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1210 works

Pierre Valdagne
Mon fils, sa femme et mon amie
Paris, Ollendorff, [1904].
Copy on Hollande paper
$120
Jean Giono
Angelo
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Soleil », 1958.
Angelo for “le Fernand d'elle”
$840
Remy de Gourmont
Lettres à l’Amazone
Paris, Georges Crès, coll. « Les Maîtres du livre », (March 30) 1914.
Hors commerce copy on green paper
$180
Georges Bernanos
Monsieur Ouine
Rio de Janeiro, Atlantica Editora, (September) 1943.
One of 20 deluxe copies, inscribed
$1,800
Maxime Gorki
En gagnant mon pain
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (February) 1923.
From apprentice to writer: the deluxe issue
$480
Emile Zola
Madame Sourdis
Paris, Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1929.
Copy on Hollande paper
$240
Paul Leautaud
Chats
Paris, Éditions O. E. T., [1935].
Deluxe copy on Madagascar paper
$480
Pascal Quignard
Le Salon de Wurtemberg
Paris, Gallimard, (July 11) 1986.
Deluxe copy, inscribed
$840
Tristan Egolf
Lord of the Barnyard :
London, Picador, 1998.
Lord of the Barnyard, finally translated
$120
Jean Lorrain
Pelléastres
Paris, A. Méricant, 1910.
One of 6 copies on Japanese paper
$2,400
André Breton
Perspective cavalière
New York, December 10, 1959.
Lew Welch (portrayed by David Wain's character in Big Sur) and Albert Saijo published Trip Trap, a book of haikus, with Kerouac, written during the trip that took them from San Francisco to New York between September and December 1959. The final corrections were made on the spot, and this photograph captures that atmosphere: cigarettes,…
$300
René Char
Art bref
Paris, GLM, (February) 1950.
Broder's copy, inscribed
$360
Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife
London, Scholastic Press, 1997.
Dark Materials II, signed
$240
Jean Lorrain
Les Griseries
Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1887.
One of 10 deluxe copies on Hollande
$720
René Char
Lettera amorosa
Paris, Gallimard, (January 21) 1953.
To Georges Hugnet
$240
Simone de Beauvoir
La Force des choses
Paris, Gallimard, (October 15) 1963.
Copy on pur fil paper
$240
Simone de Beauvoir
La Force de l’âge
Paris, Gallimard, October 21, 1960.
Fine binding on pur fil paper
$360
Curzio Malaparte
Photographie dédicacée à Guy Tosi
[Paris, March 1948].
An important dedicated portrait
$4,800
Frans de Geetere
Spasmes
Ne se vend nulle part [Paris, published by the author, circa 1930].
Twelve free etchings
$360
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
Les OEuvres
Paris, de l'imprimerie de Robert Estienne, Toussaint du Bray, 1628.
First edition with Richelieu's letter
$840
[Jean-Alexandre HAVARD]
Les Nains célèbres
Paris, Gustave Havard, [1845].
Binding by Canape, with the fumés
$1,440
Pierre Chardin de Teilhard
Le Milieu divin
S.l.n.d. [Tientsin, 1927].
Rare princeps edition
$300
Léon Frapie
Les Braves gens
S.l.n.d.
Autograph manuscript signed
$120
Etienne Badin
Origine et progrès de la mission du Kentucky
Paris, Adrien le Clere, 1821.
By the first Catholic priest ordained in the United States
$360
Jean Richepin
« Ma trisaïeule »
S.l.n.d.
Unpublished manuscript
$180
Hervé Guibert
Le Protocole compassionnel
Paris, Gallimard, (February 7) 1991.
First edition, inscribed
$960
[Mao Tse-Toung]
[Mao zhu xi yu lu]
Zhong guo ren min jie fang jün zong zheng zhi bu bian zhu [Peking, General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army], 1966.
The Little Red Book in French
$240
André Maurois
Études anglaises
Paris, Grasset, (November 7) 1927.
Deluxe copy on Madagascar paper
$360
Marc Leclerc
La Passion de notre frère le poilu
Paris, Ferroud, (October 20) 1917.
On Japan paper, with suite and watercolor
$840
Joseph Conrad
Typhon
Paris, Gallimard, (June 25) 1918.
Conrad through Gide
$720

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