Claude ROUX, Jean GIONO

Voilà le pays magique ! Textes choisis de Jean Giono

Les éditions du Mont-d'Or, Manosque 1980, 25x33cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui..

Illustrated edition of 52 drawings, a headband, 20 initials, 2 culs-de-lamp engraved on wood by Claude Roux, one of the 265 numbered copies on pure Arches paper thread, the only print after 27 Japan.
Preface by André Tillieu.
Back of the shirt slightly cleared, some friction at the corners [...]

300 €

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First edition

WALLACE

Essai sur la différence du nombre des hommes dans les tems anciens et modernes

S.n., à Londres 1754, Pet. in-8 (10,5x17cm), (2) ij, ij, 292pp., relié.

First french edition, translated by Joncourt.

Binding poster ca 1790 full sheepskin blonde rooted. Smooth back decorated with 5 florets. title label in black sheepskin. Friction. 2 blunt corners.

450 €

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First edition, Signed book

Pierre DRIEU LA ROCHELLE

Notes pour comprendre le siècle

Gallimard, Paris 1941, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Rare autograph dedication signed Pierre Drieu la Rochelle Robert Kemp on this text: "... through how many misunderstandings?"

680 €

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Samuel RICHARDSON

Clarisse Harlowe

Chez Paul Barde, à Genève 1785, Fort in-8 (13,3x20,8cm), lj (1bc.) 515pp. et (4) 527pp. et (4) 537pp. et (4) 512pp.

First edition in-8, illustrated with 21 figures of Chodowiecki and a frontispiece portrait by Pujos on hard paper. Draw the figures before the letter. The original English was published in 1748.
Bindings full porphyry antique sheepskin. Smooth back richly adorned with decorative boxes, Greek [...]

1 200 €

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Nicolas de LA MARE

Traité de la police, Où l'on trouvera l'Histoire de son Etablissement, les Fonctions et les ...

Aux dépens de La Compagnie, à Amsterdam 1729, in-Folio (29,5x48cm), (28) 475pp. et (12) 477-1016p. (40pp.) et (8)

New edition, with mention of Second augmented edition. The illustration includes 3 thumbnails of repeated titles. The eight flip charts of Paris are missing. Title pages in red and black. The first volume of the Treaty of the Police appeared in 1707, Volume 2 in 1710, Volume 3 in 1719, and a fourth [...]

2 200 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jacques CHARPIER

Lam

Le musée de poche, Paris 1960, 14x18,5cm, broché.

First edition on ordinary paper.
A nice copy.
Illustrated with reproductions of Wifredo Lam's artworks.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Wifredo Lam, in pink pencil, to Sabine Binder with a drawing of a fabulous animal.

750 €

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First edition

Chester HIMES

La troisième génération

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

First edition of the French translation, one of 40 numbered copies on alfa paper, this copy one of 10 hors commerce, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Rare and nice copy.

750 €

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Signed book

Jacques PREVERT

La pluie et le beau temps

Gallimard, Paris 1955, 14x19,5cm, broché.

New posterior edition of some months to the first edition.
Pleasant copy in spite of clear dumps of adhesive paper in heads and feet of the guards, cold-crowned coat of arms at the head of the first guard.
Autographed and signed autograph dedication by Jacques Prévert to Pierre [...]

780 €

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