An interesting miscellany of French authors, including a few immortels and with emphasis on twentieth century works, especially novels of the first world war and runs of titles by Marcel Aymé and Jean Giono, works by Sartre and Queneau, and a couple of pioneering gay novels.
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Paris: Editions Surrealistes, 1934. First edition, limited to 200 numbered copies on Alfa Buffant paper [total edition of 250 copies]. An excellent association copy of this collection of poems, inscribed by Georges Hugnet (1906-1974) to Sherry Mangan, poet, scholar, editor of Larus, and radical socialist. Mangan, Harvard educated, was instrumental..... Read More Item Details for Onan Add to Wish List
Item #327076
Price: $1,750
Paris: Robert Laffont, 1945. Hugo, Valentine. Exemplaire H of 12 copies. ONE OF 12. Published under the pseudonym Margeride, Paille noire des étables was given by Minuit by Paul Eluard before it was published by Trois Collines in Geneva in 1944. This edition, illustrated by the surrealist artist Valentine Hugo..... Read More Item Details for Paille noire des étables. Illustré par Valentine Hugo Add to Wish List
Item #333171
Price: $9,500
Paris: Librarie de la Collection des Dix, A. Romagnol éditeur, [1913]. “Exemplaire unique avec les Croquis”. Unique Copy with 20 Original Drawings, Plates in 6 States and ALS from Huysmans. A unique copy, elegantly bound, with plates in 6 states, and original studies and sketches for the the plates by..... Read More Item Details for Sac au Dos Add to Wish List
Item #263054
Price: $175
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1929. First edition, no. LVII of 109 copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma, watermarked nrf, for the Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française. Collection of short stories. Read More Item Details for Astaroth Add to Wish List
Item #339454
Price: $375
Paris: Ancienne Maison Gauthier, Glémarec, [n.d., 1845]. Later edition. Gershon Legman’s Copy. Vignettes and anecdotes of the battle between the sexes. The first edition, from publisher Gauthier, is dated 1841; this edition is dated to 1845 by the Bibliotheque nationale. All are uncommon. From the library of the erotica scholar..... Read More Item Details for La Malice des Femmes, ou les Fourberies Féminines … ouvrage publié par un indiscret Add to Wish List
Item #345513
Price: $1,250
Paris: Editions Lapina, 1930. Laboureur, Jean-Émile. Edition deluxe, one of 19 copies on Vieux Japon with the extra suite of 15 plates. Read More Item Details for Fugues sur Siegfried Add to Wish List
Item #308573
Price: $400
Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1921. Laurencin, Marie. First edition, one of 400 copies on Lafuma-Navarre. ONE OF 400 COPIES ILLUSTRATED BY MARIE LAURENCIN. Artist Marie Laurencin (1883–1956), cubist painter and printmaker, was born in Paris; she was associated with Picasso, Picabia and Delaunay, and had friendships with..... Read More Item Details for La Tentative Amoureuse, ou le Traite du vain desir Add to Wish List
Item #333385
Price: $4,250
Paris: Lemerre, 1869. First edition. Inscribed to Théophile Gautier. A volume of translations by the classicist poet Charles Leconte de Lisle, parnassian and friend of Baudelaire and Gautier. Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) was a long-time librarian at the Luxembourg, and was elected to Victor Hugo’s chair at the Academie française..... Read More Item Details for Hésiode. Hymnes Orphiques. Théocrite. Bion - Moskhos - Tyrtee. Odes Anacréontiques. Traduction nouvelle Add to Wish List
Item #302640
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Paris: A. Durel, 1883. One of two known copies. Rare catalogue of a sale of book on love, women, marriage, and scatalogy. Only the Bibliothèque nationale de France reports holding a copy. From the library of erotica scholar and collector Gershon Legman (1917-99), with his signature dated 1960 on the..... Read More Item Details for Catalogue d'une jolie collection de livres anciens et modernes, principalement sur l'amour, les femmes, le mariage, livres facétieux, scatalogiques ... provenant de la collection de M. X***, dont la vente aura lieu le 7 décembre 1883 Add to Wish List
Item #345312
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Berne: Beat Louis Walthard; Nouvelle Société Typographique, 1780-1781. Read More Item Details for Les Nouvelles de Marguerite Reine de Navarre Add to Wish List
Item #345982
Price: $1,750
Paris: 1919. First edition, no. 4 of 7 copies on Hollande. Strange account of friends who gather at the café Brebis, with digressions on the literature of adventure, Johnson’s History of the Pirates, Oexmelin (Esquemeling), Poe, Kipling, Stevenson, and Marcel Schwob. Very much a novel of the aftermath of the..... Read More Item Details for La Clique du Café Brebis. Histoire d’un centre de rééducation intellectuelle Add to Wish List
Item #329720
Price: $750
Paris: Gallimard, [1946]. Review copy marked S.P. on back wrapper. Inscribed to Eve Curie. Inscribed by the author to Eve Curie, the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, whose biography of her mother, Madame Curie (1937), was an international success (the American edition won the National Book Award). “Pour Eve..... Read More Item Details for Scènes Choisies Add to Wish List
Item #346586
Price: $375
Paris: Grasset, [1952]. First edition, review copy, wrapper marked S.P. Inscribed by the author on the first blank, “A Mlle M. A. [Niering?] cordialement André Maurois”. Originally published by Grasset as a 48-page chapbook in his Cahiers irréguliers series, Ce Que Je Crois soon sold out and and provoked responses..... Read More Item Details for Ce Que Je Crois. Avec les objections faites par quelques lecteurs et les réponses a ces objections Add to Wish List
Item #339411
Price: $375
Paris: chez tous les libraires [Arras, typ. Schoutheer], [n.d., 1866?]. Tiré à petit nombre pour les grands Amateurs. Uncommon French title, OCLC reporting two locations only (BnF and Institut de France). Read More Item Details for Un Génie en Herbe Add to Wish List
Item #345917
Price: $375
Paris: Editions Denoël, 1945. First edition in French, no. 20 of 1,000 copies on vergé creme Johannot. First edition in French of Henry Miller’s celebrated Tropic of Cancer. Read More Item Details for Tropique du Cancer traduit par Paul Rivert. Préface de Henri Fluchère Add to Wish List
Item #346418
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[Paris]: J. Ferenczi et Fils, [1935]. First edition. The first novel in French exclusively devoted to Zombies. Le zombi du grand Pérou ou la comtesse de cocagne by Pierre-Corneille Blessebois, first published in 1697, mentions zombies as just one element of an exotic narrative. Le Zombie was published just three..... Read More Item Details for Le Zombie. Roman Add to Wish List
Item #313239
Price: $375
Paris: Plon, [1926]. First edition. Account of the activities of Spanish diplomat Jaime Mir (1888-1943) as a courier for the British and American embassies in Brussels, and in passing communications between France and the Netherlands during the German occupation in the first world war, which led to his arrest and..... Read More Item Details for Mémoires d'un condamné à mort (1914-1918). Préface de Valère Gille Add to Wish List
Item #346429
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Paris: NRF / Gallimard, [1948]. First edition, review copy so marked on the back wrapper. There was no large paper issue of this work. Review Copy. First published novel, of life during the second world war, by Roger Nimier (1925-1962), who wrote a handful of novels,, worked on screenplays, and..... Read More Item Details for Les Épées. Roman Add to Wish List
Item #345806
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Paris: NRF / Gallimard, [1968]. First edition, no. 18 of 56 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. One of 56 Copies. Posthumously published novel by Roger Nimier (1925-1962), who published a handful of novels, wrote screenplays, and worked as an adviser to publisher Gallimard in advocating publication of literary..... Read More Item Details for L’Étrangère. Roman Add to Wish List
Item #345801
Price: $3,000
Marseeille: Jean Vigeau, 1943. Exemplaire sur papier d'edition, Hors commerce No. CIX. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on ffep to Jacques Chardonne (Jacques Boutelleau) part of the Groupe Collaboration Roger Peyrefitte (1907-2000) wrote openly about his homoerotic experiences in Catholic boarding school in this book, his first nove,l which won the prix Renaudot..... Read More Item Details for Les Amitiés Particulières. Roman Add to Wish List
Item #345950
Price: $1,250
Paris: NRF / Gallimard, [1951]. First edition, no. 23 of 30 numbered copies on hollande Van Gelder. Philosophical novel by Queneau, taking its title from a passage by Hegel. Filmed by Jean Herman in 1967; an Englihs translation was published in 1977. Sharp copy from the édition de tête. Read More Item Details for Le dimanche de la vie Add to Wish List
Item #339397
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Paris: Gallimard, [1968]. First edition, one of 160 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma, after 50 copies on Hollande Van Gelder. Queneau’s playful novel of a belle epoque author in pursuit of a character escaped from his manuscripts. Read More Item Details for Le vol d’Icare. Roman Add to Wish List
Item #346420
![Item #345509 Le Palais-Royal. Première Partie. Les Filles de l’Alée-des-Soupirs. [And:]...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/345509.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676486354)
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Paris: au Palais-royal d’abord, puis partout, même chez Guillot, 1790. First edition. ‘un livre très instructif et même philosophique’. The famed sociological account of the girls of the Palais-Royal and a chronicle of high-class prositution, by the great observer of Parisian life, Rétif de la Bretonne (1734-1806), who appears has..... Read More Item Details for Le Palais-Royal. Première Partie. Les Filles de l’Alée-des-Soupirs. [And:] Seconde Partie. Les Sunamites. [And:] Troisième Partie. Les Converseuses Add to Wish List
Item #345509
Price: $2,750
Paris: Éditions de Minuit, [1961]. First edition, trade issue. Inscribed with a Drawing. A nice copy of the ciné-roman — a subtitle invented for this book — which is essentially Robbe-Grillet’s text of “the film as I saw it in my head, scene by scene”, before Alain Resnais began shooting..... Read More Item Details for L’année dernière à Marienbad. Ciné Roman Add to Wish List
Item #324421
Price: $2,500
Paris: Charles Carrington, Libraire Éditeur, 1902. No. 332 of 500 numbered copies on Hollande. First French language edition, second issue without frontispiece. Finely Bound French ‘Venus’. The first French edition of von Sacher Masoch’s Venus in Furs, in the translation by Raphaël Ledos de Beaufort, published by the enterprising Charles..... Read More Item Details for La Vénus à la fourrure. Roman sur la flagellation traduit par Ledos de Beaufort. Frontispiece d’après Bakalowicz Add to Wish List
Item #345300