Books and Documents

Éluard's copy for Drieu la Rochelle

Rob-Vel, whose real name was Robert Pierre Velter, was a French comic artist, celebrated for having created the character Spirou: a mischievous, resourceful youngster, red-haired like a squirrel, a nod to the double meaning of the familiar Belgian word. After the ban on publication that struck the Journal de Spirou in 1943, Rob-Vel decided to…

One of 20 deluxe copies

From Alpine ice to Hoggar sand

One of the first 65 copies on Arches laid paper

One of 115 copies on Arches paper

The author's first book, deluxe copy

Copy on pur fil paper

One of the first 10 copies on Arches laid paper

First edition, Descamps-Scrive copy, bound by Marius Michel

Deluxe copy on Holland paper

Deluxe-paper issue of this story collection

Copy on Japanese paper, with 20 etchings by Foujita, bound by Thérèse Moncey

One of the first 20 réimposé copies on China paper, bound by Marius Michel

First edition, copy on red paper

Deluxe copy on Arches paper

Deluxe copy, inscribed to his publisher Armand Flammarion

Deluxe issue, signed by Bobin

Saint-Exupéry’s debut to Rosny

Deluxe-paper copy

Deluxe-paper copy

Volume XII of Dernier Royaume, deluxe copy

Deluxe-paper copy

One of the first 50 copies on Japanese paper

Complete set illustrating ten Olympic sports

Photograph signed by Françoise Gilot

First illustrated edition: Brother Claes's spectacular binding

Kundera and Philip Roth inscribed

Selby, who died in 2004, had lived since 1960 like a man under early sentence, in a long epilogue to tuberculosis. From then on he threw himself, feverish and frenzied, onto his typewriter, as though every subsequent piece of writing carried — at least in his own eyes — the weight of a last testament.…