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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

Roger Peyrefitte
La Mort d’une mère
Paris, Flammarion, (April) 1950.
Deluxe copy, inscribed to his publisher Armand Flammarion
$480
[BOBIN]
Christian Bobin
Paris, Cahiers de L'Herne, (September) 2019.
Deluxe issue, signed by Bobin
$600
Paul Éluard
Liberté
in Choix, Les Écrits du mois à travers le monde, no. 1.
$120
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Carnets mexicains 1934-1964
Paris, Hazan, 1995.
Cartier-Bresson discovers Mexico
$360
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Courrier Sud
Paris, Gallimard, April 30, 1929.
Saint-Exupéry’s debut to Rosny
$6,000
Patrick Modiano
Encre sympathique
Paris, Gallimard, (September 5) 2019.
Deluxe-paper copy
$360
Patrick Modiano
Souvenirs dormants
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 2017.
Deluxe-paper copy
$300
Pascal Quignard
Les Heures heureuses
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2023.
Volume XII of Dernier Royaume, deluxe copy
$600
Amélie Nothomb
Psychopompe
Paris, Albin Michel, (August) 2023.
Deluxe-paper copy
$360
Thomas Mann
La Mort à Venise
Paris, Aux éditions du Sagittaire, 1925.
One of the first 50 copies on Japanese paper
$7,200
[J.O. de Paris]
10 cartes postales illustrées
Paris, Impression “La Litho Parisienne,” 27 rue Corbeau, n.d. [1924].
Complete set illustrating ten Olympic sports
$840
Robert Capa
Picasso et Françoise Gilot
Later black-and-white print on glossy paper (170 x 238 mm) and (178 x 270 mm with margins).
Photograph signed by Françoise Gilot
$720
H.G. Wells
La Guerre des mondes
Bruxelles, Vandamme et Co., (May 10) 1906.
First illustrated edition: Brother Claes's spectacular binding
$20,400
Milan Kundera & Philip Roth
Laughable Loves [Risibles amours]
New York, Alfred Knopf, 1974.
Kundera and Philip Roth inscribed
$1,440
Hubert Selby Jr.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
New York, Grove Press, 1964.
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.…
$240
Max Jacob
Le Laboratoire central
Paris, Au Sans Pareil, (April 1) 1921.
With a signed watercolor, in a binding by Micheline de Bellefroid
$2,400
Alberto Giacomo Martini
La Danza macabra europea
Trévise, Longo Domenico, [1914-1915].
A unique album of 42 original lithographs
$9,600
[ELUARD] Rogi Andre
Paul Éluard
[1934], for the shot, [1944], for the signature and probably the print.
The only known signed print
$4,800
André Malraux
Galanis
N.p.n.d. [1976].
Fifty years of friendship
$1,800
Paul Éluard
Les amis II
[Le Cannet], 19 janvier 1937.
Composé chez Char, pour Les Mains libres
$3,000
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Flight to Arras
New York, Reynal & Hitchcock, [February] 1942.
One of the first 500 signed copies
$3,000
[CHURCHILL] Florence Vivienne
Portrait photographique
[London: Vivienne, 20th Century Studios Ltd., 1950].
Churchill by Florence Vivienne, signed print
$4,200
Max Ernst
La Femme 100 têtes
Paris, Édition du Carrefour, (December 20) 1929.
146 collages by Max Ernst
$4,200
Annie Ernaux
Le Jeune Homme
Paris, Gallimard, (April) 2022.
Deluxe copy on vélin Rivoli, bound by Louise Bescond
$7,200
[Romain Gary] Émile Ajar
L’Angoisse du roi Salomon
Paris, Mercure de France, (January 3) 1979.
One of 45 deluxe copies on Arches laid paper
$4,800
[Romain Gary] Émile Ajar
Pseudo
Paris, Mercure de France, (November 15) 1976.
One of the first 65 copies on Arches laid paper
$3,000
André Malraux
Saint-Just
S.l. [Floch printing house, Mayenne], (December 22) 1954.
Rare offprint with signed inscription
$960
Edouard Manet & Camille Corot
Sonnets et eaux-fortes
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1869 (December 20, 1868).
The first painters' anthology in illustrated book history
$10,800
Charles Dickens
The Battle of Life: A Love Story
London, Bradbury and Evans, 1846.
Fourth of the five "Christmas Books"
$840
Paul Éluard
Poésie et Vérité 1942
Paris, Éditions de la Main à plume, (April 3) 1942.
Éluard's Resistance poem, from Noël Arnaud's archives
$1,200

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