Philosophy

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.

First edition.
Bradel binding in half brown cloth, smooth spine, blue shagreen title-label with slight rubbing, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy.

First edition of this thesis.
Half tan sheep binding, spine with five raised bands, author's name in blue morocco, red morocco title-label, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy.
O. Borelli bookplate pasted on a pastedown.

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.

First edition of the French translation.
Half aubergine shagreen binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with double gilt fillets, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, upper corners slightly bumped, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Scattered foxing.
Kant indeed distinguishes the metaphysics of law from that of virtue in his work published in 1797 which comprises two major divisions. Jules Barni indeed translated almost all of Kant, and today we essentially use his translation of the Critique of Pure Reason. His work as a translator was decisive in the reception of Kantianism in France.

Fifth edition.
Spine and boards lightly and marginally sunned, without significance.

New edition.
Spine and boards slightly and marginally sunned without consequence.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Rives vellum, deluxe copy.
Handsome copy.

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 Stringfellow Barr "L'amérique est déprimée" ["America is depressed"], Georges Friedmann "De Boston au Mississipi" ["From Boston to Mississippi"], other contributions by Rabi "Méditations au sortir des ténèbres" ["Meditations on emerging from darkness"], V. Siebrecht "La situation sociale en Allemagne" ["The social situation in Germany"]...
Occasional light foxing.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist journal founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on Alma du Marais paper, the only deluxe copies.
This issue features a main section titled "Portuguese Poets: Ruy Bello, Adolfo Casais Montero, Raul de Carvalho, Fernando Echeverria, José Gomes Ferreira, Herberto Helder...
Other articles: M. Moreira Alves "Repression in Brazil", R. Federman "Happiness in S. Beckett"...
Stains to second cover and some light foxing.

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.
This issue features a main section entitled "Révision du pacifiisme" ["Revision of pacificism"] with articles by: Franck Emmanuel "Le pacifisme des forts" ["The pacifism of the strong"], Emmanuel Mounier "Les équivoques du pacifisme" ["The ambiguities of pacifism"], Paul Ricoeur "L'homme nonviolent et sa présence à l'histoire" ["The nonviolent man and his presence in history"]...
Other articles: Louis Pauwels "Commencement" ["Beginning"], Charles Piquois "Le bagnard" ["The convict"]...
Some light foxing of no consequence.

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.
This issue features a main section entitled "La révolte des étudiants dans le monde" ["Student revolt around the world"]: Latin America, Japan, China, United States, Germany, Italy, England, Spain, Poland, France with articles by Ida Berger, Yoshihiko Hanawa, Luigi Longo, Jacques Julliard, Manuel Tunon de Lara...
Some minor foxing of no consequence.

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.
This issue is devoted to the proletarian condition and the workers' struggle with articles by Francis Jeanson "Définition du prolétariat", Jacques-René Rabier "L'évolution quantitative du prolétariat", Jean Daric "Mortalité et classes sociales", Emile Rideau "Conscience extra-prolétarienne", Jean-Marie Domenach "La combativité ouvrière", Jean Lacroix "Prolétariat et philosophie"...
Occasional light foxing.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais, the only deluxe copies.
This issue comprises a main section:
- Littérature de dérision ou littérature de résurrection with texts by Bertrand d'Astorg "Repères pour une littérature de dérision", Jean Cayrol "D'un romanesque concentrationnaire", C.E. Magny "Un romancier de la passivité : François Mauriac", Other articles by Henri Bartoli "Le prolétariat, mythe ou réalité ?", Adrian Miatlev "Tryptique pour Antonin Artaud".
Stains on the second cover, some light foxing.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse, the only deluxe copies.
This issue is partly devoted to Czechoslovakia with texts by Robert Kalidova "L'année 1968", Antonin Liehm "Entretien avec A. Bednar".
Other articles by Robert Boyer "Propos d'un justiciable", Casamayor "La loi poison", Maurice Declercq "L'obligation du célibat"...
Some light foxing.

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.
This issue contains a main section:
- Imperialism with texts by Jean Boissonnat "L'économie dominante", Jean-Marie Domenach "L'empire américain", Celso Furtado "Les conglomérats et l'Amérique latine", Stanley Hoffmann "Critiques américaines"...
Other articles: André Frénaud "Poèmes", J. Chalupecky "La nécessité de la liberté"...
Stains on the second cover and some light foxing.

New edition with clarifications and historical notes by Pierre-René Auguis, illustrated with 2 folding plates located in the volumes dedicated to music, volume 16 contains the complete score of Devin du Village.
Half navy blue calf bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt and blind fillets, marbled paper boards, pastedowns and endpapers.
Spines very lightly faded and rubbed, headcaps rubbed, sometimes significant foxing.

Edition partly original from which it was not drawn from large papers.
Binding in half heartache cherry, back with five nerves, date in tail, boards of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, preserved covers and back, golden head, Contemporary binding signed by Vermorel.
Our copy is enriched with an autograph letter of 4 pages, glued on the cover page with two small pieces of scotch tape, from Noémie Renan, sister of Ernest, to a 'dear master' in particular about the commemorations which will surround the centenary of the birth of Ernest Renan.
Pleasant copy free from freckles.

Autograph manuscript of 12 pages on squared sheets written in blue ink, many underlined passages.
Set of unpublished reflections by Jean-Paul Sartre written between 1952 and 1953, relating to social structure and bourgeois ideology.

A two-sided autograph page written in black ink on checkered paper, undated.
Unpublished manuscript sketch of a play by Jean-Paul Sartre at the time of the French Revolution.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe issue.
Handsome full-margined copy.

New edition, one of 10 numbered copies on China paper, ours specially printed for Jean Comte.
Some tears at the deckled edges of certain leaves, two small stains on the front cover, a slight hole on the endpaper due to the paper quality.

First edition of the French translation and preface by Charles Grolleau.
Bradel binding in full red cloth, smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif, gilt date and double fillet at foot, brown shagreen title-label with scratches, small black spots at head of first cover, contemporary binding signed in blind by Pierson.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Ex-dono feather above the signature of Louis Althusser.
Handwritten signature of Louis Althusser on the first guard.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket which shows some tears and lacks to the protective film covering it.

Third edition, definitive and partly original as augmented by several notes and a table of contents.
Binding in marbled sheepskin, smooth back adorned with triple gilded nets, monograms and date (Year I) gilded tail tail, title label of black shagreen, marble paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, red head.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours.
The work begins with the poem-dialogue entitled "Oromasis" with its own title page (Oromasis, poem dialogue / The Year One) placed next to the portrait of Dupont de Nemours and is followed by "Principles and research on the Philosophy of the Universe ", text dedicated to his friend Antoine Laurent Lavoisier and his wife.
Our copy is enriched by a long biographical note of five pages about the author by the famous bibliophile Alcide de Beauchesne who has linked to his monogram the book.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Yellowed paper as generally.
Signed autograph of Jules Monnerot to Michel Guilmet: "... this old book that rejuvenates us both in hope Jules Monnerot"

First edition.
Contemporary binding in half red Russia morocco, smooth spine damaged at headcap and rubbed at tail, red cardboard-style paper boards showing some surface wear.
Volume detached from its binding.
Regnault here publishes an egalitarian manifesto of great audacity. The tabular presentation is employed for pedagogical purposes with the aim of comparing different types of governments while showing himself very unfavorable to monarchy. The author publishes this indictment under the pretext of making Montesquieu's text accessible to all.

First edition.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, stippling and fleurons, gilt monogram of Alcide de Beauchesne at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, later binding, circa 1860.
Foxing.
Provenance: from the library of Alcide de Beauchesne with his gilt monograms stamped at foot of spines.

First mimeographed edition of the courses taught by Jean Beaufret to the khâgne Condorcet in philosophy.
A fold at the top of the first board which also has a stain at the bottom.
Signed autograph dedication of Jean Beaufret to a relative named Claude.

Rare first issue of issue 3 of the contemporaryical Exangelos directed and printed by Raymond Duncan.
Folds inherent to the enveloping of the document, tears in the folds, marginal gaps.
Raymond Duncan, brother of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, installed in 1911 in Paris an academy on the model of Plato, dressing and living according to the precepts of ancient Greece. He exposed his "actionist" philosophy in newspapers and articles he printed himself.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Back slightly insolated without gravity.
Autograph tribute signed by Michel Crozier.

First edition of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Paper yellowed as usual, a small filled-in lack to foot of upper cover.
Autograph inscription signed by Emil Michel Cioran to Gérard Binola.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Back slightly wrinkled without gravity, nice copy.
Signed autograph of Jean Baudrillard to Pierre Boncenne.

Second edition with some parts in first edition.
Half green Russian morocco bindings, smooth spines decorated with double gilt fillets and showing traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary bindings.
Some foxing, dampstains and black ink stains on some leaves of volumes 3 and 4, brown stains at the foot of the last leaves of the final volume.

First edition.
One restoration at foot of the very first leaves.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with wide black fillets and gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing without consequence.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Small traces of friction without gravity on a bit, otherwise nice copy.
Signed autograph of Louis Althusser to the theater man J (acques) Lasalle.

Edition illustrated with 96 original compositions by Maurice Leloir engraved as etchings.
Full red morocco-grained shagreen bindings, spines with five fine raised bands set with gilt friezes and decorated with richly decorated gilt compartments, gilt floral friezes at foot, gilt roulettes on headcaps, triple gilt fillet frames on covers, floral bouquets in cover corners, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, gilt floral motifs in pastedown corners, gilt edges on leading edges, covers stitched and spine preserved.
One scratch at head of second volume joint.
Preface by Jules Clarétie.
Handsome copy beautifully executed.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Yellowed paper as generally, complete copy of his trailer.
Precious autograph dedication signed by EM Cioran to the philosopher and historian of the Maurice de Gandillac philosophy: "... who would like, I hope, to have some indulgences for the insanities of my foreword.

First Edition, one of the few numbered off-trade copies numbered on Japan, ours No. I and specially printed for Mr. Stanislas Kahan, leading print with 25 other Japan put on the market.
Illustrated book of 4 brass Georges Gorvel, featuring here, as all copies out of trade on Japan, a double, a triple, a quadruple or a quintuple following brass, the 25 Japan put on the market with only a double suite 4 brass.
Binding to the bradel in cardboard vellum style, smooth back, title of the book and name of the author calligraphed in the manner of medieval books, framing of double nets roads on the boards, blankets and backs preserved, golden head on witnesses , Contemporary binding.
Nice copy at all margins.
Signed autograph of Julien Benda in Stalislas Kahan.
Our copy is also enriched, bound at the end of the volume, of an autograph letter signed by Julien Benda to Stanislas Kahan concerning modifications made to an upcoming edition of one of his texts appearing at the Nrf.

First edition of the French translation, one of 60 numbered copies on alfa paper, ours one of 10 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies.
Spine very lightly yellowed, otherwise handsome copy.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Pleasant copy despite the back and slightly and marginally insolated boards.
Signed autograph of Jacques Derrida to Anne Sarraute.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Pleasant copy despite the back and slightly and marginally insolated boards.
Signed autograph of Jacques Derrida to Anne Sarraute.

Gallimard, Paris 1957, 14x19cm, original wrappers.
First edition of the French translation by philosopher Jean Baufret and Kostas Axelos. No deluxe copies issued.
Nice copy.
Signed copy by Jean Beaufret to his daughter Marie-Louise and son-in-law Ernesto with the autograph signature of Kostas Axelos.

First edition of the author's first work, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Manuscript ownership inscription on an endpaper, occasional foxing, spine sunned as usual.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Very slightly insolated back without gravity.
Signed autograph of Jean Beaufret to his ex-daughter-in-law Marie-Louise and son-in-law Ernesto on each volume.

La volonté de puissance. Essai d'une transmutation de toutes les valeurs [Will to power], Mercure de France, Paris 1903, 13x18,5cm, 2 volume in original wrappers.
First edition of the French translation, one of 12 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
One small trace of folding, not serious, to lower cover of the second volume, endpapers very slightly and partially shaded.
Nice and rare copy with untrimmed edges.

First edition for which no deluxe copies are mentioned.
Copy slightly warped.
Signed autograph inscription from Madeleine Barthélémy-Madaule to Jean Bardet co-founder of Éditions du Seuil and his wife: "... en espérant que les sillonnistes leur souffleront nos rires de vingt ans..." ["...hoping that the sillonists will whisper our twenty-year-old laughter to them..."]

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Exemplary very slightly warped.
Autograph dedication signed by Roland Barthes to Jean Bardet co-founder of Editions du Seuil.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Iconography.
Autograph dedication signed by Samuel S. de Sacy to Georges Charensol.

First edition.
Spine sunned as usual, small marginal tears with minute lacks to boards.
Work illustrated with 78 illustrations and maps.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Tiny bites without gravity on the boards.
Signed autograph of Pierre-Henri Simon to Jean Bardet co-founder of the Seuil editions.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Autograph dedication dated and signed by Robert Aron to Pierre Loiselet.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Henri Pichette "Poésie offerte", Rabi: "Conversations en Algérie", Menie Grégoire "La presse féminine", Paul Ricoeur "Le symbole donne à penser"...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Hô Huu Tuong "L'exercice de la prison", Maurice Houis: "Humanisme nègre", Louis Althusser "Despote et monarque", Jean-Marie Domenach "L'armée en République", Pierre Fougeyrollas "En lisant Mao Tsé-Tung"...
Note "Armée et politique" inscribed in black ink on spine.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Jean-Marie Domenach: "Au-delà du refus", Jean-Pierre Siméon: "Nous voudrions comprendre", Miguel de Dieguez "Lettre sur l'angélisme",
Permanence du fascisme espagnol: "Qu'est-ce que le fascisme?" by H.R. Southworth, "C'est cela qui est normal" by Joan Faig, "L'Espagne encore" by M. Tunon de Lara.
Other contributions by Ian Young "Juifs et Noirs à New-York", W. Rabi "Lectures talmudiques"...
A small crease mark at head of first cover.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Contributions by Jean-Marie Domenach: "L'idéologie du mouvement", Conrad Detrez: "Stratégie de la contestation", Joffre Dumazedier "A un étudiant révolutionnaire", Richard Stith "Contre la connaissance calculatrice"
Other subject addressed: Workers and management during the strike with E. de La Souchère: "Le retour du drapeau noir", Michel Polac, "La grève de l'O.R.T.F.", Paul Thibaud "Un pacte avec la richesse"...
Some light foxing on the second cover.

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Spine very lightly sunned, otherwise a handsome copy.
Contributions by Martin Luther King "Lettre de la prison de Birmingham", Alain Husson-Dumoutier "Moi qui voulais devenir noir", Kateb Yacine "Aventures de Nuage de fumée", Marthe Meyer "René Habachi", Khar Ndofène and Habib Thiam "Dia, Senghor et le socialisme africain (II)" and also a critical article on "Le feu follet" adapted for cinema by Louis Malle...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Some worming to the first cover, otherwise a handsome copy.
Contributions by Norman Mailer "Le blanc-nègre. Réflexions superficielles sur le hipster", Joseph Ben David "Nouvelle classe dans les pays sous-développés", André Neher "Réflexions sur Israël", Casamayor "Lettre à un ultra", Hélène Carrère d'Encausse "U.R.S.S. en Chine en Orient"...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Contributions by Charles Baudelaire with an unpublished piece "La conspiration", Georges Blin "Sur un inédit de Baudelaire", Tibor Mende "Vers une nouvelle attitude européenne en Asie", Louis Massignon "La situation en Algérie", Clémence Sugier "Problèmes d'éducation en Algérie musulmane", Claude Bourdet "La crise marocaine" Francis Jeanson "Aide-mémoire tunisien"...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Some foxing to the first cover, a shadow on the second cover, some light foxing.
Contributions by Georges Bernanos "Lettres à Amoroso Lima", André Bazin "Le cinéma soviétique et le mythe de Staline", the Korean War...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Names of the contributors of articles in this issue inscribed in black ink on the spine, handsome interior condition.
Contributions by Georges Bernanos "Si vous cessiez de vous haïr", Robert Marteau "Manessier revient d'Espagne", Aline Fialkowski "Structuralisme et herméneutique", Claire Manasta-Rubattel "Le poblème noir aux U.S.A." ...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Contributions by Roland Barthes "Michelet, l'histoire et la mort", Jean Gourot "La communauté Boimondau", Denise R. Gamzon "Villages collectifs en Israël : Kvoutsa et Kibbouts", Bernard d'Astorg & Albert Béguin "Mort d'André Gide"...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy despite the inscription "Prospective et utopie" in black ink on the spine.
Contributions by Paul Ricoeur "Prévision et choix", François Bloch-Lainé "L'utopie constructive", Henri Desroche "Voyages en ucoopies", Gilbert Lascault "Les récits d'anticipation", Jean-Marie Domenach "Sur le bon usage de l'avenir"...
Other contributions by Jean Boissonnat, Casamayor, Alfred Simon "Le cirque de Pékin"...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist journal founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Among the subjects treated: Liberation movements, Hippie culture, how do people live in "families" and "communes", the Black Panthers, repression, is revolution possible in the U.S.A.? by Sylvia Crane, Jean-Mare Domenach, Bob Fitch, Barrington Moore, Edgar Morin, Ian Young...
Other contributions by Charles Fabrolle, Henry Dumery...

First edition of this issue of the important humanist journal founded by Emmanuel Mounier, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Subject of this special issue inscribed in blue ballpoint pen on spine, otherwise handsome copy.
Special issue, entirely devoted to Israel:
- Jews from within and Jews from without: "The State of Israel, product of Zionism or independent nation?", "Relations with the Diaspora", "What is the Jewish people?"
- A nation in transformation: "The pioneers and the sabras", "The future of the kibbutzim", "Oriental Jews and Western Jews".
- Israel and the Arabs: "The Arab minority", "A situation of injustice", "Israel in the Middle East".
- Beyond nationalism: "900,000 excluded, the Arab refugees", peace proposals, "Can Israel become secular?", "The kibbutz, universal model", "Formation of a new nation, or renaissance of the Jewish people?"
With contributions by Roger Akriche, Jean-Marie Domenach, Boas Evron, Simha Flapan, Nathan Rotenstreich, Ezra Talmor, Shaul Zarhi...

First edition of this unpublished work by Charles Péguy presented by Jacques Viard, one of 50 numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Other contributions by G.E. Clancier, L. Vandermeersch "Meiji, ou le Janus nippon", P. Boyer, A. Clair and F. Chirpaz on Marcuse...
Esprit is an important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier.

First edition, one of 33 numbered copies on pur fil, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.

First edition, one of 42 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
A nice copy with edges preserved.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Julien Benda to Gaston Bachelard.

First edition for which it was not drawn large papers.
Autograph signed by Isaac Pougatch Maurice Dial.

First edition.
Bradel binding in half red cloth, smooth faded and lightened spine decorated with a gilt floral motif, gilt date and double fillet at foot, brown shagreen title-label with scratches, marbled paper boards, engraved bookplate pasted on one pastedown, binding signed by Champs.
Some foxing.

first edition for which no large papers have been taken, one of the review copies service.
A beautiful autograph signed by Maurice Simart to Henri Béraud: "... free spirit and fervent heart ..."
Discolored back and with a small lack in foot.

First edition of the French translation by André Leroy, of which no deluxe copies were issued.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned, as usual.

First edition.

Half red straight-grained morocco bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt cartouches, four minute holes on joints, boards covered with red watered silk showing scratches, corners slightly bumped, small nicks to leading edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.

Some light foxing.



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First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on vélin pur fil paper, the tirage de tête (deluxe copies).

Full morocco, covers and spine preserved, slipcase, elegant binding signed by Semet & Plumelle.

Provenances: mostly from Robert Desprechins' library with his ex-libris drawn by Jean Cocteau, and by Louis de Sadeleer with his engraved ex-libris.

A very nice copy beautifully bound morocco signed by Semet & Plumelle.

Third edition.
Bradel binding in full red sheep, smooth and unlettered spine very lightly faded, title stamped in gold at foot of front board, faded covers mounted on guards preserved, modern binding.
Name inscribed in pen on the title page as bookplate, copy almost free from foxing.

First edition.
Full glazed caramel calf binding, spine with four raised bands set with black fillets decorated with double black compartments at the centers of which is stamped a gilt monogram repeated four times, burgundy morocco title label, double black fillet frame on boards, a lack of leather and a stain at head of first board, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Some foxing.

First edition of the French translation by Auguste Dietrich, one of the rare copies on Holland paper of which no mention is made.
of which there were no deluxe copies.
Half brown morocco binding with corners, spine with four raised bands, green olive and turquoise morocco title-label and translator's name-label, gilt date at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, top edge gilt retaining deckled edges.
Minor scuffs of no consequence at foot of first board.
Rare copy handsomely bound.

First edition, one of 36 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Bookplate pasted on a guard.
Nice copy.
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first edition for which there is no mention of leading copies, review copy.
Signed autograph of Pierre-Henri Simon Monique Nathan.
A small tear head of the first flat, yellowed paper.

First edition printed on ordinary paper, with statement of thirteenth edition.
Worming to rear board.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Bel autograph signed by Henri Jeanson Paul Aveline: "... that says sé skeptical (if I understood correctly), from someone who is not even this degree of wisdom. all friendly. "
Nice full copy of his trailer.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph Henri Jeanson Jeanne Delhomme.
A foot folding of the first flat.

Edition of wich no leading copies exists.
Signed autograph of Jacques Derrida Pierre BONCENNE collaborator Bernard Pivot for the program "Apostrophes".
Nice full copy of his prayer to insert.

[Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason]
Plon, Paris 1961, 5 1/2 x 8 1/16 ”, original wrappers.
First edition, of which there were no grand papier (deluxe)copies, an advance (service de presse) copy. A second, revised, edition appeared in 1972.
Spine slightly bowed, retaining dj, dj with a few tears and lacks to plastic film cover.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Michel Foucault, at the time a young teacher, on his first important work, taken from his doctorate.
A very rare advance copy, which could be said to have taken the place of the grand papier (deluxe) copies.

Edition for which he was not drawn large paper, review copy.
Signed autograph of André Gorz to a close friend.
Rare.

First edition, review copy.
Signed autograph of Robert Campbell Henry Soubeyron.
marginal spots on boards.

First edition, one of 30 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies with a few hors commerce copies also on alfa paper.
A slight crease mark at the foot of the front cover, otherwise a handsome copy.