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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.

1210 works

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
Annie Ernaux
Correspondance inédite
Cergy, January 1998–March 2012.
28 letters: an unpublished correspondence with Annie Ernaux
$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

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