Memoirs, Biographies and Essays

Richard WAGNER, Julien TIERSOT
Lettres françaises de Richard Wagner[French Letters by Richard Wagner]
Grasset|Paris 1935|13.50 x 21 cm|broché
First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on pure wove vellum, the only copies printed on deluxe paper.
Frontispiece with a reproduction of a portrait of the composer.
Endpapers lightly toned, two offsets on the colophon and its facing page caused by the justification ribbon.
A handsome and rare copy of this collection of letters presented by Julien Tiersot.
€800
(Louis-Ferdinand CELINE) Pierre MONNIER
Ferdinand Furieux. Avec 313 lettres inédites de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
L'âge d'homme|Lausanne 1979|15.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies.
Photographic cover.
Very handsome copy despite a small tear at the foot of the back cover.
Rare.
€1,200
Marcel PAGNOL
Le masque de fer
Editions de Provence|Paris 1965|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 100 copies on Dame Blanche wove paper, deluxe issue.
A fine copy.
€1,200
Louise COLET
Lettres de Benjamin Constant à Madame Récamier
E. Dentu|Paris 1864 (S.d)|14.50 x 23.20 cm|relié
The rare first edition. A manuscript note bound at the beginning of the work states: First edition suppressed by court order, it contains 74 unpublished letters. One can read on a manuscript leaf bound before the title: "Edition seized and destroyed when it was about to be put on sale at the request of Benjamin Constant's sister and the niece and universal legatee of Madame Récamier, Madame Charles Lenormant. Is not in the Bibliothèque Nationale." A second manuscript leaf on Louis Colet has also been bound following the first.
Modern half morocco binding with tan corners signed Alix at the bottom of the pastedown. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Gilt title. Gilt edges. Covers and...
€600
Jean PINASSEAU
Lettres et documents inédits pour servir à une biographie de A. Fabre d'Olivet
S. n.|Paris 1931|16 x 24.50 cm|agrafé
The first edition, published in a small number of copies of the bulletin of the History of Protestantism.
Handsome copy despite spine and covers marginally discolored.
€40
Pierre BERGÉ (Yves SAINT LAURENT)
Lettres à Yves[Letters to Yves]
Gallimard|Paris 2010|12.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 40 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Nice copy.
€450
Jean COCTEAU, André GIDE
Lettres à André Gide avec quelques réponses d'André Gide
La Table Ronde|Paris 1970|14 x 21 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 20 numbered copies on Madagascar, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Very nice copy.
€450
Denis DIDEROT
Lettres à Sophie Volland
Gallimard|Paris 1930|14.50 x 22.50 cm|3 volumes brochés
Edition with most parts in first edition, one of the numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 79 Japan.
Introduction, variants and notes by André Babelon.
Spines slightly sunned, otherwise a handsome complete set in three volumes.

€100
Romain ROLLAND
Le jeu de l'amour et de la mort
Albin Michel|Paris 1925|11.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
Edition from the year of the first edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite a small lack at foot of spine.
€80
Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz MILOSZ
Soixante-quinze lettres inédites et sept documents originaux
Editions André Silvaire|Paris 1969|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 200 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies after 50 copies on pur fil.
Handsome copy.
€60
Oscar Venceslas de Lubicz MILOSZ
Lettres inédites à Christian Gauss
Editions André Silvaire|Paris 1976|14 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe issue.
Handsome copy.
€200
Jacques CASANOVA DE SEINGALT
Mémoires
J. Rozez|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1872|14 x 22.80 cm|6 volumes reliés
New edition. Printed on laid paper. Uncut copy with full margins.
Contemporary half glazed morocco with chocolate corners, signed on first endpaper by Smeers. Spine with 5 raised bands richly decorated, gilt title-label, volume labels and date. Top edges gilt. Occasional worming. Light traces of rubbing. Leaf 395, small angular lack.
Superb copy.
€1,100
Thomas WRIGHT
Histoire de la caricature et du grotesque dans la littérature et dans l'art
Au bureau de la revue britannique|Paris 1867|16.50 x 25 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition in French.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, spine decorated with compartments and blind fillets, blind fillet border on boards, yellow paper endpapers and pastedowns, small discoloration spots on spine and boards.
Scattered foxing.
Work illustrated with 238 figures in the text.
€100
Robert BRASILLACH
Lettres écrites en prison. Octobre 1944 - Février 1945
Les sept couleurs|Paris 1952|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on Arches paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite two faint shadows on the first endpaper and half-title page left by the justification slip.
€450
Jacques de LACRETELLE
Histoire de Paola Ferrani
Flammarion|Paris 1929|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, service de presse stamp at foot of back cover.
Spine lightly sunned, paper marginally brittle on some leaves, complete with publisher's slip.
Signed autograph inscription from Jacques de Lacretelle to Benjamin Crémieux.
€80
Marcel PÉGUY
La rupture de Charles Péguy et de Georges Sorel
les Cahiers de la Quinzaine|Paris 1929|14 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 110 numbered copies on Arches laid paper, deluxe copy.
Light foxing to endpapers, otherwise handsome copy.
€150
Julien GRACQ
Les eaux étroites[The Narrow Waters]
José Corti|Paris 1976|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 100 numbered copies on Holland paper, the only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Very nice copy.
€2,000
Charles MAURRAS
Les amants de Venise. George Sand & Musset[The Lovers of Venice. George Sand & Musset]
E. de Boccard|Paris 1900|12.50 x 20 cm|relié
New edition, with some parts in first edition as expanded with a preface, one of 30 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies after 6 on Japan paper.

Full chocolate brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, gilt roulettes on headcaps, quadruple black fillets framing the boards, black fleurons at corners, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, triple gilt fillets framing the pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, double gilt fillets on leading edges, top edge gilt on deckled edges, contemporary binding signed by Stroobants.

Bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown.

Very fine copy perfectly executed by Stroobants.
€600
Charles NODIER
Journal de l'expédition des portes de fer
Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1844|19 x 29 cm|relié
First edition never put into commerce, intended for members of the royal family and state dignitaries. It is printed on strong vellum, the only issue with 6 on China paper. Work illustrated with 200 vignettes in the text and 40 out-of-text figures engraved on wood, printed before letters on applied China paper, by Raffet, Decamps, Dauzat. Our copy is complete with its folding map at the end (Route de Philippeville à Alger). Fine work very well printed, with high quality engravings.
Publisher's Bradel binding covered with chamois paper, chamois slipcase (probably later). Smooth spine with beige calf title label. Spine slightly darkened with damage to the title label and at two places on...
€1,200
Fernand de GIRARDIN
Iconographie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Portraits, scènes, habitations, souvenirs
Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture|Paris 1908|15.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Work illustrated with plates.
Handsome copy.
€80
VOLTAIRE
Lettres inédites à Constant d'Hermenches
Corrêa|Paris 1956|14 x 19 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies
A handsome copy.
€30
COLETTE
Mes cahiers
Aux armes de France|Paris 1941|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
Illustrated edition with a portrait of Colette by Luc-Albert Moreau, one of 300 numbered hors commerce copies on Ivoirine paper.
Restorations to spine and joints, small corner lacks filled on boards, handsome interior condition.
Exceptional and precious autograph inscription signed by Colette: "Pour Drieu La Rochelle en souvenir de Colette." ["For Drieu La Rochelle in memory of Colette."]
€1,800
Valentin Jean-Antoine FOULQUIER, Jules MICHELET
Thérèse et Marianne. Souvenirs de jeunesse
Librairie L. Conquet|Paris 1891|10.50 x 16.50 cm|relié
Illustrated with 11 original etchings by Valentin Foulquier, one of the numbered copies on Japan paper, deluxe copy.
Full red Russian morocco binding, smooth spine decorated with a gilt cartouche ornamented with gilt typographic motifs, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, gilt fillet frame on boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, triple gilt fillet frame on pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, gilt fillets on edges, perfect contemporary binding signed Champs.
Our copy includes a duplicate suite of the 11 etchings by Valentin Foulquier.
Furthermore, our copy is exceptionally enriched with an original watercolor signed by Valentin Foulquier on an...
€700
Georges ROTH
Les pseudo-mémoires de madame d'Epinay. Histoire de madame de Montbrillant
Gallimard|Paris 1951|14.50 x 23 cm|3 volumes brochés
First edition, one of the numbered copies on chestnut paper.
Some blue pen annotations in the margins of the first leaves of the first volume, spines slightly sunned.
€100
Rudyard KIPLING
Souvenirs
Paul Hartmann|Paris 1938|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 20 numbered copies on pur fil paper, ours one of the few hors commerce, a deluxe issue. Endpapers lightly and entirely toned. A fine copy with full margins.
€280
Louis ALTHUSSER
Montesquieu. La politique et l'histoire
P.U.F.|Paris 1959|12 x 18.50 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine very lightly sunned without significance and with two small tears at head and foot, otherwise handsome copy.
Signed and inscribed copy from Louis Althusser to Pierre Abraham.

€500
(to Antonin ARTAUD) Vsevolod Mikhailovitch GARCHINE
La fleur rouge - Exemplaire d'Antonin Artaud[The Red Flower – Antonin Artaud’s Copy]
Editions Rhéa|Paris 1921|25.50 x 33 cm|broché sous chemise et étui.
First edition of the French translation prepared by Soudeba, with no mention of deluxe copies.
Illustrated with plates by Colette Nel.
The copy is presented in a red half-morocco folder, smooth spine, slipcase edged with red morocco, the whole signed by Goy & Vilaine.
Exceptional and highly important presentation copy inscribed and signed by René Allendy, a pioneer of psychoanalysis in France whose patients included René Crevel, Anaïs Nin and Antonin Artaud, further enriched with the handwritten signature of Colette Nel-Dumonchel, who married Dr. Allendy after he was widowed by her sister: "A notre cher ami Antonin Artaud. Bien affectueusement."
€4,000
Gabriel, abbé BRIZARD
De l'amour de Henri IV pour les lettres
Cazin|Paris 1786|8.50 x 13.50 cm|relié
Cazin edition composed with the first edition printed by Philippe-Denis Pierre, with a half-title and a relay title bearing Cazin's address and dated 1786.
Full brown morocco binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fillets decorated with double gilt compartments richly adorned with gilt floral motifs, gilt date at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, frame of sextuple gilt fillets on boards decorated at corners with gilt fleurons, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, frame of gilt dentelle on pastedowns, gilt fillets on leading edges, all edges gilt, elegant nineteenth-century binding.
A handsome copy with very wide margins and perfectly established.
€450
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Mea culpa suivi de La vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis
Denoël & Steele|Paris 1937|11.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on alfa paper, ours one of 25 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies after 15 Holland and 40 pur fil.
Spine and margins of covers skilfully restored.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline "A Madame Marthe Pujol Bien affectueusement L.F. Céline".
Precious deluxe copy with an autograph inscription by the author.
€4,500
Benjamin FONDANE
L'exode
La fenêtre ardente|Paris 1965|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 300 copies on offset, the only issue after 40 on pur fil.
Boards very lightly and marginally sunned at head, pleasant and rare copy.
Preface by Claude Sernet, autograph inscription signed by Claude Sernet, at the end of his preface, to Charles Dobzynski.

€700
Boris VIAN
Chroniques du menteur[Chronicles of the Liar]
Christian Bourgois|Paris 1974|14 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 25 numbered copies on Alfa paper, the only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Very nice copy.
€1,200
BRASSAÏ
Histoire de Marie
Les éditions du point du jour|Paris 1949|12.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa vellum.
Introduction by Henri Miller.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Brassaï to Alex and Nadia Bloch.

€300
Julien GREEN
L'avenir n'est à personne. Journal 1990-1992
Fayard|Paris 1993|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 80 numbered copies on vergé Ingres de Lana, le nôtre non justifié, the only deluxe copies ("grands papiers").
Nice copy.
€450
Jean EPSTEIN
Bonjour cinéma
Editions de la Sirène|Paris 1921|11.50 x 17.50 cm|broché
First edition printed on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy retaining publisher's wraparound band: "This book, by explaining it, will enhance the pleasure of your cinema evenings".
Work illustrated with 5 photographs and drawings by Claude Dalbanne.
€600
Paul CLAUDEL (inscribed to Charles MAURRAS)
Connaissance de l'est[Knowledge of the East]
Mercure de France|Paris 1900|13.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition printed in a small number on laid paper.
Half bottle-green morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, date at foot, top edge gilt, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Paul Claudel to Charles Maurras.
€1,800
Robert BRASILLACH, Maurice BARDÈCHE
Histoire du cinéma[History of Cinema]
Denoël & Steele|Paris 1935|14.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 25 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies ("grand papier").
Rare.
€1,700
Henry FIELDING
Histoire de Jonathan Wild le Grand
Chez Duchesne|A Londres& [London] • se trouve à Paris 1763|9.50 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
Rare French first edition. Title pages in red and black.
Contemporary full green vellum binding. Smooth Jansenist spine. Red morocco title and volume labels. Upper joint of volume I split for most of its length, from tail to near the head; the lower joint also split at head. Headcap of volume II worn away, upper joint split, lower joint split at head. Russet stains on the last leaf of volume II.
Bookplate: Bibliothèque de M. André de Champcourt, Chevalier de l'ordre royal et militaire de Saint Louis.
Jonathan Wild was the most famous criminal of the 18th century, and the most popular. Daniel Defoe composed a biography of him in 1725. Fielding writes a satirical biography of a...
€450
(Lawrence DURRELL) Vladimir VOLKOFF
Lawrence le magnifique. Essai sur Lawrence Durrell et le roman relativiste
L'âge d'homme • Julliard|Paris 1984|13 x 20 cm|broché
First edition, of which no deluxe copies were printed.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Lawrence Durrell to his close friend Janine Brun.

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, the travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to its independence from the British crown. Rich only in a shirt and a typewriter but crowned with the success of his novel Bitter Lemons of Cyprus (Les citrons acides), he arrived in France in 1956 and settled in the Languedoc village of Sommières. In the "Tartès house," his large dwelling surrounded by trees, he wrote the...
€300
Sushil Chandra MITTER
La pensée de Rabindranath Tagore
Adrien-Maisonneuve|Paris 1930|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally lightened, a fold mark at foot of front board.
Work illustrated with a portrait of Rabindranath Tagore as frontispiece.

€40
Michel BUTOR
Essais sur les essais
Gallimard|Paris 1968|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned and foxed, adhesive tape stains at head and foot of endpapers.
Signed autograph inscription from Michel Butor to his friend art critic and Nouveau Roman specialist Georges Raillard in the form of an original fold on the printed dedication page.

€100
Charles DOBZYNSKI, François FÉRET
Journal alternatif
Editions Bernard Dumerchez|s. l. 2000|13.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition, one of 40 copies on Rivoli paper, deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Our copy lacks the original work by François Féret which normally accompanies the 40 deluxe copies.
Manuscript signatures of Charles Dobzynski and François Féret on the justification page.

€80
Marcel PAGNOL
Le temps des amours[The Time of Love]
Julliard|Paris 1977|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Hollande paper, deluxe issue.

A very handsome copy.
€3,500
Jean ANOUILH
La Vicomtesse d'Eristal n'a pas reçu son balai mécanique. Souvenir d'un jeune homme
La Table Ronde|Paris 1987|15 x 22 cm|broché
First edition, one of the 14 numbered copies on vergé de Holland paper, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
As new.
€450
(Alfred JARRY) Fernand LOT
Alfred Jarry
La nouvelle revue critique|Paris 1934|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition on ordinary paper.
Work decorated with a portrait and an autograph of A. Jarry.
Some light foxing.
€30
Pierre MILLE
Mémoires d'un dada besogneux de l'Armistice à 1925
G. Crès & Cie|Paris 1920|12 x 19 cm|broché
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.
€80
Prosper MÉRIMÉE
Lettres à une inconnue
Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1874|14.50 x 21.80 cm|relié
First edition. The first edition was so rapidly exhausted that a new one had to be printed a few months later.
Contemporary half red shagreen binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with 3 fleurons and blind fillets, gilt title and volume number. Some traces of rubbing. Handsome copy, almost free from foxing, with fresh paper.
These famous letters were addressed to Jenny (Jeanne Françoise) Dacquin from 1841 to 1870, the last of which was written two hours before the author's death. Hippolyte Taine's preface constitutes one of the first and best testimonials about the writer. While Mérimée complained of being unable to devote time to a true work, he unknowingly conceived his...
€550
John GRAND-CARTERET, Gustave GIRRANE
L'enseigne. Son histoire & sa philosophie. Ses particularités
Librairie Dauphinoise H. Falque & F. Perrin • Librairie Savoyarde François Ducloz|Grenoble • & Moutiers 1902|22 x 29 cm|relié
First edition printed in a numbered edition of 1,250 copies.
Half tan shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded and rubbed with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt double compartments, gilt friezes at head and foot, a mosaic shagreen piece in sand and black in the middle of the spine representing a sign, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, red top edge, bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition without foxing.
Work illustrated with numerous drawings in black and color, within the text and full-page by Gustave...
€250
François Romain CAMBOULIU
Etude sur les femmes d'Homère
Imprimerie Ve sens et Paul Savy|Toulouse 1854|13 x 21 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary full dark green shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons and blind fillets, covers richly decorated with blind lozenges containing gilt tools, triple blind fillet framing the covers, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt. Some rubbing at the joints, otherwise handsome copy.
Armainvilliers library label pasted on the front pastedown.
Our copy contains an autograph letter signed by the author dated June 1863.
€400
Charles DOBZYNSKI, François FÉRET
Journal alternatif
Editions Bernard Dumerchez|s. l. 2000|13.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition, one of 40 copies on Rivoli, head print.
Pleasant copy.
Our copy includes the original work of François Féret that he signed and justified.
Handwritten signatures of Charles Dobzynski and François Féret at the justification of the print.
€250
Paul LÉAUTAUD
Lettres à Marie Dormoy
Albin Michel|Paris 1966|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pure Madagascar thread, head print.
Bookplate pasted on the back of the first cover.
Tiny foxinges on the head without consequence, preserved witnesses, beautiful copy.
€500
Gilles DELEUZE, Félix GUATTARI
Rhizome[Rhizome]
Les Editions de Minuit|Paris 1975|14.50 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 92 copies numbered on bouffant select, the only deluxe paper copies along with a few hors commerce.
A very handsome copy.
€580
(VOLTAIRE) Jacques VAN DEN HEUVEL
Album Voltaire
Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1983|10.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
First edition.
Publisher's binding in full grained brown sheep, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Fine copy complete with its dust jacket, cellophane wrapper and slipcase.
Two small lacks to the cellophane wrapper and a marginal stain on the rear panel of the dust jacket.
€100
Ernest RENAN
Lettres du séminaire 1838-1846
Calmann-Lévy|Paris s. d. [1902]|14.50 x 23 cm|relié
First edition on ordinary paper.
Half fir-green morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine (glued to an endpaper) preserved, top edge gilt, contemporary binding signed by Vermorel.
Handsome interior condition free from foxing.
€100
Alain BOSQUET
Lettre à mon père qui aurait eu cent ans
Gallimard|Paris 1986|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on pure rag paper, the only deluxe copies.
A very handsome copy.
€60
Francisque SARCEY
Souvenirs d'âge mûr
Paul Ollendorff|Paris 1892|12 x 19.50 cm|relié
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies mentioned.
Bradel binding in half old rose cloth with corners, smooth spine faded and decorated with a gilt floral motif, date and double gilt fillets at foot, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of pink and gilt paper with moiré effect, covers and spine preserved, contemporary binding signed by Vermorel.
Handsome copy.
€60
Marcel COULON
Toute la muse de Ponchon
Editions de la Tournelle|Paris 1938|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition for which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Work illustrated by V. Le Campion.
Spine and front cover uniformly sunned, back cover marginally sunned.
€30
COLETTE
Lettres de la vagabonde[Letters of a Vagabond Woman]
Flammarion|Paris 1961|15.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on pure Arches laid paper, deluxe issue.
Iconography.
Light crease without significance to front cover, handsome copy.
€350
Jean CASSOU
Parti pris, essais et colloques
Albin Michel|Paris 1964|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of 26 numbered copies on Marais vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
€70
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Progrès
Mercure de France|Paris 1978|12.50 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy ("tirage de tête").
Very nice copy.
€1,000
Maxime GORKI
Souvenirs de ma vie littéraire
Kra|Paris 1923|17 x 18 cm|broché
First edition in French, one of 40 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies with 5 Japan and 20 Holland. With a frontispiece photographic portrait of the author.
A handsome and rare full-margined copy.
€80
Joseph CONRAD
Des souvenirs
Nrf|Paris 1924|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation, one of 792 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the only deluxe copies with 108 reimposed.
Worming affecting the very first and very last pages.
€60
Étienne CHARAVAY
Charles Baudelaire et Alfred de Vigny candidats à l'Académie française
Charavay frères|Paris 1879|14.50 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in 600 copies on laid paper.
Work illustrated with a portrait of C. Baudelaire as frontispiece (the portrait in our copy is detached).
Spine and covers lightly soiled, handsome interior condition, two tiny corner lacks to front cover.
€50
Charles Ferdinand RAMUZ
Lettres 1900-1918
Clairefontaine|Lausanne 1956|16 x 22.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of the numbered copies.
Pleasant copy.
€30
(André GIDE) COLLECTIF
Album Gide
Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1985|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui souple et cartonné
First edition.
Richly illustrated.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket, glassine wrapper and soft slipcase.
€80
(Jean-Paul SARTRE) Annie COHEN-SOLAL
Album Sartre
Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1991|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur sous étui
First edition.
Publisher's full brown grained sheepskin binding, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Richly illustrated.
Handsome copy complete with its glassine wrapper and slipcase.
€80
Charles MONSELET
Petits mémoires littéraires
Charpentier & Cie|Paris 1885|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition, with "deuxième mille" statement.
Bradel binding in full cardboard covered with marbled paper, smooth spine, chocolate shagreen title-label with minor rubbing, covers preserved with small marginal lacks and one stain.
Two stains affecting the back board as well as the final leaves, otherwise handsome interior condition.
€50
(STENDHAL) François MICHEL
Etudes stendhaliennes
Mercure de France|Paris 1957|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on Marais laid paper, deluxe issue.
Preface by Henri Martineau and Jean Fabre.
A small repaired tear at head of one joint, otherwise a handsome copy.
€100
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE
Tout Céline 2
Bibliothèque de l'Université Paris 7|Paris 1983|18.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
first edition printed in 500 numbered copies.
Pleasant copy.
€80
(Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE) Frédéric J. GROVER
Drieu la Rochelle and the fiction of testimony
University of California press|Berkeley • & Los Angeles 1958|14.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
Original American edition from which it was not drawn from large papers.
Binding in bradel in full gray cardboard, smooth back.
Beautiful copy.
Rare and beautiful autograph shipment signed by Frederic Grover, in French, to François Nourissier.
€80
Rabîndranâth TAGORE
Souvenirs
Nrf|Paris 1924|17 x 22 cm|broché
First edition in French, one of 108 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.
€120
Ernest RENAN
Feuilles détachées faisant suite aux Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse
Calmann-Lévy|Paris 1892|14 x 22.50 cm|broché
first edition.
Pleasant copy despite slight tears with tiny angular gaps on the back.
€80
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SEVIGNE
Lettres inédites à madame de Grignan
Hachette & Cie|Paris 1876|14.50 x 23.50 cm|2 volumes brochés
First edition.
Joint cracked at foot with losses, slight marginal losses to boards, minor foxing affecting principally the margins.
€120
(Pierre de RONSARD) Pierre CHAMPION
Ronsard et son temps
Edouard Champion|Paris 1925|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Work illustrated with 24 phototype plates.
First cover marginally sunned with some light spotting, handsome interior condition.
€50
Pierre LOTI
Lettres de Pierre Loti à madame Juliette Adam (1880-1922)
Plon|Paris 1924|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of the copies printed on laid paper.
A slight tear without loss at head of spine, minimal foxing to endpapers, otherwise a handsome copy.
€30
Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE
Récit secret
A.M.G.|Paris 1951|14 x 23 cm|broché
First edition, one of 500 numbered copies on vellum, only large papers.
Pleasant copy.
€400
Charles MAURRAS
Triptyque de Paul Bourget
Alexis Redier|Paris 1931|16 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 1800 numbered copies on pure laid paper.
Handsome copy with full margins.
€30
Francis PONGE
Entretiens de Francis Ponge avec Philippe Sollers
Gallimard • Seuil|Paris 1970|14.50 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 47 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only large papers with 33 Holland paper.
Beautiful copy.
€120
A. PRIOULT
Balzac avant la Comédie Humaine (1818-1829)
G. Courville|Paris 1936|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
With a frontispiece portrait of a young Honoré de Balzac.
A fine copy.
€50
Agricol-Joseph, marquis de FORTIA D'URBAN
Vie de Louis de Berton de Crillon des Balbes, surnommé le brave Crillon suivie de notes historiques et critiques
A. Dupont • Roret • Firmin Didot père & fils|Paris 1825-1826|13.50 x 22 cm|3 volumes brochés
First edition.
Our copy is presented in its original wrappers.
Minor lacks to spines and joints, a pale marginal dampstain to the first volume, scattered foxing.
€150
André René Polydore ALYSSAN DE CHAZET
Mémoires, souvenirs, oeuvres et portraits
Postel • Allardin • Dentu • Tessier • Delloye|Paris 1837|13.50 x 21.50 cm|3 volumes reliés
Illustrated edition of 11 original etchings by Eugène Béjot, one of 300 numbered copies on laid Arches paper, only one print after 25 imperial Japan, variously enriched.
Bindings in fawn half sheepskin, smooth backs adorned with golden romantic arabesques, small losses and slight friction in the back tails, joints slightly split in heads and in tails, marbled paper boards, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, speckled edges , bindings of the time.
Some foxinges.
Illustrated book of three frontispiece portraits and 6 autographed facsimiles.
Our copy is enriched with a handwritten autograph letter dated February 15 (1826) from ARP Allysan de Chazet in...
€350
André GIDE
Lettres
A la lampe d'Aladdin|Liège 1930|14 x 19.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 157 numbered copies on tea-tinted laid paper, the only printing after 3 Japan, 5 Holland and 25 Madagascar.
Handsome copy.
€80
Auguste de VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM
Chez les passants
Comptoir d'édition|Paris 1890|12 x 19 cm|relié
First edition with a frontispiece by Félicien Rops. Original wrappers preserved. Posthumous edition. Mallarmé and Huysmans, executors of Villiers's estate, undertook to establish this edition with Léon Dierx, for the benefit of the writer's widow and their son Victor. Complete with the 2 leaves of the publisher's catalogue.
Publisher's inscription on the half-title: "A Eugène Marchal, en souvenir de notre bonne camaraderie. L'éditeur..." ["To Eugène Marchal, in memory of our good friendship. The publisher..."] (illegible signature, probably Léon Dierx).
Contemporary Bradel binding in half wine-red morocco. Smooth spine decorated with mirror tools. Gilt title. Top...
€550
Alphonse de LAMARTINE
Souvenirs, impressions, pensées et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient (1832-1833)
Librairie de Charles Gosselin • Librairie Furne|Paris 1835|13 x 21.50 cm|4 tomes en 2 volumes reliés
First edition. The half-titles all bear the heading: Oeuvres complètes de Lamartine. A steel portrait at the frontispiece, 2 folding maps of the Mediterranean and Syria.
Bound in slightly later red half-shagreen. Spine with raised bands decorated with cold-stamped roulettes and thick fillets, as well as gilt fillets. Joints of volume 1 cracked at foot over 2cm. Rubbing, notably to the boards. One corner bumped, without loss. Scattered foxing on title pages and margins. On the second volume, trace of pale dampstaining to upper margin throughout. The folding table of Arab tribes is torn along one fold, without loss. Owner's name at foot: M. Troulé.
Remarkable for its description of...
€800
Gabriele D'ANNUNZIO (inscribed to Natalie Clifford BARNEY)
La Beffa di Buccari - Exemplaire de Natalie Clifford Barney
Fratelli Treves Editori|Milano [Milan] 1918|11 x 16.50 cm|broché
First edition for which no grand papier (deluxe) copies were printed.
Small marginal pieces missing at the top of the first board, a clear remnant of adhesive paper at the bottom of the first endpaper.
Copy complete with the facsimile at the end of the volume.

Precious handwritten inscription signed by Gabriele d'Annunzio to Natalie Clifford Barney: « à miss Barney et au Temple de l'Amitié attentive, cette légère torpille ‘sine litteris' est offerte par la ‘tête d'ivoire'. Gabriele d'Annunzio » (“To Miss Barney and the attentive Temple of Friendship, this light ‘sine litteris' torpedo is offered by the ‘ivory head'. Gabriele...
€3,000
Jean PAULHAN, Jean FAUTRIER
Douze lettres à Fautrier[Twelve Letters to Fautrier]
Paroles peintes Odette Lazar-Vernet|Paris 1975|22.50 x 28.50 cm|en feuilles sous chemise et étui
First edition, one of the 13 numbered copies on Japon, ours one of the 3 hors commerce, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Beautiful and rare copy.
Foreword by André Pieyre de Mandiargues.
Illustrated with 16 etchings by Jean Fautrier.
The 16 etchings by Jean Fautrier illustrating these letters were engraved around 1944 and were originally intended to decorate "Animated" by Paul Eluard, but the project was abandoned.
€2,300
Lewis CARROLL
Lettres adressées à Alice et à quelques autres suivi de Alice à la scène et de Fantasmagorie
Flammarion|Paris 1975|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation by Henri Parisot, one of 30 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
€120
Guillaume APOLLINAIRE
Chroniques des grands siècles de la France
Les arts graphiques|Vincennes 1912|14.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full red cardboard binding, smooth spine decorated with a geometric floral motif in blind, front cover illustrated with Bonaparte at the Bridge of Arcole.
Work illustrated with 12 illustrations.
Shadows on the endpapers, some light foxing.
€100
Antonin ARTAUD
Nouveaux écrits de Rodez, lettres au docteur Ferdière et autres textes inédits suivis de Six lettres à Marie Dubue
Gallimard|Paris 1977|15 x 21.50 cm|broché
First edition, one of 58 numbered copies on Arches vellum, the only deluxe copies.
Iconography, preface by Dr Ferdière.
A very handsome copy.
€200
(STENDHAL) Prosper MÉRIMÉE
H.B. par un des quarante
Jacques Haumont|Paris 1935|14.50 x 20.50 cm|broché
New edition of this tribute to Stendhal by Prosper Mérimée, one of 1200 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only issue with 10 Madagascar and 20 pur fil.
Some foxing mainly at the end of the volume.
€30
Jean PRÉVOST
Nous marchons sur la mer
Nrf|Paris 1931|17 x 22 cm|broché
First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre laid paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format, ours bearing number 1 and printed for Henry Church, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.
€200