Signed book

Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY

Du dandysme et de G. Brummell. - Memoranda

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1887, 9,5x16,5cm, broché.

Later edition.
Autograph inscription from Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly to Madame Salomon : "... parce qu'il est plus moi que mes autres livres, je vous l'offre...[since it is more like me than my other books, I give it to you…]" What an inscription!
With a frontispiece portrait of the author [...]

2 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

(Guy de MAUPASSANT) & Jacques NORMAND

Contes à madame

Calmann Lévy, Paris 1890, 12x18,5cm, relié.

First edition for which there is no mention of large paper copies.
Bradel binding of paper boards, dark blue morocco title label with gilt fillets, covers preserved, elegant binding by Thomas Boichot.
Handsome autograph inscription from the author : "A Guy de Maupassant, son ami."

1 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

(Guy de MAUPASSANT) & Hector MALOT

Mondaine

Charpentier & Cie, Paris 1888, 12x19cm, relié.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Marbled paper Bradel binding, blue morocco title label with gilt fillets, an elegant pastiche binding by
Thomas Boichot.
Rare and handsome autograph inscription from the author: "A Guy de Maupassant, son dévoué confrere [to Guy de Maupassant , his [...]

1 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

(Guy de MAUPASSANT) & Georges OHNET

Dette de haine

Paul Ollendorff , Paris 1891, 12x18,5cm, relié.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding of paper boards, black morocco title label, upper cover conserved, elegant pastiche binding by Thomas Boichot.
Handsome autograph inscription from the author : "A Guy de Maupassant, amical souvenir."
 

1 000 €

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Joséphine BAKER

Les mémoires de Joséphine Baker recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage

Corrêa, Paris 1949, 12x19cm, broché.

Les Mémoires de Joséphine Baker recueillis et adaptés par Marcel Sauvage
Corrêa | Paris 1949 | 12 x 19 cm | original wrappers
New edition, one of 50 numbered copies on vélin Johannot, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Illustrated cover.
Illustrations, some [...]

800 €

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Albert SAMAIN

Le Chariot d'or

Société d'édition , Paris 1923, 17,5x25,5cm, relié sous étui.

Published 150 copies (No. 149) .binding of the time in full brown morocco, spine decorated with five nerves star motifs, boards decorated with gold stars coaching and a central plate, guards and contreplats Edition fabric, thread and gold star in coaching contreplats, gilt-head witnesses lined case [...]

500 €

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First edition

William ROSCOE

Vie et pontificat de Léon X

Le Normant & H. Nicolle, Paris 1808, 12,5x20,5cm, quatre volumes reliés.

First edition of the French translation. Full morocco bindings Russian fir, flat spines decorated with triple nets and typographical golden patterns, light scuffs without gravity on some boards, a golden frame on the flat wheel, a top corner slightly dull, yellow edges, binding of time. Book [...]

230 €

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First edition, Signed book

Marcel PROUST & John RUSKIN

La bible d'Amiens

Mercure de France, Paris 1904, 12x19cm, relié sous étui.

First edition of the French translation by Marcel Proust, a first impression copy numbered in the press.
Contemporary Bradel binding in half cloth, covers preserved, chemise-slipcase in morocco signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
Handsome autograph inscription from the author to [...]

8 500 €

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