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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

André Breton
Deux lettres autographes signées adressées à Max-Pol Fouchet
[Paris, June 4, 1946] and undated.
The first meeting between the two men
$720
Colette
L’Entrave
Paris, Librairie des Lettres, 1913.
One of 10 deluxe réimposé copies
$2,400
Annie Ernaux
Le Jeune Homme
Paris, Gallimard, (April) 2022.
One of 70 deluxe copies
$480
Georges Bernanos
Lettre à Frédéric Lefèvre
Clermont [Oise], 33 Place de l'Hôtel de ville.
A fine letter to Frédéric Lefèvre
$360
Georges Bernanos
Lettre à Frédéric Lefèvre
[January 1927].
Autograph notice of his father's death, “rendu à Dieu”
$300
Léon Bloy
Le Révélateur du Globe
[Paris, c. 1879-84].
Bloy's working manuscript for his first book
$10,800
Léon Bloy
« De la béatification de Christophe Colomb »
[Paris, 1879].
Complete autograph manuscript
$6,000
Léon Bloy
« On demande des prêtres »
S.l. [c. 1890].
An unpublished document
$1,680
Georges Bernanos
Nous autres Français
Paris, Gallimard, (July 11) 1939.
Copy on Hollande paper, bound by Alix
$1,440
Paul Éluard
Premières vues anciennes
Paris, Tiré à part de Minotaure no. 10, 1937.
From the library of José Corti
$480
Albert Camus
Discours de Suède
Paris, Gallimard, (February 6) 1958.
Camus's Nobel speeches, bound by Alix
$3,600
Emile Zola
Le Rêve
Paris, Charpentier, 1888.
Enriched with 14 original drawings
$3,000
Victor Hugo
Les Châtiments
[Bruxelles, Samuel, late 1852 - early 1853].
The four Châtiments booklets
$2,400
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Hyères
[Hyères, 1932].
Print signed by Cartier-Bresson
$19,200
[KESSEL]
Portrait photographique
1 silver print (145 x 200 mm) on card (180 x 240 mm).
Rare, early portrait of Joseph Kessel
$3,000
[ÉLUARD] Henri Martinie
Portrait photographique
1 gelatin silver print (15 x 22 cm), under mat.
Original print by Henri Martinie
$2,400
Une page d’histoire
Paris, Lemerre, (May 25) 1886.
China-paper copy, signed, bound by Marius Michel
$6,000
Victor Hugo
Han d’Islande
Paris, Chez Persan, 1823.
Hugo's first novel: the Pourtalès copy
$9,600
Jack Kerouac
Docteur Sax
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du monde entier », (October 19) 1962.
Deluxe copy on pur fil paper
$1,200
Maurice Barrès
Le Jardin de Bérénice
Paris, pour les Cent Bibliophiles, (August 10) 1922.
A delicate binding by Nobuko Kiyomiya
$2,400
Romain Gary
Europa
Paris, Gallimard, (March 23) 1972.
One of 25 deluxe copies on vélin de Hollande
$2,400
Milan Kundera
Les Testaments trahis
Paris, Gallimard, (September 7) 1993.
Deluxe copy on Hollande paper
$1,200
René Char & Pablo Picasso
Les Transparents
Alès, PAB, (March) 1967.
Extra cartalégraphies, one inscribed by Picasso to Char
$14,400
Terres de grand feu
Paris, Maeght, Éd. Pierre à Feu, no. 139-140, June-July 1963.
A treasured copy of René Char, inscribed by Miró
$7,200
Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
Le Pacha – Rythme oublié
Caen, Le Blanc-Hardel, 1869.
A very fine copy in a delicate Canape binding
$1,200
Paul Morand
U.S.A. – 1927
Paris, coll. Plaisir de bibliophile, (January 30) 1928.
Pierre Legrain as illustrator
$420
Jack Kerouac
Le Vagabond solitaire
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du monde entier », (June 10) 1969.
Rare deluxe printing
$2,400
Claude Farrère
La Bataille
Paris, Fayard, coll. « Les inédits », (February 20) 1909.
Signed presentation copy, finely bound
$480
Franz Kafka
Un divertissement
Paris, GLM, (February 22) 1938.
This collection contains five texts by Kafka: Un divertissement, Mon voisin, Le silence des sirènes, Des coups à la porte du manoir and Le pont.
$240
Jorge Semprun
La Deuxième Mort de Ramón Mercader
Paris, Gallimard, (April 28) 1969.
Prix Femina 1969: the deluxe issue
$360

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