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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

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Night Flight
New York, Raynal & Hitchcock, [1942].
Saint-Exupéry in New York : inscribed copy
$4,200
[FORE-EDGE PAINTING]
Heath’s Book of Beauty
Londres, The Countess of Blessington, 1843.
Fore-edge painting
$720
Jacques de Loustal
L’Ostrogoth
[Paris, 2022].
Original plate
$2,400
Léopold Fargue
Tancrède
Paris, Gallimard, (October 30) 1943.
Design by Paul Bonet
$36
Philippe Francq & Jean Van Hamme
Largo Winch : Dutch connection
[Saive] Khani Éditions, 1995.
Deluxe issue with signed original lithograph
$180
Amélie Nothomb
La Nostalgie heureuse
Paris, Albin Michel, (July) 2013.
One of 35 deluxe copies
$240
André Malraux
La Tête d’obsidienne
Paris, Gallimard, (February 11) 1974.
Numbered copy
$120
Thierry Maulnier
Lecture de Phèdre
Paris, Gallimard, (March 30) 1943.
Bonet-designed boards
$36
Amélie Nothomb
Frappe-toi le coeur
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2017.
$300
André Malraux
Hôtes de passage
Paris, Gallimard, (October 10) 1975.
Numbered copy
$120
Henry de Montherlant
Mors et Vita = service inutile
Paris, Gallimard, (May 19) 1954.
A fine inscription to Maurice Genevoix
$240
Paul Éluard
Donner à voir
Paris, Gallimard, (June 3) 1939.
Éluard to René Char, inscribed
$4,800
Jean d'Ormesson
Les Illusions de la mer
Paris, René Julliard, 1968.
Maurice Genevoix's copy, inscribed
$720
Hervé Bazin
L’Huile sur le feu
Paris, Grasset, (March 10) 1954.
From one Loire to another: the Maurice Genevoix copy
$600
Maurice Genevoix
Raboliot
Paris, Grasset, (September 25) 1925.
One of 13 on Japanese paper, in a decorated binding
$7,200
Robert Aron
Charles de Gaulle
Paris, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1964.
Maurice Genevoix's copy, inscribed
$180
Man Ray
Portrait photographique de Paul Éluard
[Paris, 1927].
Éluard by Man Ray, 1927
$3,000
Albert Camus
La Dévotion à la Croix. Les Esprits
Paris, Gallimard, (June and July) 1953.
The two A copies, given and inscribed to René Char
$24,000
Philippe Le Guillou
Brest, de brume et de feu
Paris, Gallimard, (January 22) 2024.
Deluxe copy
$300
Milan Kundera
Le Rideau
Paris, Gallimard, (March 22) 2005.
Deluxe issue
$360
André Breton & Man Ray
La photographie n’est pas l’art
Paris, GLM, May 13, 1937.
Breton & Man Ray redefine photography
$1,200
Paul Éluard & René Char
Deux poèmes
Paris, Jean Hughes, (August 3) 1960.
Deluxe copy on Japan paper, inscribed
$1,440
Romain Gary
Éducation européenne
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (June) 1945.
Gary's first book, deluxe copy
$2,400
F.A. de Chateaubriand
Les Martyrs, ou le triomphe de la religion chrétienne…
Paris, Le Normant, 1809.
A fine copy in contemporary binding
$240
Marcel Pagnol
Lettre à son père
[1945].
Pagnol's support for Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
$1,200
[SAGAN] Cabu
Portrait de Françoise Sagan
N.p.n.d. [circa 1977].
Provenance: Régine Deforges collection.
$840
[ALBUMS PLÉIADE]
Collection complète
Paris, Gallimard, 1960-2024.
A complete set, mint and in slipcases
$6,000
Jean Cassou
Trente-trois sonnets composés au secret
Paris, Mercure de France, (May 10) 1962.
War sonnets: the François Mitterrand copy
$3,600
Philippe Labro
Le Petit Garçon
Paris, Gallimard, (July 10) 1990.
Deluxe copy, inscribed
$216
Jean-Edern Hallier
L’Évangile du fou
Paris, Albin Michel, (July) 1986.
Deluxe copy with presentation inscription
$120

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