Lutèce, the City of Light, the Capital of Fashion, Gastronomy and Art of Living, Babylon, Paname, Pantin, Pantruche... From the slums to the banks of the Seine, Paris has been described, illustrated, sang, told, loved, hated, although more often than not with incomparable originality and talent.
"CLAC: Cercle Littéraire des amis des caves / Cercle libre des amateurs de cuisse." ["Literary Circle of...
First edition illustrated with 200 color drawings by Pierre Vidal. Limited to 700 numbered copies, No. 294. Original illustrated covers and spine preserved. Printed on tinted coated vellum.
Modern chocolate half morocco Bradel binding with corners. Jansenist spine with 4 raised bands. Leaf 49 with censoring in lower margin (a hole with paper rubbing). Spine faded on the first 2 compartments. Good copy.
First collected edition of the works of François-René de Chateaubriand, issued in parts between 1826 and 1831 and here gathered in 32 volumes. Partly a first edition, the series includes the first appearances of Les Natchez, Le Dernier Abencérage, Voyage en Amérique and Moïse. Each volume is illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece by Charles Thompson, the English engraver established in Paris from 1816, showing a young woman seated beside a stone inscribed
First edition of this waltz for piano, with the upper wrapper illustrated in colour by the Clérice Frères studio, at that time most probably the work of Victor Clérice alone, the last representative of this dynasty of Montmartre poster artists.
A fine copy.
First edition of the French adaptation of this song for voice and piano, the front cover illustrated with a large two-colour composition signed by Paul Colin.
The song originated as a Viennese schlager in 1929, with music by Karl M. May and lyrics by Charles Amberg, published in Berlin by Karl Brüll. It was adapted into French the following year by André Mauprey and Louis Lemarchand for the revue Un Coup de folie, first performed at the Folies-Bergère in 1930.
A very fine copy.
