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1210 works

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Deluxe issue of the author's last unpublished work, after Londres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
Albert Camus
La Chute
Paris, Gallimard, November 1960.
Camus from Kerouac’s library
$1,800
[VIGNY] Louis Barthou
Lettres inédites d’Alfred de Vigny à Victor Hugo
Paris, Emile-Paul, (May 10) 1925.
The Hayoit copy
$840
Gilbert Lély
René Char
Paris, Variété, (November 14) 1947.
On René Char, for Char
$1,800
Édith Piaf
Télégramme à Yves Montand
Fribourg, April 18, 1946.
Piaf's last telegram to Montand
$1,080
George Vancouver
Voyage de découvertes, à l’Océan Pacifique du Nord…
Paris, Imprimerie de la République, an VIII [1799-1800].
17 engraved plates, 10 double maps and 6 plates
$9,000
René Char
Portrait de René Char
[December 1944].
$1,200
J.-K. Huysmans
La Cathédrale
Paris, Stock, (January 24) 1898.
One of 10 copies on China paper, bound by Marius Michel
$12,000
Man Ray
Portrait de René Crevel
[Paris, circa 1950].
Crevel signed by Man Ray, for René Char
$7,200
Pablo Picasso
René Char
[Mougins, Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie, September 15, 1965].
Picasso’s private portrait of René Char.
$10,800
Paul Éluard
« Blason des fleurs et des fruits » – « Blason des arbres »
La Nouvelle Revue française, no. 324, February 1, 1941, and Fontaine, no. 15, September 1941.
The two “Blasons” at Éluard's 1941 turning point
$480
Francis Ponge
L’Oeillet. La Guêpe. Le Mimosa
Lausanne, Mermod, coll. du Bouquet, (April 15) 1946.
Signed presentation inscription to René Char
$600
Gui Rosey
Drapeau nègre. Avec un dessin d’Yves Tanguy
Paris, Éditions surréalistes, (October 30) 1933.
Signed presentation inscription to René Char
$720
Hans Bellmer
À Sade
[Paris, Alain Mazo], 1961.
First printing, inscribed by Bellmer
$21,600
Stéphane Mallarmé & Auguste Renoir
Pages
Bruxelles, Edmond Deman, 1891.
Copy on Japanese paper, bound by Huser
Reserved
Marc Chagall
Les Sept Péchés capitaux
Paris, Simon Kra, 1926.
Hollande copy with the loose etching
$12,000

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