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Novels, Short Stories and Tales

Fiction works, fables, adventure stories, autofiction, autobiographical novels, epics, sagas, novelistic works

1127 results
  4. La chambre bleue, nouvelle dédiée à madame de la Rhune
    Prosper MÉRIMÉE

    La chambre bleue, nouvelle dédiée à madame de la Rhune

    Lib. de la Place de la Monnaie|Bruxelles [Brussels] 1872|14.50 x 23.50 cm|relié
    Second edition, the first having been printed in only 3 copies, this one of 100 copies on vergé paper, the only printing with 9 on China and 20 on Hollande.
    Contemporary Bradel binding in half indigo paper over marbled paper boards, spine with double gilt fillets, head of spine slightly rubbed.
    Small wormholes to endpapers, otherwise internally good.
    Rare.
    €1,200
  5. Jocelyn
    Alphonse de LAMARTINE, João Cardoso de Menezes SOUZA

    Jocelyn

    Typografia Nacional|Rio de Janeiro 1875|15 x 22 cm|relié
    First edition of the Portuguese translation and first Brazilian edition.
    Full red cloth binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with fleurons, dotwork and gilt fillets, gilt dentelle at head and foot, covers richly decorated with triple gilt compartments, with a central lozenge with hatched borders surrounded by a garland, black morocco inlays, gilt rolls framing the pastedowns and on the leading edges, edges gilt, endpapers and pastedowns of moiré paper, publisher's binding, binder's label pasted.
    Minimal traces of rubbing, occasional light foxing, otherwise a handsome and well-established copy.
    €450
  9. Oeuvres morales et meslees. Translatées de grec en français, reveues & corrigées en plusieurs passages par le translateur
    PLUTARQUE, Jacques AMYOT (trans.)

    Oeuvres morales et meslees. Translatées de grec en français, reveues & corrigées en plusieurs passages par le translateur

    Pour Samuel Crespin|à Cologni [Cologne] 1614|38 x 25 cm|relié
    The first edition of Amyot's translation dates from 1572 published by Michel de Vascosan in Paris.
    Contemporary full calf binding, spine with six raised bands, 6 fleurons, double fillet frame on boards.
    Jacques Amyot (1513-1594), was tutor to the sons of Henri II (future Charles IX and Henri III), he was also professor at the University of Bourges and became grand almoner of France and bishop of Auxerre, which he made an important center of humanism. It was on the recommendation of François I that he translated Plutarch's Lives of Illustrious Men. This work, and subsequently the moral works, had and would have considerable impact, not only for the rediscovery of antiquity (which thus had greater resonance than for a few scholars) and of Plutarch but for the French language itself. Montaigne wrote: 'We others, ignorant, were lost if this book had not lifted us from the mire... It is our breviary'. But not only a skilled translator concerned with accuracy, he is also a very able popularizer rather than a scholar, for he wrote for a broad public and not for the learned, thus he explains, comments on what needs to be clarified, he seeks a pure French, removed from Hellenisms and pedantic turns, a French that would be praised by all specialists of the French language in the 17th century such as Vaugelas. Finally, he brought translation into a new era.
    Brunet, IV, 738.
    Skillful restorations to corners, headcaps and edges.
    €1,500
  11. Mensonges
    Paul BOURGET

    Mensonges

    Editions Lemerre|Paris 1896|20 x 13 cm|Un Vol. relié
    First illustrated edition by Myrbach of this collection of short stories.
    Half teal glazed calf. Smooth spine. Geometric pattern roll, gilt fillets framing the title and author. A central fleuron (open flower) surrounded by several concentric fillets. Two framing fillets delimiting the central tool. Two eighteenth-century style tools on either side of the flower. Top edge gilt. Spine slightly faded.

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.
    €180
  12. Histoire du chevalier Grandisson
    Samuel RICHARDSON

    Histoire du chevalier Grandisson

    S. n.|à Amsterdam 1777|16.50 x 9.50 cm|relié
    New edition. Translated by Abbé Prévost, with his introduction.
    Full marbled glazed calf binding, spine with raised bands decorated. One tear to joint at headcap.
    "Richardson était l'inventeur de la tragédie bourgeoise [...] Il a inventé ce roman où l'art consiste à négliger tous les préceptes de l'art, où l'accumulation de détails étrangers à l'action, où la répétition des mêmes scènes et des mêmes sentiments, produisent plus d'effet que la précision, le goût, la justesse et l'ordre n'en ont jamais produit" (Richardson was the inventor of bourgeois tragedy [...] He invented this novel where art consists in neglecting all the precepts of art, where the accumulation of details foreign to the action, where the repetition of the same scenes and the same sentiments, produce more effect than precision, taste, accuracy and order have ever produced). AUGUSTIN FILON, Histoire de la littérature anglaise : depuis ses origines jusqu'à nos jours, Paris, Hachette, 1883. Abbé Prévost did not content himself with translating Richardson's novel, he arranged and reworked it; not liking the ending, he probably rewrote it, and it is this version that circulated throughout Europe and made Richardson's reputation, while the original comprised 28 volumes that Prévost reduced to 8, systematically cutting the verbosity and characteristic prolixity of Richardson.

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.
    €350
  13. Le négociant philosophe, traduit de l'allemand par Doray de Longray, officier de cavalerie
    HIRZEL

    Le négociant philosophe, traduit de l'allemand par Doray de Longray, officier de cavalerie

    S. n.|à Amsterdam • [Rouen?] 1786|16.50 x 10.50 cm|relié

    Rare. We have found nothing concerning this work, absent from libraries.
    Half calf Romantic binding with corners in red, smooth spine with 4 tools and fillets. Foxing. One corner of the title page border reinforced.
    In the form of a tale and dialogue between a father and son, the author examines the nobility of character of a good merchant, how he should be a good father to his son and a good father to his country. Numerous passages on the importance of agriculture. « Ce travail lui donna des vues très étendues sur les rapports du commerce, avec le bonheur particulier & général des hommes? » (This work gave him very extensive views on the relationship of commerce with the particular & general happiness of mankind?).

    €300
  14. Bertoldino et Cacasenno
    Giulio Cesare CROCE

    Bertoldino et Cacasenno

    Pietro Pinolato|Venezia [Venice] • (Venise) [Venice] 1782|18.50 x 10.50 cm|relié
    First edition. The original dates from 1606.
    Fine printing on quality paper. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts in a popular and rustic style, a medallion portrait and a frontispiece (copperplate).
    Half navy glazed calf binding late 19th century, spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons.
    The copy, of perfect whiteness, appears to have been washed. Giulio Cesare Croce (1550-1609), born in the province of Bologna, came from a poor family, he studied medicine then launched into a literary career, then died poor. Bertoldino and Cacasenno are two emblematic and extremely popular characters of Italy, they have become types, Bertoldino is a cunning and crafty character, who contrasts with the simplicity and rusticity of Cacasenno. The two companions have thus (like Don Quixote) become more famous than the book from which they come. An opera was made of it at the end of the 18th century with a libretto by Goldoni.
    €400
  17. Les nouvelles françaises, ou les divertissements de la princesse Aurelie
    Jean Regnault de SEGRAIS

    Les nouvelles françaises, ou les divertissements de la princesse Aurelie

    Chez Guillaume Saucrain|à Paris 1722|16 x 9.50 cm|2 volumes brochés
    New edition after the original of 1657 (Sommaville). Edition illustrated with a frontispiece and 6 unsigned figures (one for each novella as frontispiece).
    In original wrappers, lacking binding. A light dampstain at the end of volume I, in the middle. Segrais (1624-1701) was secretary to Mademoiselle de Montpensier (from whom Madame de Lafayette would draw a narrative), and director of the French Academy. The collection comprises 6 historical novellas, a genre inaugurated a few years earlier by Madame de Lafayette's La princesse de Clèves. Lafayette's novels appeared under Segrais's pseudonym... In the preface, Segrais speaks of a princess close to Louis XIV and retired to a castle with her attendants, each telling a story, the whole forming the entertainments of Princess Aurélie. These novellas constitute an important ensemble for 17th-century literature and a decisive step, close to Madame de Lafayette's literature, toward the modern narrative.
    €250
  18. Les fantasques ou la lucarne du Diable
    Paul LEROY

    Les fantasques ou la lucarne du Diable

    Maugard|Rouen 1952|13 x 18 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Illustrated with woodcuts by Frank Innocent. A suite of monochrome illustrations has been added, accompanying the 25 hors commerce copies on pure Lafuma laid paper (copies signed by the author and illustrator).
    One of 25 hors commerce copies, marked O.
    Lengthy circumstantial autograph inscriptions by the author and illustrator to Elie-Léon Bramy, gallery owner and poet.
    Preface by Mac Orlan. First edition limited to 200 copies.
    In original wrappers. Folded covers.

    NB: This work is available at the bookshop upon request within 48 hours.
    €500
  19. L'attiffet des damoizelles. Première et plus importante pièce de leur embellissement
    Guillaume de LA TAYSSONNIÈRE

    L'attiffet des damoizelles. Première et plus importante pièce de leur embellissement

    J. Gay et fils.|Turin 1871|16.50 x 10.50 cm|Un Vol. relié
    Edition limited to 100 numbered copies, ours being n°1 of the 96 on English laid paper after 4 on China paper.
    Blue marbled paper Bradel binding. Black sheepskin title label in landscape format.
    Textual reprint of the first edition of 1575, reproducing the title page, of this poetry by Guillaume de la Taysonnière, gentleman from Bresse who practiced poetry as pure distraction. L'attiffet is followed by other poems. The editors' note presents La Taysonnière's bibliography emphasizing the rarity of the editions, always highly sought after.
    €300
  23. Kerkadec garde barrrière
    Léon CLADEL

    Kerkadec garde barrrière

    P. Delille & P. Vigneron|Paris 1884|13 x 20 cm|broché
    First edition, one of the numbered copies on Holland paper, the only issue with a few on China and Japan papers.
    Work decorated with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Bouisset and illustrated with drawings by Poirson and Willette.
    Preface by Clovis Hugues.
    Bradel binding in full marbled paper, smooth spine, navy blue morocco title-label, soiled covers preserved, binding signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
    €500
  26. Les oeuvres de Clément Marot de Cahors
    Clément MAROT

    Les oeuvres de Clément Marot de Cahors

    Chez Adrian Moetjens|à La haye [The Hague] 1702|14 x 8 cm|deux tomes en deux volumes relié

    Reprint, by the same publisher, of the 1700 edition, 'the most sought-after' according to Brunet III, 1458 who adds: "It is difficult to find well-preserved copies with good margins and whose leaves do not have a russet tint."


    Contemporary full brown sheep bindings. Spine with raised bands, decorated. A tear with loss at the junction of the upper joint and headcap of volume II.

    Rubbing to corners and joints.


    Complete edition, which even contains the translations made by Marot.
    Bookplate Biblilothèque Tramar de Lamarque.

    €400
  30. Un royaume de dieu
    Jérôme & Jean THARAUD

    Un royaume de dieu

    Plon-Nourrit & Cie|Paris 1920|12 x 19 cm|relié
    First edition, one of the first issue copies numbered at press.
    Half red shagreen binding, smooth spine slightly faded and bearing a black stain at foot decorated with a gilt cartouche adorned with gilt arabesques, gilt date at tail, joints lightly rubbed, gilt fillet on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, bookplate pasted on verso of front board, contemporary binding signed by Yseux successor to Thierry-Simier.
    Provenance: from the library of the Château de Vertcoeur with provenance statement stamped in gilt at head of front board.
    €40
  34. Firmin ou le jeune voyageur en Egypte
    MARTES

    Firmin ou le jeune voyageur en Egypte

    Alfred Mame & Cie|Tours s. d. [circa 1850]|10.50 x 17.50 cm|relié
    New edition.
    Full dark green shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt arabesques, gilt roulettes on headcaps, traces of rubbing to joints, triple blind-ruled frames on boards decorated at their centers with blind-stamped arabesques as well as a gilt fountain, gilt fillets on edges, corners slightly bumped, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary Romantic binding.
    Work illustrated with two vignettes engraved on the title and half-title pages.
    Foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume.
    Rare.
    €80
  57. Oeuvres choisies de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre publiées par Aimé-Martin
    Jacques-Henri BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE

    Oeuvres choisies de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre publiées par Aimé-Martin

    Didier|Paris 1838|10.50 x 17.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Charming illustrated edition with 7 plates, including a frontispiece.
    Full red glazed calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt arabesques, two tiny holes at foot of joints, gilt roulettes on headcaps, boards framed with gilt fillet and arabesque, discoloration stains on boards of first volume, quadruple gilt fillets framing endpapers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt fillets on leading edges, all edges gilt, elegant contemporary romantic bindings.
    Some foxing.
    Handsome copy elegantly bound in romantic binding.
    €300
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