Women
Rare books by and about women: female authors, poets, bookbinders, muses, and literary figures. First editions, manuscripts, and correspondence.
50 works
Annie Ernaux
La Vie extérieure
Paris, Gallimard, (February 28) 2000.First edition, first printing. Signed presentation inscription$480
Colette
La Seconde
Paris, Ferenczi, (February 25) 1929.Copy on Hollande paper$360
Colette
Dialogues de bêtes
Paris, Mercure de France, (February 29) 1904.On tinted laid paper, with autograph letter$1,200
Simone de Beauvoir
Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée…
Paris, Gallimard, (September) 1958, (October) 1960, (October) 1963 and (August) 1972.Bindings by Pierre-Lucien Martin, on Hollande paper$28,800
Kay Sage
Piove in giardino
Florence, Edizioni del Milione, (December 15) 1937.19 illustrations by Kay Sage, deluxe copy with original watercolor$7,200
Marguerite Audoux
De la ville au moulin
Paris, Charpentier & Fasquelle, 1926.Deluxe copy, inscribed with a photographic portrait$960
Françoise Sagan
Avec mon meilleur souvenir
Paris, Gallimard, (March 7) 1984.Sylvie Genevoix's copy, inscribed$720
Henri-Pierre Roché
Jules et Jim
Paris, Gallimard, (March) 1953.Binding by Louise Bescond$9,600
Romain Gary
Éducation européenne
Paris, Calmann-Lévy, (June) 1945.A “Righteous Among the Nations” and Resistance figure$12,000
Annie Ernaux
Journal du dehors
Paris, Gallimard, (March 22) 1993.First edition, inscribed to Sylvie Genevoix$240
Annie Ernaux
Passion simple
Paris, Gallimard, (December 23) 1991.First printing, inscribed to Sylvie Genevoix$360
Octave Mirbeau
Le Journal d’une femme de chambre
Paris, Fasquelle, 1900.One of the first 20 réimposé copies on China paper, bound by Marius Michel$8,400
Édith Piaf
Télégramme à Yves Montand
Fribourg, April 18, 1946.Piaf's last telegram to Montand$1,080
Colette
Lettre signée à Léopold Marchand
[Paris, September 4, 1922].Letter to Léopold Marchand$144
Sylvie Germain
Brèves de solitude
Paris, Albin Michel, (December) 2020.One of the first lockdown novels$144
Stendhal
La Chartreuse de Parme
Paris, Ambroise Dupont, 1839.One of eight inscribed copies, the only one to a woman$84,000
[CACHAREL] Sarah Moon
Collection Printemps-Été 1978
[Paris, 1978].Sarah Moon's original 1978 Cacharel campaign layout$3,600
Guillaume Apollinaire
Chantre
Paris, Éditions du Capricorne, 2003.A striking graphic realization of Apollinaire's famous "Chantre." This poem, which appeared in Alcools in 1913, consists of a single line, said to concentrate every sonorous musicality of the French language: “et l'unique cordeau des trompettes marines.”$360
Amélie Nothomb
Barbe bleue
Paris, Albin Michel, (June) 2012.Deluxe copy on Holland paper$240
Pascal Quignard
Les Ombres errantes
Paris, Grasset, (August) 2002.Deluxe copy bound by Louise Bescond$7,200
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