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.
Paris: L'Edition Bibliotheque des Curieux. 4, Rue de Furstenberg, 1916. First edition. Cyril Connolly writes of Apollinaire: "By-passing Mallarme, Apollinaire returned to simpler and fresher forms in the style of Laforgue--and Villon. His imagery is dazzling, his vitality prodigious, his poetry, like Eliot's, both memorable and musical." The author died..... Read More about La Poète assassiné
Price: $950
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1930. First Gallimard edition, one of 25 copies hors commerce. Inscribed. Inscribed by the author on the half title, “A Madame Jean Rivière, hommage de Marcel Aymé”. Aymé’s first book, originally published in Poitiers in 1926. Read More about Brûlebois
Price: $500
Paris: Gallimard, [1950]. First edition, one of 28 copies on vergé de Hollande Pannekoek, this copy number XX. One of 28 Copies. Collection of ten short stories, here in the édition de tête. Read More about En Arrière. Nouvelles
Price: $750
Paris: Gallimard, [1943]. First edition, no. 13 of 50 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre (after 9 on mûrier d’Annam). Read More about La Vouivre. Roman
Price: $500
Paris: Gallimard, [1946]. First edition, no. LXVIII of 105 numbered copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma Navarre, hors commerce. Read More about Le Chemin des Écoliers
Price: $500
Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1932. First edition, no. XCIII of 100 numbered copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma Navarre, watermarked nrf, for the Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française. Marcel Aymé’s first collection of short stories, written 1927 to 1931, including "Le Puits aux images," "La Retraite..... Read More about Le Puits aux Images
Price: $375
Paris: Gallimard, [1946]. First edition, no. 58 of 110 numbered copies on vergé pur fil Lafuma Navarre. Collection of eight short stories of Paris during the Nazi occupation, inlcuding the celebrated "Traversée de Paris" Read More about Le Vin de Paris. Nouvelles
Price: $500
Paris: Goupil, [1878]. Carjat’s Charles Baudelaire. The iconic portrait photograph of Charles Baudelaire by Étienne Carjat, taken c. 1863, and here printed posthumously in La Galerie Contemporaine in 1878. Carjat was rivaled only by Nadar in his portraits of 19th century French cultural figures. “Like Nadar, Carjat captured character and..... Read More about “Ch. Baudelaire”
Price: $3,500
Paris: La Mandragore, [1945]. Masson, Leon. Copy no. 35 of a total edition of 170, this is one of 12 copies containing an extra suite in black and white numbered 25-36. Read More about Un Mangeur d'Opium. Extrait des Paradis Artificiels
Price: $1,250
[Saint-Maurice-d'Ételan: Imprimé en Normandie pour Pierre Bettencourt], 1957. First edition. Typographic artist book and philosophical anthology from the press of literary prankster Pierre Bettencourt (1917-2006), with passages from Pascal, Michaux, Baudelaire, Borges, Donne, Eckhart, Gandhi, Gide, Goethe, Hallaj, Heidegger, Kafka, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Racine, Rimbaud, Sartre, and others. The passages are..... Read More about D'homme à homme
Price: $500
Paris: Librairie Stock, Delamain & Boustelleau, [1930]. First edition, one of 845 copies on alfa satiné d'Outhenin-Chalandre. Read More about Opium. Journal d’une désintoxication
Price: $250
[Paris]: Editions Rombaldi, 1944. First Rombaldi edition, one of 120 press-numbered copies on Arches [total edition of 165 copies]. WITH ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS BY JEAN COCTEAU. Jean Cocteau's play, 'Orphee,' was first produced in 1926, at Theatre des Arts, in Paris. This 1944 limited edition, by Editions Rombaldi, in Paris, is..... Read More about Orphee. Texte et Lithographies de Jean Cocteau. (Tragedie en un Acte et un Intervalle
Price: $2,500
Bale [i.e., Brussels]: Imprimerie de Karl Schmidt [Gay et Doucé], 1891. Printed for the members of the Biblio-Aphrodiphile Societé. Fourth edition. Legman’s Copy. From the library of erotica scholar and collector Gershon Legman (1917-99), with his bibliographical notes and signature date 1943. Read More about Dictionnaire érotique moderne par un professeur de langue verte
Price: $1,000
Paris: Gallimard, [1950]. First edition, one of 53 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. Read More about L'homme de la scierie. Roman
Price: $225
Paris: Mercure de France, 1920. First edition, one of 613 numbered copies on Hollande. Read More about Confession de Minuit
Price: $250
Paris: A. Ferroud, 1895. One of 250 numbered copies on papier vèlin d'Arches from a total limitation of 500, this being number 449. Finely bound edition of Flaubert’s life of St. Julien, with a large ornamental plaque depicting scenes from the life of the saint on the upper cover. Read More about La Légende de Saint Julien L'Hospitalier … Preface par Marcel Schwob
Price: $1,750
[Genève]: Aux dépens d'un ami, [1949]. Limited edition, #176/400 copies signed by Genet, on Arches wove paper (from a total edition of 410). A handsome signed limited edition of Genet's fifth, partly autobiographical, novel, rendered into English as The Thief's Journal. Read More about Journal du Voleur
Price: $1,000
Lyon: L’Arbalète, 1946. First edition, number 256 of 475 copies “in-quarto coquille sur pur fil rives filigrané 'L'ABALETE.'" Read More about Miracle de la Rose
Price: $1,000
Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Français, 1917. Second edition, one of 300 numbered copies on papier de Rives (originally published in 1897). Read More about Les Nourritures Terrestres
Price: $250
Paris: Gallimard, [1946]. First Paris edition, one of 330 numbered copies vergé de Hollande. First Paris edition of Gide’s retelling of the myth of Theseus, preceded by the Pantheon edition in New York (for which there was no édition de tête). Read More about Thésée
Price: $200
Paris: Gallimard, [1958]. First edition, one of 210 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma, after 35 copies on Hollande Van Gelder. Angelo is the earliest version of Giono’s most celebrated novel, Le Hussard sur le toit [The Horseman on the Roof], written beginning in 1934, and described by him..... Read More about Angelo. Roman
Price: $250
Paris: Gallimard, [1957]. First edition, one of 210 numbered copies on vélin pur fil Lafuma, after 35 copies on Hollande Van Gelder. Read More about Le Bonheur Fou. Roman
Price: $1,250
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Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1931; 1937. First editions. Large paper copies, no. XXIX of 109 and no. XII of 15 on vergé Lafuma watermarked nrf, for the Bibliophiles de la Nouvelle Revue Française. Giono’s Great Novel of the First World War. One of the great French novels..... Read More about Le Grand Troupeau [with:] Refus d’Obéisance
Price: $2,750
Paris: Gallimard, [1951]. First edition, one of 210 copies on velin pur fil Navarre (numbered 31-230, this being no. 214). His Most Celebrated Novel. Giono’s most celebrated novel, Le Hussard sur le toit [The Horseman on the Roof], is set in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1830 and follows..... Read More about Le Hussard sur le toit
Price: $1,500
Paris: Gallimard, [1951]. First edition, no. V of 20 copies numbered I-XX on vergé de Hollande. One of 20 on Hollande. Read More about Les Grand Chemins. Roman
Price: $1,250