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  4. Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
    Jacques TARDI, Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE

    Voyage au Bout de la Nuit

    Gallimard • Futuropolis|Paris 1988|22 x 30 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
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  6. Histoires extraordinaires
    Edgar Allan POE, Charles BAUDELAIRE

    Histoires extraordinaires

    Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1856|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
    First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire. No limited issue on luxury paper printed.
    Contemporary green half shagreen, black fillets annd gilt motifs to spine, marbled paper covers, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, speckled edges.
    Some foxing, mainly on the title page, small tears to edges.
    The first work by Poe translated by Baudelaire, with its preface entitled Sa vie, son oeuvre, destined to establish Charles Baudelaire's name permanently alongside Poe.
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  7. Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires
    Edgar Allan POE, Charles BAUDELAIRE

    Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires

    Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1857|10.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
    First edition of the French translation by Charles Baudelaire. No limited issue on luxury paper printed.
    Contemporary binding in half-black chagrin, spine with five raised bands, black fillets and gilt decorations, marbled paper covers, endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
    Slight foxing, not serious, a photographic portrait of Edgar Allan Poe pasted to the title page, leaving a halo-like mark on the the title page, small tears on the edges.
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  8. Lettres des Années noires
    Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE

    Lettres des Années noires

    Berg international|Paris 1994|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
    First edition on ordinary paper.
    Handsome copy.
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  11. Recherche pour meurtre
    [Léo MALET as] Frank HARDING

    Recherche pour meurtre

    Nouvelles éditions Oswald|Paris 1982|22.50 x 30.50 cm|broché
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  12. Les nuits fauves
    Cyril COLLARD

    Les nuits fauves[Savage Nights]

    Flammarion|Paris 1989|11 x 20 cm|broché

    First edition for which there has not been grand papier (deluxe) copies.
    A beautiful copy.

    Very rare and touching handwritten dedication signed by Cyril Collard to Régine Deforges: “Pour Régine Deforges, “les nuits fauves”, ombres croisées, corps solaires, corps à corps inachevés. Cordialement. Cyril Collard. 6/9/89.” “For Régine Deforges, “the wild nights”, crossed shadows, solar bodies, unfinished lovemaking. Warmly. Cyril Collard. 6/9/89.”

    One of the most beautiful provenances for this autobiographical novel from the years of sexual freedom that were shattered by the arrival of AIDS, addressed to the most fervent libertine of the time, first...

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  14. Les Chants de Maldoror
    Isidore Ducasse, Comte de LAUTREAMONT

    Les Chants de MaldororMaldoror

    Chez tous les libraires|Paris • & Bruxelles [Brussels] 1874|12.50 x 19 cm|relié

    Rare first edition, with the wrapper and title page dated 1874.

    Half black morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, gilt fillet on boards, combed paper pastedowns and endpapers, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed Alix.

    Printed in 1869 by Lacroix, this edition was not released for sale for fear of censorship. Only about ten copies were stitched and given to the author (five have been recorded to date). In 1874, Jean-Baptiste Rozez, another Belgian publisher-bookseller, acquired the stock and published the work with a wrapper and cancel title page dated 1874, without publisher's imprint. It was in his...

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  16. Réflexions sur la peine capitale
    Albert CAMUS, Arthur KOESTLER

    Réflexions sur la peine capitale

    Calmann-Lévy|Paris 1957|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
    First collective edition, one of the 260 numbered copies on vélin teinté, the only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
    Nice copy.
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  17. La nuit talismanique
    René CHAR

    La nuit talismanique

    Skira|Genève [Geneva] 1972|16.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
    first edition on current paper.
    Back and boards marginally exposed as often, pleasant interior condition.
    Iconography.
    Beautiful autograph signed by René Char to the poet Charles Dobzynski: "... whose friendly presence has been dear to me for many years. René Char. The Busclats."
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  19. Les nuits
    Edward YOUNG

    Les nuits

    S. n.|à Paris 1787|8 x 13 cm|3 volumes reliés
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  20. La vache au pré noir
    Jean DUBUFFET

    La vache au pré noir

    Collège de Pataphysique|Paris 1963|22.50 x 28 cm|en feuilles sous chemise
    First edition printed with 333 numbered copies on vellum.
    Pleasant copy.
    Work illustrated with 24 insert plates.
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  21. Conques. Les vitraux de Soulages
    Pierre SOULAGES, Christian HECK

    Conques. Les vitraux de Soulages

    Seuil|Paris 1994|20.50 x 28 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 880 numbered copies on white laid, only leading copies after 120 vellum Arches paper.
    Nice copy.
    Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend Georges Raillard.
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  22. Costumes parisiens. Manteau de voyage à pèlerines, bleu ancien. Robe de taffetas noire (pl.100, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1913 n°43)
    Marie-Madeleine FRANC-NOHAIN

    Costumes parisiens. Manteau de voyage à pèlerines, bleu ancien. Robe de taffetas noire (pl.100, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1913 n°43)

    S. n.|Paris 1913|14 x 22.50 cm|une feuille
    original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower left of the board.
    One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
    The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
    The review was drawn in 1279 copies making it, for the...
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  23. Costumes parisiens. Grand manteau de Loutre. Col d'hermine. Chapeau noir à plume changeante (pl.36, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1912 n°19)
    Roger BRODERS

    Costumes parisiens. Grand manteau de Loutre. Col d'hermine. Chapeau noir à plume changeante (pl.36, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1912 n°19)

    S. n.|Paris 1912|14 x 22.50 cm|une feuille
    original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed lower right of the board.
    One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
    The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
    The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it, for the...
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  24. Prisons 53
    Georges ARNAUD

    Prisons 53

    René Julliard|Paris 1953|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on corvol l'orgueilleux paper, the only large paper copies with a few hors commerce copies also on corvol paper.
    A good copy.
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  28. La mort de Jim Licking
    Léo MALET

    La mort de Jim Licking

    Nouvelles éditions Oswald|Paris 1982|13.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
    New edition of which there were no large paper copies.
    Autograph inscription from Léo Malet.
    A good copy.
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  29. Faust
    Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE

    Faust

    Union latine d'éditions|Montpellier 1942|19.50 x 24 cm|2 volumes brochés sous chemises et étui
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  30. Histoire naturelle de la syphilis
    P. Dr. DIDAY

    Histoire naturelle de la syphilis

    P. Asselin|Paris 1863|13.50 x 22 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half-shagreen brown binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and rules, contemporary binding.
    Foxing.
    €80
  31. Quarante-trois ans de vie militaire
    Olivier-Adolphe-Amédée-Edouard CUNY

    Quarante-trois ans de vie militaire

    Plon|Paris 1911|13 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition. Spine sunned, a marginal stain on the front cover, handsome interior condition.
    €45
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