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LE CLEZIO, Jean Marie Gustave.

Alma.

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 2017.

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300 €

First edition.

One of the 140 numbered copies on Rivoli vellum paper from the Arjowiggins paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°117.

The writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008, evokes important places in his life, in particular Mauritius, Nice and Paris.

LE CLEZIO, Jean Marie Gustave.

Tempête, deux novellas.

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 2014.

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300 €

First edition.

One of the 80 numbered copies on Rivoli vellum paper from the Arjowiggins paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°72.

LE CLEZIO, Jean Marie Gustave.

Ritournelle de la faim.

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 2008.

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500 €

First edition.

One of the 140 numbered copies on vellum paper from the Malmenayde paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°90.

The author obtains the Nobel Prize for Literature a few days after the release of the novel in which he traces the journey of his mother on the eve of the Second World War.

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.

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.

ANOUILH, Jean.

La Vicomtesse d'Eristal n'a pas reçu son balais mécanique.

Paris, La Table Ronde, 1987.

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200 €

First edition.
One of 20 copies on Rives vellum paper, second luxury paper. Our copy n°I .

One of Anouilh's last writings, an autobiographical account that sheds light on his work.

ANOUILH, Jean.

Le Nombril.

Paris, La Table Ronde, 1981.

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200 €

First edition.
One of 30 copies on Holland Van Gelder second luxury paper . Our copy n°VII

A play which was performed for the first time in Paris on September 24, 1981, at the Théâtre de l'Atelier.

[Michel BERTRAND] SAINT MARC, Antoine.

La Dame de Plaisance.

s.l., Marcel Castel, 1968.

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250 €

First edition. Only 56 copies printed.

Very nice edition for the Club des Cinquante illustrated by 6 original watercolors signed by the painter Michel Bertrand (1935-2009).
Michel Bertrand will turn two years later to contemporary art in which he will experience some success. Catherine Millet will classify him among the major artists of the Montpellier region alongside Gérard Garouste and Vincent Bouliès. Six of his works are part of the collections of the Center Georges Pompidou.

[LETTRISME].

Halte au gang des escrocs et des cuistres nécrophages de Dada et pillards du Lettrisme !.

Paris, Front de la jeunesse lettrisme, 1967.

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120 €

First edition.

Rare leaflet of the Lettrist movement containing extracts from Maurice Lemaitre's book "Le Lettrisme devant Dada".

LEMAITRE, Maurice.

Le Lettrisme devant dada et les nécrophages de dada !.

Paris, Centre de Créativité, 1967.

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450 €

First edition.

Seduced by the ideas of Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaitre became one of the important figures of Lettrisme.
In this book he deplores the popularization of Dadaism and argues that the Lettrists are the only ones able to represent Dadaism and surrealism.

Sending of Maurice Lemaitre to Man Ray on the first guard.

We join;
Note on a piece of paper tablecloth by Philippe Soupault asking Man Ray to make a photographic portrait of Maurice Lemaitre.
Philippe Soupault is the founder with André Breton of the surrealist movement, this note thus puts in relation three great figures of this intellectual movement.

LAUNAY, Pierre-Jean.

Aux portes de Trézène.

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1966.

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70 €

First edition, limited to 1764 copies. Our copie is one of the 52 copies on Holland paper, first paper, numbered n°IX.

CHAPRON, Marcel.

Les Diamantines, Chronique du XVIIIe Siècle.

Paris, Editions Mazarine, 1964.

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60 €

First edition.
One of the 200 exemplar on Velin d'Arches paper, ours n°114.

Illustrated by Paul Lemagny.

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.

La Force des choses.

Paris, Gallimard Nrf, 1963.

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50 €

First edition.
Common paper.

Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

ALAIN (pseud. Emile CHARTRIER).

Cahiers de Lorient.

Paris, Gallimard - NRF, 1963.

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200 €

First edition, one the 47 on larrge paper.

DES LIGNERIS, Françoise.

Psyché 58.

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1958.

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40 €

First edition, limited to 1764 copies. Our copie is one of the 52 copies on Montval paper, first paper, numbered n°X.

POCCADAZ, Robert de.

Les Avides.

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1957.

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40 €

First edition, limited to 1764 copies. Our copie is one of the 52 copies on Montval paper, first paper, numbered n°XII.

CHAMSON, André.

Adeline Vénician.

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1956.

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60 €

First edition, limited to 1764 copies. Our copie is one of the 52 copies on Montval paper, first paper, numbered n°IX.

MAURRAS, Charles || JOSSO, Camille-Paul.

Anthinéa, d'Athènes à Florence.

Paris, Aux dépens de l'artiste (presses Daragnès), 1955.

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250 €

First edition of illustrations.
Book printed on Daragnès presses in 200 copies decorated with 29 chisel engravings by Camille Paul Josso (1902-1986) orientalist painter, two of which are double-paged.
Unnumbered copy printed for the playwright Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon.

Accompanied by the presentation folder of the edition with a sample of the text and engravings.

BRETON, André.

Les Manifestes du surréalisme avec le supplément des manifestes.

Paris, Editions du Sagittaire, 1955.

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1000 €

New augmented edition of the surrealist manifestos by André Breton.
Documents and numerous photographic illustrations by Man Ray, Denise Bellon, Dora Maar, Stieglitz, etc. Model by Pierre Faucheux.
One of 300 copies numbered and signed by André Breton, ours n°97.

Complete with its magnifying glass held by a ribbon and embedded in the last leaves as well as the rare supplement containing the 6 "original butterflies of Surrealism" (in a numbered envelope with the heading of the Sagittaire editions).

CARTON, Jean || MONTHERLANT, Henry de.

Encore un instant de bonheur.

Paris, Société du Livre d'Art, 1955.

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500 €

Limited edition (150 copies).
Our one the only 20 with the additionnal two suite of the engravings.
With an original drawing from Jean Carton.

DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel || FARGUE, Léon Paul || COLETTE.

Rencontres.

Paris, Presses de Madame Daragnès, 1954.

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1200 €

First edition.
Book in the form of a tribute published by his friends after the death of Jean Gabriel Daragnès. Woodwinds from the artist accompanied by texts by Colette, Fargue, Segonzac...
Original gouache hand-signed by Daragnès (250x215 mm).

One of the 130 copies printed on Vélin blanc with an original painting, ours n°21.

CREVEL, René.

Temps mêlés.

Verviers, Temps mêlés, 1954.

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150 €

First edition.
Numbered copy (n°32).

HENUSSE, Théo.

Une pièce de Molière inconnue.

Bruxelles, Editions Biblis, 1954.

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180 €

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).

One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

GUY DES CARS.

La dame du cirque.

Paris, Raoul Solar, 1953.

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50 €

Presentation copy to Jacques Rumpf.

PAUL LE SILENTIAIRE.

Poèmes érotiques.

Paris, Jacques Haumont, 1952.

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30 €

Copy on white vellum, ours n°155.
Frontispiece by Gabriel Fournier.

PROUST, Marcel.

Jean Santeuil.

Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1952.

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750 €

First edition.
One of the 110 copies reimposed in quarto tellière on "vergé pur fil" paper, ours n° LIV.
Novel unfinished by Marcel Proust and published posthumously.

DALI, Salvador.

La Vie secrète de Salvador Dali.

Paris, La Table Ronde, 1952.

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900 €

First french edition.

Signed by Dali to Pierre Lhoste (1913-1984) radio journalist and great autograph collector.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Bacchus. Pièce en trois actes.

Paris, Gallimard, 1952.

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90 €

First edition.
One of the 210 on Lafuma-Navarre, second paper after 30 on Hollande.

SAINTE-SOLINE, Claire.

Le Dimanche des rameaux.

Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1952.

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30 €

First edition, limited to 1714 copies. Our copie is one of the 162 copies on Vélin pur fil paper, second paper, numbered n°74.

ANOUILH, Jean.

La Valse des Toréadors.

Paris, La Table Ronde, 1952.

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200 €

First edition.
The Valse des toréadors is part of Anouilh's Grinning Pieces. It was a great success when interpreted by Louis de Funès in 1973.

Copy on Lafuma de Voiron n°69 (out of 75), first luxury paper.

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Litterature

LE CLEZIO, Jean Marie Gustave.

Alma.

First edition.One of the 140 numbered copies on Rivoli vellum paper from the Arjowiggins paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°117. The writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008, evokes important places in his life, in particular Mauritius, Nice and Paris.

LE CLEZIO, Jean Marie Gustave.

Tempête, deux novellas.

First edition.One of the 80 numbered copies on Rivoli vellum paper from the Arjowiggins paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°72.

LE CLEZIO, Jean Marie Gustave.

Ritournelle de la faim.

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.

D'ORMESSON, Jean.

Presque rien sur presque tout.

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

ANOUILH, Jean.

La Vicomtesse d'Eristal n'a pas reçu son balais mécanique.

First edition.One of 20 copies on Rives vellum paper, second luxury paper. Our copy n°I .One of Anouilh's last writings, an autobiographical account that sheds light on his work.

ANOUILH, Jean.

Le Nombril.

First edition.One of 30 copies on Holland Van Gelder second luxury paper . Our copy n°VII A play which was performed for the first time in Paris on September 24, 1981, at the Théâtre de l'Atelier.

[Michel BERTRAND] SAINT MARC, Antoine.

La Dame de Plaisance.

[LETTRISME].

Halte au gang des escrocs et des cuistres nécrophages de Dada et pillards du Lettrisme !.

First edition. Rare leaflet of the Lettrist movement containing extracts from Maurice Lemaitre's book "Le Lettrisme devant Dada".

LEMAITRE, Maurice.

Le Lettrisme devant dada et les nécrophages de dada !.

LAUNAY, Pierre-Jean.

Aux portes de Trézène.

First edition, limited to 1764 copies. Our copie is one of the 52 copies on Holland paper, first paper, numbered n°IX.

CHAPRON, Marcel.

Les Diamantines, Chronique du XVIIIe Siècle.

First edition.One of the 200 exemplar on Velin d'Arches paper, ours n°114.Illustrated by Paul Lemagny.

DE BEAUVOIR, Simone.

La Force des choses.

First edition.Common paper.Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

ALAIN (pseud. Emile CHARTRIER).

Cahiers de Lorient.

First edition, one the 47 on larrge paper.

DES LIGNERIS, Françoise.

Psyché 58.

First edition, limited to 1764 copies. Our copie is one of the 52 copies on Montval paper, first paper, numbered n°X.

POCCADAZ, Robert de.

Les Avides.

First edition, limited to 1764 copies. Our copie is one of the 52 copies on Montval paper, first paper, numbered n°XII.

CHAMSON, André.

Adeline Vénician.

First edition, limited to 1764 copies. Our copie is one of the 52 copies on Montval paper, first paper, numbered n°IX.

MAURRAS, Charles || JOSSO, Camille-Paul.

Anthinéa, d'Athènes à Florence.

BRETON, André.

Les Manifestes du surréalisme avec le supplément des manifestes.

CARTON, Jean || MONTHERLANT, Henry de.

Encore un instant de bonheur.

Limited edition (150 copies). Our one the only 20 with the additionnal two suite of the engravings. With an original drawing from Jean Carton.

DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel || FARGUE, Léon Paul || COLETTE.

Rencontres.

CREVEL, René.

Temps mêlés.

First edition.Numbered copy (n°32).

HENUSSE, Théo.

Une pièce de Molière inconnue.

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

GUY DES CARS.

La dame du cirque.

Presentation copy to Jacques Rumpf.

PAUL LE SILENTIAIRE.

Poèmes érotiques.

Copy on white vellum, ours n°155.Frontispiece by Gabriel Fournier.

PROUST, Marcel.

Jean Santeuil.

First edition.One of the 110 copies reimposed in quarto tellière on "vergé pur fil" paper, ours n° LIV.Novel unfinished by Marcel Proust and published posthumously.

DALI, Salvador.

La Vie secrète de Salvador Dali.

First french edition.Signed by Dali to Pierre Lhoste (1913-1984) radio journalist and great autograph collector.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Bacchus. Pièce en trois actes.

First edition. One of the 210 on Lafuma-Navarre, second paper after 30 on Hollande.

SAINTE-SOLINE, Claire.

First edition.

One of the 140 numbered copies on Rivoli vellum paper from the Arjowiggins paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°117.

The writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008, evokes important places in his life, in particular Mauritius, Nice and Paris.

First edition.

One of the 80 numbered copies on Rivoli vellum paper from the Arjowiggins paper mills, the only luxury paper. Our copy n°72.

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.

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

First edition.
One of 20 copies on Rives vellum paper, second luxury paper. Our copy n°I .

One of Anouilh's last writings, an autobiographical account that sheds light on his work.

First edition.
One of 30 copies on Holland Van Gelder second luxury paper . Our copy n°VII

A play which was performed for the first time in Paris on September 24, 1981, at the Théâtre de l'Atelier.

First edition.

Rare leaflet of the Lettrist movement containing extracts from Maurice Lemaitre's book "Le Lettrisme devant Dada".

First edition.
One of the 200 exemplar on Velin d'Arches paper, ours n°114.

Illustrated by Paul Lemagny.

First edition.
Common paper.

Autobiographical account of the period from the end of WWII to 1960. The story includes the time of the publication of The Second Sex, which makes her very famous, the Cold War, or the war in Algeria which she describes as a “personal drama”.

Limited edition (150 copies).
Our one the only 20 with the additionnal two suite of the engravings.
With an original drawing from Jean Carton.

First edition.
Numbered copy (n°32).

First publication with critical notes of this piece of 402 verses that Théo Hénusse attributes to Molière (he will be the only one to defend this provenance).

One of the 75 copies printed on Japan paper, ours n°32.

Copy on white vellum, ours n°155.
Frontispiece by Gabriel Fournier.

First edition.
One of the 110 copies reimposed in quarto tellière on "vergé pur fil" paper, ours n° LIV.
Novel unfinished by Marcel Proust and published posthumously.

First french edition.

Signed by Dali to Pierre Lhoste (1913-1984) radio journalist and great autograph collector.

First edition.
One of the 210 on Lafuma-Navarre, second paper after 30 on Hollande.

First edition.
The Valse des toréadors is part of Anouilh's Grinning Pieces. It was a great success when interpreted by Louis de Funès in 1973.

Copy on Lafuma de Voiron n°69 (out of 75), first luxury paper.