First edition, Signed book

COLETTE

L'envers du music-hall

Flammarion, Paris s.d. (1913), 12x19cm, relié.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Half cherry-red morocco over marbled paper boards by Goy & Vilaine, spine in six compartments, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, [...]

2 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Claire GOLL

Un amour au quartier latin

Fayard, Paris 1959, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Affectionate autograph inscription from Claire Goll to a couple of his acquaintance.

60 €

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First edition

Emilia CUCHET-ALBARET

Les fuseaux d'ivoire

Payot, Lausanne 1909, 12x19cm, relié.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists. Bound in half morocco sand wedge, back with five nerves set with ornate golden nets triple gilded boxes, date tail, gilt frames on flat marbled, endpapers and contreplats marbled paper, covers and spine preserved, eg bookplate pasted on a guard, golden [...]

300 €

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Marceline DESBORDES-VALMORE

Mes jeunes amis

A. Boulland, Paris 1830, 10,5 x 17 cm, relié.

Choice of 38 pieces for children. Full sheepskin binding fawn rooted. Back smooth irons, jewels and gold lace, rubbing including caps and joint. Fine roulette stylized frame. Part of title in orange shagreen. Slices speckled. Contemporary binding. Cups rubbed, two small gaps at the bottom of the [...]

90 €

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Marie-Jeanne RICCOBONI

Lettres De Milady Juliette Catesby, A Milady Henriette Camply, Son Amie

S.n., à Amsterdam 1761, In 12 (9x15,5cm), (2) 250pp., relié.

Second edition, published by the same publisher reportedly the first in 1759, with the same snack. Novel published anonymously and claimed translated from English. Full of marbled sheepskin time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. a blunt, bare corner. Friction. Marie-Jeanne [...]

250 €

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Caroline PICHLER

Agathocles, ou lettres écrites de Rome et de Grèce, au commencement du quatrième siècle

Chez Blanchard et Eymery, Paris 1812, 4 tomes en 4 Vol. in 12 (10x17,5cm), 246pp. (1) et 239pp. et 255pp. et 281pp., quatre volumes reliés.

Original French edition, translated by Isabelle Montolieu. Illustrated with a frontispiece by Le Cerf. The title page of Volume 1 is normally replaced by two sheets of catalog. Full Calf rooted contemporary. Smooth back decorated with two boxes to the Grotesque, urn irons and multiple wheels. Red [...]

400 €

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Madame de GENLIS

Théâtre à l'usage des jeunes personnes

Chez Panckoucke, à Paris 1779-1780, in-8 (12x20cm), 522pp. (2) et (4) 464pp. et (4)436pp. et (4) 412pp., 4 volumes reliés.

First Edition.
Half time Calf. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco and volume number in brown sheepskin. Gaps on spine of Volume IV. A small loss in tail of volume III. Friction. Pretty good copies, fresh.
All volumes were 24 pieces. Many of these pieces were originally [...]

550 €

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Germaine Baronne de STAEL-HOLSTEIN

Corinne ou l'Italie

Lib. stéréotipe chez H. Nicolle, Paris 1807, 13x20cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition published the same year as the original. Binding sheepskin half hazelnut, flat spine decorated with friezes and gilded typographical reasons dotted with small traces of rubbing, rubbed the head a cap, flat cardboard dusky pink with small spots of discoloration, reinforced corners, [...]

750 €

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