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1189 works

J.-K. Huysmans
En route
Paris, Tresse & Stock, 1895.
Émile Zola's own copy
$12,000
Jean d'Ormesson
Un jour je m’en irai sans en avoir tout dit
Paris, Laffont, 2013.
Deluxe-paper copy
$180
[VERCORS]
Le Silence de la mer
Cinématographie française, [1947].
A legendary poster
$4,200
[SEMPRUN]
Portrait photographique
[Paris], November 2004.
A fine portrait of Jorge Semprún, made ten years after the September 1994 publication of L'Écriture ou la vie. The book had taken fifty years to be written: “It had become very clear that I had replaced writing, which was memory and the past, with political adventure, which was by definition nourished by hope and…
$360
Jorge Semprun, Vassilis Vassilikos & Costa-Gavras
Z
Ivry-la-Bataille et Paris, 1967.
Semprun's own screenplay for Z
$4,800
René Char & Pablo Picasso
Les Dentelles de Montmirail
Lisle-sur-Sorgue and Alès, PAB, summer 1960.
Montmirail for Picasso
$10,800
Pierre Michon
L’Origine du monde
Paris, Fata Morgana, (March 17) 1992.
Deluxe copy with the six signed etchings
$4,800
Pierre Michon
Rimbaud le fils
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « L'Un et l'Autre », (January 28) 1992.
From Rimbaud to Vince Taylor
$240
Romain Gary
Frère OcéanPour Sganarelle — La Danse de Gengis Cohn — La Tête coupable
Paris, Gallimard, (27 septembre) 1965, (11 mai) 1967 et (25 mars) 1968.
Gary against the novel without men
$10,800
Jack Kerouac
Les Souterrains
Paris, Gallimard, (July) 1964.
Kerouac’s own Subterraneans
$2,400
François Mitterrand
La Paille et le Grain. Chronique
Paris, Flammarion, La Rose au point (Impr. Hemmerlé, Petit et Cie), 1975.
“I have no intention of writing ‘memoirs,’ and I do not keep a diary of the events I experience or witness. But I often jot down notes, prompted by emotion or by the wish to record, in their date and context, an impression or a fact to which I attach importance for various reasons that…
$360
Marcel Proust
La Bible d’Amiens
S.l., [circa February 1903].
Corrected proofs
$18,000
Georges Bernanos
La Joie
Paris, Plon, (May 6) 1929.
Copy on Japanese paper
$1,080
Léo Ferre & Jean-Pierre Sudre
abc. Récital 1963
[Paris, ABC, December 1962].
Sudre's private photos of Léo Ferré's 1962 ABC recital
$4,800
Honoré de Balzac
Scene di vita privata
Livorno, Tip. Vignozzi, 1832.
Publisher's temporary boards, with the 6 plates in period coloring
$2,400
Raymond Queneau
Foutaises
N.p., n.pub., 1944.
One of 13 copies on Hollande paper: Michel Gallimard's copy
$600
Christian Bobin
Pierre,
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 2019.
$480
Georges Bernanos
Les Enfants humiliés
Paris, Gallimard, (March 19) 1949.
“In 1939 Bernanos wrote Les Enfants humiliés. It is a diary, and it is not a diary. It is the war seen from Brazil, France seen from the forest, God seen from childhood. In writing it, Bernanos loses his command of his craft, forgets his trade, and lets slip from his hands a patched-together book,…
$1,800
[Frédéric Dard] San‑Antonio
Après vous s’il en reste, Monsieur le Président
Paris, Fleuve Noir, (December) 1985.
Frédéric Dard to Renaud
$2,400
Georges Bernanos
[La Grande Peur des bien-pensants]
Vésenex, Toulon, Hyères, August 1930 – c. September 1934.
Precious group of 21 unpublished autograph letters
$10,800
Michel Houellebecq
Sérotonine
Paris, Flammarion, (December) 2018.
First edition, deluxe-paper copy
$3,000
Pierre Michon
La Grande Beune
Paris, Verdier, (December) 1995.
La Grande Beune has its origins in L'Origine du monde, published in three chapters across three issues of the Nouvelle Revue française, from May to July 1988. Two further chapters followed in 1993, from Théodore Balmoral: “a powerful promise of a project so vast and so full that it seemed to keep its author from…
$600
Jean Giono
Que ma joie demeure
Paris, Grasset, (April 15) 1935.
Deluxe copy on China paper, bound by Martin
$8,400
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Lettre autographe signée [à Daragnès]
S.l.n.d. [Klarskovgaard near Korsör, Denmark, January 7, 1949].
A fine letter to Daragnès
$2,400
André Gide
Numquid et tu ?…
Paris, s.é., (March 30) 1922.
A surprising text, published shortly after the scandalous Corydon: “Monsieur André Gide is introducing strange habits into the book trade. Does he publish, or does he not publish? He has invented clandestine publicity, if these words may be coupled without impropriety. And he varies from one book to the next. He published Les Faux-monnayeurs openly,…
$600
Albert Camus & Nicola Chiaromonte
Correspondance (1945 – 1959)
Paris, Gallimard, (May) 2019.
Deluxe-paper copy
$300
René Char
L’action de la justice est éteinte
Paris, Éditions surréalistes, (July 30) 1931.
Deluxe copies printed in green, inscribed to Pierre Unik
$4,800
Giovanni Antonio Volpi
Rime
Padoue, Giuseppe Comino, 1741.
$2,400
Vincenzo Monti
Un sollievo nella malinconia
Milan, Società tipografica de' classici italiani, 1822.
$3,600
Gioseffantonio Landriani
La Pratica del distillatore e confettiere Italiano
Ancône, Arcangelo Sartori, 1816.
$1,800

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