First Editions

First edition illustrated with 19 original lithographs by Alexandre Lunois, one of 140 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only printing with 60 other Japan copies containing separate proofs of the illustrations.
Two light halos on the first cover, small worming on the second cover.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 796 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only grands papiers (deluxe copies) after 109 reimposed.
Full green board Bradel binding, title piece in glazed yellow calf, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding.
Presentation copy inscribed by André Breton: “à Edmond Jaloux, hommage très dévoué. André Breton” “To Edmond Jaloux, a very devoted tribute. André Breton”.
Edmond Jaloux, who was one of the earliest promoters of surrealism, wrote at the release of this atypical novel and misunderstood by most of his contemporaries, the most laudatory article of the time, concluding with this admiring admission of the impotence of criticism in the face of the modernity of Breton's work; “this examination, I can sense it, remains outside the book and in no ways gives you the feeling of intense poetry, of great, free and true poetry which absolves Nadja and which affects your mind [...] like an extremely intoxicating alcohol, with this difference that no alcohol gives you dreams that stimulate the moving prose of Monsieur André Breton.”
Precious grand papier (deluxe) copy with a handwritten inscription from the author and filled with the original article by Edmond Jaloux pasted on two loose double leaves.

First edition illustrated with 19 original lithographs by Alexandre Lunois, one of 140 numbered copies on Japan paper, the only printing with 60 other Japan copies containing the separate suite of illustrations.
Half salmon morocco binding with corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt cartouches, gilt double fillets framing the marbled paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, bookplate pasted to one pastedown, top edge gilt, elegant contemporary binding.
Handsome copy in perfect condition.

First edition printed in 500 numbered copies on Japan paper.
Work illustrated with drawings by Job after pencil sketches.
Handsome copy despite light worming of no consequence to the boards.
Manuscript signatures of Job and Stéphen Liégeard below the justification page.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on China paper, the only deluxe copies with 50 on Japan.
Work decorated with illustrations by Abel Boyé.
Half brown morocco with corners binding, smooth spine decorated with a gilt cartouche decorated with floral decorative motifs with pieces of brown mosaic morocco, gilt date at foot, some slight rubbing to the headcaps, gilt fillets frame on the marbled paper covers, endpapers and pastedowns of pebbled paper, covers in duplicate state and spine preserved, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed Canape.
Handsome copy beautifully executed.

First edition, one of 450 numbered copies on Holland paper.
Work illustrated with 35 original woodcuts by Fernand Siméon.
Full brown morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with a vertical band of black mosaic morocco, black roulettes on the headcaps, slight rubbing to the upper headcap, gilt title struck to the center of the first cover, covers decorated with a large diamond and a wide horizontal band of black mosaic morocco, endpapers and pastedowns of paper with gilt floral motifs and moiré effect, frame of vertical and horizontal bands of black mosaic morocco on the pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, double black fillets on the leading edges, slipcase with brown morocco entry, covers of paper with gilt floral motifs and moiré effect, perfect Art Deco binding signed A. Pinard-Lefort.
Handsome copy perfectly executed in a beautiful Art Deco binding.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies reimposed on Japan Imperial paper, ours being one of the few hors commerce copies, deluxe edition after 1 unique copy on Japan Imperial and 19 old Japan.
Illustrated work, as frontispiece, with a portrait of Charles Maurras consisting of an original drypoint by Edouard Chimot and original lithographs by Wassily Schoukhaeff.
Half chocolate brown morocco binding with corners, spine with five raised bands, gilt date at foot, black roulettes on headcaps, black fillet frame on wood-effect paper boards, wood-effect paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, perfect unsigned binding.
Very handsome copy perfectly executed and complete, as stipulated in the justification page, with the double state of Edouard Chimot's drypoint with remarques, 1 proof of the cancelled plate and 1 suite of the lithographs on Japan.

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe edition.
Half red morocco-grained shagreen binding, smooth spine, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved (rear wrapper marginally soiled without consequence), top edge gilt with deckled edges.

First edition illustrated with text illustrations and plates by Hermann Vogel and ornaments by Adolphe Giraldon, one of 60 numbered copies on China paper, the only deluxe copies after 20 on Japan.
Full blue morocco binding, spine very slightly faded with five raised bands, date and place gilt at foot, gilt borders on the headcaps, gilt fillet border on the pastedowns in full purple morocco, purple watered silk endpapers, following endpapers of combed paper, covers preserved, all edges gilt, double gilt fillets on the edges, slipcase edged with blue morocco, marbled paper boards, superb full morocco binding with doublure signed Blanchetière Bretault.
Each plate appears in triple state in our copy.
Very handsome copy free from foxing established in a magnificent full morocco binding with doublure by Blanchetière Bretault.

First edition, one of 315 numbered copies on laid Marais paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format.
Half dark green shagreen bindings with corners, spines with five raised bands, gilt dates at foot, combed paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of matching paper, covers and spines preserved, slipcase edged with dark green shagreen, boards covered with combed paper.

First edition, strictly hors commerce and printed in a small number of copies.
Rare and handsome copy. 
Beautiful autograph inscription signed by Pierre Guyotat:

"B
 E
 A
Pour Francis Ponge, ce B.A. = BA de l'écriture, où s'intercale le "E" de l'étouffement, Pierre Guyotat, le 19 Avril 1973." ["For Francis Ponge, this B.A. = the ABC of writing, where the "E" of suffocation intercedes, Pierre Guyotat, 19 April 1973."]