Antique economic theories, political science, political economy treatises, first editions and dedications by physiocrats and economists

First edition.
Rare and handsome copy presented in temporary covers in its original wrappers.

First edition.
Rare and handsome copy presented in temporary covers in its original wrappers.

First edition.
Title label pasted on the unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy in temporary covers in its original wrappers.

First edition.
Some light foxing.
Title label pasted on the unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy in temporary covers in its original wrappers.

New edition.
Bradel binding in half almond-green percale, smooth spine decorated with a central gilt fleuron, double gilt fillet at foot, burgundy shagreen title-label, pebbled paper boards, original covers preserved, contemporary binding.
Small lack at head of one endpaper.
Handsome copy.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy with photographic cover.
Rare dated autograph inscription signed by Maurice Herzog to a couple of friends.

First edition.
Half red cloth Bradel bindings, smooth spines decorated with central gilt fleuron, dates and double gilt fillets at foot of spines, brown shagreen title-labels with scratches and angular lacks, pebbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved, upper corners of second volume damaged.
A light dampstain at foot of last leaves of first volume, occasional foxing.
Bookplates pasted to pastedowns.
Rare work complete in two volumes.

First edition.
Handsome copy despite a small crease to the lower right corner of the front cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Alfonso Sastre to Gisèle Halimi and her husband Claude Faux: 'Para Gisèle y Calude un abrazo muy fuerte Alfonso. En page 19 il y a una citation de ton 'procès de Burgos', Gisèle.' ["For Gisèle and Claude a very strong embrace Alfonso. On page 19 there is a quote from your 'procès de Burgos', Gisèle."]

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by the Immortal Alain Peyrefitte to Marcel Vignaud "... bon compagnon, en signe amical..." ["... good companion, as a friendly gesture..."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine soiled, red stains to right margin of front cover, back cover marginally soiled.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Emmanuel d'Astier to Carlo Rim: "Pour Carlo Rim après 25 années et un échange de souvenirs dans la symparhie d'As." ["For Carlo Rim after 25 years and an exchange of memories in the sympathy of As."]
Carlo Rim, author of "Ma belle Marseille", was a Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker and friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol as well as André Salmon and Max Jacob.

First edition of this work evoking the author's friendship and admiration for Pierre Lazareff.
Spine slightly faded.
Signed autograph inscription from Charles Baudinat to the Provençal writer, caricaturist and filmmaker Carlo Rim, who was notably the friend of Pierre Lazareff, Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol as well as André Salmon and Max Jacob: "Pour monsieur Carlo Rim, compagnon plus que moi de ce "petit homme". Avec mon admiration et ma profonde sympathie." ["For Mr Carlo Rim, more of a companion than I to this 'little man'. With my admiration and deep sympathy."]

Autograph letter signed by Joséphin Peladan addressed to Marius Richard, Carlo Rim's father (12 lines in black ink). Fold marks inherent to mailing. Tiny lacks to lower right corner of the sheet, marginal foxing.
Interesting letter in which the occultist writer expresses his wish to meet Jean Jaurès, fervent admirer of Sâr Peladan's writings, through Marius Richard, Jean Jaurès's faithful companion.
"Dear confrère of the soul, you have excited my desire to see Jaurès. Would you, if there is still time, obtain an appointment with him for me. In haste & will write to you one of these days. Your Péladan. 24 Rue A. de Neuville"

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A handsome copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Louis de Fouquières to Pierre Clostermann: "Pour notre grand as Pierre Clostermann avec toute mon admiration et mon amitié. L. de Fouquières." ["To our great ace Pierre Clostermann with all my admiration and friendship. L. de Fouquières."]

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite a slight tear on the front cover diminishing to disappear from the following two pages.
Iconography
Precious autograph inscription signed by Daniel Costelles to Pierre Clostermann: "Pour Pierre avec ma très très grande reconnaissance. D.C.." ["For Pierre with my very very great gratitude. D.C.."]

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Autograph signature of Manuel Vall on the title page.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Spine and boards marginally and lightly sunned, otherwise handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis Aragon to Micaëla Szekely.

First edition of this collection of political satirical drawings published in Le canard enchaîné and Marianne, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Small tears and corner losses to spine at board margins, which is inevitable given the fragility of this paper, a small mark in blue ballpoint pen on the back board.
Fine and amusing autograph inscription signed by Jean Effel to Carlo Rim and his wife Alice with a small drawing of a little bird: "Au salopard Carlo rim le salopard Jean Effel avec son amitié et un petit oiseau (et une tache)" ["To the bastard Carlo rim the bastard Jean Effel with his friendship and a little bird (and a stain)"], as Jean...

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Publisher's full red skyvertex binding, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket.
Autograph inscription from Raoul Salan to Jean-Michel Roger.

Printed visiting card of the director, theater director and writer René Clair on which he has added for the attention of his friend Carlo Rim: "Merci cher Carlo. Je t'embrasse." ["Thank you dear Carlo. I embrace you."]
Handsome copy.
Provenance: from the library of the Provençal writer, filmmaker and caricaturist Carlo Rim who was notably the friend of Fernandel, Raimu and Marcel Pagnol but also of André Salmon and Max Jacob.

First edition, one of 10 hors commerce copies numbered on Arches laid paper, the most limited deluxe paper printing after 9 Japan.
Spine sunned, rear board soiled, small foxing spots on endpapers, title page and half-title marginally shaded.
Letter-preface by Raymond Poincaré.
Autograph inscription signed by Gaston Riou to Carlo Rim below the justification page: "... son ami fervent..."

Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's binding in full green grained sheep, blue top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Complete with its creased cellophane on spine and dust jacket, lacking the soft slipcase.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Spine sunned.
Signed autograph inscription from Noël Favrelière to Jean-François Tournaire.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Journal Asiatique of March-April 1893.
Small corner losses to covers, marginally soiled, handsome interior condition.
Rare.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Christian Millau to Jean-Pierre Rudin: "... le récit d'une époque épique..." ["... the story of an epic era..."], the latter having offered it to a friend named Pierre for his 91st birthday and bearing a signed autograph inscription.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's binding in full raspberry cloth, smooth spine, complete with its illustrated dust jacket which has small marginal tears of no consequence and a more significant one at the head of the back cover.
Signed autograph inscription from Edmond Jouhaud to Mr Husson: "... avec mes remerciements pour son action au sein du Spes pour les familles d'embastillés, avec mes cordiaux sentiments à un sympathisant de notre cause..." ["... with my thanks for his action within Spes for the families of the imprisoned, with my cordial regards to a sympathizer of our cause..."]

Musée des horreurs – Original colour lithographed poster – n° 6 “Le Traître”
Original colour lithographed poster depicting Alfred Dreyfus as a Gorgonian headed hydra pierced by a military sword.

Far from the classic zoomorphic codes usually used by caricaturists, Alfred Dreyfus is associated here with the hydra, a mythical creature emblematic of evil. Beyond this symbolism, the choice of a monster with sprawling and perpetually regenerating heads gives the image a strong anti-Semitic charge, exceeding that of the Dreyfus Affair.
Ironically, it is the...

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Complete with publisher's (advertising) slip, iconography.
Signed autograph inscription from Hubert Juin to the poet Charles Dobzynski of communist allegiance and close friend of Louis Aragon, the latter having been his witness at his marriage to his wife Elsa Triolet: "Pour Charles Dobzynski ici présent (en ces pages) cet Aragon, avec mon amitié." ["For Charles Dobzynski here present (in these pages) this Aragon, with my friendship."]

First edition.
Publisher's binding in full brown grained sheep, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its cellophane wrapper, lacking dust jacket and slipcase.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Spine slightly sunned, otherwise handsome copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Louis Althusser to Jean-Pierre Richard: "Pour Monsieur Richard qui fut et reste mon premier maître, cette longue dissertation... et ma très respectueuse affection." ["For Monsieur Richard who was and remains my first master, this long dissertation... and my most respectful affection."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Covers marginally shaded.
Fine autograph inscription dated and signed by André Thirion: "A la belle Lou Mollgaard que j'imagine mal chantant les filles de Camaret mais qui n'aurait pas déparé les plus beaux soirs de la Jungle. Avec l'admiration de l'auteur. Thirion" ["To the beautiful Lou Mollgaard whom I can hardly imagine singing the girls of Camaret but who would not have been out of place in the most beautiful evenings at the Jungle. With the author's admiration. Thirion"].

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
First cover marginally shaded, small sunning at head and foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Roger Rabiniaux to his friends Gilbert and Geneviève Lafragette: "... ce livre burlesque et lyrique mais qui n'est pas un jeu Gilbert, qui est le témoignage du désarroi d'un homme et d'une société... Mais qui est un cri tragique..." ["... this burlesque and lyrical book which is not a game Gilbert, which is the testimony of the disarray of a man and a society... But which is a tragic cry..."]

First edition published in the wake of the resounding and historic front page "J'accuse" printed in the newspaper "L'Aurore", one of 200 numbered copies on laid paper, each justified by the publisher.
Bound in red half-shagreen, spine with four raised bands gilt-ruled with dotted fillets and decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some rubbing along the joints, pleasingly fresh interior.
Illustrated with a photographic portrait of Emile Zola as frontispiece.
Includes numerous contributions, among them Paul Alexis, Jean Psichari, Elisée Reclus, Joseph Reinach, Paul Adam, Maurice Bouchor...

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Alfred Sauvy to Hubert Beuve-Méry: "... en hommage reconnaissant pour sa grande oeuvre..." ["in grateful tribute to his great work..."]

First edition, one of 190 numbered copies on Arches paper, the only printing after 10 on Japan paper.
Handsome copy.
Signed manuscript quote by Charles Maurras: "L'esprit de parti ne respectera rien" ["The spirit of faction will respect nothing"] taken from page 11.

First edition, one of 11 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy despite endpapers very lightly and partially shadowed.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Two small marginal tears to boards, paper yellowed.
Signed autograph inscription from Georges Arnaud to François Erval.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Precious autograph inscription signed by Elie Wiesel to Maurice de Gandillac.

First edition, one of 1050 numbered copies on alfa paper.
Half black shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled top edges.
A photographic portrait of Charles Maurras mounted on a pastedown of the first volume.
Minor rubbing to spines without significance.
Handsome set uniformly bound.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on laid paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on pure linen paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 Holland.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 120 numbered copies on wove paper, the only deluxe copies after 36 on Holland paper.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Publisher's full brown grained sheep binding, orange top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its dust jacket and cellophane wrapper, lacking the flexible slipcase.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on Corvol l'Orgueilleux paper, the only deluxe copies along with a few hors commerce copies also on Corvol paper.
Handsome copy despite slight sunning to head of spine.

First editions of each volume, one of 20 numbered copies on pure fil du Marais paper (first volume) or Lana paper (second volume), the only deluxe copies with some hors commerce copies also on Corvol paper.
Handsome set despite slight sunning to heads of spines.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on pure fil du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite very light sunning to head of spine.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Lana rag vellum, the only deluxe copies along with a few hors commerce copies also on Lana paper.
Handsome copy despite light worming to spine.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription by Michel Rocard to Joël and Marie-Claude Hamard.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Precious dated autograph inscription signed by Jean-Claude Masson: "A Julien Gracq avec le souvenir (vif) de notre rencontre (furtive) autour d'Octavio Paz, très cordialement." ["To Julien Gracq with the (vivid) memory of our (brief) meeting about Octavio Paz, very cordially."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.

Spine and boards marginally lightened.

Signed autograph inscription from François Fejtö to his fellow historian Jean-Pierre Rioux.

First edition, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Handsome copy complete with publisher's slip and a large part of its wraparound band: "... ou soyez communiste"
Signed autograph inscription from Paul Sérant to Georges Goldfayn.

First collected edition of the works of François-René de Chateaubriand, each volume decorated with a frontispiece engraved by Charles Thompson depicting a young woman seated on a stone engraved "Chateaubriand, Œuvres complètes" and contemplating the horizon. The author contributed largely to the publication of this edition through the organization of the whole and by writing new prefaces for all the texts. As he writes himself these prefaces are more pieces of autobiography than prefaces.
Binding in half brown calf strictly contemporary Restoration period. Spine with raised bands decorated with 2 blind stamps, roulettes at head and tail and on the bands. Brown calf title label and...

First edition of this issue of this important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Issue partly devoted to the crisis affecting the people's democracies. : J. Cep & Abbé Boulier: "The religious struggle in Czechoslovakia", François Fetjö: "The Rajk affair is an international Dreyfus affair", Claude Bourdet: "Journey to the second USSR"
Other contributions by J.J. Brieux "Mao Tse-Tung's China, II: the men", André Bazin "The victorious test of Italian neo-realism"...
Occasional foxing mainly marginal.

First edition of this issue of this important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Issue largely devoted to the subject "From coexistence to peace, twenty years of history": The confrontation: "American and Soviet positions", "economic systems", "between writers" by Pierre Emmanuel, André Fontaine, Claude Gruson notably. ; "The socialist camp": "The socialist bloc and détente", "China" by Bernard Feron and Stuart Schram ; "The trials of coexistence": "Laos", "Iraq", "Cuba", "Berlin", "Formosa" by Robert Guillain, Louis Péronne and Pierre Rondot notably ; "From coexistence to cooperation": "A new...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by L. Vandermeersch: "Les frontières sino-soviétiques" ["The Sino-Soviet borders"], Dina Dreyfus "Télévision et enseignement" ["Television and teaching"], Gamé Guilao: "La mort des fétiches" ["The death of fetishes"], "Socialisme et développement en Zambie et au Cambodge" ["Socialism and development in Zambia and Cambodia"] by René Dumont and Thierry de Beaucé...
Occasional foxing mainly to margins.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Issue partly devoted to Yugoslavia: J.M. Domenach: "Une révolution rencontre le mensonge" ["A revolution encounters lies"], J. Baboulène: "Le sens de l'édification socialiste en Yougoslavie" ["The meaning of socialist construction in Yugoslavia"], H. Queffelec: "Perspectives" ["Perspectives"].
Other contributions by JH. Duméry "L'athéisme sartrien" ["Sartrean atheism"], E. Mounier "Notes scandinaves ou du bonheur" ["Scandinavian notes or on happiness"]...
Occasional foxing mainly to margins.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
Issue partly devoted to the French army: L. de Villefosse: "Armée nationale ou armée de guerre civile ?", J. Lacroix: "L'armée et la politique", A. Berger: "L'armée de nos moyens", Colonel X: "Positions et propositions", J.M. Domenach: "Pour la défense nationale"...
Occasional light foxing mainly marginal.

First edition in French, of which there were no deluxe copies.
A tear with loss at the head of one joint, a small blue ballpoint pen inscription in the upper left corner of the title vignette on the front cover.
Rare dated manuscript signature by Dymphna Cusack on this work denouncing the ostracism and racism suffered by Aborigines in their native land of Australia.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite spine lightly sunned.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Abel Dechêne to historian Louis Madelin.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite spine and boards marginally sunned.

First edition, one of 225 numbered copies on pur fil paper, deluxe issue.
A transverse fold at head of front cover, otherwise a handsome full-margined copy.
Contributions by Georges Bernanos: "Lettre à Frédéric Lefèvre", Max Jacob: "Renoncer à toute richesse" & "Jeunesse lacustre" & "Angoisses et autres", Henri Massis: "Charles Maurras et le sentiment de la mort" & "Paul Valéry et sa pensée", Nicolas Berdiaeff "Le destin de la culture", Jean Cocteau: "Daisy en France", Daisy Ashford: "Les jeunes visiteurs ou le plan de Mr Salteena", Julien Green: "La traversée inutile"...

First edition published in two instalments (we have not been able to determine the publication date of the second part nor the number of the journal in which it was printed).
Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and gilt fleurons, gilt friezes at head and foot, wood-effect paper boards, front cover of the first fascicle preserved, sea-green paper endpapers and pastedowns, bookplate pasted on a pastedown, contemporary binding signed F. Vanzeghbroeck.
Library stamp in upper right corner of the first text page.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by André Santini to a woman named Marité: "... dont je sais qu'elle apprécie l'air du temps. En souvenir d'un commun amour pour la peinture." ["... who I know appreciates the spirit of the times. In memory of a shared love for painting."]

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Some traces of rubbing to the joints and to the back cover.
Iconography.
Autograph inscription signed by André Lajoinie to a woman named Annick.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full grey cloth binding, smooth spine, with the illustrated dust jacket which has some minor marginal tears and tiny corner chips of no consequence.
Signed autograph inscription from André Dhôtel to Monsieur Pittner.

First edition.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Signed autograph inscription from Charles Tillon, leader of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans during the Resistance and later minister, to Jean-Luc Robin.

First edition on ordinary paper, stated as fourth edition.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Claude Roy to Jean Claval.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean-Noël Jeannerey to Françoise Templaire.

First edition in French.
Publisher's full boards binding, smooth spine, illustrated covers.
Handsome copy, illustrations by Jean-Jacques Beurtheray.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Miguel Angel Sanz to Doctor Kernbaum.

First edition.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Autograph inscription signed by Antoine Argoud: "Paris le 15 Mars 1975. A Mme Falabot, à la femme d'un pied noir mort en Algérie. Avec mes respectueux hommages. Antoine Argoud." ["Paris March 15, 1975. To Mrs. Falabot, to the wife of a pied noir who died in Algeria. With my respectful homage. Antoine Argoud."]

First edition of this unpublished text presented by Claude Debon, one of 50 numbered copies on laid paper, ours one of 26 lettered copies, deluxe printing.
Pleasant copy, bookplate pasted facing the title page.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Photographic cover, iconography.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Hubert de Leusse to Roland Manescau.

Autograph letter signed by Emile Zola - apparently unpublished - addressed to Léon Carbonnaux, written in black ink on a double sheet. Folds inherent to mailing. Envelope included.
Important testimony to the colossal documentation work and the capital role of Emile Zola's informants in depicting his immense natural and social fresco.
This letter was sent to Léon Carbonnaux, department head at Bon Marché who transmitted precious information to Emile Zola for the creation of the eleventh volume of the Rougon-Macquart series: Au Bonheur des Dames.
Only two letters from Léon Carbonnaux to Emile Zola are known: they can be...

First edition illustrated with 200 plates and 120 vignettes by Grandville, engraved by Brévière. One plate missing from volume 2 ("Tous l'aimaient éperdument..." in the chapter entitled "Les peines de coeur d'une chatte française". In volume 1, the plates from pages 241 and 378 are incorrectly bound at pages 140 and 275. The frontispiece of the first volume is different in the first volume from most other copies, however the usual frontispiece has been placed further along.
Contemporary half red calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with large uniformly faded gilt tools, marbled paper boards with some minor rubbing as well as on the bindings overall, pebbled paper endpapers and...

First edition of the French translation, one of 68 numbered copies on pur fil paper, after only 13 Japan and 20 Holland.
Spine with two sun-faded areas at head and foot, endpapers lightly and partially shaded, a manuscript gift inscription at the head of the first endpaper.

First edition.
Occasional light foxing.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with double blind compartments and gilt fillets, gilt initials at foot, black paper boards, pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns, one lower corner slightly bumped, contemporary binding.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Foreword by Jean Giono.
Signed autograph inscription from Romée de Villeneuve to Monsieur Le Duc de Levis-Mirepoix.

Photographic portrait of Shimon Peres shown facing forward, posed in front of his library.
Handsome copy.
Manuscript signature of Shimon Peres, in blue ink at the foot of his portrait.

First edition, one of the few numbered copies on Arches laid paper, ours bearing No. 1, the only deluxe copies.
Spine with small tears and corner lacks, endpapers entirely browned, slight marginal lacks to boards.
A full-margined copy, complete with its folding map at rear.

First edition of the French translation established by Jacques Potin, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Light rubbing to board margins, small foxing to endpapers and top edge.
Autograph inscription signed by Jacques Potin.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Preface letter by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Signed autograph inscription from Francis Jeanson to Doctor Jean Schneider.

Illustrated edition with original etchings by Jean Carton and printed in 200 copies on laid paper, ours one of the 170 named copies/

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Rare and fine full-page signed autograph inscription from Bernard-Henri Lévy to Jean-Louis Guillaud on his master work, which reads like a manifesto: "... because the 'left' changes, intellectuals 'resist' and this barbarie à visage humain bears witness to it, in respectful homage. Bernard-Henry Lévy."

First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa paper reserved for the service de presse.
Significant ink stains at head of second volume affecting only very slightly and marginally the final front endpaper, small marginal tears to boards.
Precious dated inscription signed by René Benjamin: "A Sacha Guitry, ce livre qui n'a qu'une idée, parbleu, c'est de lui plaire." ["To Sacha Guitry, this book which has only one idea, by Jove, it is to please him."]

First edition on ordinary paper, statement of 16th edition.
Handsome copy.
Signed autograph inscription from Claude Roy to Jean Claval.

First edition in French, one of 129 numbered copies on pure thread paper, the only deluxe copies.
Fine copy of this antifascist novel that Thornton Wilder published in 1948, inspired by Sartrean existentialism and drawing parallels between Julius Caesar and Benito Mussolini.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite light worming of no consequence to upper margins.
Autograph inscription signed by Jacques Brenner to journalist and director of Le Figaro Patrice de Plunkett.

First edition, one of 17 numbered copies on Ghaldwill, the only deluxe copies.
Preface by Laurent Schwartz.
Maurice Audin, French mathematician and member of the Algerian Communist Party, was arrested during the Battle of Algiers on June 11, 1957 and disappeared without his body ever being found.
While the French army claimed he had escaped, several prominent figures including Pierre Vidal-Naquet protested and denounced his martyrdom after he was certainly tortured by the French army, with General Aussaresses much later acknowledging having given the order to kill Maurice Audin.
Handsome and rare copy retaining its publisher's wraparound band (which has a lack): "Massu et...

First edition, one of 48 copies numbered on pur fil, ours being one of 8 lettered hors commerce copies, printed on large paper.
A fine and rare copy of this foundational text of the Hussards literary movement, which brought together around Roger Nimier and Antoine Blondin Jacques Laurent, Kléber Haedens, Stephen Hecquet, Michel Déon...
Moving provenance: from the library of Nadine Nimier, wife and widow of Roger Nimier.