First edition

Guy de MAUPASSANT

Le Horla

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1887, 12,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only deluxe issue (grands papiers).
Elegant purple half morocco binding by Goy & Vilaine, marbled paper boards, spine with six raised bands, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

Albert CAMUS

Lettres à un ami allemand

Gallimard, Paris 1945, 12x19cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 25 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper draw head. The book Camus dedicated to his friend René Leynaud. Rare and nice copy. 

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jules VERNE

Les histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin

Hetzel, Paris s.d. (1901), 12x19cm, relié.

First edition, of which there were no large paper copies
Half light brown calf over marbled paper boards, double gilt fillets to spine, covers mounted on guards and preserved, top edge speckled; an unsigned modern pastiche binding by Goy & Vilaine
Very rare autograph inscription from [...]

7 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Maxime GORKI

Contes

S.n., Berlin s.d. (1911), 12x19cm, relié.

First edition
Contemporary half saffron sheep Bradel binding, gilt roulette at head and foot of spine, gilt fillet to covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt
Very rare and precious autograph inscription from Maxim Gorki in Cyrillic to Gregory Alexinsky, member of the Duma [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Léon BLOY

Vie de Mélanie bergère de la Salette écrite par elle-même en 1900 - Son enfance (1831-1846)

Mercure de France, Paris 1912, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition
Handsome autograph insciption from Léon Bloy to the painter Georges Rouault: "Rien pour son art - Il n'y a pas de caricature".
Spine reinforced with some filled in lacks, a tear repaired to the half title page,the one with the inscription.
This copy has a [...]

5 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Oscar DOMINGUEZ

Série de 5 encres originales réalisées selon la technique dite "décalcomanies du désir"

s.d. (circa 1942-1944), 8,x12cm & 8,4x12,2cm & 14,1x14,8 & 9x11,8cm & 12,6x13,1cm, 5 feuilles.

Set of five beautiful and rare Indian ink on heavy paper made by the method of "The decal without preconceived object" invented by the artist in 1935 and again by including Max Ernst and Hans Bellmer. This technique, also called "decal desire" is a pressure of a sheet (or a glass plate) or inked [...]

12 000 €

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