Women
Rare books by and about women: female authors, poets, bookbinders, muses, and literary figures. First editions, manuscripts, and correspondence.
50 works
Georges Bernanos
La Grande Peur des bien-pensants
Paris, Grasset, coll. « Pour mon plaisir », (February 9) 1931.The first of six deluxe Japan copies
Marguerite Yourcenar
Letter to Michael and Babette Wills
Petite Plaisance, Northeast Harbor (Maine), February 12, 1980.A magnificent and moving autograph letter$6,000
Marguerite Duras
The Lover
Paris, Éditions de Minuit, (July 16) 1984.Binding by Louise Bescond$14,400
Sonia Rykiel
Et je la voudrais nue…
Paris, Grasset, (October 3) 1979.A magnificent provenance$480
Marie Ndiaye
Rosie Carpe
Paris, Editions de Minuit, (January 23) 2001.$240
Remy de Gourmont
Lettres à l’Amazone
Paris, Georges Crès, coll. « Les Maîtres du livre », (March 30) 1914.Hors commerce copy on green paper$180
Simone de Beauvoir
La Force de l’âge
Paris, Gallimard, October 21, 1960.Fine binding on pur fil paper$360
Simone de Beauvoir
La Force des choses
Paris, Gallimard, (October 15) 1963.Copy on pur fil paper$240
Antonine Maillet
Pélagie-la-Charrette
Ottawa, Leméac, (October 15) 1979.To Goncourt academician who voted for her$120
André Breton
Farouche à quatre feuilles
Paris, Grasset, (December 20) 1954.Binding by Monique Mathieu$6,000
Pascale Roze
Le Chasseur Zéro
Paris, Albin Michel, (January) 1997.Goncourt 1996: the deluxe issue$480
René Char
Placard pour un chemin des écoliers
Paris, GLM, (December 15) 1937.Char's own copy on tinted paper$1,800
Véronique Olmi
Bakhita
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2017.A near-miss for the Goncourt, deluxe copy$240
René Char
Le Chien de coeur
Les Busclats, October 8, 1968.Char's manuscript to Anne Reinbold, bound by Louise Bescond$30,000
Simone de Beauvoir & Gisèle Halimi
Djamila Boupacha
Paris, Gallimard, (January 23) 1962.Deluxe copy of a pivotal text$960
Simone de Beauvoir
Une mort très douce
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 1964."Beauvoir's finest work," according to Sartre$180
Sigrid Undset
L’Âge heureux
Paris, Éditions du Sagittaire, coll. « La Revue Européenne », (June 23) 1926.Rare deluxe copy on Japanese paper$840
Amélie Nothomb
Frappe-toi le coeur
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2017.$300
Amélie Nothomb
La Nostalgie heureuse
Paris, Albin Michel, (July) 2013.One of 35 deluxe copies$240
Paul Verlaine & Hermine David
La Bonne Chanson
Paris, Creuzevault, (November 11) 1936.The artist's own named copy with signed print and suite$1,800
Amélie Nothomb
Riquet à la houppe
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2016.One of 35 deluxe copies. Charles Perrault revisited$240
Regina Badet
Lettre autographe signée
S.l., January 9, 1911.To Pierre Louÿs, her “dear Maître”$60
Edmond et Jules de Goncourt
Germinie Lacerteux
[Paris, Paul Boyer, 1903].A unique album of original prints, signed by RéjaneReserved
Kenzo
Madame Butterfly
[Tokyo, circa 2019].Kenzo’s final creation$12,000
Maurice Genevoix
« Agendas »
[1924 and 1925].Genevoix's creative process, day by day$8,400
Christiane Rochefort
Les Stances à Sophie
Paris, Grasset, 1963.Signed presentation copy to Bauër$240
Carson McCullers
Le coeur est un chasseur solitaire
Paris, Stock, coll. « Le Cabinet cosmopolite », (May 30) 1947.French translation, one of 100 hors-commerce copies, inscribed to Francis Ambrière$3,000
Alexa Brunet
Les Amoureux du canal
[Somme, 2009].Born in 1977, Alexa Brunet graduated from the Belfast Art College in 1998 and from the ENSP in Arles in 2001. She has spent several years producing symbolic photographic essays on technology, social housing and the excesses of industrial agriculture as part of the Transit collective.Between 2009 and 2010, she produced the reportage “En Somme,”…$600
Amélie Nothomb
L’Impossible Retour
Paris, Albin Michel, (August) 2024.Deluxe issue: 35 copies$360
Annie Ernaux
Correspondance inédite
Cergy, January 1998–March 2012.28 letters: an unpublished correspondence with Annie Ernaux$2,400
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