ANONYME, Walter SPITZER

Aucassin et Nicolette. Chantefable du treizième siècle adaptée par Maurice Pons

Les impénitents, Paris 1960, 19,5x28,5cm, en feuilles sous chemise et étui.

145 numbered copies printed on Rives vellum and illustrated with a frontispiece Edouard Pignon and 9 original etchings by Walter Spitzer Edition, including 6 on a double minor page.Deux small rips on étui.Bel copy . --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we [...]

250 €

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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE

Oeuvres

Club de l'honnête homme, Paris 1981-1983, 18x26,5cm, 9 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur sous étuis.

Edition decorated with original illustrations by Raymond Moretti, a numbered copies on laid, with one draw 300 Rives vellum.
Bindings to the Editor bradel full faux morocco chocolate, smooth back, decorated with interlacing gold plates, guards and contreplats mustard paper, gilded cartonnage [...]

600 €

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Alain-René LESAGE

Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane

Paulin, Paris 1835, 17x25,5cm, relié.

First edition of 600 woodcut illustrations by John Gigoux by the best young artists of the moment like Lavoignat, Porret, Thompson.binding eggplant half calf, flat spine decorated with two cartouches embellished with romantic decorative golden friction on the jaw and headdresses, framing a gold [...]

350 €

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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 [...]

8 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Marcel PROUST

Sodome et Gomorrhe II

Nrf, Paris 1922, 14,5x19,5cm, 3 volumes brochés sous coffret.

First edition, an ordinary paper copy.
 
A fine autograph inscription from Marcel Proust to Henri Massis in the first volume :
“en témoignage de très vive sympathie Marcel Proust [testimony to a very fond [...]

10 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Raymond RADIGUET

Le diable au corps

Grasset, Paris 1923, 12x19cm, broché sous étui.

First edition, an advance (service de presse) copy
Rare autograph inscription from Raymond Radiguet to Prince Serge Wolkonsky
Two repairs to head and foot of spine, covers and spine marginally sunned, paper yellowed, tiny marginal lacks to first endpaper
This copy, which retains its [...]

3 500 €

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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

Edmond & Jules de GONCOURT

Journal des Goncourt - Mémoires de la vie littéraire

Charpentier & Cie, Paris 1887-1896, 12x19cm, 9 volumes reliés.

Edition on paper for each of the current volumes. Binders bradel the full percaline cherry, smooth back adorned with a golden central floral pattern, dates and double gilt in tails, marine parts as shagreen, preserved covers, binders then signed by Durvand. Precious autograph signed by Edmond de [...]

3 800 €

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