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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

Pascal Quignard
Les Solidarités mystérieuses
Paris, Gallimard, (September 16) 2011.
Deluxe-paper copy
$240
Marcello Fagiolo
Roma delle delizie : I teatri dell’Acqua, grotte, ninfei, fontane
Franco Maria Ricci, Milan, 1990.
Fine condition.
$120
Christian Bobin
Louise amour
Paris, Gallimard, (January 9) 2004.
Deluxe-paper copy
$360
Marie Ndiaye
La Cheffe, roman d’une cuisinière
Paris, Gallimard, (October 18) 2016.
Deluxe-paper copy
$120
Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier
Le Matin des magiciens
Paris, Gallimard, (September 23) 1960.
The dawn of the magicians, interpreted by Louise Bescond
$6,000
Pascal Quignard
Le Salon de Wurtemberg
Paris, Gallimard, (July 11) 1986.
Deluxe copy, inscribed, in a box by Julie Nadot
$1,200
René Char
L’action de la justice est éteinte
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, (July 30) 1931.
A moving provenance: a friend from the Sorgue, murdered by the milice
$2,400
Alexandre Galpérine & Arthur Rimbaud
« Qu’il vienne, qu’il vienne, le temps dont on s’éprenne »
N.p.n.d. [Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, 2017].
$1,200
Alexandre Galpérine & Arthur Rimbaud
« Pendant que les fonds publics s’écoulent… »
[Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, 2017].
Char collaborated with the greatest artists of his time: Braque, Picasso, Miró, Giacometti, Nicolas de Staël and Zao-Wou-Ki. Before him, one last artist would join his path: Alexandre Galperine. Born in 1937 in the Russian colony of Boulogne-Billancourt, Galperine studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Ateliers de la Ville de Paris before joining…
$600
Christian Bobin
Quelques jours avec elle
Cognac, Le Temps qu'il fait, (February) 1994.
Deluxe issue
$480
Christian Bobin
L’Éloignement du monde
Éditions Lettres vives, (December) 1993.
Deluxe issue
$480
Christian Bobin
L’Enchantement simple
Lettres vives, (February) 1986.
One of 20 deluxe copies
$840
Christian Bobin
Ce que disait l’homme qui n’aimait pas les oiseaux
Béthunes, Brandes, (December 1983) 1984.
Deluxe issue
$960
Christian Bobin
Une bibliothèque de nuages
Lettres vives, (September) 2006.
$480
Pascal Quignard
Performances de ténèbres
Paris, Galilée, (January) 2017.
Deluxe issue with manuscript page and author's signature
$600
Christian Bobin
Les Ruines du ciel
Paris, Gallimard, (August 24) 2009.
$360
Pascal Quignard
Hiems
Paris, Orange Export Ltd, (July) 1977.
In 1977, the year Pascal Quignard began the Petits Traités — fragmentary, rebellious texts of a curious erudition — he first published a slim volume that he would later class among his “most far-fetched arpeggio exercises,” fruits of his training in the “post-1968 underground movements” (Quignard, quoted by V. Landel, “Le passé recomposé,” Magazine littéraire…
$480
[HOUELLEBECQ]
Cahier de l’Herne
Paris, L'Herne, 2017.
A fine L'Herne volume devoted to Michel Houellebecq, covering his career as a writer and his engagement with the arts (film, music), enriched with portraits by Jean-Louis Aubert, Emmanuel Carrère, Maurice G. Dantec, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Michel Onfray, along with documents and photographic reproductions. Six texts by Houellebecq are previously unpublished.
$1,200
Guillaume Apollinaire
L’Antitradition futuriste
[Paris, June 29, 1913].
Apollinaire's own copy, on large paper
$600
Paris et ses Environs… Représentant les Vues et les Monuments les plus curieux de Paris et les Sites les plus remarquables des Environs
Paris: Maison Martinet, [1856].
Views and monuments of Paris
$240
Christian Bobin
Noireclaire
Paris, Gallimard, (September 25) 2015.
Deluxe-paper copy
$360
J. M. G. Le Clézio
L’Inconnu sur la terre
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Le Chemin », (14 février) 1978.
Le Clézio's deluxe copy
$1,200
Adèle Hugo
Victor Hugo raconté par un témoin de sa vie
Paris, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie, 1863.
Goncourt's own copy, on Holland paper
$4,800
Tennessee Williams
Le Printemps romain de Mrs. Stone
Paris, Plon, (December 4) 1951.
Tennessee Williams's self-portrait, bound by Mercher
$720
Jean-Paul Sartre
L’Engrenage
Paris, Nagel, (November) 1948.
Deluxe copy
$600
Julien Green
Léviathan
Paris, Plon, (March 11) 1929.
This copy is enriched by a fascinating testimony to the way Julien Green conceived and “drew” his characters — he whose first vocation was painting. In his Souvenirs of 1925, a line about a visit to the Louvre with François Mauriac dwells on this other passion: “I am not certain that Mauriac was very fond…
$1,200
[CÉLINE]
Céline au Danemark
[Copenhagen, Menton, 1948-1949].
* An autograph letter signed (210 x 297 mm), recto-verso, on the yellow laid paper Céline used during his exile, in blue ink, in a very legible hand, dated Copenhagen, 26 May 1948, and signed “L.F. Destouches”: “Chers amis, Nous avons décidé de payer encore votre loyer jusqu'au 30 septembre soit ainsi 4 mois d'avance.…
$3,000
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur
Paris, Mercure de France, (April 30) 1964.
A year after the publication of Le Procès-verbal, J. M. G. Le Clézio published this short novel with Mercure de France, its narrative unfolding over a single night. It begins at twenty-five past three in the morning, when Beaumont, the main character, is woken by a pain that seems to come from his jaw. This…
$1,800
Christian Bobin
Carnet du soleil
Cognac, Le Temps qu'il fait, (February) 2011.
$360
Christian Bobin
Un livre inutile
Fata Morgana, [imp. Monti à Cognac], (February 13) 1992.
$360

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