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1210 works

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
[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
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
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Precious group of 21 unpublished autograph letters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
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
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
René Char
L’action de la justice est éteinte
Paris, Éditions surréalistes, (July 30) 1931.
One of 5 deluxe copies printed in green, inscribed to Pierre Unik
$4,800
Albert Camus & Nicola Chiaromonte
Correspondance (1945 – 1959)
Paris, Gallimard, (May) 2019.
Deluxe-paper copy
$300
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
Jérôme Savonarole
Poesie di Ieronimo Savonarola
Florence, Tommaso Baracchi, 1847, in-8, 2 unnumbered leaves (title, dedication), xxviii and 50 pp., one unnumbered leaf of table of contents, one frontispiece portrait, all printed on jonquil-yellow paper.
Printed on yellow paper.
$3,000
Gioseffantonio Landriani
La Pratica del distillatore e confettiere Italiano
Ancône, Arcangelo Sartori, 1816.
$1,800
Tommaso Grapputo
Viaggio al Tempio di Possagno, novelle
Venise, Giovambatista Merlo, 1834.
$2,160
Luigi Uberto Giordani
Vita dei santi coniugi Zoe ed Espera, e figli loro Ciriaco e Teodulo
Parme, Giuseppe Paganino, 1821.
No copy recorded in the CCF. One copy recorded in Worldcat (Mexico).
$3,600
François Guichardin
Legazione si Spagna di Francesco Guicciardini
Pise, Niccolo Capurro, 1825.
Printed on yellow paper.
$2,400
Marcello Cerioli
Ghismonda da Salerno, Tragedia
Milan, Società tipografica de' classici Italiani, 1841.
$3,000
Bartolomeo Gamba
Novelle inedite
Venise, Giuseppe Orlandelli, 1822.
$4,800
Giovanni Battista Falconi
Trattato di sana politica sociale, ossiano Le Regole di ben vivere.
Florence, Giuseppe Molini, 1825.
$3,000
Christian Bobin
La Nuit du coeur
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 2018.
Deluxe-paper copy
$240
Pascal Quignard
L’Enfant d’Ingolstadt
Paris, Grasset, (July) 2018.
Volume X of Le Dernier Royaume, deluxe issue
$480
Charles Dantzig
Chambord-des-songes
Paris, Flammarion, (February) 2019.
Deluxe-paper copy of this collection of political texts
$240

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