Poetry

First edition for which it was not drawn from large papers.
Beautiful copy.
Autograph signed by Jean Ristat to Charles Dobzynski who was a close friend of Louis Aragon.
Our copy is enriched with a handwritten correction by Jean Ristat page 13.

First edition, one of the numbered copies.
Illustrated cover by Jean Lurçat.
Autograph shipment signed by Jean Marcenac to poet Charles Dobzynski.

First edition for which it was not drawn from large papers.
Beautiful copy despite a small stain at the head of the second board.
Autograph signed by Jean Ristat to the poet Charles Dobzynski who was a close friend of Louis Aragon.

First edition of this bilingual poetic anthology (Spanish-French) established by Josette and Georges Colomer for which it was not printed from large papers.
Publisher's binding in full black cardboard, smooth back, illustrated first cover.
Iconography and original drawings by Josep Castell.
Pleasant copy.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Georges Colomer enriched by the signature of his wife Josette to their friend the poet Charles Dobzynski: "... those painful poems that tell the tragedy of the Spanish Republic ..."

first edition illustrated with photographs of Louis Monier.
Preface by Jean Dutourd, comments by Alain Paucard.
Pleasant copy.
autograph dedication of the author auotgraphe dated and signed by Louis Monier to Charles Dobzynski.

First edition, in paperback format, of the French translation and the presentation drawn up by Alain Suied.
Iconography.
Autograph shipment signed by Alain Suied to his friend the poet Charles Dobzynski.

First edition printed in very small numbers, it was only printed in a few Japan and Whatman in large papers.
Bradel binding in half caramel morocco, smooth back decorated with two golden typographic motifs, slightly rubbed caps, preserved covers, golden head, binding from the contemporary signed Pottier.
Autograph dedication signed by Pierre Quillard to Paul Bernard.

Bibliothèque de La Pléiade edition printed on India paper.
Publisher's full brown grained sheepskin binding, orange top edge, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets.
Handsome copy, complete with its dust jacket, cellophane wrapper and soft slipcase.

first edition on current paper.
Binding in half brown heartache, back with five nerves slightly cleared up and with small traces of friction, golden date in tail, boards, guards and counterplates of marbled paper, covers and back preserved, golden head, binding signed Canape & Corriez.
Beautiful autograph dedication signed by Jean Royère: "To the poet Armand Godoy / I offer these first beginnings / which were mine / as a testimony of aesthetic communion."

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on pure rag paper, deluxe copies.
A very fine copy.

Illustrated edition of original woods by Emile Bernard, one of 700 numbered copies on Arches paper vellum.
Pleasant copy.

Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full green grained sheepskin, blue top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, complete with its glassine, dust jacket and soft slipcase.

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only large papers.
Some small foxinges without gravity affecting the margins of certain pages, otherwise pleasant copy.
Autograph signed by Léon Lemonnier to André Lautier.

First edition in original blue wrappers, covers unlettered, first cover detached.
Dr. Petit, chief surgeon at Lyon hospital, composed this poetry intended as a metaphor for the dangers of onanism. The work begins with praise for Tissot, author of works on onanism. The poem, awarded by the floral games of Toulouse, is followed by commentary and a dissertation on the scourge of masturbation. According to examples provided by the greatest physicians, one risks no less than death, and at best, like the poem's hero, melancholy, apathy, and weakness of the entire body. Onanism is presented as the primary cause of ailments afflicting youth, their fundamental cause, whether the effects be consumption, cataracts, or nervous diseases.
Loss of paper over most of the spine surface, first cover detached, corners turned, some foxing.

First edition on tinted laid paper; only a few Whatman deluxe copies were printed.
Spine and covers uniformly sunned, some foxing affecting mainly the beginning and end of the volume.

First edition published in honor of Isaac Merritt Singer and printed in 80 numbered copies on Holland paper, head print after 30 Japan.
Book decorated with 8 original serigraphs by Cozette de Charmoy.
The translation into English of Jean-Loup Philippe's seven poems is located at the end of the volume.
Beautiful copy.
Handwritten signatures of Jean-Loup Philippe and Cozette de Charmoy at the justification of the print.

Bibliothèque de La Pléiade edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full brown grained sheep bindings, grey top edges, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets.
Copies complete with their cellophane wrappers, dust jackets and slipcases.
Volume 1 retains the folding genealogical table of the kings of England.

First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on laid Arches paper, the only deluxe copies (grand papier) after 10 Montval.

Beautiful copy.

New edition of the French translation illustrated with 70 original color lithographs by Maurice Denis, one of 204 copies on Holland paper, ours unnumbered, the only issue after 35 Japan and 20 other Holland hors commerce copies.
Handsome copy despite very occasional worming.
The work has the peculiarity of being dated 1939 on the front cover, dated 1936 on the title page and dated 1942 on the colophon page.
The 70 lithographs break down as follows: 13 full-page in color, 2 in color in the text and the others in black, in blue or in 2 tones.
Our copy is complete, at the end, with the double-page table of lithographs hors-texte.

Original illustrated edition of 6 original etchings (including 1 in color) by André Beauduin, one of 82 numbered copies on Johannot wove paper, only print after 18 on handmade paper and 14 out of trade including 10 Johannot wove paper.
Beautiful copy.
Handwritten signatures of Georges Hugnet and André Beauduin below the justification of the print.

First edition on ordinary paper; only 30 deluxe copies were printed.
Spine and boards marginally faded as usual, a small lack at head of spine, paper yellowed and fragile at margins of some leaves.
Copy without statement of edition.

First edition, one of 213 numbered copies on Alfa paper.
Beautiful copy.
Handwritten signature of Luc Estang at the justification of the print.

Second edition, with some parts of the text in first edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy with 10 Whatman.
Worming to first cover, handsome copy.

first edition.
Pleasant copy.
Autograph shipment dated and signed by René Depestre to Michel Deguy enriched with an autograph shipment signed by Claude Couffon.

First edition, one of 500 copies of the ordinary drawing.
Some foxinges.
Autograph dedication signed by René Char: "Copy of Francis. His brother. René Char. 211, rue de la Convention. Paris 15th."

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in brown half-cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, gilt date and double fillet at foot, bronze shagreen title-label with some scratches, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Gift inscription in ink serving as bookplate on front cover.

First edition.
Full green sheep bindings, strictly contemporary. Smooth spines richly decorated with Restoration-era tools. Black sheep title and volume labels. Large decorative blind stamp on boards and gilt ruling frame. Ruling on edges. Spines uniformly faded. Signs of rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. Scattered foxing, quite pronounced on the second title page and some pages, mostly in the outer margins, the whole showing rather clean. One tear p. 179 in volume 1, without loss.
Handsome copy in full decorated Romantic binding.

Edition conforming to the first edition published in 1731 in Lille by G.E. Vroye.
Half red calf binding with corners, spine with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt fillets, gilt fillet frame on embossed red paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns,
bookplate pasted on one pastedown, contemporary binding.
Rare.
Handsomely bound copy.

First edition of this collective tribute to the poet Claude Aubert.
Iconography.
Unpublished texts and poems by Claude Aubert followed by a tribute by Grisélidis Réal, Georges Borgeaud, Lorenzo Pestelli, Jean-Georges Lossier, Albert Py and Marcel Raymond.
Grisélidis Real, writer, painter and prostitute, is a great romantic figure of the late twentieth century. A lover, militant, fighter and poet, she upset the customs of Geneva society. She is now buried in the Cemetery of the Kings in Geneva between Jean Calvin and Jorge Luis Borgès.
Nice copy.
Rare autograph dedication dated and signed by Grisélidis Réal: "To Madame Mélamet with my friendship Grisélidis Real In memory of the beautiful days of Easter 1974 in his house in Nevers."

First edition.
Pleasant copy despite a small marginal tear on the first board.
Signed autograph Jacques Brandicourt to the bookseller Michel Couppé: "... who loves and sells beautiful literature ..."

The most complete early edition, and the last with some parts in first edition, before that produced in 1857 by Antoine de Latour (which was more exhaustive). "These two volumes, which follow the collection of French poets published by Coustelier, are difficult to find". Brunet, IV, 1071.
Contemporary glazed tawny calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label, black calf volume label. One lack at head of volume I. Linear lack along the third compartment of volume I, measuring 1.5cm. Traces of rubbing. The table has been placed at the end of the first volume. The binder has inverted the two half-titles, placing the first: Les Bergeries in the second volume, and the second: Les pseaumes, at the head of the first. Charming copy.
Racan's poetry follows in the continuity of Desportes and Ronsard. Malherbe, his master whom he met at the age of 16, reproached him for his nonchalance and excessive licenses, but considered him his most gifted pupil; indeed his writing is more fluid, but also more rustic. After Malherbe's death, Racan abandoned his pen for 20 years. Although desirous like his ancestors of distinguishing himself in a military career, his dreamy and distracted nature brought him numerous setbacks and he eventually withdrew from it. He produced in 1619, at the age of 30, the poem that would make him famous: Les Bergeries, which is his most substantial work; and at 24, proposed by Richelieu, he occupied a seat at the French Academy.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Precious autograph dated and signed by André Frénaud to Raymond and Janine Queneau.

Printed in a limited edition of 180 numbered copies on Japon Kozu-shi
Handsome copy with the Japanese Ogura paper covers well preserved.

First illustrated edition of 15 original drawings by André Lhote, one of 270 numbered copies on Arches paper, only deluxe copies ("tirage de tête") after 25 Holland paper
Nice copy.

Handwritten letter dated and signed by Charles Baudelaire to Philoxène Boyer concerning the intriguing Léontine B.
Paris 25 Juin 1854 | 11.5 x 18.5 cm | one page recto-verso
Handwritten two-page letter, dated 25 June 1854, and signed by Charles Baudelaire to Philoxène Boyer, whom he calls «my dear Lyrique,» in which he apologises for having missed a meeting with him, he confesses his impecuniosity to him and reports to him on the efforts made by Léontine B., an intriguing person who will end up compromising Philoxène Boyer because of his debts, to attend a party to which she is not invited and which holds a certain jealousy: «You surely assume my dear Lyrique, that yesterday something serious happened for me to have missed this meeting. Here is what I would have told you: 1 – my money has not come; but it will come. / 2 – Léontine is obstinate. I am convinced that I have fulfilled my confidence mission very well. I came back three times. When I finally could explain to her carefully that this party was for family, secret, that Boyer himself was supposed to ignore it, – she replied: Well it's no longer a secret since I know.»
Finally, while recognising Léontine as «a very original turn of mind» and although the attitude of this troublesome scheme: «causes you worry and I understand...,» Charles Baudelaire pleads for indulgence and leniency: «since she persists so proudly, I would urge you to let the event run. It is after all only the homage of a dizzy mind.»

First edition on current paper.
Three clear spots on the second board, otherwise nice complete copy of his prayer to insert.
Tricolor autograph dedication signed by Henri Pichette to Xavier Louis: "... from the heart to the soul ..."

First edition, one of the few non-trade copies on vellum BE.
Nice copy.
Prefaces of Pierre Mac-Orlan and Roland Dorgelès.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, drawing by Gus Bofa.
Autograph signed by Georges Guierre, in the form of an unpublished quatrain entitled "Bells", to Jules Kaehrling

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on laid to shape.
Back and marginally insolated boards, nice interior state.
Autograph dedication signed by François-Paul Alibert to André Nadal: "... these poems which were mostly designed under the sign of music".

First edition.
This magazine composed entirely of poems, includes contributions by Halina Izdebska, Géo Zette, Robert Caby, Guy Lévis-Mano, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Ossip Mandelstam, Mikhaïl Kouzmine, Serge Essenine, René Francès, Snuty Vaude.
Issue illustrated with original woodcuts by Robert Barriot and Gaston Poulain..
Tears to spine and much more lightly to margins of covers.

First edition.
This magazine composed entirely of poems, includes contributions by Halina Izdebska, Guy Lévis-Mano, Gaston Poulain, Jean-Louis Blanc, Samuel Bounine, Yves Dautun, Marie Sauvage, Hella Helminska, Robert Lyca...
Issue illustrated with drawings by José-Angel Ferrer and Elisabeth-Paule de Leusse as well as original woodcuts by Robert Barriot, René Baclet and Jehan Moreau..
Rare and handsome copy despite the covers slightly and marginally soiled without gravity.

First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on alfa bouffant paper, the only issue after 25 vélin d'Arches and 50 simili-Japan.
Issue illustrated with 6 drawings by Gaston Poulain.
Rare and handsome copy despite slightly and marginally soiled boards without gravity.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Lana vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of the copies on Japan of which no mention is made.
Back slightly insolated without gravity.
Beautiful and rare copy at all margins.
Precious autograph signed by André-Ferdinand Herold: "To the venerated master Leconte de Lisle with respectful admiration."

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Small foxing in the margins of the boards and on the back, a clear wetness at the head of the second board.
Precious autograph dedication signed by Raymond Queneau to his close friend and biographer Jean Queval, like him, figure and creator, Oulipo.
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First edition of the French translation, one of the review copies service.
A small hitch in the back of the back slightly discolored.
Signed autograph dedication from Lawrence Durrell in English to Françoise Cardot in blue marker.

First edition of the catalog of the exhibition of recent works by Albert Rafols-Casamada at the gallery Joan Prats in November-December 1984.
Illustrated book of reproductions of Albert Rafols-Casamada's works.
Catalan text by Rosa Queralt.
Signed autograph Albert Rafols-Casamada, in French, Georges Raillard and his wife Alice "Dear friends, after the pleasant stay in Paris, I just opened the exhibition in Barcelona. Well done, Albert.

First edition published anonymously for the first volume, third edition statement for the second volume.
Half old rose sheep binding, smooth spine lightly faded decorated with gilt garlands, minor rubbing to spine, scuffing to marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
The second subscription list of the "Pélerin" is absent from our copy.
Occasional light foxing.

First edition, one of 274 numbered copies complete with the original 5-color stamp.
Handsome copy.

New printed edition in small numbers on laid.
Small spots without gravity on the boards, pleasant interior state.
Autograph signed by Aimé Piron to Monsignor Urbain at the head of the back of the first board.

First edition on current paper.
A trace of vertical fold on the first plate, some small freckles without gravity affecting mainly the edges and margins of the First printinging of Hans Arp
Full copy of his prayer to insert.
Illustrated book of 10 drawings by Hans Arp.
Autograph signed by Tristan Tzara to the Belgian dadaist Georges Marlier: "To G. Marlier sympathetically, Tristan Tzara, July 1929."

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed and dated by Michel Butor to his friends Georges and Alice Raillard.

Entwurf einer Landschaft [Sketch of a Landscape]
First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on Holland paper signed by Carl Einstein and Gaston-Louis Roux on the justification page, the only issue with 10 copies on Japan paper and 10 on Chapelle paper.

With five full page black lithographs by Gaston-Louis Roux, one of which on the frontispiece.

Binding in full brown-pink box, spine with blue, pink and green title in œser, significant inlaid decoration on the boards, four bands of five strips of pink, purple, green and blue calf, arranged around a central piece of rectangular multi-colored marbled box, endpapers in flesh-side pink suede, wrappers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, dust jacket in half brown-pink box, spine with blue, pink and green title in œser, slip case lined with brown-pink box, binding signed by Georges Leroux and dated 1994.
Carl Einstein is an anarchist writer, art historian, friend of George Grosz, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, collaborator of Jean Renoir, lived through the wars and revolutions that shook Europe during the first part of the twentieth century. He volunteer during the Spanish civil revolution in 1936 and went to Barcelona to fight in the ranks of the Confédération nationale du tra
vail (National Labor Confederation), before joining the Groupe international de la Colonne Durruti (Durruti Column International Group). Of Jewish faith, he committed suicide in 1940 to avoid failing into the hands of the Nazis.

Magnificent copy perfectly set in a full inlaid box binding signed by Georges Leroux, one of the greatest binders of the second part of the 20th century.

First edition of Cendrars's second book, printed in 150 copies on handmade Hollande paper and offered to subscribers.

According to Sonia Delaunay, Séquences, Pâques à New York and theTranssibérien were published at the author's expense, thanks to a small inheritance. The address given - Éditions Hommes nouveaux - 4, rue de Savoie, was in fact the small attic room that Blaise Cendrars occupied at that time.

A precious copy of Blaise Cendrars's early poems, exceptionally rare and in remarkable condition.

First edition, one of 900 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies after 50 signed by the author and illustrator.
Work illustrated with 12 photographs by Henriette Grindat
Handsome copy.

First edition, without false statement of edition, which is quite rare for this work. The half-titles bear the heading: Complete Works, as the 2 volumes were indeed part of the staggered publication over several years of Lamartine's works, each volume being available for separate purchase, a common practice at the time.
Contemporary full tobacco calf binding. Smooth spine with 4 romantic tools in mirror arrangement. Brown calf title and volume labels. Blind-ruled frame and gilt fillet. Light scattered foxing. Upper joints rubbed. Traces of rubbing. Handsome copy in full contemporary binding.
Epic poetry recounting how an angel, in love with a mortal woman, takes human form at the moment she is about to be carried off into slavery by giants. Verlaine found in this book "unprecedented things of beauty." "The new episode that M. de Lamartine publishes today is full of both grandeur and grace, and reveals in the author an energy, a virility that we were far from expecting. Neither the Meditations, nor the Harmonies, nor Jocelyn promised what we find in the Fall of an Angel." Gustave Planche. Revue des deux mondes. 1838.

First edition.
Spine sunned, foxing.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe commercial issue after 20 laid paper hors commerce copies reserved for the author.
A handsome copy.

First edition, one of 250 copies on laid paper, single print after 21 Holland paper.
A tiny angular miss at the top of the first board.
Plate decorated with a drawing of JV Manuel and a certificate of reading Marc Patin.
Signed autograph of Jean-François Chabrun René (René) Rolland: "... this little time mixed with sand ..."
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Third posthumous and rare edition of the works of Malleville, enhanced with a frontispiece. This collection first appeared in 1649. Not in Brunet or Quérard.
Full glazed blonde calf binding, 18th century. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Red morocco title label. Traces of rubbing. Handsome copy.
20th century bookplate of J. C. Courbin. 4 bookmarks pasted in, notices of books from collections of Malleville's poetry.
Collection composed of sonnets, elegies, rondeaux, madrigals and epigrams. Malleville occupies an important place in the Précieux movement and was one of the masters of love poetry. "His style, abundant in imagery and conceits, was much admired by the Précieux. In fact, he represents an original effort to attempt to reconcile the purism of Malherbe's school [...] and the subtleties of Marinism." Dictionnaire des littératures.

Edition illustrated with original vignettes by Jean-Gabriel Daragnès, one of the numbered copies on vellum paper, ours one of the first 100 containing a duplicate suite of the vignettes.
Some browning at foot of spine, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition on current paper.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Franz Hellens to Achille Chavée.

Edition printed with 50 numbered copies on Rives and illustrated with 7 engravings original with the burin and the black way of Albert Woda that each one has captioned and signed .
Bilingual work with the translation of Claude Couffon and the Spanish text opposite.
Beautiful and rare complete copy of its case.
Signature of Albert Woda at the colophon.

Edition printed with 200 numbered copies on vellum of Rives and illustrated with 12 dry tips original Jean-Michel Mathieux-Marie.
Work translated by Claude Couffon.
Beautiful and rare complete copy of its case.
Signature of Jean-Michel Mathieux-Marie at the colophon.

First edition, one of 250 numbered copies on vellum, only draw after 25 Holland paper.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a drawing by Pablo Picasso.
Back and flat very slightly and marginally thinned as generally, otherwise nice copy.
Autograph dedication signed by Paul Dermée to the poet Hubert Dubois.

First Edition printed in 500 copies.
Grisélidis Real, writer, painter and prostitute, is a great romantic figure of the late twentieth century. A lover, militant, fighter and poet, she upset the customs of Geneva society. She is now buried in the Cemetery of the Kings in Geneva between Jean Calvin and Jorge Luis Borgès.
Nice copy.
Rare autograph dedication dated and signed Grisélidis Real: "For Marie (Chatelain), with all the emotion I have to have shared the reading of poems In memory also of our beloved Cécile Grisélidis."

First edition.
Binding of the publisher in full olive green canvas, smooth back, yellow head, yellow head, missing jacket.
We enclose a telegram from Joseph Chapiro, addressed to Maurice Martin du Gard from Berlin.
Rare signed autograph dedication from Joseph Chapiro, in French, to Maurice Martin du Gard: "... in memory of his visit to Berlin and in recognition of the charming hours spent together".

First edition, one of 550 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 9 Japan and 30 Holland.
Full navy blue morocco binding, spine with four raised bands showing some rubbing, gilt date at foot of spine, gilt roulettes on headcaps, double gilt fillets and gilt floral motifs framing the guards and watered silk floral endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt, original wrappers preserved, double gilt fillets on leading edges, contemporary binding signed by Chambolle-Duru.

“I knew that whenever
I want to be perfectly alone
With the memory of you, of that whole day,
It's to Vaumort that I'll be turning.”

Exceptional handwritten poem dated 1969, signed and illustrated with original drawings in graphite, markers and colour pencils by Lawrence Durrell.
The poem-art work is sent to Janine Brun, his French lover, and has the inscription “For Buttons,” the affectionate nickname given to her by the writer, on top of a heart pierced by an arrow.
Pin holes, marginal tears.

Published for the first time in Collected Poems: 1931-1974 (1980).
In this poem-drawing, the writer looks back on a day of love spent in the company of his lover Janine Brun in the cemetery of the small village of Yonne. At the same time, Durrell is painfully recovering from the premature death of this third wife two years earlier and publishes his series of dystopian novels Nunc (1968) and Nunquam (1970). He also takes refuge in poetry, the last exercise of literary and philosophical asceticism of a writer who, gradually, chooses to withdraw from the world.

It is during a journey from the capital towards the Midi in the south, that the lovers stopped for a day in Vaumort:

“Below us, far away, the road to Paris.
You pour some wine upon a tomb.
The bees drink with us, the dead [approve.”
Durrell's poetry has suffered from the resounding success of his novels, however, here it achieves great lyrical beauty, its free verse, nevertheless, very musical, picking up the cemetery's well-known motif:
“One careless cemetery buzzes on and on
As if her tombstones were all hives
Overturned by the impatient dead
We imagined they had stored up
he honey their of their immortality
In the soft commotion the black bees make.”

Here the writer attempts to capture in the poem a moment of happiness and carnal pleasure with his lover, and frames the verse he has written in long, graphite lines and many brightly coloured drawings. Here we have a rare example of a double work of art, both poetic and pictorial. Produced in marker and colour pencil, similar to the drawings of Joan Miró, it is a magnificent illustration marked with naivety, which beautifully complements the poem. Durrell continued this activity until the end of his life, which he spent in Sommières: Incidentally, we can also see a real pictorial reference to the “burnt and dusty Languedoc” (verse 12), where he spent the rest of his life.

Rare testimony of Durrell's Provençal adventure with the young French lady, who inspired him to write a delightful poem imbued with warmth and Mediterranean colours.

First edition on ordinary paper for each of the volumes; no mention is made of deluxe paper for the first.
Half fawn shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved (the front cover of the second volume is soiled).
Handsome copy.

Edition illustrated with 20 original lithographs by François Chapuis and printed in 200 numbered copies on Auvergne paper.
Fine copy complete with its slipcase, split at head and foot.
Publisher's Bradel binding in half black shagreen with bands, unlettered smooth spine with small scratches, Japanese paper boards, binding by Jean Duval.

Edition illustrated with 10 original etchings by Edouard Chimot, one of 25 numbered copies on Japon imperial paper, deluxe copy.
The work is also illustrated with typographical ornaments by Paul de Pidoll.
Handsome full-margined copy.
The first gathering tends to come slightly loose.
Our copy, like all copies printed on Japon imperial paper, contains the complete suite of 10 original compositions by Edouard Chimot in triple state.

First edition printed in 59 numbered copies on vélin d'Arche papers, signed by Pierre-André Benoit and André Masson under the justification.
Cover repaired.
Illustrated with 2 original engravings by André Masson.
Rare.

New edition enriched with notes and biographical notices by Charles Marty-Laveaux, one of 230 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only printing after 18 copies on China paper.
Bradel binding in half black morocco, smooth spines, gilt dates at foot of spines, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, front covers preserved.
A rare and handsome copy.

New edition. The earliest edition is found at the British Library, 1498; this is likely the first edition, as Charles VIII died that same year. The work was reprinted several times during the 16th century.
Bound in rigid half vellum, late 19th century. Smooth Jansenist spine. Red shagreen title-label. Some light rubbing. Handsome copy with wide margins.
Some pale marginal dampstains.
The De Lubrico is a poem on human misery and deception, composed in the manner of numerous works of the period with first the poem itself, followed by its explanation and the circumstances that produced it (scholia).
Modern bookplate of the library of F. Renard pasted on front pastedown.

First edition.
A tear in the foot of a bit, small traces of marginal creases on the boards.
Signed autograph of Jean Ménard to Jean Legrand: "To my dear friend, to you, Jean, with all my friendship."

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Arches vellum, the deluxe issue with 50 unnumbered hors commerce copies on laid paper.
Iconography.
Handsome copy.
Contributions by Paul Morand, Albert Béguin, Antoine Livio, Paul Vallotton, Elie Gagnebin, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Scialom, Freddy Buache...

First Edition printed 600 copies numbered on laid.
Small tears without gravity margins of some leaves, back and marginally insolated boards, a slight lack in the foot of the first board.
Precious autograph signed by Charles Forot: "To my master Paul Valéry, these songs of autumn in testimony of deep admiration."

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pure thread paper, deluxe edition.
One repaired tear at foot of spine, handsome full-margined copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Patrice de La Tour du Pin to Robert Mainguet.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vellum, ours bearing the N ° 1.
Nice copy.
Autograph dedication dated and signed Guy Lavaud to his publishers Robert and Albert Emile-Paul: "... in memory of happy years and a long friendship ..."

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, head print.
A tear and a fold at the foot of the second board which also has three small marginal spots.
Autograph signed by Armen Tarpinian to Simone Barilleau.

Edition printed in 150 numbered and named copies on vellum and illustrated with 28 original etchings hors texte as well as woodcuts by Raphaël Drouart.
Both slipcases are damaged and show either a lack to the upper edge, or a large tear to the upper edge.
Both chemises are fragile.
Handsome copy.
Our copy is exceptionally expanded with two original copperplates and a suite in black of the illustrations.
The text is illustrated with decorations and frames of gilt and black head-pieces in Art Deco style.

First Edition printed 130 numbered copies on vellum Arches paper, ours unjustified.
boards slightly and marginally insolated.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Claude Sernet to the composer Jean Wiener: "... in testimony of an admiration ly distant, now fraternal."

Collective edition, one of the numbered copies on "bouffant" paper.
A small spot on the back of the head, full copy of his trailer that includes a small tear.
Signed autograph of Alain Bosquet to Pierre and Luce Bosquet: "... in the hope that they will find here some spiritual relationship with the author."

First edition, one of the numbered copies.
Binding of the publisher in full gray cloth, smooth back, guards and contreplats of cream paper.
Nice copy.
Signed autograph of Joseph Guglielmi Georges Raillard.

First edition of this unpublished poem by Michel Butor accompanying Grégory Masurovsky's recent drawings presented by La Hune in June 1966, one of 1000 numbered copies, ours one of the first 35.
Pleasant illustrated copy of 8 reproductions of works of Grégory Masurovsky.
Our copy is incomplete of the original engraving of Grégory Masurovsky to enrich the first 35 copies of the draw.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend Georges Raillard.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Nice copy.
Autographed and signed autographs by René Depestre and Claude Couffon to Alice Raillard.