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Specializing in 19th- and 20th-century first literary editions in copies made singular by their provenance, binding, or other bibliophilic rarity, the bookshop also explores fields adjacent to literature.

1210 works

Romain Gary
Lady L
Paris, Gallimard, March 23, 1963.
Gary’s English novel, translated back into French.
$2,400
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Envoyé spécial” Press Card for L’Intransigeant
Paris, L’Intransigeant, 1933.
Saint-Exupéry, Special Correspondent
$6,000
Albert Camus
L’Étranger
Paris, Gallimard, April 21, 1942.
Camus: one of the first 400 copies
$36,000
René Char & Pablo Picasso
La Provence point Oméga
Paris, Imprimerie Union, 1966.
Char and Picasso against the nuclearization of Provence.
$1,440
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Le Chercheur d’or (The Prospector)
Paris, Gallimard, February 1, 1985.
Terra Aurea by Louise Bescond
$12,000
Keith Haring
Original Printing Matrix for the “Pop Shop”
[New York, 1986].
Inside Haring’s Pop Shop
$1,800
MAN RAY & Paul Éluard
Facile
Paris, GLM, (October 24) 1935.
Facile, in the flesh and in sheets
$3,600
Sonia Rykiel
Et je la voudrais nue…
Paris, Grasset, (October 3) 1979.
A magnificent provenance
$480
[SIMENON] Jean Jacquelin
L’Ours en peluche
S.l.n.d. [circa 1960].
Accompanied by the book edition of Le Temps d'Anaïs, for which the design of this dust jacket, originally conceived by Jacquelin for L'Ours en peluche, was ultimately used.This piece comes from the personal archives of the illustrator, Jean Jacquelin, with the estate stamp.
$1,560
Olivier Thiebaut
Polarités macrocosmiques
S.l., 1987.
One of only 8 copies
$360
Georges Simenon
La Disparition d’Odile
Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1974.
One of the first 100 copies on vellum
$180
Marie Ndiaye
Rosie Carpe
Paris, Editions de Minuit, (January 23) 2001.
$240
Jean d'Ormesson
C’était bien
Paris, Gallimard, (February 14) 2003.
Original publisher's wraparound band preserved.
$96
Armand Godoy
À José-Maria de Heredia
Paris, Lemerre, (November 12) 1925.
Tribute to Heredia, inscribed
$240
John Steinbeck
La Grande Vallée
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du Monde entier », (February 9) 1946.
Deluxe copy
$240
Maurice Genevoix
Gai-l’amour
Paris, Flammarion, (October) 1932.
Genevoix's own copy, one of 5 on Japan paper
$600
Maurice Genevoix
Fatou Cissé
Paris, 160 Fbg Saint-Honoré, 1924-1932.
The "other" great literary review of the interwar period, Commerce ran for twenty-nine issues over eight years under the guidance of Valéry, Fargue and Larbaud, assisted by Saint-John Perse, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Bernard Groethuysen.In 1924, the same year that saw the first issue of La Révolution surréaliste, Commerce moved eclectically and without fanfare among the…
$300
Chris Ware
Rusty Brown
New York, Pantheon Books, 2019.
True first printing, signed
$600
Maurice Blanchot
Le Très-Haut
Paris, Gallimard, (12 mai) 1948.
One of 13 deluxe copies
$1,200
Paul Eluard & Marc Chagall
Le dur désir de durer
Paris, Editions Bordas, (January 19) 1950.
With the loose color plate and its printed glassine
$360
Paul Claudel
Le Père humilié
Paris, Éditions de la NRF, (April 12) 1920.
Réimposé copy
$240
André Malraux
La Métamorphose des dieux
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « La Galerie de la Pléiade », (October 15) 1957.
Bonet boards, with inscription
$240
Victor Segalen
Gauguin dans son dernier décor
Paris, Fata Morgana, coll. « Explorations », (February 13) 1974.
One of 30 deluxe copies on vélin mahori
$480
Mathieu Kassovitz & Gilles Favier
Jusqu’ici tout va bien
Paris, Maison CF, (May) 2020.
“The problem isn't the fall, it's the landing”
$180
D. H. Lawrence
Défense de Lady Chatterley
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du monde entier », (July 10) 1932.
Benoist-Méchin's own heavily corrected copy
$960
Maurice Maindron
Saint-Cendre
Paris, Éditions de la Revue blanche, 1898.
Fine Hollande-paper copy
$240
Juan Carlos de Borbon
Por Espana, con los espanoles
Madrid, Doncel, 1973.
Juan Carlos to Maurice Druon
$1,440
Pierre Loti
Le Livre de la Pitié et de la Mort
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1891.
Maurice de Lacoste's copy
$600
Jules Romains
Mort de quelqu’un
Paris, Eugène Figuière, (May 12) 1911.
Deluxe copy on Hollande paper
$840
André Gide
Numquid et tu…
Paris, Éditions de la Pléiade, 1926.
One of the first 50 copies on Japan paper
$360

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