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1210 works

Alfred Jarry & Pierre Bonnard
Almanach illustré du Père Ubu (XXe siècle)
[Paris, A. Vollard, January 1, 1901].
Ubu Roi illustrated on Japanese 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Unique edition of 15 copies: an unpublished Delteil tale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Deluxe issue of the author's first "recovered" unpublished text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Deluxe issue of Céline's second unpublished novel, after Guerre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
Yannis Ritsos & Zizi Makris
L’Arbre de la prison et les femmes
Athènes, Éditions Revue d'Art, 1963.
Ritsos's testimony from prison
$960
Amélie Nothomb
Le Livre des soeurs
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2022.
Deluxe-paper copy
$300
Guillaume Apollinaire
Le Poète assassiné
Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1916.
With an envelope to "S=Lieutenant Guillaume de Kostrowitsky"
$480
René Char
Seuls demeurent
Paris, Gallimard, (February 24) 1945.
Georges Bataille's copy, inscribed
$3,600
René Char & Nicolas de Staël
Arrière-histoire du poème pulvérisé
Paris, Jean Hugues, (April 25) 1953.
With Nicolas de Staël's color lithograph
$3,600
François-René de Chateaubriand
Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe
Paris, Eugène et Victor Penaud, 1849-1850.
Rare set in wrappers, with foreword and subscribers' list
$6,000
Pelé
« Pelé boit du café du Brésil »
[Algiers, 1965].
Signed portrait of Pelé
$960
Pierre Malo
La Féerie américaine
Paris, Les Œuvres françaises, 1936.
Copy no. 1: from Tangier to New York
$240
Louis Aragon
Traité du style
Paris, Gallimard, (April 28) 1928.
Deluxe copy on green paper
$1,800
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
S.l.n.d. [privately printed, 1988].
One of 13 copies, from the typescript
$1,200
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
Discours sur l’histoire universelle. Défense de la Tradition et des Saints Pères [Manuscrit]
Paris, Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1681.
First edition of the Discours sur l'histoire universelle, with a precious working manuscript
$9,600
Louis Aragon
Les Yeux d’Elsa
Bruxelles, Éditions Cosmopolis, (June 30) 1945.
Aragon's own copy, one of 14 deluxe copies on Hollande
$720
J.-K. Huysmans
Certains : G. Moreau, Degas, Chéret, Whistler, Rops
Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1889.
Signed presentation inscription
$1,080
André Gide
Les Caves du Vatican
Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française, (May 12) 1914.
First réimposé edition at the N.R.F.
$600
Guillaume Apollinaire
La Rome des Borgia
Paris, Bibliothèque des curieux, 1913.
First printing, signed inscription
$1,920

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