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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.

1189 works

Marcel Proust
Contre Sainte-Beuve
Paris, Gallimard, (July 12) 1954.
Deluxe copy on Japanese paper
$2,400
Romain Gary
Éducation européenne
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (June) 1945.
Gary's first book, in a formidable provenance
$7,200
Joseph Kessel
Le Triplace
Paris, Lesage, coll. « La Folie du Sage », (May 21) 1926.
Deluxe copy on Japanese paper
$960
Simone de Beauvoir & Gisèle Halimi
Djamila Boupacha
Paris, Gallimard, (January 23) 1962.
Deluxe copy of a pivotal text
$960
Georges Bernanos
La Grande Peur des bien-pensants
Paris, Grasset, coll. « Pour mon plaisir », (February 9) 1931.
One of six deluxe copies on nacré Japan paper
$14,400
Simone de Beauvoir
Une mort très douce
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 1964.
"Beauvoir's finest work," according to Sartre
$180
André Breton
Nadja
Paris, Gallimard, (May) 1963.
André Breton's own copy
$2,400
Albert Camus
Le Minotaure
Paris, Charlot, (May 1) 1950.
Camus's last title with Charlot
$480
Paul Éluard
Premiers poèmes, 1913-1921
Éluard’s youth, offered to Char.
$6,000
Henry de Montherlant
La Ville dont le prince est un enfant
Paris, Gallimard, (October) 1967.
A fine inscription to Genevoix
$300
Honoré de Balzac
Ferragus
Paris, Revue de Paris, (10, 17 et 31 avril) 1833.
With an autograph note signed by Balzac
$2,400
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec
Lettre autographe signée à sa mère
[c. early June 1896].
Toulouse-Lautrec, cycling and the “Chaînes Simpson”
$4,200
Hans Bellmer
Trois tableaux – Sept dessins – Un texte
Paris, Documents surréalistes, (December 10) 1944.
10 photographic plates by Hans Bellmer
$1,200
Guillaume Apollinaire
L’Hérésiarque et Cie
Paris, P.-V. Stock, 1910.
Apollinaire, almost a Prix Goncourt winner
$480
Francis Picabia
La Loi d’accomodation chez les borgnes
Paris, Éditions Th. Briant, (May 15) 1928.
Enriched with an autograph letter signed
$480
Charles Bukowski & Michaël Montfort
Shakespeare Never Did This
Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, May 1995.
Deluxe copy with signed photographic print
$360
Sigrid Undset
L’Âge heureux
Paris, Éditions du Sagittaire, coll. « La Revue Européenne », (June 23) 1926.
Rare deluxe copy on Japanese paper
$840
Albert Ier
La Carrière d’un naviguateur
Paris, Plon Nourrit et Cie, 1902.
A milestone in modern oceanographic exploration
$8,400
Alexandre Dumas
Les trois mousquetaires Vingt ans après (suite des Trois mousquetaires)
Bruxelles, Alph. Lebègue et Sacré fils, 1844 et 1845.
The Three Musketeers : very first printing
$18,000
Pierre Boulle
La Planète des singes
Paris, Julliard, (January 8) 1963.
True first edition
$480
Jacques Lacan
De la Psychose paranoïaque
Paris, Le François, (October 1) 1932.
Lacan's thesis, presented to his chef de clinique
$10,200
Pierre Boulez
Hommage | Témoignages
Rimini, Luigi Castiglioni Editore, (March 27) 2025.
22 tributes to Pierre Boulez
$4,800
Alexandre Dumas
Le Comte de Monte-Christo
Bruxelles, Alph. Lebègue et Sacré fils, 1845-[1846].
Revenge, according to Dumas
$10,800
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Londres, Mac Millan, 1936.
A landmark in the history of economic theory
$10,800
Jean-Charles Mardrus & François-Louis Schmied
Le Livre des rois
Lausanne, Gonin, (September 3) 1930.
31 compositions by François-Louis Schmied
$2,400
Edson Pele
Photographie en couleurs du joueur avec la Coupe Jules Rimet
[Mexico, 1970].
Pelé with the 1970 World Cup trophy
$960
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Mexico 70
London, FKS Publishers Ltd., 1970.
The first World Cup sticker album, with three Pelé photographs
$960
Pierre-Eugène Clairin
Paysages des États-Unis
[Paris, chez l'auteur, 1947].
13 American lithographs by Clairin
$240
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Images à la sauvette
Paris, Éditions Verve, (July 22) 1952.
Cartier-Bresson to Lucien Clergue
$14,400
William Klein
New York
Paris, Marval, 1996.
William Klein to Lucien Clergue
$3,600

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