‎Collectibles‎

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Lettres à Tixier - 44 lettres inédites à Maître Tixier-Vignancour‎

‎Paris: La flûte de Pan 1985. Fine. La flûte de Pan Paris 1985 13.50 x 20.50 cm broché When Céline judges his judges First edition one of 170 numbered copies on conquéror laid paper ours being one of 20 hors commerce copies deluxe copy. Text established and presented by Frédéric Monnier. Very handsome copy. La flûte de Pan unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 87696

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Lettres à Alexandre Gentil 1940-1948‎

‎Tusson: Editions Du Lérot 2014. Fine. Editions Du Lérot Tusson 2014 17.50 x 24 cm broché First edition on bulky paper Handsome copy. Editions Du Lérot unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 78473

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Lettres à Joseph Garcin 1929-1938‎

‎Paris: Librairie Monnier 1987. Fine. Librairie Monnier Paris 1987 14.50 x 21.50 cm broché First edition one of 1400 unnumbered copies on offset corot paper. Very fine copy. Librairie Monnier unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 67569

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Lettres à Tixier - 44 lettres inédites à Maître Tixier-Vignancour‎

‎Paris: La flûte de Pan 1985. Fine. La flûte de Pan Paris 1985 13.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of 170 copies printed on Vergé Conquéror paper ours being one of 20 hors commerce copies part of the deluxe issue. Text established and introduced by Frédéric Monnier. A very handsome copy. La flûte de Pan unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 69540

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Londres‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 2022. Fine. Gallimard Paris 2022 15 x 21.50 cm broché First edition one of 310 numbered copies on vélin rivoli paper the only deluxe copies. Edition established by Régis Tettamanzi. Copy in mint condition. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 82760

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE - COLLECTIF‎

‎Louis-Ferdinand Céline II - Cahiers de l'Herne N°5‎

‎Paris: L'Herne 1965. Fine. L'Herne Paris 1965 21 x 27 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Contributions by Louis-Ferdinand Céline Joseph Delteil Pierre Monnier Marcel Aymé Michel Déon Milton Hindus Marc Hanrez Paul Morand Robert Poulet Jack Kerouac Philippe Sollers. Iconography at the end of the volume. Handsome copy. Fine autograph inscription signed by Dominique de Roux creator of Cahiers de l'Herne to a friend named Sonia: ""Pour Sonia dont je me sens si proche face à la déflagration verbale sortie de Céline hors-temps. L'affection de près de R. 15.XII.65."" For Sonia with whom I feel so close facing the verbal explosion from Céline out of time. Affection from near R. 15.XII.65. L'Herne unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 88033

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Maudits soupirs pour une autre fois - Une version primitive de Féérie pour une autre fois‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1985. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1985 14.50 x 21.50 cm broché First edition one of 62 numbered copies on pure rag Rives paper the only deluxe copies. Very handsome copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 88091

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Mort à crédit‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1952. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1952 14.50 x 22 cm reliure de l'éditeur ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND Première édition Gallimard un des 750 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin labeur seul tirage en grand papier. Cartonnage d'après la maquette originale de Paul Bonet. Dos légèrement pincé en tête et en queue. Bel exemplaire du plus rare des titres de Louis-Ferdinand Céline en cartonnage Bonet. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 87808

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Qu'on S'Explique - Postface au Voyage au bout de la nuit‎

‎Liège: A la lampe d'Aladdin 1969. Fine. A la lampe d'Aladdin Liège 1933 1969 9.50 x 13.50 cm broché sous étui First edition printed in 36 copies with a frontispiece portrait of the author one of 30 numbered copies on vellum the only issue after 1 Japan and 5 Holland paper copies. Admirably printed this extremely rare bibliophilic object is particularly precious for its complementarity with the first edition of Voyage au bout de la nuit. Handsome copy presented in a full beige cloth chemise with light dampstaining at foot which appears to be the publisher's slipcase. Bookplate affixed to verso of front cover. Céline published his text for the first time on March 16 1933 on the front page of the popular weekly Candide.  A few days earlier appeared in L'Intransigeant an article by Émile Zavie in which he castigates the surrealist testimony of an erudite forest ranger pruning his library with secateurs: « Il y a des livres de toute sorte mais si vous alliez les ouvrir vous seriez bien étonnés. Ils sont tous incomplets ; . je lis avec des ciseaux . et je coupe tout ce qui me déplaît. . Des Loups j'ai gardé dix pages un peu moins du Voyage au bout de la nuit. De Corneille j'ai gardé tout Polyeucte et une partie du Cid. Dans mon Racine je n'ai presque rien supprimé. De Baudelaire j'ai gardé deux cents vers et de Hugo un peu moins. . de Proust le dîner chez la duchesse de Guermantes ; le matin de Paris dans La Prisonnière. » Zavie who coincidentally is himself the son of a forest ranger here publishes undoubtedly the most beautiful and Célinian compliment that the Voyage could receive whose Bardamu has nothing to envy the man of the woods neither his mocking intelligence nor his nihilistic impertinence. A very opportune polemic ensued which had the main advantage of allowing Céline to emerge from the reserve to which he had confined himself since the book's release. He then gave free rein to his ironic and biting spirit displaying a sublime complicity with this savage double who cuts through literature as he does through language and mischievously honors him with a comparison to the greatest writers. Much more than a response Céline's ""explanation"" sounds like a manifesto and a powerful reflection on his invention of a style that disconcerts and divides the critics. Robert Denoël renamed the article ""postface"" and added it to the pamphlet of laudatory press extracts that he had published in August 1933 to celebrate the one hundred and eightieth edition. However the true separate edition of this essential text would only be distributed to a few rare informed bibliophiles in 1969 by À la lampe d'Aladdin editions by Pierre Aelberts in his ""Le Bahut des Aromates"" collection. Officially published a few months after the Candide article in a very small number of copies immediately sold out – with the exception of the deluxe copies preserved with the 14 other titles of the collection in a precious wooden piece of furniture the famous ""bahut"" – this little bibliophilic jewel was more likely printed like the entire collection shortly before its miraculous appearance on the market at the dawn of the 1970s. As for the deluxe copies it seems that most remained in the mythical bahut! A la lampe d'Aladdin hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 87512

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Rigodon‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1969. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1969 14.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of 115 numbered copies on pur fil the only deluxe copies after 43 Holland. Spine lightly sunned otherwise handsome copy. Gallimard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 78263

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Scandale aux Abysses‎

‎Paris: Frédéric Chambriand 1950. Fine. Frédéric Chambriand Paris 1950 15 x 21 cm relié First edition one of the numbered copies on Savoie vellum. Full red morocco-grained shagreen binding spine with five raised bands set with black fillets one scratch on a band black paper endpapers and pastedowns triple gilt fillets framing the pastedowns covers one tear without loss to margin of second cover and spine preserved top edge gilt binding signed Lavaux. Discreet scratch marks on the boards one clear mark from adhesive tape discharge at head of page bearing the autograph inscriptions. Work illustrated with images by Pierre Monnier alias Pierre-Marie Renet. Autograph inscription signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline to Monsieur Josette enhanced with this fine autograph inscription signed by Pierre Monnier: ""A Josette pour qui personne ne peut rien et qui peut tout hommage de l'illustrateur Pierre Monnier PM Renet."" ""To Josette for whom no one can do anything and who can do everything homage from the illustrator Pierre Monnier PM Renet."" Frédéric Chambriand hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 87012

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Scandale aux Abysses‎

‎Paris: Frédéric Chambriand 1950. Fine. Céline makes a cartoon Frédéric Chambriand Paris 1950 16 x 21.50 cm broché First edition one of the numbered copies on vellum from the Savoie paper mills. Work illustrated with original illustrations by Pierre-Marie Renet alias Frédéric Monnier. Handsome copy. Frédéric Chambriand hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 79140

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE - Marcel AYME - Germaine BEAUMONT‎

‎Secrets dans l'île dans le recueil : Neuf et une‎

‎Paris: Nrf 1936. Fine. Nrf Paris 1936 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 45 numbered copies on alfa paper the only deluxe copies after 23 on pur fil. Neuf et une consists of a collection celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Prix Renaudot first awarded in 1926 bringing together a text from each of the first ten winners: Marcel Aymé with ""Knate"" Germaine Beaumont with ""Cinquième acte"" Charles Braibant with ""La cagoule"" - Louis-Ferdinand Céline with ""Secrets dans l'île"" Louis Francis with ""Les Cyclamens"" Philippe Hériat with ""En présence de l'ennemi"" Armand Lunel with ""Les assiettes"" Bernard Nabonne with ""La double Gervasie"" André Obey with ""Vénus et Adonis"" and François de Roux with ""Mirage"". Some light foxing to endpapers handsome and rare copy. Nrf unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 87524

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Tout Céline‎

‎Paris: Bibliothèque L.F. Céline de l'Université Paris 7 1981. Fine. Bibliothèque L.F. Céline de l'Université Paris 7 Paris 1981 18 x 23.50 cm broché First edition printed in 350 numbered copies. Handsome copy. Bibliothèque L.F. Céline de l'Université Paris 7 unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 75813

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Tout Céline 4‎

‎Liège: S. n. 1987. Fine. S. n. Liège 1987 17.50 x 24 cm broché First edition printed in 150 numbered copies. Handsome copy despite the lower edge slightly soiled. S. n. unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 64905

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Tout Céline 3‎

‎Liège: S. n. 1985. Fine. S. n. Liège 1985 15.50 x 23.50 cm broché First edition printed with 120 numbered copies. Nice copy. S. n. unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 64906

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Tout Céline 2‎

‎Paris: Bibliothèque de l'Université Paris 7 1983. Fine. Bibliothèque de l'Université Paris 7 Paris 1983 18 x 24 cm broché First edition printed in 500 numbered copies. Nice copy. Bibliothèque de l'Université Paris 7 unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 67568

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Tout Céline 5‎

‎Liège: S. n. 1990. Fine. S. n. Liège 1990 16.50 x 23 cm broché First edition printed to 200 numbered copies. A good copy. S. n. unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 35814

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Un feuillet autographe manuscrit pour Normance Féérie pour une autre fois II : ""ça arrivera pas à Lauriac ! ni à Tartron ! ni Larengue !. Ils ont pris le bon versant de la vie : le flan !""‎

‎Meudon 1954. Fine. Meudon 1954 21.20 x 26.10 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph manuscript signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline written in blue ballpoint pen on a sheet of white paper numbered 243 in the left corner. Some stains as well as a central fold of no consequence. A tiny lack of paper at the lower right margin of the sheet. Some pinholes in the upper margin evidence of the organization of Céline's manuscripts in ""bundles"". ""pour aller traverser les lignes des barrages quelque chose !. au galop ! et je me suis bien fait sonner ! ça arrivera pas à Lauriac ! ni à Tartron ! ni Larengue !. Ils ont pris le bon versant de la vie : le flan !. pour ma concerne je regrette rien . c'est fait ! c'est fait ! la preuve ma tête. mais enfin pour la griserie cette sorte de bravoure somnambule j'admire les doués. je les respecte. j'arrive moi que par le stoïcisme le sang froid là ! hop !"" ""to go cross the lines barricades something!. at a gallop! and I really got myself beaten up! that won't happen to Lauriac! nor to Tartron! nor Larengue!. They took the right side of life: the flank!. as for me I regret nothing. it's done! it's done! the proof my head. but finally for the intoxication this sort of sleepwalking bravery I admire the gifted ones. I respect them. I only achieve it through stoicism cold blood there! hop!"" The passage from our sheet referring to Mauriac Sartre and Aragon conforms to the published version. Published in 1954 Normance is a direct sequel to Féérie pour une autre fois published two years earlier. The two parts were written during Céline's years of exile and imprisonment in Denmark. Upon his return to France in 1951 Céline undertook a work of ""polishing"" and published these two titanic texts independently originally conceived as one. ""Céline while working on it thought of this novel as a second Voyage au bout de la nuit capable twenty years later of astonishing the public as much as the 1932 novel."" Henri Godard unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 83969

‎Louis-Ferdinand CELINE‎

‎Voyage au bout de la nuit • Journey to the End of the Night‎

‎Paris: Denoël & Steele 1932. Fine. Denoël & Steele Paris 1932 12 x 19 cm relié First edition printed on ordinary paper with all the points of the first printing present. A pleasant copy complete with the publisher's catalogue bound at the end. Bradel binding in full grey paper with abstract patterns smooth spine grey mouse morocco label original wrappers and spine preserved though soiled three restored losses at foot of spine binding signed by Thomas Boichot. Denoël & Steele unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 71871

‎Louis-Francisque LELUT‎

‎De l'organe phrénologique de destruction chez les animaux ou examen de cette question‎

‎Paris: J.B. Baillière 1838. Fine. J.B. Baillière Paris 1838 13 x 20 cm broché First edition. Our copy is presented in temporary full marbled paper covers with handwritten title label pasted at head of first cover. Small gift inscription in pen at head of title page occasional foxing one small hole not affecting text at head of table of contents page. Rare and handsome copy complete with its folding plate at rear illustrated with 8 figures. J.B. Baillière unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 75450

‎Louis-Francois FAUR - Benjamin de LABORDE‎

‎Vie privée du Marechal de Richelieu contenant ses amours et ses intrigues et tout ce qui a rapport aux divers rôles qu'à joués cet homme célèbre pendant plus de quatre-vingt ans‎

‎à Paris: Chez Buisson 1791. Fine. Chez Buisson à Paris 1791 12 x 20.50 cm trois volumes reliés First edition written according to Barbier Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes by Faur and according to the BN de France by Faur or Benjamin de Laborde. Contemporary half blonde sheep bindings. Smooth spine with fillets. Marbled paper boards. Title and volume labels gilt. Stains on spines. The preface of the work indicates that the Memoirs of Richelieu are less a single biography of Richelieu than memoirs covering the end of the reign of Louis XIV the Regency and the reign of Louis XV. The present work claims to remedy these memoirs and present the marshal as he truly was ""it is the hero in undress that we present to the public"". As the title indicates besides his historical role the book reveals the relationships that Richelieu maintained with women ""all women disputed over his heart. Loving them all he claimed to owe them equal homage."" The work contains a great number of original letters and private memoirs written by Richelieu or addressed to Richelieu. A new type of historical work that would have a great future the book through various perspectives attempts to paint clearly the man that Richelieu was with his virtues and his vices. Stamp of Grande bibliothèque école libre N.D. de Mont-Roland on the half-title. Chez Buisson hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 24035

‎Louis-Gabriel-Florence KERROUX‎

‎Abregé de l'histoire de la Hollande et des provinces unies depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'à nos jours‎

‎à Leyde Leiden: Chez Jacques Murray 1778. Fine. Chez Jacques Murray à Leyde Leiden 1778 12.50 x 21 cm relié First edition. One title vignette repeated on all 4 volumes. Brunet mentions a quarto edition published at the same time. Continuous pagination. Contemporary half blonde sheep binding with small corners. Smooth spine with fillets. Red morocco title label and pink morocco volume label in medallion. Origin of Holland and the Netherlands and history up to the year 1767. Chez Jacques Murray unknown‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 36130

‎Louis-Jean LEVESQUE DE POUILLY‎

‎Théorie des sentimens agréables‎

‎à Paris: Chez de Bure père 1774. Fine. Chez de Bure père à Paris 1774 10.50 x 17 cm relié Fifth and best edition expanded with the eulogy of M. de Pouilly lieutenant general of the presidial court of the city of Reims which Levesque de Pouilly endeavored to embellish by Abbé de Saulx the text that would be engraved on a fountain erected in his honor the 2 speeches he delivered in Reims on March 6 1748 and February 17 1750 and the description of a monument discovered in the city in 1738. This edition is illustrated with a frontispiece two folding plates at the end of the work three title vignettes and a title headpiece all designed by De Seve and engraved by J. Robert. This is the finest edition of this text. Full red straight-grained morocco binding Russia leather slightly later. Smooth spine decorated in grotesque style with two different motifs. 2 scratches on lower board. Darker areas on upper board. Some pale scattered foxing. Very handsome copy. ""Esteemed work"" according to Brunet this work takes up the philosophers' theories on feelings. From a science of sentiment the author strives to derive a morality concerning love and friendship. Interesting edition as it provides information about the author. Chez de Bure père hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 57757

‎Louis-Joseph VIONNET‎

‎Campagnes de Russie et de Saxe 1812-1813. Souvenirs d'un ex-commandant des grenadiers de la Vieille-Garde‎

‎Paris: Edmond Dubois 1899. Fine. Edmond Dubois Paris 1899 14 x 18 cm relié First edition of these unpublished memoir fragments. Half sienna cloth Bradel binding smooth spine decorated with a gilt fleuron double gilt fillets at foot black shagreen title-label with marginal loss marbled paper boards contemporary binding. Some light foxing mainly affecting the edges pen gift inscription from a previous owner on the half-title page. Edmond Dubois hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 63234