Books and Documents

Gary and Seberg's copy

Marcel Proust's copy, bound by Jean de Gonet

Radiguet, illustrated by Juan Gris for Kahnweiler

One of 10 deluxe copies

Pagnol's inscribed copy to his illustrator

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On 19 May 1949, Maurice Nadeau, together with Pascal Pia, published in Combat extracts from an unpublished Rimbaud text he had discovered at the bookshop of Adrienne Monnier; at the instigation of Pia and Maurice Saillet, the Mercure de France then published the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

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

Deluxe-paper copy of a cautionary text

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

Complete autograph manuscript with 3,000 corrections

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

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

First edition of the English translation, by Romain Gary

Chapter XXII of La Promesse de l'aube, from the Romain Gary archives

The only known Pagnol portrait inscribed to Fernandel

First edition

An interesting group of documentation on Anatole France

Interesting studies published ten years after the writer's death

An interesting study published at the time of the jubilee. Copy on Hollande

Anatole France, up close

First edition

Anatole France's first prose titles, uniformly bound by Charles Lanoë

Anatole France's first two story collections, bound by Visinand