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Signed Books, Presentation Copies

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  2. Comme Shirley
    Michel BUTOR, Gregory MASUROVSKY
    Comme Shirley
    S. n.|Paris 1966|12.50 x 21.50 cm|agrafé
    First edition of this unpublished poem by Michel Butor accompanying Grégory Masurovsky's recent drawings presented by La Hune in June 1966, one of 1000 numbered copies, ours one of the first 35.
    Pleasant illustrated copy of 8 reproductions of works of Grégory Masurovsky.
    Our copy is incomplete of the original engraving of Grégory Masurovsky to enrich the first 35 copies of the draw.
    Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend Georges Raillard.
    €60
  4. Bryen en temps conjugués
    Michel BUTOR, Camille BRYEN
    Bryen en temps conjugués
    Galerie de Seine|Paris 1975|16 x 21 cm|broché
    First edition of this unpublished poem by Michel Butor accompanying Grégory Masurovsky's recent drawings presented by La Hune in June 1966, one of 1000 numbered copies, ours one of the first 35.
    Pleasant illustrated copy of 8 reproductions of works of Grégory Masurovsky.
    Our copy is incomplete of the original engraving of Grégory Masurovsky to enrich the first 35 copies of the draw.
    Autograph dedication dated and signed by Michel Butor to his friend Georges Raillard.
    €80
  12. Sobre pintura
    Albert RÀFOLS-CASAMADA
    Sobre pintura
    La isla de los ratones|Santander 1985|12.50 x 17.50 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Pleasant copy, annotations and marks of reading, in pencil of paper and with post-its, of Georges Raillard on the margins of certain leaflets.
    Illustrated book of reproductions of Albert Rafols-Casamada's works.
    Our copy is enriched with an invitation card for the opening of the exhibition Rafols-Casamada at the Vandres Gallery on March 5, 1980 in Madrid, which Albert Rafols-Casamada transformed into a postcard which he signed and addressed to Alice and Georges Raillard.
    €150
  19. Blanche de Saint-Simon, ou France et Bourgogne. Chronique de 1468
    Antony THOURET
    Blanche de Saint-Simon, ou France et Bourgogne. Chronique de 1468
    Ladvocat|Paris 1835|14.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
    First edition of this historical novel written by Antony Thouret while incarcerated in the prisons of Saint-Waast.
    Binding in half morocco green morocco, smooth back decorated with a central and gilded floral pattern, golden date tail, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, blankets (dirty and doubled) preserved, binding of XIXth posterior of a few decades at work.
    Rare book illustrated with a portrait of the author and an off-text figure engraved on wood by Eugene Forest.
    Our copy is enriched by a signed autograph letter of three pages Antony Thouret to his publisher Ladvocat in which it is particularly question a second edition of the book which will be enriched with a second preface, some scenes main and a quantity of interesting notes.
    €350
  21. Brèves rencontres
    Jean EFFEL
    Brèves rencontres
    Editions Cercle d'art|Paris 1974|19.50 x 24.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition.
    Binding of the editor in full red cardboard, smooth back cleared, traces of discoloration in the margin of the second board.
    Light bites without gravity on the shirt.
    A work punctuated by Jean Effel's reflections, humorously treating the greatest masterpieces of painting and sculpture.
    Signed autograph dedication of Jean Effel Louis Flamme enriched with a drawing of a butterfly that forages a flower.
    €100
  22. A summer's work 7 April - 7 May 1994
    Antoni TÀPIES, Manuel J. BORJA-VILLEL
    A summer's work 7 April - 7 May 1994
    Waddington galleries|London 1994|25 x 30.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition of this exhibition catalog of works by Antoni Tapies presented at the Waddington Gallery in London from April 7 to May 7, 1994.
    Binding of the editor in full red canvas, smooth back, first flat illustrated with a vignette representing a work of Antoni Tapies.
    Nice copy.
    Iconography, we join an invitation card to a retrospective of the works of Antoni Tapies at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Barcelona on February 17, 2004.
    Text by Manuel J. Borja-Villel.
    Autographed and signed autograph by Antoni Tapies, in French, to his friend Georges Raillard, who was director of the French Institute of Barcelona and great specialist of the work of Antoni Tapies.
    €450
  29. Lettre autographe signée
    Jean RICARDOU
    Lettre autographe signée
    8 septembre 1973|21 x 29.70 cm|une feuille avec enveloppe
    Autograph letter signed by Jean Ricardou Georges Raillard, literary critic and specialist painters Antoni Tapies and Joan Miro.
    18 lines in black felt, envelope attached.
    Ricardou talks to his audience at a future symposium: " It is nice to respond favorably, [Claude] Simon will be very happy too, but I would like you to be able to tell me about your subject as soon as possible ". It could be Raillard's speech on Michel Butor, as part of the famous literary colloquiums of Cerisy.
    €80
  30. Lettre autographe signée
    Jean RICARDOU
    Lettre autographe signée
    Cannes 12 juillet 1972|21 x 29.70 cm|une feuille avec enveloppe
    Autograph letter signed by Jean Ricardou Georges Raillard, literary critic and specialist painters Antoni Tapies and Joan Miro.
    18 lines in black felt, envelope attached.
    Ricardou talks to his audience at a future symposium: " It is nice to respond favorably, [Claude] Simon will be very happy too, but I would like you to be able to tell me about your subject as soon as possible ". This is a lecture on Claude Simon which was held the following year, in the framework of the famous literary colloquiums of the castle of Cerisy.
    €80
  32. "vous savez l'estime en laquelle je tiens vos investigations"
    Jean RICARDOU
    "vous savez l'estime en laquelle je tiens vos investigations"
    Autograph letter signed to Georges Raillard
    21 juin 1973|21 x 27 cm|une feuille avec enveloppe
    Autograph letter signed by Jean Ricardou Georges Raillard, literary critic and specialist novel New.
    12 lines in black felt, envelope attached.
    Ricardou maintains his address for a future symposium on Claude Simon at Cerisy Castle. : " Would you like to come and give a lecture? Claude [Simon] really liked your work on Triptique and you know the esteem in which I hold your investigations."
    €80
  43. Théâtre de bouche
    Ghérasim LUCA, Micheline CATTY
    Théâtre de bouche
    Les soleils noirs|Paris 1984|14 x 19.50 cm|broché sous chemise et étui
    First edition, one of 225 numbered copies on ivory laid paper, the only issue after 75 on Arches vellum.
    Publisher's binding in full greyish-blue paper, smooth spine faded and with a stain at head.
    Work illustrated with 9 plates by Micheline Catty.
    Our copy is complete, as stipulated in the justification, with its original drypoint by Micheline Catty, justified and signed by her, as well as a complete audio recording of the work by the author on cassette tape.
    Autograph inscription signed by Ghérasim Luca, in pencil, to Axel de La Rovère and Anne Seghers: "Axiome : l'homme. Thème : l'homme axiomatique. En toute sympathie." ["Axiom: man. Theme: axiomatic man. With all sympathy."]
    €400
  53. Au 125 du boulevard Saint-Germain
    Max ERNST, Benjamin PÉRET
    Au 125 du boulevard Saint-Germain
    Collection littérature|Paris 1923|11.50 x 16 cm|broché
    First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on vergé, this one not included in the justification, the only printing after 1 Chine, 10 Japon and 20 Hollande paper.
    Rare and nice copy.
    Illustrated with 3 drawings by Benjamin Péret and, as frontispiece, an original engraving on Chine paper by Max Ernst, the only one engraved by the artist.
    Handsome autograph inscription signed by Benjamin Péret to Jacques Viot : " A Jacques Viot qui sonne utile tous les jours en jetant des assiettes to la tête des agents."
    €6,800
  58. Douze petits écrits ou l'émulsion du langage - In Synthèses N°122
    [Francis PONGE] René de SOLIER
    Douze petits écrits ou l'émulsion du langage - In Synthèses N°122
    Synthèses|Paris 1956|15 x 24 cm|agrafé
    First edition of this reprinted from the review Syntheses which consists of an analysis of "Twelve small writings" Francis Ponge, one of 200 numbered copies, only draw after 7 Japan.
    A lack restored in angle of the first flat, ex-libris glued on the back of the first board, cut of joint press.
    Signed autograph of Francis Ponge to Charles Wagemans: "On the part of René de Solier, with also the friendly memory and the faithful sympathy of the author pretext".
    €120
  65. Contes pantagruéliques
    [Arthur CHRISTIAN] CARLOCHRISTI
    Contes pantagruéliques
    Louis Conard|Paris 1903|17 x 22 cm|relié
    Rare and probably the only test of "Pantagruelian Tales".
    The work dates from 1903 before the addition of Jules Clarettie's preface and illustrations by Edmond Malassis.
    The text, printed in Gothic characters is included in frames foliage, different from those of the edition marketed in 1905.
    Bound in brown half morocco with corners, back with four double nerves decorated with a typographic mosaic pattern of green morocco, boards, guards and contreplats of marbled paper, gilded head, binding signed Trinckvel.
    Nice copy nicely established.
    Our copy is enriched with two autograph letters signed from Arthur Christian to Jules Claretie concerning the edition of the book and the preface he made for the edition published in 1905.
    Finally, he was mounted on tab a game of the first test of the preface of Jules Claretie.
    €400
  68. Lettre autographe signée à Georges Raillard sur sa poésie
    André FRÉNAUD
    Lettre autographe signée à Georges Raillard sur sa poésie
    12 décembre 1962|13.50 x 21 cm|une feuille
    "D'une connaissance pénétrante et amicale de ma poésie vous avez tiré une dialectique qui va à l'essentiel" ["From a penetrating and friendly knowledge of my poetry you have drawn a dialectic that goes to the essence"]

    Autograph letter signed by the poet André Frénaud addressed to Georges Raillard, dated December 12, 1962. 16 lines written in blue pen on letterhead of the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Tourism. Enclosed, an envelope addressed to the recipient.
    Frénaud sends him warm thanks for a study that Raillard published on his poetry. Raillard, a specialist in Spanish painters Tapies and Miro, was also a literary critic and wrote important books on Aragon, Henri Bosco, Claude Simon and Michel Butor, as well as articles on Robert Pinget, Jean Echenoz and Pascal Quignard.
    €120
  72. Quinze jours avec la mort - Manuscrit autographe complet signé et enrichi de dessins en couleurs in-texte d'Henri Béraud
    Henri BÉRAUD
    Quinze jours avec la mort - Manuscrit autographe complet signé et enrichi de dessins en couleurs in-texte d'Henri Béraud
    S. n.|s. l. 1946 - Pâques 1948|13.50 x 21 cm|203 feuillets sous chemise et étui
    Full autograph manuscript, signed, written in black and red markers for the title page and in blue ink for the text.

    Our manuscript is presented under shirt and case in full gray canvas made for Henri Béraud, label of title glued at the top of the shirt.
    Back and flat of the case and the shirt insolated and having foxinges.

    Complete manuscript in 204 sheets, 203 of which are foliaged and the title page signed with the author's initials and dated 1946, in 12-inch format, single-sided and enriched with in-text color drawings and initials of the author.

    Provenance: Henri Béraud's library.
    €6,800
  79. Lettre autographe signée au chorégraphe Maurice Béjart
    Pierre KLOSSOWSKI (to Maurice BÉJART)
    Lettre autographe signée au chorégraphe Maurice Béjart
    Handwritten letter signed by the writer Pierre Klossowski addressed to Maurice Bejart, dated 4 March 1991.
    Paris 4 mars 1991|21 x 29.70 cm|une feuille
    Handwritten letter signed by the writer Pierre Klossowski addressed to Maurice Béjart, dated 4 March 1991.
    29 lines written in black ink on one leaf.
    Just like a poem, this beautiful and passionate letter was written in a long column of text. Klossowski congratulates the choreographer on his autobiography Mort subite published the same year and is amazed that Béjart's literary tastes are so similar to his own.
    In the letter, Pierre Klossowski highlights the affinities that link him to Béjart. He devotes a long passage to Mort subite, Béjart's last book about his famous father, the philosopher Gaston Berger: "La miraculeuse Anwesenheit [présence] d'un tel père suscitée par un tel fils ! A vous lire, je ressens cette célébration dans sa piété filiale toute de joyeuse certitude, à la cadence goethéenne du Roi des Aulnes [...]” “The miraculous Anwesenheit [presence] of such a father sparked off by such a son! To read you, I feel this celebration in his filial piety, all of joyful certainty, to the same rhythm as Goethe's The Erlking [...]” He brings up their shared passion for the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, before mentioning an old collaborative project: "Je n'oublie guère votre visite [...] ni votre idée d'un ballet autour d'un Baphomet invisible...” “I hardly forget your visit [...] nor your idea of a ballet based on Baphomet invisible....” Several years earlier, the Baphomet had already been the object of an abandoned theatre project with the Biennale de Venise. The letter finishes with an allusion to Klossowski's “travail pictural exclusif” “exclusive pictorial work”: his huge production of drawings that kept him busy until the end of his life.

    A letter of admiration by Pierre Klossowski concerning Béjart's writing talent and his literary influences.
    Provenance: Maurice Béjart's personal archives.
    €1,000
  81. Folie et déraison - Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique
    Michel FOUCAULT
    Folie et déraison - Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique
    [Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason]
    Plon|Paris 1961|14 x 20.50 cm|broché

    First edition, of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, an advance (service de presse) copy.
    Spine slightly bowed, with a few tears and lacks to plastic film cover. Slight foxing in the margins of a few pages.
    Handsome autograph inscription signed by Michel Foucault, at the time a young teacher, to Jean-Charles Varennes.
    A very rare advance copy, which could be said to have taken the place of the grand papier (deluxe) copies.

    €8,000
  90. Supplément à l'esprit de faction de Saint-Evremond
    Julien BENDA, Georges GORVEL
    Supplément à l'esprit de faction de Saint-Evremond
    Editions du Trianon|Paris 1929|12 x 18.50 cm|relié
    First Edition, one of the few numbered off-trade copies numbered on Japan, ours No. I and specially printed for Mr. Stanislas Kahan, leading print with 25 other Japan put on the market.
    Illustrated book of 4 brass Georges Gorvel, featuring here, as all copies out of trade on Japan, a double, a triple, a quadruple or a quintuple following brass, the 25 Japan put on the market with only a double suite 4 brass.
    Binding to the bradel in cardboard vellum style, smooth back, title of the book and name of the author calligraphed in the manner of medieval books, framing of double nets roads on the boards, blankets and backs preserved, golden head on witnesses , Contemporary binding.
    Nice copy at all margins.
    Signed autograph of Julien Benda in Stalislas Kahan.
    Our copy is also enriched, bound at the end of the volume, of an autograph letter signed by Julien Benda to Stanislas Kahan concerning modifications made to an upcoming edition of one of his texts appearing at the Nrf.
    €380
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