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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S.l.n.d. [circa 1940].An unpublished film scenario: an Atlantic crossing...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
[VERLAINE] Frédéric-Auguste Cazals
Paul Verlaine
Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Association, [April] 1896.One of seven copies on China paper$1,680
Dessins au pochoir
S.l.n.d. [1920s].Four stencil gouache designs of athletes on black$720
Marcel Jouhandeau
Mademoiselle Zéline
Paris, La Connaissance, coll. « Bijoux typographiques », (October) 1924.One of only 150 copies, this one inscribed$1,440
Marcel Jouhandeau
Histoire d’Eurydice
Las Palmas, s.é., s.d. [Saint-Maurice d'Ételan, Pierre Bettencourt, 1956].Pierre Bettencourt's copy, bound by Pierre-Lucien Martin$1,800
Trois hommes dans un salon
Rock & Folk, no. 25, février 1969.On 6 January 1979 in Paris, the three artists met for a uniquely memorable encounter: a famous photograph, taken by Jean-Pierre Leloir, immortalized the event, while François-René Cristiani conducted the interview with the three men, transcribed on pages 22 to 28 of the magazine: 28 questions and as many answers, individual and collective, touching on…$120
François Mitterrand
Lettre à Catherine Langeais
[Fort d'Ivry], November 4, 1938.An early love letter from Mitterrand to his young fiancée$1,200
François Mitterrand
Lettre à Catherine Langeais
Dated Jarnac, August 2, 1938.An early love letter to his young fiancée$1,080
Jean‑Claude Izzo
Total Keops – Chourmo – Solea
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « série noire », (January 26) 1995, (May 10) 1996 and (April 10) 1998.Izzo's Italian heritage remains remarkably alive across the Alps, where the author "has taken on mythical status. He is claimed as a leader by a generation of young giallo (crime novel) writers. And fans travel to Marseille following an Izzo itinerary: they visit the settings of the novels, retrace the characters' paths…" according to his…$720
Georges Bernanos
Lettre autographe à Frédéric Lefèvre sur [Sous le soleil de Satan]
S.l.n.d. [circa May 1926].Bernanos's preface-letter on Sous le soleil de Satan$9,600
Georges Wolinski
Demain, il fera jour
Paris, Albin Michel, (March) 2004.Born in Tunis in 1934 to a Franco-Italian mother and a Polish father, Georges Wolinski came to France at the age of thirteen. In 1960 he joined the team of Hara-Kiri, led by Cavanna and Professor Choron, before going on to draw for Le Journal du Dimanche, Paris Match, and eventually Charlie Hebdo. Though he…$720
Jean Echenoz
Les Éclairs
Paris, Éditions de Minuit, (August 16) 2021.Deluxe-paper copy$180
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Les Prophéties du Chilam Balam
Paris, Gallimard, (September 9) 1976.Deluxe copy on Holland paper$1,800
Guillaume Apollinaire
La Rome des Borgia
Paris, Bibliothèque des curieux, 1913.Deluxe copy on Japanese paper$2,160
Michel Houellebecq
Anéantir
Paris, Flammarion, (January) 2022.“This would be a catharsis if Anéantir reflected our times, but it clings to the news in its most ordinary, mediocre and ephemeral form. If only it gave us back something of the spirit of the age, but no. (…) What is it about? Chinese solar panels, an election campaign, boomer psychology, technology transfers, Breivik,…$3,000
Michel Houellebecq
Sérotonine
Paris, Flammarion, (December) 2018.Sérotonine is a treatise on decline, addressing the decay of the West, the European Union, France, and God. The hero — or anti-hero — Florent-Claude Labrouste, is a forty-six-year-old agricultural engineer employed by the Ministry of Agriculture, in a relationship with a twenty-six-year-old Japanese woman, who is dying “of sorrow” and owes his survival to…$720
Albert Glatigny
Les Vignes folles
Paris, Librairie nouvelle, 1860.Alfred Busquet appears in the Anthologie poétique published by Lemerre in 1887: “Appreciated by serious critics, enjoyed by scholars and connoisseurs, this fine work never reached the wider public, whose approval its author disdained, but it immediately established Alfred Busquet among the ranks of poets.” He “was a shy, dreamy but not idle poet; he…$600
Honoré de Balzac
Les Contes drolatiques
Paris, Garnier frères, [1873].Carteret (III, p. 52) estimates the print run at 25 copies: "This book is regarded as Gustave Doré's masterpiece of illustration. It is prized for its pleasing format and the quality of its varied and abundant illustrations [...]. The impressions are very fine, thanks to the quality of the China paper, which takes printing beautifully;…$960
Hergé
Lettre tapuscrite signée
Bruxelles, March 8, 1965.“Tintin has no surname; it is a hero's name”$2,400
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Harrouda. Illustrations de Baudoin
Paris, Gallimard, coll. "Futuropolis", (September) 1991.Ben Jelloun's novel illustrated, signed by the artist$120
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
« Ce vent, ce sable, ces étoiles, et ce soleil »
[circa 1937].An unpublished foretaste of Terre des hommes$10,800
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