Poetry: The Echo of Dear Voices.

Lawrence DURRELL
"Vaumort"Autograph poem signed and illustrated by the author to his French lover
1969|30.40 x 39.50 cm|une feuille
“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...
€1,700
José Maria de HEREDIA, Raphaël DROUART
Les trophées
Société du livre d'art|Paris 1928|22 x 28.50 cm|broché sous chemise et étui et un volume en feuilles sous chemise et étui
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.
€1,500
André BRETON
"Cadavre exquis" d'André Breton, photographie originale prise à l'exposition surréaliste de Paris en 1938"Cadavre exquis" by André Breton, original photograph taken at the surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1938, contemporary silver halide print
Services photographiques The New York Times|18 janvier 1938|17.20 x 13 cm|Photograph|une photographie
Original photograph, contemporary silver halide print on crumière paper, taken at the surrealist exhibition in Paris in 1938. “Wide World Photos – Services photographiques The New York Times” imprinted on the verso.
This picture depicts the object “Cadavre exquis” by André Breton, which was exhibited in the room adjacent to the main room at the exhibition and surrounded by paintings by René Magritte and sculptures by Hans Arp.
Stencilled inset glued on the back of the picture: “International Surrealism Exhibition 1938 opens at the Beaux-arts gallery. Paris. What to think of this curious “chest of drawers” on a woman's legs? Photo NYT Paris Fre. 18.1.38 DB.”
€1,500
Yves BONNEFOY
Le Graal sans la légende[The Grail Without the Legend]
Galilée|Paris 2013|13 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 85 numbered copies on vellum, ours being one of the first 10 containing a page of the manuscript of the work, the only deluxe copies.
A pleasing copy.
Signed in Yves Bonnefoy's hand beneath the justification of the edition.
€300
Claude-Joseph ROUGET DE LISLE
Essais en vers et en prose
De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné|Paris An V de la République, 1796|11 x 18.50 cm|broché
One of the very rare copies enriched with an autograph - there are fewer than a dozen - of this first edition, featuring the Marseillaise.
First edition illustrated with an engraving inset engraved by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le Barbier and 4 pages of score engraved at the end of the volume. The Marseillaise appears in its real first edition, having been the subject of a pre-publication in the Almanac of the Muses in 1793 and in the form of loose leaflets.
Binding semi-sheepskin contemporary, smooth back adorned with boxes, jewels and gilded lace, title label red morocco, black cardboard boards. Several...
€8,000
Henri MICHAUX
Meidosems[Meidosems]
Editions du point du jour|Paris 1948|20 x 26 cm|broché sous chemise à lacets
Henri MICHAUX
Meidosems
Éditions du point du jour | Paris 1948 | 20 x 26 cm | original wrappers with laced chemise
First edition, one of 276 numbered copies on pur fil Johannot paper, only grand papier (deluxe) copies after one copy on China paper and 20 on pur fil d'Arches.
Handsome copy with very lightly sunned
endpapers and a little foxing, editor's chemise with ties, a clear dampstain to the spine.
Illustrated with 13 original lithographs by Henri Michaux, including one on a
double page, and another in green as cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Henri Michaux to Jean Sainjon.
€3,500
Charles BAUDELAIRE (Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE)
« Voilà un vieillard passionné avec qui il ne fait pas bon se brouiller »Autograph letter signed to Poulet-Malassis about Sainte-Beuve
Honfleur 28 février 1859|13.10 x 20.50 cm|3 pages sur un feuillet remplié
Remarkable autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire to Auguste Poulet-Malassis, publisher of Les Fleurs du Mal, dated 28 February 1859 and written in Honfleur. 64 lines in black ink, some passages underlined, housed in a modern black half-morocco folder.

Baudelaire appears preoccupied with the “ Sainte-Beuve/Babou affair,” one of the many controversies following the Fleurs du Mal trial, in which the writer Hippolyte Babou accused Sainte-Beuve of failing to defend Baudelaire during the proceedings.
Excerpts from this letter were quoted by Marcel Proust in his celebrated Contre Sainte-Beuve, where he lamented...
€17,000
Oscar WILDE
Poems in prosePoems in Prose
S. n. • [ Charles Carrington]|Paris 1905|14.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
Poems in Prose
No publisher [Charles Carrington] | Paris 1905 | 14.5 x 22.5 cm |contemporary full morocco

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japon paper, the only grands papiers (deluxe) copies.
Burgundy morocco binding, spine in five compartments set with black fillets, gilt heraldic eagle at the bottom, heraldic coat of arms stamped in the centre of the boards, endpapers with geometric motifs, bordered with a burgundy morocco strip on the inner covers, gilt top edge, contemporary binding signed by Creuzevault.
Some small foxing on the endpapers and some very fine tears in the margin of the final endpapers.
Beautiful copy...
€3,000
René LEYNAUD, Albert CAMUS (Pref.)
Poésies posthumes
Gallimard|Paris 1947|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 13 numbered copies on pur fil paper, this copy one of 3 lettered hors commerce, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Preface by Albert Camus.
Endpapers slightly and partially shaded.
Rare and nice copy with a photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece.
€2,500
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Lettre autographe signée de Louis-Ferdinand Céline au docteur Tuset et à Henri Mahé "Ces choses-là ne s'oublient pas. Tout est poésie ! "
Copenhage [Copenhagen] 10 avril [1947]|22.50 x 28.40 cm|6 pages sur 3 feuillets
Very long autograph letter signed "Dest" to Doctor Tuset and Henri Mahé, dated April 10
€4,000
Louis ARAGON
Distiques pour une carmagnole de la HonteAutograph poem : "Distichs for a Carmagnole of Shame”
s. d. [1944-1945]|19.80 x 26.50 cm|une feuille sous étui-chemise
Exceptionally rare autograph satirical poem by Louis Aragon, entitled Distiques pour une Carmagnole de la Honte, written between September 1944 and February 1945. 26 lines penned in black ink on a single leaf, with a note from the author in blue ink at the foot of the page.
Our manuscript belongs to a group of thirteen poems composed during the first half of 1945, intended for publication in a poetry anthology (Aragon, published by Pierre Seghers in Paris, Collection “Poètes d’aujourd’hui” no. 2, 20 July 1945). It was sent by Aragon as a working copy to his editor and friend Claude Roy. This autograph poem is the only known...
€5,000
Paul VERLAINE
Liturgies intimes
Bibliothèque du Saint-Graal|Paris 1892|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Former owner's name in pen at the head of the half-title page.
Handsome copy.
Illustrated work with a frontispiece portrait of Paul Verlaine by Louis Hayet on Japan paper.
€480
Stéphane MALLARMÉ
Vers de circonstances
Nrf|Paris 1920|16.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 135 numbered copies on laid paper Lafuma-Navarre and reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
Reproduction of an autograph quatrain as frontispiece.
Half red morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with quintuple gilt cartouches, gilt date at foot, frame of gilt fillets on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, binding signed by Pierre-Lucien Martin.
Handsome copy elegantly bound.
€1,500
Marc TRIVIER (René CHAR)
Portrait de René Char à l'Isle sur Sorgue. Photographie Originale de l'artiste[Portrait of René Char at L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue. Original Photograph by the Artist]
Par l'auteur|s. l. 1983|22 x 22 cm|1|une feuille
Large original black and white photographic portrait by Marc Trivier.
Original unsigned gelatin silver print, as with most of Trivier's works.
Precious original gelatin silver proof by the celebrated Belgian photographer, one of the most secretive contemporary artists, who despite early international success, preferred to limit his production to preserve the coherence of his work. Marc Trivier does not print new copies of his earlier portraits, and the printing paper he used is no longer commercially available. The artist "makes his own prints on Ilford baryta paper, devoting several days of work to each, with particular concentration on rendering the whites, in contrast with...
€3,000
"My dear little mother, you are mad"
"My dear little mother, you are mad"
Charles BAUDELAIRE
« Tu sais cependant bien que ma destinée est mauvaise. »Signed autograph letter addressed to his mother : “You know, however, that my destiny is bad.”
[Paris] 13 [juillet] 1858 (mal datée « juin »)|13.30 x 20.60 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet remplié sous chemise et étui
Autograph letter signed by Charles Baudelaire, written in pencil and addressed to his mother. Dry-stamped stationery of the Grand Hôtel Voltaire, Faubourg Saint-Germain. Address to Madame Aupick in Honfleur (Calvados) in the author's hand, together with several postal markings dated 13 and 14 July 1858. Several underlinings, deletions and corrections by Baudelaire. Trace of a wax seal bearing Charles Baudelaire's initials in pencil, probably in the author's hand. A small portion of the second leaf has been excised, with no loss of text.
This letter was first published in the Revue de Paris on 15 September 1917.
From the former collection of...
€15,000
Paul VERLAINE
La bonne chanson[The Good Song]
Alphonse Lemerre|Paris 1870|9.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
First edition printed in 570 copies.
Morocco, spine slightly browned, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, elegant binding signed by Marius Michel.
Handwritten signature of the recipient to head of endpaper as ex-libris.
A nice copy elegantly bound by a master binders of the 20th century.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Paul Verlaine to Emile Le Brun.
€5,000
Adolphe RETTÉ (inscribed to Joris-Karl HUYSMANS)
Poésies 1897-1906. Campagne première - Lumières tranquilles - Poèmes de la forêtPersonal copy of Huysmans
Léon Vanier|Paris 1906|14.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on laid paper, great papers, after 60 China.
Binding in half ...
Nice copy.
Precious autograph signed by Adolphe Retté: "To JK Huysmans cordial homage of one who is en route".
€800
Guillaume APOLLINAIRE, Pablo PICASSO
Le guetteur mélancolique[The Melancholy Watchman]
Gallimard|Paris 1952|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 26 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, the tirage de tête.
Illustrated with a frontispiece by Pablo Picasso, preface by André Salmon.
Rare and nice copy despite a small tear in the margin of lower cover.
€1,800
Juliette Drouet's copy
Juliette Drouet's copy
Victor HUGO
Religions et religion[Religion and Religions]
Calmann Lévy|Paris 1880|15.50 x 24 cm|relié
First edition.

Black half morocco binding, spine with four raised bands adorned with gilt dotted fillets and double gilt compartments decorated at the corners, gilt date and the inscription "Ex. de J. Drouet" at the tail, marbled paper boards and endpapers, preserved covers and spine, top edge gilt, binding signed by René Aussourd.
Some minor foxing, mainly at the beginning and end of the volume.

Precious signed and inscribed copy by Victor Hugo to Juliette Drouet, the great love of his life: ‘To you, my lady. Humble homage. V.'

This copy comes from the library of Pierre Duché, who acquired Juliette Drouet's entire...
€18,000
René GHIL
Les dates et les oeuvres. Symbolisme et poésie scientifique
Georges Crès & Cie|Paris 1923|13 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on vergé pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Bradel binding, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by T. Boichot.
Nice and rare copy with edges preserved.
€680
Paul VERLAINE
" Le lieu de misère partagée du poète et de l'ouvrier "Complete autograph manuscript signed by Paul Verlaine of one of the "Chroniques de l'hôpital"
Paris s. d. [1890]|21.30 x 14 cm|3 pages in-8 au verso de 4 feuillets de l'Assistance publique de Paris
VERLAINE Paul
Complete autograph manuscript signed by Paul Verlaine of one of his Hospital Chronicles: “We poets, as well as they, the workers, our companions in misery” Paris n. d. [1890], 213 x 140 mm (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 ”), 3 pages in-8
at the back of 4 leaves of the Assistance publique de Paris
Complete autograph manuscript signed by Paul Verlaine of one of his Hospital Chronicles, 90 close lines in black ink on the verso of paper from the Assistance publique de Paris.
The chronicle of one of Verlaine’s stays in hospital between September 1889 and February 1890. The note “III” has been...
€14,000
[Edmond HARAUCOURT as] LE SIRE DE CHAMBLEY
La légende des sexes. Pöemes hystériques[The Legend of the Sexes. Hysterical Poems]
Imprimé spécialement pour l'auteur|Bruxelles [Brussels] 15 Avril 1883|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
First Edition printed, in two parts, on laid to 200 copies numbered and initialed by the author, ours a copy of the second tranche, only draw after 12 Japan.
Binding half morocco old rose corners, back with five nerves, golden tail date, piece of red morocco title, marble paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, covers (with angular restorations) preserved, corners slightly blunted, gilded head, binding signed Bernasconi.
The work is also embellished with an engraved portrait of Edmond Haraucourt pasted on a guard.
Nice and rare copy.
Precious autograph signed by Edmond Haraucourt: "A Félicien Champsaur in memory of the shaggy that...
€1,500
Pierre Jean JOUVE
Poème contre le grand crime 1916
Edition de la revue "Demain"|Genève [Geneva] 1916|15 x 21 cm|broché
First edition printed on vergé paper, there were only 3 Hollande large paper copies.
Illustrated cover by Edmond Bille.
Three small marginal tears to the spine and the covers, small spots to head of lower cover, internally good.
€500
Paul ÉLUARD
Le poète et son ombre
Seghers|Paris 1963|14.50 x 20.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui
First edition, one of 135 numbered copies Hollande,this one 60 reserved for a club of bibliophiles, the only large paper copy.
Illustrations.
A good copy.
€600
Robert BRASILLACH
Barreaux[Bars]
Edition de minuit et demi|Paris 1945|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
First edition, published under the pseudonym Robert Chénier, one of 330 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only printing after 25 on Japan and 70 on Marais paper.
Elegant contemporary black gauffered leather by J. Anthoine-Legrain, small repairs to joints, covers with gilt fillet and blindruled fillet patterns and small squares making up the bars of a prison cell, a verse from this collection of poems in gilt letters to top of upper cover, "Et nos barreaux, seigneur, ne cachent pas le ciel [And our bars, Lord, cannot hide the sky]", moiré-effect paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt. Slipcase edged in black gauffered leather, black paper boards.
€1,200
Stéphane MALLARMÉ (Auguste de VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM)
Villiers de l'Isle Adam[Villiers de l'Isle Adam]
Librairie de l'Art Indépendant|Paris 1890|16 x 24.50 cm|broché sous chemise et étui
First edition of which there were only printes 50 copies, this one of 5 numbered copies on Japon impérial, the tirage de tête.

Autograph inscription by Stéphane Mallarmé to his friend François Nys : "A monsieur Nys très sympathiquement."

This copy enriched in forntispiece with a portrait woddcut in red of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam by Marcellin Desboutin, which he inscribed for François Nys. This portrait, present in the second edition of 1892, is not present in every copy of the tirage de tête.
Two very clear dampstains, not serious, in the margins of the first and final free endpapers, two small marginal dampstains to the covers.
A good and...
€7,500
Pierre EMMANUEL
Poésie raison ardente
Egloff|Paris 1948|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 20 copys numbered on "pur-fil" paper Johannot, ours a few copies off trade with the author, only large paper.
Signed autograph Pierre Emmanuel Aimee (Lemercier): "A Beloved."
spine and boards very slightly and marginally insolated, a tiny marginal hole on the first board, exemplary in all margins.
€300
Offered to the friend beyond words, companion of all wars and of loves as well
Offered to the friend beyond words, companion of all wars and of loves as well
Paul ÉLUARD, André BRETON
Notes sur la poésie - Exemplaire de René CharNotes on Poetry
GLM|Paris 1936|12.50 x 17 cm|broché
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vellum, ours unnumbered, the only deluxe papers after 15 copies on Japon.
Illustrated with a frontispiece drawing by Salvador Dalí.
Precious signed autograph presentation from Paul Eluard to René Char : « Exemplaire de mon ami René Char. Paul Eluard. »

€6,000
Paul ÉLUARD
Les sentiers et les routes de la poésie[The Paths and the Roads of Poetry]
Armand Henneuse|Paris 1952|14 x 19.50 cm|relié sous chemise et étui
First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on chiffon Auvergne paper, tirage de tête.

Spectacularly bound in black calf by Pierre-Lucien Martin, the covers inlaid with white and grey calf with a geometric decoration of gilt fillets making perspective shapes, endpapers and pastedowns of Auvergne paper, the delicate Auvergne paper covers and back preserved, top edge gilt. Slipcase with black paper flaps, lined with grey felt and with a spine of rhodoid plastic (small crack to head), trimmed with black calf and with a brown paper interior.

This copy is enriched with a manuscript sheet bearing six fragments of poems chosen and copied out by Paul Eluard, which had...
€6,000
Paul LÉAUTAUD, Adolphe VAN BEVER
Poètes d'aujourd'hui, morceaux choisis
Mercure de France|Paris 1929|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition of this selection established by Paul Léautaud and Adolphe van Bever, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Worming to boards, two lacks to head and foot of spine.
Precious and handsome signed autograph inscription from Paul Léautaud to Henri Béraud: "... ces fleurs de lyrisme..." ["...these flowers of lyricism..."]
Provenance: from the library of Henri Béraud from Ré.
€250
Claude de MALLEVILLE
Poesies du Sieur de Malleville
Chez Augustin Courbé|à Paris 1649|17 x 23 cm|relié
First posthumous edition. Publisher's device on title page.
Contemporary limp vellum binding. Smooth unlettered spine with trace of pen writing. Trace of pale dampstaining on the table and privilege leaf, at bottom of page, in margin. The first endleaf has come loose from the pastedown. The pagination resumes at page 65 after page 72, without lack. Good copy.
The poet Claude Malleville (1597-1647) is one of the most notable representatives of the generation that immediately followed that of Malherbe. He is, from his beginnings, around 1620, a poet appreciated for the quality of his verses, a regular at the Hôtel de Rambouillet and the salon of Mademoiselle de Gournay, he...
€800
COLLECTIF
Le cabinet satyrique ou recueil parfaict des vers piquans et gaillards de ce temps, tirés des secrets cabinets des sieurs de Sigognes, Regnier, Motin, Berthelot, Maynard et autres des plus signalez poètes du dix-septième siècle
Duquesne • Claudin|Gand [Ghent] • & Paris 1859-1860|10.50 x 18 cm|3 volumes reliés en 2
New complete edition, revised and corrected, printed in 134 copies, ours one of 116 on laid paper.
Full red morocco bindings, spines slightly faded with five raised bands decorated with gilt floral motifs, gilt dates at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, boards stamped at center with gilt arabesques forming a mandorla at the center of which appears a gilt allegory, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt dentelle border on pastedowns, double fillets on leading edges, tiny tears of no consequence on leading edges, all edges gilt, superb near-contemporary bindings signed by Gaillard at foot of spine of first volume.
Fine copy very elegantly bound.
€400
Paterne BERRICHON, Maximilien LUCE
Poèmes décadents 1883-1895
A. Messein|Paris 1910|15.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 12 copies numbered and justified by the author on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies.
With a frontispiece portrait of Paterne Berrichon by Maximilien Luce.
Some edges slightly and marginally faded, not serious.
A rare and good copy with good margins.
€750
Jean PASSERAT
Recueil des oeuvres poetiques. — Kalendae Januariae, & Varia quaedam Poëmatia
Chez Abel l'Angelier|Paris 1606|11 x 16.50 cm|2 ouvrages reliés en un volume
Posthumous editions of these works, prepared and published by Jean de Rougevalet, the author's nephew. The Recueil is decorated with a lovely portrait of Passerat, engraved on copper by Thomas de Leu. Among the various French pieces it contains, one finds his famous cynegetic poetry: Le Cerf d'amour, Le Chien courant and Adonis ou la chasse du sanglier. Viollet-le-Duc's copy, with his bookplate.
Later binding (mid-18th century) in full marbled blonde calf, spine with five raised bands decorated with compartments and gilt fleurons, as well as a red morocco title label, triple gilt fillet framing the boards, all edges red.
In the Recueil: repair at...
€1,200
Claude-Privas de MORENNE
Oraisons funebres et tombeaux. Avecques les Cantiques, Quatrains, & autres Poëmes, tant François que Latins
Pierre Bertault|Paris 1604|11 x 17.50 cm|4 parties reliées en un volume
The very rare first collected edition, first in parts, of the works of Claude de Morenne (1550-1606), preacher to King Henri IV and Bishop of Sées.
Contemporary cream-colored supple vellum, spine with fillets and little gilt fleurons, double gilt fillet frame to covers, all edges gilt.
One tiny wormhole to top edge.
This collection is dedicated to Secretary of State Villeroy and contains, as well as various Funeral Orations and Eulogies (124 ff.), the Cantiques spirituels (77 pp.), the Quatrains (20 pp.) and les Poemes divers (104 pp.). Engraved ex libris with the initials PR and a device of Notre Dame protecting France with the genealogy of the French kings.
A very good...
€1,500
André CHÉNIER
Oeuvres en prose de André Chénier augmentées d'un grand nombre de morceaux inédits et précédées d'une notice littéraire par Eugène Hugo, et d'une notice historique contenant toutes les pièces relatives à son procès devant le tribunal révolutionnaire, par le bibliophile Jacob
Charles Gosselin|Paris 1840|11 x 17.50 cm|relié
Edition with some parts in first edition and the only complete one.
Full navy calf binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt double cartouches and gilt romantic arabesque, very light scratches of no consequence to spine, frame of gilt fillet and gilt typographical motifs at corners on boards with gilt romantic mandorla at centers, pink paper endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets on leading edges, all edges gilt, superb romantic pastiche binding.
Some foxing.
Handsome copy established in a very elegant romantic pastiche binding.

€300
Jean PAULHAN
Clef de la poésie
Gallimard|Paris 1944|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome autograph inscription from Jean Paulhan to Raymond Queneau : "... ce petit cadeau de Noël de son ami..." with a quotation of Lie-Tzeu : "Tchoung-Ni, ayant d'abord rêvé qu'il était poisson dans les eaux puis oiseau dans les airs and un peu plus tard oiseau dans l'eau and poisson dans les airs, à son réveil y voyait très juste..."
Spine slightly sunned as usual.
€750
MAN RAY, Jacques BARON
L'allure poétique
Nrf|Paris 1924|13.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 535 numbered copies on laid Navarre, with 10 single draw Japan.
Precious and beautiful autograph signed by the author "Jeanine and Raymond (Queneau). Brotherhood friendly (sic) and everything. Jacques. This April 19, 1935 in their home in Neuilly says Neu Neu for ladies" enriched this handwritten quatrain: "Hi shadows today / Ravissant the wall in a dream / If going from friend to friend / De as a naked Eve songs."
Illustrated book with a portrait of auterur frontispiece by Man Ray.
Beautiful specimen.
€600
Paul ÉLUARD (inscribed to Raymond QUENEAU)
Première anthologie vivante de la poésie du passé - Exemplaire de Raymond Queneau
Pierre Seghers|Paris 1951|14 x 19.50 cm|2 volumes brochés
First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome autograph inscription from Paul Eluard to Raymond Queneau on the first volume: "... ce livre qui nous rajeunit...[…this book that makes us young again…]"
€1,500
Robert DESNOS
Corps et biens
Nrf|Paris 1930|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy
Handsome autograph inscription from Robert Desnos to Janine and Raymond Queneau : "..
devant qui j'ai repassé le conseil de revision [who were my council of review]", enriched with a drawing showing a little elephant holding up Robert Desnos' name in its trunk
One joint very slightly cracked at foot.
€4,500
Paul ÉLUARD
La rose publique
Gallimard|Paris 1934|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 1,450 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches paper, the only large paper copies after 50 on pur fil.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Paul Eluard to his friend Léo Malet.
Spine slightly and insignificantly sunned.
€1,500
Gustave LE ROUGE
Verlainiens et décadents
Editions Marcel Seheur|Paris 1928|13.50 x 18 cm|relié
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the tirage de tête.
Elegant half cherry-red morocco over marbled paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, spine in six compartments, gilt date to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved (spine sunned with filled-in lack at head), top edge gilt.
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Gustave Le Rouge to Monsieur Crottet.
Iconography.
A very good copy in a nice binding.
€1,800
Marcel PAGNOL (trans.) VIRGILE
Bucoliques[Bucolics]
Grasset|Paris 1958|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation by Marcel Pagnol, one of 32 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Cover illustrated with a woodcut by Aristide Maillol.
Slight traces of sunning to head and to foot of spine, nice copy.
€680
Jean COCTEAU
Le sang d'un poète
Editions du Rocher|Monaco 1957|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on pur fil, this one of 10 hors commerce, n°1, the only large paper copies with 15 unnumbered on vélin azur.
Illustrated with hors-texte author's drawings.
A very good copy.
€750
Maurice ROLLINAT
Les névroses
Charpentier|Paris 1883|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Half navy blue shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Rare autograph inscription by Maurice Rollinat to Marcel Fouquier.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author by F. Desmoulin.
€800
Victor HUGO, Stéphane MALLARMÉ
Le tombeau de Théophile Gautier[The Tomb of Théophile Gautier]
Alphonse Lemerre|Paris 1873|19.50 x 27 cm|relié
First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Whatman paper initialled by the publisher, deluxe issue.
Half chocolate morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, date gilt at foot, marbled paper boards, hand-marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original delicate parchment wrappers preserved (with discreet and skillful restorations), gilt edges, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Contributions by Victor Hugo, Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Cros, Frédéric Mistral, Paul Arène, Théodore de Banville, Léon Cladel, Jules Claretie, François Coppée, Léon Dierx, Anatole France, Albert Glatigny, José-Maria de Heredia, Arsène Houssaye, Jules Janin, Charles Leconte de Lisle, Catulle Mendès...
€1,500
André BRETON
Misère de la poésie
Aux Editions Surréalistes|Paris 1932|15 x 23 cm|agrafé
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies.
A fine copy.
€1,500
Aimé CÉSAIRE
Ferrements[Shackles]
Seuil|Paris 1960|13.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pur fil, deluxe issue.
A handsome copy.
Rare.
€2,300
John PETIT-SENN
Poésies. - Prose
A. Jullien|Genève [Geneva] 1851|14.50 x 23 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half burgundy Russia morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt romantic ornamental motifs, date at foot, gilt fillet frames on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, bookplate pasted on endpaper, top edge gilt, elegant romantic pastiche binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.
Rare and very handsome copy in perfect condition.
Provenance: from Albert Natural's collection of Swiss Romandy poets which he formed from the twenties onwards.
€680
Maurice BOUCHOR
Contes parisiens en vers
Charpentier|Paris 1880|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition, one of 10 copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies.
Jansenist red morocco binding by Marius Michel, spine in five compartments, date to foot, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, red morocco frame to pastedowns with seven gilt fillets, covers preserved, all edges gilt.
This copy is enriched with two autograph letters by the author of 3 and 2 pages length respectively.
A fine copy in a superb binding by Marius Michel.
Provenance : collection of Marius Michel with his ex libris pasted onto one of the endpapers.
€750
Charles MONSELET
Poésies complètes
Dentu|Paris 1880|12 x 19 cm|relié
First collected edition.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author by Louis Chevalier engraved by Lalauze.
Bradel binding in full marbled paper, smooth spine, brown morocco title-label, original wrappers preserved, binding signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Charles Monselet to Jules Clarétie.
.
€600
Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE
Poésies
Charpentier|Paris 1842|11 x 18 cm|relié
First duodecimo edition of this selection compiled by Sainte-Beuve.
Half bronze sheep binding, spine in four compartments decorated with gilt fillets and dotted lines, chocolate shagreen title label, contemporary binding.
A few scattered light foxing spots of no consequence.
€400