Edition, review copy.
Complete copy of his please insert.
Autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by Jorge Semprun to Jean Freustié.
First edition, one of 90 copies on Holland paper, ours being one of a few lettered hors commerce copies.
Bradel binding in half brown box, smooth spine, decorated paper boards, brown endpapers and pastedowns, original covers preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Goy & Vilaine.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Paul Valéry: « A Victoria Ocampo, - a sus piès de Vd - ce petit rien qu'elle a bien voulu désirer. »
A superb dedication that marks the beginning of the enduring friendship between the two writers, beyond all differences.
At Valéry's death in 1945, Victoria Ocampo would recall their first meeting in December 1928 during a writers’ dinner to...
First edition, for which no copies on larger paper were produced.
A pleasing copy, with press clippings laid in.
Exceptional autograph presentation copy inscribed in English by Claude Lévi-Strauss to the anthropologist Raymond Firth.
First edition of these three well-illustrated physiologies; for example, the first physiology contains 65 vignettes. Only the Physiologie du flaneur bears a date.
Physiologie du flaneur. Vignettes by Alophe, Daumier and Maurisset.
Physiologie de l'employé. Vignettes by Trimollet.
Physiologie de la femme la plus malheureuse... Vignettes by Valentin.
Contemporary half black sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with fillets. Gilt titles. Rubbing. Occasional light foxing, on paper that has remained quite white.
