First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies on coated paper, illustrated with 11 collages by Max Ernst.
Spine and edges of boards slightly faded, as often.
A rare and attractive copy of the first book illustrated by Max Ernst in collaboration with the Paris group.
New edition published a few months after the first, with an edition statement.
A pleasing copy.
Signed presentation inscription from Louis Aragon to Jean-Pierre Monarque.
New edition.
A very good copy.
Signed presentation inscription from Louis Aragon to Jean-Pierre Monarque.
First edition, one of 1,040 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe issue apart from 30 copies on pur fil paper.
Publisher's binding after an original design by Mario Prassinos.
Notes by Michel Leiris.
Headcaps slightly rubbed and split, with no serious damage.
First collected edition, with no deluxe copies issued, this being one of the press copies.
A very good copy.
Fine signed presentation inscription from Jean Cocteau to the writer, art critic and television personality Max-Pol Fouchet: "à Max Pol cette moëlle de mes os. Jean 1956."
First collected edition, with no deluxe issue; one of the press copies.
Two small tears at head of spine.
Rare and fine signed autograph inscription from Robert Desnos: " à toutes les sirènes de "Fontaine" (quand boirai-je de ton eau ?)..."
First edition, one of 415 numbered copies on pur fil paper.
Endpapers lightly browned in places.
An attractive copy.
First edition of Michel Seuphor's poems with drawings by Ania Staritsky.
Illustrated wrappers slightly yellowed and soiled, a light corner crease to the upper cover.
Thirteenth volume of the Création series edited by Marie-Jeanne Durry, containing poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Andreu, Pierre Autin-Grenier, Marc Baronheid, Pierre Borghero, Jacques de Bourbon Busset, Andrée Caraire and others. Illustrated with reproductions of the manuscripts of the poems and with compositions by Ania Staritsky, Survage, Bernard Moninot, Lydie Chantrell, Michel Seuphor, Victor Segalen, Madeleine Follain-Dinès, Max Jacob and others.
Illustrated cover by Ania Staritsky, slightly yellowed.
First Gallimard edition, one of 13 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies after a single hors commerce copy on Holland paper and 12 copies on coloured paper, likewise hors commerce.
A pleasant copy complete with the publisher's review slip.
Half black shagreen binding with bands, smooth spine, title and author's name gilt-lettered, boards, endpapers and pastedowns of cat's-eye paper, original wrappers and spine preserved.
Fine signed autograph inscription from Joë Bousquet: "Au camarade attentif dont le nom flotte sur des pensées, et flatte mes longs espoirs, avec mon amitié reconnaissante à Monsieu Hirsch. JoeBousquet Carcassonne le 5 juin...
First edition, one of 85 numbered copies on Arches wove paper, the deluxe issue.
Two minute losses to the upper right corners of the endpapers.
Red half shagreen over marbled paper boards with corners, spine with two slender raised bands decorated with gilt cross-hatching and black fillets, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt.
Edition illustrated with 36 watercolours by Pierre Laprade, one of 30 hors commerce copies printed on Arches laid paper and issued in special wrappers for the 30 private subscribers to all of Paul Valéry's works.
A fine copy.
Precious signed presentation copy from Paul Valéry to his friend, the bookseller, publisher and bibliophile Ronald Davis : "Exemplaire de Ronald Davis, the only man in the world who possesses all that has published. Paul Valéry."
First edition, one of 210 numbered copies on Lafuma Madagascar paper, this copy unnumbered.
A fine copy.
Fine presentation copy, warmly inscribed and signed by Paul Valéry to his friend Ronald Davis, bookseller, publisher and bibliophile: "A Ronald Davis, échange, selon le Magicien d'Aladin, d'une vieille lampe contre une neuve ! Paul Valéry."
First edition, printed in a small number of copies.
Foxing, chiefly affecting the wrappers, two restored tears, and small losses at the head and foot of the spine.
No copy listed in the CCF.
WorldCat records only a few copies, in the United States and Australia.
Extremely rare collection of poems by an English Indologist and specialist in Hinduism, well known within the Indo-Mauritian community.
Extremely rare first edition of this poem composed to mark the capture of Ulm (15–20 October 1805), during the Austrian campaign.
No copy recorded in the CCF.
The only copy we have located is held by the Biblioteca musicale Gaetano Donizetti in Bergamo.
Francesco Zacchiroli (1750–1826), a native of Ferrara, is best known for his Description de la galerie royale de Florence (1783), although he was also a prolific writer of both verse and prose.
Traces of a label to the upper left corner of the front wrapper, a few minor spots of foxing.
