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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

Enki Bilal & Pierre Christin
Partie de chasse
Paris, Dargaud, 1983.
With its signed and numbered lithograph
$1,200
Enki Bilal
« L’Amitié »
[c. 2004].
Large original drawing signed by Bilal and Linda Hardy
$1,440
Georges Simenon
Une confidence de Maigret
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (September) 1959.
Deluxe issue
$480
Georges Simenon
La Patience de Maigret
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (November 15) 1965.
Deluxe issue
$360
Georges Simenon
Les Scrupules de Maigret
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (June 25) 1958.
Deluxe printing
$360
Georges Simenon
Maigret et les témoins récalcitrants
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (March) 1959.
Deluxe issue
$360
Georges Simenon
Maigret et les Vieillards
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (November) 1960.
Deluxe issue
$360
Georges Simenon
Maigret et le Fantôme
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (July) 1964.
Deluxe printing
$360
Georges Simenon
M. Gallet décédé
Paris, A. Fayard, (April) 1933.
Deluxe issue
$480
René Fallet
Comment fais-tu l’amour Cerise ?
Paris, Denoël, (April 25) 1969.
One of the 20 deluxe copies
$720
Georges Simenon
Le Fils
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (3rd quarter) 1957.
Deluxe printing
$480
Coupe du monde 2018
Modena, Panini S.p.A., (2nd quarter) 2018.
Complete album for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, hosted by Russia and won by France, securing its second world title, twenty years after its first, won on home soil in 1998. Accompanied by a copy of the newspaper L'Équipe of July 13, 1998: “pour l'Éternité.”
$720
Coupe du monde 1998
Modena, Panini S.p.A., (2nd quarter) 1998.
Complete World Cup sticker album, won by France
$480
Xavier Josso
Projet d’affiche pour les Jeux Olympiques 1924
N.p.n.d. [Paris, circa 1924].
Large drawing, ink and gouache: “the shot-putter,” with cartouche “Paris – Jeux Olympiques – 1924”
$1,440
Georges Simenon
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (March 18) 1963.
In translations the novel is known as Les Cloches de Bicêtre, but in France the word cloche “has a double meaning, evoking tramps, fools and vagrants: in French editions the cloches are therefore replaced by anneaux, evoking the sound of those same bells spreading out in concentric circles” (Mémoires intimes, p. 472).With Les Anneaux de…
$480
Georges Simenon
La neige était sale
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (August 31) 1948.
Simenon's darkest novel, praised by Gide
$1,800
Georges Simenon
Le Testament Donadieu
Paris, Gallimard, [1937].
Simenon's near-miss for the Goncourt
$1,200
[ALBUM PANINI]
Mexico 86
Modena, Panini S.p.a., (2nd quarter) 1986.
Complete album with a signed photograph of Michel Platini
$1,200
[SPORT] [ALBUM PANINI]
Mexico 86
Modena, Panini S.p.A., (2nd quarter) 1986.
Signed Maradona photograph with a complete Panini album
$1,200
[ALBUM PANINI]
Collection des albums de football « Coupe du monde »
Jersey, TCB publications, and Modena, Panini S.p.A., 1970-2022.
Complete run of Panini World Cup sticker albums, with the 1970 FKS album
$7,200
[ALBUM PANINI]
Collection complète des albums de football « France, 1re division / Ligue 1 »
Modena, Panini, 1976–2024.
Complete run of French football albums
$8,400
[ALBUM PANINI]
Euro 2000
Modena, Panini SpA, 2000.
Complete Euro 2000 album
$1,200
Romain Gary
The Ski Bum
[New York], Harper & Row, December 15, [1964].
Complete proof set of The Ski Bum
$1,200
[ALBUM PANINI]
Collection complète des albums de football “Euro”
Modena, Panini, 1980-2020 [2021].
Complete set of eleven Euro albums
$4,200
[SENNA DA SILVA]
Cartes de visite
[England and Brazil, circa 1980 and 1986].
Two business cards of the young Ayrton Senna
$1,200
Romain Gary
Frère Océan [Trilogie]
Paris, Gallimard, (September 27) 1965, (May 11) 1967 and (March 25) 1968.
Deluxe issue on Hollande paper
$10,200
[Romain Gary] Émile Ajar
Pseudo
Paris, Mercure de France, (November 15) 1976.
Deluxe copy, bound by Patrice Goy
$4,800
[Romain Gary] Shatan Bogat
Les Têtes de Stéphanie
Paris, Gallimard, (July 3) 1974.
July reprint, admitting Gary's authorship
$120
Romain Gary
Charge d’âme
Paris, Gallimard, (December 23) 1977.
First edition, one of 25 copies on Arches paper
$1,440
Romain Gary
Hissing Tales [Gloire à nos illustres pionniers]
New York, Harper & Row, [February] 1964.
First American edition, translated by Richard Howard
$300

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