Hors-série On the boards

81 selected pieces — first editions, studies, librettos, photographs, programs — devoted to the theater. Here we encounter authors and directors, actors and set designers, from the classical repertoire to the avant-garde. To leaf through as one lifts a curtain: with the care of the bibliophile and the curiosity of the spectator.

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79 works

Prosper Mérimée
Théâtre de Clara Gazul
Paris, A. Sautelet et Cie, libraires, 1825.
Rare first edition of Mérimée's first book
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
L’Église
Paris, Denoël & Steele, (September 12) 1933.
Georges Bernanos, Céline's first supporter, inscribed copy
$4,200
Molière
L’Avare
[Amsterdam, Elzevier], 1674.
Rare second edition, the first from the Elzevier press
$600
Molière
Le Misanthrope
[Amsterdam, Elzevier], 1674.
Reprint of the first Elzevier edition of 1667
$240
Molière
Les Femmes savantes
[Amsterdam, Elzevier], 1678.
Reprint of the 1674 edition
$360
Molière
L’École des femmes
[Amsterdam, Elzevier], 1679.
A charming Dutch edition
$240
Octave Mirbeau
Le Blasphème de Catulle Mendès
[1896].
“Something is rotten in the Denmark of literature”
$360
Victor Hugo
Le roi s’amuse
Paris, Renduel, 1832.
Bound by Chambolle-Duru
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Paul Claudel
L’Otage
Paris, Nrf, (June 20) 1911.
First NRF title, deluxe paper
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Paul Claudel
L’Annonce faite à Marie
Paris, Éditions de la NRF, (April 20) 1912.
A magnificent deluxe copy, bound by Huser for Marcel de Merre
$8,400
Georges Courteline
Les Balances
Paris, Ernest Flammarion, [1902].
Inscribed to his publisher
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Albert Camus
Les Possédés
Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Le Manteau et l'Arlequin », (March 27) 1959.
To Georges Bataille, defender of L'Homme révolté
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Pierre Corneille
Sertorius
[Amsterdam], Suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, [Daniel Elzevier], 1662.
From the Chandon de Briailles and Jacques Attali libraries
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Molière
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
[Amsterdam, Elzevier], 1674.
First reprint of the 1671 edition
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Molière
Le Malade imaginaire
[Amsterdam, Elzevier], 1679.
First reprint of the 1674 Elzevier edition
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Tristan L'Hermite
Mariane
Troyes, Jacques Oudot, 17[38].
One of the classics of the genre
$96
Victor Hugo
Hernani
London, W. Sams, 1830.
From the library of Georges, then Jules Claretie
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Albert Glatigny
Pés de Puyane
Bayonne, Librairie centrale, 1868.
A rare play by Glatigny
$240
Eugène Labiche
« Voyage en Belgique et en Allemagne »
July 25 to September 12, 1835.
Labiche's unpublished travel diary
$3,000
Albert Glatigny
Le Singe
Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, impr. J. Claye, 1872.
One of five deluxe copies on China paper
$300
Edmond et Jules de Goncourt
La Patrie en danger
Paris, Dentu, [1873].
Poulet-Malassis's copy, inscribed
$300
Eugène Labiche
La Clef des champs
Paris, Gabriel Roux, 1839.
Labiche's only novel, bound by Maylander
$1,080
[GLATIGNY]
Portrait en costume de scène
[circa 1864].
Inscribed to Geneviève Mallarmé, “my future wife”
$1,800
Edmond et Jules de Goncourt
La Patrie en danger
Paris, Dentu, [1873].
Rare deluxe copy, inscribed
$480
Albert Glatigny
Vers les saules
Paris, Achille Faure & Vichy, Jules César, libraire, 1864.
Signed presentation copy from Glatigny
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[SARAH BERNHARDT] Achille Mélandri
Portrait photographique
[Paris, c. 1880].
Portrait with an autograph note signed
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Georges Courteline
Le Train de 8 h 47
Paris, C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, [1888].
Rare first printing
$60
[MONTALAND] Chalot
Portrait photographique
[Paris, c. 1890].
“One of the most beautiful women in Paris”
$60
Albert Soubies
La Comédie-Française depuis l’époque romantique
Paris, Fischbacher, 1895.
The filmmaker George Cukor's own copy
$120
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Paris, Fasquelle, 1898.
First edition, in a binding by Yseux
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