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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

Milan Kundera
La Lenteur
Paris, Gallimard, (19 décembre) 1994.
Deluxe copy on Holland paper
$900
Pierre Loti
La Hyène enragée
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, coll. « Bibliothèque contemporaine », [1916].
Signed presentation copy in a fine contemporary binding
$1,440
Pierre Michon
La Grande Beune
Lagrasse, Verdier, (December) 1995.
Le Roi vient quand il veut
$9,600
André Malraux
La Voie royale
Paris, Grasset, coll. « Les Cahiers verts », (October 7) 1930.
Copy on gold paper
$2,400
Georges Simenon
Le Clan des Ostendais
Paris, Gallimard, (September 5) 1947.
Deluxe copy of a Simenon masterpiece
$3,600
Stéphane Mallarmé
Distique autographe
S.l.n.d. [circa 1880].
Two lines by the poet for his daughter Geneviève
$3,000
Marcel Proust
Lettres à Madame Scheikévitch
Paris, Librairie des Champs-Élysées, (March 30) 1928.
A rare feminine friendship in letters
$240
François-René de Chateaubriand
Atala. René
Paris, Le Normant, 1805.
With two additional engravings
$480
Paul Claudel
Toi qui es-tu ?
Paris, Gallimard, (April 25) 1936.
Inscribed to his daughter
$240
Louis Aragon
Persécuté Persécuteur
Paris, Les Editions surréalistes, (October 25) 1931.
Front rouge on green paper
$720
Charles de Gaulle
Mémoires de guerre
Paris, Plon, (October 5) 1954, (May 29) 1956, (September 25) 1959.
Signed presentation inscription
$4,800
Joseph Conrad
Gaspar Ruiz
Paris, Éditions de la NRF, (18 août) 1927.
Conrad's South American tale
$360
Villiers de L'Isle-Adam
L’Annonciateur
Paris, Ferroud, 1905.
First separate edition of a tale from Contes cruels, on Japanese paper
$480
Ernest Hemingway
Paradis perdu
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du Monde entier », (December) 1949.
Deluxe issue
$600
Jean Mermoz
Mes vols
Paris, Flammarion, (April) 1937.
The only collection of Mermoz's writings, deluxe issue
$960
Maurice Druon
Des Seigneurs de la plaine à L’Hôtel de Mondez
Paris, Julliard, (January 26) 1962.
Deluxe copy of his first text, given to his future wife
$1,200
Georges Simenon
Un échec de Maigret
Paris, Presses de la Cité, (September 12) 1956.
Maigret lets the Englishwoman slip away
$240
Paul Guimard
Les Choses de la vie
Paris, Denoël, (September 25) 1967.
First printing, inscribed
$240
Anna Gavalda
Je l’aimais
Paris, Le Dilettante, (January 23) 2002.
Deluxe issue, inscribed
$300
Michel Houellebecq
Le Sens du combat
Paris, Flammarion, (March) 1996.
Rare first printing, signed copy
$720
Pierre Moinot
La Descente du fleuve
Paris, Gallimard, (September 16) 1991.
Mitterrand's copy, inscribed
$1,200
Louis Aragon
Le Libertinage
Paris, Gallimard, (March 31) 1924.
One of five known copies
$2,160
Francis Jammes
Pomme d’anis
Paris, Émile-Paul frères, 1923.
Jammes's own copy, with Hugo's confession
$960
Marguerite Yourcenar
La Couronne et la Lyre
Paris, Gallimard, (September 20) 1979.
Deluxe issue
$960
Boris Vian
En avant la zizique
Paris, Le Livre contemporain, (3e trimestre) 1958.
Vian to Gainsbourg: a moving, perfect provenance
$12,000
Pierre Reverdy & Pablo Picasso
Sources du vent 1915-1929.
Paris, Maurice Sachs, (July 10) 1929.
One of 10 on Japanese paper, frontispiece by Picasso
$1,200
Pascal Quignard
La vie n’est pas une biographie
Paris, Galilée, (January) 2019.
Deluxe copy with autograph page
$600
Paul-Louis Courier
Aux âmes dévotes de la paroisse de Véretz,
Paris, Chez les Marchands de nouveautés, 1821.
From the library of André Schuck
$240
Anatole France
Histoire contemporaine
Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1897 and 1899.
The complete cycle in uniform Semet & Plumelle bindings
$960
René Char
Dehors la nuit est gouvernée
Paris, GLM, (December) 1971.
Deluxe copy on green paper
$360

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