Anarchism & Utopia

First edition, printed in 100 copies, each bearing a nominative number on laid paper.

Endpapers partly toned, as often, with a light crease at the foot of the lower cover.

A scarce and appealing copy of this work published under the semi-pseudonym of Jacques Kessel.

First edition.

With press clippings laid in.

Half bronze sheep binding, spine with four raised bands framed with gilt pointillé and decorated with double gilt fillets, red sheep lettering-piece, a few small black spots and a light scratch to the spine, marbled paper boards, cat’s-eye patterned endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.

A pleasing copy.

First edition of the French translation, one of the scarce lettered copies printed on pur fil for private circulation, ours bearing the letter A, the only deluxe-paper copies together with 25 numbered copies on pur fil.
Wide-margined copy, boards and spine lightly and marginally sunned, a few scattered foxmarks affecting some leaves and deckle edges.

Second edition.

Half black sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with broad gilt fillets and dotted tooling, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, lightly rubbed corners, sprinkled edges, contemporary binding.

A few minor spots.

Scarce.

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper reserved for the press.

Spine very slightly sunned, otherwise a well-preserved copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Irène Némirovsky to Charles Laval.

First collected edition.

Publisher’s full flexible boards, smooth spine.

Richly illustrated.

Inscribed and signed by Siné, with an original red felt-tip drawing depicting a little man holding a glass of wine and exclaiming: "À Gérard Verroust santé! Siné."

First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Popset Whisky paper, the deluxe issue.

A fine copy.

First edition of this issue of the pacifist journal founded by the socialist and anarchist activist Henri Guilbeaux.

Includes contributions by Romain Rolland, “La vérité dans le théâtre de Shakespeare”, Jean Jaurès, “Les causes de la guerre”, Gustave Dupin, “La guerre infernale”, Élie Reclus, “Lettre à Élisée Reclus”, and H. M. Swanwick, “Les femmes et la guerre” (conclusion)...

First edition of this issue of the pacifist journal founded by the socialist and anarchist activist Henri Guilbeaux.

Contributions by Henri Guilbeaux "A quelques pharisiens" and "La diplomatie secrète", Jean Debrit "Une réforme de la presse ?", L. de Wiskovatoff "Lettre à M. d'Annunzio" and "Lettres aux journalistes", Gustave Thiesson "Le peintre Gustave Courbet en 1870-71"...

First edition of this issue of the pacifist review founded by the socialist and anarchist activist Henri Guilbeaux.

Includes contributions by Henri Guilbeaux, “Mise au point nécessaire” and “Ernst Sieper”; Gonzague de Reynold, “La neutralité suisse et notre mission internationale”; A. M. Gossez, “Deuils?”; and Leo Tolstoy, “Lettres inédites sur la paix” (conclusion)...

First edition, one of numbered copies on alfa.

A good copy.
Autograph inscription from Irène Némirovsky to monsieur Maier.

Autograph letter by Pierre-Joseph-Marie Proudhon, signed and dated 7 November 1862. 3 pages in black ink on a bifolium. Fold of the bifolium weakened, without affecting the text. Not included in the correspondence published by Lacroix in 1875.
Significant and likely unpublished letter from Proudhon to his publisher Alphonse Lebègue, whom he considers "the cause of liberty in France and independence in Belgium" in these lines. 

Proudhon underscores the importance of his ideological struggle for federalism in Europe, following the controversial publication of his pamphlet La Fédération et l’unité en Italie, and a few months before his political testament Du Principe fédératif. He fiercely criticizes his famous adversary Adolphe Thiers’ Histoire du Consulat et de l’Empire. Since his years in Brussels, Proudhon had intended to write a book debunking the Napoleonic myth as promoted in Thiers' work.

First edition, with no deluxe copies printed on fine paper.

Bradel binding in grey cloth-backed boards, flat spine with gilt central ornament and double gilt fillet at foot, red morocco title label with some rubbing, marbled paper-covered boards, grey paper endpapers and pastedowns.

Some occasional foxing, contemporary gift inscription on the title page.

Text preceded by three facsimile letters by Jules Vallès.

Preface by Julien Lemer.

First edition of the French translation, one of 50 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.

Tiny marginal chips of no consequence on the wrappers, a crease to the upper right corner of the front cover, final page slightly darkened due to the presence of a folding facsimile.

This volume comprises three previously unpublished chapters from the novel "Les possédés".

Very rare first edition, illustrated with a large folding lithographed map (cf. Sabin, 21 178 – Only two copies listed in the CCF: at the BnF and the Médiathèque du Quai Branly).

Contemporary full marbled yellow paper boards, flat spine with a cherry-red shagreen label, library shelf label pasted at the foot of the spine, red edges.

A small discoloured spot on the title page, a few light foxmarks.

The Federal Republic of Central America (Republica federal de Centroamérica) was short-lived: established in 1824 from the United Provinces of Central America, it was dissolved in November 1839 following the secession of its main constituent states. It comprised Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Chiapas (now part of Mexico), and Los Altos (in 1838).

First edition, one of 15 copies on Japan paper, the deluxe issue.

Minor foxing to the edges of the covers, otherwise a desirable and uncommon copy with all edges uncut.

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on pure thread paper, ours being one of 15 hors commerce copies lettered under Ingres covers, deluxe copies after 2 reimposed on pure thread laid paper hors commerce reserved for Jacques Hébertot and 13 holland paper copies.
Minor marginal tears of no consequence to the covers.
Handsome and rare copy of this response by Albert Camus to Jean-Paul Sartre's "Les mains sales".

First edition in French, one of 15 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition printed in small numbers.
Traces of horizontal folds on the first cover, otherwise a nice copy.

Signed by Charles-Louis-Augustin Letellier at the top of first cover.

First edition, one of 70 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the deluxe issue after 2 reimposed on pur fil vergé hors commerce reserved for Jacques Hébertot and 13 on holland paper.
A handsome and rare copy of this response by Albert Camus to Jean-Paul Sartre's "Les mains sales".

First edition of the French translation established by Jean Cohen, the original English edition having appeared the same year.
Half brown sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with black and gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and tail of spines, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, Romantic bindings.
Light rubbing to some boards, two tears to the lower headcap and top edge of the fourth volume, some minor foxing.
William Golding is considered one of the most important precursors of anarchist and utilitarian thought; he is the father of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, better known as Mary Shelley.

First edition.
Boards slightly and marginally soiled, occasional foxing.
Rare.

Second edition with some parts in first edition as it was revised.
Spine slightly browned, first cover marginally soiled, a charm at head of first endpaper, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

New edition of the French translation based on the latest English edition, with some parts in first edition.
Half brown sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with black and gilt fillets, gilt friezes at head and foot of spines, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, Romantic bindings.
Some surface scratches on the boards and minor rubbing to the spines, headcaps of the first two volumes with small losses.
A rare and handsome copy of this work which serves as the first detective novel in literary history.
William Golding is considered one of the most important precursors of anarchist and utilitarian thought, he is the father of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, better known as Mary Shelley.

"Si quelque part au monde le coeur de la liberté continue à battre, s'il est un lieu d'où ses coups nous parviennent mieux frappés que de partout ailleurs, nous savons tous que ce lieu est l'Espagne." ["If anywhere in the world the heart of freedom continues to beat, if there is a place from which its beats reach us more clearly struck than from anywhere else, we all know that this place is Spain."]

"N'oublions pas que le monstre qui pour un temps nous tient encore à sa merci s'est fait les griffes en Espagne. C'est là qu'il a commencé à faire suinter ses poisons : le mensonge, la division, la démoralisation, la disparition, qui pour la première fois il a fait luire ses buissons de fusils au petit matin, à la tombée du soir ses chambres de torture. Les Hitler, les Mussolini, les Staline, ont eu là leur laboratoire de vivisection, leur école de travaux pratiques. Les fours crématoires, les mines de sel, les escaliers glissants de la N.K.V.D., l'extension à perte de vue du monde concentrationnaire ont été homologués à partir de là. C'est d'Espagne que part l'égouttement de sang indélébile témoignant d'une blessure qui peut être mortelle pour le monde. C'est en Espagne que pour la première fois aux yeux de tous, le droit de vivre libre a été frappé." ["Let us not forget that the monster that still holds us at its mercy for a time sharpened its claws in Spain. It is there that it began to make its poisons seep: lies, division, demoralization, disappearance, where for the first time it made its thickets of rifles gleam in the early morning, its torture chambers at nightfall. The Hitlers, the Mussolinis, the Stalins, had their vivisection laboratory there, their school of practical work. The crematory ovens, the salt mines, the slippery stairs of the N.K.V.D., the endless extension of the concentration camp world were approved from there. It is from Spain that flows the indelible dripping of blood testifying to a wound that may be mortal for the world. It is in Spain that for the first time in everyone's eyes, the right to live free was struck down."]