London: Printed for J.Dodsley, 1798. Read More about Letters of Abelard and Heloise. To which is prefixed a particular account of their lives,...

Kentfield, California: The L-D Allen Press, 1954. Dean, Malette. One of 175 copies. The typeface is Romanée, set by hand: the paper is Crown & Sceptre, hand-made in England. Printed on an Acorn Press. Read More about The Private Journals of Stendahl, 1811-1817. Selected & Newly Translated by Francis Carmody

Paris: Desventes de Ladoué, 1770. First edition. Contemporary Satire of Rousseau’s ‘Émile’. A satirical response to Rousseau’s Emile ou l'Education (1762). Where Émile is guided by a wise tutor, the author of Le Père avare mocks from the outset Rousseau’s dictum “le véritable précepteur est le père”, for the narrator’s..... Read More about Le Père Avare, ou Les Malheurs de L'Education; Contenant une idée de ceux de la Colonie de...

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

Paris: Les Editions Denoel et Steele, 1934. First trade edition. Louis Aragon, essayist, poet and novelist, was a founder of Surrealism (with Paul Éluard, André Breton, Luis Buñuel et al). Read More about HOURRA L'OURAL. Poemes

Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie, 1878. Bida. Read More about Aucassin et Nicolette. Chantefable du Douzieme Siecle. Traduite par A. Bida. Révision du Texte...

Paris: Ancienne Maison Lévy Frères, 1893. Dubufe, Guillaume. First edition. No. 5 of 50 copies on Japon, with extra suite of plates before letters (edition of 300). Read More about La Ciguë. Comédie en Vers

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

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

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

Paris: Ch. Carrington, 1902. One of 245 copies, this being copy 192. From the press of Charles Carrington, notorious publisher of erotic literature. Balzac's tale of the King's mistress illustrated in the style of a medieval manuscript by Léon Lebègue. Read More about La Mye du Roy. Manuscrit et enluminé par Léon Lebègue

London: Leonard Smithers: Royal Arcade Old Bond Street, 1897. One of 250 copes. Read More about The Novels of Balzac: WITH 4 TITLES ONLY: Splendours and Miseries of the Courtesans. Parisian...

London: Published by J.M. Dent and Co, 1895-1907. Ursule Mirouet (1895), La Grande Breteche and Other Stories (1896), The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau (1896), Beatrix (1896), The Chouans (1896), The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories (1896), A Harlot's Progress Volume I (1896), A Harlot's Progress Volume II (1896)..... Read More about Works