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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

[SAGAN] Cabu
Portrait de Françoise Sagan
N.p.n.d. [circa 1977].
Provenance: Régine Deforges collection.
$840
Jean Cassou
Trente-trois sonnets composés au secret
Paris, Mercure de France, (May 10) 1962.
War sonnets: the François Mitterrand copy
$3,600
Jean-Edern Hallier
L’Évangile du fou
Paris, Albin Michel, (July) 1986.
Deluxe copy with presentation inscription
$120
Philippe Labro
Le Petit Garçon
Paris, Gallimard, (July 10) 1990.
Deluxe copy, inscribed
$216
Milan Kundera
La Fête de l’insignifiance
Paris, Gallimard, (March) 2014.
$1,200
Jean-Toussaint Merle
Description historique et pittoresque du Chateau de Chambord,
[Paris], Imprimerie de P. Didot l'aîné, [1821].
Chambord in every color
$14,400
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
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
Milan Kundera
Une rencontre
Paris, Gallimard, (March 11) 2009.
Kundera's last essay on art and literature
$360
Pierre Alechinsky
Idéotraces
Paris, Denoël, (May) 1966.
Signed to Max-Pol Fouchet
$240
Maurice Druon
Le Pouvoir
Paris, Hachette, 1964.
Working manuscripts, inscribed to his future wife
$600
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
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
José Corti
Rêves d’encre
Paris, Librairie José Corti, (September) 1945.
Éluard's poem manuscript and two original inks
$4,800
[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
René Benjamin
Gaspard
Paris, Arthème Fayard, 1915.
Signed special printing for “Les XX”
$1,200
[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
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
Anthony Eden
Face aux dictateurs
Paris, Plon, (March) 1964.
Signed presentation copy to Jean Bonnel
$240
Pascal Quignard
Princesse vieille reine
Paris, Éditions Galilée, (August) 2015.
With an autograph page
$480

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