World War I

First edition, one of the copies from the first issue.
Small marginal tears to the boards.
Moving autograph inscription signed by Henri de Régnier: "Pour les soldats de France dont l'héroïsme n'est pas une illusion, mais la plus haute des réalités. Henri de Régnier 1917" ["For the soldiers of France whose heroism is not an illusion, but the highest of realities. Henri de Régnier 1917"].

First edition, one of 230 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies along with 45 on pur fil.
Spine slightly darkened.
Manuscript signature by Blaise Cendrars on the half-title page.

First edition, one of a few numbered copies on pure laid paper of which no mention is made.
Minor tears without consequence to the spine at head and at the deckled edges, traces of light corner folds to the boards, a light stain in the margin of the first board, rare full-margined copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Admiral Jules-Théophile Docteur to Monsieur Delesalle.

First edition, one of 205 numbered copies on hollande paper, deluxe copy after 73 on japon.
Handsome full-margined copy.
Work illustrated with 6 maps drawn by Paul Chack and 5 engravings.
Manuscript signature by Paul Chack on the half-title page.

First edition of each volume, with print runs varying from 297 to 1,250 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies along with the reimposed editions.
Spine of the fifth volume split, printed "nrf" mention scratched on the back cover of the first volume of the seventh part.
Rare and handsome complete set with publisher's slip.
Autograph inscription dated 1929 and signed by Roger Martin du Gard, on a loose leaf: tribute from the author, absent from Paris, to Robert de Saint-Jean.

First edition of this vocal and piano score illustrated on the front cover with a portrait of Marshal Ferdinand Foch.
Handsome copy despite a small stain on the score which does not impair readability.

First edition of this vocal and piano score with an illustration on the front cover by an unknown artist.
Cover almost entirely split but without loss.

First edition of this voice and piano score illustrated on the first cover by an unknown artist.
Cover fold slightly split, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition of this voice and piano score illustrated on the first cover by an unknown artist.
Handsome copy.

First edition of this vocal score (bilingual) and piano illustrated on the front cover with a large color illustration by Roger de Valerio. La Madelon was created by Maurice Chevalier at the Casino de Paris.
Very handsome copy.

Autograph letter signed by Pierre Louÿs, addressed to Georges Louis. Four pages written in blue ink on four sheets.
Handsome letter addressed to his brother Georges Louis with whom Pierre Louÿs maintained a very intimate relationship and whom he considered as his own father.
The question of Pierre Louÿs's real father's identity still fascinates biographers today: "His father, Pierre Philippe Louis, [...] had married in 1842 Jeanne Constance Blanchin, who died ten years later after having given him two children, Lucie and Georges. In 1855, he remarried Claire Céline Maldan, and from this union was born, in 1857, a son, Paul; then, in 1870, our writer, who received the first names Pierre Félix. This late birth, the differences in character between father and son, the former's disaffection toward the latter, the profound intimacy that always reigned between Louÿs and his brother Georges, all this has led certain biographers and critics to suspect that the latter was in reality the writer's father. The exceptionally intimate and constant relationship that Pierre and Georges maintained between them throughout their lives could be an argument in this sense. Of course, no irrefutable proof has been discovered, and probably never will be. Nevertheless, certain letters [...] are quite troubling. In 1895, for example, Louÿs writes gravely to his brother that he knows the answer to 'the most poignant question' he could ask him, a question he has had 'on his lips for ten years.' The following year, at the height of Aphrodite's triumph, he thanks Georges effusively and ends his letter with this sentence: 'Not one of my friends has a FATHER who is to him what you are to me.' Arguing from the close intimacy between Georges and Claire Céline during the year 1870, and from the jealousy that the father never ceased to show toward his younger son, Claude Farrère did not hesitate to conclude in favor of Georges Louis. And what to think of this dedication by Louÿs to his brother on a deluxe copy of the first edition of Pausole: To Georges, his eldest son / Pierre." (Jean-Paul Goujon, Pierre Louÿs)
This letter was written after the First World War: "The project to open the Panthéon to heroes who offered everything to the Fatherland, even losing their name for her, is excellent. And it would be, for the archbishopric of Paris, an unhoped-for opportunity to spontaneously render to our great dead of the crypt the respects that it alone in the world denies them. It would thus repair an error that has lasted too long for its glory. Cemeteries are deconsecrated. No theological reason can attribute to them a more religious character than to the basement of a monument surmounted by a colossal cross and sanctified by ashes." Indeed, in November 1920, Charles Dumont, the general budget reporter, expressed his wish to bring the unknown soldier into the Panthéon. Finally, only the ceremony took place there and the remains of the most famous of the combatants remained, as everyone knows, under the Arc de Triomphe. The only soldier to join the Panthéon, Maurice Genevoix, would not enter until a hundred years later, on November 11, 2020.
Louÿs concludes his letter with a very handsome tribute to the writer he has always admired: "One is ill-advised to forbid the faithful such a pilgrimage. They do it. For immense humanity, the earth where Hugo's corpse lay down is holy ground."

First edition in French, one of 1250 numbered copies on pure thread paper.
Minor worming to spine and margins of boards, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition, one of 95 numbered copies on China paper, deluxe copy.
Work decorated with 12 maps and illustrated with 18 engravings for the first volume and 4 maps and 26 engravings for the second.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally sunned without severity, small angular tears on the boards.
Handsome full-margined copy.

First edition, one of 100 numbered deluxe copies, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy presented unbound in double chemise and cream white slipcase.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper.
The work is illustrated with original illustrations by Edy Legrand.
Spine lightly sunned with two tiny lacks at head and foot.
Signed autograph inscription from Henri de Montherlant to Henri Poulain, literary columnist and later administrator of the collaborationist newspaper "Je suis partout".

First edition, one of 44 numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe edition.
Half red morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt triple cartouches ending in interlaced patterns enhanced with green mosaicked morocco pieces, gilt date at foot, gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, covers and spine preserved, elegant contemporary binding signed Charles Lanoë.
Some light rubbing to one joint and to upper corners.
Handsome copy elegantly bound.

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on Holland paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
Half khaki green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands, gilt date at foot, boards with abstract decorative pattern paper, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
Trace of removed bookplate on one pastedown.
Handsome copy of the author's first work.

Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend, the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel, one page written in black ink on a double sheet with letterhead from the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole in Marseille.
A central fold inherent to the mailing of the letter.
Handsome letter addressed from Marseille while Colette was conducting a lecture tour: "I'm finishing my tour. I'll be in Paris on Sunday, and we'll take care of this matter, - which I still haven't understood anything about."
"In November 1923, she dealt with (...) a subject she knew by heart, Le Théâtre vu des deux côtés de la rampe. Her very young lover Bertrand de Jouvenel joined her in Marseille, at the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole. Scandal: Bertrand de Jouvenel was none other than the son of her second husband, the diplomat Henry de Jouvenel; guaranteed uproar around the fifty-year-old writer, while her husband's son had just celebrated his twentieth birthday. Colette had, two years earlier, initiated the future economist and political scientist into love, in this scandalous liaison which provided the theme and situations for Blé en herbe (published in that same year 1923)." (Rémi Duchêne, L'Embarcadère des lettres)

Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend, the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel, nine lines written in black ink.
Some folding marks inherent to the mailing of the letter.
"And then damn it, enough already. Here La Cigale is calling me for tomorrow evening, and I haven't stolen it, since I accepted, and even asked, to do the café-concert criticism on the same level as the other."

Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend, the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel, two pages written in black ink in hurried handwriting on a double sheet with L'Eclair newspaper letterhead.
A central fold inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing.
Fine letter from Colette, testimony to the confusion that seized France at the dawn of the Great War: "Nothing is working. I am stuck here for a piece they are asking me to write." The writer worries: "I have no news from Sidi [Henry de Jouvenel]. I am creating a whole head of worries for myself. I don't know where he is, he wrote to me that he was leaving with the 29th for the Somme. Ah! la la la la la la..."
"Colette a entendu sonner le tocsin en Bretagne, où elle passait un séjour ensoleillé avec le baron Henry de Jouvenel, et leur fille, dans sa maison de Rozven. La guerre la surprend en plein bonheur, à quarante et un ans. [...] Son mari, appelé dès le 2 août, devant rejoindre le 29e régiment d'infanterie, à Verdun, elle a aussitôt envoyé sa fille, à peine âgée d'un an, avec sa nurse, au château de Castel Novel, en Corrèze - chez sa belle-mère. Et elle est rentrée à Paris." ["Colette heard the tocsin ringing in Brittany, where she was spending a sunny stay with Baron Henry de Jouvenel, and their daughter, in her house at Rozven. The war surprised her in the midst of happiness, at forty-one years old. [...] Her husband, called up from August 2nd, having to join the 29th infantry regiment, at Verdun, she immediately sent her daughter, barely a year old, with her nurse, to the château de Castel Novel, in Corrèze - to her mother-in-law's. And she returned to Paris."] (Dominique Bona, Colette et les siennes)

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on imperial Japan paper, the only deluxe copies.
Rare and handsome copy despite small lacks to spine and traces of corner creases on boards.

Illustrated edition with 49 original etchings by Raymond Renefer, one of 24 numbered copies on Japan paper, the deluxe issue after 13 old Japan copies.
Full red morocco binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands, gilt roulettes on headcaps, front cover decorated with a geometric design of mosaic morocco pieces in turquoise, brown, navy blue and brown surrounded by gilt dots, burgundy watered silk endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillet frame on pastedowns, top edge gilt, gilt fillet on edges, covers and spine preserved, binding signed Trinckel.
The work includes, as stated in the edition justification, the duplicate suite on China paper of the illustrations.
Handsome copy perfectly executed in a mosaic binding by Trinckvel.

First edition.
Covers detaching at head and foot, which is almost inevitable given the fragility of this pamphlet.
Rare.

First edition.
Handsome copy despite a light marginal dampstain affecting the edges of the final leaves and the final endpaper at its margin, without any damage to the text.
Rare.

New edition.
Foxing on the boards, marginally sunned, with a small angular tear at the foot of the front cover.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Spine sunned, handsome interior condition.
Preface by M. Lauwick.

Rare first edition in French.
Handsome copy.

New edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Covers slightly and very marginally sunned, otherwise a handsome copy.
Illustrated pamphlet with a portrait of Lenin.
Preface by A. Pierre.

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Light marginal tears to boards, endpapers partially shaded, bookplate pasted to verso of front board.
Rare copy of this work dedicated: "To the memory of the martyrs of the New Faith: of the human International. To Jean Jaurès, Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxembourg, Kurt Eisner, Gustav Landauer, victims of ferocious stupidity and murderous lies, liberators of men, who killed them."

New edition.
Covers marginally sunned with small lacks.
Rare libertarian and Malthusian pamphlet.

First edition of each volume, with print runs varying from 297 to 1,250 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies along with the re-imposed editions.
Light foxing and a tear at the head of the spine of the second volume, printed collector's stamps on the title pages of the fifth, sixth and seventh volumes, some foxing at the foot of the first leaves of the sixth and seventh volumes.
A rare and handsome set.

First edition in French of this offprint from the article published in No. 9 of "Internationale communiste" from February 1920.
Spine and boards marginally sunned and soiled, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition, one of the first 60 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome and rare full-margined copy despite small marginal tears of no consequence to the boards.
Signed autograph inscription from Edmond Delage to monsieur Geymard.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies.
Complete with publisher's wraparound band.
Handsome copy of this work devoted to the Franco-Colombian poet, who volunteered for the French Foreign Legion and died in action during the Allied offensive in Artois in 1915.

First edition, statement of thousand copies.
Small tears at head and foot of spine, one scratch at foot of spine with paper loss, slight marginal tears on boards.
Autograph inscription signed by Georges Guitton to Madame Joybert.

Autograph letter from the painter Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret, regarding one of his most famous paintings depicting future soldiers of the Great War, entitled "Les Conscrits", now held in the collections of the Assemblée nationale in Paris. 2 pages on a folded sheet.
Trained in the studios of Alexandre Cabanel and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Dagnan-Bouveret received the second prize of Rome. Of naturalist inspiration, he devoted himself to religious painting and had a prolific career as a portraitist at the end of his life. He received prestigious commissions from the Countess of Béarn and the New York Frick family.
Known for his Breton subjects in realistic style, Dagnan-Bouveret painted during 1890 young conscripts drawn by lot to perform their military service. The youngest is depicted draped in the tricolor flag which he brandishes. "If the painter Dagnan-Bouveret created realistic portraits of these conscripts, it is almost certain that these men experienced fire during the First World War" (cf. expositions.bnf)
"[...] J'ose à peine vous inviter à venir voir mon nouveau tableau "les Conscrits", et pourtant vous avez toujours pris tant d'intérêt à mes efforts que je me ferais des reproches de ne pas vous avoir prévenu. [...]" ["[...] I hardly dare invite you to come see my new painting 'the Conscripts', and yet you have always taken such interest in my efforts that I would reproach myself for not having warned you. [...]"]

Autograph letter signed by the military painter and illustrator Edouard Detaille to the Minister of War Adolphe Messimy, one folded sheet. The painter had been charged with renovating the French army uniform and delivers here a first version of the helmet, which would be reworked by Louis Adrian and used during the First World War.
The painter presents a prototype of his helmet and requests that a few hundred be made: "J'ai l'honneur de vous adresse le casque que j'ai fait fabriquer pour l'infanterie, et dont l'adoption dès maintenant avait été décidée pour la batterie à cheval de la garnison de Paris. Je tiens absolument à la propriété de ce modèle, que j'ai étudié avec grand soin, et qui ne saurait subir de modifications sous peine de perdre tout son caractère artistique et son côté pratique. Je me mets donc à votre disposition pour en assurer l'exécution. Il ne s'agit pas à proprement parler d'une fourniture : c'est un essai et il suffit de 200 à 250 casques environ. [...]" ["I have the honor of sending you the helmet that I had manufactured for the infantry, and whose adoption from now on had been decided for the horse battery of the Paris garrison. I am absolutely committed to the ownership of this model, which I have studied with great care, and which could not undergo modifications without losing all its artistic character and practical aspect. I therefore put myself at your disposal to ensure its execution. It is not strictly speaking a supply: it is a trial and only about 200 to 250 helmets are needed. [...]"]. This first version was presented to the public and described in an article in Gil Blas January 24, 1912: "Ce casque est acier bleui avec cimier bronzé surmontant le milieu de la bombe. La visière et son cache-nuque sont uniformes, ce qui permet de le porter des deux faces. Le casque n'a ni endroit, ni envers, et il est ornementé de deux têtes de lion en acier servant à fixer la jugulaire, également en acier bronzé. Le côté gauche est garni d'une cocarde tricolore rajoutée" ["This helmet is blued steel with a bronzed crest surmounting the middle of the bowl. The visor and its neck guard are uniform, which allows it to be worn on both sides. The helmet has neither front nor back, and it is ornamented with two steel lion heads used to attach the chin strap, also in bronzed steel. The left side is fitted with an added tricolor cockade"].

First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Illustrated cover.
One tear at the foot of the spine.
Signed autograph inscription from Pierre Mille to Jean Morienval.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Small marginal tears at head of spine and on boards.
Autograph inscription signed by Henry Malherbe to Edouard Schneider: "... ami sensible, équitable et fin..." ["...sensitive, fair and refined friend..."]

First edition for each of the volumes with print runs varying from 297 to 1,250 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies along with the reimposed copies.
Spines and front covers of volumes 4 and 6 partially sunned, one endpaper foxed, otherwise handsome set.

First edition decorated with 62 original compositions in colors (including 2 on the cover, 1 frontispiece repeated at the end of the work, 1 on the title page, 15 full-page illustrations hors-texte and 43 in-text, including 1 repeated twice).
Publisher's binding in full sky blue boards, smooth unlettered spine, illustrated covers, endpapers and pastedowns of paper with patriotic motifs representing roosters, red edges, binding signed Engel.
Headcaps very lightly rubbed without significance, handsome copy of this work published for the little children of France.

First edition.
Preface by General Perrier.
A small tear and a slight tear to the margin of the first cover.
Rare.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from La revue bleue of December 28, 1918 and January 11, 1919.
Small stains to corners of front cover boards marginally discolored, handsome interior condition.
Rare work presented under triple mauve wrappers.

First edition of the French translation, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Spine slightly faded and wrinkled with two small tears with minimal lacks at head and foot.
Cover illustrated with a vignette.

First edition, one of 38 numbered copies on wove paper, ours one of 18 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Paul Allard to Louis Cheronnet: "... en souvenir d'un remords et d'une faute qui prive ce livre de tout sens philosophique. Paul Allard." ["... in memory of a remorse and a fault which deprives this book of all philosophical meaning. Paul Allard."]

Rare first edition.
Mute back insolated.
Signed autograph of Pierre Laflèche to a friend named Jean: "To my friend found Jean (illegible name), affectionate tribute on 15/3/18."

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Back with slight bites in the foot, small foxing on the upper edge.
Signed autograph of Jean Dutourd Jeanne Remy: "... by kissing him."

First edition with 2 illustrations by Sainte Marie Perrin.
Handsome copy with covers slightly and marginally sunned without consequence.

First edition.
One stain to spine, otherwise a handsome copy.
With a frontispiece portrait of General Skobeleff.

First edition.
Spine and boards marginally discolored, tiny corner losses to rear board, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

First edition of this third sketchbook of war by painter Lucien Jonas, one of 50 copies numbered by Lucien Jonas and hand-colored by the painter.
Publisher's full cream cloth binding, title and date on the front cover inscribed by Lucien Jonas's hand, complete with its cloth lace recalling the shoulder strap of the Poilus' knapsacks.
Handsome and rare copy.
Work illustrated with 53 sketches by Lucien Jonas which he colored and captioned as clearly stipulated in the justification page.

First edition, one of 115 copies on laid paper Lafuma-Navarre reimposed in Tellière quarto format, ours one of 10 hors commerce lettered copies, deluxe issue.
Spine slightly sunned, small tear at foot of first board, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition, one of 122 copies on laid paper Lafuma-Navarre reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe issue.
Spine slightly sunned, two small crease marks on boards, otherwise a handsome copy.

First edition, one of 122 copies on laid Lafuma-Navarre paper, reimposed in Tellière quarto format, ours one of 10 hors commerce lettered copies, deluxe copy.
Spine very lightly sunned, slight tear to margin of front cover, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition, one of 108 copies on vergé pur fil paper Lafuma-Navarre re-imposed in Tellière quarto format, the tirage de tête.
Spine discolored with small tears on the headpieces, otherwise nice set.

First edition, one of 108 copies on laid Lafuma-Navarre paper, reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
Spine very lightly sunned, handsome copy.

First edition and complete collection of this magazine exclusively animated by Tristan Bernard at the same time editor-in-chief, leader, chief of the echoes, military critic and manager.
Binding in full white percaline, smooth back, rectangles of red and blue percaline in margins of boards, covers of each pamphlet preserved, Contemporary binding.
Signed autograph dedication of Tristan Bernard to Lucette Descaves at the head of the first pamphlet.

First edition, one of 118 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
Spine and boards very lightly and marginally sunned without significance.

First edition consisting of a suite of 12 illustrated plates with drawings by Dunoyer de Segonzac, one of 6 numbered copies on China paper, deluxe copy.
Publisher's chemise in red half-cloth, smooth unlettered spine, cream paper boards, title label pasted on first cover, chemise complete with all its ties.
Headcaps slightly rubbed and frayed.
Handsome and rare copy.

First edition, one of rares copies on Japon, of which there is no statement in the justification.
A nice copy with edges preserved despite some small foxing on a few edges.
This copy is retaining chapter 24, delete of most part of the printing, at the request of the censorship.

First edition.
Half red sheep binding, spine with five raised bands showing small stains and some rubbing, frame of cold-stamped frieze on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with 15 double-sided photographic plates and maps.
One tear at head of front cover, two dates inscribed in ink at heads of first leaves.

One of the most magnificent letters by Fernand Léger

A fabulous handwritten letter by the painter Fernand Léger, written on the front line during the Battle of Argonne, addressed to the Parisian art trader Adolphe Basler.
92 lines in black ink, four pages on a double leaf, dated 28 May 1915 by Léger.
The handwritten letter is presented with a half forest green morocco chemise, green paper boards with a stylised motif, endpapers lined with green lamb, slip case lined with the same morocco, the piece is signed by Goy & Vilaine.
The letter was chosen for Cécile Guilbert's anthology, Les Plus Belles Lettres manuscrites de Voltaire à Édith Piaf, Robert Laffont, 2014.

First edition.
Nice copy.
Autograph signed by Yves Ternon Jean Bardet, co-founder with Paul Flamand editions of Seuil.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Work illustrated by Rip and Henri Rudaux.
Small marginal lacks to boards, some foxing affecting mainly the endpapers.
A full-margined copy.

Partly first edition on current paper.
Ex-dono of the dedicatee at the head of a guard.
Illustrated book of 8 wood inserts Walch Le Tannois.
Signed autograph dedication of Jean Suberville to Louis Viossat.

First edition for each of the volumes with print runs varying from 297 to 1,250 numbered copies on pure laid paper, the only deluxe copies along with the reimposed ones.
Two spines slightly sunned, rare light worming on four endpapers, otherwise handsome set.

First edition.
Precious autograph dedication dated and signed by Jean-Michel Renaitour: "To the incomparable master of the style & the idea, to the great writer with big heart Anatole France, in total admiration."
Small, non-serious spots on the boards.

BOULESTIN Xavier Marcel
illustration by LABOUREUR Jean-émile
Dans les Flandres britanniques. British Expeditionary Force, Mai 1915 - Janvier 1916
First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on vellum, ours is a press office copy, only print with 50 Holland. Half moroccan shagreen binding, red paper boards, paste downs and endpapers, covers and spine preserved.
Ex-libris glued to a paste down.
Illustrated with 24 drawings by Jean-Emile Laboureur.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on vellum, the only deluxe copies.
The work illustrated with a photographic portrait of Ernest Psichari as frontispiece as well as 6 engravings.
Spine and boards lightly and entirely sunned, first endpaper shadowed.
A full-margined copy.

First edition, one of 1050 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, one draw with 15 Madagascar.
Signed autograph of Jean Galtier-Boissière Paul Ollier.
Nice copy.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph of Georges Suarez Charles Laval.
Small tear in foot of the back, complete copy of his prayer to insert.

First edition, one of 800 numbered copies on fine bouffant alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 15 Japan and 100 Rives vellum.
Handsome copy.
The author was among the first writers to perish in the battles of 1914.

First edition printed on vergé paper, there were only 3 Hollande large paper copies.
Illustrated cover by Edmond Bille.
Three small marginal tears to the spine and the covers, small spots to head of lower cover, internally good.

First edition illustrated with photographs.
Foreword by Paul Deschanel and preface by Philippe Pétain.
Fold marks to first cover.

Edition printed on rod.
Signed autograph Andre Suares to the editor and paper manufacturer Louis Lafuma: "... man of faith ..." beautifully handwritten in red ink on the first guard.
Last shaded guard, the first much more lightly.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
A tiny nick at head of spine, small angular lacks to the marginally shaded endpapers, handsome full-margined copy.

first edition on the current paper.
Binding of the editor in full sand canvas, smooth back, full copy of his illustrated jacket which has small marginal tear without gravity.
Signed autograph of Georges Blond Alain Decaux.
Iconography.

First edition for which there were no large paper copies.
Autograph inscription from Alain to Jean Texcier.
A good copy despite a small spot to foot of lower cover.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on Hollande, the only large paper copies.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally faded, not serious,.
A good and rare copy with good margins.

First edition of which there were no large paper copies, stated the second edition.
Rare.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Bradel binding in half indigo percaline, smooth spine slightly sunned decorated with a central gilt floral motif, double gilt fillet at foot, black shagreen title label, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding characteristic of those that composed Henri Béraud's library.
Humorous autograph inscription signed by Ernest Tisserand to Henri Béraud: "... voici en souvenir de la guerre, un livre de guerre qui est peut-être le moins livre de guerre des livres de guerre..." ["... here in memory of the war, a war book which is perhaps the least war book of war books..."]
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on the Île de Ré.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Henri Pairault to Henri Béraud: "... en hommage de haute estime littéraire..." ["in tribute of high literary esteem..."] enriched with a visiting card on which the author requests a little time from Henri Béraud so that he might devote some of his attention "à cette humble plaquette dans le fatras des productions qui vous parviennent..." ["to this humble booklet among the jumble of productions that reach you..."]
Work illustrated with 20 caricatures of distinctly anti-German inspiration.
Two small lacks to foot of spine, foxing to rear board.
Provenance: from the library of Henri Béraud of Ré.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Rare and signed autograph inscription from Juan Enrique Lagarrigue to Henri Béraud.
Some light foxing to the boards
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on Île de Ré.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from J.-A. Sauzey to Henri Béraud.
Complete with its folding map at rear.
Occasional worming affecting mainly the covers.
Provenance: from Henri Béraud's library on Ré Island.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Handsome autograph inscription from Pierre Drieu la Rochelle to his friend Henri Béraud : "A Henri Béraud dont je viens de lire avec un énorme plaisir le 14 Juillet. Amicalement [For Henri Béraud, whose 14th July I have just finished reading with enormous pleasure. Best wishes]."
Spine with a small tear glued down to foot of spine, a trace of folding to lower cover, occasional spots.

Edition with 30 original drawings by Bernard Naudin, one of copies on vélin teinté paper.
A good copy.

First edition, a 1000 numbered copies on Holland paper, only 65 leading copies after Japan.
Work illustrated with 20 wooden black and color of Jean Perrier.
Slight marginal minor tears on the boards.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies.
Preface by Maurice Barrès.
Work illustrated with a portrait of the author by Paul Jobert as frontispiece as well as 107 pen drawings by Charles-Emile Carlègle
Small lacks to head of spine, light adhesive paper stains to heads and feet of endpapers, otherwise handsome full-margined copy.

first edition on the current paper it is printed on Rives 30 leading copies.
Signed autograph of the author Robert Garric.
Book illustrated with a frontispiece engraved on wood by Alexandre Noll.

First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on select bouffant only major papers.
Dated and signed autograph dedication from the author to full page Serge Pain: "... I am pleased to dedicate this book, in which he found in food and drink, as it is unconventional Perhaps the distraita. t it? I hope so ... "
Pleasant specimen with all margins.