maurice de Pharamond to Eugène Figuière.

First edition.
Binding in half morocco cherry of Russia, smooth back decorated with a golden floret, date in tail, preserved covers.
Autograph dedication signed by François Coppée to Paul Foucher.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph ticket of the author inviting the dedicatee to attend the performance of this piece, invitation attached.
Nice copy pleasantly established.

First edition.
Autograph inscription by the author, complete with its errata slip.

First edition, one of the Service de Presse (advance) copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Emmanuel Berl.
Light worming to covers.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy, of which there were only 20 large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from Robert Poulet to Nathalie Clifford-Barney.

First edition, one of the rare author's copies on Holland paper, no mention is made of deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Adam to Gustave Larroumet.
Handsome full-margined copy.

First edition, one of the rare author's copies on Holland paper, no mention of deluxe copies is made.
Very fine full-page autograph inscription by the author.
Small stains of no consequence to boards, one marginal lack affecting the second board, otherwise handsome full-margined copy with some light foxing.

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Publisher's full white cloth binding, smooth spine.
Fine full-page autograph inscription signed by Lucie Faure to Georges Simenon.
Handsome copy complete with dust jacket.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Ingres paper, the only deluxe copies.
Respectful autograph inscription from the author, who ranks among the first bio-bibliographers of Georges Simenon, to the latter.
Minor stains of no consequence to the front cover, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription from the author to Georges Simenon, handsome copy.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on bouffant paper, the only deluxe copies with 10 on pur chiffon.
Charming autograph inscription from René Kaech to Georges Simenon.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket.

First edition on ordinary paper, only 15 deluxe copies were printed.
Autograph inscription signed by Dominique de Roux to André Bourin.
Handsome copy despite a slight tear without loss affecting the front cover.

First edition, one of 60 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies with 35 on Japan paper.
Autograph inscription by André Maurois below the justification page.
Illustrated cover, lacking at foot of spine, some foxing, a full-margined copy.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Nice autograph inscription from the author to Paul Morand.