First edition

Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES, Léon DUVAUCHEL

Le tourbier (moeurs picardes)

Albert Savine, Paris 1889, 11x18cm, relié.

First edition.
Half cloth contemporary binding signed by Cabry.
Illustrated with a drawing by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes as frontispiece.
Occasional foxing.
Rare.

 

600 €

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First edition

Jean LORRAIN

Madame Baringhel

Fayard frères, Paris 1900, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, a unique copy printed on pink paper, tirage de tête along with a pale green paper.
A rare and good copy.

1 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

SAINT-JOHN PERSE

Chronique

Les cahiers du sud, Marseille 1959, 14,5x23,5cm, broché.

First edition, hors commerce, printed in 100 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only printing with a few copies for the author, this one specially printed for Thomas Stearns Eliot.
Handsome autograph inscription from Saint-John Perse to his friend and U.S. translator, Allen (Tate) : " Pour [...]

2 500 €

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Maurice MARTIN DU GARD

Les mémorables

Flammarion & Grasset, Paris 1957-1978, 16,5x21,5cm, 3 volumes brochés.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on chiffon de Lana paper for the first two volumes and one of 64 numbered copies on vergé de Voiron for the last, the tirage de tête for the first two volumes and the only large paper copies for the last.
Trace of a transverse fold to upper cover of [...]

1 500 €

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Francis CARCO

L'homme traqué

Albin Michel, Paris 1922, 17x25,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on vélin de cuve paper reserved for the “XX” bibliophile group, the tirage de tête.
Signed by the author on justification page.
A good copy complete with its double covers by Albin Michel and the “XX” bibliophile group.
Joints of [...]

1 200 €

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First edition

Alméry LOBEL-RICHE, Francis CARCO

Les malheurs de Fernande

A l'édition, Paris 1918, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Arches paper, leading copy after 6 Japan.
Bound in half morocco anthracite strip, flat spine enriched head of a bookplate mosaic piece of red and brown morocco, covers and spine preserved, gilded head, pasted on the first contreplat elegant relioure [...]

750 €

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Charles - Irénée CASTEL

Projet de taille tarifée

Chez Jean Daniel Beman, à Rotterdam 1737, petit in-8 (9,5x15,5cm), (1p. tit.) 338pp. ; 96pp., relié.

Second edition in the partly original, rare. The original was published in Paris in 1723, the author dissatisfied with his work proposed this revised and expanded second edition of the second part, the draft Suplémant priced size in which he answers the objections of his critics.
Full speckled [...]

1 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pierre de CRISENOY

Essai sur Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

Bibliothèque des entretiens idéalistes, Paris 1908, 14x23cm, broché.

First edition of 250 copies printed.
beautiful autograph dedication signed by the author in full page and in red ink in the manner of Barbey d'Aurevilly to Mr. H. Bartholomew: "... the director of so many fine books and in gratitude for the magnificent edition of "I need regular. Membra "this [...]

80 €

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