First edition, Signed book

André MALRAUX (Maurice BEJART)

Lettre dactylographiée et signée à Maurice Béjart

29 janvier 1969, 21x27cm, une feuille filigranée Guerimand Voiron.

Letter typed and signed from André Malraux to Maurice Béjart. One leaf headed by the Ministre d'Etat chargé des Affaires Culturelles (Ministry of Culture), bearing a stamp from 29 January 1969.
André Malraux hopes to place choreographer Maurice Béjart in charge of [...]

1 500 €

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VOLTAIRE

Le siècle de Louis XIV

Chez C. F. Henning, à Berlin 1751, in-12 (8,5x14,5cm), (14) 488pp. (2) et (2) 466pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition presenting well the peculiarities inherent to its publication: it does not present any capital except at the beginning of the paragraphs and it is the very first work to have been printed with the spelling of Voltaire. Our copy is full of his errata sheet, which is often [...]

6 000 €

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Lazare-Hippolyte-Sadi CARNOT

Le drapeau du 27ème régiment d'infanterie

Darantière, Paris s.d. (1891), 12x19,5cm, relié.

Second edition partly original because revised and increased.
Binding in half red percaline, smooth back slightly discolored, title piece of black shagreen, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of orange paper, preserved illustrated cover, Contemporary binding.
Second flat soiled, [...]

80 €

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André MALRAUX

Royaume-farfelu

Nrf, Paris 1928, 18,5x24cm, broché.

First edition, one of 23 numbered copies on Hollande paper, this one not numbered but justified "copy on Hollande paper" to foot of lower cover, the tirage de tête after 13 Japon.
A nice copy despite the spine very slightly faded as usual.

1 000 €

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Victor HUGO

Le Rhin

Jules Renouard & Cie, Paris 1845, 14x23cm, 4 volumes brochés.

first edition because 14 letters appear here for the first time.
Lacks in the feet of the backs of the first, second and fourth volumes, a tear on a bit of the fourth volume, some small foxinges.

150 €

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First edition, Signed book

André MALRAUX

Saturne

Gallimard, Paris 1950, 22,5x29cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition.
Publisher's binding over flexible paper boards.
Handsome autograph inscription from one "Compagnon de la Libération" to another : "Pour Rémy son ami, André Malraux."
Illustrations.
Spine sunned, copy retaining its dustjacket.
One spot to the spine.

1 000 €

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André MALRAUX

La voie royale

Grasset, Paris 1930, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition of 62 numbered copies on Madagascar, the tirage de tête.
Contemporary half blue morocco over marbled paper boards by Robinson, gilt date to spine, gilt fillet frame to covers, endpapers and pastedowns of light green paper, double covers and double spines preserved, top edge [...]

4 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Germaine TILLION

Avatars musulmans de quatre personnages d'un portail de Vézelay

Editions Privat, Toulouse 1979, 16,5x24cm, 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. [...]

450 €

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