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1210 works

PAB
Jusqu’à
S.l. [Alès, PAB], (March 6) 1958.
PAB's own unique poem-book
$2,160
Georges Simenon
Les Témoins
Lakeville, Conn[ecticut], 1954.
Lakeville mimeograph, inscribed to de Fallois
$6,000
Georges Simenon
Maigret et le corps sans tête
Lakeville, Conn[ecticut], 1955.
Living at 'Shadow Rock Farm' in Lakeville, Simenon wrote his novels for Presses de la Cité at an impressive pace. Three titles were given a local, limited first edition, mimeographed and distributed exclusively through French & European Publications at Rockefeller Center in New York: Maigret chez le ministre, Les Témoins and Maigret et le corps…
$6,000
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Trois villes saintes
Paris, Gallimard, (April 22) 1980.
Chancah, Tixacacal and Chun Pom are three ancient Aztec or Mayan cities celebrated by the young Le Clézio during his stay in Mexico in the 1970s. In his thirties, Le Clézio turned away from narratives of urban anguish, leaving the metropolis to explore elsewhere — and Mexico in particular. The book revolves around the dead…
$600
Pierre Michon
Le Roi du bois
Paris, Verdier, (December) 1995.
One of 60 deluxe copies, bound by Louise Bescond
$7,200
H. G. Wells
La Paix d’un homme raisonnable
Paris, C. Georges-Bazile, (December) 1917.
Wells's pacifist pamphlet, signed to his French publisher
$900
Paul Éluard
Les Armes de la douleur
Toulouse, Comité national des écrivains, 1944.
Published in May 1944 by Éditions de Minuit, this poem is dedicated “to the memory of Lucien Legros, shot at eighteen,” who had gone underground after taking part on 16 April 1942 in a protest against the arrest of Raymond Burgard, a Resistance teacher at the Lycée Buffon. Arrested by the special police brigades on…
$120
[VRAIN-LUCAS] Alessandro Tassoni
Annotazioni sopra il vocabolario degli accademici della Crusca
In Venezia, appresso Marino Rossetti, 1698.
Michel Chasles's copy, acquired from the forger Vrain-Lucas
$10,800
[Paul Éluard] Jean du Haut
Les Sept Poèmes d’amour en guerre
[Cahors], Éditions des Francs-tireurs et Partisans français du Lot, n.d. [1944].
The Sept poèmes were reissued in Cahors in 1944 for the Liberation of the Lot, before being included in Au rendez-vous allemand, also in 1944. They had originally appeared in the collection La Bibliothèque française, created by Louis Aragon “on the model of the Éditions de Minuit, from which it borrowed certain titles for distribution…
$96
Philippe Forest
L’Oubli
Paris, Gallimard, (December) 2017.
Deluxe-paper copy
$144
Jean d'Ormesson
Et moi, je vis toujours
Paris, Gallimard, (December) 2017.
Deluxe printing of his last book published in his lifetime
$240
Tristan Tzara & Juan Gris
Mouchoir de nuages
Paris, Ed. de la Galerie Simon, (April 28) 1925.
Binding by Renaud Vernier
$9,000
Joe Barbera
Tom & Jerry
S.l.n.d.
Original drawing, for Pierre Tchernia
$3,000
Didier Van Cauwelaert
Le Retour de Jules
Paris, Albin Michel, (April) 2017.
Deluxe-paper printing
$120
Guillaume Apollinaire
Chantre
Paris, Éditions du Capricorne, 2003.
A striking graphic realization of Apollinaire's famous "Chantre." This poem, which appeared in Alcools in 1913, consists of a single line, said to concentrate every sonorous musicality of the French language: “et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines.”
$360
Albert Camus & Francis Ponge
Correspondance. 1941-1957
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 2013.
Deluxe-paper printing
$300
Romain Puertolas
La Petite fille qui avait avalé un nuage grand comme la tour Eiffel
Paris, Le Dilettante, (October 15) 2014.
Deluxe-paper copy
$180
Sylvie Germain
À la table des hommes
Paris, Albin Michel, (November) 2015.
One of 20 deluxe copies
$180
Amélie Nothomb
Barbe bleue
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2012.
Deluxe copy on Holland paper
$240
Philippe Sollers
Complots
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 2016.
Deluxe-paper printing
$120
Pascal Quignard
Dans ce jardin qu’on aimait
Paris, Grasset, (May) 2017.
Deluxe-paper copy
$300
Marcello Fagiolo
Roma delle delizie : I teatri dell’Acqua, grotte, ninfei, fontane
Franco Maria Ricci, Milan, 1990.
Fine condition.
$120
Pascal Quignard
Les Solidarités mystérieuses
Paris, Gallimard, (September 16) 2011.
Deluxe-paper copy
$240
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
Christian Bobin
Louise amour
Paris, Gallimard, (January 9) 2004.
Deluxe-paper copy
$360
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 militia
$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
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

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