Traveling writers

First collective edition, one of the 23 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma Navarre, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Rare and very nice copy.

First edition of the French translation, one of 75 numbered copies on Rives laid paper, the deluxe issue.
A fine copy.

First edition of the French translation, one of 20 numbered copies on pur fil paper, ours one of the few hors commerce, a deluxe issue. Endpapers lightly and entirely toned. A fine copy with full margins.

First edition, one of 1000 numbered copies on special paper called "Hôcho", the only printing along with 12 deluxe copies and 6 hors commerce copies.
Work illustrated with 14 drawings in the text by Audrey Parr engraved on wood by Bonkotsu Igami, "following the Japanese process", with a color composition by Keisen Tomita (on verso), engraved by Bonkotsu Igami, an autograph poem in facsimile, title page drawn by Noémi Pernessin.
Rare and very handsome copy without any foxing, spine of the blue percaline chemise slightly faded as usual.
Provenance: from the library of Doctor Lucien-Graux with his pasted bookplate.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japan, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Two small tears in the head and foot of the spine, nice copy wide-margined.

First edition of Cendrars's second book, printed in 150 copies on handmade Hollande paper and offered to subscribers.

According to Sonia Delaunay, Séquences, Pâques à New York and theTranssibérien were published at the author's expense, thanks to a small inheritance. The address given - Éditions Hommes nouveaux - 4, rue de Savoie, was in fact the small attic room that Blaise Cendrars occupied at that time.

A precious copy of Blaise Cendrars's early poems, exceptionally rare and in remarkable condition.

First edition, illustrated with a title vignette, 6 folding maps and 2 folding plates (sun and moon positions, diagrams); a map of the coasts of Acadia and Isle Royale, one of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, plan of Canseau harbor, the southeastern coasts of Isle Royale, plan of Chibouctou harbor, southeastern point of Acadia, 
Presentation copy with the cipher and arms of Louis XV.
Contemporary binding in full marbled and glazed brown sheep. Spine with raised bands decorated with the repeated cipher of Louis XV. Red morocco title label. Boards stamped with the gilt arms of Louis XV. Triple gilt fillet frame on boards. 2 compartments restored partially effacing the...

Scarce first French edition issued in Hetzel’s Bibliothèque d’éducation et de récréation series.

Translated and adapted by G. Lemaire, with a preface and postface by Bentzon.

Publisher’s red half morocco binding, signed Lenègre at foot, spine with false raised bands richly decorated in gilt and blind, white moiré endpapers, covers framed with blind fillets, light rubbing to edges and corners.
EK catalogue at end.

A few occasional foxing spots and faint browning. A few leaves slightly sprung, otherwise a very good copy.
King Solomon's Mines was first published in London in 1885. The novel recounts the adventures of a party of English explorers venturing into...

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Small foxing on covers marginally and slightly sunned, one joint cracked and glued down to foot, a small tear to head of spine.
Illustrated, as frontispiece, with a drawing by Etienne Dinet.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Etienne Dinet to Georges Rochegrosse : "A G. Rochegrosse cordial souvenir de son vieil ami."

Rare first edition of Hector Berlioz's first book.
Some restorations to the top spine-end, volume label on the spine of the second volume not fully visible, boards strengthened or lined (first board of the first volume), some stains on the first boards of both volumes.
Fine condition inside almost without any foxing.
Our copy is housed in green half shagreen chemises and slipcases, marbled paper boards, slipcases lined with the same shagreen, gilt titles and dates on the spine.
Rare.

First edition, one of 13 numbered copies on Or Turner paper, large paper copy, the fewest copies.
Rare and nice copy with double cover.

First edition
Contemporary red half Russian morocco, the spine with double gilt fillets, corners very lightly rubbed.
Presentation copy, inscribed by Théophile Gautier to Monsieur Bufquin des Essarts on half-title.

First edition in French, printed on vergé paper.

Publisher's Arabesque yellow paper binding by A. Lenègre, spine with gilt, black, and turquoise Arabic decorative motifs (head- and tail-pieces slightly rubbed), upper cover richly ornamented with Arabic decorative motifs in gilt, black and turquoise with a frame of gilt and black fillets, turquoise paper pastedowns and endpapers (corners slightly bumped), all edges gilt, a few small insignificant spots to lower cover.
Text by Alfred Edmund Brehm & Johannes Dumichen.
The work is illustrated with 24 watercolors after nature by Charles Werner.
A few small spots, mostly affecting endpapers.
Rare.