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BERGERET, Gaston || HENRIOT.

Les Evénements de Pontax.

Paris, Librairie Conquet-Carteret, 1899.

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450 €

First edition.
Illustrations, “handwriting and watercolors” by Henri Maigrot aka Henriot.

One of the 175 copies on marsh vellum, ours n°155.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François René.

Mémoires d'outre tombe.

Bruxelles, Librairie Tarride (puis Librairie du Panthéon), 1848-1850.

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450 €

Counterfeit edition published before the original.
The memoirs from beyond the grave were published partly in episodes in "La Presse" in the last quarter of 1848. The Belgian publisher Tarride (which in 1850 was renamed "Librairie du Panthéon") compiled these episodes to deliver an urgent edition of the first parts of the Mémoires (which corresponds here to the first four parts) only a few weeks before the original in-8 edition by Penaud begins to be printed.
The rest of the publication of the original by Penaud will last until 1850, and Tarride will give a counterfeit edition in the process.
Our copy is full of the twenty volumes published, the first four of which can therefore be considered as a pre-original edition.

CARCO, Francis || ASSELIN, Maurice.

Rien qu'une femme.

Paris, G.Crès et Cie, 1923.

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450 €

1228 copies, this one of the 36 on "japon impérial" paper.

GUITRY, Sacha.

Elles et Toi.

Monte-Carlo, Raoul Solar, 1946.

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450 €

First edition.
One of the 300 first copies, signed by the author.
Presentation copy to Marc Gilbert Sauvageon, French playwright, screenwriter and director.

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.

[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).

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

VERNE, Jules.

Kéraban le Têtu.

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

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400 €

Rare cloth on this title.

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.

COLETTE.

Le Blé en Herbe.

Paris, Flammarion, 1932.

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Dedication copy signed by Colette.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

[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).

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.

[NOUGARET, Pierre Jean-Baptiste].

Les mille et une folies, contes français.

Paris, Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1771.

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350 €

First edition.

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.

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.

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Les Soeurs Rondoli.

Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1884.

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First edition.
First edition copy as described by Vicaire, the back of the title page bears the mention of 10 copies on Hollande paper. The number will be increased to 50 during printing.

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.

DUMAS fils, Alexandre || [BARBE, Benjamin].

Tiphaine.

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1880.

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350 €

First edition.

One of 35 copies on Whatman paper, ours n°15.
the preface is by Alexandre Dumas fils, he indicates that the novel is from an anonymous source but it has since been attributed to Benjamin Barbé (1818-1893).

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…”.

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Litterature

BERGERET, Gaston || HENRIOT.

Les Evénements de Pontax.

First edition. Illustrations, “handwriting and watercolors” by Henri Maigrot aka Henriot. One of the 175 copies on marsh vellum, ours n°155.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François René.

Mémoires d'outre tombe.

CARCO, Francis || ASSELIN, Maurice.

Rien qu'une femme.

1228 copies, this one of the 36 on "japon impérial" paper.

GUITRY, Sacha.

Elles et Toi.

First edition. One of the 300 first copies, signed by the author. Presentation copy to Marc Gilbert Sauvageon, French playwright, screenwriter and director.

TOUDOUZE, Gustave.

La Vengeance des Peaux-de-Bique.

[BEAUMARCHAIS].

Recueil de cinq Mémoires sur l'Affaire Goezman.

LA FONTAINE, Jean.

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

BUYSSE, Cyriel || CASSIERS, Henri.

Contes des Pays-Bas.

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

[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.

VERNE, Jules.

Le Volcan d'or.

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

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.

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.

VERNE, Jules.

Kéraban le Têtu.

Rare cloth on this title.

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.

COLETTE.

Le Blé en Herbe.

Dedication copy signed by Colette.

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.

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.

D'HEYLLI, Georges.

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

[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.

[FARCES].

Recueil de 8 farces, sotties ou moralités.

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.

[NOUGARET, Pierre Jean-Baptiste].

Les mille et une folies, contes français.

First edition.

D'ORMESSON, Jean.

Presque rien sur presque tout.

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

GALTIER-BOISSIERE, Jean || DIGNIMONT, André.

La bonne vie.

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

MAUPASSANT, Guy de.

Les Soeurs Rondoli.

First edition.First edition copy as described by Vicaire, the back of the title page bears the mention of 10 copies on Hollande paper. The number will be increased to 50 during printing.

BASTIA, Georges.

Le Zoo des Vedettes.

DUMAS fils, Alexandre || [BARBE, Benjamin].

Tiphaine.

First edition.One of 35 copies on Whatman paper, ours n°15.the preface is by Alexandre Dumas fils, he indicates that the novel is from an anonymous source but it has since been attributed to Benjamin Barbé (1818-1893).

First edition.
Illustrations, “handwriting and watercolors” by Henri Maigrot aka Henriot.

One of the 175 copies on marsh vellum, ours n°155.

First edition.
One of the 300 first copies, signed by the author.
Presentation copy to Marc Gilbert Sauvageon, French playwright, screenwriter and director.

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

Presentation copy.

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

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

First edition of the illustrations.

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

First édition.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

First edition.
First edition copy as described by Vicaire, the back of the title page bears the mention of 10 copies on Hollande paper. The number will be increased to 50 during printing.

First edition.

One of 35 copies on Whatman paper, ours n°15.
the preface is by Alexandre Dumas fils, he indicates that the novel is from an anonymous source but it has since been attributed to Benjamin Barbé (1818-1893).