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1189 works

Jean Ferry
Le Mécanicien
Paris, [Les Cinéastes bibliophiles], April 21, 1950.
Breton's own copy of Le Mécanicien
$360
[La Main à Plume]
Vous avez vu tourner les tables…
[Paris, La Main à Plume, 1943].
Subscription bulletin for an abandoned project
$108
[ÉLUARD] [PENROSE] [LEVIS‑MANO] [..]
Habitude de la poésie
Paris, GLM, 1937.
Rare complete collection
$600
René Char
Amitié cachetée
PAB, [November] 1951.
This is the first book published by PAB with a text by René Char, marking the beginning of a long friendship.The last would be published in 1984.This copy was exhibited in René Char. Supplément d'âme (Lourmarin, 2015, no. 52, reproduced).L'Herne, Bibliographie, p. 273, no. 168; PAB, Bibliographie, no. 43.
$1,800
Georges Simenon
La Mort d’Auguste
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (July 30) 1966.
Deluxe issue and signed inscription
$480
Louis‑Émile Durandelle
Gustave Eiffel devant la pile n° 4
[Paris, July 18, 1887].
The construction of the Eiffel Tower in the heart of Paris, for the Exposition universelle of 1889, established photography as the preeminent medium for the representation of metal architecture. From 28 January 1887 — when foundation work began — until the end of assembly on 31 March 1889, the construction site was the subject of…
$600
[SIMENON]
Portrait photographique
[Maison d'Épalinges, Suisse, circa 1964].
Simenon at Épalinges
$60
Roland Barthes
Erté
Parma, Franco Maria Ricci, (July) 1972.
Erté's illustrations, on blue paper
$144
Marguerite Audoux
De la ville au moulin
Paris, Charpentier & Fasquelle, 1926.
Deluxe copy, inscribed with a photographic portrait
$960
Pierre Michon
Rimbaud le fils
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « L'un et l'autre », (October 22) 1991.
First edition, inscribed
$600
Miguel de Cervantes
Le Don Quichotte
Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1822.
Thouvenin binding: the Pierre Brossette copy
$1,440
François-René de Chateaubriand
Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe
Paris, Eugène et Victor Penaud, 1849-1850.
Pierre Brossette copy, bound by Maylander
$14,400
Françoise Sagan
Avec mon meilleur souvenir
Paris, Gallimard, (March 7) 1984.
Sylvie Genevoix's copy, inscribed
$720
René Char
Le Marteau sans maître
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, (July 20) 1934.
Char's first book with Corti: Bertelé copy, inscribed
$600
André Malraux
Le Monde chrétien
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « La Galerie de la Pléiade », (November) 1954.
Malraux to Genevoix: the only two Panthéon writers
$360
Charles de Gaulle
Mémoires d’espoir
Paris, Plon, (August 30) 1970 and (February 6) 1971.
De Gaulle's last book: Genevoix's copy, inscribed
$6,000
Jean d'Ormesson
Histoire du juif errant
Paris, Gallimard, (December 10) 1990.
First edition, inscribed to Suzanne Genevoix
$180
Marguerite Yourcenar
Théâtre I
Paris, Gallimard, (May 12) 1971.
Maurice Genevoix's copy, inscribed
$960
Jean Jacquelin
L’Arc de Triomphe
[Paris, circa 1950].
Jacquelin's Arc de Triomphe, signed gouache
$600
René Fallet
Charleston
Paris, Denoël, (April 27) 1967.
Swinging London: one of 15 deluxe copies
$1,200
Pierre Michon
Les deux Beune
Paris, Verdier, (April) 2023.
The long-awaited sequel to La Grande Beune
$600
Pierre Michon
Le Roi du bois
Lagrasse, Verdier, (December) 1995.
The King steps out of the wood: signed deluxe issue
$1,200
[Louis Aragon] François La Colère
Le Musée Grévin
[Les Éditions de Minuit, October 1943].
A landmark of clandestine literature
$960
Jacques Lacan
De la Psychose paranoïaque
Paris, Le François, (October 1) 1932.
Lacan's doctoral thesis
$3,000
René Char
Le Marteau sans maître
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, (July 20) 1934.
Georges Bataille copy: earliest known exchange between the two
$3,600
Jacques Lacan
De la Psychose paranoïaque
Paris, Le François, (October 1) 1932.
The most literary and most oneiric provenance: René Char
$20,400
Georges Courteline
Victoires et conquêtes
Paris, Stock, 1902.
One of 10 deluxe copies, inscribed
$360
John F. Hasey
Yankee Fighter
Philadelphia & London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1942.
The only American honored during the war itself
$600
Henri-Pierre Roché
Jules et Jim
Paris, Gallimard, (March) 1953.
Binding by Louise Bescond
$9,600
Michel de Montaigne
Les Essais
Paris, chez Augustin Courbé, 1652.
“Understand and do not judge”: Georges Simenon's copy
$2,400

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