Books and Documents

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.

1210 works

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly
Préface pour le Révélateur du globe de Léon Bloy
[Paris, 1884].
Unpublished first-draft manuscript fragment
$1,800
Michel Houellebecq
La Possibilité d’une île
Paris, Fayard, 2005.
One of the first 179 copies on Ingres d'Arches; binding by Renaud Vernier
$14,400
François Mitterrand
Ma part de vérité
Paris, Fayard, (June 12) 1969.
First edition, inscribed to Max-Pol Fouchet
$840
François Mitterrand
La Rose au poing
Paris, Flammarion, (January) 1973.
Signed presentation copy to Max-Pol Fouchet
$600
Marcel Aymé & Siné
Complaintes sans paroles de Siné avec d’horribles détails et une préface de Marcel Aymé.
Paris, J.-J. Pauvert, (November 15) 1956.
$720
Jean Jacques Sempé
Monsieur Lambert
Paris, Denoël, (April 10) 1965.
A fine copy in boards, inscribed
$600
Max Ernst & Lewis Carroll
Logique sans peine
Paris, Hermann, 1966.
Inscribed and drawn by Max Ernst
$600
Salvador Dali
Le Mythe tragique de l’Angélus de Millet
Paris, Pauvert, (October 15) 1963.
Dalí to Max-Pol Fouchet
$1,200
Milan Kundera
Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli
Paris, Gallimard, (April 5) 1979.
Max-Pol Fouchet's copy, inscribed
$960
Michel Tournier
Les Météores
Paris, Gallimard, (March 5) 1975.
Max-Pol Fouchet's copy, inscribed
$360
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
D’un château l’autre
Paris, Gallimard, (June 4) 1957.
Céline to Max-Pol Fouchet
$1,800
André Masson
« Éloge de Paul Klee »
S.l., May 1946.
Autograph manuscript
$1,800
[CHAR]
Photographie dédicacée
[1945].
A magnificent and precious provenance
$3,120
René Char
Céreste, 1944
Céreste, (October) 1944.
Tribute to the Resistance fighters and friends of Céreste
$2,400
[SURRÉALISME] André Breton
Tir de barrage
[Paris], May 28, 1960.
One of the last Surrealist tracts
$72
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
Elie Wiesel
La Ville de la chance
Paris, Seuil, (September) 1962.
One of 10 deluxe copies, inscribed to his publisher
$2,400
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

Showing 960 out of 1210 works.

Not all our books are listed online, but this selection reflects our choices.
Contact us to help find the book or copy you're looking for.