First edition

Pierre LOTI

Lettres de Pierre Loti à madame Juliette Adam (1880-1922)

Plon, Paris 1924, 14,5x20,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 40 numbered copies on Chine, tirage de tête.
Light foxing to some extended edges, a good copy with good margins.

300 €

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Antoine de SAINT-EXUPERY

Lettres de jeunesse

Gallimard, Paris 1953, 12x19cm, relié.

First edition, one of 15 numbered copies on Japon, tirage de tête along with 10 Madagascar hors commerce.
Half black morocco, spine in six compartments, marbled paper boards, pastedowns and endpapers of papier uni, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding by Goy & Vilaine.
A [...]

2 000 €

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Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SEVIGNE

Lettres de madame de Sévigné à sa fille et à ses amis

Ménard & Desenne, Paris 1827, 8,5x14,5cm, 12 volumes reliés.

New illustrated edition, frontispiece of the first volume of a portrait of Madame de Sevigne engraved by Dequevauviller.
Binders half raspberry calf, back with four nerves set with gilded garlands adorned with jewels and typographical motifs stamped cold as exhibits and black calfskin volume [...]

680 €

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Prosper MERIMEE

Lettres à une inconnue

Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1874, 13,5x22cm, 2 volumes reliés.

first edition.
Binders half morocco tree with corners, back with five nerves set with black fillets decorated with double cold boxes, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, marbled, elegant bindings.
The text is preceded by a study of Mérimée by Hippolyte [...]

200 €

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Louise-Adélaïde de BOURBON-CONDE

Lettres écrites en 1786 et 1787, publiées par M. Ballanche

Imprimerie de Jules Didot l'aîné, Paris 1834, 10,5x17,5cm, relié.

first edition, published by Pierre-Simon Ballanche, the intimate correspondence of Louise Adelaide de Bourbon, called Mademoiselle de Conde, addressed to his friend the Marquis Louis-Nicolas Magon The Gervaisais. It contains 2 letters of 4 pages each, in facsimile.
Contemporary binding in full [...]

450 €

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Prosper MERIMEE

Lettres à M. Panizzi 1850-1870

Calmann Lévy, Paris 1881, 14x22,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

first edition.
Binders half shagreen straw, back with five nerves set with black fillets decorated with double black boxes to the centers where the golden initials of great bibliophile Roger Cormenin is repeated four times, parts of title and volume number morocco navy blue, light scratches [...]

200 €

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(Alphonse de LAMARTINE)

Lettres à Lamartine 1818-1865 publiées par Mme Valentine de Lamartine

Calmann Lévy, Paris 1893, 14x19,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on Japan, the only major paper.
A small lack top of the back, nice copy wide-margined.

200 €

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Paul CLAUDEL & Jacques RIVIERE

Cahiers Paul Claudel 12 : Correspondance Paul Claudel - Jacques Rivière

Gallimard, Paris 1984, 15x22cm, broché.

First edition of the French translation, one of 20 numbered copies on Hollande, tirage de tête.
A very good copy.

350 €

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