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1210 works

James Thurber & Albert Camus
La Dernière Fleur
Paris, Gallimard, (March 25) 1952.
Camus, Man and brotherhood
$480
Edward Reuben Yerbury
Charles de Gaulle
S.l.n.d. [Edinburgh, 1942].
Rare signed print — Edinburgh, 1942
$4,800
Jean Giono
Le Poids du ciel
Paris, Gallimard, (August 19) 1938.
The first of 7 deluxe China-paper copies, with manuscript draft
$8,400
Henry Malherbe
La Flamme au poing
Paris, Albin Michel, 1917.
Prix Goncourt 1917
$120
Jean-Louis Curtis
Les Forêts de la nuit
Paris, René Julliard, (December 15) 1947.
Prix Goncourt 1947: Maurice Genevoix's copy
$180
Adrien Bertrand
L’Appel du sol
S.l., 1916.
Complete autograph manuscript of a landmark Goncourt novel
$9,600
Julien Gracq
Le Rivage des Syrtes
Paris, Corti, (September 25) 1951.
The author's own copy
$48,000
[Georges Duhamel] Denis Thévenin
Civilisation
Paris, Mercure de France, (April 5) 1918.
Rare first printing in a contemporary binding
$180
Georges Duhamel
Civilisation
Paris, Les Arts et le Livre, coll. « Les prix littéraires », (April 16) 1927.
First illustrated edition. Genevoix copy
$120
Francis de Miomandre
Écrit sur de l’eau…
Paris, Henri Falque, Éditions du Feu, (June 6) 1908.
Goncourt 1908
$240
Kléber Haedens
Salut au Kentucky
Paris, Robert Laffont, (July 9) 1947.
The 1947 anti-Goncourt: deluxe issue
$240
André Malraux
La Condition humaine
Paris, Gallimard, (November 15) 1944.
First edition in Bonet boards
$96
Maurice Genevoix
Raboliot
Paris, Grasset, (September 29) 1925.
Maurice Genevoix's own copy, on Holland paper
$1,800
Robert Merle
Week-end à Zuydcoote
Paris, revue « Les Temps Modernes », (October and November) 1948.
Advance excerpts
$120
Joseph Peyré
Sang et lumières
Paris, Éditions Grasset, (July 2) 1935.
Goncourt 1935
$24
Henri Barbusse
Le Feu
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1916.
First edition, as published
$240
Marc Bernard
Pareils à des enfants…
Paris, Gallimard, (December 20) 1942.
Prix Goncourt 1942
$12
Jean-Jacques Gautier
Histoire d’un fait divers
Paris, René Julliard, (March 15) 1946.
Armand Salacrou's copy, Goncourt juror
$480
Henri Troyat
L’Araigne
Paris, Plon, (October 14) 1938.
Presentation copy to Paul Morand
$96
Henri Troyat
L’Araigne
Paris, Plon, (October 14) 1938.
Signed presentation inscription
$96
Jean Fayard
Mal d’amour
Paris, Fayard & Cie, (October 15) 1931.
Goncourt 1931, on Japanese paper
$960
André Malraux
La Condition humaine
Paris, Gallimard, (January 13) 1934.
First numbered printing after the Goncourt
$240
Jean Fayard
Mal d’amour
Paris, Fayard & Cie, (October 15) 1931.
Goncourt 1931
$120
Henri Deberly
Le Supplice de Phèdre
Paris, Nrf, (October 10) 1926.
Goncourt 1926: réimposé copy for Pierre Duché
$120
Henri Deberly
Le Supplice de Phèdre
Paris, Nrf, (October 10) 1926.
Colette's copy, inscribed
$180
Marcel Arland
L’Ordre
Paris, Nrf, (20, 25 et 30 avril) 1929.
Goncourt 1929 on pur fil
$36
Henri Deberly
Le Supplice de Phèdre
Paris, Nrf, (October 10) 1926.
Goncourt 1926, on pur fil
$24
Maurice Constantin-Weyer
Un homme se penche sur son passé
Paris, Éditions Rieder, 1928.
Goncourt 1928, on blue paper
$240
Thierry Sandre
Le Chèvrefeuille
Paris, Éditions de la Nrf, (October 18) 1924.
Goncourt 1924
$24
Henri Béraud
Le Martyre de l’obèse
Paris, Albin Michel, [1922].
Signed presentation inscription
$96

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