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Photo RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas. 

RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas. 

Anecdotes Littéraires, ou Histoire de ce qui est arrivé de plus singulier, & de plus intéressant aux Ecrivains François, depuis le renouvellement des Lettres sous François I. jusqu'à nos jours. 

Paris, Durand, 1750.
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200 €

First edition.

Photo [FARCES]. 

[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).

Photo LA BRUYERE, Jean de. 

LA BRUYERE, Jean de. 

Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec : avec les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle. 

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1694.
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250 €

Eighth original edition.
"Les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle" by the French moralist Jean de la Bruyère (1645 - 1696) is one of the major works of French literature.
The first edition dates from 1688, the following nine editions from 1688 to 1696 are increased with each publication of new texts.
This edition contains 46 characters that had not yet been published (Cydias, Clitophon, Antagoras, etc.), as well as the Reception Speech at the Académie française which is attached for the first time to the Characters.

Photo MONTESQUIOU, Robert de. 

MONTESQUIOU, Robert de. 

Le Chancelier de Fleurs. 

Chateaudun, La Maison du livre, 1907.
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600 €

First edition.
Robert de Montesquiou (1855-1921), is a French man of letters, poet, dandy and art and literature critic. This book was written in memory of his friend (secretary and companion), Gabriel de Yturri.
One of the hundred numbered copies printed exclusively for the author, ours n°10

Handwritten dedication from the author to Jean Richepin (1849-1926), poet and writer who had just been elected to the Académie française (March 1908).

We enclose an empty, postmarked envelope, addressed by Montesquiou to Marcel Le Roy-Dupré.

Photo LORRAIN, Jean || GUILLONNET, Octave Denis Victor. 

LORRAIN, Jean || GUILLONNET, Octave Denis Victor. 

Narkiss. 

Paris, Edition du mouvement, 1908.
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300 €

Edition illustrated with 14 drawings by O.D.V. Guillonnet, orientalist painter, great decorator of national palaces.
Preface by Jérôme Doucet.

Photo BOILEAU DESPREAUX, Nicolas. 

BOILEAU DESPREAUX, Nicolas. 

Oeuvres de Boileau Despréaux, avec neuf figures. 

Paris, Imprimerie Crapelet, 1798.
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120 €

Portrait by J.-J. Forty, engraved by Vaysard, and 8 figures for the Art poétique and the Lectern by Monsiau, engraved by Voysard, Simonet, Thomas, Patas and Trière.

Photo [BEFFARA, Louis François]. 

[BEFFARA, Louis François]. 

L'Esprit de Molière. 

Londres, Lacombe, 1777.
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200 €

First edition.
The work presents a selection of maxims, portraits, reflections, catalogue of plays, etc., by Molière.

Photo MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas. 

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion. 

Rotterdam, Reiner Leers, 1688.
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300 €

First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

Photo VERLAINE, Paul. 

VERLAINE, Paul. 

Femmes. 

[Londres], [C. Hirsch], [v. 1895].
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200 €

Second edition.
On of the 480 copies on Van Gelder paper, ours no. 130.

Photo VERLAINE, Paul. 

VERLAINE, Paul. 

Invectives. 

Paris, Léon Vanier, 1896.
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350 €

First edition.
A collection of poems published the year of the poet's death. In it, Verlaine violently attacks a group of personalities with whom he had come into conflict.

Photo GUS BOFA || DORGELES, Roland. 

GUS BOFA || DORGELES, Roland. 

Synthèses littéraires et extralittéraires. 

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1923.
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1500 €

First edition illustrated by Gus Bofa
This work is undoubtedly Gus Bofa's book with which his admirers have the most intimate connection. We find in these vignettes all the mastery of this brilliant stylist, and this sense of graphic formula which made him one of the fathers of modern drawing. In 40 satirical drawings Gus Bofa summarizes the work of 40 literary personalities from Proust to Loti via Schopenauer and René Maran. L'Agoisse with Edgar Poe, L'Intime with Zola, La Tentation with France, including the racist pun with Maran (black square for a black poet).

One of the 20 copies on Japan paper, ours n°7

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.

Photo CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René De. 

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René De. 

Atala, René, Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage. 

Paris, Ladvocat, 1827.
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300 €

Beautiful edition on vellum paper of three short stories by Chateaubriand.
This is the second edition for Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.
Deluxe copy carefully bound by Petit.

Photo BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques-Henri. 

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques-Henri. 

Paul et Virginie. 

Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1874.
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950 €

Edition illustrated by Lalauze with 6 lates and 2 vignettes.

One of 15 copies on China with additional suites of engravings on Chine paper(black, sepia and bistre) and Japan paper (black, sepia and bistre), ours n°1.

Desirable copy in signed binding.

Photo SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de). 

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de). 

Lettre à un Otage. 

New York, Brentano's, 1946.
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950 €

Very beautiful binding executed by Jean Paul Miguet (1925-2019) one of the greatest French bookbinders of the 20th century.

Photo VERLAINE, Paul. 

VERLAINE, Paul. 

Choix de Poésies. 

Paris, Fasquelle, 1928.
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800 €

Beautiful copy of this famous industrial binding produced between 1933 and 1955 by Joseph Taupin, under the pseudonym Jotau. The boards and the back are molded in a mass-dyed resin, close to bakelite, pollopas. Flats and backs are articulated by a rod. This particularly brittle resin was quickly abandoned and few copies reach us without damage, as is the case with the book we are offering.

Photo RAMEAU, Jean. 

RAMEAU, Jean. 

Poèmes Fantasques. 

Paris, Ed. Monnier et Cie, 1883.
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320 €

First edition.
illustrated by Ary Gambard.
One of 400 copies on laid paper signed by the editor, ours n°248.

Photo SOULAGES, Gabriel || CARLEGLE (ill.). 

SOULAGES, Gabriel || CARLEGLE (ill.). 

Des riens. 

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1926.
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450 €

Edition illustrated by Carlègle.
Gabriel Soulages is a French author of novels, stories and light collections. In his romantic work, inspired by a pleasant eroticism, he demonstrated an in-depth Greek and Latin culture.

One of 37 copies on Japon, ours n°18 accompanied by two original watercolors signed by Carlègle.

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.

Photo FLAUBERT, Gustave. 

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.

Photo ARAGON, Louis. 

ARAGON, Louis. 

Le Front rouge. 

s.l., s.n., n°1 juillet 1931.
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2500 €

First edition of the poem Le Front Rouge.
Following the publication of Aragon's poem "Red Front" in the first issue of the journal "La Littérature de la Révolution mondiale", the government prosecuted the poet for provocation to assassination. Aragon in this poem indeed called for "getting down the cops" and "sweeping the Elysée". The copies of the magazine were therefore seized and destroyed by the courts.
The surrealists immediately took to the defense of their comrade and published a series of pamphlets and leaflets. André Breton notably defends the total freedom of poetry. However, Aragon did not recognize himself in Breton's texts and announced his break with the surrealist movement in March 1932. An important episode in French literary history during which each of the actors of the surrealist movement was able to express their position on the place poetry in society.
Rare copy of this magazine having escaped judicial seizure, absent from most collections devoted to surrealism.

André Vasseur, scholar and great collector of literary journals, has here supplemented the copy of the journal with 8 other pieces (brochures and leaflets) published by surrealist circles about this affair. On a page bringing together bibliographical notes in his hand, he notices that most collections of this type do not have number 1 of "La Littérature de la Révolution mondiale"

1- Le Surréalisme son autonomie, L'Affaire Aragon
(10 pages, extract).

3- BRETON, Misère de la poésie, l'Affaire Aragon devant l'opinion publique, Paris,éditions surréalistes, 1932
31 pages.
4- L'Affaire Aragon, [v. 1932]
(4) pages.

5- La Poésie Transfigurée, 30 janvier 1932.
(4) pages.

6- Protestation, Bruxelles 2 mars 1932
(1) page.

7- Paul ELUARD, Certificat,
(1) page.

8- Paillasse! (Fin de "L'Affaire Aragon"), mars 1932
12 pages.

9- Autour d'un poème, 5 avril 1932
4 pages.

Photo [COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis. 

[COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis. 

Un Village de France. 

Paris, La Bibliothèque française, [1945].
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350 €

First edition.
Presentation copy signed by Aragon to Jacques Faizant.
The National Writers' Committee is an organ of the literary resistance, an emanation of the National Writers' Front, close to the French Communist Party.
Led by Aragon, the committee brings together many great French authors.
This publication in the aftermath of the war aims, through the example of an “ordinary” French village, at the abuses committed by the Nazis. Thus, Plomion in Aisne, where on August 31, 1944 fourteen inhabitants aged 16 to 72 were shot by the SS.
The photos of the victims are accompanied by a text by Henry Malherbe and a poem by Paul Claudel. Amusing send-off from one of the most fervent communist writers to the one who was on the front page of Le Figaro for decades.

Photo BRETON, André. 

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).

Photo MAYA, Tristan. 

MAYA, Tristan. 

Morceaux choisis suivis des Poèmes à Ré. 

Paris, Vent debout, 1948.
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200 €

First edition.
Tristan Maya is the ghost name of Jean Maton (1926-2000), French writer, poet, novelist, literary critic and bookseller in Orléans. The work is published by “Vent Debout”, a literary and artistic review published in occupied Germany, but with its headquarters in Mattaincourt (Vosges).
Presentation copy.
One of 200 numbered copies, ours n°17.

Photo JACOB, Max. 

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.

Photo PAULHAN, Jean. 

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…”.

Photo [COLLECTIF]. 

[COLLECTIF]. 

La Révolution d'abord et toujours !. 

s.l., s.n., 1925.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo ELUARD, Paul. 

ELUARD, Paul. 

Poésie et Vérité 1942. 

Neuchatel, Editions de la Baconnière, 1943.
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450 €

Second edition.
One of the numbered copies on Vélin (ours n°771).
"Freedom" Eluard's most famous poem, written during the Second World War in reaction to the German occupation:
"On the sand, on the snow
I write your name…"
Presentation copy to Aimé Blanc signed by Eluard.

Photo DALI, Salvador. 

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.

Photo GARCIA LORCA, Federico || ELUARD, Paul. 

GARCIA LORCA, Federico || ELUARD, Paul. 

Ode à Salvador Dali. 

Paris, GLM, 1927.
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800 €

First french edition.
Presentation copy signed by Paul Eluard and Louis Parrot.

Photo BRETON, André. 

BRETON, André. 

Le Revolver à cheveux blancs. 

Paris, Editions des cahiers libres, 1932.
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500 €

First edition.
Copy for press.
Presentation copy to Yolande Oliviero.
Yolande Oliviero was a bookseller close to surrealist circles, it is said that all the surrealists dedicated their books to her. Bunuel describes it in “Mon Dernier Soupir” as a “slightly lame but very beautiful bookstore”.

Photo PERET, Benjamin. 

PERET, Benjamin. 

Main forte. 

Paris, Editions de la Revue Fontaine, 1946.
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50 €

First edition.
Collection of the surrealist poet Benjamin Peret (1899-1959) illustrated by Victor Brauner.

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