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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.

1210 works

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
François Mitterrand
Lettre à Catherine Langeais
[Fort d'Ivry], November 4, 1938.
An early love letter from Mitterrand to his young fiancée
$1,200
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
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
François Mitterrand
Lettre à Catherine Langeais
Dated Jarnac, August 2, 1938.
An early love letter to his young fiancée
$1,080
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
[FLOCON] [LACAN]
Albert Flocon : entrelacs ou les divagations d’un buriniste
Paris, Lucien Scheler, (May 24) 1975.
His masterwork on burin engraving, with a series of captivating compositions.
$1,800
Francis Ponge
La Crevette dans tous ses états
Paris, Vrille, (July 1) 1948.
Ponge's poem belongs to the line of Le Parti pris des choses, published in 1942: the poet sought to set this poem apart from traditional poetry by writing a prose poem devoted to an uncommon subject — the shrimp — treated with a quasi-scientific descriptive method. This is the very ambition of the “parti pris…
$600
[GLATIGNY] Jules Claretie
Albert Glatigny. Sa bibliographie
Paris, J. Baur, 1875.
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…
$480
Paul Claudel
Deux Poëmes d’été
Paris, Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, (May 10) 1914.
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…
$480
Stéphane Mallarmé
Le Tombeau de Théophile Gautier
Paris, Lemerre, 1873.
China-paper copy with Mallarmé's “Toast funèbre”
$2,400
[MICHON]
Cahiers de l’Herne
Paris, L'Herne, 2017.
“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…
$480
[BILAL]
Visioni di fine millennio
Milan, Hazard Edizioni, (December) 1998.
$600
Albert Dubout
Les Plaideurs de Racine
Paris, À l'emblème du secrétaire, (December) 1945.
One of 25 deluxe copies, with an original watercolor
$1,800
Michel Houellebecq
Soumission
Paris, Flammarion, (December) 2014.
Houellebecq's Soumission, bound by Renaud Vernier
$14,400
Honoré de Balzac
Le Livre mystique
Paris, Werdet, (December 1) 1835.
Fine condition in a contemporary binding
$4,200
Benjamin Rabier
Le Grillon
S.l.n.d. [circa 1936].
Signed original plate
$2,400
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Élégies majeures
Paris, Seuil, (June) 1979.
From one academician to another: Senghor to Druon
$720
René Char
« Nous tombons »
Lisle-sur-Sorgue, Les Busclats, 9 décembre 1965
Manuscrit autographe pour Anne Reinbold
$2,000

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