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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.

1189 works

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
$3,600
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
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
La Volonté du Roi Krogold
Paris, Gallimard, 2023.
Deluxe issue of the author's last unpublished work, after Londres
$600
Antoine Blondin
Sur le Tour de France
S.l., [1976-1977] and Paris, Mazarine, (April 26) 1979.
Autograph manuscript
$24,000
Joseph Kessel
La Coupe fêlée
Paris, Éditions Lemarget, coll. « Les Deux Masques », (July 5) 1929.
One of the first 30 copies on Japan paper
$960
Alain-Fournier
Le Grand Meaulnes
Paris, Émile-Paul frères, (September) 1913.
Huser's ivory morocco binding, with autograph letter
$10,800
Jean-Paul Sartre
Les Mots
Paris, Gallimard, 1963.
Sartre, Bonet and the Nobel
$54,000
Paul Morand
Lettres à Clarisse
Saint-Loup (Loire et Cher), Les amis d'Olivier, (April 12) 2022.
One of only 62 copies
$600
Walt Whitman & Jean Lurcat
Six poèmes de Walt Whitman
Paris, Éditions du relieur A. J. Gonon, (October 30) 1919.
Réimposé on Japan paper, one of 14 copies
$1,200
Jean d'Ormesson
Guide des égarés
Paris, Gallimard - Héloïse d'Ormesson, (September 10) 2016.
Deluxe-paper copy
$180
Franz Kafka
Préparatifs de noce à la campagne
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du monde entier », (January 2) 1957.
One of 106 copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre
$480
Heraclite
Fragments
Paris, Editions Cahiers d'Art, (May) 1948.
Signed inscription to Georges Bataille
$1,440
Jorge Semprun
L’Écriture ou la Vie
Paris, Gallimard, (September 20) 1994.
One of 30 deluxe copies, as issued
$5,400
François Sureau
Un an dans la forêt
Paris, Gallimard, (October) 2022.
Deluxe-paper copy
$180
Kenzo Takada
2 croquis
[N.p.n.d., circa 1990].
$1,800
Kenzo Takada
60 croquis de mode
S.l.n.d. [1990-2000].
60 fashion sketches in ink, felt pen and watercolor
$18,000
Hervé Lewis & Michel Perez
Collection de lingerie Aubade 1999-2009
Aubade's “leçons de séduction” campaign
$8,400

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