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Emile ADAN, Gustave FLAUBERT

Un coeur simple

A. Ferroud, Paris 1894, 16x25cm, relié sous étui.

Edition illustrée de 23 eaux-fortes originales d'Emile Adan, un des 200 exemplaires numérotés sur Japon, tirage de tête.
binding en plein maroquin bleu, spine à cinq nerfs sertis de filets dorés orné de doubles caissons dorés décorés de motifs géométriques dorés, date et lieu [...]

1 700 €

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First edition, Signed book

Anna AKHMATOVA

Бег времени - Beg vremeni 1909-1965 [La Course du temps]

Sovetsky pisatel, Moscou & Léningrad 1965, 14,5x13cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

  - Beg vremeni 1909-1965 [The Flight of Time]

Sovetsky pisatel, Moscow & Leningrad 1965, 14.5 x 13 cm, publisher's binding

The first edition, of which there were no large paper copies.
Publisher's grey cloth binding, lacking DJ with a drawing by [...]

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Anna AKHMATOVA & COLLECTIF

La revue de Belles-Lettres N°1-3 de la 120ème année

La revue de Belles-Lettres, Genève 1996, 18x25,5cm, broché.

Edition originale de ce numéro entièrement consacré à Anna Akhmatova, un des 105 exemplaires numérotés sur Rivaldi satiné Ivoire, le nôtre un des 25 exemplaires lettrés à la main et réservés aux amis et collaborateurs de la revue, tirage de tête.
Très bel [...]

500 €

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Louis ARAGON

Poème manuscrit : Amour d'Elsa "Jaloux des gouttes de pluie..."

s.d. (circa 1944-1945), 20,x27 cm, 2 feuilles sous chemise et étui.

autograph poem published in The New Heartbreak, 1948, part "Love of Elsa", 2nd poem "Jaloux ..."

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Louis, sous le pseudonyme de François la Colère [...]

Le musée Grévin

S.n. [Les Editions de Minuit & La Bibliothèque Française], s.l. [Paris & Saint-Flour] s.d. (1943), 21x27,5cm &

n. n. [Les éditions de minuit & La Bibliothèque Française] | n. p. [Paris & Saint-Flour] n. d. [1943]
| 21 x 28 cm & 13,5 x 20,5 cm | one folding leaf & one stapled booklet
 
Rare double first [...]

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AUREL (Aurélie Octavie Gabrielle Antoinette de [...]

Rodin devant la femme

Maison du livre, Paris 1919, 12,5x19cm, broché.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Ecstatic autograph inscription signed full-page by the author to Robert Desnos : "Merde / Robert Desnos".
Spine faded repaired, first cover lined with small marginal repairs, lower cover missing.
A precious relic.

500 €

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Samuel BECKETT

Oh les beaux jours

Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1963, 10x18,5cm, relié.

Samuel BECKETT
Oh les beaux jours [Happy Days]
Les éditions de Minuit | Paris 1963 |10 x 18.5 cm | half box
First edition on ordinary paper.
Turquoise half box, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by Goy & [...]

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Michel & Marie-Jo BUTOR

Dialogue avec Arthur Rimbaud sur l'itinéraire d'Addis-Abeba à Harar

L'amourier éditions, Coaraze 2001, 28x20cm, broché.

Edition originale sur papier courant. 
Agréable exemplaire.
Ouvrage illustré de photographies de Marie-Jo Butor.
Envoi autographe daté et signé de Michel Butor au poète Charles Dobzynski : "... pour lui mettre la tête à l'envers (signature de l'autre côté)."

 

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Italo CALVINO

Temps zéro

Seuil, Paris 1970, 14x20,5cm, relié.

First edition in French, of which there were no large paper copies.
Half black calf by Goy & Vilaine, spine titled in palladium, date to foot of spine, covers and spine (sunned) preserved, top edge palladium.
Autograph inscription signed by Italo Calvino to Pierre [...]

1 200 €

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Albert CAMUS

Pièce autographe signée d'Albert Camus "J'en suis bien content du moins"

s.d. [1944], 21x26,7cm, une feuille.

Autograph document signed by Albert Camus: “J'en suis bien content, du moins”

N. d. [1944], 21 x 26,7 cm, loose leaf
An autograph document signed by Albert Camus, one leaf in black ink.
Albert Camus, questioned on his work by Henri [...]

2 300 €

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Albert CAMUS

La peste

Gallimard, Paris 1947, 12x18,5cm, broché.

Published a few months after the first edition, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Slight marginal tears, not serious, on the covers and to foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Albert Camus to Jean Gervais.

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Albert CAMUS & COLLECTIF

Révolte dans les Asturies

Pour les amis du théâtre du travail, Alger 1936, 14x19,5cm, broché.

Révolte dans les Asturies [Revolt in Asturias]
 

Pour les amis du théâtre du travail | Algiers 1936 | 14 x 19,5 cm | in original wrappers
 
The very rare first edition of this four-act play, the first work that Camus published [...]

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Aimé CESAIRE

Soleil cou coupé

K éditeur, Paris 1948, 16,5x22,5cm, broché.

Soleil cou coupé [Solar Throat Slashed]

K éditeur | Paris 1948 | 16.5 x 22.5 cm | original wrappers

First edition, a numbered copy on alfa du Marais paper, this one not included in the justification.

Handsome autograph inscription signed and dated by [...]

2 300 €

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Aimé CESAIRE

Une saison au Congo

Seuil, Paris 1966, 13x18,5cm, broché.

first edition from which no large papers have been taken, one of the review copies service.
Autograph signed by Aimé Césaire to Pierre Dumayet.
Back slightly insolated as usual.

450 €

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Marc CHAGALL

[Moïse et ses frères] And in those days, when Moses was growen, he went forth unto his brethren, ...

Léon Amiel, Paris, New-York 1966, 36x49.5cm, une feuille.

Original lithograph in colors, one of the 15 proofs printed on Imperial Japan paper and reserved for the artist and his collaborators, one draw with 20 other japan and 250 Arches paper. unsigned Event, as all races in the series except the frontispiece.

Superb test of Japan made especially [...]

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Robert DESNOS

Fortunes

Gallimard, Paris 1942, 12x19cm, broché.

Collective first edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
Back insolated, some traces.
Rare and beautiful autograph signed by Robert Desnos Jean Galtier-Boissière: "To Jean Galtier-Boissière this book is not worth a good glass of good [...]

2 000 €

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Philip Kindred Dick, dit Philip K. DICK

Quelle chance d'être un blobel ! - In Galaxie N°7

Galaxie, Paris Novembre 1964, 13,5x19cm, broché.

Edition originale de la traduction française. 
Petites piqûres sur les premiers feuillets et en pied du second plat.
Numéro illustré d'une couverture de McKenna.
Autres contributions de Keith Laumer "Invasion mentale", William Ley "D'autres candidats pour l'espace ?",  [...]

40 €

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Gustave DORE, François RABELAIS

Oeuvres de Rabelais

Garnier frères, Paris 1873, 31x43cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition (the first was published by Bry in 1853), illustrated with a portrait of the author and 60 boards inset plate under curve, this copy is complete the portrait of the author.
First printing of 60 illustrated boards inset and 614 headers, cul-de-lamp and thumbnail. 98 illustrations [...]

2 000 €

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Joachim DU BELLAY

Hymne au Roy sur la prinse de Callais

En la boutique de Federic Morel, s.l. 1558, in-4 (16,5x23cm), (12p.), relié.

Édition originale, une seconde édition est parue, chez le même éditeur, l'année suivante. Marque de l'imprimeur, à l'arbre, sur la page de titre.
Exemplaire à toutes marges, entièrement réglé de rouge. Privilège à la date du 17 janvier 1557.
Reliure de réemploi en plein vélin [...]

4 500 €

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William FAULKNER & Albert CAMUS

Requiem pour une nonne

Gallimard, Paris 1956, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition of teh french translation by Albert Camus, one of 85 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête after 16 on Hollande paper.
A very good copy.

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William FAULKNER

L'invaincu

Gallimard, Paris 1949, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition in French, one of 200 copies lettered in Roman characters on vélin pur fil paper, the tirage de tête.
A very good copy.

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Nazim HIKMET, Jean PICART LE DOUX

Paris, ma rose...

Pierre Jean Oswald, Paris 1961, 14x19cm, broché.

First edition on current paper of the French translation and the presentation prepared by Charles Dobzynski.
Rare and pleasant copy decorated with illustrations by Jean Picart Le Doux.
Very rare autograph shipment dated and signed by Nazim Hikmet to Mrs. Pierette Girard.

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Victor HUGO

Les misérables

A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, Bruxelles 1862, 15x21cm, 10 volumes reliés.

Les Misérables

A. Lacroix & Verboeckhoven & Cie | Bruxelles 1862 | 15 x 21 cm | 10 volumes bound half sheepskin
 
First Belgian edition published simultaneously with the Paris edition.
Bound in half aubergine sheepskin, spine [...]

7 500 €

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Joris-Karl HUYSMANS

Carte autographe signée « Ce que je suis rasé par les reporters à propos du centenaire ...

4 février 1902, 11,5x9cm, Une carte recto-verso.

"Paris, February 4, 1902
I regretted, my dear friend, not to see you! The poet did not walk, as you have seen, I had gone for a walk on the quays.
That's for lunch at Crespel Saturday, at noon ½. Would you write to him if you do not see him before.
What I am shaved by reporters [...]

1 000 €

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Joris-Karl HUYSMANS

Le drageoir aux épices

Lib. Gale & Dépôt central des éditeurs, Paris 1875, 11x17cm, relié.

First edition, in re-sale covers, printed in 300 justified copies with false mention of the second edition, as usual.
Contemporary Bradel binding of half grey cloth, spine (very lightly faded) with a gilt fleuron, date and double gilt fillet to foot, red shagreen title label (a little rubbed at [...]

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Anna LANGFUS

Les bagages de sable

Gallimard, Paris 1962, 14x20,5cm, broché.

first edition on current paper.
Some small bites on the back, boards and slices.
Autograph signed by Anna Langfus to Gaston J. Viala.

150 €

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André MALRAUX

La condition humaine

Nrf, Paris 1933, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 339 numbered copies on pur fil, the only large paper copies after 1 Chine and 39 vergé pur fil re-imposed.
A very nice copy.

6 800 €

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Guy de MAUPASSANT & Emile ZOLA

Les soirées de Médan

Charpentier, Paris 1880, 12x19cm, relié.

first edition on the current paper.
Binding to bradel half navy blue morocco, smooth spine burgundy morocco piece of marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, sprinkled edges, bookplate pasted on a contreplat signed binding Kauffmann.
Precious autograph signed [...]

6 800 €

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Charles de Secondat MONTESQUIEU

De l'Esprit des loix

Chez Barillot & fils [Prault], Genève [Paris] s.d. (1749), in-4 (19x25cm), (8) XXIV : 522pp. (1p. errata) et (4) XVI ; 564pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Counterfeiting of the first edition published by Barrillot (with two r ) in Geneva in 1748. This counterfeit was made by Laurent Durand. It would have been printed in Paris by Prault, and constitutes in the order the second printed edition. It is the first issue of the second edition, a [...]

3 500 €

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Irène NEMIROVSKY

David Golder

Grasset, Paris 1929, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of 300 numbered copies on alfa paper, an advance (service de presse) copy.
Autograph inscription from Irène Némirovsky to the publisher Arthème Fayard.
A bookseller's label pasted to head od an endpaper, small spots mostly on the first and last leaves.

800 €

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Georges PEREC

Les choses

Julliard, Paris 1965, 11,5x20cm, broché.

Published the same year as the first edition, falsely stated as 78ème mille.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Georges Perec to Maurice Thomas.
A nice copy.

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Marcel PROUST

Correspondance avec sa mère. 1887-1905

Plon, Paris 1953, 13,5x22,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Holland paper, head print after 30 Japan.
Book decorated with 6 illustrations and 1 facsimile.
Beautiful copy wide-margined.

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Marcel PROUST

Lettre autographe signée au dramaturge René Péter à propos de Paul Hervieu, futur Swann de la ...

Paris printemps 1905, 22,7x17,5 cm, 3 pages sur un feuillet remplié.

« […] c'est demander à M. Painlevé de faire que la rotation de la lune autour de la terre soit un peu moins rapide pour faire plaisir à Madame de Noailles ! »
 
Lettre autographe signée de Marcel Proust, 3 feuillets [...]

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Jean QUATRESOLZ

Traitté du coeur humain. Manuscrit inédit

1668, 23x35,5cm, 214pp. (6), relié.

Traitté du cœur humain. Unpublished manuscript [Treatise on Human Heart]

1668 | 214 pp. (6)| 23 x 35.5 cm | contemporary full parchment

Handwritten, unpublished manuscript signed «Jean Quatresolz» on the first page of the preface. A [...]

5 000 €

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Grisélidis REAL

La passe imaginaire

Editions Manya, Levallois-Perret 1992, 13,5x21,5cm, broché.

First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Grisélidis Real, writer, painter and prostitute, is a great romantic figure of the late twentieth century. A lover, militant, fighter and poet, she upset the customs of Geneva society. She is now buried in the Cemetery of the Kings in [...]

300 €

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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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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, (4) 157 pp. ; 5 pp., broché.

First edition illustrated with an engraving inset engraved by Charles-Etienne Gaucher after Jean-Jacques Le Barbier and 4 pages of score engraved at the end of the volume. The Marseillaise appears in its real first edition, having been the subject of a pre-publication in The Almanac of [...]

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Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Terre des hommes

Nrf, Paris 1939, 12x19cm, broché.

First edition, one of the review copies service.
Important and exceptional autograph dedication signed by Antoine de Saint-Exupery to Vicente Almonspine Amonacid: "For the Almonacid Hoodo hero of the Argentine and French aviation with the deep affection of Antoine de Saint-Exupery".
Nice copy.

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Nathalie SARRAUTE

Tropismes

Les Editions de Minuit, Paris 1957, 12x19cm, broché.

Second edition partly original and on current paper.
Autograph dedication signed by Nathalie Sarraute to Charles Wagemans.

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Léopold Sédar SENGHOR

La poésie de l'action

Stock, Paris 1980, 13x22cm, broché.

Edition originale sur papier courant.
Piqûres sur le spine et les gardes, annotations, repères de lecture et indications manuscrites du dédicataire sur la première garde et les pages 23, 24 et 25.
Envoi autographe daté et signé de Léopold Sédar Senghor à Michel de [...]

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Léopold Sédar SENGHOR, Marc CHAGALL

Lettres d'hivernage

Seuil, Paris 1973, 23x28,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

First edition, one of 180 numbered copies on Arches, the tirage de tête.
Very beautiful copy.
Illustrated work of 9 original full-page lithographs in black and colour by Marc Chagall, one of which is on the cover.
Handwritten signatures of Léopold Sédar Senghor and [...]

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(Jean-Joseph TARAYRE) BLARY(?)

Lettre autographe d'un républicain au capitaine Jean-Joseph Tarayre : " vivre libre ou mourir"

Marcillac 1797, 17,7x24,5cm, un feuillet remplié.

Handwritten letter dated 23 Brumaire year 6 [November 13, 1797], three pages on a folded sheet, recipient's address Jean-Joseph Tarayre and seal of the sender [Blary?] On the back, slight damage to the text due to the seal.

This letter is the result of a private correspondence between an [...]

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Boris VIAN

Manuscrit autographe complet de la chanson de Boris Vian intitulée "Au bal chez les anges" ...

S.n., s.l. s.d. (1958), 21x27cm, 2 feuillets perforés.

Manuscrit complet de 32 lignes rédigé au crayon de papier de la chanson "Au bal des anges" comprenant deux feuillets perforés.

Nous joignons deux tapuscrits de cette chanson.
Très bel ensemble.
 

1 500 €

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Emile ZOLA

La joie de vivre

G. Charpentier & Cie, Paris 1884, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 150 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
Half morocco, covers preserved, top edge gilt.
A nice copy.
 

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Stefan ZWEIG

La guérison par l'esprit

Stock, Paris 1934, 12,5x19cm, relié.


ZWEIG Stefan. La Guérison par l'esprit [Healing the Spirit]
Stock, Paris 1934, 12,5 x 19 cm, half morocco
First edition of the French translation, for which there were only 65 grand papier (deluxe) copies on alfa paper, an advance [...]

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