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1210 works

Henri Béraud
Le Martyre de l’obèse
Paris, Albin Michel, [1922].
Signed presentation inscription
$96
Thierry Sandre
Le Purgatoire
Amiens, Édgar Malfère, (May 27) 1924.
1924 Goncourt on salmon paper
$240
Henri Deberly
Le Supplice de Phèdre
Paris, Nrf, (October 10) 1926.
Goncourt 1926, réimposé copy
$96
Henry Malherbe
La Flamme au poing
Paris, Albin Michel, [1917].
Goncourt 1917, deluxe issue
$720
Henry Malherbe
La Flamme au poing
Paris, Albin Michel, (August 31) 1945.
Inscribed to Pierre Descaves
$120
Marc Elder
Le Peuple de la mer
Paris, G. Oudin, 1913.
Prix Goncourt 1913, on Holland paper
$360
Henry Malherbe
La Flamme au poing
Paris, Albin Michel, 1917.
Goncourt 1917: inscribed to one of the jurors
$240
Ernest Pérochon
Nêne
Paris, Plon, 1920.
Goncourt 1920
$36
Marc Elder
Le Peuple de la mer
Paris, G. Oudin, 1913.
Prix Goncourt 1913
$600
René Benjamin
Gaspard
Paris, Arthème Fayard, [1915].
Goncourt 1915, inscribed copy
$240
Ernest Pérochon
Nêne
Paris, Plon, 1920.
First printing after the Goncourt
$96
Ernest Pérochon
Nêne
Niort, Georges Clouzot, 1920.
Goncourt 1920: first printing, inscribed
$240
Marius-Ary Leblond
En France
Paris, Charpentier, 1909.
Goncourt 1909
$300
Claude Farrère
Les Civilisés
Paris, Ollendorf, 1906.
Prix Goncourt 1905, with inscription
$600
Jérôme et Jean Tharaud
Dingley, l’illustre écrivain
Paris, Édition des Cahiers de la Quinzaine, (April 15) 1902.
Pre-first edition, four years before the prize
$36
Claude Farrère
Les Civilisés
Paris, Ollendorf, 1906.
Prix Goncourt 1905: Hubert Person's copy, inscribed
$600
Francis de Miomandre
Écrits sur l’eau…
Paris, Henri Falque, Éditions du Feu, (June 6) 1908.
Goncourt 1908
$96
Jérôme et Jean Tharaud
Dingley, l’illustre écrivain
Paris, Édouard Pelletan, (December 3) 1906.
Prix Goncourt 1906, with autograph note
$360
Henri Barbusse
Le Feu
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, (December) 1916.
Barbusse's Le Feu: Maurice Genevoix's copy
$960
Henri Barbusse
Le Feu
Paris, Flammarion, (December) 1916.
Special “Les XX” printing, signed by the author: no. 1
$4,800
[PRIX GONCOURT]
Prix Goncourt 1950
[Paris, October 4, 1950].
Menu from a preparatory meeting
$240
André Malraux
La Condition humaine
Paris, Gallimard, (May 5) 1933.
Pierre-Lucien Martin binding with signed inscription
$14,400
Alphonse de Chateaubriant
Monsieur des Lourdines
Goncourt 1911: the “XX” printing, for the author
$2,400
Henri Troyat
L’Araigne
Paris, Plon, (January 10) 1939.
$18
Maurice Constantin-Weyer
Un homme se penche sur son passé
Paris, Rieder, coll. « Prosateurs français contemporains », 1928.
Goncourt 1928, on blue paper
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Voyage au bout de la nuit
Paris, Denoël et Steele, 1932.
Vandérem's press copy: the very first Voyage printed
$12,000
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Mort à crédit
Paris, Denoël et Steele, (May 8) 1936.
The Vandérem copy, from the press printing
$7,200
Georges Simenon
Quand j’étais vieux
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (April 30) 1970.
In a binding by P. L. Martin
$3,600
Georges Simenon
Pedigree
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (October 15) 1948.
Simenon's great book, deluxe issue
$3,000
Hermann Hesse
Knulp
Montrouge, Théo et Florence Schmied, (15 novembre) 1949.
Hesse illustrated by Théo Schmied
$600

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