First French edition, one of 77 numbered copies on pur fil, only deluxe issue.
Preface by Albert Camus.
Nice copy housed under a chemise and slipcase by Devauchelle.
First edition, one of 9 numbered copies on Japon, only deluxe issue aside from 35 copies on pur fil, and a few on colored paper.
Small restorations to spine-ends.
Illustrated with 20 photographs, including 7 photographs by Man Ray, 4 by Brassaï, one each by Dora Maar, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Rogi André, as well as artworks by Max Ernst, and the statue of a "female character" by Giacometti, in which the writer saw "the very emanation of the desire to love and to be loved in search of its real human object, in its painful ignorance".
"The interposition of the poem between painting and music has therefore proven an excellent conductor between the arts thanks to the fact that Hahn scrupulously respected the spirit of the poem while preserving his autonomy in his composition. The link between music and painting is revealed after the other materials unite among themselves; it is in this alliance that an astonishing complementarity then operates, sought upon the soothing light of Albert Cuyp" (Nicolas Vardon)
First edition, one of 41 numbered copies on Hollande paper, from the deluxe issue.
Contemporary half black morocco binding, smooth spine, wood-effect paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, binding signed L. Bergeron.
A fine copy.
First edition illustrated by Myrbach with plates, headpieces and vignettes, from the Guillaume and Lemerre collection.
Contemporary half grey morocco binding with corners. Slipcase with morocco entry and covered with peacock-eye paper. Original wrappers preserved, lacking spine. Spine with 4 raised bands in Jansenist style. Top edge gilt. Uncut paper, with wide margins, fresh paper, free from foxing. Light rubbing to slipcase.
Very handsome copy.
After "Mon frère Yves" and "Pêcheur d'Islande", "Matelot" completes, in 1893, Pierre Loti's trilogy of sea novels and recounts the adventures of Jean Berny who, after failing the Naval Academy entrance exam, enlists in the merchant marine as an ordinary sailor.
First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on laid paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.
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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. Ludovic Halévy." (Voir une lettre de Guy de Maupassant à la fin du volume. L.H. Envoi autographe des six auteurs du volume. Ludovic Halévy).
The reproduction of the famous letter sent by Guy de Maupassant to Halévy in 1880 is pasted onto six additional leaves at the end of the volume. It bears Halévy's penned note at the beginning and end of the letter: "Cette lettre est de 1880 / 1880." (Cette lettre est de 1880 / 1880).
First edition on ordinary paper, with the false statement of “third edition,” complete with the errata bifolium.
Discreet repairs to the spine; a handsome copy as issued.
With a desirable signed presentation from Marcel Proust to the playwright Jacques Darval: “à Monsieur Jacques Darval / Hommage reconnaissant / Marcel Proust.” ["To Monsieur Jacques Darval / With grateful homage / Marcel Proust.”]
Darval, born Louis Valeton, authored several plays and numerous dance revues during the 1920s.
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Autograph inscription signed by Henri Charrière to journalist and historian Gilbert Guilleminault.
Henri Charrière, known as Papillon, ward of the state and petty criminal, had been sentenced to the penal colony in 1931 for a murder he always denied. More than thirty years later, he recounts his terrible experience in this autobiographical text. He describes the violence, injustice, diseases and escape attempts, crowned by years of exile in South America: « Pure of all contact, his publisher noted, and of all literary ambition, what he writes is "as he tells it to you", you see it, you feel it, you live it [...]. » The book met with immense success before being adapted for cinema with Steve McQueen in the leading role.
