Color photographic postcard depicting Johnny Hallyday, a guitar in his right hand, balancing on a locomotive.
Photographic postcard produced by Philips studios.
Signed in Johnny Hallyday's hand in the upper left margin.
Colour photographic postcard depicting Claude François.
A well-preserved example. A newspaper clipping has been affixed to the verso, which also shows traces of glue.
Signed in black felt-tip pen by Claude François, with a small flower drawing and the word "bises".
Provenance: from the collection of the prominent autograph collector Claude Armand.
Black and white photographic portrait of the legendary jazz musician Benny Goodman, holding his clarinet in his left hand.
A fine example. A newspaper clipping announcing the musician’s death is affixed to the verso of the print. We include the original mailing envelope, bearing Benny Goodman’s initials, in which the photograph was sent. A concert program for Benny Goodman and his jazz band performing in Zurich in 1970 accompanies the set.
Signed by Benny Goodman in blue ballpoint pen in the upper left corner of the photograph.
Provenance: from the collection of renowned autograph collector Claude Armand.</
Photographic postcard depicting Lionel Hampton in the 1960s–70s playing the vibraphone.
A handsome copy.
Signed by Lionel Hampton in blue felt-tip pen on the verso of the photograph.
Provenance: from the collection of the renowned autograph collector Claude Armand.
Black-and-white photographic postcard depicting a young Ludmila Tcherina.
Pinholes to the corners of the card.
Signed autograph inscription by Ludmila Tcherina, in white felt-tip pen, to the prominent autograph collector Claude Armand: "A Claude bien amicalement Tcherina."
Provenance: from the collection of the renowned autograph collector Claude Armand.
First edition printed in small numbers of this offprint from the Mercure de France published on May 15, 1920. OCLC does not locate any copies in North America and only three in Europe (Bnf, Bibliothèque Doucet, Universitätsbibliothek Basel).
Covers with frayed margins, second cover partially shaded, one small piece of paper missing from the right margin of a page due to the fragility of the paper.
Signed and inscribed copy to painter Bernard de Blois: “En sympathie de voisin de logis et d'esthétique. Canudo 1922.” [”In sympathy as a neighbor of lodgings and aesthetics. Canudo 1922.”]
Extremely rare first edition of the libretto of t
Unpublished and signed autograph score by Camille Saint-Saëns. Two pages of handwritten music for solo voice and piano, on an oblong bifolium with twenty staves. Autograph inscription on the first page signed by Saint-Saëns, with his signature and date ("Nov. 1870") appearing again on the second page.
Trace of vertical fold, with a tiny tear along the fold, a small marginal tear on 1 cm of the first page, without damage to the manuscript.
An exceptional unpublished autograph manuscript of a Persian melody for voice and piano, composed by Camille Saint-Saëns during the Siege of Paris in November 1870, enriched with a autograph inscription: 'A
First edition of this rare and fragile advertising object for the Galeries Lafayette consisting of 47 cardboard pieces with a medallion illustration designed by Jack Roberts and a children's song of four verses.
Handsome copy complete with its original crystal paper envelope.
First edition.
Half blue morocco shagreen, smooth spine, gilt date at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Exceptionally inscribed by Emile Zola to the playwright and opera librettist Ludovic Halévy, with the autograph signatures of Guy de Maupassant, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Léon Hennique, Paul Alexis and Henri Céard on the first flyleaf.
Provenances: from the libraries of Ludovic Halévy and Marcel Lecomte, with their bookplates on front pastedown.
Our copy also includes, on a flyleaf, an autograph note by Ludovic Halévy: "See a letter by Guy de Maupassant at the end of the volume. L.H. Inscribed by the six authors of the volume. Lud
First edition, with no mention of deluxe paper copies.
Half red marbled sheep binding, spine faded with four raised bands decorated with a gilt floral motif, light rubbing to the bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, front cover preserved, modest contemporary binding.
Rare signed and inscribed copy by the author Colette Andris to Jean Blavet.
Novelist, music-hall performer and actress, a forgotten and short-lived muse of the Roaring Twenties music-hall, Colette Andris (the pseudonym of Pauline Toutey) managed to write three novels between 1929 and 1935, with a lot of autobiographical elements. She would die in the prime o
Original autograph manuscript of a short story by Boris Vian, written in 1945 and published posthumously in the collection Le Loup-Garou in 1970.
Highly dense manuscript of 17 pages on 9 sheets, written in black ink with deletions and corrections, on perforated graph paper, dated “25.10.45” at the end of the text. One of the very rare manuscripts dated by the author.
Exceptional manuscript of Boris Vian’s first short story, written at the age of 25, just a few months after the Liberation.
Complete collection in 36 issues (including three double issues) bound in three volumes - First year: 12 issues, from 8 February 1885 to 6 January 1886 - Second year: 12 issues, from 8 February 1886 to 15 January 1887 - Third year: 12 issues, from February 1887 to January 1888.
Illustrated with 4 full-page lithographs by Fantin-Latour: L'Évocation d'Erda - Odilon Redon : Brünnhilde - Jacques-Emile Blanche : Tristan et Isolde and Le pur-simple.
Three quarter brown morocco binding, smooth spine titled in gilt, marbled paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, orignal wrappers preserved, binding signed by Dupré.
Numerous contributions
Ah, Westminster
Fol inventeur
Aurais-tu peur
De compter jusqu'à douze ?
Dans sa triste chambre
Le petit s'endort
Il gèle à pierre fendre
Le froid le dévore
On l'a trouvé dans son lit
Mort dans un sourire
Et Jésus là-haut s'est dit
Ca m'ôte un souci
Quand fleurit le marronnier du square
Autour de nous, le printemps se prépare
De ses doigts verts, il bat le jeu
Donnant aux deux amoureux
Un as de coeur, la carte du bonheur
La première fois, sur ton tailleur bleu
Un grand foulard vert !
Fausse note
["False note"]La seconde fois, j'ai baisé ta main
["The second time, I kissed your hand"]Tu sentais
"CLAC: Cercle Littéraire des amis des caves / Cercle libre des amateurs de cuisse." ["Literary Circle of cell
Il était né à Bois Colombe
Mais ne rêvait que d'océan
Et l'appel des sirènes blondes
Lui travaillait déjà le sang
Un soir en sortant de l'us
Quand
J'descends dans mon bistro
J'mets vingt ball'dans l'phono
J
C'est en allant acheter des nougats
Aux magasins du printemps
Que j'entendis pour la première fois
Ce cha cha cha obsédant
Un poisson d'avril
Est venu me raconter
Qu'on lui avait pris
Sa jolie corde à sauter
Toi l'inconnu(e)
Ombre entrevue
Tendre mirage
Soleil de ma vie
Emporte mes soucis
Un beau matin
En suivant la fanfare
Je vis soudain
Devant la gare
Une belle enfant
Qui vendait des mouchoirs
Pour vingt-cinq francq
Devant la gare
Original drawing by Manfred Thierry Mugler, entirely in pencil on a white paper leaf.
With a profile of a woman, wearing a mask on her face and another one on top of the first. Numerous technical annotations around the drawing, also by Mugler: "(?) serigraphed, lycra "Wig Hat"", "Painted realistic, like her make-up", "Or All metalic GOLD NO DEFINITION LIKE A MASK OF ANTIK THEATRE".
This drawing is probably a costume project for the dancer Olga Smirnova in the ballet "McGREGOR + MUGLER" by choreographer Wayne McGregor. Fashion designer Thierry Mugler was undeniably very attached to dance, having himself joined the Rhine Opera Ballet at the a
