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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.

1189 works

Romain Gary
The Guilty Head
[Los Angeles, 1968-1969].
Complete autograph manuscript with 3,000 corrections
$16,800
Romain Gary
La Tête coupable (The Guilty Head)
New York & Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1969.
First edition of the English translation, by Romain Gary
$240
Marcel Pagnol
Portrait photographique
S.l.n.d. [circa 1938].
The only known Pagnol portrait inscribed to Fernandel
$3,600
[FRANCE] Maud Laussel & René Ledoux‑Lebrard
Pensées de Anatole France – Promenades d’Anatole France Le secret d’Anatole France
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (April) 1925.
An interesting group of documentation on Anatole France
$72
[FRANCE] Michel Corday
Dernières pages inédites d’Anatole France
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1925 & Paris, André Delpeuch, 1928.
First edition
$96
[FRANCE] Ernest Seilliere
Anatole France, critique de son temps La Jeunesse d’Anatole France
Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue critique, (April) 1934.
Interesting studies published ten years after the writer's death
$48
[FRANCE] Charles Maurras
Anatole France. Politique et poète
Paris, Plon, (July 15) 1924.
An interesting study published at the time of the jubilee. Copy on Hollande
$96
[FRANCE] Léon Carias
Les Carnets intimes d’Anatole France
Paris, Rieder, (November 30) 1946.
Anatole France, up close
$60
Anatole France
Jocaste et Le Chat maigre. Les Désirs de Jean Servien
Paris, Calmann Lévy, coll. « Bibliothèque contemporaine », 1879 & Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1882.
Anatole France's first prose titles, uniformly bound by Charles Lanoë
$360
Anatole France
Sur la pierre blanche
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (November) 1903.
First edition
$96
Anatole France
Balthasar – Thaïs – L’Étui de nacre
Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1889, 1891 and 1892.
Anatole France's first two story collections, bound by Visinand
$300
Anatole France
Pierre Nozière
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, (June 30) 1899.
First edition. Copy on Hollande paper
$360
Anatole France
La Rôtisserie de la Reine Pédauque
Paris, Calmann Lévy, (December) 1892.
Fine copy of France's most emblematic novel
$600
Médaille des Jeux olympiques 1924.
[Paris, 1924].
Exactly 100 years ago!Rare commemorative medal of the 1924 Summer Olympic Games
$360
Emile Zola
Lettre autographe
Médan, July 23, [18]82.
“I heartily approve of your having abandoned the title Pot-Bouille”
$1,200
J. M. G. Le Clézio & Edmond Baudoin
Le Procès-verbal
Paris, Gallimard, Futuropolis, (September) 1989.
Deluxe copy with an original drawing
$900
Hans Bellmer
Mode d’emploi
Paris, Georges Visat, (May 20) 1967.
First illustrated edition, signed engravings
$10,800
Drapeau olympique
Berlin, [summer] 1936.
Olympic flag signed by athletes, Berlin 1936
$3,000
[CACHAREL] Sarah Moon
Collection Printemps-Été 1978
[Paris, 1978].
Sarah Moon's original 1978 Cacharel campaign layout
$3,600
[YACHINE]
Le célèbre gardien de but en pleine parade
[Liverpool, July 25, 1966].
The Black Spider: signed photograph, Wembley, 1966
$1,800
Émile Reynaud
Praxinoscope
[Paris], [Ateliers Gustave Marion], circa 1889.
The optical toy of the 1877 Exposition Universelle
$3,000
[TENNIS] René Lacoste
Portrait signé en pied, signé
[Wimbledon, 1927].
Signed portrait of René Lacoste
$960
[CYCLISME] [Christopher Froome]
Maillot jaune
[Le Coq sportif, 2013].
Yellow jersey signed by its winner, Christopher Froome
$720
Yumiko Igarashi & Kyoko Mizuki
Candy
N.p.n.d. (circa 1975).
With the first manga issue of the Candy series
$600
Georges Bernanos
[Sous le soleil de Satan]
Lunéville, Thursday [1926].
Sous le soleil de Satan, or farewell to insurance
$960
Didier van Cauwelaert
L’Inconnue du 17 mars
Paris, Albin Michel, (August) 2020.
Deluxe-paper copy
$120
Amélie Nothomb
Les Aérostats
Paris, Albin Michel, (July) 2020.
Deluxe-paper copy
$480
René Char
Les Cloches sur le coeur
Paris, Le Rouge et le Noir, (February 20) 1928.
Armel Ferrand's copy, with autograph poems
$10,800
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Trois villes saintes
Paris, Gallimard, (April 22) 1980.
Chancah, Tixacacal and Chun Pom are three ancient cities, Aztec or Mayan, celebrated by the young Le Clézio during his stay in Mexico in the 1970s. Then in his thirties, Le Clézio had turned away from narratives of urban anxiety to explore other worlds, and Mexico in particular. The book revolves around the dead gods…
$960
Jean Cocteau
Plain-chant
Paris, Stock, 1923.
Cocteau to his sister Marthe
$600

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