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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

Milan Kundera
La Fête de l’insignifiance
Paris, Gallimard, (March) 2014.
$1,200
Jean Cassou
Trente-trois sonnets composés au secret
Paris, Mercure de France, (May 10) 1962.
War sonnets: the François Mitterrand copy
$3,600
Paul Verlaine & Hermine David
La Bonne Chanson
Paris, Creuzevault, (November 11) 1936.
The artist's own named copy with signed print and suite
$1,800
Milan Kundera
Une rencontre
Paris, Gallimard, (March 11) 2009.
Kundera's last essay on art and literature
$360
Laurent Mauvignier
Continuer
Paris, Éditions de Minuit, (April 18) 2016.
Deluxe issue, inscribed
$600
Georges Wolinski
Le Sens de l’humour
Paris, Albin Michel, (September) 2000.
To Régine Deforges and Wiaz, with a drawing
$480
Jean d'Ormesson
La Gloire de l’Empire
Paris, Gallimard, (September 14) 1971.
First printing, inscribed
$600
J.M.G. Le Clézio
La Fièvre
Paris, Gallimard, (February 18) 1965.
Deluxe copy on Holland paper
$480
Louis Pauwels
Monsieur Gurdjieff
Paris, Seuil, 1954.
Joseph Kessel's copy, inscribed
$240
Pierre Alechinsky
Idéotraces
Paris, Denoël, (May) 1966.
Signed to Max-Pol Fouchet
$240
José Corti
Rêves d’encre
Paris, Librairie José Corti, (September) 1945.
Éluard's poem manuscript and two original inks
$4,800
Paul Éluard
Au rendez-vous allemand
followed by “Poésie et liberté 42.” Paris, Éditions de Minuit, (April 7) 1945.
Liberté on blue paper, for Humphrey Jennings
$1,200
[ÉLUARD]
« Une seule pensée » in Fontaine
Alger, Fontaine no. 22, (June) 1942.
First appearance of the poem “Liberté”
$960
Saint-Simon
Mémoires complets…
Paris, A. Sautelet et Cie, 1829-1830.
First complete edition of a summit of political intelligence
$1,800
Marc Leclerc
La Passion de notre frère le poilu
Paris, Ferroud, (October 20) 1917.
A tribute to the poilus, on Japan paper
$600
[Maurice Larrouy] Y.
L’Odyssée d’un transport torpillé
Paris, Librairie Payot, 1917.
Femina 1917, early Pierre-Lucien Martin binding
$360
Maurice Genevoix
Sous Verdun
Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1916.
First printing, with a soldier's portrait drawing
$300
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle
Mesure de la France
Paris, Grasset, (November 10) 1922.
Genevoix's copy
$96
Francis Carco
Les Innocents
Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, 1916.
Presentation copy with autograph note
$180
[GUERRE 14-18]
Album de photographies
[circa 1914-1917].
From the Alsatian border to the Pas-de-Calais, via the Marne
$600
Jean Cocteau & Paul Iribe
Le Mot
Paris, aux bureaux de la revue, imp. Crété, 1914 et 1915.
Complete run: Poulenc's copy, inscribed
$3,000
René Benjamin
Gaspard
Paris, Arthème Fayard, 1915.
Signed special printing for “Les XX”
$1,200
Anthony Eden
Face aux dictateurs
Paris, Plon, (March) 1964.
Signed presentation copy to Jean Bonnel
$240
Jules Tellier
Reliques
[Evreux, Impr. Charles Hérissey, pour Raymond de La Tailhède], 1890.
One of 15 on China paper, with manuscript and original watercolor by Bourdelle
$960
Pascal Quignard
Princesse vieille reine
Paris, Éditions Galilée, (August) 2015.
With an autograph page
$480
Maurice Genevoix
Au seuil des guitounes
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1918.
The author's own copy, with autograph bookplate
$1,080
André Maurois
Les Silences du Colonel Bramble
Paris, Éditions de la Maison française, (November 10) 1949.
20 etchings: the Maurice Genevoix copy
$120
Maurice Genevoix
La Boue
Paris, E. Flammarion, (November) 1920.
The Henri Barbusse copy
$600
Maurice Genevoix
La Guerre de 1914-1918
par ceux qui l'ont faite. Paris, Plon, 1968.
Unpublished preface: his own copy
$96
Maurice Genevoix
H.O.E.
Paris, Les Étincelles, « Collection des témoignages de combattants français », (July) 1931.
The rear front, by Genevoix
$300

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