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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

Annie Ernaux
Correspondance inédite
Cergy, January 1998 – March 2012.
28 autograph letters or cards
$2,400
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Paul et Virginie
Paris, De l'Imprimerie P. Didot l'aîné, 1806.
The most luxurious edition, bound by Simier
$2,400
[Romain Gary] Émile Ajar
Pseudo
Paris, Mercure de France, (November 15) 1976.
First edition, first printing
$3,600
[Romain Gary] Émile Ajar
La Vie devant soi
Lausanne, La Guilde du livre, (February 20) 1976.
First book-club edition abroad
$72
Louis Aragon
Le Paysan de Paris
Paris, Gallimard, (January 11) 1945.
Joséphine Baker's copy, inscribed
$960
Annie Ernaux
La Vie extérieure
Paris, Gallimard, (February 28) 2000.
First edition, first printing. Signed presentation inscription
$480
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Vol de nuit
Paris, Gallimard, (May 30) 1931.
Night Flight: a family copy
$12,000
Georges Bernanos
Lettre à André Malraux
Clermont de l'Oise, 33 place de l'Hôtel de ville, [1928].
The historic first exchange with Malraux
$1,440
Georges Bernanos
Lettre [à André Malraux]
Clermont de l'Oise, 33 place de l'Hôtel de ville, [1928].
Bernanos's second letter to Malraux
$3,000
Milan Kundera
La Plaisanterie
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du monde entier », (September 27) 1968.
Kundera's first book, prefaced by Aragon
$4,800
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Vol de nuit
Paris, Gallimard, (May 30) 1931.
Signed to Goncourt juror Pol Neveux
$6,000
Joseph Conrad
Nostromo
Paris, Gallimard, (July 20) 1926.
Conrad's masterpiece, deluxe issue
$1,800
George R. R. Martin
A Game of Thrones
New York, Bantam Books, (August) 1996.
Advance Reading Copy, signed by Martin on the half-title
$3,600
Paul Claudel & Maurice Denis
Sainte Thérèse
Paris, Librairie de l'Art Catholique, (October 19) 1916.
A fine joint publication by Claudel and Denis. Claudel had just left Europe for South America to take up his post as minister plenipotentiary in Rio de Janeiro. This copy belonged to another prominent diplomat, Henri Hoppenot, who joined Claudel in Rio in April 1917 as embassy secretary.
$600
Saint-John Perse
Exil
Buenos Aires, Éditions des lettres françaises, (August 25) 1942.
Rare unannounced deluxe copy: the Hoppenot copy
$1,800
Saint‑John Perse
Vents
Paris, Gallimard, (October 1) 1946.
Hoppenot's copy of Vents
$600
Sempé
Par avion
Paris, Denoël, (June) 1989.
A large original drawing signed by Sempé
$960
Christian Bobin
Le Murmure
Paris, Gallimard, (January) 2024.
Deluxe issue of Bobin's last book
$480
Félix Buhot
[Le Chevalier des Touches]
Paris, Lemerre, 1879.
Buhot's complete suite of five plates on China paper
$360
Colette
La Seconde
Paris, Ferenczi, (February 25) 1929.
Copy on Hollande paper
$360
Colette
Dialogues de bêtes
Paris, Mercure de France, (February 29) 1904.
On tinted laid paper, with autograph letter
$1,200
Jean Giono
Notes sur l’Affaire Dominici
Paris, Gallimard, (May) 1955.
One of the first 15 copies on Hollande, bound by Semet et Plumelle
$1,800
George R. R. Martin
Le Trône de fer.
Paris, Pygmalion, (May) 1998, (January) 1999 and (February) 2000.
Winter is coming: rare first printings
$720
Simone de Beauvoir
Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée…
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 1958, (October) 1960, (October) 1963 and (August) 1972.
Bindings by Pierre-Lucien Martin, on Hollande paper
$28,800
Graham Greene
Le Ministère de la Peur
Paris, Robert Laffont, (June 20) 1950.
One of Greene's great novels, adapted by Fritz Lang
$300
René Char
Artine
Paris, Editions Surréalistes, [25 novembre] 1930.
René Char to Raymond Roussel
$7,200
Kay Sage
Piove in giardino
Florence, Edizioni del Milione, (December 15) 1937.
19 illustrations by Kay Sage, deluxe copy with original watercolor
$7,200
Paul Éluard & Man Ray
Facile
Paris, GLM, (October 24) 1935.
Éluard, Man Ray and Nusch
$36,000
René Char
Dépendance de l’adieu
Paris, GLM, coll. « Repères », no. 14, (May) 1936.
Picasso frontispiece, inscribed, with a Man Ray print
$4,200
Georges Braque & PAB
Mariette dans l’atelier
Alès, PAB, (December 25) 1962.
First edition, René Char's own copy, inscribed
$3,600

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