First edition, Signed book

Paul VALERY

Lettre à madame C...

Grasset, Paris 1928, 14,5x19,5cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on vélin Rives blanc paper, this one of 24 hors commerce copies reserved for the author and his friends.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Paul Valéry : "A Charles Maurras, au poète, au pur esprit [For Charles Maurras, the poet, the pure of [...]

1 200 €

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Françoise MALLET-JORIS

Lettre à moi-même

Julliard, Paris 1963, 14,5x21,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper Marais ours one of 60 reserved to the Club of the first edition, the only major paper.
Handwritten signature of Françoise Mallet-Joris on the half-title page.
Nice copy.

80 €

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François René de CHATEAUBRIAND

Lettre à un pair de France (sur la situation politique)

Le Normant père, Paris 1824, 14,5x22cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

The first edition, which appeared in plain covers
This copy has a chemise of half blue morocco over blue marbled paper boards and slipcase of blue marbled paper edged with blue morocco
Foxing, an angular lack to the first blank endpaper, traces of folds to plain covers
Very rare [...]

6 800 €

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First edition

Pierre LOTI

Lettres de Pierre Loti à madame Juliette Adam (1880-1922)

Plon, Paris 1924, 14,5x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Chine, tirage de tête.
Light foxing to some extended edges, a good copy with good margins.

300 €

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Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Lettres de jeunesse

Gallimard, Paris 1953, 12x19cm, relié.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Japon, tirage de tête along with 10 Madagascar hors commerce.
Half black morocco, spine in six compartments, marbled paper boards, pastedowns and endpapers of papier uni, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding by Goy & Vilaine.
A [...]

2 300 €

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SEVIGNE

Lettres de madame de Sévigné à sa fille et à ses amis

Ménard & Desenne, Paris 1827, 8,5x14,5cm, 12 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition, frontispiece of the first volume of a portrait of Madame de Sevigne engraved by Dequevauviller.
Binders half raspberry calf, back with four nerves set with gilded garlands adorned with jewels and typographical motifs stamped cold as exhibits and black calfskin volume [...]

680 €

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Prosper MERIMEE

Lettres à une inconnue

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1874, 13,5x22cm, 2 volumes reliés.

first edition.
Binders half morocco tree with corners, back with five nerves set with black fillets decorated with double cold boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, marbled, elegant bindings.
The text is preceded by a study of Mérimée by Hippolyte [...]

200 €

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Louise-Adélaïde de BOURBON-CONDE

Lettres écrites en 1786 et 1787, publiées par M. Ballanche

Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'aîné, Paris 1834, 10,5x17,5cm, relié.

first edition, published by Pierre-Simon Ballanche, the intimate correspondence of Louise Adelaide de Bourbon, called Mademoiselle de Conde, addressed to his friend the Marquis Louis-Nicolas Magon The Gervaisais. It contains 2 letters of 4 pages each, in facsimile.
Contemporary binding in full [...]

450 €

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