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1210 works

René Char
Dehors la nuit est gouvernée
Paris, GLM, (May 30) 1938.
With four autograph poems in first-draft form
$14,400
René Char
Dehors la nuit est gouvernée
Paris, GLM, 1949.
One of 22 deluxe copies
$480
René Char
Dehors la nuit est gouvernée
Paris, GLM, (December) 1971.
Deluxe green paper copy, inscribed
$720
René Char
Le Marteau sans maître
Paris, Corti, (January 25) 1954.
The author's copy with autograph corrections
$1,440
René Char
Le Marteau sans maître
Paris, Corti, (September 15) 1963.
“my Busclats copy”
$1,800
Patrick Modiano
La Danseuse
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 2023.
Deluxe issue
$300
J. M. G. Le Clézio
Onitsha
Paris, Gallimard, (March 5) 1991.
Deluxe copy on Holland paper
$2,040
Patrick Modiano
Chevreuse
Paris, Gallimard, (February 10) 1947.
A fine and intimate provenance
$300
Georges Hugnet
Onan
Paris, José Corti, (June 10) 1934.
Signed presentation copy to his father
$720
André Breton, René Char & Paul Éluard
Ralentir Travaux
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, (April 20) 1930.
Copy on jonquil-yellow paper
$4,800
René Char
L’action de la justice est éteinte
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, (July 30) 1931.
René Char's own copy, with a letter from Joë Bousquet
$3,600
René Char
Artine
Paris, Éditions Surréalistes, chez José Corti, (November 25) 1930, and chez l'auteur, [1933].
A reconstituted Artine, with an unpublished passage
$6,000
André Breton, René Char & Paul Éluard
Ralentir Travaux
Paris, Editions Surréalistes, (April 20) 1930.
Copy on aqua-green paper
$4,800
René Char
Le Marteau sans maître
Paris, Librairie José Corti, (August 10) 1945.
Char's own copy, on vélin du Marais
$960
René Char
[Permis de chasse]
Avignon, Ministère de l'agriculture, September 9, 1933.
A hunting license, with a plea not to hunt
$1,800
Albert Cohen
Solal
Paris, Gallimard, (August 21) 1930.
Solal, act I
$4,800
René Descartes
Principia philosophiae. Specimina philosophia :
Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1644.
Cogito, ergo sum
$18,000
D.H. Lawrence
Défense de Lady Chatterley
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Du monde entier », (July 10) 1932.
In defense of lovers
$180
Albert Cohen
Belle du seigneur
Paris, Gallimard, (May 15) 1968.
Solal, act III
$36,000
André Malraux
La Tête d’obsidienne
Paris, Gallimard, (February 15) 1974.
Signed presentation copy to Antoine Terrasse
$180
William Faulkner
Sanctuaire
Paris, Gallimard, (November 21) 1933.
Numbered copy on alfa Navarre paper
$300
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Lettre autographe à Gui Tosi
Copenhague, September 30, [1947].
Announcing the break with Denoël
$1,800
Francis Carco
Les Innocents
Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, 1916.
Presentation inscription with autograph note
$180
Guillaume Apollinaire
Alcools
Paris, Mercure de France, April 20, 1913.
Leroux's Cubist binding for Apollinaire
$21,600
Gaston Couté
La Chanson d’un gas qu’a mal tourné
Paris, Eugène Rey, (May) 1928.
With an original gouache
$960
Mark Twain
À la dure
Paris, Éditions de la Revue Blanche, 1902.
Twain's compelling autobiographical account
$360
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry & Riad Sattouf
Terre des hommes
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 2025.
Deluxe issue with its lithograph
$1,800
Pierre Michon
La Grande Beune
Lagrasse, Verdier, (December) 1995.
Michon's other masterwork
$2,160
Pierre Loti
Les Derniers Jours de Pékin
Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1901.
One of Loti's great books, inscribed
$960
Guillaume Apollinaire
L’Hérésiarque et Cie
Paris, P.-V. Stock, 1910.
First collection of tales, first printing
$180

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