Second World War

COLLECTIF
[TRACT ANTI-NAZI ET ANTI STO] "Pas une heure de travail, pas un homme pour les Boches !"
S. n.|s.l. (Paris) 1942|14.50 x 24 cm|une feuille
Rare and fragile first edition of this recto-verso tract, printed clandestinely in 1942 by the French Communist Party (S.F.I.C.), denouncing the Service du Travail Obligatoire.
Horizontal fold to the document, small tears and minute marginal lacks.
The tract begins with the stirring slogan "Tous unis contre l'odieux marchandage de LAVAL-HITLER" ("All united against the odious bargaining of LAVAL-HITLER") and concludes with a thundering: "VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE ! VIVE LA FRANCE, LIBRE ET INDEPENDANTE !" ("Long live the Republic! Long live France, free and independent!")
€450
Jean DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY
Histoire de la Première armée française - Rhin et Danube
Plon|Paris 1949|14.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Small repaired tear at foot of spine, foxing on top edge.
Iconography, complete with publisher's slip, its two folding maps placed at end of volume and its publisher's slip, bibliophile's blind stamp in lower right margin of first endpaper.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny to Maurice Berthon.

€1,500
Pierre MENDES FRANCE
Liberté, liberté chérie (1940-1942) suivi de Roissy-en-France, récit d'un vol du groupe Lorraine (3 Octobre 1945)
Fayard|Paris 1977|15.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Bibliophile's blind stamp at foot of endpaper.
Iconography, handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Pierre Mendès France to Roger Charoy.
€350
VERCORS
Le silence de la mer
Comité national des écrivains|Paris 1944|11.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First public edition, published two years after the original clandestine edition, and first edition for which a deluxe issue was printed, one of 100 numbered copies on coated paper, the only deluxe copies.
This edition precedes the first public edition from Éditions de Minuit which also includes a deluxe issue.
Minor foxing to covers lightly and marginally sunned without consequence, handsome interior condition.
€1,000
Philippe PETAIN
La France nouvelle - Appels et messages 17 juin 1940 - 17 juin 1941
Imprimerie Draeger|Paris 1941|14 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies after 1 on Montval laid paper and 50 on Japan paper.
Spine sunned, endpapers lightly shadowed and foxed, half-title page lightly shadowed, foxing on the second cover.
Blind stamp "chef de l'état français" on the title page.
We include a visiting card of Philippe Pétain on which these few words have been added: "exemplaire N°131, destiné à monsieur l'ambassadeur de France au Brésil".
Rare autograph inscription dated and signed by Philippe Pétain: "A monsieur de Sain-Quentin l'ambassadeur de France sentiment les meilleurs. 2.11.41. Ph Pétain." (To Mr. de Sain-Quentin, Ambassador of...
€1,200
Curzio MALAPARTE
Le soleil est aveugle[The Sun Is Blind]
Denoël|Paris 1958|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite two light traces of sunning without significance at head and foot of spine.
€1,200
Francis AMBRIÈRE
Les grandes Vacances 1939-1945
SEGEP|Paris 1951|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
Edition définitive ornée d'illustrations d'Antoine de Roux.
Exemplaire complet de sa jaquette illustrée qui comporte de petites déchirures avec minimes manques
Ce texte fut rétrospectivement couronné du prix Goncourt en 1946 pour l'année 1940.
Envoi autographe daté et signé de Francis Ambrière à Francine Carpentier : "... ce mémorial de la vie recluse en respecteux souvenir d'une trop brève rencontre..."
€120
Henry MOORE
Shelter sketch book
Editions Poetry London|London 1940|17.50 x 21 cm|relié
First edition, with the author's facsimile signature and date "october 1940" on the endpaper.
Split hinges, some foxing on the endpapers.
Publisher's sand-colored cloth binding, black title-label on the front cover.
Handsome copy of this notebook reproducing 82 sketches made in London air-raid shelters during the Blitz.
€100
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Rigodon
Gallimard|Paris 1969|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper with the correct imprint dated February 4, 1969.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has a small tear at the head.
€100
José CABANIS
L'âge ingrat
Gallimard|Paris 1952|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition of the author's first work, one of 55 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the spine very slightly yellowed without consequence.

€230
Erwan BERGOT
La 2eme D.B.
Presses de la Cité|Paris 1980|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies
Handsome copy despite the covers marginally lightened.
Preface by General Massu, iconography.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Erwan Bergot to Gilbert Naumer: "... sur les traces de Leclerc... pour faire partager mon admiration envers les soldats..." ["... following Leclerc's footsteps... to share my admiration for the soldiers..."]

€100
Curzio MALAPARTE
La Peau
Denoël|Paris 1949|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 350 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 50 on pure thread paper.
Worming to boards, blue spots to spine, light interior foxing, dampstain to head of pages in one signature, ballpoint pen numbering to upper right corner of first endpaper.
Copy expanded with a press clipping extract: "Malaparte mis au "ban de la ville" de Naples."
Rare but in this condition.
€180
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Guignol's band
Denoël|Paris 1944|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Rare and handsome copy considering the fragility of this poor-quality wartime paper.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline: "A Mr Monnerot bien amicalement L.F. Céline." ["To Mr Monnerot most cordially L.F. Céline."]

€3,800
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Lettres de prison suivies d'un synopsis de ballet inédit
S. n.|Copenhague [Copenhagen] • (Liège) 1945 (1984)|15 x 21.50 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in one of 53 hors commerce copies.
Fine and very rare copy of this unauthorized first edition, consisting of facsimile reproductions of 3 manuscript letters by Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to a young Danish woman, Bente Joyhansen, during his first weeks of detention in Denmark.
€700
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Lettres des années noires
Berg international|Paris 1994|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
Edition with some parts in first edition, one of 50 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
A very handsome copy.
€1,200
Patrick MODIANO
La place de l'étoile
Gallimard|Paris 1968|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition of Patrick Modiano's first work, of which there were no deluxe copies and bearing the correct imprint of March 28, 1968, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Preface by Jean Cau.
Handsome copy expanded with a promotional band printed on the occasion of his first literary prize the following year.
Very rare signed autograph inscription by Patrick Modiano on this work: "Pour Marcel Arland avec ma vive admiration. Hommage de l'auteur. Modiano." ["For Marcel Arland with my keen admiration. Author's tribute. Modiano."]
Marcel Arland, co-director with Jean Paulhan of Editions Gallimard since 1953 and historical member of the Reading Committee of...
€4,500
Patrick MODIANO
La Ronde de Nuit
Gallimard|Paris 1969|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition of which no deluxe copies were printed, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine partially sunned as usual.
Precious and rare signed autograph inscription from Patrick Modiano on his second work: "Pour Dominique Aury en respectueux hommage. Modiano."
Dominique Aury is not only the secret author of the scandalous Histoire d'O published under the pseudonym Pauline Réage. She is above all, since 1953, the influential secretary general of the NRF alongside Jean Paulhan and Marcel Arland and one of the principal readers on the Reading Committee of Editions Gallimard.
Just 24 years old, the future Nobel Prize winner in Literature thus...
€2,500
Guy DES CARS
"... si cette satanée politique ne bouchait pas toutes les pages ! ...".."Autograph letter, dated and signed, addressed to a fellow journalist and writer
S. n.|Nice 11 Août1941|21.50 x 27.50 cm|une page recto verso
Autograph letter dated and signed by Guy Des Cars (34 lines in blue ink from Nice, on letterhead of the newspaper l'Alerte, weekly of French renewal) to a fellow writer about his work soon to be completed but also about the omnipresence of politics in the press to the detriment of other subjects, particularly literary ones.
Crease marks inherent to folding for mailing.
Guy Des Cars finally breaks his epistolary silence after having been ill: "... je me suis installé dans un vieux mas provençal, rôti par le soleil à Cagnes-sur-mer..." ["... I have settled in an old Provençal farmhouse, roasted by the sun in Cagnes-sur-mer..."] in order to let it be...
€150
REMY
Le 18e jour - La tragédie de Léopold III roi des belges
Editions France-Empire|Paris 1976|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy
Autograph inscription signed by Colonel Rémy to Monique Maire.
€80
Francis AMBRIÈRE
Les grandes Vacances 1939-1945
Les Editions de la Nouvelle France|Paris 1946|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 350 numbered copies on white laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy of this work retrospectively awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1946 for the year 1940.
Signed autograph inscription from Francis Ambrière to Janine Paoly: "... dont j'espère depuis si longtemps que je prévois la voir davantage avec un espoir toujours plus entêté et ma vieille et respectueuse amitié." ["... whom I have hoped for so long that I foresee seeing her more with an ever more stubborn hope and my old and respectful friendship."]

€350
Vladimir POZNER
Deuil en 24 heures
Grasset|Paris 1946|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 24 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Spine slightly browned, otherwise handsome copy of this work set against the backdrop of the 1940 exodus.

€80
Robert MERLE
Week-end à Zuydcoote
Gallimard|Paris 1949|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.

€450
With an exceptional and unrecorded artist's proof
With an exceptional and unrecorded artist's proof
René CHAR, Georges BRAQUE
Le soleil des eaux, spectacle pour une toile des pêcheurs[The Sun of the Waters]
Henri Matarasso|Paris 1949|23 x 28.50 cm|Etching|Broché sous chemise et étui
First edition, one of 170 numbered copies on vélin du Marais, the only issue after 30 copies on Arches.

Custom chemise and slipcase, chemise in half blue box calf, flat spine with blind and palladium-stamped lettering, date in palladium at foot, patterned paper boards, slipcase edged in blue box calf, patterned paper boards, sides and spine in petrol blue paper, signed by Boichot.
A very fine copy.
Illustrated with 3 original etchings in black by Georges Braque and one in black and grey as frontispiece.
Signed by René Char and Georges Braque on the colophon, with an exceptionally added original artist's proof signed in pencil on...
€5,800
Roland DORGELÈS
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Carlo Rim alors mobilisé comme infirmier militaire dans un hôpital du Gard
Paris s. d. [1939]|13.50 x 18 cm|une feuille
Autograph letter signed by Roland Dorgelès addressed to Corporal Jean Richard, alias Carlo Rim, written in blue ink (23 lines) in which he evokes the famous comic strip character created by Carlo Rim: "... Que ce M. Virgule (tel qu'en lui-même enfin...) est donc séduisant..." ["... How seductive this M. Virgule is (such as he is at last...)..."] but also his next assignment related to the war that is beginning and which will not allow him to see him soon: "je rentre en Armée de l'Est (correspondant de guerre en principe) et vais repartir dans quelques jours. Dommage que votre petit hôpital ne soit pas dans le secteur..." ["I am returning to the Army of the...
€150
Norman MAILER
Les nus et les morts
Albin Michel|Paris 1966|12.50 x 20 cm|broché
New edition of the French translation.
Preface by André Maurois.
Two fold marks at upper corner of front cover and lower corner of back cover, small stains on bottom edge.
Rare bilingual autograph inscription signed by Norman Mailer: "To Jean-Claude merci pour les bons mots. Cheers Norman Mailer".
€1,000
Alphonse BOUDARD
L'étrange monsieur Joseph
Robert Laffont|Paris 1998|15.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Alphonse Boudard to André Ventelon.

€70
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Cahiers de prison Février-Octobre 1946
Gallimard|Paris 2019|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on Rivoli vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Copy in mint condition.

€1,200
Jean-Paul SARTRE
Bariona
S. n.|s. l. 1962|15 x 20 cm|broché
First edition printed in 500 numbered copies of this play created for Christmas Eve 1940 by Jean-Paul Sartre for his comrades at stalag XII D in Trier.
A small restored tear at the foot of the spine, gift inscription from a previous owner in the lower right corner of the title page.
A rare and handsome copy.
€600
William STYRON
Sophie's Choice
Jonathan Cape|London 1979|16 x 24 cm|cartonnage de l'éditeur
Sophie's Choice

Jonathan Cape | London 1979 | 16 x 24 cm | publisher's binding

First English edition.
Publisher's binding in full black cloth. Complete of its printed jacket illustrated with the photographic portrait of the author, with two small missing pieces at the top of the spine.

Surprising autograph inscription signed and dated by Meryl Streep, a year before she played the title role in the movie adaptation by Alan J. Pakula, for which she won the Oscar for Best Actress in 1983: "For Keith, thanks for an interesting afternoon, 16/10/1981, London"
This "Keith" could very well be Keith Barish, producer of the Pakula...
€1,500
Louis de FOUQUIERES
Parade pour une armée défunte - Histoire de l'armée française de 1939 à 1962 - Exemplaire de l'as des as des Forces aériennes françaises libres Pierre Clostermann
Muller édition|Issy-les-Moulineaux 1997|16 x 24 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Louis de Fouquières to Pierre Clostermann: "Pour notre grand as Pierre Clostermann avec toute mon admiration et mon amitié. L. de Fouquières." ["To our great ace Pierre Clostermann with all my admiration and friendship. L. de Fouquières."]
€100
Daniel COSTELLE
Les prisonniers - 380 000 soldats de Hitler aux U.S.A. - Exemplaire de l'as des as des Forces aériennes françaises libres Pierre Clostermann
Flammarion|Paris 1975|14 x 20 cm|broché
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite a slight tear on the front cover diminishing to disappear from the following two pages.
Iconography
Precious autograph inscription signed by Daniel Costelles to Pierre Clostermann: "Pour Pierre avec ma très très grande reconnaissance. D.C.." ["For Pierre with my very very great gratitude. D.C.."]
€80
Marie-Magdeleine SAEYEYS
Les voix de Saint-Gilles - Exemplaire de l'as des as des Forces aériennes françaises libres Pierre Clostermann
Editions Solédi|Liège 1948|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Handsome copy despite covers slightly and marginally sunned without significance.
Exceptional autograph inscription signed by Marie-Magdeleine Saeyeys to the ace of aces of the Free French Air Forces (F.A.F.L.) Pierre Clostermann: "Au wing commander Pierre Clostermann. A chacun son combat, aux uns la splendeur des étoiles, aux autres les ténèbres... lorsqu'il est inscrit en nous pour éternellement le devoir accompli, qu'importe l'oubli des foules. M.M. Saeyeys. 19 août 1968." ["To wing commander Pierre Clostermann. To each his own combat, to some the splendor of the stars, to others the darkness... when duty accomplished is inscribed in us for eternity, what...
€300
JAQUE [Christian Christian Albert François MAUDET]
Lettre autographe signée adressée à son ami Carlo Rim
S. n.|Cassis 7 Janvier 1940|21 x 13.50 cm|une feuille
Signed manuscript letter from the director and stage director, then mobilized, addressed to his friend and collaborator Carlo Rim (27 lines in black ink)
"Sunday 7 - 1 - 40",
"Mon cher collègue (car moi, aussi je suis caporal ! ). Un nouveau calendrier a été accroché au mur ! .. Puisse-t-il nous rendre à chacun tout le bonheur que nous avons laissé loin derrière nous ! A toi, vieux frère, je souhaite une bonne santé... de la patience... et une mise en affectation spéciale pour tout terminer. Ces mêmes-voeux je les adresse à Alice et Babon que tu embrasseras pour moi. Quant à "Tourelle 3" j'ai bien l'impression que ce n'est pas cette année...
€250
Tristan BERNARD
Carte postale adressée à son ami Carlo Rim
S. n.|Clayes-sous-Bois [Les Clayes-sous-Bois] 3 Novembre 1939|13.50 x 9 cm|une feuille
Humorous handwritten postcard signed by Tristan Bernard to his friend Carlo Rim then mobilized as a corporal in Fontanès in the Gard.
"3 November,
Dear Carlo,
I am replying somewhat belatedly to your amusing letter of 19 October. Blame only my congenital laziness, further increased by the state of war. We have been since 24 September at Hessel's in Clayes sous Bois (Seine et Oise). We are very well. And we think tenderly of our friends Carlo, Alice and Babou. We embrace you. Tristan Bernard."
During the Occupation, Tristan Bernard takes refuge in Cannes and stays at the Windsor hotel while his friend Carlo Rim proposes in vain that he stay at his house so...
€100
Roger MARTIN DU GARD
Carte postale adressée à son amie Alice Rim
S. n.|Cassis 13 Décembre 1933|9.50 x 14 cm|une feuille
Humorous autograph postcard signed by Roger Martin du Gard addressed from Cassis to Alice Rim (21 lines in black ink) describing the Provençal winter.
"Cassis. 13 dec.33,
Dear Madam,
Thank you for these few lively and friendly pages. Don't regret Cassis. It's freezing here. Not that it's as cold as elsewhere, but we don't know how to heat ourselves. The "Réserve" is empty. There we find a drowsy son-in-law, alone, roasting his shins by the big central stove stuffed like a locomotive and smoking just the same. The port is deserted. I believe the Mediterranean (sic) is carrying ice floes. (To be verified...) Congratulations to Carlo Rim for the Marraine...
€100
Jacques LAURENT
Le petit canard
Grasset|Paris 1954|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 62 numbered copies on Montval, deluxe copy.
Fine copy.
€230
Georges ARNAUD
Maréchal P...
Petite bibliothèque républicaine|Paris 1958|11.50 x 18 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Two small marginal tears to boards, paper yellowed.
Signed autograph inscription from Georges Arnaud to François Erval.
€60
Micheline MAUREL
Un Camp très ordinaire
Les Editions de Minuit|Paris 1957|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on alfa mousse, the only deluxe copies.
Spine lightly sunned.
Preface by François Mauriac.
Fine and rare copy of this poignant testimony describing the daily life of the author, a resistance member, arrested then deported, in the women's concentration camp of Neubrandebourg, near Ravensbrück.
€500
Maurice KRIEGEL-VALRIMONT
La Libération - Les Archives du Comac (Mai-août 1944)
Les Editions de Minuit|Paris 1964|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 27 numbered copies on alfa mousse, the only deluxe copies.
Very fine and rare work written by one of the three leaders of the Military Action Committee of the National Council of the Resistance or Comac, supreme command body of the F.F.I., which played a leading role in the liberation of Paris.
€600
Peter TOWNSEND
Duel dans la Nuit. La suite de Duel d'Aigles
Robert Laffont|Paris 1987|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Iconography, handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription by Peter Townsend, in French, to Joël Pampin.
€120
Maxime WEYGAND
Le Général Frère. Un Chef, un Héros, un Martyr
Flammarion|Paris 1949|16.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 175 numbered copies on wove paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy with full margins.
General Aubert Frère was notably a hero of the Resistance as organizer and commander of the Resistance in the army, he was arrested by the Nazis in 1943 and died at the Struthof concentration camp on June 14, 1944.
€300
Friedrich PAULUS
Stalingrad
Arthème Fayard|Paris 1961|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition in French, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Letters and documents assembled by Walter Gorlitz, foreword by Ernst Alexander Paulus.
A handsome copy.

€300
Romain GARY
Tulipe
Calmann-Lévy|Paris 1946|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 220 numbered copies on vélin blanc du Marais, deluxe copies.
A rare and handsome copy despite a tiny repaired tear at the head of the spine.
€1,800
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Lettre autographe signée adressée à Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen : "Nous dirons si vous le voulez bien en simple et bon français que Marcel Aymé a : de la pénétration. [...] Et si Marcel a de la pénétration moi j'ai de la vision."
s. l. • [Klarskovgaard] 22 octobre 1950|21 x 34 cm|2 pages sur un feuillet
Signed autograph letter, partly unpublished, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline addressed to his lawyer, Maître Thorvald Mikkelsen. Two pages written in blue ink on a large sheet of white paper; number "582" in Céline's hand in red pencil at top left.
Cross-folds inherent to mailing.
This letter was very partially transcribed in Année Céline 2005.
Fine letter mentioning Marcel Aymé: "We will say, if you please, in simple and good French that Marcel Aymé has: penetration. [...] And if Marcel has penetration, I have vision." We will not revisit the friendship that united Céline and Aymé - the latter even visited him at...
€1,800
Régine DEFORGES
La bicyclette bleue[The Blue Bicycle]
Editions Ramsay|Paris 1985|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on French wove paper, the only deluxe issue.
A very handsome copy.
Provenance: from the library of Régine Deforges.
€1,700
COLLECTIF
[RESISTANCE] Bulletin d'information et d'organisation du Front National[FRENCH RESISTANCE - Information and Organizational Bulletin of the National Front]
Front National|Paris Novembre 1944|13 x 20 cm|agrafé
First edition.
Rare and handsome copy of this bulletin of the Front National, a French Resistance movement created by the French Communist Party in 1941.

€250
Henri CALET (inscribed to Francis PONGE)
Les murs de Fresnes - Exemplaire de Francis Ponge[The Walls of Fresnes – Francis Ponge’s Copy]
Editions des quatre vents|Paris 1945|14.50 x 21 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition on ordinary paper.

Publisher’s full cloth binding, flat spine, minor inconsequential wear to headcaps and corners.

Illustrations.

Rare and valuable presentation copy to Odette and Francis Ponge.

€1,200
Charles DE GAULLE
Discours et messages[Speeches and Messages]
Plon|Paris 1970|14 x 21.50 cm|5 volumes brochés
First edition, one of the 69 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Very nice copy wide-margined and complete in five volumes.
€3,000
Georges BLOND
Le débarquement
Fayard|Paris 1951|12 x 19 cm|broché
first edition on current paper.
Slightly curled copy.
Autograph signed by Georges Blond to Maurice Gaït.
Complete copy of his illustrated jacket.
€30
René LOUVAT, Germaine KANOVA
Affiche de la France libre : "French resistance helps throttle the Boche"Free French poster: "French resistance helps throttle the Boche"
Londres [London] 1944|-|2|une feuille
Free French poster: “French resistance helps throttle the Boche”

Londres 1944 | 49 x 75 cm | one poster

Rare original Free French poster published in London in 1944, with the tagline: “French resistance helps throttle the Boche”.
One tear without loss, very skillfully repaired.

Executed by René Louvat after a photograph by Germaine Kanova, the first female war correspondent for the Armed Forces Film Service (SCA).

The color lithograph, signed “R. Louvat, 1944, photo G. Kanova” shows two hands with red-white-and-blue flames coming out of them strangling a German soldier, recognizable by his helmet...
€2,000
Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE
Journal 1939-1945[Journal 1939–1945]
Gallimard|Paris 1992|16 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 64 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Rare and nice copy.
€1,800
Marc DVORJETSKI
Ghetto à l'est
Robert Marin|Paris 1950|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation from Yiddish by Arnold Mandel, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Rare and handsome copy with the illustrated dust jacket.
€300
Joseph KESSEL
Les enfants de la chance[Children of Fortune]
Nrf|Paris 1934|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 80 numbered copies on pure wove, one of the copies on deluxe paper.
Slight sunning at head and tail of the spine, which shows some creasing, otherwise a pleasing copy.
€1,200
Henri MICHAUX (inscribed to René LAPORTE)
Epreuves, exorcismes 1940-1944
Gallimard|Paris 1945|12 x 19 cm|relié
Edition partly original, one of the review copies service.
Binding half navy blue morocco, back with five nerves, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of blue paper, preserved covers, gilded head, binding signed P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Precious autograph dedication signed by Henri Michaux to René Laporte.
Full copy of his prayer to insert mounted on tab.
€1,000
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
Karl DÖNITZ
10 ans et 20 jours
Plon|Paris 1959|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation which was not drawn large papers.
Rare handwritten signature of Karl Doenitz, who signed the surrender of the Axis forces in 1945, along with his best wishes.
complete copy of his illustrated jacket that has two tears without lack.
€800
Henri BÉRAUD
Quinze jours avec la mort
Plon|Paris 1951|14.50 x 20 cm|broché
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête.
A very good copy, with edges preserved.
€700
Germaine TILLION
Avatars musulmans de quatre personnages d'un portail de Vézelay[Muslim Avatars of Four Figures from a Portal at Vézelay]
Editions Privat|Toulouse 1979|16.50 x 24 cm|agrafé
First edition of this reprint.
Rare and touching autograph signed and dated Germaine Tillion under his strong pseudonym Kouri, to her friend resistant Denise Vernay, nicknamed Myarka the Resistance, with whom she was interned in a concentration camp: "To Myarka, the first copy priority. Kouri. "
Pleasant copy despite an angular fold track topped the first board.
€450
Jorge SEMPRÚN
L'évanouissement[The Fainting Fit]
Gallimard|Paris 1967|12.50 x 20 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 35 copies numbered on "pur-fil" paper, the only large paper copies .
Nice copy.
€600
Jorge SEMPRÚN
L'évanouissement[The Fainting Fit]
Gallimard|Paris 1967|12 x 19 cm|broché
Edition, review copy.
Complete copy of his please insert.

Autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Jorge Semprun to Jean Freustié.
€250
Albert CAMUS
Lettres à un ami allemand[Letters to a German Friend]
Gallimard|Paris 1945|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, most limited issue.

The book Camus dedicated to his friend René Leynaud.

Rare and handsome copy.
€8,000
Ernst von SALOMON (inscribed to Maurice BLANCHOT)
Le Questionnaire - Exemplaire de Maurice Blanchot
Gallimard|Paris 1953|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
First edition in French, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome and rare autograph inscription from Ernst von Salomon to Maurice Blanchot.
Plats slightly soiled, otherwise a good copy.
€800
Jorge SEMPRÚN
Le mort qu'il faut[The Necessary Dead Man]
Gallimard|Paris 2001|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 40 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
A very handsome copy.
€500
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Lettres de prison à Lucette Destouches et maître Mikkelsen 1945-1947
Gallimard|Paris 1998|17.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 111 numbered copies on chiffon de Lana, the only large paper copies.
A fine copy.
€1,800