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First edition, Signed book

Octave MIRBEAU

Les vingt et un jours d'un neurasthénique

Charpentier, Paris 1901, 12x18,5cm, relié.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Contemporary half shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine with a gilt cartouche with gilt decorative motifs, gilt date to foot of spine, a frame of gilt fillets to covers, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, covers preserved, top edge gilt.
Handsome [...]

1 500 €

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Mathurin REGNIER & Eugène Emmanuel VIOLLET-LE-DUC

Oeuvres complètes de Mathurin Régnier

P. Janet, Paris 1853, 10x16cm, relié.

Edition presented with revised and corrected comments.
Bound in half morocco nut back on five bands, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper.
Some small minor foxing.
Copy nicely established. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, [...]

50 €

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DUJARDIN, Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT

Madame de Pompadour

Firmin-Didot, Paris 1888, 22x28,5cm, relié.

First illustrated edition and partly original as revised and enlarged letters and unpublished documents.
Bound in half morocco with red corners, back with five bands set with ornate golden dotted with golden double boxes adorned with decorative gilt, double gilt coaching boards marbled paper, [...]

250 €

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First edition

Alméry LOBEL-RICHE, Francis CARCO

Les malheurs de Fernande

A l'édition, Paris 1918, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Arches paper, leading copy after 6 Japan.
Bound in half morocco anthracite strip, flat spine enriched head of a bookplate mosaic piece of red and brown morocco, covers and spine preserved, gilded head, pasted on the first contreplat elegant relioure [...]

750 €

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First edition, Signed book

Victor HUGO

La pitié suprême

Calmann Lévy, Paris 1879, 15x24cm, relié.

HUGO Victor
La Pitié suprême [The Supreme Compassion] Calmann Lévy, Paris 1879, 150 x 240 mm (5 15/16 x 9 7/16 ”), half shagreen
First edition.
Elegant half dark blue shagreen over marbled paper boards by René Aussourd, spine in [...]

20 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Charles-Augustin SAINTE-BEUVE

Causeries du lundi

Garnier frères, Paris 1857, 11,5x18,5cm, 15 volumes reliés.

Third edition, first in parts.
Contemporary half caramel-colored calf over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with gilt dots and double gilt compartments richly gilt with decorative motifs, dark red morocco title pieces and dark green volume labels, some headpieces slightly rubbed, [...]

1 500 €

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First edition

Alfred Edmund BREHM & Johannes DUMICHEN

Le Nil

A. Lévy, Paris 1882, 28x37cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

A rare copy with 24 illustrations of the Nile River with an Arabic inspired binding


First edition in French, printed on vergé paper.
Publisher's Arabesque yellow [...]

2 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Guy de MAUPASSANT

Mont-Oriol

Victor-Havard, Paris 1887, 11,5x18,5cm, relié.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Contemporary half cloth adorned with arabesques over marbled paper boards, spine with gilt fillets and olive-green shagreen title-piece (repair to edges), marbled pastedowns and endpapers, one lower corner rubbed.
Autograph inscription from Guy de Maupassant [...]

2 000 €

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