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His masterwork on burin engraving, with a series of captivating compositions.

Born in Lillebonne in 1839, educated at the collège de Bernay and briefly a gendarme, Albert Glatigny then became a compositor at Pont-Audemer in the workshop of Alfred Canel, a lawyer who owned the town's leading weekly newspaper. Canel quickly noticed the young man's literary gifts and encouraged him to write: a first work, Les…

The Cantate à trois voix had been published in 1912, under the title Cette heure qui est entre le printemps et l'été.Copies of the regular printing (2,200 copies on vergé) were printed six days later, on May 16, 1914; the publication of this fifth title from the young Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française made…

China-paper copy with Mallarmé's “Toast funèbre”

“The Cahiers de L'Herne set out to celebrate, in Pierre Michon, the absolute singularity of a voice and a style that never cease to surprise and delight an ever-growing readership since the appearance, in 1984, of his first book, Vies minuscules (...) This volume brings together, around Michon's work, texts and testimonies by major critics…

One of 25 deluxe copies, with an original watercolor

Houellebecq's Soumission, bound by Renaud Vernier

Fine condition in a contemporary binding

Signed original plate

From one academician to another: Senghor to Druon

Manuscrit autographe pour Anne Reinbold

Romain Gary and Jean Seberg's copy

Radiguet, illustrated by Juan Gris for Kahnweiler

Marcel Proust's copy, bound by Jean de Gonet

Pagnol's inscribed copy to his illustrator

One of the 10 deluxe copies

Les Plaideurs, first performed in 1668, contains several of Racine's most famous lines. Chief among them, of course, is “Qui veut voyager loin ménage sa monture,” but also “Si vous parlez toujours, il faut que je me taise,” “on ne court pas deux lièvres à la fois,” “on apprend à hurler avec les loups,” “je…

On 19 May 1949, Maurice Nadeau, together with Pascal Pia, published in Combat extracts from an unpublished Rimbaud text he had discovered at the bookshop of Adrienne Monnier; at the instigation of Pia and Maurice Saillet, the Mercure de France then published the full text.André Breton and Jean Paulhan immediately delivered an uncompromising verdict: it…

Michel Rousselot's copy, with autograph poem

Deluxe-paper copy

Deluxe-paper copy of a cautionary text

One of eight inscribed copies, the only one to a woman

Deluxe issue on gray vellum with Miró's signed lithograph

Giacometti's first collaboration with Char

A rare survival in its original slipcase, a condition seldom found.

A unique copy, for Charlotte Lysès

One of only 53 copies

Balzac to George Sand: one of only four known salmon-paper copies

Deluxe issue of the first French edition with Lamotte's illustrations