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  1. Correspondance avec Daniel Halévy
    Marcel PROUST

    Correspondance avec Daniel Halévy

    Editions de Fallois|Paris 1992|14 x 19.50 cm|broché

    First edition, one of 50 numbered copies printed on pure Lana vellum, the only large paper copies.
    Fine copy.
    Text established, presented and annotated by Anne Borrel and Jean-Pierre Halévy.

    €800
  2. "Je suis convaincu que tu as écrit et organisé le meilleur livre qu'on a fait sur moi"
    Antoni TÀPIES

    "Je suis convaincu que tu as écrit et organisé le meilleur livre qu'on a fait sur moi"Autograph letter signed to Georges Raillard

    Barcelone [Barcelona] 9 septembre 1976|22.70 x 27.80 cm|1 page et 1/4 sur un feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Antoni Tàpies addressed to Georges Raillard, his close friend and foremost French specialist of his work. 1 page and 1/4 written in ballpoint pen. Envelope included.
    The Catalan artist writes to his friend notably to share his reactions regarding the publication of the monograph dedicated to him which would appear the following year: "Je profite pour t'exprimer combien j'ai été content en lisant et regardant finalement sans interruption le texte et les images que tu as choisi dans la monographie. Je suis convaincu que tu as écrit et organisé le meilleur livre qu'on a fait sur moi, le plus complet, le plus agrécif (sic) et que mieux...
    €700
  3. Lettres à Maricou
    Alexandre VIALATTE

    Lettres à Maricou[Letters from Maricou]

    Au signe de la licorne|Paris 2009|16.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 77 numbered copies on pure chiffon d'Auvergne paper, deluxe copy.
    Handsome copy.
    €180
  4. « Un solitaire est jaloux de sa liberté. C'est son plus grand bien comme c'est celui de tous les hommes. »
    STENDHAL

    « Un solitaire est jaloux de sa liberté. C'est son plus grand bien comme c'est celui de tous les hommes. »Autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline

    10 Floréal 13 [30 avril 1805]|18.50 x 23.10 cm|une feuille
    Stendhal's autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline. 28 lines written with a fine writing in black ink. First name "Pauline" from the hand of the sender at the bottom of the letter. Inventory number "36" in ink from another hand. Two small traces of stamp and stamp, a small tear restored in the bottom margin of the page. A few tiny folds inherent in the enveloping of the letter.
    Rare and beautiful letter of Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline, in which all the sensitivity of the young man and his love for the dramatic art shows more than twenty years before his big romantic successes.
    This letter comes from the correspondence between...
    €9,000
  5. Correspondance 1912-1955
    Paul LÉAUTAUD, André BILLY

    Correspondance 1912-1955

    Le Bélier|Paris 1968|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 54 numbered copies on Japon nacré paper, deluxe copy.
    Spine lightly sunned, a small crease at foot of front cover, otherwise handsome copy.
    €300
  6. Lettre autographe signée à son ami Georges Raillard enrichie de deux dessins originaux sur l'enveloppe jointe
    Louis PONS

    Lettre autographe signée à son ami Georges Raillard enrichie de deux dessins originaux sur l'enveloppe jointe

    29 Octobre 2007|14.50 x 21 cm|une feuille
    Letter autograph signed by a page of Louis Pons, to his friend the art critic Georges Raillard, specialist of the works of Joan Miro and Antoni Tapies, transmitting him the coordinates of a surgeon whom he recommended to him previously.
    On the enclosed envelope which he recomposed in his fanciful and ornithological manner, Louis Pons drew, in black ink, on the front and back, three curious characters of human appearance and decked out with heads of birds.
    A small ink dump at the back of the address registered by Louis Pons.
    €250
  7. Hygiène des lettres. Volume I : premières notions
    René ÉTIEMBLE

    Hygiène des lettres. Volume I : premières notions

    Gallimard|Paris 1952|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, one of the review copies service.
    Nice copy.
    Precious autograph dedication signed by René Etiemble to André Breton: "... this book, which I would like all to not like him too, with esteem and friendship.
    €150
  8. Cartes et lettres. Correspondance 1966-1979
    Christian DOTREMONT, Michel BUTOR

    Cartes et lettres. Correspondance 1966-1979

    Editions Galilée|Paris 1986|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
    First edition established and annotated by Michel Sicard and for which it was not drawn great papers.
    Nice copy.
    Autograph signed by Michel Sicard Georges Raillard.
    €60
  9. Lettre dactylographiée et signée à Maurice Béjart
    André MALRAUX (to Maurice BÉJART)

    Lettre dactylographiée et signée à Maurice Béjart Letter typed and signed from Andre Malraux to Maurice Bejart. One leaf headed by the Ministre d'Etat charge des Affaires Culturelles (Ministry of Culture), bearing a stamp from 29 January 1969.

    29 janvier 1969|21 x 27 cm|une feuille filigranée Guerimand Voiron

    Letter typed and signed from André Malraux to Maurice Béjart. One leaf headed by the Ministre d'Etat chargé des Affaires Culturelles (Ministry of Culture), bearing a stamp from 29 January 1969.
    André Malraux hopes to place choreographer Maurice Béjart in charge of the Ballet de l'Opéra in Paris.

    €1,500
  10. « J'ai souvent pensé en les écoutant à des équivalences colorées possibles »
    Fernand LÉGER

    « J'ai souvent pensé en les écoutant à des équivalences colorées possibles »Letter about jazz and painting: “When listening to them I have often thought of the possible colour equivalents”

    s. d. [ca 1948]|14.60 x 19 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet sous chemise

    Magnificent and unpublished handwritten letter signed by Fernand Léger about American jazz and colours, addressed to Gaston Criel, author of a pioneering essay on “Swing.”
    The painter looks back on his exile in the United States from 1940 to 1945, talks about Louis Armstrong and of his captivating discovery of experimental jazz in New York, in the company of the Afro-American painters of the Harlem Renaissance.

    29 lines in black ink, written on one leaf.

    The hand-written letter is presented under a half forest green morocco chemise, green paper boards with a stylised motif, endpapers lined with green lamb, slip case lined with...

    €3,500
  11. "« L'imaginaire » remplace peut-être actuellement « l'Idéal » d'un temps passé"
    René MAGRITTE

    "« L'imaginaire » remplace peut-être actuellement « l'Idéal » d'un temps passé"Autograph letter signed with his initials

    Bruxelles [Brussels] 9 janvier 1965|13.50 x 20.50 cm|deux pages sur un feuillet

    Significant letter written by René Magritte to André Bosmans, dated 9 January 1965 and signed with his initials. 35 lines in black ink on one leaf with the heading “René Magritte 97, rue des Mimosas, Bruxelles 3 Téléphone 15.07.30”. Several words crossed out and passages underlined. 

    Published in the Lettres à André Bosmans 1958-1967, Seghers I. Brachot, 1990, pp. 407-408
    A letter that is both comical and of great philosophical depth, in which the Surrealist painter René Magritte tackles the question of the imagination and inspiration. In it there is a very pertinent analysis of the issues of aesthetics and of modern thinking, while the painter...

    €5,000
  14. L'une des plus sublimes lettres de Fernand Léger
    Fernand LÉGER

    L'une des plus sublimes lettres de Fernand LégerOne of the most magnificent letters by Fernand Leger

    La Maison-Forestière 28 mai 1915|13.40 x 21.30 cm|4 pp. sur un feuillet double

    One of the most magnificent letters by Fernand Léger

    La Maison-Forestière (Argonne) 28 mai 1915, 13,4 x 21,3 cm, loose leaves

    A fabulous handwritten letter by the painter Fernand Léger, written on the front line during the Battle of Argonne, addressed to the Parisian art trader Adolphe Basler.
    92 lines in black ink, four pages on a double leaf, dated 28 May 1915 by Léger.
    The handwritten letter is presented with a half forest green morocco chemise, green paper boards with a stylised motif, endpapers lined with green lamb, slip case lined with the same morocco, the piece is signed by Goy & Vilaine.
    The letter was chosen for Cécile...

    €10,000
  15. Lettre autographe signée de Gus Bofa
    Gus BOFA

    Lettre autographe signée de Gus Bofa

    s. l. s. d.|18 x 21.50 cm|un feuillet
    Signed autograph letter of Gus Bofa to one of his acquaintances, 16 lines in purple ink accompanied by a pencil drawing.
    Folding inherent in the enveloping, tear without lack in the drawing.
    Addressed to a friend of Gus Bofa and his wife, who seems to have suffered " a long journey in the storm! "The letter is imbued with the humor of its author:" we add two good warm kisses to finish drying you off ". The missive is enriched with an original drawing of Gus Bofa representing two birds on a radiator, one of which is written "Spring has come! "
    €800
  16. Lettre autographe signée de Théophile Gautier à sa fille cadette "J'ai manqué pour ma part d'y laisser ma peau et je ne suis pas encore bien brillant"
    Théophile GAUTIER

    Lettre autographe signée de Théophile Gautier à sa fille cadette "J'ai manqué pour ma part d'y laisser ma peau et je ne suis pas encore bien brillant"

    Versailles s. d. [20-30 avril 1871]|10.50 x 11.50 cm|un feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Théophile Gautier, 34 lines in black ink, address at foot on verso of the letter: "Versailles avenue de St-Cloud n°3".
    Folds inherent to mailing.
    The letter appears to be unpublished, not mentioned in the Correspondance Générale de Théophile Gautier, edited by Claudine Lacoste-Veysseyre, under the direction of Pierre Laubriet (Droz, Geneva-Paris, 12 vol., 1985-2000).
    Rare glimpse into Gautier's private life, the letter captures the anguish that struck the author and his family during the Paris Commune.
    Separated from his family by the Prussian invasion of 1870 and the Parisian insurrections of 1871...
    €2,000
  19. Lettres à J.B., 1946-1985
    Jean DUBUFFET

    Lettres à J.B., 1946-1985

    Hermann|Paris 1991|15 x 21 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on centaure paper, the only deluxe copies.
    Handsome copy.
    €250
  20. Lettres à André Bosmans 1958-1967
    René MAGRITTE

    Lettres à André Bosmans 1958-1967

    Seghers • Isy Brachot|Paris 1990|18.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vélin chiffon de Lana, only deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
    Nice copy.
    €380
  21. « ah ! le foutu Dieu ! »
    Joris-Karl HUYSMANS

    « ah ! le foutu Dieu ! »Autograph letter signed to Camille Mauclair

    Paris 8 février 1894|10.60 x 13.50 cm|un feuillet remplié
    Autograph letter of Joris-Karl Huysmans signed to Camille Mauclair, 44 lines written in black ink, 3 pages on a folded sheet, handwritten correction of the author.
    Two restorations using strips of paper in high and low fold of the letter, the second band very slightly affects a word of the text, a fold inherent in the enveloping of the letter.
    A long and beautiful letter in which all Huysmans' respect and interest are shown for the writings of the young Symbolist generation.
    Both author and literary critic, Huysmans embodies a central figure for young poets, like the 22-year-old Camille Mauclair, who sends him one of his first poetic collections: " The...
    €1,350
  22. Correspondance de Claude Simon, lieutenant grenadier du régiment de Walsh (N°92) aux armées du Nord, des Ardennes et de Sambre-et-Meuse 1792-1793
    Emmanuel DELORME

    Correspondance de Claude Simon, lieutenant grenadier du régiment de Walsh (N°92) aux armées du Nord, des Ardennes et de Sambre-et-Meuse 1792-1793

    Allier frères|Grenoble 1899|14.50 x 23.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Binding in half percaline bradel Siena land, smooth back, title piece of Havana shagreen with two scratches, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, Contemporary binding.
    Rare and nice copy.
    Autograph deducted and signed by Emmanuel Delorme to Captain Pineau.
    €200
  23. La tactique et la discipline dans les armées de la Révolution. Correspondance du général Schauenbourg du 4 Avril au 2 Août 1793 publiée par J. Colin
    Balthasar de SCHAUENBOURG

    La tactique et la discipline dans les armées de la Révolution. Correspondance du général Schauenbourg du 4 Avril au 2 Août 1793 publiée par J. Colin

    R. Chapelot & Cie|Paris 1902|16.50 x 26 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Bradel binding in half burnt sienna cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, double gilt fillets at tail, black shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, orange paper endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
    Pen gift inscription from a previous owner on the half-title page, some foxing, copy slightly warped.
    Work illustrated with 6 folding plates hors-texte.






    €230
  25. Lettre autographe signée d'Alexander Calder à Juan Luis Buñuel
    Alexander CALDER (to Juan-Luis BUÑUEL)

    Lettre autographe signée d'Alexander Calder à Juan Luis BuñuelHandwritten signed letter from Alexander Calder to Juan Luis Bunuel

    (Saché) s. d. [circa 1953]|21 x 26.80 cm|une page sur un feuillet
    Handwritten signed letter from Alexander Calder to Juan Luis Buñuel
    N. p. [Saché] n. d. [ca. 1953], 21 x 26,8 cm,
    one page on one leaf
    Handwritten signed letter from Alexander Calder to Juan Luis Buñuel, written in French in black felt-tip.
    Letter perforated with two holes in the left-hand margin. Calder's telephone number in top left-hand corner, a few directions to get to Saché in right-hand corner.
    Small sign in red felt-tip at the end of the letter. Two corrections and additions in Calder's hand.
    Provenance: Buñuel family archives.

    In 1939, Luis Buñuel, who had just received an offer to...
    €1,400
  26. Lettre autographe signée "c'est l'immobilisme chez ces gens qui ne prennent plus aucun risque d'édition..."
    Louis CALAFERTE

    Lettre autographe signée "c'est l'immobilisme chez ces gens qui ne prennent plus aucun risque d'édition..."

    Lyon 5 Mars 1978|21 x 27 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet
    Letter autograph dated March 5, 1978 signed by Louis Calaferte, two pages, to an unidentified bookseller friend, 33 lines in black ink, written from Lyon.
    Usual traces of minor folds of a letter slipped into an envelope.

    In his missive, full of solicitude, esteem and respect for the work of writing of his unfortunate correspondent who wishes to publish his manuscript, Louis Calaferte apologizes first of all for the delay, independent of his will, taken for to answer him: "I waited, waited, waited - always hoping to be able to bring you a happy news concerning the possible edition of your work of bookstore" , to then confess to him and to criticize "a...
    €180
  27. Ne tue ton père qu'à bon escient précédé d'Une lettre à André Suarès
    Gilbert LELY

    Ne tue ton père qu'à bon escient précédé d'Une lettre à André Suarès

    Ma centaine Jacques Bernard|Paris 1932|15.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
    First edition of the second work of Gilbert Lély, one of 200 numbered copies on laid Rives, only draw after 4 Japan.
    Some stings mainly affecting the guards.
    Signed autograph Gilbert Lely to Jacques Einstein, the autograph had to be initially written for another dedicatee, Gilbert Lély erased the first name and replaced it with the legible, the ink having flowed on some letters.
    €120
  28. « Mais combien c'est dur de me sentir ainsi tout à coup arraché à vous, de ne plus rien pouvoir vous dire, d'être réduit à cette lettre. »
    Georges BATAILLE

    « Mais combien c'est dur de me sentir ainsi tout à coup arraché à vous, de ne plus rien pouvoir vous dire, d'être réduit à cette lettre. »Autograph letter signed to Denise Rollin

    s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1940-1943]|13.40 x 20.40 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Georges Bataille to Denise Rollin, 25 lines in black ink on one leaf.
    The first letter Bataille sends to Denise Rollin after her departure for Vézelay. Bataille remains in Paris as he is employed at the Bibliothèque nationale which does not close during the war. The separation has just occurred but Bataille hastens to write: « J'ai hâte de mettre la lettre à la poste, elle vous suivra de très près, comme tout ce que je suis voudrait vous suivre partout. » ["I am eager to post this letter, it will follow you very closely, as all that I am would wish to follow you everywhere."] To reassure her, he seeks in events signs of good...
    €3,000
  29. « Maintenant je n'aspire plus qu'à une chose c'est à vous prouver que je n'appartiens plus qu'à vous, que je suis rivé à vous [...] »
    Georges BATAILLE

    « Maintenant je n'aspire plus qu'à une chose c'est à vous prouver que je n'appartiens plus qu'à vous, que je suis rivé à vous [...] »Autograph letter signed to Denise Rollin

    S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1940-1943]|20,7 x 27,0 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet
    Fine and long autograph letter signed by Georges Bataille to Denise Rollin, unpublished, torn in five pieces not affecting readability, 34 lines in black ink on one leaf.
    Both frequenting Parisian intellectual and artistic circles, Georges Bataille and Denise Rollin met during 1939. She was notably the friend of Cocteau, Prévert and Breton. Bataille described her thus in his notebooks for Le Coupable: « une illusion aussi fragile qui se dissiperait au moindre souci, au moindre relâchement de l'inattention. » ["an illusion so fragile that it would dissipate at the slightest worry, at the slightest relaxation of inattention."]
    Few details remain...
    €4,500
  30. « Dites, Madame, voulez-vous un fétiche ? [...] je porte bonheur moi-même !»
    Guy de MAUPASSANT (to Emmanuela POTOCKA)

    « Dites, Madame, voulez-vous un fétiche ? [...] je porte bonheur moi-même !»Autograph letter signed to Countess Potocka

    Paris s. d. [début janvier 1884]|10.20 x 13 cm|4 pages sur un feuillet double
    Signed autograph letter from Guy de Maupassant to the Countess Potocka, 67 lines in black ink on a letterhead "GM 83, rue Dulong", envelope attached.
    This long letter begins with a commission that was made to Maupassant: " I immediately pay for a commission for which I am charged, although I seem to find a little irony in it. The Princess Ourosow, who has just written to me to ask to see her this evening, begs me, in postscript, to remind her of your memory when I see you. Princess Ourosov was the wife of the Russian ambassador to Paris. With the Countess she was part of that worldly gotha ​​that surrounded authors and artists.
    The irony he...
    €6,800
  31. Lettres à Roger Blin
    Jean GENET

    Lettres à Roger Blin[Letters to Roger Blin]

    Gallimard|Paris 1966|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
    Autograph inscription signed by Jean Genet to Margaret Bendy.
    Illustrations.
    Spine slightly sunned, not serious.
    €1,200
  32. Lettres d'un retiré
    Valery LARBAUD

    Lettres d'un retiré

    La Table Ronde|Paris 1922|13 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Holland laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
    Very fine copy.
    €120
  33. Lettre d'Italie
    Valery LARBAUD

    Lettre d'Italie[Letters from Italy]

    La lampe d'Aladdin|Liège 1926|12.50 x 16 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Madagascar paper, the tirage de tête after 20 on Japan paper.
    A very good copy despite a small trace of sunning to foot of spine.
    €150
  34. Lettres à sa famille
    Roger VAILLAND

    Lettres à sa famille

    Gallimard|Paris 1972|14.50 x 22 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 37 numbered copies on pur fil, the only large paper copies.
    A very good copy.
    €300
  36. Lettres
    Maurice SACHS

    Lettres[Letters]

    Le Bélier|Paris 1968|14 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on Japan nacré paper, the tirage de tête.
    With a photographic portrait of the author as frontispiece, a very good copy.
    €180
  37. Lettres à Jean Cassou
    Joë BOUSQUET

    Lettres à Jean Cassou

    Rougerie|Limoges 1970|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only large paper copies.
    A very good copy.
    €100
  39. Lettres à Angèle
    André GIDE

    Lettres à Angèle

    Mercure de France|Paris 1900|10 x 15 cm|broché
    First edition of 300 copies on Hollande.
    With an autograph inscription from André Gide to Henry Lerolle.
    Small lacks, not serious, to head and foot of spine and covers.
    €800
  40. La Lettre surprise (pl.3, La Gazette du Bon ton, 1920 n°1)
    Fernand SIMEON

    La Lettre surprise (pl.3, La Gazette du Bon ton, 1920 n°1)

    Lucien Vogel éditeur|Paris Février 1920|18 x 24 cm|une feuille
    Original color print heightened with gold, printed on vergé paper, signed in the plate.

    An original print used to illustrate the Gazette du bon ton, one of the most attractive and influential 20th century fashion magazines, featuring the talents of French artists and other contributors from the burgeoning Art Deco movement.

    A celebrated fashion magazine established in 1912 by Lucien Vogel, La Gazette du bon ton appeared until 1925, with a hiatus from 1915 to 1920 due to the war (the editor-in-chief having been called up for service). It consisted of 69 issues printed in only 2,000 copies each and notably illustrated with 573 color plates and 148 sketches of the models...
    €100
  41. Lettres d'une Péruvienne
    Françoise de GRAFFIGNY

    Lettres d'une Péruvienne

    De l'imprimerie de Migneret|à Paris 1797|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
    Bilingual edition illustrated with a frontispiece portrait by Gaucher and 6 handsome captioned figures by Le Barbier, engraved by Patas, Halbou, Lingée. Printed on laid paper. Translation by Deodati, with French facing the Italian.
    Contemporary full sprinkled and glazed sheep binding. Smooth spine richly decorated with 2 diamond-patterned grotesque compartments and 2 large fleurons. Red morocco title label. Framed border on covers. Upper joint split over the first 2 compartments. One crack at head, same at tail. One corner bumped. Joints and corners rubbed. Foxing. 2 scratches on lower cover.
    Handsome esteemed edition. The first edition of this work, which was abundantly reprinted...
    €500
  42. Lettre à madame C...
    Paul VALÉRY

    Lettre à madame C...

    Grasset|Paris 1928|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché sous chemise et étui
    First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on vélin Rives blanc paper, this one of 24 hors commerce copies reserved for the author and his friends.
    Handsome autograph inscription signed by Paul Valéry : "A Charles Maurras, au poète, au pur esprit [For Charles Maurras, the poet, the pure of heart]."
    A good copy in a chemise and slipcase: chemise in half black calf over almond paper boards, slipcase lined in black calf over almond paper boards.
    €1,200
  43. Lettre à un pair de France (sur la situation politique)
    François René de CHATEAUBRIAND

    Lettre à un pair de France (sur la situation politique)

    Le Normant père|Paris 1824|14.50 x 22 cm|broché sous chemise et étui
    The first edition, which appeared in plain covers
    This copy has a chemise of half blue morocco over blue marbled paper boards and slipcase of blue marbled paper edged with blue morocco
    Foxing, an angular lack to the first blank endpaper, traces of folds to plain covers
    Very rare autograph inscription from François-René de Chateaubriand: “De la part de l'auteur [from the author]” to head of half-title
    A precious, unsophisticated copy enriched with an autograph inscription from the author.
    €6,800
  45. Lettres de jeunesse
    Antoine de SAINT-EXUPÉRY

    Lettres de jeunesse[Early Letters]

    Gallimard|Paris 1953|12 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Japon, tirage de tête along with 10 Madagascar hors commerce.
    Half black morocco, spine in six compartments, marbled paper boards, pastedowns and endpapers of papier uni, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding by Goy & Vilaine.
    A very good copy in a handsome binding.
    €2,300
  46. Lettres de madame de Sévigné à sa fille et à ses amis
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SEVIGNE

    Lettres de madame de Sévigné à sa fille et à ses amis

    Ménard & Desenne|Paris 1827|8.50 x 14.50 cm|12 volumes reliés
    New illustrated edition, with frontispiece in the first volume of a portrait of Madame de Sévigné engraved by Dequevauviller.
    Half raspberry calf bindings, spines with four raised bands set with gilt garlands decorated with fleurons and typographical motifs stamped in blind, black calf title and volume labels, raspberry cardboard boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, two corners slightly bumped, elegant contemporary romantic bindings.
    Some minor foxing.
    Handsome copy, complete in 12 volumes, in charming and elegant contemporary romantic and decorative binding.
    €680
  47. Lettres écrites en 1786 et 1787, publiées par M. Ballanche
    Louise-Adélaïde de BOURBON-CONDE

    Lettres écrites en 1786 et 1787, publiées par M. Ballanche

    Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'aîné|Paris 1834|10.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
    First edition, published by Pierre-Simon Ballanche, of the intimate correspondence of Louise-Adélaïde de Bourbon, known as Mademoiselle de Condé, addressed to her friend the Marquis Nicolas-Louis Magon La Gervaisais. It contains 2 letters of 4 pages each, in facsimile.
    Contemporary binding in full glazed blue calf, smooth spine decorated with geometric compartments and gilt dentelles, gilt frames and fleurons in the corners on the boards, gilt striations on the corners, gilt floral roulette framing the pastedowns, all edges gilt.
    Manuscript notation in pen on the half-title.
    €450
  48. Lettres à M. Panizzi 1850-1870
    Prosper MÉRIMÉE

    Lettres à M. Panizzi 1850-1870

    Calmann Lévy|Paris 1881|14 x 22.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition.
    Bound in half straw yellow shagreen, spines with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with double black compartments at whose centers the gilt cipher of the great bibliophile Roger de Cormenin is repeated four times, navy blue morocco title and volume labels, light scratches of no consequence at head of joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edges gilt, near-contemporary bindings.
    Work illustrated with two portraits of Prosper Mérimée by A. Leveille as frontispieces to the volumes.
    Provenance: from the library of Roger de Cormenin, son of Louis de Cormenin who was the confidant and secretary of Théophile Gautier and...
    €200
  51. Lettre tapuscrite à Sartre
    Maurice BLANCHOT

    Lettre tapuscrite à Sartre

    2 décembre 1960|26.70 x 20.90 cm|5 feuillets in-4
    (Draft typescript of letter to Jean-Paul Sartre, with autograph corrections and with a second version of the first page, and typescript with autograph corrections of "Le monde en question (Cours du monde)" (project for La Revue internationale)

    Set of five typescript leaves, rectos only (with the exception of one leaf recto-verso), with corrections in red and black ballpoint pen in Maurice Blanchot's hand.

    This important collection bears witness to the exchanges between Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Paul Sartre around the famous "Déclaration sur le droit à l'insoumission dans la guerre d'Algérie" and the publication project that resulted from it, La Revue...
    €800
  52. Lettre à un embryon
    Louise WEISS

    Lettre à un embryon

    Julliard|Paris 1973|10.50 x 21 cm|broché
    The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
    Precious dated and signed autograph inscription from Louis Weiss to Jacques Benoist-Méchin: "... en souvenir de nos années de jeunesse..." ["...in memory of our youth..."]
    Covers slightly and marginally browned at foot.
    €150
  53. Lettres à Albert Paraz, 1947-1957
    Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE

    Lettres à Albert Paraz, 1947-1957

    Gallimard|Paris 1980|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition of which there were no large paper copies.
    A good copy.
    €60
  54. Lettres à Requien. - Lettres inédites à Sutton Sharpe - In La revue de Paris N°10 de la 5ème année & In Le Mercure de France N°318 de la 21ème année
    Prosper MÉRIMÉE

    Lettres à Requien. - Lettres inédites à Sutton Sharpe - In La revue de Paris N°10 de la 5ème année & In Le Mercure de France N°318 de la 21ème année[Letters to Requien – Unpublished Letters to Sutton Sharpe – In La Revue de Paris, No. 10 (5th Year) & In Mercure de France, No. 318 (21st Year)]

    La Revue de Paris|Paris 1898 &1910|16.50 x 25 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition for each volume.
    Full brown morocco bindings, smooth spines double framed in gilt, headpieces lined in gilt, boards elaborately framed in gilt, beige morocco pastedowns framed in gilt, brown moiré silk free endpapers, following free endpapers in mould made paper, all edges gilt, original soft covers preserved, superb contemporary bindings signed by M. Lortic.
    The first volume contains two original ink drawings by Prosper Mérimée: the first, captioned and signed in the lower right corner depicting the Duke of Brunswick, the second a tree and a wooded landscape with a handwritten inscription in Russian "Grâce à Dieu" and "Gloire à Dieu, gloire à...
    €3,800
  55. Voyage littéraire de la Grèce, ou Lettres sur les Grecs, anciens et modernes, avec un parallèle de leurs moeurs
    Pierre-Augustin GUYS

    Voyage littéraire de la Grèce, ou Lettres sur les Grecs, anciens et modernes, avec un parallèle de leurs moeurs

    Chez La veuve Duchesne|Paris 1783|12.50 x 19.50 cm|4 volumes reliés
    Third edition illustrated with 10 plates hors-texte including a frontispiece by Dalbou after Hoüel, 5 plates hors-texte by Laurent after Favray and 4 folding plates hors-texte by Laurent after Massit. The first three volumes contain all the letters on Greece, the last contains other opuscules by the author: Essays on Tibullus's Elegies (followed by their translation), The Seasons and Light Poetry.
    Numerous floral headpieces and tailpieces (flower baskets, carnations...).
    Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Smooth spines decorated with green morocco title and volume labels, small gilt floral fleurons, and gilt dentelle at tail. Triple gilt frames on boards. All edges...
    €1,400
  56. Lettre de Sapho à Phaon
    Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe BLIN DE SAINMORE

    Lettre de Sapho à Phaon

    De l'imprimerie de Sébastien Jorry|à Paris 1766|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
    First edition, illustrated with a figure by Gravelot engraved by Allianet, a headpiece by Eisen and a tailpiece by Choffart, engraved by De Longueil. Fine printing, on deluxe paper.
    Full brown sheep binding early 20th century signed Champs. Smooth Jansenist spine with gilt title and date. Minor rubbing to headcaps. Handsome copy. Blin de Sainmore composed this letter from Sappho after Ovid's heroic epistle on the same subject; Sappho writing to her lover before going to join him. The edition is enhanced with verses by Sappho translated by Boileau and Blin de Saimore. The composition of these editions by Blin de Saimore is very similar to those of Dorat, even using the same artists for...
    €180
  58. Lettres à son frère Alain
    Ernest RENAN

    Lettres à son frère Alain

    Auguste Blaizot|Paris 1925|16.50 x 25 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Japan paper, ours unjustified, deluxe copy.
    Bradel binding in half lilac cloth with corners, smooth spine, lilac shagreen title-label, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
    Work illustrated with 2 unpublished photographic portraits of Ernest and Alain Renan.
    Handsome copy.
    €280
  60. Dort beurre
    S.S. JAGUER

    Dort beurre

    A. Stil|Le Quesnoy • (Nord) s. d. [1943]|16 x 24.50 cm|une feuille
    First edition printed to 500 copies.
    A very good and rare copy.
    €45
  61. Daniel II
    Stephen HECQUET

    Daniel II

    Nagel|Paris 1951|12 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vergé américain, the only large paper copies.
    A rare and very good copy.
    €300
  62. Lettres des îles Baladar
    Jacques PRÉVERT

    Lettres des îles Baladar[Letters from the Baladar Islands]

    Gallimard|Paris 1952|26 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur

    First edition, with no deluxe copies issued, of this children’s book designed in the form of a tourist postcard from the Baladar Islands to be sent to friends.

    Publisher’s pictorial boards.
    Illustrated with drawings by André François.

    Inevitable rubbing to the spine, owing to Jacques Prévert’s practice of sending inscribed copies of this work through the post; a small dampstain to the right-hand margin of a few leaves.

    Signed and dated presentation inscription in felt-tip pen by Jacques Prévert: "Vive l'amitié Jacques Prévert Paris de printemps 1958" enhanced with an original drawing in green, yellow and red coloured pencil depicting a flower accompanied by...

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  63. "Je me considère pour ce qui est de ce que j'écris, comme dépourvu de droit d'orienter ce qui s'écrit de moi"
    Louis ARAGON (to Hubert JUIN)

    "Je me considère pour ce qui est de ce que j'écris, comme dépourvu de droit d'orienter ce qui s'écrit de moi"Autograph letter signed by Louis Aragon to a critic on his work

    s. l. s. d. (circa 1967)|21 x 26.90 cm|une feuille
    Autograph letter signed by Louis Aragon, 11 lines plus 2 lines of postscript in blue ink, addressed to a critic around 1967.
    Folding marks inherent to the mailing of the letter.
    A moving letter from the poet who, in response to a biographer’s question, offers his impertinent correspondent a disillusioned reflection on the poet’s right to control interpretation: "Que vous dire ? Je ne puis vous conseiller dans le détail, ni m'amuser à rectifier ceci ou cela. Je me considère pour ce qui est de ce que j'écris, comme dépourvu de droit d'orienter ce qui s'écrit de moi, ce qui n'est que de peu précéder l'époque où on ne me demandera même plus on...
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  64. Lettre autographe signée adressée à Zoé du Vidal de Montferrier
    Victor HUGO

    Lettre autographe signée adressée à Zoé du Vidal de Montferrier

    s. l. 1er août [1849]|13.40 x 21.40 cm|une page sur un double feuillet
    Autograph letter signed by Victor Hugo to Zoé du Vidal de Montferrier, wife of Pierre-Alexandre Louis, physician to the Hugo family. One page written in black ink on a bifolium of pale blue paper bearing the blindstamp of the city of Bath.
    Horizontal folds from mailing, a tiny angular loss and two tears along the fold of the second leaf, not affecting the text.
    We have found no record of this letter announcing the appointment of Mr. Bazin as "professeur titulaire" in Victor Hugo’s correspondence.
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  65. "Tu es ma "provision d'hiver", la jeunesse dont j'aurai besoin, plus tard, bien plus encore qu'à présent"
    COLETTE

    "Tu es ma "provision d'hiver", la jeunesse dont j'aurai besoin, plus tard, bien plus encore qu'à présent"Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend Bolette Natanson

    s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [circa 1935]|17.70 x 22.50 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet

    Fine autograph letter signed by Colette to her friend Bolette Natanson. Two pages written in ink on blue paper. Horizontal folds inherent to the mailing of the letter.
    As ever protective and maternal with her friend, Colette compliments her: "Comme tu es gentille, - comme tu es Bolette". Nineteen years her senior, she praises the youth of "[her] child": "Tu es ma 'provision d'hiver', la jeunesse dont j'aurai besoin, plus tard, bien plus encore qu'à présent. Soigne-toi bien ma jeunesse en grange".
    Having grown up from early childhood in artistic circles—she was the daughter of Alexandre and the niece of Thadée...

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  66. Lettre autographe signée de Claude Simon à René Wintzen
    Claude SIMON

    Lettre autographe signée de Claude Simon à René Wintzen

    Sabres 1er octobre 1975|14.60 x 20.90 cm|1 page sur une feuille
    Autograph letter signed by Claude Simon to René Wintzen, written in black ink.
    Date and place at the top of the letter and signature at the bottom of the letter.
    Folding caused by mailing.
    Claude Simon writes this letter to thank René Witzen for his article and his understanding of his work. He also writes to him that he will send him his last book, Lesson of Things , published in 1975, and apologizes for not being able to dedicate it to him.
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  68. Lettre autographe signée du peintre impressionniste américain à la chanteuse Eva Gauthier
    John SINGER SARGENT

    Lettre autographe signée du peintre impressionniste américain à la chanteuse Eva GauthierAutograph letter signed by American impressionist painter John Singer Sargent

    Boston s. d. [1920]|12.90 x 16.60 cm|3 pages sur 1 feuillet remplié
    Autograph letter signed by American impressionist painter John Singer Sargent
    Boston | 12,9 x 16,6 cm | 3 pages on one folded leaf
    Fine autograph letter signed by John Singer Sargent to avant-garde singer Eva Gauthier after their first encounter, enthusiastically sharing his love of Javanese art.
    A folded sheet on Copley-Plaza Boston stationery, 30 lines on 3 pages.
    The painter made two charcoal portraits of the singer which "will even become, in the minds of the public, a part of her identity" (Normand Cazelais, Eva Gauthier, la voix de l'audace) widely used by the artist for her concert...
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  69. Lettre autographe signée adressée à Gabriel Monod
    Ivan TOURGUENIEV

    Lettre autographe signée adressée à Gabriel Monod

    Paris Mardi 6 Janvier 1880|13.50 x 21 cm|un feuillet

    21 lines on a leaf of paper with Turgenev's monogram and address, 50 rue de Douai. Restorations with three small pieces of paper in the margin, some dampstains. Folds due to the letter's mailing.


    Beautiful autograph letter signed by Ivan Tourgueniev addressed to Gabriel Monod (1844-1912), historian, former student of the prestigious École Normale Supérieure and director of the École des Hautes Études. Tourgueniev comes to the aid of Nicolas Egorovič Bitmead (1842 [?]-1886), a revolutionary recently expelled from Russia, and recommends him to his friend.
    This is a touching demonstration of Turgenev's legendary generosity, who helped him once again by...

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  70. Mémoires d'Outre-tombe
    François René de CHATEAUBRIAND, Gustave STAAL

    Mémoires d'Outre-tombe

    Eugène • Victor Penaud frères|Paris 1849-1850|13.70 x 22.50 cm|12 volumes reliés
    Eugène & Victor Penaud frères, Paris 1849-1850, 13,7x22,5cm, 12 volumes, half calf binding.
    Rare and sought after first edition, first printing.
    Half blond calf binding, spines gilt and blind tooled, black Russian morocco title and volume pieces, marbled boards, mould-made paste downs and endpapers.
    This copy is complete with the "avertissement" to the reader and the list of subscribers, removed from most copies after transferring the rights to publisher Dion-Lambert.
    Some foxing throughout the entire set, sometimes more pronounced to a few leaves; a few discrete restorations on the bindings, skilfully restored margins on pages 335-336 (vol. 5).
    32...
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  71. "Et c'est la rigolade qui compte en ce monde "où tout au fond des choses le Ridicule et la folie sont à l'ordre du jour et où il ne convient de prendre au sérieux que les apparences""
    Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE

    "Et c'est la rigolade qui compte en ce monde "où tout au fond des choses le Ridicule et la folie sont à l'ordre du jour et où il ne convient de prendre au sérieux que les apparences""Signed autograph letter addressed to Master Thorvald Mikkelsen

    s. l. • [Klarskovgaard] 23 décembre 1950|21 x 34 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet

    Autograph letter signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ballpoint pen on a large sheet of white paper; number "583" in Céline's hand in red pencil at top left.
    Transverse folds inherent to mailing.
    This letter was very partially transcribed in L'Année Céline 2005.
    Céline, after complaining extensively about the difficult living conditions in Mikkelsen's hut, thanks the latter: "Merci pour le petit Noël mon cher maître on va passer ça gentiment ! Le chauffage électrique est installé." ["Thank you for the little Christmas my dear master we'll get through this nicely! The electric heating...

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  73. Lettre autographe signée adressée à Jacques Bourgeat : « Tu sais que je parle très bien l'anglais, ici on ne parle que ça alors j'arrive à présent à bien me débrouiller, t'as pas fini d'entendre "My tailor is rich" »
    Édith PIAF

    Lettre autographe signée adressée à Jacques Bourgeat : « Tu sais que je parle très bien l'anglais, ici on ne parle que ça alors j'arrive à présent à bien me débrouiller, t'as pas fini d'entendre "My tailor is rich" »

    Stockholm 28 mai 1947|17.90 x 26 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet, enveloppe jointe
    Stockholm 28 May 1947
    17,9 x 26 cm | 2 pages on one leaf
    envelope attached
    Handwritten letter signed by Edith Piaf addressed to Jacques Bourgeat, two pages written in black ink on a leaf of headed paper from Castle Hotel in Stockholm. Envelope attached. Transverse folds from having been sent, a small piece missing at the top losing a few letters but not affecting the reading.

    Beautiful letter addressed by “Piafou” to her best friend Jacques Bourgeat known as “Jacquot”.

    It is in October 1935, when Edith was aged nineteen and had just tragically lost her mentor Louis Leplée, that she met Jacques Bourgeat. He was aged forty-seven and...
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  75. Carte postale autographe signée adressée à Emile Straus
    Frédéric MISTRAL

    Autograph postcard signed to Emile Straus

    S. n.|Maillane 1903|13.90 x 8.90 cm|une carte postale
    Autograph postcard signed by Frédéric Mistral, addressed to Emile Straus and written in black ink on the verso of a black-and-white photographic view of the Arch and Mausoleum of Saint-Rémy near Arles: "A Martine [one of Straus's pseudonyms] qui trop embrase mal éteint."
    A passionate devotee of epistolary art, Emile Straus founded in 1899 La Carte postale illustrée, the newsletter of the International Poste-Carte Club he had just established.
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  80. "Le sieur Grimm de Buda-Pesth, est un simple voleur, qui fait traduire mes romans au fur et à mesure de leur publication dans les journaux français, sans autorisation aucune."
    Émile ZOLA

    "Le sieur Grimm de Buda-Pesth, est un simple voleur, qui fait traduire mes romans au fur et à mesure de leur publication dans les journaux français, sans autorisation aucune."Signed autograph letter addressed to an unknown correspondent

    Bénodet 10 septembre 1883|13.20 x 20.30 cm|2 pages sur un double feuillet
    Signed autograph letter by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to an unknown correspondent, written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing.
    Interesting letter relating the translation of Emile Zola's works and the legal disputes inherent to their clandestine distribution.
    This missive is visibly addressed to a correspondent considered for the German translation of La Joie de vivre: "I would ask you to give me the promptest possible response regarding the translation of La Joie de vivre; for I am already receiving proposals from Germany, and I would like to know where I stand." In...
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  86. Lettres de fusillés
    Missak MANOUCHIAN

    Lettres de fusillés

    Editions France d'abord|Paris 1946|15 x 23 cm|relié sous chemise-étui
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  87. Lettre d'amour autographe à "Julie" (Louise de Pron) : "Je voudrais circuler avec ton sang dans les veines et aller dans ton cœur, y voir si je l'occupe tout entier."
    Eugène DELACROIX

    Lettre d'amour autographe à "Julie" (Louise de Pron) : "Je voudrais circuler avec ton sang dans les veines et aller dans ton cœur, y voir si je l'occupe tout entier."Handwritten letter to "Julie" (Louise de Pron): "I would like to circulate with your blood in my veins and go into your heart, to see if I occupy it entirely"

    mercredi 5 novembre [1823]|19.70 x 29.90 cm|une feuille rempliée
    Handwritten letter to “Julie” (Louise de Pron): “I would like to circulate with your blood in my veins and go into your heart, to see if I occupy it entirely”
    Wednesday 5 November [1823] | 19,7 x 29,9 cm | one double leaf
    Handwritten dated letter from the painter Eugène Delacroix to the love of his youth, the mysterious “Julie”, now identified as being Madame de Pron, by her maiden name Louise du Bois des Cours de La Maisonfort, wife of Louis-Jules Baron Rossignol de Pron and daughter of the Marquis de La Maisonfort, Minister of France in Tuscany, patron of Lamartine and friend of Chateaubriand.

    27 lines on a folded leaf. Two...
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  88. Lettre autographe signée inédite adressée à Marcel Jean et son enveloppe présentant un quatrain autographe
    André BRETON

    Lettre autographe signée inédite adressée à Marcel Jean et son enveloppe présentant un quatrain autographeAutograph signed letter addressed to Marcel Jean and its envelope with a handwritten poem

    Antibes 5 février 1948|21 x 27 cm|une page sur un feuillet, enveloppe jointe
    Autograph signed letter addressed to Marcel Jean and its envelope with a handwritten poem
    Antibes 5 February 1948 | 21 x 27 cm | one page on a leaf with envelope attached
    Autograph letter signed by André Breton, likely unpublished and addressed to Marcel Jean, one page written in blue ink on a leaf of blue paper, in fine, neat handwriting. The envelope accompanying the letter is enclosed, written by André Breton and presenting an amusing handwritten poem: “C'est à Paris, rue Hégésippe / Moreau 17, que Marcel Jean / Croise, tels soufre et vif-argent, / Le perroquet et la tulipe”. On the back, Breton's address in Antibes “Shady Roch Avenue des Pins”...
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