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1189 works

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
Alfred Jarry & Pierre Bonnard
Almanach illustré du Père Ubu (XXe siècle)
[Paris, A. Vollard, January 1, 1901].
Ubu roi illustrated, on Japan paper
$7,200
Max Jacob
Ne coupez pas mademoiselle
Paris, Editions Galerie Simon, 1921.
First book illustrated by Juan Gris
$10,800
Alain Tudal, Pierre Reverdy & Anne de Staël
Souspente
Paris, Éditions Robert-J. Godet, 1945.
One of Braque's finest lithographs, for a 14-year-old poet
$8,160
Paul Éluard
Poésie et vérité 1942
Paris, Les Nourritures terrestres, (October 1) 1947.
$840
L’Éternelle Revue
[Paris], nos. 1 and 2, June and July 1944; Paris, Éditions de la Jeune Parque, new series, nos. 1 to 6, December 1944 – April 1945.
Printed on the model of the reviews and leaflets dropped by the Royal Air Force over occupied France, in the same format as the pamphlet Poésie et Vérité 1942 and the Revue du monde libre, the first two clandestine issues, sixteen pages each, gather poems and texts, most published under pseudonyms, by Gabriel Audisio (Chems-El-Kraha),…
$960
René Char
Seuls demeurent
Paris, Gallimard, (February 24) 1945.
To the Gomès couple
$1,800
Joseph Delteil & Philippe Aïni
Les Anges
Toulouse, Éditions Les Pégadès, 2022.
Unique edition of 15 copies: an unpublished Delteil tale
$1,440
Albert Camus
L’Intelligence et l’échafaud
Bruxelles, Dynamo, coll. « Brimborions », January 14, 1960.
One of 11 deluxe copies
$1,920
Louis‑Ferdinand Céline
Guerre
Paris, Gallimard, (April) 2022.
Deluxe issue of the author's first "recovered" unpublished text
$1,800
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Londres
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 2022.
Deluxe issue of Céline's second unpublished novel, after Guerre
$960
Elie Wiesel
Les Portes de la forêt
Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1962.
One of 10 deluxe copies, inscribed
Reserved
René Daumal
La Guerre sainte
Alger, Éditions de la revue Fontaine, (December 10) 1940.
The fourth title in the “Analecta” series and the last book Daumal published in his lifetime: here the author speaks of an inner war, judging the war waged by arms to be merely a means of preserving one's own petty comfort. Daumal's “holy war” is the war that man must wage against whatever within himself…
$3,000
Georges Bernanos
Réflexions sur le cas de conscience français
Alger, Fontaine, n.d.
Lecture given in Rio de Janeiro on 15 October 1943.
$240
[FOUCHET]
Max-Pol Fouchet
Lyon, Seghers, coll. « Poètes d'aujourd'hui » (no. 106), (June 25) 1964.
Poètes d'aujourd'hui is a series of monographs devoted to poets, mainly of the twentieth century, launched in May 1944 by Pierre Seghers. Each volume follows a diptych structure: a critical study of the poet, followed by a selection of texts, usually introduced by a fellow writer acting as the poet's “alter ego.” Louis Parrot wrote…
$480
Winston S. Churchill
Memorial Addresses and Tributes in the Congress of the United States
Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1965.
Copy addressed to Anthony Eden
$2,400

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