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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.

1210 works

Henri Bosco
Antonin
Paris, Gallimard, (January 31) 1952.
Maurice Genevoix's own copy
$360
Georges Mathieu
Lettre adressée à Frua de Angeli
[autumn 1965]
Mathieu thanks his patron
$240
Marguerite Yourcenar
Souvenirs pieux
Paris, Gallimard, (April 4) 1974.
Maurice Genevoix's copy, inscribed
$1,200
Rudyard Kipling
Le Livre de la jungle
Paris, Mercure de France, [(August 30) 1907] 1915.
Genevoix's own copy of a formative book
$480
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Signes
Paris, Gallimard, (November 19) 1960.
Signed presentation inscription to Max-Pol Fouchet
$720
André Papillon
Jean Cocteau
Paris, May 1942.
Cocteau, 1942
$1,440
José Corti
Rêves d’encre
Paris, José Corti, (September) 1945.
Corti's dream copy of Rêves d'encre
$33,600
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Orléans, Maurice Rouam, (31 mars) 1947.
With a double suite on Japanese paper
$1,200
Bernard Pivot
Dictionnaire amoureux du vin
Paris, Plon, (September) 2006.
A toast to Jorge Semprún
$720
Oskar Wladisław de Lubicz Milosz
La Confession de Lemuel
Paris, La Connaissance, 1922.
Inscribed to the president of the Société des poètes français
$144
Jules Romains
L’Armée dans la ville
Paris, Mercure de France, (May 30) 1911.
Dedication copy, on deluxe paper
$600
Guy de Maupassant
Mont-Oriol
Paris, Victor-Havard, 1887.
Deluxe copy on Holland paper
$720
Joseph Kessel
Carte postale autographe
[France, Var, July 13, 1941].
Georges and Joseph Kessel
$300
Jules Romains
L’Armée dans la ville
Paris, Mercure de France, (May 30) 1911.
Deluxe copy on Holland paper, inscribed
$480
Sylvain Tesson & François Schuiten
Sur les chemins noirs
Paris, Gallimard, (October) 2025.
Deluxe issue
$720
Robert Sabatier
Le Cygne noir
Paris, Albin Michel, (January) 1995.
Copy on Hollande paper
$120
[ÉLUARD] Henri Martinie
Portrait photographique
[Paris, c. 1947].
Portrait offert aux Guillevic
$1,200
Jean Jacquelin
« Esso »
[circa 1950].
Original artwork for Esso
$240
André Bernard
Hymni christiani bernardi andrae poetae regii
Impressi sunt in academia Parrhisiana: in chalcographia Ascensiana, [Paris, Josse Bade, July 7] 1517.
The only known copy in private hands
$2,400
Michel Houellebecq
Le Sens du combat
Paris, Flammarion, (March) 1996.
Inscribed, with a signed photographic portrait
$2,400
Sacha Guitry
Une petite main qui se place
S.l.n.d. [1922].
This comedy in three acts and an epilogue premiered on 4 May 1922 at the Théâtre Édouard VII, with Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps in the leading roles. The pagination of the typescript, in which the stage directions are underlined in red pencil, shows that it underwent revisions.It contains autograph corrections and additions in pencil,…
$960
[SAND] Nadar
George Sand
S.l.n.d. [“Galerie contemporaine, 126 boulevard de Magenta” and “Cliché Nadar, rue d'Anjou-Saint-Honoré, 51”].
The only known inscribed portrait
$3,600
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
La Terre vue du ciel
[Paris, for the author, 2000].
The world's largest sand island: unique first-exhibition print
$6,000
Benjamin Rabier
Gédéon meccano
[c. 1927].
Original plate and its coloring
$3,000
Robert Bresson
Au hasard Balthazar
[1966].
Script and stills from a legendary film
$7,200
Georges Simenon
Mon ami Maigret
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (June 10) 1949.
From the library of Jacques Vergès (stamp).Dust jacket showing wear, minor loss to the margin of the back panel.
$50
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Images à la sauvette
Paris, Éditions Verve, (July 22) 1952.
The author's first photographic collection
$2,400
Maurice Genevoix
La Boîte à pêche
Paris, Grasset, (October 18) 1926.
From the author's own library, unopened alfa copy
$180
Blaise Cendrars
Le Plan de l’aiguille
Paris, Au Sans Pareil, (April 15) 1927.
Inscribed to the painter Moïse Kisling
$180
Didier Van Cauwelaert
L’Impasse des rêves
Paris, Albin Michel, (May) 2025.
One of 15 deluxe copies
$120

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