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[RELIURES SIGNEES KIEFFER] FRANCE, Anatole.

Histoire contemporaine.

Paris, Aux éditions du Sagittaire, 1922-1924.

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450 €

First illustrated edition.
Complete series of the Contemporary History collection comprising four novels by Anatole France illustrated with watercolors by Serge Beaune.
Our copies are identical in the same binding signed by Kieffer and printed on the second paper: Imperial Japan with a series of line drawings on China, numbered n°24
The titles published in this collection are as follows:
- L'Orme du Mail
- Le Mannequin d'Osier
- L'Anneau d'Améthyste
- Mr Bergeret à Paris.

SOULAGES, Gabriel || CARLEGLE (ill.).

Des riens.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1926.

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450 €

Edition illustrated by Carlègle.
Gabriel Soulages is a French author of novels, stories and light collections. In his romantic work, inspired by a pleasant eroticism, he demonstrated an in-depth Greek and Latin culture.

One of 37 copies on Japon, ours n°18 accompanied by two original watercolors signed by Carlègle.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

Fables choisies, mises en vers par Monsieur de la Fontaine et par lui revues, corrigées & augmentées de nouveau.

Lyon, François Sarrazin, 1696.

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400 €

This edition appeared only a year after the death of La Fontaine, the permission granted to François Sarrazin also mentions that La Fontaine lost the privilege on his fables in 1692.

Fables chosen by La Fontaine divided into nine books, we find the fables that made the author famous: The cicada and the ant, the wolf and the lamb, the hare and the tortoise.

VERNE, Jules.

Kéraban le Têtu.

Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1903].

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400 €

Rare cloth on this title.

[BEAUMARCHAIS].

Recueil de cinq Mémoires sur l'Affaire Goezman.

Paris, Valleyre, 1773-1775.

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400 €

First editions.
Collection of satirical memoirs published by Beaumarchais between 1773 and 1774 in the form of false reports and pleadings of the trial which then pitted him against Judge Goezman. These memoirs, which mix dialogues and interrogations, entertained the whole of Paris, including Madame Du Barry, and were played almost everywhere in the cafés and on the boulevards, because they constitute a formidable comedy in which the lie ends up being revealed.

- Mémoires à consulter, Pour [...] Beaumarchais, [...] accusé, Paris, Valleyre, 1773
- Supplément du mémoire à consulter Pour [...] Beaumarchais, [...] accusé en corruption de Juge & calomnie, Paris, Quillau, 1773 (first edition)
- Requête d'atténuation pour le Sr Caron de Beaumarchais, Paris, Knapen, 1773 (édition originale)
- Addition au supplément du mémoire à consulter pour [...] Beaumarchais, Paris, Clousier, sd [1773] (first edition)
- Quatrième mémoire à consulter, Pour [...] Beaumarchais,[...] Contre M. Goezman, juge accusé de surbornation et de faux, Paris, Clousier, 1774 (first edition).

MONNIER, Henri.

Les Bas-Fonds de la société.

Paris, Jules Claye, 1862.

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400 €

First édition.

Copy n°19 of the only 200 that were printed.
The printing on beautiful Holland paper is very neat.

BUYSSE, Cyriel || CASSIERS, Henri.

Contes des Pays-Bas.

Paris, H. Piazza, 1910.

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400 €

First edition.
Very beautiful illustrations by Henri Cassiers (1858-1944), belgian painter.

Presentation copy.

VERNE, Jules.

Le Volcan d'or.

Paris, Collection Hetzel, [v. 1906].

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400 €

First illustrated 8vo edition.
The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel, takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush.

[ROCHELLE DE BRECY, Adélaïde-Isabelle].

L'origine de la chouannerie, ou mémoires de Stéphanie de Tress, pour servir à l'histoire de nos guerres civiles.

Paris, Ouvrier, 1803.

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400 €

First edition.

ROSTAND, Edmond.

Chantecler. Pièce en quatre actes, en vers . Représentée pour la première fois au Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, le 7 février 1910.

Paris, Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1910.

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400 €

First edition limited to 1000 copies, all on "japon" paper.
Original cover from René Lalique.

TOUDOUZE, Gustave.

La Vengeance des Peaux-de-Bique.

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1896.

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First edition.
100 luxury copies have been published on China paper.
Our copy is one of the first 50 copies (n°28), with all the engravings expected (n°28).

The illustrations of this book were realized by Julien Le Blant (1851-1936), who was a French painter specialized on the War in the Vendée, in France, at the end of the eighteenth century.

Fine copy.

MERIMEE, Prosper || TRAYNIER, Jean.

Colomba.

Paris, La Tradition, 1942.

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400 €

First edition of the illustrations.

One of the 24 copies with double set of plates and 1 copper matrix, ours n°13.

GALTIER-BOISSIERE, Jean || DIGNIMONT, André.

La bonne vie.

Paris, Henri Jonquières et Cie, 1928.

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350 €

575 copies, this one on "Vélin de Montgolfier" paper.

[COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis.

Un Village de France.

Paris, La Bibliothèque française, [1945].

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350 €

First edition.
Presentation copy signed by Aragon to Jacques Faizant.
The National Writers' Committee is an organ of the literary resistance, an emanation of the National Writers' Front, close to the French Communist Party.
Led by Aragon, the committee brings together many great French authors.
This publication in the aftermath of the war aims, through the example of an “ordinary” French village, at the abuses committed by the Nazis. Thus, Plomion in Aisne, where on August 31, 1944 fourteen inhabitants aged 16 to 72 were shot by the SS.
The photos of the victims are accompanied by a text by Henry Malherbe and a poem by Paul Claudel. Amusing send-off from one of the most fervent communist writers to the one who was on the front page of Le Figaro for decades.

D'ORMESSON, Jean.

Presque rien sur presque tout.

Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1996.

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350 €

First edition.

Copy n°42/50 on "white vergé de Hollande" first print on luxury paper.

VERLAINE, Paul.

Invectives.

Paris, Léon Vanier, 1896.

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350 €

First edition.
A collection of poems published the year of the poet's death. In it, Verlaine violently attacks a group of personalities with whom he had come into conflict.

BUSSY RABUTIN, Roger de.

Discours du Comte de Bussy Rabutin a ses enfans, sur le bon usage des adversitez et les divers évènemens de sa vie.

Paris, Anisson, 1694.

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350 €

First edition.
Libertine, satyrist and pamphleteer of the reign of Louis XIV, Bussy-Rabutin was exiled to his castle in Burgundy following his Histoire des Gaules.
He will write there this discourse, wiser, which was not published until after his death.

[BEAUMARCHAIS].

Recueil de onze pièces sur l'Affaire Kornmann-Bergasse.

Paris, Clousier, 1787-1789.

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350 €

Set of 11 pamphlets published on the affair which opposed Beaumarchais to Kornmann and Bergasse

1/ Mémoire sur une question d'adultère, de séduction et de diffamation pour le Sr. Kornmann contre la dame Kornman son épouse [...], sl, sn, 1787. (2)-180 pages.
2/ Mémoire du Sieur Kornmann, en réponse au Mémoire du Sr de Beaumarchais, sn, sd. 62 pages.
3/ Requête présentée à nosseigneurs de Parlement par le Sieur Kornmann, Paris, Cailleau, 1789. 15 pages (+ note manuscrite)
4/ Réponse du Sieur Bergasse présentée au roi sur l'écrit du Sr de Beaumarchais , sn, 1788. 69 pages
5/ Mémoire de Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais contre M. Guillaume Kornman banquier de Paris accusant sa femme d'Adultère, Paris, Clousier, 1787. 68 pages.
6/ Observations du sieur Bergasse sur l'écrit du sieur de Beaumarchais ayant pour titre, Court mémoire, en attendant l'autre dans la cause du sieur Kornmann, sn, 1788. 91-16 pages.
7/ Court mémoire en attendant l'autre par M. Caron de Beaumarchais, sn, 1788. 56 pages.
8/ Mémoire pour le sieur Bergasse, dans la cause du sieur Kornmann, contre le sieur de Beaumarchais et contre le prince de Nassau, sn, 1788. (2)-viii-150 pages.
9/ Mémoire présenté au Roi par M. Lenoir, conseiller d'état contre M. Kornman, sn, 1787. (2)-50 pages.
10/ Mémoire en réfutation contre Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais pour servir de suite au cri public; Paris, Chez le frippon d'imprimeur, 1787. 46 pages. (édition originale)
11/ Confession générale de Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais exécuté au caveau du Palais-Royal, sn, 1787. 24 pages.

[DOUCET, Jérôme] DICKENS, Charles.

Monsieur Minns, Horace Sparkins.

Paris, Le Livre et L'Estampe, 1903.

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350 €

Adaptation of the work of Dickens by Jérôme Doucet under the pseudonym of F. de Montfrileux.
Stencil illustrated by Harry Elliot.
One of the 240 copies on Arches paper, ours n°277.

O. HENRY || GUS BOFA.

Martin Burney, boueux, boxeur et marchand d'oiseaux.

Paris, édition française illustrée, 1919.

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350 €

First edition in French.
French adaptation by Maurice Beerblock and illustrated by Gus Bofa.
One of 15 copies on Dutch paper (including 7 non-commercial), ours n°9.

FLAUBERT, Gustave.

Madame Bovary.

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1930.

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350 €

Edition illustrated by Christian Jacques Boullaire.

One of the 60 copies on Japan paper, ours n°62.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

LE CLEZIO, Jean Marie Gustave.

Révolutions.

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 2003.

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350 €

First edition.

One of the 110 numbered copies on vellum paper from the Malmenayde s paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°110.

BASTIA, Georges.

Le Zoo des Vedettes.

Monaco, Éditions Héracléïa, [ca. 1946].

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350 €

First edition printed at 450 numbered copies (n° 435), with 30 original lithographs by Georges BASTIA (1904-1980), representing animal caricatures of the stars of the show of the time such as Michel Simon, Fernandel, Marguerite Moreno, Cécile Sorel, Jean-Louis Barrault, Fernand Ledoux, Maurice Chevalier, Raimu, Mistinguett, Edith Piaf, etc.

Presentation copy to to Marc Gilbert Sauvageon, French playwright, screenwriter and director.

[FARCES].

Recueil de 8 farces, sotties ou moralités.

Paris, Techener, [v. 1880].

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350 €

Collection of 8 farces, silliness or moralities reissued by Techener:
- La Reformeresse, farce à VI personnages, (tirage non justifié)
- Le Sourd, son varlet et l'Yverongne, (n°12/76)
- L'Eglise, noblesse et Pourete, qui font la lefive, (n°9/76)
- Les trois Galans, (tirage non justifié)
- La Farce du Poulier, (tirage non justifié)
- Moralité, (tirage non justifié)
- Desconfiture des Hennoyers (1878)
- Estrenes de l'asne, 1590 (v.1880).

COLETTE.

Le Blé en Herbe.

Paris, Flammarion, 1932.

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Dedication copy signed by Colette.

[NOUGARET, Pierre Jean-Baptiste].

Les mille et une folies, contes français.

Paris, Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1771.

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350 €

First edition.

PAULHAN, Jean.

Clef de la Poésie.

Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1944.

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350 €

First edition.
Work by the very influential editor-in-chief of the NRF in which he proposes "to finally identify some method or key, which will allow us to separate the true from the false".

Pasted on the guard is a handwritten letter signed by Jean Paulhan addressed to Aimé Blanc-Dufour.
Aimé Blanc-Dufour had signed an article "Reflections on Jean Paulhan and rhetoric" in September 1946 in Cahiers du sud, Jean Paulhan responded to it on his relationship to rhetoric.
“Secret society, no doubt. And I believe, in this sense also, that Rhéto holds a secret, touching the relationships between language and thought…”.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Le foyer des artistes.

Paris, Plon, 1947.

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350 €

First edition.
One of the 22 on Hollande, second paper after 16 on Japon.

JACOB, Max.

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou.

St Benoit sur Loire, s.n., 1er juin 1927.

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350 €

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.
The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

D'HEYLLI, Georges.

Regnier, sociétaire de la comédie française (1831-1872).

Paris, Librairie Générale (D. Jouaust), 1872.

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350 €

First edition.
Work published for retirement as an actor in the French Comedy by Philoclès Regnier.

Personal copy of Regnier in which he leaves some handwritten notes. In particular 4 pages at the end of the book in which he returns to some biographical details and he reproduces a letter received on the anniversary of his retirement: "Some time later, I received from playwrights belonging to the French Academy the following letter which touched me very much, but I did not think I should let it be published "

The dedication sheet to Mme Escalier née Regnier, daughter of the actor was cut out. Probably after the divorce of Henriette Regnier who will marry in second marriage Alexandre Dumas fils.
The frontispiece portrait is Martial. The book is completed by two etchings by Leon Gaucherel, which were engraved for a collection on the comedians of the Comédie Française and a vintage albumen photo of Regnier at his desk.

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Litterature

[RELIURES SIGNEES KIEFFER] FRANCE, Anatole.

Histoire contemporaine.

SOULAGES, Gabriel || CARLEGLE (ill.).

Des riens.

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

Fables choisies, mises en vers par Monsieur de la Fontaine et par lui revues, corrigées & augmentées de nouveau.

VERNE, Jules.

Kéraban le Têtu.

Rare cloth on this title.

[BEAUMARCHAIS].

Recueil de cinq Mémoires sur l'Affaire Goezman.

MONNIER, Henri.

Les Bas-Fonds de la société.

First édition.Copy n°19 of the only 200 that were printed. The printing on beautiful Holland paper is very neat.

BUYSSE, Cyriel || CASSIERS, Henri.

Contes des Pays-Bas.

First edition.Very beautiful illustrations by Henri Cassiers (1858-1944), belgian painter.Presentation copy.

VERNE, Jules.

Le Volcan d'or.

First illustrated 8vo edition. The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel, takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush.

[ROCHELLE DE BRECY, Adélaïde-Isabelle].

L'origine de la chouannerie, ou mémoires de Stéphanie de Tress, pour servir à l'histoire de nos guerres civiles.

First edition.

ROSTAND, Edmond.

Chantecler. Pièce en quatre actes, en vers . Représentée pour la première fois au Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, le 7 février 1910.

First edition limited to 1000 copies, all on "japon" paper. Original cover from René Lalique.

TOUDOUZE, Gustave.

La Vengeance des Peaux-de-Bique.

MERIMEE, Prosper || TRAYNIER, Jean.

Colomba.

First edition of the illustrations.One of the 24 copies with double set of plates and 1 copper matrix, ours n°13.

GALTIER-BOISSIERE, Jean || DIGNIMONT, André.

La bonne vie.

575 copies, this one on "Vélin de Montgolfier" paper.

[COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis.

Un Village de France.

D'ORMESSON, Jean.

Presque rien sur presque tout.

First edition.Copy n°42/50 on "white vergé de Hollande" first print on luxury paper.

VERLAINE, Paul.

Invectives.

First edition.A collection of poems published the year of the poet's death. In it, Verlaine violently attacks a group of personalities with whom he had come into conflict.

BUSSY RABUTIN, Roger de.

Discours du Comte de Bussy Rabutin a ses enfans, sur le bon usage des adversitez et les divers évènemens de sa vie.

First edition.Libertine, satyrist and pamphleteer of the reign of Louis XIV, Bussy-Rabutin was exiled to his castle in Burgundy following his Histoire des Gaules. He will write there this discourse, wiser, which was not published until after his death.

[BEAUMARCHAIS].

Recueil de onze pièces sur l'Affaire Kornmann-Bergasse.

[DOUCET, Jérôme] DICKENS, Charles.

Monsieur Minns, Horace Sparkins.

Adaptation of the work of Dickens by Jérôme Doucet under the pseudonym of F. de Montfrileux. Stencil illustrated by Harry Elliot. One of the 240 copies on Arches paper, ours n°277.

O. HENRY || GUS BOFA.

Martin Burney, boueux, boxeur et marchand d'oiseaux.

First edition in French. French adaptation by Maurice Beerblock and illustrated by Gus Bofa. One of 15 copies on Dutch paper (including 7 non-commercial), ours n°9.

FLAUBERT, Gustave.

Madame Bovary.

LE CLEZIO, Jean Marie Gustave.

Révolutions.

First edition.One of the 110 numbered copies on vellum paper from the Malmenayde s paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°110.

BASTIA, Georges.

Le Zoo des Vedettes.

[FARCES].

Recueil de 8 farces, sotties ou moralités.

COLETTE.

Le Blé en Herbe.

Dedication copy signed by Colette.

[NOUGARET, Pierre Jean-Baptiste].

Les mille et une folies, contes français.

First edition.

PAULHAN, Jean.

Clef de la Poésie.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Le foyer des artistes.

First edition.One of the 22 on Hollande, second paper after 16 on Japon.

JACOB, Max.

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou.

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

D'HEYLLI, Georges.

Regnier, sociétaire de la comédie française (1831-1872).

First édition.

Copy n°19 of the only 200 that were printed.
The printing on beautiful Holland paper is very neat.

First edition.
Very beautiful illustrations by Henri Cassiers (1858-1944), belgian painter.

Presentation copy.

First illustrated 8vo edition.
The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel, takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush.

First edition limited to 1000 copies, all on "japon" paper.
Original cover from René Lalique.

First edition of the illustrations.

One of the 24 copies with double set of plates and 1 copper matrix, ours n°13.

First edition.

Copy n°42/50 on "white vergé de Hollande" first print on luxury paper.

First edition.
A collection of poems published the year of the poet's death. In it, Verlaine violently attacks a group of personalities with whom he had come into conflict.

First edition.
Libertine, satyrist and pamphleteer of the reign of Louis XIV, Bussy-Rabutin was exiled to his castle in Burgundy following his Histoire des Gaules.
He will write there this discourse, wiser, which was not published until after his death.

Adaptation of the work of Dickens by Jérôme Doucet under the pseudonym of F. de Montfrileux.
Stencil illustrated by Harry Elliot.
One of the 240 copies on Arches paper, ours n°277.

First edition in French.
French adaptation by Maurice Beerblock and illustrated by Gus Bofa.
One of 15 copies on Dutch paper (including 7 non-commercial), ours n°9.

First edition.

One of the 110 numbered copies on vellum paper from the Malmenayde s paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°110.

First edition.
One of the 22 on Hollande, second paper after 16 on Japon.

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.
The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.