Claude AVELINE
Sur l'Alfred de Vigny d'Anatole France
Aux dépens d'un amateur|Paris 1928|22.50 x 28 cm|broché
Rare hors commerce first edition printed in 50 copies numbered and justified in the colophon by Jacques Lion.
Some light foxing.
Precious autograph inscription dated and signed by Claude Aveline: "A Georges Duhamel, ces souvenirs dont Jacques Lion a voulu faire une plaquette, parce qu'ils me sont chers, son ami. Claude Aveline. Font Romeu août 1928..." ["To Georges Duhamel, these memories that Jacques Lion wanted to make into a booklet, because they are dear to me, his friend. Claude Aveline. Font Romeu August 1928..."]
€150
Ivana LEMAITRE, André CHÉNIER
Idylles et Elégies
A l'enseigne du Pot Cassé|Paris 1926|13.50 x 20 cm|broché
New edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with wood engravings as head- and tailpieces by Ivana Lemaître.
€150
Yves BONNEFOY
La Vie errante suivi de Une autre époque de l'écriture[The Wandering Life, followed by Another Age of Writing]
Mercure de France|Paris 1993|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket.
Signed autograph inscription from Yves Bonnefoy to Henri Zerner.
€120
Jean COCTEAU
Plain-Chant
Librairie Stock|Paris 1923|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Full bright blue morocco binding with mosaic decoration signed at the bottom of the slipcase by Jadis. Marbled paper slipcase, matching the endpapers. Smooth Jansenist spine with author's name in full. Boards with mosaic decoration featuring a red fillet crossed by 3 rectangles in cream, grey and pink; title in black on the cream cartouche. Original pink wrappers preserved.
Inscription from Cocteau to Marc Dantzer: à Marc, coeur de sommeil, Jean.
Marc Dantzer was a French actor who pursued his career from 1929 to 1957, he ran the restaurant at the Elysée-Matignon where cinema personalities would gather. A friend of Cocteau, there was correspondence between the two men.
Superb copy, in perfect condition.
Marc Dantzer bookplate, stamp. Second bookplate, with the cipher of Jean Paraf.

€1,500
Lucien DUBECH
Poèmes
A la Cité des Livres|Paris 1928|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 5 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Handsome full-margined copy despite two small traces of sunning at head and foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Lucien Dubech to historian Jean Longnon: "... en souvenir affectueux de nos voyages à l'été de 1928..." ["in affectionate memory of our travels in the summer of 1928..."]
€120
Lucien DUBECH
Poèmes pour les Ombres
A la Cité des Livres|Paris 1922|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition, one of 10 lettered and named copies on Japan paper, deluxe issue.
Fine full-margined copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Lucien Dubech to historian Jean Longnon in the form of a quatrain.
€120
Stefan ZWEIG, Frans MASEREEL
Erinnerungen an Emile Verhaeren[Memories of Emile Verhaeren]
Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers|s. l. 1927|14.50 x 23 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition printed with 440 numbered copies.
Work illustrated with 7 wood engravings by Frans Masereel.
Pubslisher's binding in half wove-style paper boards with small corners, top edge gilt, ex-libris glued to a paste-down endpaper.
Rare handwritten presentation signed by Stefan Zweig to writer Max Spanier who disappeared during the hell of the Holocaust: “Im herzlicher Erkenntlichkeit” (“With sincere gratitude”).
€3,500
Raoul GINESTE
Soirs de Paris
Imprimé pour Henri Béraldi|Paris 1903|14.50 x 22.80 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with drawings by Minartz engraved on wood by Paillard. Limited edition of only 138 numbered copies on Marais laid paper. 3 plates including one frontispiece, 56 headpieces illustrating Parisian nightlife, shows... The illustration achieving close correspondence with the poems (the opera, merry-go-rounds, cabarets...).
Near-contemporary Bradel binding in half morocco with old rose corners. Smooth Jansenist spine. Author and title in gilt. Covers and spine preserved. Fine paper freshness, with foxing on fore edge and very rare and pale internal foxing. Spine slightly faded, or having turned uniformly.

Engraved bookplate of Jacques Crépineau, director of the Michodière theater and entertainment historian, bibliophile renowned for his collection of Romantics.
Very handsome copy.

€600
Georges FOUREST
Le Géranium ovipare
José Corti|Paris 1935|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 150 Service de Presse copies on châtaignier blanc paper.
Pleasant copy despite a small black ink mark at the head of the first cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges Fourest to Roger Lannes.
€300
Paul DAKEYO
Soweto - Soleils fusillés
Droit et liberté|s. l. 1977|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Fine and rare copy of this collection of anti-Apartheid poems.
Preface by Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress of South Africa then in exile.
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Paul Dakeyo to Madeleine Lanzais: "... à la lutte de nos peuples..." ["...to the struggle of our peoples..."]

€300
Théophile GAUTIER
La comédie de la mort
Desessart|Paris 1838|14.70 x 23.10 cm|relié
First edition. A frontispiece by Boulanger engraved by Lacoste. Copy extra-illustrated at the back of the half-title with an albumen photographic portrait (ca 1865), mounted and trimmed to margin.
Armorial copy of Charles de Mandre, D'or à la fasce d'azur et D'azur à une bande d'or, accompagnée de sept billettes du même, posées quatre en chef et trois en pointe. Charles Demandre had, in his youth, some literary and poetic inclinations and, throughout his life, welcomed the writers and artists of his time to La Chaudeau. His library was sold in Paris, Maison Silvestre, 28 rue des Bons-Enfants, salle n° 1, au premier, from January 31 to February 9, 1887. The catalogue was compiled by Lorédan Larchey: Catalogue des livres et autographes composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Ch. de Mandre (Paris, A. Claudin, 1887, in-12,
€1,000
Victor HUGO
La Pitié suprême
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1879|15.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after 1 vellum, 5 chine, 9 japan and 15 whatman according to Clouzot.
Half red long-grain morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, gilt date at foot, pebbled paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, binding signed by Goy et Vilaine.
Handsome copy handsomely bound.
€1,800
Jacques LE LORRAIN, Gaston DUBREUILH
La Barbe bleue
Mathot|Paris 1910|19.50 x 29 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of this sung tale by Jacques Le Lorrain set to music by Gaston Dubreuilh.
Publisher's binding in half steel-blue percaline, smooth spine unlettered, grey paper boards, illustrated front board, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated by Maurice de Lambert.
Rare copy of this sung tale created by Gabriel de Montoya at the shadow theatre of the Quat-z-Arts.

€200
Georges MONTORGUEIL, JOB
Au Pays des Chansons
Boivin & Cie|Paris s. d. [1912]|23.50 x 32 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's binding in full blue percaline, smooth unlettered spine, beveled boards, front cover illustrated with a large composition by Job on a plate made by Engel, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns.
One endpaper with a fold and very light adhesive paper residue, light discoloration to second cover
Handsome copy.
Work decorated with full-page illustrations by Job.

€150
COLLECTIF (Ernesto CHE GUEVARA)
Revista Cuba - Numero especial Che Guevara hasta la victoria siempre[Cuba Magazine – Special Issue: Che Guevara, Hasta la victoria siempre]
Cuba revista|La Habana [Havana] Noviembre 1967|26.50 x 35 cm|broché
First edition of this special issue dedicated by the Fidel Castro's Cuban State to Ernesto Che Guevara, who passed away a month earlier after being executed by the Bolivian army.
Tribute issue illustrated with many photographs of Che.
Text in Spanish.

A very beautiful copy despite some small minor folds on the last sheets.
Rare issue that participated greatly to the hagiography of Che, who still today remains the Christ of anti-capitalist revolutionaries and third-worldists.
€2,000
Paul CHAMBOT, Ambroise GIRIER
La Chanson des Cabots
Librairie Gueteville|Paris 1895|12.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a cover and drawings by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen.
Bradel binding in half red shagreen, smooth spine, date in gilt at foot, pebbled paper boards, covers illustrated by Théophile Alexandre Steinlen and spine preserved in one piece.
Handsome copy despite a small restoration to the upper corner of page 93, a slight lack at foot of the second cover of the illustrated wrapper.

€150
Eugène LEMERCIER, Emmanuel BRUN
La Vie en Chansons
Georges Ondet|Paris 1891|12.50 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a cover and frontispiece by Emmanuel Brun.
Bradel binding in half brown cloth, smooth spine, date in gilt at foot, pebbled paper boards, illustrated cover by Emmanuel Brun and spine preserved.
Handsome copy of this collection of songs interpreted by Yvette Guilbert.

€80
Jacques FERNY, Lucien MÉTIVET
Chansons de la Roulotte
E. Fromont|Paris 1900|12.50 x 19 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with a cover and nearly 100 drawings by Lucien Métivet
Half brown shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, illustrated covers by Lucien Métivet preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing, light rubbing to joints, one lack to upper corner of page 287.
Handsome copy of this collection of songs performed by Jacques Ferny at the "La roulotte" theatre from 1896 to 1899 and at the Carillon and Tréteau de Tabarin in Montmartre in 1899-1900.

€80
Jacques MONORY, Gérard TITUS-CARMEL
Chorus 8/9
Chorus|Paris 1972|18 x 24 cm|broché
First edition, one of 90 numbered copies, the only ones to be enriched with a piece of crumpled paper signed by César, an etching signed by Titus-Carmel and an original lithograph by Jean-Pierre Le Boul'ch, the “tirage de tête”.
Numerous text and graphic contributions including those by Jacques Monory, Boltansky, Pierre Tilman, Le Gac, Peter Klasen, Daniel Biga, Hamilton, Gérard Titus-Carmel, Rémi Esnault,Françoise Thieck, Pierre Della Faille, Claude Held, César, etc...
A rare and beautiful copy of the “tirage de tête” of this issue of the Chorus magazine, published from 1968 to 1973.
€2,800
Francis PONGE
Douze petits écrits
Nrf|Paris 1928|13.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 718 numbered copies on laid paper, the only issue with 16 Japan copies.
Frontispiece with a portrait of the author lithographed by Mania Mavro.
Fine copy despite minor marginal tears of no consequence to the covers, spine slightly faded as usual.
Autograph inscription signed by Francis Ponge to the bookseller-bibliophile Max-Philippe Delatte: "... avec qui j'entretiens un commerce (au sens noble) dont je me félicite. Amicalement Francis Ponge" ["... with whom I maintain a relationship (in the noble sense) which pleases me greatly. Cordially Francis Ponge"].
€250
Justo Jorge PADRON
Les Cercles de l'Enfer. - Los Circulos del Infierno
Leuvense Schrijversaktie|Louvain [Louvain] 1983|14 x 21 cm|broché
First bilingual edition, the French translation placed opposite the Spanish text.
Handsome copy.
Preface by Arthur Lundkvist, introduction by Eugène Van Itterbeek.
Fine autograph inscription dated and signed by Justo Jorge Padron to the poet Liliane Wouters.
€60
Cristina LACASA
Poemas de la Muerte y de la Vida
Instituto de estudios ilerdenses|Lérida [Lleida] 1965|12 x 17.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Fine copy complete with its wraparound band.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Cristina Lacasa to poet Marcel Hennart, in which she specifies her address in Lérida, Spain.
€50
Jean George, sir TOLLEMACHE SINCLAIR
(FOUS LITTERAIRES) Larmes et Sourires
Chaix & Cie|Paris 1912|13.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition complete with the Sinclair clan tartan bookmark.
Covers lightly soiled, four light dampstains to boards, handsome interior condition.
Work illustrated with 112 plates and a portrait of the author at the beginning of the volume.
€200
Lucien BECKER
Pas même l'Amour
Marius Audin|Lyon 1961|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
Rare first edition printed in a very small number of copies and strictly hors commerce.
Light foxing to covers and very slight browning at margins.
Autograph inscription from Lucien Becker to André Fraigneau

€150
André GILL
La muse à bibi
Marpon & Flammarion|Paris 1881|11 x 17 cm|relié
First edition printed on laid paper.
Illustrated work, with a frontispiece drawing by the author.
Scattered foxing.
Bradel binding in half olive green cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleuron, gilt double fillet at tail, brown shagreen title label, pebbled paper boards, covers and spine preserved, near-contemporary binding signed in blind Champs.
€80
Philotée O'NEDDY, Célestin NANTEUIL
Feu et Flamme
Dondey-Dupré|Paris 1833|13.50 x 22 cm|relié sous étui
Very rare and sought-after first edition, according to Clouzot, printed in only 300 copies.
Full red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with black fillets, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of gilt dentelle on pastedowns, double gilt fillets on edges, top edge gilt, original wrappers preserved, full marbled paper slipcase with marbled paper lining, perfect binding signed by Thivet, a binder who worked during the last quarter of the 19th century.
Bookplate pasted on one pastedown, bibliophilic notes in pencil on an endpaper by a previous owner of the work.
Handsome copy of one of the rarest "Romantics," complete with the frontispiece on China paper, drawn and engraved by Célestin Nanteuil.

€7,000
Émile GOUDEAU
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Francisque Sarcey
s. l. s. d. [circa 1890]|11 x 17.50 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter signed by Emile Goudeau addressed to his dear master (Francisque Sarcey, 16 lines in black ink) thanking him for his last letter which he reads with some delay and for his support in granting an award which he has just been honored with: "l'envoi de la lettre écrite par un Labadens exaspéré. Ce camarade (?) m'a fait passer un bon quart d'heure. Enfin cet infortuné lauréat ne me pardonne peut-être pas, d'être, lui tombé dans les hypothèques." ["the sending of the letter written by an exasperated Labadens. This comrade (?) made me spend a difficult quarter of an hour. Finally this unfortunate laureate perhaps does not forgive me for having fallen into mortgages."]
Central fold inherent to the mailing.
€200
Charles CROS
Oeuvres complètes
Le club français du livre|Paris 1954|18.50 x 21.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
Collected edition, one of the numbered copies, the only issue.
Publisher's Bradel binding in full white cloth, smooth spine, front cover decorated with a geometric design.
Handsome copy.
€80
Victor HUGO
La Pitié suprême
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1879|15 x 23.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half caramel morocco with small corners, spine with four raised bands decorated with black fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on one pastedown, top edge gilt, covers and spine (sunned and with some lacks) preserved. Discreet restorations to joints.
Fine copy handsomely bound.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Victor Hugo to Constant Laurent.

€3,000
Jorge Luis BORGES, Adolfo BIOY CASARES
Libro del cielo y del infierno[Book of Heaven and Hell]
Editorial Sur|Buenos Aires 1975|10.50 x 17.50 cm|broché
Third edition of the text, the second from this publisher.
A handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of Jorge Luis Borges on the half-title page.
€1,500
Jacques RAMONDOT, Blaise CENDRARS
Du Monde entier : Les Pâques à New York. - La Prose du Transsibérien. - Le Panama ou les Aventures de mes sept Oncles
Les bibliophiles de France|Paris 1966|33.50 x 24.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étu
Edition illustrated with 31 original etchings by Jacques Ramondot and printed in 145 nominative copies on Fabriano laid paper.
Spine of chemise and slipcase lightened, boards lightly and marginally shaded without gravity.
Bookplate pasted opposite the colophon.
Our copy is complete with the very beautiful multicolored poster folded in 4, reproducing the decoration of the chemise and slipcase.
Each of the three texts is printed on laid paper of different color: grey for "Les Pâques à New York", taupe grey for "La Prose du Transsibérien" and mustard yellow for "Le Panama ou les Aventures de mes sept Oncles".

€1,350
Yves BRAYER, Federico GARCÍA LORCA
Romancero gitan
Les Bibliophiles du Palais|Paris 1975|25.50 x 32.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise-étui
Edition illustrated with 17 original full-page lithographs by Yves Brayer and printed in 200 numbered copies on grand vélin d'Arches.
Handsome copy complete with its chemise and slipcase.
Autograph inscription signed by Yves Brayer to Bernard Gauche enhanced with an original watercolor depicting two toreros.
€500
Federico GARCÍA LORCA
Chansons gitanes
Editions de Mirages|Tunis 1935|14 x 19 cm|broché
First collected edition of the French translation established by Mathilde Pomès, Jules Supervielle, Jean Prévost and Armand Guibert, one of 300 numbered copies on alma Marais paper, the only deluxe copies after 12 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy despite minor insignificant worming on the front cover.
€150
Pierre EMMANUEL
Evangéliaire
Seuil|Paris 1961|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 37 numbered copies on pur fil du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
A tiny insignificant tear at foot of spine.
Handsome copy.
€200
COLLECTIF
Poètes du XVIème siècle
Gallimard|Paris 1969|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
First edition published in the Bibliothèque de La Pléiade.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, grey top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Handsome copy complete with its glassine wrapper, dust jacket and soft slipcase.
€40
Paul VALÉRY
Fragments des Mémoires d'un Poème
Grasset|Paris 1938|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Some small wormholes to margins of certain leaves and to boards.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Valéry to Paul Jamot: "... en souvenir de sa visite..." ["in memory of his visit..."]
€280
Raymond LAFAYE
Pour Monia
Gallimard|Paris 1957|11 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
€50
Federico GARCÍA LORCA
Oeuvres complètes, volume I
Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1981|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Fine copy complete with its glassine, dust jacket and slipcase.
€40
Paul ÉLUARD
Une Leçon de Morale
Gallimard|Paris 1949|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.

€50
Algernon Charles SWINBURNE, Francis VIELÉ-GRIFFIN
Laus Veneris
Mercure de France|Paris 1933|11.50 x 17.50 cm|broché
First edition in French translated by Francis Viélé-Griffin printed in 300 numbered copies on laid paper.
Handsome full-margined copy.
€80
Paul FORT
Montlhéry-la-Bataille
Eugène Figuière|Paris 1912|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine cracked with some lacks, light corner bumps to boards, some light interior foxing.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Paul Fort: "A Léon Bakst, son admirateur."
€80
NORGE
Les Quatre Vérités
Gallimard|Paris 1962|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy despite a small blue cross inscribed at head of half-title page.
Signed autograph inscription by Norge to the Resistance poet and publisher of poets Pierre Seghers and his wife Véronique on the half-title page: "A Pierre et Véronique, mes deux bonnes, douces, fortes, chaudes et admirables vérités d'amitié. Leur vieux Norge..." ["To Pierre and Véronique, my two good, gentle, strong, warm and admirable truths of friendship. Their old Norge..."]

€60
Rainer Maria RILKE
La Chanson de l'amour et de la mort du cornette Christoph Rilke
Kra|Paris 1927|18.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition in French printed in 350 copies, ours one of 25 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Translated by Suzanne Kra.
Handsome copy despite a slight crease mark on one leaf, retaining its deckled edges.
Very rare as a deluxe copy.
€1,500
Yves BONNEFOY
Début et Fin de la Neige suivi de Là où retombe la Flèche
Mercure de France|Paris 1991|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the numbered copies.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Yves Bonnefoy to Diane de Margerie.
€120
HORACE [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Oeuvres complètes
Chez Dalibon|à Paris 1823|13 x 21 cm|3 volumes reliés
New bilingual edition, with Charles Batteux's prose translation on facing pages. Frontispiece by Deveria. Life of Horace attributed to Suetonius translated by Achaintre. Bibliographical notes and commentary on each work. Fine edition of the Latin poet.
Contemporary wine-colored glazed full calf binding signed at foot of volume I by Thouvenin jeune. Spine with 5 raised bands richly decorated with 2 blind stamps, 2 grotesque compartments composed of monastic tools, head and tail roll tools. Boards stamped in blind with central lozenge containing ornamental composition, blind border frieze. Gilt roll on leading edges, internal frieze. Marbled edges matching the endpaper pattern. Spine darkened to brown. Discoloration traces on upper board of volume 3. Brown stain on lower board of volume 3. Lightly scratched area on lower board of volume 1. Very handsome copy.

€500
Jacques DUBOIS
Poeme pour Paule
S. n.|s. l. 1951|16 x 24.50 cm|en feuilles
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally discolored and sunned.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Jacques Dubois to his friend Charles (Dobzynski): "A mon cher Charles, lui qui sait si bien ce que je veux dire quand je dis "à moitié déraciné par la charrue de la guerre". Pour que nous soyons unis comme les 5 doigts d'un poing fermé. Ton Jacques." ["To my dear Charles, who knows so well what I mean when I say 'half uprooted by the plow of war'. So that we may be united like the 5 fingers of a closed fist. Your Jacques."]

€60
Gérard SEREE, Marie-Claire BANCQUART
Peut-être Qui
Atelier Gestes et Traces|Saint-Laurent-du-Pont 2005|12.50 x 10.50 cm|en feuilles
First edition entirely handwritten and printed in 15 numbered copies on vellum.
Work illustrated with 10 original engravings by Gérard Serée.
Rare and handsome copy.
Manuscript signatures of Marie-Claire Bancquart and Gérard Serée on the colophon.

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€150
COLLECTIF
Poésie 41. Poésie espagnole
Pierre Seghers|Villeneuve-lès-Avignon 1941|13.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 400 numbered copies on Alep paper.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket.
Numerous contributions including those by Federico Garcia Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Jorge Guillen, Antonio Machado, Lope de Vega, Luis de Gongora...

.
€50
Pablo NERUDA
Aun
Nascimento|Santiago de Chile [Santiago] 1969|17.50 x 27 cm|broché
First edition printed in 500 numbered copies, ours being one of the 250 hors commerce copies reserved for the author.
A handsome copy.
€800
Stéphane MALLARMÉ
"Tout ce qui vécut autour de Verlaine s'efface donc..."Signed autograph card addressed to Alidor Delzant
Paris 11 mars 1897|11.40 x 8.80 cm|une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe
Autograph postcard signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written on both sides in black ink. Envelope enclosed.
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts, he devoted a work to them and was secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond.
"Tout ce qui vécut autour de Verlaine s'efface donc, aidé, tant mieux ! de la piété charmante et tendre de Madame Delzant. La gloire du Poëte se fait toujours solitaire." ["Everything that lived around Verlaine thus fades away, helped, so much the better! by the charming and tender piety of Madame Delzant. The Poet's glory always stands alone."] Delzant had announced to Mallarmé the death of Eugénie Krantz, Verlaine's last mistress. Delzant's wife had frequented her during visits to the sick at Bonsecours hospital in Montrouge.

€1,500
Paul NEUHUYS
Poètes d'aujourd'hui. L'orientation actuelle de la conscience lyrique
Ca ira!|Anvers [Antwerp] 1922|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Spine sunned.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Neuhuys to Francis Gérard on the first endpaper, partially shadowed due to the presence of two small newspaper clippings.
€100
John MILTON
Paradise lost
S. Birt • C. Hitch • F. Hodges • B. Dod • E. Wicksted • F. Oswald • F. Ward • F. Brindley • T. Longman • • F. and R. Tonson and S. Draper • and C. Corbet|London 1754|23 x 28 cm|2 volumes reliés
The very first "Newton-Edition" by Thomas Newton, Samuel Barrow (physician to King Charles II), Andrew Marcel and Joseph Addison.
Illustrated with two frontispiece portraits of Milton and six full-page plates for each volume.
Contemporary full calf bindings, spines with five raised bands tooled in gilt, red and black morocco title labels. Fine restorations to spine-ends, joints and corners.
A very fine copy with full margins of this unusual edition, in its original contemporary English binding.
€3,800
Patrice de LA TOUR DU PIN
Les anges
Monomotapa|Tunis 1939|11.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 400 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Full cream white shagreen binding, spine with four fine raised bands slightly darkened, gilt frieze border on covers, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, original wrappers and spine preserved.
Foxing affecting mainly the margins of the leaves.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Patrice de La Tour du Pin to his friend the diplomat Pierre Saffroy: "Mon Pierre, les anges qui viennent de toi vers moi, je les connais assez, je les aimes assez pour que j'ose à peine t'envoyer ce petit livre qui traitent (sic) des anges dans l'amitié spirituelle." ["My Pierre, the angels who come from you to me, I know them well enough, I love them enough that I hardly dare send you this little book which deals with angels in spiritual friendship."]
€200
Benjamin FONDANE
Rimbaud le voyou
Denoël & Steele|Paris 1933|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié sous chemise-étui
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Bradel binding in full blue cloth, smooth spine uniformly faded.
Our copy is presented in a half blue morocco chemise, smooth spine and paste-paper boards, paper lining, slipcase of the same paper and bordered in blue morocco, signed by P. Goy and C. Vilaine.
Dedicatee's bookplate pasted on a pastedown.
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Benjamin Fondane on this important text: "A Renaud de Jouvenel en témoignage de bonne amitié, avec l'hommage de Benjamin Fondane."
€3,000
André GIDE
La tentative amoureuse
Librairie de l'Art Indépendant|Paris 1893|15 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition printed in 162 copies, ours one of 150 numbered copies on tinted vellum, the only issue with 12 on Whatman.
Bradel binding in half emerald green morocco, smooth spine stamped with gilt title lettered lengthwise, pebbled paper boards, front cover preserved, binding signed P. Goy and C. Vilaine.
Signed autograph inscription from André Gide "au poëte Angiolo Orvieto en témoignage de sympathie" ["to the poet Angiolo Orvieto in testimony of sympathy"].
Rare testimony to his relationship with Angiolo Orvieto, Florentine poet and librettist, who founded the periodical Il Marzocco in 1896, and devoted a study to the writer the following year.
The two poets were united by their admiration for Chopin, who inspired Orvieto to write an opera and Gide his Notes sur Chopin (1948).
€2,000
Henri TROYAT
Baudelaire
Flammarion|Paris 1994|14.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on pure Arches laid paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.
€230
Victor HUGO
Le Sacre de Charles X, Ode
Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1828|20.50 x 27 cm|relié
Second edition, published the same year as the first, printed by the royal printing house in 500 copies.
Two leaves browned.
Bradel binding in full marbled paper, smooth spine decorated with a black morocco label, title lengthwise, binding signed Thomas Boichot.
€450
A priceless poetic testament from Marcel Proust's mentor, hidden away and out of sight since the death of the author.
A priceless poetic testament from Marcel Proust's mentor, hidden away and out of sight since the death of the author.
Robert de MONTESQUIOU
Ensemble de 620 feuillets autographes composant le manuscrit inédit du recueil "Le dernier pli des neuf voiles", véritable testament poétique.Unpublished autograph manuscript of Le Dernier Pli des neuf voiles a true poetic testament
s. d. [ca 1920]|25 x 33 cm|en feuilles sous chemises
The set of largely unpublished autograph poems by Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac is brought together by the Count in a collection entitled Le Dernier Pli des neuf voiles, whose composition extends from his very first collection (Les Chauves-Souris, 1892) to his last trilogy (Offrandes, 1915).

Set of 620 autograph leaves. 532 unpublished, first draught, handwritten on the recto and numbered in pencil, preserved in 3 chemises in half red contemporary morocco, red morocco labels with gilt author and title; the poems are then placed in the chemises with a handwritten title and a number for publication. According to a note from the author, “the differences in ink have no meaning, mere change of copy”. Rare pages from the hand of his secretary Henri Pinard: p. 20 of “Huitième voile” and p. 29 of “Neuvième voile”. 23 pages present the printed or typewritten texts of the poems and are enriched with Montesquiou's handwritten corrections.

A set of printed proofs are found at the top of the first chemise, as well as a pencil tracing after Aubrey Beardsley drawn by the author and accompanied by his handwritten indications.
€38,000
Charles CROS
Le coffret de santal
Tresse|Paris 1879|12 x 19 cm|broché
Second edition with some parts in first edition, as 46 pieces appear here for the first time.
A small lack to head of spine, foxing to boards, some light marginal foxing.
Rare signed autograph inscription from Charles Cros to Gustave Ollendorff.
€2,500
Vitezslav NEZVAL
Poèmes choisis
Pierre Seghers|Paris 1954|13 x 19 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of the French translation established by Milos Sova, one of 10 lettered copies on Holland paper.
Preface and adaptation by Jean Marcenac.
Publisher's yellow cardboard binding, smooth spine, fine copy complete with its dust jacket matching the covers.
€380
Jean GIONO, Pierre FONTEINAS
Fragments d'un paradis
G. Dechalotte|Paris 1948|22.50 x 28.50 cm|relié
First edition illustrated with 12 original compositions outside the text by Pierre Fonteinas colored by stencil, one of 839 numbered copies on B.F.K. de Rives paper.
Half blue morocco binding with corners, spine lightly darkened with four raised bands decorated with a red mosaic morocco piece representing a wave emerging from gilt wavelets rising up to gilt stars, gilt fillets on the marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of another marbled paper, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed P. Nichon.
The work is also illustrated with 8 initial letters and 1 tailpiece by Pierre Fonteinas.
Handsome copy.

€500
[Lucien SCHELER as] Jean SILENCE
Mille neuf cent quarante quatre
Le club des amis du livre|Paris 1964|18.50 x 20.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of this selection of poems on the Resistance.
Publisher's full yellow cloth binding, complete with its illustrated dust jacket and cellophane wrapper which has a lack to the head of the rear panel.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Lucien Scheler, alias Jean Silence, to Robert Gallimard: "... cette lampe-tempête souvenir du temps mort, avec l'amitié de Jean Silence."

€60
Jules LAFORGUE, Émile LAFORGUE
Moralités légendaires
Librairie de la Revue Indépendante|Paris 1887|13.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 400 numbered copies on machine-made vellum, the only printing along with 20 copies on grand vellum.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author etched by Emile Laforgue.
Minor stains of no consequence to the front cover.
Rare.
€800
COLLECTIF
Recueil de l'académie des jeux floraux 1827
L'académie des jeux floraux|Toulouse 1827|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
First edition printed on laid paper.
This academy crowned Victor Hugo in 1820 and F.A.R. de Chateaubriand in 1821.
Full brown shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands extending onto the boards with blind fillets ending in fleurons thus representing the clasps of medieval books, gilt rolls on headcaps, gilt pointillé on edges, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle frame on pastedowns, red edges.
Handsome copy despite some light foxing.
€150
Lucien BECKER
L'homme quotidien
M. Audin|Lyon 1941|14 x 21.50 cm|agrafé
First edition printed in 200 hors commerce copies.
A rare and handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Lucien Becker to Albert Béguin: "...en espérant qu'il reconnaîtra en ces poëmes quelques voix du "passager de la terre"..." ["...hoping that he will recognize in these poems some voices of the "passenger of the earth"..."]
€200
René CHAR
Le nu perdu
Gallimard|Paris 1971|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
Edition with some parts in first edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
Very handsome copy.
€1,500
René CHAR
Dans la pluie giboyeuse
Gallimard|Paris 1968|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
A very handsome copy.
€600
Raymond QUENEAU
Courir les rues
Gallimard|Paris 1967|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Foxing on covers, a light dampstain on spine.
Printed bookplate representing the lion of Saint Mark at head of an endpaper.
Touching and precious signed autograph inscription from Raymond Queneau: "A Serge Reggiani comédien, chanteur et poète. Queneau."
€450
Pierre Jean JOUVE
Poésie. Diadème - Ode - Langue
Mercure de France|Paris 1966|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
First collected edition, one of 20 numbered copies on pure wove paper, the only deluxe copies with a few hors commerce.
First cover very lightly and marginally sunned, spine creased at foot, handsome copy of the third volume of the complete works of Pierre Jean Jouve.
Precious autograph inscription dated and signed by Pierre Jean Jouve: "A André Malraux en amitié, admiration - fidélité. Pierre Jean Jouve. 1966" ["To André Malraux in friendship, admiration - loyalty. Pierre Jean Jouve. 1966"]

€800
Pierre Jean JOUVE
Poésie. Mélodrame - Moires
Mercure de France|Paris 1967|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
First collected edition, one of 20 numbered copies on pure wove paper, the only deluxe copies with a few hors commerce.
Handsome copy of the fourth volume of the complete works of Pierre Jean Jouve.
Precious autograph inscription dated and signed by Pierre Jean Jouve: "A André Malraux pour un grand livre et une amicale figure. Pierre Jean Jouve. 1967" ["To André Malraux for a great book and a friendly figure. Pierre Jean Jouve. 1967"]

€800
Georges PETITFAUX
Poèmes gastéropodes avec deux quatrains d'autres optimates
Collège de Pataphysique|Paris 1989|20.50 x 13.50 cm|agrafé
First edition, one of the numbered copies on petits petits-gris paper.
Copy slightly warped.
€30
Horace CHRETIEN
Cinq odes d'Horace Chrétien
Collège de Pataphysique|Paris 1963|13.50 x 12 cm|agrafé
First edition of the translation and presentation established by André Tchernia, one of 244 numbered copies on feuille verte et apostolique paper.
Fine copy.
€40
Emmanuel MOUNIER, COLLECTIF
[POESIE HONGROISE] Esprit N°4 de la nouvelle série
Esprit|Paris Avril 1970|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Issue partly devoted to Emmanuel Mounier with contributions by Jean-Marie Domenach "Mounier surpassed?", Marcel Reggui "How I knew Mounier", Michel Steiner "Pages to read in the present"...
This issue also deals with Hungarian poetry with Sandor Csoori, Gyula Illyes, Zoltan Jekely, Laszlo Nagy, Otto Orban, Gyorgy Raba, Judith Toth, Zsuzsa Takacs...
Other contributions by Steven Kehnan & Dick Howard "The new student left in the United States".
Occasional light foxing, principally marginal.

€60
Dora TEITELBOÏM
Réveil de l'aube
Pierre Seghers|Paris 1963|12.50 x 19 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition of the French translation established by Ratimir Pavlovic, of which there were no deluxe copies.

Handsome copy.

Autograph inscription dated and signed by Dora Teitelboim to her friend the poet Charles (Dobzynski): "... A Charles avec tout mon coeur..." ["... To Charles with all my heart..."]

€50
Félix LOPE DE VEGA
Poésies lyriques
Librairie Les lettres|Paris 1951|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 25 numbered copies on vélin crèvecoeur, deluxe copy after 10 pur fil
Gift inscription dated in black ink from bookseller Claude Buffet at head of first endpaper.
Handsome copy.
€80
Armand MONJO
Univers naturel
Pierre Seghers|Paris 1965|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on special bouffant paper, the only issue after 60 on alfa paper.
Handsome copy.
Cover illustrated with a drawing by Henri Matisse.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Armand Monjo to Charles Dobzynski.
€50
COLLECTIF
1492 Revue internationale des arts et des lettres N° spécial 3 : Robert Desnos
S. n.|s. l. Mars 1963|13.50 x 21.50 cm|agrafé
First edition of this issue entirely dedicated to Robert Desnos.
Minor stains without consequence at the head of the first cover.
Contributions by Jean Cocteau, Marcel Jouhandeau, Jean Cassou, Lise Deharme, Maurice Cury, Raphaël Sorin...
€30
COLLECTIF, Pierre BOUJUT
La Tour de Feu N°134 : Les poèmes de l'imbécile heureux
La tour de feu|Paris Juin 1977|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Handsome copy.
Contributions by Jean Laurent "Artaud à n'en plus finir", Pierre Boujut "La fascination des zéros", Roland Raveton "Deux mots sur Hélène Cixous"...
Cover illustrated with a drawing by Pierre Zellmeyer.
€30
COLLECTIF, Pierre BOUJUT
La Tour de Feu N°95-96 : Les mots sauvés
La tour de feu|Paris Décembre 1967|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of this issue dedicated to Pierre Boujut.
Handsome copy.
Preface by Pierre Chabert.
Texts by Pierre Boujut.
Cover illustrated with a drawing by Louis Mésonnier.
€30
Pierre LARTIGUE
La forge subtile
Le temps qu'il fait|s. l. 2001|14 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Handsome copy.
Signed and inscribed by Pierre Lartigue to Charles Dobzynski.

€50
COLLECTIF, Pierre BOUJUT
La Tour de Feu N°34 : Terrorisme burlesque
La tour de feu|Paris Hiver 1950|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Stained covers, handsome interior condition.
Contributions by Edmond Humeau, Albert l'Ons, Pierre Boujut, Abélard de Kernako, Adrian Miatlev, Emmanuel Eydoux...
€30
André VELTER, Jacques MONORY
Etapes brûlées suivies d'un entretien avec Jacques Lancet
Le Castor astral|Paris 1996|15 x 22 cm|broché
First edition.
Handsome copy.
Cover illustrated by Jacques Monory.
Fine autograph inscription dated and signed by André Velter to Charles Dobzynski.
€50
Paul FORT, René DRUART
Le Pampre. Collection complète de la revue "Le Pampre" du N°1 au N°24
Le Pampre|Reims 1922-1926|16.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
Complete collection of 24 issues and 18 fascicules of this literary review animated by numerous poets.
Contributions by Paul Fort, Léon Vérane, Paul Jamot, Gaston Foubert, Germaine Lepage, René Duart, René Maublanc, Mercutio, Roger Vailland, Vincent Muselli, Georges Delaw, Touny-Léris, Paul Neveux, Max Buffenoir, Adolphe Willette, A.M. Gossez, Marcel Sézanne, Emile Sedeyn, Roger Lecomte, Théotime...
Illustrations by Georges Delaw, Auguste Lepère, André-Edouard Marty, Adolphe Willette, Léon Bellot, Maurice Louvet, Edmond Chauvet, Eugène Bourgouin, Robert Coutin, Claude Renard, Pierre Subtil, Denise Hubrecht-Petitjean,
Handsome and rare complete set including issue N°10-11 entirely devoted to French Haïkaï.
We include a visiting card from René Druart on which he has added a few manuscript words as well as an autograph letter signed and dated January 4, 1924 on letterhead of the review "Le Pampre" also by René Druart.
€750
Katherine MANSFIELD
Poèmes
Edition de la nouvelle revue critique|Paris 1946|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 25 numbered copies on Annam vellum, deluxe copy.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece by Guillaume Monin.
Handsome copy retaining its publisher's wraparound band.
€350
Paul MARROT
Le charme. - Lazare. Poésies posthumes
Albert Fontemoing|Paris s. d. [circa 1903]|13 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of the rare copies on laid paper of which no mention is made.
Full black morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, place and date gilt at foot, cold-stamped roulettes on headcaps, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, frame of double gilt fillets and gilt fleurons in corners of pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, small tear on second cover, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed René Kieffer.
Preface by Edmond Frank, work illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece drawn and engraved by H. Danger.
Our copy is enriched with a double portrait of Paul Marrot as frontispiece and bears an autograph inscription signed by H. Danger to the preface writer of the work, Edmond Frank.
Fine and rare deluxe copy established in a full morocco binding signed René Kieffer.

€680
Maurice FOMBEURE
Sortilèges vus de près
Denoël|Paris 1947|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 950 numbered copies on pure rag Johannot paper, the only deluxe copies after 50 on Renage vellum.
A handsome copy despite the spine and boards very slightly and marginally sunned.
€40
Jean LAILLER
Le tumulte[The Tumult]
Louis Conard|Paris 1910|14 x 21.50 cm|relié sous étui
First edition, one of the rare copies numbered and justified by the author on Japan paper of which no mention is made, deluxe copy.
Full red morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets, gilt roulettes on the headcaps, gilt monogram of Julia Bartet at the head of the first cover, endpapers and pastedowns of khaki watered silk, frame of quintuple gilt fillets decorated with gilt fleurons in the corners on the pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt on deckled edges, double gilt fillets on the leading edges, slipcase with red morocco entry, marbled paper boards, interior of watered and embroidered silk, superb contemporary full morocco binding signed by Kauffmann.
Very fine signed autograph inscription from Jean Lailler in the form of a quatrain to the actress Julia Bartet: "A Bartet qui m'appprit que la beauté délivre / A l'Amie au grand coeur dont l'appui m'est si doux / A vous par qui j'ai su qu'un seul regard enivre / Ce volume qui doit de vivre / A Bartet - à l'amie - à Vous. / Affectueux hommage. 1er Mai 1910." ["To Bartet who taught me that beauty delivers / To the Friend with the great heart whose support is so sweet to me / To you through whom I learned that a single glance intoxicates / This volume that owes its life / To Bartet - to the friend - to You. / Affectionate tribute. May 1st 1910."]
One joint with some light rubbing, otherwise a very fine and rare copy.
Copy established in a perfect contemporary full morocco binding signed Kauffmann.
€600
Basil MARCO
Le refuge idéal
Henri Jonquières & Cie|Paris 1923|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Japan paper, this copy nominative, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite the first cover marginally and lightly shaded.

€150
Henri PICHETTE, Antonin ARTAUD
Apoèmes
Granit|Paris 1979|15.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
New edition.
Work illustrated with a frontispiece gris-gris by Antonin Artaud.
Handsome copy complete with dust jacket
Full-page bicolored autograph inscription signed by Henri Pichette to Annie Vanpeene: "... regardez il y a un robin dans la signature." ["... look there is a robin in the signature."]

€60
Paul-Eugène MESPLES, Jean-Joseph VADÉ
La pipe cassée, poème épitragipoissardihéroïcomique
Théophile Belin|Paris 1882|13.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
Illustrated edition with 12 original etchings by Paul-Eugène Mesplès, one of 30 numbered copies on Japon paper, the only deluxe copies after 10 on rose paper.
Full vellum-style paper boards binding, smooth spine decorated with black fillets and gilt compartments decorated with gilt typographical motifs, frame of triple gilt fillets on the covers, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, late 19th century binding.
Our copy includes a duplicate suite on Japon of the etchings.
Covers marginally and lightly soiled, decorative motifs on the spine slightly faded.
€350