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1210 works

Victor Hugo
Châtiments
En France [Bruxelles], [Hetzel], 1853.
One of 16 copies on Holland paper
$4,800
René Bazin
Vipère au poing
[April 1948].
Bazin's own corrected proofs
$3,000
Marc Blancpain
Oflag Vi A
Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Aux dépens des O.P.G., (July 15) 1941.
Deluxe issue with original drawing, Genevoix's copy, inscribed
$360
Georges Simenon
Maigret au “Picratt’s”
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (October 28) 1955.
Deluxe issue
$180
Georges Simenon
Maigret en meublé
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (March 20) 1956.
Deluxe printing
$360
Paul Eluard & Marc Chagall
Le dur désir de durer
Paris, Éditions Bordas, (January 19) 1950.
Signed inscription, with the color plate
$840
Romain Gary
Éducation européenne
Paris, Club des Libraires de France, coll. Fiction, (January 20) 1961.
Partly first edition
$180
Jean Paulhan
De la paille et du grain
Paris, Gallimard, (February 25) 1948.
Yellow paper copy, inscribed
$360
Marcel Pagnol
Marius
Paris, Monte-Carlo, Éditions Pastorelly, (October 3) 1969.
An amusing family provenance, inscribed
$600
Maurice Barres
Le Roman de l’énergie nationale
Paris, Bibliothèque Charpentier, Eugène Fasquelle, 1897, 1900 et 1902.
Signed copy for Les XX: the inaugural title
$10,800
Maurice Genevoix
Au seuil des guitounes
Paris, Flammarion, 1926.
Genevoix's third war narrative, inscribed
$360
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
L’Église
Paris, Denoël & Steele, (September 12) 1933.
A fine copy with band and subscription bulletin
$300
[Georges Duhamel] Denis Thévenin
Civilisation
Paris, Mercure de France, 1918.
Goncourt 1918: “Les XX” printing, signed by the author
$1,200
Louis Aragon
Traité du style
Paris, Librairie Gallimard, April 28, 1928.
Aragon’s surrealist manifesto, inscribed to Éluard.
$30,000
Edmond & Jules de Goncourt
La Révolution dans les moeurs
Paris, Dentu, 1854.
One of two réimposé copies on vellum
$840
Gaston Criel
Gris
Paris, La Hune, (September 3) 1938.
The author's first book, inscribed
$120
Victor Hugo
Châtiments
Bruxelles, Henri Samuel et Cie, éditeurs, [November] 1853.
Stirling copy, with proof no. 1 of Hugo's smallest engraved portrait
$9,000
Henri Bouchot
L’Épopée du costume militaire
Paris, Henri May, (November 30) 1898.
10 color plates
$600
Victor Hugo
Châtiments
En France [Bruxelles, typ. Samuel, (November)] 1853.
Copy on Hollande paper
$4,800
Molière
Oeuvres
Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles, then Jouaust, 1889–1895.
Molière's plays, published by Damase Jouaust
$1,440
Albert Cohen
Solal
Paris, Gallimard, (July 7) 1971.
Françoise Verny's own copy
$960
Théophile Gautier
Fortunio, roman incroyable
Paris, La Tradition, 1947.
Gautier illustrated by Berthommé Saint-André
$300
César Pavese
La Lune et les Feux
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du Monde entier », (February 8) 1965.
Deluxe issue of Pavese's final novel
$240
Auguste Gilbert De Voisins
Pages à mon goût
Paris, L'Artisan du livre, (June 5) 1929.
Ten fine Laboureur engravings; binding by Brindeau
$600
Henri Bosco
Sabinus
Paris, Gallimard, (February 20) 1957.
Deluxe copy on Hollande
$360
Paul Arène
Jean-des-figues
Paris, Librairie Internationale, A. Lacroix, 1870.
A telling inscription, a perfect provenance
$900
Daniel Pennac
Monsieur Malaussène
Paris, Gallimard, (April 13) 1995.
Deluxe issue
$480
César Pavese
Le Camarade
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du Monde entier », (September 21) 1968.
One of only 51 copies, sole paper issue
$240
Georges Bernanos
Lettre aux Anglais
Rio de Janeiro, Atlantica Editora, (February) 1942.
Réimposé copy signed by Bernanos
$600
Louis Aragon
Persécuté persécuteur
Paris, Les Éditions surréalistes, (October 25) 1931.
Front rouge on green paper
$600

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