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1210 works

[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
Paul‑Jean Toulet
La Jeune Fille verte
Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, (May) 1919.
Toulet's last published novel. He lived to see the volume printed but not put on sale, since he died in Guéthary on 6 September 1919, before the book — whose spine bears the date 1920 — was issued for sale.A fine gathering of both versions, forming a most complete assemblage of the text.
$480
Jorge Semprun
La Deuxième Mort de Ramón Mercader
Paris, Gallimard, (April 28) 1969.
Prix Femina 1969: the deluxe issue
$360
Georges Hugnet
Cartes postales surréalistes
[Paris, Georges Hugnet, 1937]
Surrealism in 21 postcards
$4,200
[DUFY] Stéphane Mallarmé
Madrigaux
Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, (June 15) 1920.
Delicate, early and rare limp binding by Nobuko Kiyomiya
$3,360
[BALTAZAR] Fernando Arrabal
Biographie d’André Breton, poète
Nice, Matarasso, (December) 1983.
The entire print run was printed on Arches paper, in 100 copies.This copy is enriched with a photographic print by the author “in which André Breton does not appear (he is feeding a cow).”A very fine copy.
$4,200
Pierre Michon
Abbés
Lagrasse, Verdier, (September) 2002.
This text first appeared in the collection Les Passants inutiles (Nantes, 2001). With the publication of Abbés, Pierre Michon continues the autobiography of humankind he began in 1984 with Vies minuscules, here with a more specific focus on the sacred in literature. Michon acknowledged being driven by “a very wavering sense of the sacred, stammering,…
$960
Pierre Michon
Corps du roi
Paris, Verdier, (August) 2002.
Five narratives: four evoke Samuel Beckett, Gustave Flaubert, Ibn Manglî and William Faulkner, while the last is an autobiographically inspired piece built around Victor Hugo's Booz endormi. “The king, as we know, has two bodies: an eternal, dynastic body, enthroned and consecrated by the text, arbitrarily called Shakespeare, Joyce, Beckett, or Bruno, Dante, Vico, Joyce,…
$1,200
Colette
Lettre signée à Léopold Marchand
[Paris, September 4, 1922].
Letter to Léopold Marchand
$144
Sylvie Germain
Brèves de solitude
Paris, Albin Michel, (December) 2020.
One of the first lockdown novels
$144
George Sand
Lettre à Tony Faivre
Nohant, March 4 [1858].
Autograph letter from Nohant
$1,080
Antoine de Saint‑Exupéry
« Huit heures à vivre »
S.l.n.d. [circa 1940].
An unpublished film scenario: an Atlantic crossing... by sea!
$9,600
Marcel Pagnol
Fanny
Paris, Fasquelle, (May) 1932.
Second volume of the famous trilogy, on Japanese paper
$1,080
Dessins au pochoir
S.l.n.d. [1920s].
Four stencil gouache designs of athletes on black
$720
[VERLAINE] Frédéric-Auguste Cazals
Paul Verlaine
Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Association, [April] 1896.
One of seven copies on China paper
$1,680
Marcel Jouhandeau
Mademoiselle Zéline
Paris, La Connaissance, coll. « Bijoux typographiques », (October) 1924.
One of only 150 copies, this one inscribed
$1,440

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