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<p>A traversal through the works of those who have been writing, imagining, and creating since the late twentieth century. This selection brings together pieces that mirror the shifts of an era &mdash; literary gestures, singular voices, new perspectives. Each book and object has been chosen to capture, through its material presence, the living imprint of our contemporaries.</p>

Our Great Moderns

A traversal through the works of those who have been writing, imagining, and creating since the late twentieth century. This selection brings together pieces that mirror the shifts of an era — literary gestures, singular voices, new perspectives. Each book and object has been chosen to capture, through its material presence, the living imprint of our contemporaries.

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  2. Sade, sainte Thérèse
    Pierre BOURGEADE

    Sade, sainte Thérèse

    Gallimard|Paris 1987|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition on ordinary paper.
    Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip.
    Precious dated and signed autograph inscription from Pierre Bourgeade to his friend Régine Deforges: "A Régine Deforges, le libertin et la mystique... petit instant d'hésitation entre ciel et enfer, dans l'or du temps... A toi, Pierre" ["To Régine Deforges, the libertine and the mystic... small moment of hesitation between heaven and hell, in the gold of time... To you, Pierre"].
    Provenance: from the library of Régine Deforges.
    €200
  3. La belle fille sur le tas d'ordures
    François CAVANNA

    La belle fille sur le tas d'ordures

    Presses de la Cité|Paris 1984|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Illustrated with drawings by Cabu.
    Handsome copy complete with its wraparound band: "Touche pas à ma planète !" ["Don't touch my planet!"].
    Precious autograph inscription signed by François Cavanna to his friends Régine Deforges and Wiaz: "A Régine, à Wiaz, qui le liront ensemble ou se le raconteront..." ["To Régine, to Wiaz, who will read it together or tell it to each other..."]
    Provenance: from the library of Régine Deforges.
    €300
  5. L'étoile des encres
    Raoul UBAC, Julius BALTAZAR

    L'étoile des encres

    André Biren|Paris 1982|22.50 x 25.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui
    First edition printed in 87 numbered copies on Lafuma de Voiron vellum.
    The work is illustrated with 4 original etchings by Julius Baltazar, Cesare Peverelli, Augustin Cardenas and André Marfaing as well as an original linocut by Raoul Ubac, each of the five works being signed by the artist.
    At the colophon, manuscript signatures in pencil by the author and the five artists.
    Autograph inscription signed by Michel Butor, in pencil, to a friend named Michel on an endpaper.
    €1,800
  6. Le miroir à deux faces : La fugue du Petit Poucet. - Ikonut ou l'infini et les Eskimos. - Amandine ou les deux jardins
    Michel TOURNIER, Alain GAUTHIER

    Le miroir à deux faces : La fugue du Petit Poucet. - Ikonut ou l'infini et les Eskimos. - Amandine ou les deux jardins

    Seuil jeunesse|Paris 1994|23.50 x 33.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    Edition en partie originale ornée illustrations d'Alain Gauthier.
    Agréable exemplaire.
    binding à la bradel de l'éditeur en plein cartonnage, spine lisse, plats illustrés.
    Envoi autographe daté et signé de Michel Tournier : "Pour Florence en souvenir du premier jour de printemps. Michel Tournier..."
    €150
  7. Sous la Coupole
    Oscar SAPHO

    Sous la Coupole

    Ultramarine|Paris 1985|25 x 25 cm|broché
    First edition printed on ordinary paper.
    Handsome copy despite a small repaired tear at foot of spine.
    Work illustrated with numerous drawings by Sapho.
    Signed autograph inscription from Sapho to Anne-Marie Vaneau with an original drawing representing a woman from the front, perhaps the dedicatee.
    Our copy is expanded with a large original drawing by Sapho, executed in black felt-tip pen in the manner of Pablo Picasso on a paper tablecloth from the brasserie La Coupole - famous gathering place of the Montparnos, representing the faces of a group of 9 friends and which was entitled by Sapho "Où est mon autocar de camarades?"
    The drawing has been captioned at top left in blue felt-tip pen, probably by Anne-Marie Vaneau "La Coupole, 8 Mai 1985 24h30. Poncho - Benoit - Anne-Marie (dessin de Sapho).
    €300
  10. Troisième dessous
    Michel BUTOR

    Troisième dessous

    Gallimard|Paris 1977|11.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of the review copies service.
    Back and boards slightly and marginally exposed, small discharges of adhesive paper at the heads and feet of the guards.
    Autograph dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend the art critic and specialist in the New Roman Georges Raillard written on the false title page and keeps it in front by means of an original folding: "... a few pages the evening before falling asleep ... "
    €100
  12. Travaux d'approche. Entretien avec Roger Borderie
    Michel BUTOR

    Travaux d'approche. Entretien avec Roger Borderie

    Gallimard|Paris 1972|11 x 17.50 cm|broché
    first edition in paperback format, one of the review copies service.
    Back and boards slightly and marginally exposed.
    Autograph shipment dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend the art critic and specialist in the New Roman Georges Raillard embellished with a small original collage formed by eight pastilles from perforations of postcards.
    Notes of the dedicatee in pencil and black marker in the text.
    €60
  13. Lettre autographe signée à un journaliste à propos d'un article qu'il entend modifier et dans lequel il se moque du "Figaro" et de son éditorialiste François Mauriac
    Michel MOHRT

    Lettre autographe signée à un journaliste à propos d'un article qu'il entend modifier et dans lequel il se moque du "Figaro" et de son éditorialiste François Mauriac

    s. l. s. d. [circa 1950]|13.50 x 21 cm|une feuille recto-verso
    Autographed letter signed by a half page in which Michel Mohrt announces his unavailability, for health reasons, to go to the management of a newspaper to modify an article he gave and in which he repressed François Mauriac .
    Michel Mohrt deplores his immobility due to his state of health: "A slight flu (probably caught at the session of poetry Saturday: I will not take me over!) Forcing me to keep the room, which requires it to ask his correspondent "to modify a sentence of my article".
    Article in which he attacks François Mauriac and the "Figaro" (of which he was the editorialist from 1946 to 1953) while evoking in filigree the outrages of Victor Hugo polemicist and politician : "Guernsey is a place more inspired than the fort of the" Figaro "But here there is hope.
    Regretting this acid and peremptory tone, Michel Mohrt would like to temper his words and his vision of things : "It is this last sentence that I would like to change.I do indeed seem to wish François Mauriac the same mishaps - imprisonment, proscription, exile - that he wished so much for the others - I have more charity than that - anyway this sentence is a little "sharia", as they say, I would like to transform it like this: "But here everything is possible ... "
    €100
  14. Lettre autographe signée à un journaliste à propos d'un article qui, malgré toutes ses précautions, n'est pas encore parvenu à la rédaction du journal
    Michel MOHRT

    Lettre autographe signée à un journaliste à propos d'un article qui, malgré toutes ses précautions, n'est pas encore parvenu à la rédaction du journal

    s. l. s. d. [circa 1950]|21 x 27 cm|une feuille recto-verso
    Autographed letter signed by a half page in which Michel Mohrt announces his unavailability, for health reasons, to go to the management of a newspaper to modify an article he gave and in which he repressed François Mauriac .
    Michel Mohrt deplores his immobility due to his state of health: "A slight flu (probably caught at the session of poetry Saturday: I will not take me over!) Forcing me to keep the room, which requires it to ask his correspondent "to modify a sentence of my article".
    Article in which he attacks François Mauriac and the "Figaro" (of which he was the editorialist from 1946 to 1953) while evoking in filigree the outrages of Victor Hugo polemicist and politician : "Guernsey is a place more inspired than the fort of the" Figaro "But here there is hope.
    Regretting this acid and peremptory tone, Michel Mohrt would like to temper his words and his vision of things : "It is this last sentence that I would like to change.I do indeed seem to wish François Mauriac the same mishaps - imprisonment, proscription, exile - that he wished so much for the others - I have more charity than that - anyway this sentence is a little "sharia", as they say, I would like to transform it like this: "But here everything is possible ... "
    €100
  15. Elseneur
    Michel BUTOR

    Elseneur

    Volumen|Yverdon [Yverdon-les-Bains] 1979|13.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 100 copies out of trade.
    Nice copy.
    Affectionate autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friends George and Alice Raillard: "... a lot of fun to see you the other day in the middle of the raout Hold the evening of February 29 (20.00) for the first of this (transformed version of course) oratorio in the great auditorium of the Radio, Paris.Mille Amitiés.Your Michel Butor. "
    €120
  16. 6810000 litres d'eau par seconde. Etude stéréophonique
    Michel BUTOR

    6810000 litres d'eau par seconde. Etude stéréophonique

    Gallimard|Paris 1965|18.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of the review copies service.
    Back slightly wrinkled, clear discharges of adhesive paper in heads and feet of the guards, pleasant interior state.
    Press clipping and invitation card for the performance, at the comedy of the Grenoble Alps on February 13, 1968, of 6180000 liters of water per second.
    Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend Georges Raillard enriched with a watercolor representing, surreally, the course of a river.
    €150
  28. Onze chansons puériles numérotées par Pierre Alechinsky sur une table de multiplication d'écolier
    Jean CLAIR, Pierre ALECHINSKY

    Onze chansons puériles numérotées par Pierre Alechinsky sur une table de multiplication d'écolier

    L'Echoppe|Caen 1990|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vellum, head print.
    Nice copy in spite of tiny spots without gravity on the first board.
    Handwritten signatures of Jean Clair and Pierre Alechinsky at the colophon.
    Autograph dedication dated and signed by Jean Clair to the sculptor Raymond (Mason): "... these childish rhymes of a suburb not too gay either ..."
    €200
  48. "Vos essais aussi bien que vos articles de Combat, ont eu pour l'étudiant provincial que j'étais avant la guerre, une importance considérable..."
    Michel MOHRT

    "Vos essais aussi bien que vos articles de Combat, ont eu pour l'étudiant provincial que j'étais avant la guerre, une importance considérable..."[FRENCH ACADEMY] Admiring signed autograph letter addressed to Thierry Maulnier regarding his candidacy to the Académie française

    S.n. [Imprimerie universelle]|28 Mars 1985|21 x 29.50 cm|4 pages

    Autograph letter dated and signed by Michel Mohrt, four pages, addressed to Thierry Maulnier. 69 lines written in blue ink, notably discussing his candidacy for the Académie française to succeed Marcel Brion's vacant seat.
    Folds from original mailing. A paperclip holds the two sheets of the letter together.

    €300
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