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First edition, Signed book

André BRETON (Guillaume APOLLINAIRE)

"Décembre" : poème autographe de jeunesse dédié à Guillaume Apollinaire « J'aurai mordu la ...

circa 1917-1918, 22,3x27,6, une feuille sous chemise et étui.

«Décembre»: autograph youthful poem dedicated to Guillaume Apollinaire. «I would have savaged the life of your poor angel breast.»

[ca 1917-1918] | 22.3 x 27.6 | single sheet in custom chemise and slipcase

A remarkable autograph poem of youth by André Breton dedicated to [...]

6 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Constantin BRANCUSI

"Eve" Dessin original préparatoire à l'encre

s.d. (ca 1937), 9x12,9cm, un dessin.

Eva, original drawing signed
 

[ca 1937] | 9 x 12,9 cm | one drawing
 
Original drawing signed by Constantin Brâncuși in brown ink on cream paper, from the collection of Ion Alexandrescu, a stone mason who [...]

28 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Alexandre DUMAS

"Naïs et Chloé" Poème saphique autographe inédit signé d'Alexandre Dumas

s.d. (circa 1860), 20,6x27,6cm, un feuillet remplié.

DUMAS Alexandre
Naïs et Chloé. Unpublished handwritten sapphic poem signed by Alexandre Dumas
N. d. (c. 1860), 20,6 x 27,6 cm, one folded leaf
Autograph manuscript poem signed by Alexandre Dumas bearing the title “Naïs et Chloé,” 84 verses in [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pablo PICASSO, Antonin ARTAUD

...Autre chose que de l'enfant beau

Louis Broder, Paris 1957, 13,5x16,5cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

Antonin ARTAUD & Pablo PICASSO
...Autre chose que de l'enfant beau [...Something Other than a Beautiful Child]
 

Louis Broder | Paris 1957 | 13.5 x 16.5 cm | full box in custom chemise and slipcase
 
First edition [...]

9 000 €

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First edition

Edgar DEGAS

15 lithographies d'après Degas

Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris s.d (1889), in-plano (41x59cm), en feuilles sous portefeuille de l'éditeur.

15 lithographies d'après Degas [15 lithographs after Degas]

Boussod, Valadon & Cie | Paris [1889] | folio (41 x 59 cm) | loose leaves under the publisher's portfolio
 
First and only edition published of this remarkable set of 15 [...]

20 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Louis-Ferdinand CELINE

34 Feuillets autographes signés - Ensemble de manuscrits de travail pour les Entretiens avec le ...

s.l. [Meudon] s.d. [1954], divers (de 10x21 cm à 27x21 cm), 34 feuillets.

| Céline's Ars Poetica: "I capture all the emotion on the surface! I cram it into my metro! |
 
Manuscript pages from ‘Conversations with Professor Y', n.p. [Meudon] n.d. [1954], various [...]

17 000 €

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First edition

Hector BERLIOZ

A travers chants

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1862, 12,5x19cm, relié.

First edition.
Half shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands with gilt decorations, date at foot, marbled paper covers, original soft front cover preserved.
Rare and precious signed autograph inscription by the composer: “à mon ami Seligmann - Hector Berlioz” [...]

6 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Victor HUGO

Actes et paroles - Avant l'exil 1841-1851

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1875, 19,5x25cm, relié.

| First edition copy of Hugo's political manifesto offered to his grandchildren Jeanne and Georges, signed ‘Papapa' |
 
Actes et paroles - Avant l'exil, 1841-1851 [Words and Deeds [...]

17 000 €

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First edition

[ DADA] & Francis PICABIA

Affiche-programme DADA - Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées, 5 février ...

Paris 1920, 18,8x26,6cm, une feuille.

Dada poster-program – Salon des Indépendants, Grand Palais des Champs-élysées, 5 February [1920]

Paris 1920 | 18.8 x 26.6 cm | single sheet

First edition of this poster-program announcing the Salon des Indépendants at the Grand Palais on Thursday 5 February 1920, [...]

6 800 €

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First edition

Jacques d' ADELSWÄRD-FERSEN & Laurent TAILHADE, [...]

Akademos, Revue mensuelle d'art libre et de critique Collection complète des douze numéros en ...

Albert Messein, Paris 15 janvier 1909-15 décembre 1909, 22x25cm, 12 livraisons reliées en quatre volumes.

“Akademos will remain an ephemeral nonetheless high-quality creation, a groundbreaking gesture that will be an important milestone both in the history of the homosexual movement and the beginning of the 20th century”


Rare complete first [...]

15 000 €

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First edition

Albrecht DÜRER

Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometræ. De sym[m]etria partium in rectis formis ...

In aedib. viduae Durerianae [Hieronymus Andreae], Norimbergae [Nürimberg] 1532, in-folio (20,5x32cm), (80) f. -

Alberti Dureri clarissimi pictoris et geometræ. De sym[m]etria partium
in rectis formis hu[m]anorum corporum

In aedibviduae Durerianae [Hieronymus Andreae] | Norimbergae [Nuremberg] 1532
| folio (20.5 x 32 cm) | (80) f. (A-E6, F4, G-N6, [...]

20 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean COCTEAU

Appogiatures - Manuscrit autographe d'une version primitive en partie inédite

Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat août 1952, 47 feuillets de 20,8x34cm et 5 feuillets de 21x27cm , 52 pages.

[English description on demand]
 
Manuscrit autographe de Jean Cocteau, version primitive du recueil de poèmes Appogiatures - publié en 1953 aux Éditions du Rocher à Monaco - constitué de 47 feuillets de papier fort prélevés d'un grand bloc à dessins et de 5 feuillets plus [...]

8 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Max ERNST, Benjamin PERET

Au 125 du boulevard Saint-Germain

Collection littérature, Paris 1923, 11,5x16cm, broché.

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on vergé, this one not included in the justification, the only printing after 1 Chine, 10 Japon and 20 Hollande paper.
Rare and nice copy.
Illustrated with 3 drawings by Benjamin Péret and, as frontispiece, an original engraving on Chine paper by [...]

6 800 €

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Kees VAN DONGEN, Roland DORGELES

Au beau temps de la Butte

Nouvelle librairie de France, Paris 1949, 22x28,5cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

Edition illustrated with 20 original lithographs in 8 and 10 colours by Kees Van Dongen and printed with 110 copies, ours is one of the 10 hors-commerce without the series of lettered and named lithographs on Rives vellum.
We attach the presentation prospectus to the work.
Rubbings and [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

Louis ARAGON

Aurélien

Gallimard, Paris 1944, 14,5x21cm, broché.

[ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Edition originale, un des 88 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil, tirage de tête après 13 hollande.
Rare et très bel exemplaire.

 

7 500 €

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First edition

Alphonse DAUDET

Aventures prodigieuses de Tartarin de Tarascon

Dentu, Paris 1872, 11,5x18,5cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

[ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Edition originale très rare et très recherchée selon Clouzot et  pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers.
Reliure en plein maroquin rouge, dos à cinq nerfs, roulettes dorées sur les coiffes, encadrement d'une dentelle dorée sur les [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean GIONO, Germaine de COSTER

Batailles dans la montagne

Gallimard, Paris 1937, 14x21cm, relié.

Edition originale dédiée à Louis Jouvet, un des 108 exemplaires numérotés sur vergé Lafuma Navarre et réimposés au format in-quarto tellière, le nôtre spécialement imprimé pour l'actrice Gaby Morlay, tirage de tête.
Reliure en demi chagrin rmaroquiné rouge, dos à cinq nerfs [...]

12 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Dessin original de Joan MIRO, Ivan GOLL

Bouquet de rêves pour Neila

Fernand Mourlot, Paris 1967, 25,5x33cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

Bouquet de rêves pour Neila
[Bouquet of Dreams for Neila]

Fernand Mourlot | Paris 1967 | 25.5 x 33 cm | in leaves in a chemise and slipcase
 
Illustrated edition with 18 original insert lithographs in colour by Joan Miró, one of 150 numbered [...]

6 000 €

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First edition

Gustave FLAUBERT

Bouvard et Pécuchet

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1881, 12x18,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 50 copies on vergé de Hollande, the only large paper copies (apart from 10 on China).
Contemporary dark red shagreen, probably publisher's original, spine in six compartments with gilt fleurons, covers with double gilt fillet frame and gilt fleurons to corners, marbled [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

Jean RACINE

Britannicus

Claude Barbin, Paris 1670, petit in-8 (9x15,5cm), (16 p.) 80 pp., relié.

| "I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him" |
Claude Barbin | Paris 1670 | 9 x 15,5 cm | bound in morocco
Rare first edition with ornamental headpieces, letterheads and [...]

7 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Guillaume APOLLINAIRE, Pablo PICASSO

Calligrammes

Mercure de France, Paris 1918, 14,5x23cm, relié.

Mercure de France
Paris 1918 | 14,5 x 23 cm bound in morocco
First edition, a first impression copy numbered in the press.
 
Binding in half brown morocco, spine in five compartments, gilt date at the foot, geometric pattern paper boards and endpapers in [...]

7 500 €

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First edition

Carte cadeau livre ou gravure, de la valeur de votre choix / Gift card for Books or Artworks with ...

2022, une feuille.

Voucher valid throughout the www.edition Originale.com-site and the Follet, 31 rue Henri Barbusse, 75005 Paris.

This voucher allows you to choose from over 19,000 books and prints by ordering directly online, by phone, email or [...]

Price on demand

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First edition, Signed book

Albert EINSTEIN

Carte postale autographe signée adressée au Professeur Ludwig Hopf

Zurich 21 juin 1910, 9x14cm, une carte postale.

| Einstein writes to a friend who introduced him to Carl Jung |

Zurich 21 juin 1910 | 9 x 14 cm | one postcard

Autograph postcard signed by Albert Einstein to Ludwig [...]

15 000 €

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First edition

Benjamin de LABORDE

Choix de chansons mises en musique. Dédiées à Madame la Dauphine

ChezDe Lormel, Paris 1773, grand in-8 (16x25cm), 153pp. et 150pp. (3), 4 volumes reliés.

First edition of one of the most beautiful books of the 18<sup>th</sup> century, of which %the text and the music are entirely engraved$. It is illustrated with an engraved title, 3 frontispieces by Le Bouteux and Le Barbier, a dedication page with the Dauphine arms, and 100 figures by [...]

7 500 €

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Signed book

Gabriel GARCIA MARQUEZ

Cien Años de Soledad

Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires 1967, 13,5x20cm, broché.

| Early inscribed copy to his translator |

Cien Años de Soledad [One Hundred Years of Solitude]
 
Editorial Sudamericana | Buenos Aires 1967 | 13,5 x 20 cm | in [...]

15 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Maxime GORKI

Contes

S.n., Berlin s.d. (1911), 12x19cm, relié.

First edition
Contemporary half saffron sheep Bradel binding, gilt roulette at head and foot of spine, gilt fillet to covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt
Very rare and precious autograph inscription from Maxim Gorki in Cyrillic to Gregory Alexinsky, member of the Duma [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Courrier sud

Nrf, Paris 1929, 12x19cm, broché.

Edition originale, un des 697 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil.
Précieux envoi autographe signé de l'auteur à Geneviève Stewens, épouse de Christian Sarton du Jonchay.
Fils de Charles Sarton du Jonchay, alors en garnison en Algérie, Christian Sarton du Jonchay s'engage à [...]

7 000 €

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First edition

Louis-Ferdinand CELINE

D'un château l'autre

Gallimard, Paris 1957, 14x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 45 numbered copies on vélin Hollande van Gelder, ours one of 5 hors commerce copies, the most limited issue.
A very fine copy as issued.

15 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Tristan TZARA, Hans ARP

De nos oiseaux

Kra, Paris 1929, 13x19cm, broché.

De nos oiseaux [Of Our Birds]
 

Kra | Paris 1929 | 13 x 19 cm | original wrappers
 
First edition on ordinary paper.
 
Handsome presentation copy inscribed by Tristan Tzara to, firstly, Paul éluard: “à Paul Éluard. [...]

7 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Victor SEGALEN

Double lettre autographe signée adressée à Emile Mignard évoquant des gravures de Gauguin : ...

Papeete 7 & 15 décembre 1903, 11,3x15,4cm et 11,3x17,7cm, 9 pages et quelques lignes sur 2 feuillets doubles et un feuillet simple.

[ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
Double lettre autographe signée de Victor Segalen adressée à Emile Mignard. Neuf pages et quelques lignes rédigées à l'encre noire sur deux feuillets doubles et un feuillet simple. Pliures transversales inhérentes à [...]

6 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Marcel PROUST

Du côté de chez Swann [A la recherche du temps perdu]

Grasset, Paris 1913, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

PROUST Marcel
Du côté de chez Swann [Swann's Way] Grasset, Paris 1913, 115 x 185 mm (4 1/2 x 7 1/4 ”), 20th-century half morocco
First edition, second issue, on ordinary paper, with the printer's date of 8 November 1913, the [...]

25 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jules BARBEY D'AUREVILLY

Du dandysme et de G. Brummell

B. Mancel, Caen 1845, 11,5x15cm, relié.

First edition, one of the extremely rare copies on Hollande fort paper, the only large paper copies, of which a few are on colored paper.
Contemporary half black shagreen with black paper boards, spine in five compartments with black fillets, corners a little rubbed.
With an [...]

7 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Théophile GAUTIER

Emaux et camées

Eugène Didier, Paris 1852, 8,5x14cm, relié.

First edition.
Marbled sheep Bradel binding by Loisellier-Le Douarin, spine with gilt cartouche and three mosaiced lozenges of red and beige morocco, date at foot of spine, covers with a frame of triple gilt fillets, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, all edges gilt, an elegant binding.
Rare [...]

6 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

André MALRAUX

Ensemble d'épreuves photographiques avec corrections autographes de Malraux pour son Musée ...

1952, épreuves en couleur : 24,5x29cm ; négatifs transparents : 18x24cm, 43 épreuves photographiques en couleur, 68

Set of 43 color photographic prints, 25 of them with copious autograph comments and corrections by André Malraux, for the publication of his Musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. Two folded cardboard sheets also bear his handwritten comments. 14 of these proofs are marked “bon à tirer” [...]

6 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Richard KIRWAN & Marie-Anne Pierrette LAVOISIER [née [...]

Essai sur le Phlogistique, et sur la constitution des Acides

S.n., Paris 1788, in-8 (12,5x20cm), xij ; 344 pp.; (4 p.), relié.

Essai sur le Phlogistique, et sur la constitution des Acides [Essay on Phlogiston]

n. p. | Paris 1788 | 8vo (12.5 x 20 cm) | xij ; 344 pp.; (4 p.) | contemporary half sheep
 
First edition and sole publication of the French translation and critical [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Claude Joseph ROUGET DE L'ISLE

Essais en vers et en prose

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris An V de la République, 1796, 11x18,5cm, broché.

One of the very rare copies enriched with an autograph - there are fewer than a dozen - of this first edition, featuring the Marseillaise.
First edition illustrated with an engraving inset engraved by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

Paul VERLAINE

Femmes

Imprimé sous le manteau [Henri Kistemaekers], et ne se vend nulle part [Bruxelles] 1890, 13,5x22cm, relié.

nowhere [Henri Kistemaekers] | [Brussels] 1890 | 13.5 x 22 cm | bound
First edition printed illicitly with 175 numbered copies, ours is one of the 25 lettered copies.
Bradel binding in half burgundy morocco, gilt date at the foot of the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

Philotée O'NEDDY, Célestin NANTEUIL

Feu et Flamme

Dondey-Dupré, Paris 1833, 13,5x22cm, relié sous étui.

Édition originale très rare et recherchée, selon Clouzot, et imprimée à seulement 300 exemplaires.
Reliure en plein maroquin rouge, dos à cinq nerfs sertis de filets noirs, date dorée en queue, roulettes dorées sur les coiffes, gardes et contreplats de papier peigné, encadrement d'une [...]

7 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Michel FOUCAULT

Folie et déraison - Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique

Plon, Paris 1961, 14x20,5cm, broché.

Folie et Déraison. Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique

Plon | Paris 1961 | 14 x 20,5 cm | original wrappers
 
First edition, of which there were no grand papier (deluxe) copies, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Spine [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

George BARBIER, [Dirigée par ] Lucien VOGEL

Gazette du bon ton - Art, mode et frivolités. Collection complète

Émile Lévy, Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris 1912-1915 [puis] 1920-1925, 20,5x25cm pour les volumes reliés &

Gazette du Bon Ton – Art, Mode et Frivolités. Complete collection
Émile Lévy , Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts ◇ Paris 1912-1915 [and] 1920-1925 ◇ 20,5 x 25 cm for the bound volumes & 20,5 x 26 cm for the loose leaves volumes ◇ 15 booklets in 3 bound volumes and 55 [...]

28 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Emile ZOLA

Germinal

Charpentier, Paris 1885, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

Charpentier, Paris 1885, 11,5x18,5cm, bound.

First edition. One of 150 numbered copies on hollande, the only deluxe issue after 10 on papier japon.
Half red morocco binding, gilt date on spine, marbled paper covers and endpapers. Original wrappers including the spine [...]

17 000 €

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First edition

Maurice de VLAMINCK, Maurice de VLAMINCK

Haute Folie

Scripta et Picta, Paris 1964, 28,5x38cm, en feuilles sous chemise-étui.

Edition originale illustrée de 48 lithographies en couleurs par l'auteur, un des quelques exemplaires nominatifs sur japon réservés aux principaux collaborateurs de l'ouvrage, le nôtre imprimé spécialement pour l'illustre bibliophile le colonel Sickles, tirage de tête.
Notre exemplaire [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Antonin ARTAUD, André DERAIN

Héliogabale ou l'Anarchiste couronné. Joint : menu original signé par Artaud, Kisling, Raimu,... ...

Denoël & Steele , Paris 1934, 14,5x19,5cm, relié.

Héliogabale ou l'Anarchiste couronné [with] Original menu signed by Artaud, Kisling, Raimu,... etc.
[Heliogabalus or, the Crowned Anarchist]
 
Denoël & Steele | Paris 1934 | 14,5 x 19,5 cm | bound in half green [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

Pauline REAGE (pseudonyme de Dominique AURY), Hans [...]

Histoire d'O

Jean-Jacques Pauvert, Sceaux 1954, 12x19cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

| 'O' inspiring Masterpiece of eroticism |
*
Histoire d'O [Story of [...]

17 000 €

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First edition

Boris VIAN (sous le pseudonyme de) Vernon SULLIVAN

J'irai cracher sur vos tombes

Les Editions du Scorpion, Paris 1946, 12x19cm, broché.

Edition originale, un des 120 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil Lafuma, seuls grands papiers.
Gardes très légèrement et marginalement ombrées sans aucune gravité.
Bel exemplaire tel que paru, très rare et très recherché.
Notre exemplaire est présenté dans un coffret [...]

10 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Maurice BEJART

Journal intime autographe

1969, 16,8x21,6cm, carnet en spirales.


Handwritten personal diary for the year 1969

1969 | 16.8 x 21.6 cm | spiral-bound notebook
 
Personal diary handwritten by Maurice Béjart, written in a 1969 diary celebrating the centenary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi.
52 [...]

6 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Fernand LEGER

L'une des plus sublimes lettres de Fernand Léger

La Maison-Forestière (Argonne) 28 mai 1915, 13,4x21,3cm, 4 pp. sur un feuillet double.

One of the most magnificent letters by Fernand Léger

La Maison-Forestière (Argonne) 28 mai 1915, 13,4 x 21,3 cm, loose leaves
A fabulous handwritten letter by the painter Fernand Léger, written on the front line during the Battle of Argonne, addressed [...]

10 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Albert CAMUS & Oscar WILDE

La ballade de la geôle de Reading. - L'artiste en prison

Falaize, Paris 1952, 11,5x17,5cm, broché.

La Ballade de la geôle de Reading. – L'Artiste en prison [The Ballad of Reading Gaol]

Falaize | Paris 1952 | 11.5 x 17.5 cm | original wrappers
 
New edition of the French translation by Jacques Bour and the first edition of Albert Camus' [...]

6 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Paul VERLAINE

La bonne chanson

Alphonse Lemerre, Paris 1870, 9,5x16,5cm, relié.

La Bonne Chanson

Alphonse Lemerre | Paris 1870 | 9,5 x 16,5 cm | relié
 
First edition printed in 570 copies.
Morocco, spine slightly browned, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, elegant binding signed by Marius Michel.
Rare [...]

6 800 €

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First edition

André MALRAUX

La condition humaine

Nrf, Paris 1933, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 339 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper, only deluxe copies ("grand papier") after 1 China and 39 laid "pur-fil" paper reimposed.
Very nice copy.
Half morocco binding.

6 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean COCTEAU

La danse de Sophocle

Mercure de France, Paris 1912, 15x19cm, relié.

First edition, one of 7 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies, this one no. 1, specially printed for Jean Cocteau's mother.
Contemporary vellum Bradel binding by Dupré, gilt date to foot of spine, brown shagreen title label, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Charles DE GAULLE

La France et son armée

Plon, Paris 1938, 13x19,5cm, broché.

Edition originale sur papier courant, il n'a été tiré que 29 grands papiers.
Discrètes restaurations au dos.
Envoi autographe à Emile Mayer sur la page de faux-titre.
Précieux exemplaire à toutes marges.

8 500 €

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First edition, Signed book

Georges CLEMENCEAU

La honte

P.V. Stock, Paris 1903, 16x18,5cm, relié.

Edition originale, un des 12 exemplaires numérotés sur hollande, seuls grands papiers.
Reliure en plein chagrin rouge, dos à trois nerfs sertis de frises dorées orné d'un cartouche doré agrémenté de motifs typographiques noirs, gardes et contreplats de papier peigné, ex-libris encollé [...]

10 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

André BRETON

La lampe dans l'horloge

Robert Marin, Paris 1948, 11x17cm, broché sous chemise et étui.


BRETON André. La Lampe dans l'horloge [The Lamp in the Clock]
Robert Marin, Paris 1948, 11 x 17 cm, original wrappers with custom slipcase
First edition, one of the numbered copies on alfa mousse paper, this one not justified.
Wrappers in [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean LORRAIN, Georges BOTTINI

La maison Philibert

Librairie universelle, Paris 1904, 14,5x20cm, relié.

Librairie universelle | Paris 1904 | 14.5 x 20 cm | bound
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on laid paper numbered and justified by the publisher, only large papers.
Bradel binding in half chocolate brown morocco, gilt date at the foot of the spine, marbled paper [...]

7 000 €

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Signed book

George SAND

La Mare au Diable

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1867, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

La Mare au Diable [The Devil's Pool]
 

Michel Levy Frères | Paris 1867 | 11,5 x 18,5 cm | bound in shagreen
 
New edition.
Contemporary binding in half green shagreen, spine in four compartments set with gilt stippling, gilt fillets [...]

6 000 €

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First edition

Jean RICHEPIN

La Mer

Maurice Dreyfous et M. Dalsace, Paris 1894, 11,5x17,5cm, relié.

La Mer [The Sea]
 

Maurice Dreyfous et M. Dalsace, Paris 1894, 11,5 x 17,5 cm, artistic morocco binding
 
First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Hollande Van Gelder paper and signed with the publisher's initials.
Full green morocco, the spine [...]

8 000 €

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Charles PEGUY

La tapisserie de Notre-Dame

les Cahiers de la Quinzaine, Paris 1913, 13x19,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Whatman, the only large paper copies
Superb morocco-lined chocolate-colored morocco by Huser, spine in six compartments, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, pastedowns in chocolate-covered morocco, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, [...]

7 500 €

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Edouard AUBERT

La vallée d'Aoste

Amyot, Paris 1860, 34x27cm, relié.

Amyot, Paris 1860, 11.5 x 18.5 cm, bound
First edition published the same year the Aosta Valley became part of Italy. The work is illustrated with 97 wood engravings in the text, 33 steel insert engravings, 6 chromotypographies and a map.
Bound in half red shagreen, spine decorated [...]

7 000 €

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Friedrich NIETZSCHE

La volonté de puissance - Essai d'une transmutation de toutes les valeurs

Mercure de France, Paris 1903, 13x18,5cm, 2 volumes brochés.

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 [...]

7 500 €

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STENDHAL

Lamiel

Librairie moderne & Maison Quantin, Paris 1889, 13x19cm, relié.

Edition originale, un des12 exemplaires numérotés sur papier de Holland papere, seul tirage en grand papier.
binding en plein maroquin fauve, spine à cinq nerfs, date en queue, contreplats de papier peigné bordés d'une riche roulette dorée, gardes de papier peigné, filet doré sur les [...]

13 500 €

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Henri BERAUD

Le 14 Juillet - Manuscrit autographe complet d'Henri Béraud

S.n., s.l. 15 Octobre 1928 - 21 Mars 1929, 13,5x21,5cm, 414 feuillets sous chemise et étui.

Full autograph manuscript, written in black and red ink for the title page and in black ink for the text.

Our manuscript is presented under shirt and case in full gray canvas made for Henri Béraud, label of title glued at the top of the [...]

6 000 €

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George BARBIER

Le Bonheur du jour ou Les Grâces à la Mode

Chez Meynial, Paris 1920-1924, 44,5x31cm, en feuilles sous couverture de l'éditeur.

Le Bonheur du jour ou Les Grâces à la Mode
 
Chez Meynal | Paris 1920-1924 | 44,5 x 31 cm loose leaves under publisher's cover and custom slipcase
 
First edition complete with its 21 color copper-engravings and pochoirs by H. Reidel colored after the [...]

15 000 €

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Jean GIONO

Le bonheur fou

Gallimard, Paris 1957, 14x20,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 35 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the tirage de tête.
Half green morocco vert printemps, covers and spine slightly faded preserved, top edge gilt, elegant binding signed by P. Goy & C. Vilaine.
A very nice copy elegantly bound. 

 

7 500 €

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Théophile GAUTIER

Le capitaine Fracasse

Charpentier, Paris 1863, 12x18cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Rare and sought after first edition, according to Clouzot, especially in contemporary binding
Bindings in half shagreen bottle green, back with four nerves adorned with golden and black nets, plates of marbled paper, guards and counterplates of paper in the tank, two slight scratches without [...]

9 000 €

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Karl MARX (Traduit par) Joseph ROY

Le Capital

Librairie du Progrès - Directeur Maurice Lachatre & Cie, Paris s.d (1875), 19,5x28cm, 351 pp, relié.

First edition in French, translated by Joseph Roy, partly previously unpublished, with corrections and additions by Karl Marx.
Complete with the two title pages addressed to Lachatre, a frontispiece portrait of Karl Marx, the facsimile of his letter to the publisher and his reply on the verso, [...]

6 000 €

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René DAUMAL, Etienne COURNAULT

Le contre ciel

Université de Paris, Paris 1936, 15,5x20,5cm, broché.

Edition originale, un des 230 exemplaires numérotés sur Auvergne, seul tirage après 10 Chine et quelques hors commerce, le nôtre spécialement imprimé pour René Daumal.
Ouvrage illustré en frontispice d'une lithographie originale d'Etienne Cournault.
spine et plats légèrement et [...]

9 000 €

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Marcel PROUST

Le côté de Guermantes I

Nrf, Paris 1920, 14x19cm, broché.

Edition originale sur papier courant, fausse mention de troisième édition, complet du bifeuillet d'errata.
Discrètes restaurations sur le dos.
Précieux envoi autographe signé de Marcel Proust à Jacques Duval sur la première garde.
Bel exemplaire parfaitement établi.

7 500 €

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Honoré de BALZAC

Le dernier chouan ou la Bretagne en 1800

Urbain Canel, Paris 1829, 10x17,5cm, 4 volumes reliés.

Very rare and highly sought-after first edition of Balzac's first novel published under by his own name. Printed ina small number of copies, this first novel, whose original title was inspired by James Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, was reissued, revised, in 1834 under a new title: Les [...]

14 000 €

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ALAIN-FOURNIER

Le grand Meaulnes

Emile-Paul frères, Paris 1913, 12x19cm, relié.

| Surprising inscription to the editor-in-chief of L'Opinion |
*
First edition with all the features of first issue copies, one of 300 first issue copies on alfa satiné paper, numbered at [...]

15 000 €

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Guy de MAUPASSANT

Le Horla

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1887, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

| « On aurait pu la prévoir, peut-être la deviner, cette hantise de la folie dans telle étude poignante comme le Horla » (Jules Claretie) |
 ["One could have foreseen it, perhaps even guessed it, this [...]

6 800 €

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First edition

Guy de MAUPASSANT

Le Horla

Paul Ollendorff, Paris 1887, 12,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only deluxe issue (grands papiers).
Elegant purple half morocco binding by Goy & Vilaine, marbled paper boards, spine with six raised bands, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, top edge [...]

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Roger NIMIER

Le Hussard bleu

Gallimard, Paris 1950, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 48 numbered copies on pur fil, one of 8 lettered hors commerce, most limited issue (tirage de tête).
A fine, rare copy of this founding text of the Hussards literary movement, which included Roger Nimier and Antoine Blondin, Jacques Laurent, Kléder Haedens, [...]

6 800 €

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René CHAR

Le marteau sans maître - Exemplaire de Man Ray

Editions Surréalistes, Paris 1934, 14,5x19cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

Le Marteau sans maître [The Hammer without a Master]

Éditions surréalistes | Paris 1934 | 14.5 x 19 cm | original wrappers with custom chemise and slipcase

First edition, one of 500 copies on ordinary paper.
This copy has a chemise and [...]

6 000 €

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First edition

Jean-Paul SARTRE

Le Mur

Gallimard, Paris 1939, 12x19cm, relié sous étui.

Gallimard | Paris 1939 | 12 x 19 cm | bound in morocco with custom slipcase
 
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, [...]

12 000 €

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Louis PERGAUD

Le roman de Miraut, chien de chasse

Mercure de France, Paris 1913, 12x19cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

First edition, one of 19 numbered copies on Hollande, the only large paper copies.
Elegant light brown morocco Jansenist binding by Devauchelle, spine in six compartments, date at foot of spine, gilt roulettes to head- and tail-pieces, green morocco endpapers, pastedowns of green calf, gilt [...]

6 800 €

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VOLTAIRE

Le siècle de Louis XIV

Chez C. F. Henning, à Berlin 1751, in-12 (8,5x14,5cm), (14) 488pp. (2) et (2) 466pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition presenting well the peculiarities inherent to its publication: it does not present any capital except at the beginning of the paragraphs and it is the very first work to have been printed with the spelling of Voltaire. Our copy is full of his errata sheet, which is often [...]

6 000 €

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Henri POURRAT

Le trésor des contes

Gallimard, Paris 1948-1962, 12x19cm, 13 volumes brochés.

First edition, one of 25 (for the first four copies of the series) or one of 23 (from the fifth volume until thirteenth) numbered copies on cloth Auvergne for each of the volumes, sometimes a non-commercial copies literate, draw of head.
Very rare and beautiful complete copy in 13 [...]

10 000 €

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Victor HUGO

Les chants du crépuscule enrichi d'un poème autographe

Eugène Renduel, Paris 1835, 14x21,5cm, relié.

first edition.
Binding half russia red leather corners, back with four nerves decorated with nets and double gilded boxes, date tail in a cartridge, contreplats and guards made paper, rare wrappers and back preserved and bound in, gilded head on witnesses binding signed Bernasconi.
The [...]

12 000 €

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Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE

Les chiens de paille

Gallimard, Paris 1964, 13,5x20cm, broché.

Extremely rare never-published and true first edition, which remained as a proof copy under a blank cover printed for Gallimard proofreaders; the deluxe paper copies announced (13 pur fil and 1,050 Bonet hardback publisher's bindings printed on esparto paper) were never [...]

7 000 €

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André GIDE

Les Faux-Monnayeurs

Nrf, Paris 1925, 16,5x21,5cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

First edition, one of 121 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre, the in-quarto tellière format.
Full dark-green morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt, spine edges ruled in gilt, white box calf doublure ruled in gilt, dark-green moiré silk endpapers, original [...]

7 000 €

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First edition

(Arthur RIMBAUD & Paul VERLAINE, Henri de [...]

Les femmes du jour - Collection complète & Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui - Collection quasi complète ...

Léon Vanier, Paris s.d. (1878-1899) & (1886-1892), 19,5x28,5cm, 5 volumes reliés.

Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui – Almost complete collection (33 issues lacking out of 469)Les Femmes du jour – Complete collection
Léon Vanier ◇ Paris [1878-1899 & 1886-1892] ◇ 19,5 x 28,5 cm ◇ 5 volumes in half-cloth

First edition of Les Hommes [...]

10 000 €

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Charles BAUDELAIRE

Les Fleurs du mal

Poulet-Malassis & de Broise, Paris 1857, 12,8x19,3cm, broché sous coffret.

| Exceedingly rare first edition in its original soft cover, as issued |

[Flowers of Evil]
Poulet-Malassis & de Broise ◇ Paris 1857 ◇ 12,8 x 19,3 cm ◇ original wrappers under clamshell [...]

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Charles BAUDELAIRE

Les Fleurs du mal

Poulet-Malassis & de Broise, Paris 1857, 12,1x18,8cm, relié sous étui.

Les Fleurs du Mal
[Flowers of Evil]
 

Poulet-Malassis & De Broise | Paris 1857 | 12,1 x 18,8 cm | bound in morocco with custom slipcase
 
First edition, printed on vélin d'Angoulême paper, with the usual misprints and including the [...]

170 000 €

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Paul GAVARNI, Honoré de BALZAC & COLLECTIF

Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle - Le prisme ...

Léon Curmer, Paris 1840-1842, 18x26,5cm, 11 volumes reliés.

Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle – Le Prisme [with] Les Anglais peints par eux-mêmes [The French painted by themselves The English painted by [...]

10 000 €

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Jules VERNE

Les Indes noires. Le Chancellor

Bibliothèque d'Education et de Récréation J. Hetzel et Cie, Paris 1903-1904, 18x28,5cm, relié.

Nouvelle édition, illustrée de dessins de J. Ferrat dont plusieurs planches hors-texte polychromes réalisées par Belin Frères et paraissant ici pour la première fois.
Cartonnage de l'éditeur "au globe doré" signé Engel, plaque du premier plat de Blanchelande, dos au phrare, second plat [...]

7 000 €

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Paul ELUARD, Max ERNST

Les malheurs des immortels révélés par Max Ernst et Paul Eluard

Librairie Six, Paris 1922, 19x25,5cm, relié.

Les Malheurs des immortels révélés par Max Ernst et Paul éluard [Misfortunes of the Immortals revealed by Ernst & éluard]


Librairie Six | Paris 1922 | 19 x 25.5 cm | Bradel binding.
The first edition on simili-Japon paper.
Bradel grey cloth [...]

7 800 €

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First edition

Simone de BEAUVOIR

Les Mandarins

Gallimard, Paris 1954, 14x21cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

Gallimard | Paris 1954 | 14 x 21 cm | bound in morocco with custom chemise and slipcase
 
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Holland, the tirage de tête (deluxe copy).
 
Binding in full purple morocco, endpapers lined with mauve [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

Bernard de MONTFAUCON

Les monumens de la monarchie françoise qui comprennent l'histoire de France, avec les figures de ...

Julien-Michel Gandouin & Pierre-François Giffart, à Paris 1729-1733, 5 vol. in-folio (30x44cm), 5 vol. reliés.

Les Monumens de la monarchie françoise qui comprennent l'histoire de France, avec les figures de chaque règne que l'injure des tems a épargnées
 
Julien-Michel Gandouin & Pierre-François Giffart in Paris 1729-1733 | 5 volumes folio (30 x 44 cm) [...]

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Jean-Paul SARTRE

Les mouches

Gallimard, Paris 1943, 12x19cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

| A Perfect Copy in a Triple Morocco Binding by Duhayon |
Gallimard | Paris 1943 | 12 x 19 cm | bound in morocco with custom slipcase and chemise
First edition, one of 18 [...]

15 000 €

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MOLIERE

Les Oeuvres de Monsieur de Molière

Chez Denys Thierry & Claude Barbin & Pierre Trabouillet, à Paris 1682, in-12 (9x16,5cm), (24) 304 pp. (4) et 416 pp.

| First And Most Celebrated Complete Molière Edition Bound by M. Lortic |
Les œuvres de Monsieur de Molière [The Works of Monsieur de Molière] Chez Denys Thierry, Claude Barbin [...]

15 000 €

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Scévole de SAINTE-MARTHE

Les Oeuvres de Scevole de Sainte Marthe

Par Mamert Patisson au logis de Robert Estienne, à Paris 1589, in-4 (16x24,5cm), (6) 94 ff. 1 f. blanc ; 95-182 ff. (1 f. index), relié.

First complete edition, partially original, printed in in-4 format, in italics and presenting the mark of Robert Estienne on the title page. This collection contains 80 pieces more than the First edition 1569. Works Only our edition is indicated by Tchemerzine. Our copy is [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

Henry LAPAUZE, Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES

Les portraits dessinés de J.-A.-D. Ingres

Chez J.-E. Bulloz, à Paris 1903, 37x48cm, en feuilles sous chemise.

Les Portraits dessinés de J.-A.-D. Ingres [Ingres's portraits]


Chez J.-E. Bulloz | à Paris 1903 | 37 x 48 cm | loose leaves with custom slipcase
The very rare first edition, consisting of only 100 numbered copies, the text on Arches [...]

6 000 €

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Alphonse DAUDET

Les rois en exil

E. Dentu, Paris 1879, 12x18cm, relié.

first edition on the current paper it is printed in Holland paper a few leading copies.
Binding to bradel half percaline green, smooth back with a gold floral motif, double net gilded tail, as a piece of modern burgundy shagreen, marbled paper plates, two corners lightly used, contemporary [...]

6 000 €

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Emile ZOLA & Guy de MAUPASSANT

Les Soirées de Médan

Charpentier, Paris 1880, 12x19cm, relié.

| The Manifesto of Naturalism |
First edition.
Half blue morocco shagreen, smooth spine, gilt date at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Exceptionally inscribed [...]

15 000 €

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Pierre CHARRON

Les trois veritez

Par S. Millanges, à Bourdeaus 1595, in-8 (10,5x16cm), (24) 176pp. ; (8) 775pp. (1), relié.

By S. Millanges |in Bordeaux 1595 | in-8 (10.5 x 16 cm) | (24) 176 pp ; (8) 775 pp(1) | bound
Third edition after the original published in Bordeaux in 1593 and a second Parisian edition in 1594. The copy mentions the second edition because it is the second to be published [...]

15 000 €

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Théophile GAUTIER (Charles BAUDELAIRE), Félicien ROPS

Lettre à la Présidente

S.n., s.l. (Paris) 1850 (1890), 11x18cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

Lettre à la Présidente [Letter to the President]

n. n. | [Paris] 1850 [printed in 1890] | 11 x 18 cm | original wrappers
First edition, one of 50 copies printed anonymously on papier japon.
First edition, one of 50 copies printed [...]

6 000 €

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George SAND

Lettre autographe à Gustave Flaubert : "Étroniforme est le mot sublime qui classe cette espèce ...

Nohant 21 décembre 1867, 13,4x20,7cm, deux feuillets sous chemise et étui.

Autograph letter from George Sand to Gustave Flaubert dated December 21, 1867, 8 pages on two lined leaves. Published in Sand's Correspondance, XX, pp. 642-645.
From one of the finest literary correspondences of the century, [...]

10 000 €

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STENDHAL

Lettre autographe adressée à sa soeur Pauline

26 mars 1808, 20x24,8cm, 3 pages 1/2 sur un double feuillet.

Long autograph letter of Stendhal, addressed to his sister Pauline, written in a fine writing in black ink.

15 000 €

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Edgar DEGAS

Lettre autographe inédite signée

Dieppe 1er septembre 1885, 22,4x17,7cm, 4 pages sur un double feuillet.

Unpublished autograph letter signed

Dieppe | 1 September 1885 | 22.4 x 17.7 cm | one folded sheet under custom slipcase

Unpublished signed autograph letter from Edgar Degas to an unknown correspondent. 4 pages in black ink on one folded sheet. Central [...]

6 000 €

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Ernest HEMINGWAY

Lettre autographe inédite signée à Roberto Sotolongo du coeur de la savane

[Quelque part au Kenya] 19 septembre 1953, 20,2x25,2cm, 2 pages sur un feuillet et une enveloppe.

"I slapped a giraffe on the ass"

[Somewhere in Kenya] 19 septembre 1953 | 20,2 x 25,2 cm | 2 pages on one leaf and an enveloppe
To our knowledge unpublished autograph letter signed by Ernest [...]

10 000 €

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Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de SADE

Lettre autographe inédite signée du Marquis de Sade, alors en liberté, au commencement de la ...

1er avril 1793, 15,6x20cm, une page sur un feuillet.

Lettre autographe signée, rédigée à l'encre noire et adressée à un notaire.

10 000 €

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Rainer Maria RILKE

Lettre autographe signée à Elya Maria Nevar : "Ce que tu as écrit à propos de mercredi dernier, ...

[Munich] Sonntag [dimanche] (3 novembre 1918), 14,4x18,5cm, 2 pages et demi sur un bifeuillet, enveloppe jointe.

Autograph letter signed by Rainer Maria Rilke

Autograph letter signed by Rainer Maria Rilke to actress Else Hotop, to whom he writes under her stage name, Elya Maria Nevar. 2 1/2 pages written on a bifolium watermarked “Sackleinen”. Autograph envelope enclosed, addressed to [...]

12 000 €

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Victor HUGO & Adèle HUGO

Lettre autographe signée à la veuve du sculpteur David d'Angers : "Mon exil est comme voisin de ...

Hauteville House 11 et 13 mai 1856, 14x21,5cm, une feuille.

Lettre autographe signée de Victor Hugo datée du 13 mai 1856 à la suite d'une lettre inédite de Madame Victor Hugo à Madame David d'Angers datée du 11 mai. 4 pages sur un feuillet remplié à filigrane "Barbet Smith Street Guernesey".
Publiée dans Correspondance de Victor Hugo, [...]

7 500 €

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Honoré de BALZAC

Lettre autographe signée à Sophie Kozlowska : "je suis sur les dents ! [...] Je suis ivre de ma ...

[Paris] 12 mars 1842, 13,5x26cm, 4 pages sur un feuillet.

| Balzac's Soon to be Lost Illusion |

Autograph letter signedto Sophie Koslowska
[Paris] 12 March 1842 ◇ 13,5 x 26 cm 4 pages on a bifolium

Autograph letter signed by [...]

15 000 €

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Stefan ZWEIG

Lettre autographe signée adressée à Alfred Cortot et son épouse à propos du fonds de ...

Londres 26 décembre 1937, 17,9x22,9cm, une feuille.

Signed autograph letter to Alfred Cortot and his wife about Richard Wagner's manuscript collection: "I was lucky enough to be able to acquire the entire lot one day before Bayreuth sent a trusted buyer".
London 26 December 1937, 17.9x22.9cm, one [...]

7 000 €

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Honoré de BALZAC

Lettre autographe signée adressée à Jean-Baptiste Violet d'Epagny, directeur du théâtre de ...

s.l. [Passy] « mardi matin » [28 décembre 1841], 13,5x21,6cm, une page sur un double feuillet, enveloppe jointe.

Autograph letter signed by Honoré de Balzac to Jean-Baptiste Violet d'Epagny, director of the Odéon theater. One page in black ink on a double sheet. Enclosed and pasted on the second page is the envelope of this letter, written in Balzac's [...]

8 500 €

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Nicolas-Edme RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE

Lettre autographe signée adressée à la citoyenne Fontaine

30 fructidor 1797 An V [16 septembre 1897], 18,5x21,3cm, 3 pages sur un double feuillet.

Rarissime lettre autographe signée «?Restif Labretone?» adressée à la citoyenne Fontaine. Trois pages rédigées à l'encre noire sur un double feuillet de papier vergé. Reste de cachet de cire, pliures inhérentes à l'envoi.
 
Cette lettre a été publiée, avec quelques [...]

15 000 €

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Victor HUGO

Lettre autographe signée adressée à Léon Richer : "Vous avez raison de compter sur moi pour ...

Mardi 7 novembre [1871], 13,3x20,8cm, 2 pages sur un feuillet double.

| « So that justice finally be done for women » |

“Sir, I have been urgently asked to intervene on behalf of those sentenced to death. The fulfillment of this duty has delayed my [...]

18 000 €

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Charles BAUDELAIRE

Lettre autographe signée adressée à Narcisse Ancelle. "Je suis très attendu à Paris et à ...

30 mai 1865, 13,7x21,1cm, une page sur un feuillet.

Lettre autographe signée de Charles Baudelaire adressée à Narcisse Ancelle, rédigée à l'encre noire sur un feuillet de papier bleu.
Pliures inhérentes à l'envoi, trois infimes petits trous sans atteinte au texte.
Cette lettre a été retranscrite dans les Oeuvres [...]

9 000 €

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Paul GAUGUIN

Lettre autographe signée de Paul Gauguin : "je suis doué dit-il à en rendre les autres jaloux"

s.l. (Tahiti) août (1896), 20,5x27cm, quatre pages sur deux feuillets.

“Yes I have sarcasm in my words, yes I do not know how to flatter and bend my back, how to beg in official salons […] I am nothing but a braying schemer, but if I had submitted - yes I would be [...]

20 000 €

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Pablo PICASSO

Lettre autographe signée multicolore adressée à Max Pellequer

20 décembre 1955, 26,8x20,9cm, un feuillet.

Multi-colored autograph letter to Max Pellequer

Elegant multi-colored autograph letter by Pablo Picasso to Max Pellequer, signed and dated 'December 20, 1955'. A leaf in multi-color pencil (blue, green, orange and red). [To be [...]

10 000 €

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Eugène DELACROIX

Lettre d'amour autographe inédite à "Julie" (Louise de Pron) : "trompe-moi si tu veux, je te ...

s.d. (ca 1823), 12x18,2 cm et 10x15,5cm, Six pages sur deux feuillets rempliés.

Unpublished handwritten letter to “Julie” (Louise de Pron): “Fool me if you want, I'll believe you, I want to believe you so much and I need it”
 

[ca 1823] | 12 x 18,2 cm and 10 x 15,5 cm | six pages on two double leaves
 
Almost entirely [...]

13 500 €

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First edition

Albert CAMUS

Lettres à un ami allemand

Gallimard, Paris 1945, 12x19cm, broché.

First Edition, one of 25 numbered copies on "pur-fil" paper draw head. The book Camus dedicated to his friend René Leynaud. Rare and nice copy. 

8 000 €

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First edition

STENDHAL

Lettres écrites de Vienne en Autriche, sur le célèbre compositeur Jh Haydn suivies d'une vie de ...

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, Paris 1814, 12,5x20,5cm, relié.

De l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné | Paris 1814 | 12,5 x 20,5 cm | bound in calf
 
First edition of Stendhal's very first book, published under the pseudonym of Louis-Alexandre-César Bombet.
 
Contemporary binding in half brown calf, spine decorated with [...]

6 000 €

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First edition

Jean-Paul SARTRE & Serge JULY

Libération. Collection complète des vingt premières années du journal

Libération, Paris 1973-2004, 7200 numéros, en feuillets.

Libération. Complete collection

1973-2004 | 7200 issues | loose leaves
 
Complete collection of the Libération newspaper, founded in 1973 by Jean-Paul Sartre, Serge July, Philippe Gavi, Bernard Lallement and Jean-Claude Vernier.
 
7200 [...]

30 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Honoré de BALZAC

Louis Lambert suivi de Séraphîta

Charpentier, Paris 1842, 12x19cm, relié.

First definitive editions, some parts in first edition.
3/4 red shagreen binding, spine abundantly ruled in blind, entwined gilt Jules Hetzel monogram at foot of spine, untrimmed copy, contemporary binding.
Some rare brown spots.
Exceptionally signed and inscribed by Honoré de [...]

20 000 €

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First edition

Gustave FLAUBERT

Madame Bovary

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1857, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

| A deluxe issue, first edition copy of Flaubert's masterpiece in a contemporary binding |

First edition, one of the very rare cop­ies on vélin fort (75 copies according to [...]

30 000 €

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First edition

ANONYME, [Miyagawa SHUNTEÏ]

Makimono Makurae (images d'oreiller). 12 peintures

1920, 15x869cm, autre.

12 peintures sur soie sur une bande de soie transparente de 840cm, contrecollées sur papier et bordées d'or. Chaque peinture 70x14cm. Il semble plausible d'attribuer l'oeuvre à Miyagawa Shunteï.
Rouleau de bois sur lequel s'enroule un long ruban de 869 cm de papier. Les peintures sont [...]

6 000 €

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Boris VIAN

Manuscrit autographe complet de la nouvelle "Une pénible histoire"

S.n. (chezl'auteur), s.l. s.d. [1952], 21x27cm , 20 feuillets agrafés.

| « ... » |

Manuscrit autographe original de la nouvelle de Boris Vian, initialement parue dans la revue Une bouteille à la Mer n°72 de 1952, puis publiée dans le recueil [...]

7 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Paul VERLAINE

Manuscrit autographe complet signé de Paul Verlaine d'une des "Chroniques de l'hôpital" : le lieu ...

Paris s.d. [1890], 21,3x14cm, 3 pages in-8 au verso de 4 feuillets de l'Assistance publique de Paris.

VERLAINE Paul
Complete autograph manuscript signed by Paul Verlaine of one of his Hospital Chronicles: We poets, as well as they, the workers, our companions in misery” Paris n. d. [1890], 213 x 140 mm (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 ”), 3 [...]

14 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

ANONYME

Manuscrit inédit intitulé "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du publicanisme moderne contenant ...

s.l. 1750, in-folio (23x38cm), 330 pp. (4 p. bl.) (8 p.) (4 p. bl.) 83 pp., 2 manuscrits reliés en un volume.

Manuscript entitled “Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du publicanisme moderne
contenant l'origine, les noms, qualités, le portrait et l'histoire abrégée de nosseigneurs
les fermiers généraux du Roy qui se sont succédés depuis l'année 1720 jusqu'à la
présente année [...]

15 000 €

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First edition

Marguerite YOURCENAR

Mémoires d'Hadrien

Plon, Paris 1951, 14x20,5cm, broché.

[Memoirs of Hadrian]

First edition, one of 115 numbered copies on alfa, only large papers after 35 pure wire.
Two small signs of foxing, a discreet sign of a fold, a beautiful copy as published.
 
Rare and very sought after in large paper.

12 000 €

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First edition

Simone de BEAUVOIR

Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée - La force de l'âge - La force des choses - Tout compte fait

Gallimard, Paris 1958-1972, 14,5x21,5cm, 4 volumes brochés sous cofferts.

| The Famous Feminist Tetralogy in Deluxe Issue |

Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée [Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter] - La force de l'âge [The Prime of Life] [...]

18 000 €

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First edition

André-Marie AMPERE

Mémoires sur l'action mutuelle de deux courants électriques, sur celle qui existe entre un ...

S.n. (Académie royale des sciences), s.l. (Paris) s.d. (1820), 14x21,5cm, broché.

| "I shall call the first electrical tension, the second electrical current" |
 
[Memoirs on the Mutual Action of Two Electric Currents]
[Académie royale des sciences] ◇ [Paris 1820] ◇ [...]

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First edition, Signed book

Emmanuel de LAS CASES

Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène

Dépôt du Mémorial, Bossange frères, Béchet Aîné et Roret, Paris 1823-1824, 13x21cm, 8 volumes reliés.

| Inscribed by the Quill to the Sword |
*

 
Edition published the same year as the first. Illustrated with a portrait of the author, three folding plates, a folding map of Longwood house and two [...]

12 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Alfred JARRY

Messaline

Editions de La revue blanche, Paris 1901, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Bradel binding in half morocco, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, modern binding.
Handsome autograph inscription signed by Alfred Jarry to Charles-Henry Hirsch : "... un admirateur de "la Possession"..."

 

6 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

André BRETON & Paul ELUARD, Salvador DALI

Notes sur la poésie

GLM, Paris 1936, 12,5x17cm, broché.


BRETON André & éLUARD Paul & DALI Salvador. Notes sur la poésie [Notes on Poetry]
Glm, Paris 1936, 12,5 x 17 cm, original wrappers
First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on vélin paper, this one not justified, the only grand [...]

7 800 €

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First edition

Jacques-Pierre MAYGRIER, Antoine CHAZAL

Nouvelles démonstrations d'accouchemens

Bechet, à Paris 1822, 30x43cm, relié.

MAYGRIER Jacques-Pierre & CHAZAL Antoine
Nouvelles démonstrations d'accouchemens
[New Demonstrations of Deliveries]
Bechet, à Paris 1822, 30 x 43 cm, contemporary brown calf
First edition, with the illustrations of the author (often missing) and 79 [...]

6 000 €

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First edition

George SAND

Oeuvres complètes

Félix Bonnaire & Victor Magen & Comon & Hippolyte Souverain, Paris 1837-1841, 13x20,5cm, 27 volumes reliés.

"Edition extrêmement importante, un grand nombre d'oeuvres y paraissent en édition originale. L'ensemble de ces 27 volumes est rare." (Clouzot) Les titres en édition originale sont les suivants : Mattea, Lettres d'un Voyageur, La Dernière Aldini, Les Maîtres mosaïstes, L'Uscoque, [...]

12 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Charles BAUDELAIRE

Oeuvres complètes enrichies d'une lettre autographe : Les Fleurs du Mal - Curiosités esthétiques ...

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1868-1870, 11x18cm, 7 volumes reliés et une lettre montée sur onglet.

Œuvres complètes with an autograph letter:
Les Fleurs du Mal – Curiosités esthétiques – L'Art romantique – Petits Poèmes en prose – Histoires extraordinaires – Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires – Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym. Eurêka.

 

Michel [...]

25 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

François René de CHATEAUBRIAND

Oeuvres complètes. - Oeuvres diverses. - Le congrès de Vérone. - Essai sur la littérature ...

Ladvocat, Paris 1826-1831 & 1824 & 1838, 13x21,5cm, 36 volumes reliés.

First collective edition, by far the most important and the most sought after (cf. Clouzot), Chateaubriand having reworked and reviewed a large part of his works.
In these works, several texts appear in the first edition including "Les Natchez", "Le Dernier Abencérage", "Le voyage en [...]

10 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Richard WAGNER

Oper und Drama

Verlagsbuchhandlung von J.J. Weber, Leipzig 1869, 14,5x23cm, relié.

| Inscribed copy concealing the secret truth of Wagner's (thwarted) love story |
 
Second edition, with parts previously unpublished, with a new preface (“An Constantin Frantz”, dated [...]

30 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

(Laurent de MEDICIS) Aurelio BIENATO

Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis enrichi d'une lettre autographe signée de Pierre II de ...

Philippus de Mantegatiis, Milan s.d. [après le 8 avril 1492] et s.d. [1493], ouvrage : 20,8x13,8cm et lettre : 22x30cm, (8f.) Sig : a8, relié.

Oratio in funere Laurentii de Medicis habita. With an autograph letter signed by Piero II de' Medici to Dionigi Pucci

Philippus de Mantegatiis, Milan n. d. [after April, 8, 1492], 20,8 x 13,8 cm, (8 f.) Sig: a8, later morocco & for the letter n. d. [1493], 22 x 30 cm, [...]

15 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Marcel PROUST

Pastiches et mélanges

Nrf, Paris 1919, 13x19cm, broché sous chemise-étui.

First edition on ordinary paper, despite a false statement of third edition.
Handsome autohgraph inscription from Marcel Proust to René Boylesve.
This copy has a chemise and slipcase (with flaps) of half kaki morocco over marbled paper boards, spine very slighlty faded [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Léopold SURVAGE, Jean COCTEAU

Pégase

Nouveau cercle parisien du livre, Paris 1965, 35x45cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

Nouveau cercle parisien du livre, Paris 1965, 35x45cm, morocco binding under custom chemise and slipcase.

"The idea of this book, bringing together poems by Jean Cocteau illustrated by Léopold Survage on the theme of Pegasus, had been submitted to the Poet and had [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

(Charles BAUDELAIRE), Félix Tournachon dit NADAR

Photographie de Charles Baudelaire les mains dans les poches : "Vu de face, il paraît plus ...

Nadar, Paris 1862, Photographie : 5,1x8,5cm / Carton : 6,3x10,3cm, une photographie.

Photographic portrait of Charles Baudelaire with his hands in his pockets

Nadar | Paris 1862 | Photograph: 5.1 x 8.5 cm / Cardboard: 6.3 x 10.3 cm | one photograph
 
Extremely rare original photograph showing Charles Baudelaire on albumen paper, contemporary print in [...]

6 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Lewis CARROLL

Photographie originale - Xie Kitchin

S.n., [Oxford] [août 1869], 14,9x20,8cm, une feuille sous marie-louise.

| technique becomes art: Lewis Carroll's famous collodion child portraits  |
 

Original photograph of Xie Kitchin
[Oxford August 1869] 14,9 x 20,8 cm one photograph under [...]

28 000 €

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First edition

Pablo PICASSO & Moïse KISLING, Jean COCTEAU

Photographie originale probablement unique de Pablo Picasso à Montparnasse devant le café La ...

Paris 12 août 1916, 6,3x8,6cm, une feuille.

Original photograph likely unique taken by Jean Cocteau showing Pablo Picasso and Co in Montparnasse in front of the café La Rotonde, the 12 August 1916
 

Paris 12 august 1916 | 6,3 x 8,6 cm | one photograph
 
Original photograph by Jean Cocteau [...]

10 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

[Sigmund FREUD], Edmund ENGELMAN

Portrait photographique de Sigmund Freud dédicacé par Edmund Engelman

s.d. (1938), Carton : 31,8x39,5cm / photographie : 27,4x35,2cm, une photographie contrecollée sur carton.

Photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, signed by the photographer Engelman
 

Shot May 1938 print ca 1980 | Cardboard: 31,8 x 39,5 cm / photo: 27,4 x 35,2 cm | one photo mounted on board
 
Original photographic portrait of Sigmund Freud, in silver [...]

6 000 €

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[Alfred DREYFUS], Charles GERSCHEL

Portrait photographique dédicacé d'Alfred Dreyfus

Gerschel, Paris s.d. (1899), 10,7x16,3cm, une photographie au format carte-cabinet.

Original albumen print, cabinet card mount with the stamp of the Gerschel studio. Bottom margin skillfully restored, a trace a folding in the left corner.

Extremely rare signed inscription by Alfred Dreyfus in the top margin: “Souvenir reconnaissant et [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

Victor HUGO

Quatrevingt-treize

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1874, 16x25cm, 3 volumes brochés sous chemises et étuis.

Edition originale, un des 15 exemplaires numérotés sur Whatman, tirage de tête avec 15 japon.
A ce propos, Clouzot ne mentionne pas ce tirage sur Whatman dans son guide du bibliophile.
Notre exemplaire est présenté sous chemises en demi maroquin bordeaux, dos lisses ornés de motifs [...]

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First edition

Arthur RIMBAUD

Reliquaire

Léon Genonceaux, Paris 1891, 11,5x18cm, relié.

Léon Genonceaux | Paris 1891 | 11,5 x 18 cm | bound in shagreen
 
The first edition for large parts of the text, printed in 550 copies with the correct date of 1891 on the title.
 
Contemporary paper boards with blindstamped floral motifs, spine very slightly [...]

7 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Gustave FLAUBERT

Salammbô

Michel Lévy, Paris 1863, 15x23cm, relié.

Salammbô

First edition on ordinary paper.
Half-forest green shagreen contemporary binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper board and endpapers, bookplate pasted on one guard.
Some slight, minor foxing.
Rare signed and inscribed copy by [...]

15 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Gérard de NERVAL

Scènes de la vie orientale : les femmes du Caire [Véritable édition originale du Voyage en ...

Ferdinand Sartorius, Paris 1848, 13,5x22cm, relié.

Ferdinand Sartorius | Paris 1848 | 13,5 x 22 cm | one volume bound in shagreen & one note
 
First edition, rare and very sought after according to Clouzot. Precious copy with the title page having the correct date of 1848. This work is the first to be published [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

ANONYME, [proche de Yamamoto SCHOUN]

Schunga. 12 grandes peintures sur soie

1880, 33,5x45,5cm, relié.

12 large paintings on silk: 24 x 34.5 cm, depicting couples embracing. These works seem very close to the style of Yamamoto Schoun.
A folding collection covered with a patterned green silk fabric. The silk paintings are loosely inserted into movable paper frames. Label on the upper cover [...]

6 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Marcel PROUST & John RUSKIN

Sésame et les lys

Mercure de France, Paris 1906, 12x19cm, broché sous chemise-étui.


PROUST Marcel & RUSKIN John. Sésame et les lys [Sesame and Lilies]
Mercure de France, Paris 1906, 12 x 19 cm, original wrappers with custom slipcase
First edition in French on ordinary paper, notes and preface by Marcel Proust.
Rare [...]

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First edition

Lilio Gregorio GIRALDI

Syntagma de Musis

Matthias Schurerius, Strasbourg 1511, in-4 (14x20cm), (16f.) A4 B8 C4, relié.

Syntagma de Musis

Matthias Schurerius | Strasbourg 1511| 4to (14 x 20 cm)| (16 f.) A4 B8 C4| modern full morocco
 
Rare editio princeps illustrated with a large title vignette (86 x 95 mm) featuring the Muses playing their [...]

12 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

François Claudius Koënigstein, dit RAVACHOL

Testament politique autographe signé de Ravachol en grande partie inédit

1892, 20x29,5cm, 4 pages sur un double feuillet.

Ravachol's largely unpublished signed autograph political will




Exceptional complete autograph manuscript signed by Ravachol of his true will - largely unpublished - unknown in this form, prior to its rewriting by a third [...]

18 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Charles BAUDELAIRE & Victor HUGO

Théophile Gautier. Notice littéraire précédée d'une lettre de Victor Hugo

Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, Paris 1859, 11,5x18cm, relié.

Théophile Gautier. Notice littéraire précédée d'une lettre de Victor Hugo

Poulet-Malassis et de Broise | Paris 1859 | 11.5 x18 cm | full morocco
 
First edition, one of 500 copies. Portrait of Théophile Gautier etched by Emile Thérond on the [...]

75 000 €

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First edition

François-Henri-Stanislas DELAULNAYE

Thuileur des trente-trois degrés de l'écossisme du rit ancien, dit accepté ; auquel on a joint ...

Chez Delaunay, à Paris 1813, 1812 et 1806 pour les 2 derniers textes, in-8 (13x21cm), relié.

Chez Delaunay | Paris 1813, 1812 and 1806 for the 2 final texts | 8vo (13 x 21 cm) | bound
A collection of four extremely rare first editions:
- Thuileur des trente-trois degrés de l'écossisme (1813), “a rare and sought-after work and one of [...]

6 000 €

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Alfred JARRY

Ubu roi

Mercure de France, Paris 1896, 9,5x15,5cm, relié.

Ubu Roi [Ubu the King]
Mercure de France | Paris 1896 | 9.5 x 15.5 cm | half morocco
 
The first edition with two portraits of Père Ubu drawn by Alfred Jarry.
Half brown morocco over [...]

12 000 €

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First edition

Stéphane MALLARME

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard

Nrf, Paris 1914, 25,5x33cm, broché.

 

Nrf | Paris 1914 | 25,5 x 33 cm | in original wrappers
 
First edition, one of 90 numbered copies on laid Arches paper,
the only deluxe copies (grand papier) after 10 Montval.
Beautiful copy.

7 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Un feuillet manuscrit autographe de "Terre des Hommes"

1938, 21x27cm, 1 page sur un feuillet.

"We fed on the magic of the sands, others perhaps will dig their oil wells there"

Original autograph manuscript by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, one page in black ink on a yellow paper sheet, [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

Arthur RIMBAUD

Une saison en enfer

Alliance typographique (M.J. Poot & Cie), Bruxelles 1873, 12,5x18,5cm, relié sous étui.

| The Only Book Ever Printed by Rimbaud |

[A Season in Hell]
Alliance typographique (M. J. Poot & Cie) Bruxelles 1873 | 12,5 x 18,5 cm | full morocco [...]

28 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Charles DE GAULLE

Vers l'armée de métier

Berger-Levrault, Paris 1934, 12x19cm, broché.

Edition originale, un des 25 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil, seuls grands papiers.
Envoi autographe daté et signé de Charles De Gaulle : "Pour J. Emery, bien cordialement ! C. de Gaulle. 25.2.61."
Bel et rare exemplaire en grand papier et avec envoi autographe signé de Charles De Gaulle.

8 500 €

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Stéphane MALLARME

Villiers de l'Isle Adam

Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, Paris 1890, 16x24,5cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

First edition of which there were only printes 50 copies, this one of 5 numbered copies on Japon impérial, the tirage de tête.

Autograph inscription by Stéphane Mallarmé to his friend François Nys : "A monsieur Nys très sympathiquement."

This copy enriched [...]

10 000 €

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First edition

Hervé BAZIN

Vipère au poing

Grasset, Paris 1948, 12x18,5cm, relié sous chemise et étui.

Grasset | Paris 1948 | 12 x 18.5 cm | bound in a chemise and slipcase

First edition, one of 23 numbered copies on pure wire, the “tirage de tête”.

Bound in olive green morocco, gilt date at the foot of the spine, plates embellished with tan morocco panel stamps [...]

7 000 €

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Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Vol de nuit

Nrf, Paris 1931, 12x19cm, relié.

Edition originale, mention fictive d'édition.
Envoi autographe signé d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sur la page de faux-titre : "à  Mademoiselle Josette Arnaud dont le frère est déjà un vieux pilote de quarante six heures de vol... Et dont le père est un vieil [...]

6 000 €

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First edition

André GIDE, Marc ALLEGRET

Voyage au Congo suivi de Retour du Tchad

Nrf, Paris 1929, 25,5x33,5cm, relié.

Voyage au Congo suivi de Retour du Tchad
 

Nrf | Paris 1929 | 25,5 x 33,5 cm | full calf & custom chemise and slipcase
 
First collective edition of two journeys in Africa by André Gide published successively in 1927 and 1928. First [...]

20 000 €

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First edition

Louis-Antoine de BOUGAINVILLE

Voyage autour du monde par la fregate du roi La Boudeuse et la flûte L'Etoile ; en 1766, 1767, ...

Chez Saillant & Nyon, Paris 1771, in-4 (19x26cm), (6 p.) 417 pp. (3 p.), relié.

Chez Saillant & Nyon, Paris 1771, in-4 (19x26cm), (6 p.) 417 pp. (3 p.), contemporary calf. 
First edition, with 18 engraved maps et 5 folding engraved plates.
Contemporary tan calf, skillfully restored tear to the first folding map, some marginal [...]

6 000 €

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First edition

Friedrich NIETZSCHE

Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift [Généalogie de la morale] [avec] Götzen-Dämmerung ...

C. G. Naumann, Leipzig 1887 et 1889, 14x22cm, 2 volumes reliés en 1.

Zur Genealogie der Moral. Eine Streitschrift [On the Genealogy of Morals] [with] Götzen-Dämmerung oder Wie man mit dem Hammer philosophiert [Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer]
C. G. Naumann | Leipzig 1887 & 1889 | [...]

10 000 €

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Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

[Dessin original signé] Caricature à la mine de plomb et crayons de couleur

s.l. s.d. [1942], 13,4x20,9cm, une feuille.

Original drawing signedCaricature in graphite and coloured pencil
[1942] ◇ 13,4 x 20,9 cm ◇ one leaf


Original drawing with graphite, blue and pink colored pencils signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, on a sheet of watermarked paper “Navarre”. Hor­izontal fold, [...]

10 000 €

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René DESCARTES

[DISCOURS DE LA METHODE] Principia philosophiae [suivi de] Specimina philosophiae

apud Ludovicum Elzevirium [Elzevir], Amstelodami (Amsterdam) 1644, 15,4x20,3cm, 1 f. bl. [22], 1 f. bl., 310 p. ; 1 f. bl., [16] 331 p., relié.

First Appearance of “Cogito Ergo Sum”

[Discourse on the Method] Principia philosophiae [with] Specimina philosophiae
Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium [Elzevir] ◇ Amstelodami [...]

8 000 €

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First edition

Charles BAUDELAIRE

[Le Spleen de Paris] Petits poëmes en prose - Les Paradis artificiels

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1869, 12,5x18,8cm, broché sous coffret.

| Only Deluxe Copy Still in Wrappers |
 

“Who among us has not, in his days of ambition, dreamed the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm or rhyme, supple and agile [...]

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[François VATABLE]

[TORAH] Quinque libri legis [BIBLE HEBRAIQUE] (Pentateuque : La Genèse, l'Exode, le Lévitique, ...

Robert Estienne, Paris 1546, in-16 (7x11,5cm), a-r8 s10 [146 f.] et t-z8 aa-kk8 ll3 [124 f.] et mm-yy8 [88 f.] et zz8

[TORAH] Quinque libri legis [BIBLE IN HEBREW]  [ESTIENNE] 
Robert Estienne, Paris 1546, 16mo (7x11,5cm), 5 bound volumes.
First 16mo edition of the Torah in Hebrew by Robert Estienne. Printer's woodcut device on each title page with book titles set within woodcut [...]

10 000 €

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