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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

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
Hans Bellmer
Mode d’emploi
Paris, Georges Visat, (May 20) 1967.
First illustrated edition, signed engravings
$10,800
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
[CACHAREL] Sarah Moon
Collection Printemps-Été 1978
[Paris, 1978].
Sarah Moon's original 1978 Cacharel campaign layout
$3,600
Drapeau olympique
Berlin, [summer] 1936.
Olympic flag signed by athletes, Berlin 1936
$3,000
[YACHINE]
Le célèbre gardien de but en pleine parade
[Liverpool, July 25, 1966].
The Black Spider: signed photograph, Wembley, 1966
$1,800
[CYCLISME] [Christopher Froome]
Maillot jaune
[Le Coq sportif, 2013].
Yellow jersey signed by its winner, Christopher Froome
$720
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
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
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
Rimbaud le fils
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « L'Un et l'Autre », (January 28) 1992.
From Rimbaud to Vince Taylor
$240
Pierre Michon
L’Origine du monde
Paris, Fata Morgana, (March 17) 1992.
Deluxe copy with the six signed etchings
$4,800
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
François Mitterrand
Ma part de vérité
Paris, Fayard, (June 12) 1969.
Inscribed to the fire chief's wife
$300
Jack Kerouac
Les Souterrains
Paris, Gallimard, (July) 1964.
Kerouac’s own Subterraneans
$2,400

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