First edition, Signed book

Henri POURRAT

Le trésor des contes

Gallimard, Paris 1948-1962, 12x19cm, 13 volumes brochés.

First edition, one of 25 (for the first four copies of the series) or one of 23 (from the fifth volume until thirteenth) numbered copies on cloth Auvergne for each of the volumes, sometimes a non-commercial copies literate, draw of head.
Very rare and beautiful complete copy in 13 [...]

10 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Charles DEULIN

Histoires de petite ville. Contes et nouvelles

E. Dentu, Paris 1875, 12x19,5cm, relié.

First edition despite a mention of second edition, one of the few copies on laid that is made no mention.
Binding in full green shagreen, faded back with five nerves set with gilded nets and adorned with triple gilded boxes adorned in their centers with a gilt typographic pattern, golden wheels [...]

250 €

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First edition, Signed book

Georges DUMEZIL

Le Mahabarat et le Bhagavat du colonel de Polier

Gallimard, Paris 1986, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Back slightly cleared.
Signed autograph of Georges Dumézil to Jacques Soustelle: "... these reveries Euro-Asian ..."

120 €

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First edition

Lodovico GUICCIARDINI (Louis GUICHARDIN)

Contes et historiettes amusantes, avec plusieurs dialogues en italien et en françois. La ...

Chez Jean de la Caille, à Paris 1688, In-12 (9,5x16cm), (22) 357pp. (3), relié.

First edition bilingual Italian and French translation of Pompe, teacher of Italian and Spanish.
Binding full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back to nerves adorned. title label of brown sheepskin. A slash on the upper plate, 2 on the lower plate. Friction. A small lack in the upper bit [...]

350 €

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First edition, Signed book

Arthur Christian, sous le pseudonyme de CARLOCHRISTI

Contes pantagruéliques

Louis Conard, Paris 1903, 17x22cm, relié.

Rare and probably the only test of "Pantagruelian Tales".
The work dates from 1903 before the addition of Jules Clarettie's preface and illustrations by Edmond Malassis.
The text, printed in Gothic characters is included in frames foliage, different from those of the edition marketed in [...]

400 €

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Guillaume REBOUL

Le premier acte du synode nocturne des tribades, lemanes, unelmanes, propétides, à la ruine des ...

Jules Gay, Paris 1862, 9x15,5cm, relié.

New collated edition on the single copy existing at the Bibliothèque Impériale in Paris, one of 100 numbered copies on laid paper, the only print after 2 vellum skin.
Binding in half orange percaline, smooth back adorned with gilded nets, date golden tail, piece of blue sheepskin title with a [...]

300 €

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Guy de MAUPASSANT, Félicien ROPS

Contes choisis

Société des bibliophiles contemporains, Paris 1891, 18x27,5cm, 10 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 110 original compositions by Edouard Toudouze, one of 75 numbered copies on Japan containing an additional state of the illustrations, only leading copies after 25 China.
Binding half turquoise percalin with corners, smooth back decorated with a floral golden pattern, [...]

3 000 €

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First edition

Kees VAN DONGEN, Rudyard KIPLING

Les plus beaux contes de Kipling illustrés par Van Dongen

Editions de la Sirène, Paris 1920, 22,5x30,5cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

Les Plus Beaux Contes de Kipling illustrés par Van Dongen
[The finest tales by Kipling illustrated by Van Dongen]
 

3 500 €

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