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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

André Malraux
La Tête d’Obsidienne
Paris, Gallimard, (February 15) 1974.
First edition, Genevoix's copy, inscribed
$1,800
Jean Chavigny
Robert-Houdin
Blois, Imprimerie Lhermitte, [1945].
The unobtainable biography of Robert-Houdin: the Genevoix copy
$600
Stendhal
Suora scolastica
Paris, André Coq, (September) 1921.
First edition of this unpublished Stendhal text, on Japanese paper with suite
$600
Malthus
Essai sur le principe de population
Paris & Genève, J. J. Paschoud, 1809.
One of the most influential works in the history of economic thought
$1,440
Charles Baudelaire
Les Six Pièces condamnées
Paris, La Centaine, (October 15) 1926.
A rare copy with its suite
$480
Christiane Rochefort
Les Stances à Sophie
Paris, Grasset, 1963.
Signed presentation copy to Bauër
$240
Pierre Corneille & Thomas Corneille
Le Théâtre
[Amsterdam], Suivant la Copie imprimée à Paris, [Abraham Wolfgang], 1664-1678.
The complete Corneille: the Amsterdam Wolfgang edition
$18,000
Fénelon
Les Aventures de Télémaque
Paris, Didot l'Ainé, An IV, 1796.
Télémaque in red morocco, with the 24 plates
$960
Henry Monnier
Galerie théâtrale
Paris, Gaugain & Ardit, [1830].
Complete suite of the 24 Galerie Théâtrale lithographs, in color
$1,800
Pascal Quignard
Trésor caché
Paris, Albin Michel, (December) 2024.
Deluxe-paper printing
$360
Carson McCullers
Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire
Paris, Stock, coll. « Le Cabinet cosmopolite », (May 30) 1947.
French translation, one of 100 hors-commerce copies, inscribed to Francis Ambrière
$3,000
Christophe Labarde
Les Grands Fauves
Paris, Plon, (March) 2021.
Deluxe edition with a signed original lithograph
$360
Henry‑Gauthier Villars
Mark Twain
Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1884.
The first biography and essay on Mark Twain
$240
Rabindranath Tagore
L’Offrande lyrique
Paris, Éditions de la NRF, (November 26) 1913.
Copy on vergé d'Arches paper
$300
Léo Malet
Nestor Burma contre C.Q.F.D.
Paris, S.E.P.E, coll. « Le Labyrinthe », 1945.
Nestor Burma, inscribed
$360
Jean Giono
Noé
Paris, La Table Ronde, coll. « Le Choix », (December 12) 1947.
Deluxe copy on vellum
$840
John Dos Passos
42e parallèle
Paris, Gallimard, (January 15) 1951.
Deluxe issue, in wrappers
$360
André Breton, René Char & Paul Éluard
Ralentir Travaux
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, (April 20) 1930.
A six-handed collaboration
$720
Saul Bellow
L’Homme de Buridan
Paris, Plon, coll. « Feux croisés », (February 22) 1954.
First edition of Michel Déon's only translation
$1,200
Guillaume Apollinaire
Le Poète assassiné
Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1916.
With an autograph note relating to the volume
$2,400
John Ruskin & Marcel Proust
Sésame et les Lys
Paris, Mercure de France, (May 12) 1906.
One of 12 deluxe copies on Hollande paper
$12,000
John Ruskin & Marcel Proust
La Bible d’Amiens
Paris, Mercure de France, (February 15) 1904.
Signed inscription on Proust's first Ruskin translation
$1,800
Christophe Labarde
Les Grands Fauves
Paris, Plon, (March) 2021.
Belmondo's own copy, deluxe issue
$720
Henri Troyat
Les Héritiers de l’avenir
Paris, Flammarion, 1968-1970.
Copy on Lana paper
$120
Georges Simenon
Pedigree
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (October 15) 1948.
Simenon's masterwork: Sven Nielsen's own copy
$4,800
Michel Houellebecq
Extension du domaine de la lutte
Paris, Maurice Nadeau, (August) 1994.
Houellebecq's first novel
$3,600
Champfleury
Le Violon de faïence
Paris, Conquet, 1885.
Octave Uzanne's copy
$600
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Pilote de guerre
New York, Éditions de la Maison française, [1942].
A deluxe presentation copy, inscribed
$30,000
[HERGÉ] Michel Aroutcheff
Fusée lunaire de Tintin
S.l.n.d.
A rare signed example
$5,400
Antoine de Saint‑Exupéry
Croquis de personnages
[c. 1925?].
Saint-Exupéry at his tailor's
$6,000

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