‎Collectibles‎

‎Rene HUYGHE - Roger TAILLIBERT‎

‎Oeuvres récentes de Roger Taillibert‎

‎Paris: Metropolis 1977. Fine. Metropolis Paris 1977 23.50 x 19.50 cm reliure de l'éditeur sous étui The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies a Service de Presse advance copy. Publisher's black pasteboard binding black cloth spine yellow pasteboard slipcase with trace of label at foot of second board. Work illustrated with reproductions of constructions by Roger Taillibert. Text by René Huyghe: ""L'architecture et la révolution des formes."" Autograph inscription signed by Roger Taillibert: ""A Georges Patrix l'ami qui par son talent à toujours bati sic l'architecture de couleurs et de la joie."" ""To Georges Patrix the friend who through his talent has always built the architecture of colors and joy."" Metropolis hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 81139

‎Rene JEANNEL - Renaud PAULIAN‎

‎Morphologie abdominale des coléoptères et systématique de l'ordre‎

‎Paris: Editions du Museum 1944. Fine. Editions du Museum Paris 1944 18.50 x 27.50 cm broché First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Revue française d'entomologie. Brochure illustrated with 131 figures in the text. Rare and handsome copy. Editions du Museum unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 37396

‎Rene JULLIAN‎

‎Caravage‎

‎Lyon & Paris: I.A.C. 1961. Fine. I.A.C. Lyon • & Paris 1961 20.50 x 26 cm reliure de l'éditeur First edition one of the numbered copies on alfa paper the only deluxe copies. Signed autograph inscription by René Jullian. Publisher's full cardboard binding smooth spine illustrated front cover. Iconography and illustrations. Two joints slightly pinched otherwise handsome copy. I.A.C. unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 29398

‎Rene LACOTE‎

‎Claude‎

‎Paris: Gallimard 1943. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1943 12 x 19 cm broché first edition on current paper mention of third edition. Ex-dono of Charles Dobzynski at the head of the title page. Enriched autograph signed by René Lacôte to his friend the poet Charles Dobzynski: "". with the keen friendship of his comrade ."" Gallimard unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 70829

‎Rene LACOTE - Gilbert RIGAUD‎

‎Où finit le désert‎

‎Paris: Maeght éditeur 1946. Fine. Maeght éditeur Paris 1946 24.50 x 31.50 cm en feuilles sous chemise et étui First edition one of 50 numbered copies on Auvergne paper deluxe printing. Work illustrated with 10 original lithographs by Gilbert Rigaud. Covers slightly shaded small tears to the spine of the chemise and front cover of the slipcase. Handsome interior condition. Manuscript signature of René Lacôte below the justification page. Maeght éditeur unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 85908

‎Rene LACOTE‎

‎Tristan Tzara‎

‎Pierre Seghers 1952. Fine. Pierre Seghers 1952 13.50 x 15.50 cm broché First edition printed on ordinary paper. Iconography. Small corner lacks to spine and covers. Precious autograph inscription signed by Tristan Tzara: ""A André Masson de tout coeur un petit coeur dessiné. Tristan Tzara 10 Juillet 52."" ""To André Masson wholeheartedly a small heart drawn. Tristan Tzara July 10 52."" Pierre Seghers unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 71758

‎Rene LALOU‎

‎Roger Martin du Gard‎

‎Paris: Nrf 1937. Fine. Nrf Paris 1937 11.50 x 18 cm broché First edition of which there were no deluxe copies a Service de Presse advance copy. Boards marginally soiled. Signed and inscribed by René Lalou to the Provençal writer caricaturist and filmmaker Carlo Rim who was notably a friend of Fernandel Raimu and Marcel Pagnol as well as Max Jacob. Nrf hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 80557

‎Rene LAPORTE‎

‎Federigo‎

‎Paris: Nagel 1945. Fine. Nagel Paris 1945 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 125 numbered copies on alfa the only deluxe copies with 40 on Arches. Handsome copy. Nagel unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 13874

‎Rene LAPORTE‎

‎La journée du 8 Mars - Exemplaire de Tristan Tzara‎

‎Paris: G.L.M. 1936. Fine. G.L.M. Paris 1936 16 x 22.50 cm broché First edition one of 30 numbered copies on Normandy vellum ours unnumbered the only issue after 5 Japan copies Spine and boards faded as usual tears repaired to spine. Precious autograph inscription signed by René Laporte on this anti-Hitler text: ""A Greta et Tristan Tzara ce cri de colère d'aujourd'hui et de demain leur vrai ami. René L."" To Greta and Tristan Tzara this cry of anger from today and tomorrow their true friend. René L. We include the famous bookmark from the sale of Tristan Tzara's library at Guy Loudmer on March 4 1989. G.L.M. hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 85835

‎Rene LAURET‎

‎Faites travailler l'Allemagne‎

‎Paris: Le Portulan 1948. Fine. Le Portulan Paris 1948 13 x 18.50 cm broché The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Handsome copy given the poor quality of this post-war paper. Signed autograph inscription from René Lauret to Alfred Fabre-Luce. Le Portulan unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 77910

‎Rene LEIBOWITZ‎

‎Introduction à la musique de douze sons‎

‎Paris: L'Arche 1949. Fine. L'Arche Paris 1949 14 x 22.50 cm broché First edition a numbered copy on bouffant paper. A good copy. L'Arche unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 11957

‎Rene Louis Voyer de Paulmy Marquis ARGENSON D'‎

‎Les loisirs d'un ministre ou essais dans le goût de ceux de Montagne composés en 1736‎

‎à Liège: Chez C. Plompteux 1787. Fine. Chez C. Plompteux à Liège 1787 13.50 x 21.30 cm 2 tomes en un volume relié First edition under this title the Essais dans le goût de Montaigne initially appeared in 1785 in Amsterdam but the edition was printed in only a small number of copies intended for family and friends. The manuscript was reviewed corrected and arranged for publication by the son of the Marquis d'Argenson the Marquis de Paulmy. Full brown granulated sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 urn tools fillets and roulettes. Triple fillet frame on covers. Red morocco title label. Very fine copy. This collection of reflections and thoughts on various subjects is in fact a composition by the Marquis de Paulmy his son based on the manuscripts of the memoirs which were not published until 1857. It is therefore more effectively the first book of the Memoirs of the Marquis d'Argenson to be published. One finds there a gallery of portraits of contemporary figures but also numerous historical considerations notably on Cardinal de Retz literary criticism in brief the work gives the impression of being a salon of former times where conversation always refined touches on different subjects. The Marquis d'Argenson frequented philosophers early on notably Voltaire he was preoccupied with political thoughts and he is held to be a precursor of economic liberalism and the physiocrats; although he was minister of foreign affairs and very versed in diplomacy his principal interest always focused on belles-lettres. Chez C. Plompteux unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 57505

‎Rene MAGRITTE‎

‎"« L'imaginaire » remplace peut-être actuellement « l'Idéal » d'un temps passé"" • Autograph letter signed with his initials‎

‎Bruxelles Brussels 1965. Fine. Bruxelles Brussels 9 janvier 1965 13.50 x 20.50 cm deux pages sur un feuillet Significant letter written by René Magritte to André Bosmans dated 9 January 1965 and signed with his initials. 35 lines in black ink on one leaf with the heading “René Magritte 97 rue des Mimosas Bruxelles 3 Téléphone 15.07.30”. Several words crossed out and passages underlined.  Published in the Lettres à André Bosmans 1958-1967 Seghers I. Brachot 1990 pp. 407-408 A letter that is both comical and of great philosophical depth in which the Surrealist painter René Magritte tackles the question of the imagination and inspiration. In it there is a very pertinent analysis of the issues of aesthetics and of modern thinking while the painter is seeking inspiration to produce the cover of the next XXe siècle an avant-garde artistic and literary journal issue XXV June 1965. Magritte addresses this letter to his great friend André Bosmans a school teacher poet and editor-in-chief of Rhétorique a literary journal to which Magritte actively contributed. The painter then in full mastery of his art enjoyed international recognition since the beginning of the 1960s. His work has already been the object of numerous retrospectives in France and in Belgium and will be celebrated on the other side of the Atlantic several months later at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His letter is divided between humour and psychological reflection. Magritte's usual taste for irony is present: “Here is the extract from the newspaper La Meuse. The serious advice to pregnant women becomes comical when it accompanies this reproduction of a gouache made about thirty years ago. This is probably ‘humour' for serious people” A daily paper in Liège had indeed taken a Surrealist gouache painting by Magritte entitled Maternité where the mother was represented with a baby's face and the baby with the face of a woman for one of its articles. After this aside Magritte provides Bosmans with a draft painting earmarked for a journal reproduced below: “I don't know yet what I will paint for the cover of the next XXe siècle”. The art journal Le XXe siècle was founded in 1938 by an Italian journalist reporting in Paris Gualtieri di San Lazzaro and appeared in the form of an annual notebook on modern art trends embellished with lithographs and original works. Magritte featured alongside Giorgio de Chirico his idol and also Kandinsky Jean Arp and Joan Miro as well as numerous other pioneering artists or heirs to Surrealism. Each issue was dedicated to a different current subject with contributions from critics artists and writers. Magritte dissects the title of the next issue for Bosmans “Aux sources de l'imaginaire” “To the sources of the imaginary” which according to him symbolises an entire era that has become the subconscious slave since the Surrealist revolution:“‘The imaginary' perhaps now replaces ‘the ideal' of a previous era. Instead of an ideal museum it is now an imaginary museum. I believe the proper expression would be: inventory or catalogue of the perfect museum.” Taking André Malraux's well-known paradigm the “musée imaginaire” “imaginary museum” Magritte emphases the transition from romanticism to Surrealism: this replacement of the pursuit of an ideal through the opening up on to dreams and the accidental. He also criticizes the XXe siècle's pompous expression: “It is the mediocre imaginary that is responsible the source speaking figuratively like the XXe siècle for that which only has an imaginary value.” Because for Magritte there is a fundamental distinction between the imaginary and imagination between dreams and creation. For this artist who is profoundly sensitive to the paradoxes of reality and the role of mystery in life and in art the imagination is nothing without being creative. His paintings based on “hallucinated realism” demonstrate this belief such as the famous Homme au chapeau melon private collection 1 unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 65211

‎Rene MAIZEROY‎

‎Billets de logement‎

‎Paris: Marpon & Flammarion 1888. Fine. Marpon & Flammarion Paris s. d. 1888 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition on ordinary paper with only 25 copies on Japan paper in deluxe format printed. Half fir-green sheep binding spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt floral motifs marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns contemporary binding. Autograph inscription by René Maizeroy. Some occasional light foxing mainly affecting the edges. Marpon & Flammarion hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 21683

‎Rene MAIZEROY‎

‎L'otage‎

‎Paris: Offenstadt frères 1900. Fine. Offenstadt frères Paris 1900 11 x 16.50 cm broché First edition with no mention of deluxe copies. Work illustrated with numerous photographic illustrations. Rare and handsome copy. Offenstadt frères unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 11876

‎Rene MAIZEROY‎

‎Souvenirs d'un officier‎

‎Paris: Marpon & Flammarion 1950. Fine. Marpon & Flammarion Paris s. d. 9.50 x 16.50 cm relié First edition of which there is no mention of deluxe copies. Half red shagreen binding spine with four raised bands contemporary binding. Some very occasional foxing otherwise a handsome copy. Marpon & Flammarion hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 11850

‎Rene Marill ALBERES‎

‎La révolte des écrivains d'aujourd'hui‎

‎Paris: Corrêa 1949. Fine. Corrêa Paris 1949 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 30 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy despite a shadow on the first endpaper and the facing page which is the verso of the first cover. About Georges Bernanos Albert Camus André Malraux Jean-Paul Sartre Jean Anouilh Louis Aragon and Jean Giraudoux. Corrêa unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 69602

‎Rene MARTINEAU‎

‎Promenades biographiques‎

‎Paris: Librairie de France 1920. Fine. Librairie de France Paris 1920 14 x 22.50 cm relié First edition. Illustrated with photographic plates. Half blonde marbled calf. Spine with raised bands decorated with small wheels on the bands. Good copy. NB: This work is available at the bookshop upon request within 48 hours. Librairie de France hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 30506

‎Rene MENARD‎

‎"Automne"" - Lithographie originale sur Japon - L'Estampe Moderne‎

‎Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1897. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Mai 1897 33 x 24.50 cm une feuille Rare original color lithograph executed by René Ménard for L'Estampe Moderne series number 1 published in May 1897. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin numbered stamp of the deluxe issue on the verso. Magnificent French monthly publication issued between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other periodicals such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specially by each artist for the review. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Epoque. Each issue of four prints was produced in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print in a handsome format is superbly printed in colors on the most prestigious of papers: Japan paper. Thick silky satiny and pearlescent it contributes to making each page a work in its own right. Its ink absorption quality and its affinity with colors also make it the ideal support for these very fine lithographs. The interest of French collectors in artistic posters grew at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and pasted in the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and destined for preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising purpose and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the luxury illustrated book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure Eugène Grasset Henri Detouche Emile Berchmans Louis Rhead Gaston de Latenay Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Gustave-Max Stevens Charles Doudelet Hans Christiansen Henri Fantin-Latour Steinlen Ibels Engels Willette Henri Meunier Evenepoël Bellery-Desfontaines Charles Léandre etc. Handsome copy in the symbolist style of the artist. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 73906

‎Rene MENARD‎

‎L'arbre et l'horizon‎

‎Nancy: A l'enseigne de l'homme méditant 1949. Fine. A l'enseigne de l'homme méditant Nancy 1949 17 x 19.50 cm en feuilles First edition one of 500 numbered copies on vellum Monfourat only draw after 33 leading copies. autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by René Mébard to cantarice Jane Bathori who was the companion of the actress and theater woman Andrée Tainsy. A l'enseigne de l'homme méditant hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 49929

‎Rene MENARD‎

‎La statue désertée‎

‎Paris: Chez l'auteur 1952. Fine. Chez l'auteur Paris 1952 16.50 x 24 cm broché First edition one of 500 numbered copies on vellum Monfourat only draw after 33 leading copies. autograph dedication of the author autograph signed by René Mébard to cantarice Jane Bathori who was the companion of the actress and theater woman Andrée Tainsy. Chez l'auteur hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 49931

‎Rene MENDES-FRANCE‎

‎Le réalisme et la peinture non figurative‎

‎Paris: Chez l'auteur 1936. Fine. Chez l'auteur Paris 1936 13.50 x 18.50 cm broché First edition published in a small number of copies of this talk given on October 17 1936 at the Salon des Surindépendants. Rare and fine copy. Chez l'auteur unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 10928

‎Rene MINGUET‎

‎Paris et l'hexagone français‎

‎Paris: Editions France-Empire 1962. Fine. Editions France-Empire Paris 1962 13.50 x 19 cm relié The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Half dark green shagreen binding spine slightly faded with four raised bands bordered with black fillets title-label and author's name in red shagreen marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers preserved. Fine full-page signed autograph inscription from the author to the great Gaullist resistance fighter Gilbert Grandval. Editions France-Empire hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 43249

‎Rene MORAX‎

‎La tisseuse d'orties drame lyrique en 4 actes‎

‎Paris: J. Budry & Cie 1926. Fine. J. Budry & Cie Paris 1926 14 x 19.50 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper with only 10 deluxe copies printed on Holland paper. Music by Gustave Doret. Handsome and rare copy. J. Budry & Cie unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 12901

‎Rene PASTEUR-VALLERY-RADOT‎

‎La vie de Pasteur‎

‎Paris: Hachette & Cie 1900. Fine. Hachette & Cie Paris 1900 16.50 x 25 cm relié First edition. Half red shagreen binding spine with four raised bands showing traces of rubbing decorated with gilt dots initials at foot traces of rubbing on joints covers with small restoration at foot preserved edges rubbed contemporary binding. In frontispiece a photographic portrait of Louis Pasteur. Small angular lack on one binding endpaper bookplate pasted to verso of front board copy free from foxing. Hachette & Cie hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 12165