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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

[MONTALAND] Chalot
Portrait photographique
[Paris, c. 1890].
“One of the most beautiful women in Paris”
$60
Albert Glatigny
Le Singe
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, impr. J. Claye, 1872.
One of five deluxe copies on China paper
$300
[GIRAUDOUX] Pierre Humbourg
Jean Giraudoux
Marseille, Cahiers du Sud, coll. « Critique », (May 20) 1926.
An early monograph on Giraudoux
$36
Alfred Jarry
Ubu enchaîné
Paris, Fasquelle éditeurs, 1938.
Deluxe copy on Japanese paper
$180
[GLATIGNY]
Portrait en costume de scène
[circa 1864].
Inscribed to Geneviève Mallarmé, “my future wife”
$1,800
Albert Soubies
La Comédie-Française depuis l’époque romantique
Paris, Fischbacher, 1895.
The filmmaker George Cukor's own copy
$120
[GUITRY] [PRINTEMPS] Waléry
Mariette
[Paris, 1928].
Four original prints by Waléry
$180
Philippe Francq & Jean van Hamme
Largo Winch : La Forteresse de Makiling
Saive, Khani Éditions, 1997.
Deluxe issue with signed original lithograph
$180
Georges Simenon
Maigret s’amuse
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (March 11) 1957.
Maigret (barely) leads the investigation
$240
Sacha Guitry
Le Taureau, le veau, le maquereau…
Paris, Grande impr. de Montrouge, M. Delesville, [1910].
One of Sacha Guitry's earliest publications
$1,080
Kenzo
Madame Butterfly
[Tokyo, circa 2019].
Kenzo’s final creation
$12,000
J.M.G. Le Clézio
La Ronde
Paris, Gallimard, (March 26) 1982.
Deluxe copy on Hollande paper
$600
Constantin Tsatsos
La Grèce et l’Europe
Lausanne, Centre de recherches européennes, 1977.
The President of the Hellenic Republic to the Secrétaire perpétuel
$480
Saint-John Perse
Pluies
Buenos Aires, Éd. des lettres françaises, (April 25) 1944.
Saint-John Perse to Henri Hoppenot
$360
André Malraux
Le Temps du mépris
Paris, Gallimard, (December 15) 1944.
First edition in Bonet boards
$120
André Chamson
Le Crime des justes
Paris, Grasset, (November 5) 1928.
Réimposé copy on Rives paper
$480
André Malraux
Lazare
Paris, Gallimard, (October 2) 1974.
Malraux resurrected: copy on pur fil paper
$96
Georges Simenon
Maigret et la grande perche
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (October 5) 1955.
Deluxe issue
$180
Tristan Tzara
Phases
Paris, Seghers, coll. « P.S. » no. 13, (May 30) 1949.
Signed presentation copy to Max-Pol Fouchet
$240
Georges Simenon
Maigret et la jeune morte
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (June 11) 1954.
Copy on pur fil paper
$240
Philippe Francq & Jean van Hamme
Largo Winch : Golden gate
Saive, Khani Éditions, 2002.
This two-volume story, published between 2001 and 2002, marks an important stage in the series created by Jean Van Hamme and drawn by Philippe Francq. The plot, which takes Largo Winch from the Philippines to San Francisco, showcases the themes central to the saga: financial confrontations, betrayal and corruption, all set within a globalized world.…
$240
Max Jacob
Chronique des temps héroïques
[Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, circa 1936–1937].
Broder's copy: the complete autograph manuscript
$9,600
[GARY] Pierre Rouve
Turner
Paris, Éditions Siloé, (March) 1980.
Gary's first "double": signed inscription
$600
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Casse-pipe
Paris, Frédéric Chambriand, (December) 1949.
Binding by Montecot
$840
[GARY] William Buckley Jr.
Airborne
New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1976.
Romain Gary's copy, from a leading activist of the American right
$600
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Mani
Londres, John Murray, 1958.
Inscribed to Romain Gary
$600
Jean-Paul Sartre
Les Carnets de la drôle de guerre
Paris, Gallimard, (11 et 16 mars) 1983.
Sartre’s ethics tested by History
$6,000
Maurice Genevoix
La Boîte à pêche
Paris, Grasset, (October 18) 1926.
The author's own copy, on China paper
$3,600
Maurice Genevoix
Raboliot
S.l.n.d. [1967].
Raboliot in braille, for Genevoix
$480
Maurice Genevoix
Raboliot
Paris, Grasset, (July 2) 1953.
Genevoix's working copy of Raboliot
$960

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