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1189 works

Maurice Genevoix
La Mort de près
Paris, Plon, (September 1) 1972.
A nominative deluxe copy
$480
Maurice Genevoix
Trente mille jours
Paris, Le Seuil, 1980.
His own copy of his final publication
$960
Maurice Genevoix
La Mort de près
Paris, Plon, September 1, 1972.
The companion to Ceux de 14: copy no. 1
$1,200
Louis Lefebvre
Histoire de ma guerre pour mon fils
Paris, Les Étincelles, Bibliothèque du Combattant, 1930.
Maurice Genevoix's copy
$60
Hubert-Fillay
La Lanterne des morts
Les éditions du « Jardin de la France », 1922.
From one regionalist writer to another
$96
Ducasse, Meyer, Perreux & Genevoix
Vie et Mort des français
Paris, Hachette, (November) 1959.
Maurice Genevoix's own copy
$120
[Association des écrivains combattants]
Anthologie des écrivains morts à la guerre
Amiens, Bibliothèque du Hérisson, Edgar Malfère, 1924-1926.
The reference anthology: Maurice Genevoix's copy
$1,800
Gaston Riou
Journal d’un simple soldat
Guerre-Captivité 1914-1915, Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, (January) 1916.
Just before Sous Verdun: a signed presentation copy
$360
Maurice Genevoix
Ceux de 14
Paris, G. Durassié & Cie, 1953.
First illustrated edition. Genevoix's own copy
$240
Maurice Genevoix
Ceux de 14
Paris, Flammarion, (August) 1965.
First edition in boards, author's copy
$360
Maurice Genevoix
Les Éparges
Jours de la Marne Paris, Flammarion, coll. « Hier et aujourd'hui », (August) 1932 and (March) 1933.
First illustrated editions
$180
Maurice Genevoix
Jeanne Robelin
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1920.
Genevoix's own copy: one of the first ten on Hollande
$1,800
Maurice Genevoix
La Boue
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1921.
Author's copy, with autograph corrections
$3,000
Maurice Genevoix
La Joie
Paris, Ferenczi, coll. « Le Livre moderne illustré », (June) 1926.
Genevoix's own copy, from the illustrator
$480
John Norton Cru
Témoins
Paris, “Les Étincelles,” August 31, 1929.
Genevoix's own copy, inscribed
$2,400
Maurice Genevoix
Au seuil des guitounes
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1918.
Genevoix's own copy, with censored passage restored
$4,800
Maurice Genevoix
Ceux de 14
Paris, Flammarion, (February) 1950.
Genevoix's annotated working copy
$960
Maurice Genevoix
La Joie
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, (January) 1924.
Copy no. 1, the author's own
$1,800
Maurice Genevoix
Ceux de 14
Paris, Flammarion, (February) 1950.
Genevoix's own numbered copy on alfa paper
$2,400
Paul Éluard
Lettre à Man Ray
[Summer 1949].
Paul Éluard summons Man Ray back
$2,400
René Crevel
La Mort difficile
Paris, Simon Kra, coll. « Européenne », (November 6) 1926.
Copy on Hollande paper: one of Crevel's major books
$720
Christian Oster
Dans le train
Paris, Minuit, (March 1) 2002.
Deluxe copy, signed presentation inscription
$120
Didier Van Cauwelaert
Le Principe de Pauline
Paris, Albin Michel, (April) 2014.
One of 25 deluxe copies
$180
Amélie Nothomb
Riquet à la houppe
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2016.
One of 35 deluxe copies. Charles Perrault revisited
$240
André Malraux
L’Homme précaire et la Littérature
Paris, Gallimard, (February 4) 1977.
Numbered copy on Arches vellum
$120
Oscar Wilde
De Profundis
London, Methuen & Co., [1908].
First complete edition
$900
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
L’Église
Paris, Denoël & Steele, (September 12) 1933.
Georges Bernanos, Céline's first supporter, inscribed copy
$4,200
Jean-Paul Sartre
Les Mains sales
Paris, Gallimard, (June 15) 1948.
Max Brun copy: deluxe issue on Hollande paper
$8,400
Edmond et Jules de Goncourt
Germinie Lacerteux
[Paris, Paul Boyer, 1903].
A unique album of original prints, signed by Réjane
Reserved
Paul Claudel
« Mes idées sur la manière générale… »
[Paris, October 1912].
Claudel's theatrical manifesto
$6,000

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