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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

Antoine de Saint‑Exupéry
Autoportrait
[c. 1930].
Large original drawing: a remarkable self-portrait in black, blue and red pencil
$30,000
Antoine de Saint‑Exupéry
Portrait-charge
[circa late 1930s].
A remarkable signed original color drawing
$18,000
Paul Éluard
Liberté
Paris, Minuit, (August 25) 2024.
Liberté reissued
$300
Romain Gary
Vie et mort d’Émile Ajar
Paris, Gallimard, (July 7) 1981.
Gary's last book, Ajar's last word
$600
Romain Gary
Gloire à nos illustres pionniers
Paris, Gallimard, (May 7) 1962.
Deluxe copy on Hollande paper
$3,600
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Autoportrait évoquant le Petit Prince
[Maison d'Épalinges, Suisse, circa 1964].
Simenon at Épalinges
$33,600
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Le Chercheur d’or
Paris, Gallimard, (February 1) 1985.
Deluxe copy on Holland paper
$4,200
Salvador Dali
Ex-libris d’André Breton
[c. 1931].
Breton's own bookplate by Dalí
$960
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Paul et Virginie
Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1789.
A presentation binding in red morocco, inscribed by the author
$8,400
Jacques Vaché
Lettres de guerre
Paris, Au Sans Pareil, coll. « Littérature », (August 10) 1919.
Pierre Bergé's copy, on Japanese paper
$4,800
Alexa Brunet
Les Amoureux du canal
[Somme, 2009].
Born in 1977, Alexa Brunet graduated from the Belfast Art College in 1998 and from the ENSP in Arles in 2001. She has spent several years producing symbolic photographic essays on technology, social housing and the excesses of industrial agriculture as part of the Transit collective.Between 2009 and 2010, she produced the reportage “En Somme,”…
$600
Victor Segalen
Stèles
Pei-King (des presses de Pei T'ang), 1912.
Georges Crès's own deluxe copy of Stèles
$16,800
Amélie Nothomb
L’Impossible Retour
Paris, Albin Michel, (August) 2024.
Deluxe issue: 35 copies
$360
Antoine Blondin
Journal d’un poète
Paris, La Table Ronde, (March) 1993.
Deluxe copy
$240
Georges Montorgueil
Les Trois Couleurs
Paris, Charavay & Martin, [1899].
Deluxe copy on China paper
$3,000
Jean Jacquelin
« Les Visiteurs du soir »
[1942].
Original design for Les Visiteurs du soir
$2,160
Jean Jacquelin
« Esso »
[circa 1950].
While Jean Jacquelin is well known as the designer of dust jackets for numerous Presses de la Cité editions, he was also, and above all, a celebrated poster artist. Artistic director of the Step agency from 1929, he created numerous film posters from 1940 onward while continuing his work as a commercial artist across many…
$300
[SIMENON] Jacques de Loustal
« L’Ostrogoth »
[Paris, 2022].
Original India-ink plate
$3,000
Herman Melville
Moby Dick
Paris, Gallimard, (November 4) 1941.
Bonet boards with dust jacket
$600
Georges Bernanos
« Primauté de la peur »
[1929].
A scathing review of All Quiet on the Western Front
$1,800
Guillaume Apollinaire
Contemporains pittoresques
Paris, Les Éditions de la Belle Page, (January 18) 1929.
One of the first 15 copies on Japanese paper — no. 1
$1,440
Paul Eluard
[Picasso]
S.l.n.d. [circa 1951].
Éluard's last text on Picasso: autograph manuscript
$7,200
La Belle Dame sans mercy
[Paris, J. Hubert, c. 1529].
The only known copy
$30,000
René Char
Chanson des étages
Alès, PAB, (October) 1955.
Char's poem for Maryse Lafont, with letters from Rose Adler
$480
André Breton
Les Pas perdus
Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française, 1924.
Breton's own copy, deluxe green paper
$6,000
Georges Simenon
Mon ami Maigret
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (June 10) 1949. Paris, Presses de la Cité, (August) 1956.
Both deluxe-paper first editions
$1,800
René Fallet
Les Pas perdus
Paris, Denoël, (May 14) 1954.
First edition, one of 15 copies
$2,400
René Fallet
La Soupe aux choux
Paris, Denoël, (January 10) 1980.
Deluxe copy, as published
$2,400
Michel Houellebecq
Anéantir
Paris, Flammarion, (January) 2022.
Mosaic binding by Jean Luc Honegger
$6,000
Joseph Kessel
Belle de jour
Paris, Gallimard, (January 26) 1929.
Deluxe réimposé copy, with a period print by Henri Martinie
$2,400

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