Short Stories & Tales

New edition.
Half hazel shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with stippling and blind fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Some light foxing.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Bradel binding in yellow half cloth, smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron, pasted classification label, black morocco title-label slightly scratched, contemporary binding.
Gift inscription on the half-title page.
Rare.

Collected edition printed on laid paper with introduction and notes by L. Moland and C. d'Héricault.
Publisher's red boards, smooth spine decorated with blind fillets, boards with blind ruled frames.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Foreword by Louis Aragon.
Handsome copy.

Edition with some parts in first edition.
Half red sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, bookplate pasted to verso of first cover, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing.
Manuscript gift inscription on half-title page.

First edition printed in a numbered run of 550 copies on Johannot paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on alfa mousse, the only deluxe copies with 50 on pure thread.
Autograph signature of the author.
Handsome copy.

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

The title page states: eleventh edition, revised and corrected.
Half raspberry red smooth shagreen; spine with 5 raised bands; triple fillet forming 4 compartments, each containing an attractive tool of three daisies. Elegant binding. Top edge gilt.
Very good condition; some minor rubbing to the raised bands. The paper contains pale foxing, heavier on a few scattered pages.

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First edition in French printed in only 250 copies on laid paper.
A handsome and rare copy.