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Francois CAVANNA - (inscribed to Regine DEFORGES)
La belle fille sur le tas d'ordures The Pretty Girl on the Garbage Heap
Paris: Presses de la Cité 1984. Fine. Presses de la Cité Paris 1984 14 x 22.50 cm broché First edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Illustrated with drawings by Cabu. Handsome copy complete with its wraparound band: ""Touche pas à ma planète !"" ""Don't touch my planet!"". Precious autograph inscription signed by François Cavanna to his friends Régine Deforges and Wiaz: ""A Régine à Wiaz qui le liront ensemble ou se le raconteront."" ""To Régine to Wiaz who will read it together or tell it to each other."" Provenance: from the library of Régine Deforges. Presses de la Cité unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75782
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COLLECTIF
Esprit N°11 de la nouvelle série
Paris: Esprit 1969. Fine. Esprit Paris Novembre1969 14.50 x 22.50 cm broché First edition of this issue of the important humanist review founded by Emmanuel Mounier one of 50 numbered copies on alma du Marais paper the only deluxe copies. Issue partly devoted to protest in the U.S.S.R.: ""The interrogation of P. Litvinov"" ""V. Bukovsky before his judges"" ""General Grigorenko"" ""The clandestine writers"". Other contributions by Joseph Rovan ""Two Socialist Germanys"" Casamayor ""The Deveaux affair"" Jean-Marie Domenach ""The United States under Nixon"". Occasional light foxing principally marginal. Esprit unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75509
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Honore DAUMIER
Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Les bas-bleus - ""Comment! encore une caricature sur nous.""
Paris: Chez Aubert 1844. Fine. Chez Aubert Paris s. d. 1844 26.60 x 34.60 cm une feuille Original black and white lithograph third state for Le Charivari printed on heavy paper. Signed on the plate. Delteil 689 Monogrammed stamp ""AB"" from the collection of Dr Albert Bloch on the reverse of the plate. Some pale foxing. Chez Aubert unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74764
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Marcel JEANJEAN - ANONYME - Raoul MORTIER
Les farces du Moyen-Age
Paris: Union latine d'éditions 1937. Fine. Union latine d'éditions Paris 1937 17.50 x 22.50 cm relié Illustrated edition with original color miniatures by Marcel Jeanjean one of 40 numbered copies on Japon nacré paper the deluxe copies after 10 Japon nacré hors commerce copies. Full chocolate brown morocco binding spine very slightly lightened with two raised bands interlaced with black fillets title stamped in gold on the front cover decorated with a design of two cords of interlaced black fillets endpapers and pastedowns of moiré effect paper frame of double gilt fillets on the pastedowns top edge gilt. Handsome copy of this edition translated from Old French into Modern French by Raoul Mortier. Union latine d'éditions hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75182
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Honore DAUMIER
Lithographie originale en couleurs - L'Exposition Universelle - ""Vue prise à la buvette pendant la canicule""
Paris: Maison Martinet 1855. Fine. Maison Martinet Paris s. d. 1855 25.20 x 33.60 cm une feuille Original lithograph heightened in colors and gummed second state for Le Charivari printed on thick paper. Delteil 1776 Some light foxing. Maison Martinet unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74796
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Paul CLAUDEL
Du côté de chez Ramuz
Neuchâtel: Ides & Calendes 1947. Fine. Ides & Calendes Neuchâtel 1947 11.50 x 17.50 cm broché First edition one of 36 numbered copies on China paper deluxe copies. Very handsome copy Ides & Calendes unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75585
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Jacques PREVERT
Choses et autres
Paris: Gallimard 1972. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1972 14.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of 62 numbered copies on pur fil deluxe copy. Fine copy. Gallimard unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75627
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Alfons MUCHA
Couverture de L'Estampe Moderne n°17 septembre 1898
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Septembre 1898 41 x 56 cm une feuille Original black and white print with wide margins serving as cover for the celebrated monthly publication L'Estampe Moderne. Entirely printed in black our print is the cover of the rare deluxe wide-margined volume gathering of the first year of publication. Artist's signature in the plate and deluxe edition number added in pencil. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe Moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specially by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold at 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on wide-margined Japan and 50 in black on China at the considerable price of 30F. French collectors' interest 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 displayed 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 work of art in its own right on the same level as the deluxe 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. The publisher also integrated into his project a Czech artist freshly arrived in Paris Alfons Mucha ""who has recently revealed himself in France and who has immediately conquered such a great place in public favor. As in his posters which everyone knows and seeks he shows us here the varied resources of his multiple and sure talent as a draftsman decorator and colorist."" caption printed on the tissue guard of Salomé. It was moreover to him that the first premium of the magazine was entrusted offered ""to all subscribers of the twelve annual issues of L'Estampe Moderne"" as well as the famous cover illustration. Very fine copy. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74576
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Art ROE
Racheté
Paris: Calmann Lévy 1895. Fine. Calmann Lévy Paris 1895 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 10 numbered copies on imperial Japan paper the only deluxe copies. Rare and handsome copy despite small lacks to spine and traces of corner creases on boards. Calmann Lévy hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75245
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Thierry MAULNIER
Esquisses littéraires
Paris: Robert Cayla 1948. Fine. Robert Cayla Paris 1948 11.50 x 18 cm broché First edition one of 175 numbered copies on vellum deluxe copy. Handsome copy Robert Cayla hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75278
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Stephane MALLARME - (to Alidor DELZANT) - (James McNeill WHISTLER)
"j'ai honte d'avoir fui dans ma verdure au moment même où Whistler parlait de mon portrait à faire"" Signed autograph letter card and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant
Valvins 1898. Fine. Valvins 23 juin 1898 8.90 x 11.50 cm une carte recto verso - enveloppe jointe Autograph letter-card signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written in black ink on both sides. With the original envelope. Enclosed with this letter is a quatrain in Mallarmés hand: ""Tout en les éternisant / Bracquemond ici fait vivre / Les traits d'Alidor Delzant / A nous ouvert comme un livre."" Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers he devoted a book to them and served as Edmonds secretary and testamentary executor. A delightful card in which the poëte ordinaire refers to the making of his portrait by his friend the painter Whistler: ""j'ai honte d'avoir fui dans ma verdure au moment même où Whistler parlait de mon portrait à faire"". ""On June 1st as he had promised Whistler who in his last letter with an affection verging on tenderness addressed him as mon Mallarmé he went to the painters studio on the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. You will see someone from the woods somewhere between the wild boar and the nightingale he had warned playfully in announcing his visit. Painter and poet ended the day dining on the rue du Bac where the all-too-ephemeral Trixie was now absent. In the half-light after dinner Whistler near a lamp seemed to resurrect in appearance the extraordinary Poe. Doubtless he then repeated to Mallarmé his intention of painting him. The next day without waiting for the Monet exhibition soon to be held at Georges Petit the Mallarmés went on to Valvins. Jean-Luc Steinmetz Stéphane Mallarmé This was most likely the execution of another portrait of Mallarmé of which no trace remains Whistler having already produced one that served as the frontispiece to Vers et Prose in 1893. He also alludes to Bracquemonds etched portrait of Delzant: ""Je comprends du reste l'eau-forte valant cet exil de Paraÿs . Redites mon affectueuse admiration toujours à Monsieur Bracquemond."" unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75918
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Gerard de NERVAL - Joseph MERY - SOUDRAKA
Le chariot d'enfant
Paris: D. Giraud & J. Dagneau 1850. Fine. D. Giraud & J. Dagneau Paris 1850 11.50 x 18.70 cm relié Rare first edition printed in 500 copies of the French translation of this Indian tale established by Gérard de Nerval and G. Méry on ordinary paper only 2 copies would have been printed on colored paper in deluxe format. Modern half black sheep binding smooth Jansenist spine. Title and date in gilt. Black gold and brown paper boards. Uncut copy full-margined. Scattered foxing. Good copy. D. Giraud & J. Dagneau hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75842
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Honore DAUMIER
Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - La Journée du Celibataire - ""8 Heures du matin""
Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. Fine. Chez Aubert Paris s. d. 1839 27.50 x 36 cm une feuille Original black and white lithograph second state for Le Charivari printed on heavy paper. Signed on the plate. Delteil 1999 Monogrammed stamp ""AB"" from the collection of Dr. Albert Bloch on the verso of the plate. Some light foxing and ink numbering at the head of the plate. Chez Aubert unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74734
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Lawrence FERLINGHETTI
Oeil ouvert coeur ouvert
Paris: Christian Bourgois 1977. Fine. Christian Bourgois Paris 1977 13 x 20 cm broché First edition of the French translation of which there were no deluxe copies. The French text appears alongside the original English text. A small tear to the protective film covering the first cover at the head. Autograph inscription dated and signed in French and written from Paris by Lawrence Ferlinghetti publisher of the Beat Generation writers to a lady named Marie-Odile. Christian Bourgois unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74429
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Paul MARROT
Le charme. - Lazare. Poésies posthumes
Paris: Albert Fontemoing 1903. Fine. Albert Fontemoing Paris s. d. circa 1903 13 x 20.50 cm relié First edition one of the rare copies on laid paper of which no mention is made. Full black morocco binding spine with five raised bands place and date gilt at foot cold-stamped roulettes on headcaps marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns frame of double gilt fillets and gilt fleurons in corners of pastedowns covers and spine preserved small tear on second cover top edge gilt contemporary binding signed René Kieffer. Preface by Edmond Frank work illustrated with a portrait of the author as frontispiece drawn and engraved by H. Danger. Our copy is enriched with a double portrait of Paul Marrot as frontispiece and bears an autograph inscription signed by H. Danger to the preface writer of the work Edmond Frank. Fine and rare deluxe copy established in a full morocco binding signed René Kieffer. Albert Fontemoing hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75341
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Federico GARCIA LORCA
Chant funèbre pour Ignacio Sanchez Mejias et ode à Walt Whitman
Paris: GLM 1938. Fine. GLM Paris 1938 14 x 19 cm broché First edition in French one of 20 numbered copies on Holland paper deluxe copy. Handsome copy despite the endpapers being very slightly and partially shaded. GLM unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74819
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RJ PIERRE R J
La Russie sous la révolution et la dictature maximaliste
Bruxelles Brussels & Paris: Société d'édition belgo-russeFélix Alcan 1919. Fine. Société d'édition belgo-russe Félix Alcan Bruxelles Brussels & Paris 1919 14 x 18 cm broché The first edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Spine sunned handsome interior condition. Preface by M. Lauwick. Société d'édition belgo-russeFélix Alcan unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74404
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Edouard PEISSON
Les rescapés du Nevada
Paris: Flammarion 1950. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1950 15 x 21.50 cm broché First edition one of 220 numbered copies on alfa paper the only deluxe copies after 55 on Lana vellum. Handsome copy. Flammarion hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75725
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Jean BASEILHAC - (Georges COURTELINE)
"La soupe à la chambre"" - Lithographie originale sur Japon - L'Estampe Moderne
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Septembre 1898 38 x 27 cm une feuille et une serpente Rare original color lithograph executed by Jean Baseilhac for L'Estampe Moderne series number 17 published in September 1898. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins laid paper mounted on Japan paper artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin numbered stamp of the deluxe edition on the verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard inscribed with the artist's name the title and a text extract. Lithograph inspired by an extract from Train de 8 h. 47 by Georges Courteline reproduced on the print's tissue guard. Magnificent French monthly publication issued between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specially by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed 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 beautiful format is superbly printed 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 quality of ink absorption and its affinity with colors also make it the ideal support for these very fine lithographs. The interest of French collectors in artistic posters intensified at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie"". The poster originally popular and pasted on 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 deluxe 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. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74579
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Honore DAUMIER
Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - Les Banqueteurs - ""Il fait les délices du bal""
Paris: Chez Aubert 1848. Fine. Chez Aubert Paris s. d. ca 1848 27.60 x 35.90 cm une feuille Original black and white lithograph second state printed on heavy paper. Signed on the plate. Delteil 683 Monogrammed stamp ""AB"" from the collection of Dr Albert Bloch on verso of the plate. Good condition. Chez Aubert unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74738
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Jules VERNE
Le Sphinx des glaces
Paris: Jules Hetzel 1903. Fine. Jules Hetzel Paris 1903-1904 17.50 x 27.50 cm relié Edition illustrated with 68 illustrations by George Roux including 20 large chromolithographs and one map. Catalogue Y in-fine. Publisher's Hetzel binding signed Engel known as ""au globe"" type 4 spine with lighthouse second cover type Engel ""i"" according to Jauzac all edges gilt. Spine lightly faded with minor rubbing and corners rubbed. Endpapers changed and scattered foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume. Le Sphinx des glaces is a fantasy novel intended as a sequel to Edgar Poe's novel - to which it is dedicated - Les Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym published in 1838. Copy not recorded by Jauzac. Jules Hetzel unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74212
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Jules VERNE
Deux ans de vacances
Paris: Hetzel 1888. Fine. Hetzel Paris 1888 18 x 28 cm cartonnage de l'éditeur First edition octavo illustrated with 92 illustrations by Benett including one color map hors-texte: this is the first appearance of polychrome illustration in a Jules Verne novel. Publisher's Hetzel ""two elephants"" binding in full red percaline signed Lenègre type 3 front cover signed Souze back cover Lenègre type ""e"" as indicated by Jauzac spine with lighthouse original blue endpapers all edges gilt. EL catalogue at rear. Some very slight whitish traces on the spine and back cover and two tiny tears at head of front cover and head joint of back cover. Scattered foxing mainly at beginning and end of volume as usual. Original endpapers in pristine blue. Deux ans de vacances is a robinsonnade featuring fourteen schoolboys from New Zealand. Hetzel unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74368
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(Ivan TOURGUENIEV) - Etienne CARJAT
Photographie Portrait photographique de Ivan Tourgueniev
Paris: Legré et Bergeron 1865. Fine. Legré et Bergeron Paris 1865 6 x 10.20 cm une photographie Rare original albumen photograph mounted on card by Carjat. From 1865 Carjat sold his studio to Legré and Bergeron who thereafter exploited his collection. Photograph mounted on card. On verso: Photographie Legré et Bergeron anciens associés succrs de Carjat & Cie 56 rue Lafitte Paris. In pencil: Tourgueneff. The photographic session which presumably took place at Carjat's studio of Turgenev at around 47 years of age produced several negatives one of which is in the Carnavalet Museum. This other photograph shows him in the same attire no longer facing forward but in profile. We have been unable to locate any other copy in public collections. Handsome print representing the writer with a dark and grave expression. Legré et Bergeron unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75138
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COLETTE
"Je suis sans nouvelles de Sidi. Je me fais toute une chevelure de soucis."" Signed autograph letter addressed to Adrien Peytel
Paris 1914. Fine. Paris 1914 13.60 x 21.20 cm en feuillets Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel two pages written in black ink in hurried handwriting on a double sheet with L'Eclair newspaper letterhead. A central fold inherent to the folding of the letter for mailing. Fine letter from Colette testimony to the confusion that seized France at the dawn of the Great War: ""Nothing is working. I am stuck here for a piece they are asking me to write."" The writer worries: ""I have no news from Sidi Henry de Jouvenel. I am creating a whole head of worries for myself. I don't know where he is he wrote to me that he was leaving with the 29th for the Somme. Ah! la la la la la la."" ""Colette a entendu sonner le tocsin en Bretagne où elle passait un séjour ensoleillé avec le baron Henry de Jouvenel et leur fille dans sa maison de Rozven. La guerre la surprend en plein bonheur à quarante et un ans. . Son mari appelé dès le 2 août devant rejoindre le 29e régiment d'infanterie à Verdun elle a aussitôt envoyé sa fille à peine âgée d'un an avec sa nurse au château de Castel Novel en Corrèze - chez sa belle-mère. Et elle est rentrée à Paris."" ""Colette heard the tocsin ringing in Brittany where she was spending a sunny stay with Baron Henry de Jouvenel and their daughter in her house at Rozven. The war surprised her in the midst of happiness at forty-one years old. . Her husband called up from August 2nd having to join the 29th infantry regiment at Verdun she immediately sent her daughter barely a year old with her nurse to the château de Castel Novel in Corrèze - to her mother-in-law's. And she returned to Paris."" Dominique Bona Colette et les siennes unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75220
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Paul ADAM
Lettres de Malaisie
Paris: Editions de La revue blanche 1898. Fine. Editions de La revue blanche Paris 1898 12.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition of which there were no deluxe copies. Bradel binding in half brick brown cloth with corners smooth spine decorated with gilt floral motif double gilt fillet at foot turquoise shagreen title label pebbled paper boards endpapers and pastedowns with floral motifs covers and spine preserved contemporary binding. Small black ink stains on top edge and on lower corners. Rare and handsome copy of this literary utopia. Editions de La revue blanche hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74977
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Boris VIAN
Manuscrit autographe complet de la chanson de Boris Vian intitulée ""Baisers de Tahiti""
s. l.: S. n. 1958. Fine. S. n. s. l. 1958 21 x 27 cm deux feuilles perforés Complete autograph manuscript on one perforated sheet of 40 lines written in blue ink of the song entitled ""Baisers de Tahiti"" presenting the final text of this song and two corrections. We include on a perforated sheet the complete typescript of the song. A small brown stain of no consequence at the head of the first sheet of the manuscript. Fine ensemble of this song which was written in 1958 but was sadly never performed. Vian recounts the memories of a Frenchman from the North reminiscing about his Tahitian years. ""Palmiers de Tahiti / Chansons des plages bleues / Soleil de Tahiti / Que j'étais heureux"" Provenance: Fondation Boris Vian S. n. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74330
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Paul MONTAVON
L'apprêt des tissus traité contenant un recueil des méthodes et des procédés d'apprêt concernant la généralité des étoffes mais plus particulièrement les tissus en fibres végétales
Paris: A. Davy et fils ainé 1924. Fine. A. Davy et fils ainé Paris 1924 15.50 x 24.50 cm relié First edition. Handsome copy. Half brown shagreen binding faded and lightened spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper. Work illustrated with 211 figures in and out of text. A. Davy et fils ainé hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75675
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[Lucien SCHELER as] Jean SILENCE
Mille neuf cent quarante quatre
Paris: Le club des amis du livre 1964. Fine. Le club des amis du livre Paris 1964 18.50 x 20.50 cm reliure de l'éditeur First edition of this selection of poems on the Resistance. Publisher's full yellow cloth binding complete with its illustrated dust jacket and cellophane wrapper which has a lack to the head of the rear panel. Fine autograph inscription signed by Lucien Scheler alias Jean Silence to Robert Gallimard: "". cette lampe-tempête souvenir du temps mort avec l'amitié de Jean Silence."" Le club des amis du livre hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75674
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A YANK - (Leo DESMARAIS)
"La femme au perroquet"" - Lithographie originale sur Japon - L'Estampe Moderne
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Novembre 1898 17 x 34.50 cm une feuille et une serpente Rare original lithograph in colors executed by A. Yank for L'Estampe Moderne series number 19 published in November 1898. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins laid paper mounted on Japan paper artist's signature and date in the plate publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin numbered luxury edition stamp on verso; lithograph preceded by a tissue guard inscribed with the artist's name title and an extract from a work. Lithograph inspired by an extract from Miroirs by Léo Desmarais reproduced on the print's tissue guard. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other journals such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specifically by each artist for the journal. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic currents of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe edition: 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 on the most prestigious of papers: Japan paper. Thick silky satiny and pearlescent it contributes to making each page a work of art in its own right. Its quality of ink absorption and its affinity with colors also make it the ideal support for these very beautiful lithographs. French collectors' interest in artistic posters grew at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne to qualify this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and displayed 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 vocation and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the illustrated luxury 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 of incredible modernity in composition and colors. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74605
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Maurice BLANCHOT - Robert BRASILLACH
La grande passion des modérés in Combat n°9 de la première année
Paris: in Combat 1936. Fine. in Combat Paris Novembre 1936 21.50 x 28.50 cm agrafé First edition and sole publication of this pamphlet published in the magazine Combat directed by Thierry Maulnier. Vertical fold inherent to the distribution of this magazine and small marginal tears. Other contributions: Robert Brasillach ""La machine à botter les culs"" Thierry Maulnier ""Sortirons-nous de l'abjection française "" Georges Blond ""Chapeau bas devant la casquette"" Jean-Pierre Maxence ""A nous la liberté ! "". Very rare document testifying to the anti-democratic period of the young Maurice Blanchot. in Combat unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74349
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Marcel AYME
Louisiane Louisiana
Paris: Gallimard 1961. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1961 12 x 18.50 cm broché First edition one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper the deluxe issue. A pleasant copy. Gallimard unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75801
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Patrice DILLON - (Charles NODIER)
"Polichinelle"" - Lithographie originale sur Chine - L'Estampe Moderne
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Décembre 1898 23 x 35 cm une feuille Rare original lithograph executed by Paul-César Helleu for L'Estampe Moderne series number 20 published in December 1898. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on the reverse some foxing. Lithograph inspired by an extract from Polichinelle by Charles Nodier. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specifically by each artist for the magazine. 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 printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential printing of very grand luxury: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print of beautiful format is superbly printed on one of the most prestigious papers: China paper. ""Despite all its qualities China paper too inconsistent owes its reputation not to its own beauty but to its particular affinities with printing ink. Its texture smooth and soft together is more apt than any other to receive a beautiful printing. This property makes China paper sought after for printing engravings."" Anatole France. French collectors' interest in artistic posters intensified at the beginning of the 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and posted in the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and devoted to preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising vocation and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art in the same way as the illustrated luxury 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. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74615
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Charles GUERIN - (Henri de REGNIER)
"Sirène"" - Lithographie originale sur Chine - L'Estampe Moderne
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1899. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Janvier 1899 22 x 26 cm une feuille Rare original lithograph executed by Charles Guérin for L'Estampe Moderne series number 21 published in January 1899. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp depicting a child's profile in lower margin mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered stamp of the deluxe printing on the reverse some foxing. Lithograph inspired by an extract from Jeux rustiques et divins by Henri de Régnier. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe Moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specially by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each delivery of four prints was issued in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential very 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 of handsome format is superbly printed on one of the most prestigious papers: China paper. ""Despite all its qualities China paper too inconsistent owes its reputation not to its own beauty but to its particular affinities with printing ink. Its texture smooth and soft at once is more apt than any other to receive a fine impression. This property makes China paper sought after for printing engravings."" Anatole France. French collectors' interest in artistic posters intensified in the early 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and plastered on 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 deluxe 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. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74622
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Andre IBELS - (Paul VERLAINE)
"Pantomime"" - Lithographie originale sur Japon - L'Estampe Moderne
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Août 1898 35 x 26.50 cm une feuille et une serpente Rare original lithograph in colors executed by André Ibels for L'Estampe Moderne series number 16 published in August 1898. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on Japan paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's dry stamp representing a child's profile in the lower margin numbered luxury edition stamp on verso; engraving preceded by a tissue guard inscribed with the artist's name title and a poem. Lithograph inspired by an extract from Vitraux by Laurent Tailhade reproduced on the print's tissue guard. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specially by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints were published in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold at 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 of handsome format is superbly printed on the most prestigious of papers: Japan. Thick silky satiny and pearlescent it contributes to making each page a work in its own right. Its quality of ink absorption and its affinity with colors also make it the ideal support for these very beautiful lithographs. French collectors' interest in artistic posters intensified in the early 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and plastered in the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and devoted to preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising vocation 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 Post-Impressionist style. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74570
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Pierre Jean JOUVE
Poésie. Diadème - Ode - Langue
Paris: Mercure de France 1966. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1966 14.50 x 21 cm broché First collected edition one of 20 numbered copies on pure wove paper the only deluxe copies with a few hors commerce. First cover very lightly and marginally sunned spine creased at foot handsome copy of the third volume of the complete works of Pierre Jean Jouve. Precious autograph inscription dated and signed by Pierre Jean Jouve: ""A André Malraux en amitié admiration - fidélité. Pierre Jean Jouve. 1966"" ""To André Malraux in friendship admiration - loyalty. Pierre Jean Jouve. 1966"" Mercure de France unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75524
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Theodore DURET - James WHISTLER
Histoire de J.Mc N. Whistler
Paris: Henri Floury 1904. Fine. Henri Floury Paris 1904 20 x 26 cm relié Henri Floury Paris 1904 20x26cm bound. First edition one of 50 numbered copies on Japon the only deluxe issue complete with the double set of full-page engravings. Illustrated with 19 full-page engravings after Whistler par H. de J. W. Prunaire Henry Wolf H. Guérard T. Beltrand Thomas R. Way Clot and numerous drawings within the text. Half red morocco with binding smooth spine gilt date at foot red marbled paper boards endpapers and pastedowns very discreet scratch to the second board original soft covers preserved gilt top edge contemporary binding signed Pouillet. A fine perfectly bound copy. Copy signed and inscribed by Théodore Duret to Monsieur A. Jung. Henri Floury paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74474
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Honore DAUMIER
Lithographie originale en noir et blanc - L'annonce et la reclame - ""En fait-on avaler a ce pauvre public!!""
Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. Fine. Chez Aubert Paris s. d. 1839 26 x 34.50 cm une feuille Original black and white lithograph third state for La Caricature printed on heavy paper. Signed in the plate. Delteil 326 Plate entirely affected by worming and slight tear in the lower right margin. Chez Aubert unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74756
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Elsa TRIOLET
Ecoutez-voir
Paris: Gallimard 1968. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1968 14.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition a Service de Presse advance copy. Iconography. Spine very lightly sunned without gravity handsome copy complete with publisher's advertising slip. Precious signed autograph inscription from Elsa Triolet: ""A Maurice Druon cette longue lettre. Elsa."" Provenance: from the library of academician Maurice Druon. Gallimard unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75592
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Francis CARCO - Andre PICARD
Mon homme
Paris: Ferenczi 1921. Fine. Ferenczi Paris 1921 12.50 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 15 numbered copies on pur fil the only deluxe paper issue. A minute tear without loss at the foot of the spine otherwise a rare and very handsome copy. Illustrated wrappers. Ferenczi unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75745
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PIEM
Un trait c'est tout.
Paris: Arthaud 1972. Fine. Arthaud Paris 1972 25 x 24.50 cm reliure de l'éditeur Illustrated edition with drawings by Piem. Publisher's full white cardboard binding smooth spine illustrated front cover. Handsome copy. Amusing signed autograph inscription by Piem enriched with a drawing showing Piem watching a television whose screen is replaced by the two figures to whom this copy is dedicated: ""Georges et Gilles ça me change un peu. Amicalement. Piem."" ""Georges and Gilles this is a nice change for me. With friendship. Piem."" Arthaud unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75334
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Felician MYRBACH - Luigi ROSSI - Alphonse DAUDET
Sapho
Paris: Marpon & Flammarion 1887. Fine. Marpon & Flammarion Paris 1887 12.50 x 18.50 cm relié New edition with illustrations by Luigi Rossi and Felician Myrbach one of 50 copies on Japan paper deluxe copy. Half tawny morocco binding with corners spine with five raised bands set with gilt dots decorated with double gilt compartments enhanced with gilt typographical motifs gilt date at foot gilt fillet on pebbled paper boards combed paper endpapers and pastedowns top edge gilt retaining deckled edges covers and spine preserved contemporary binding signed Kraft. A description label from an English bookseller pasted on an endpaper light scratches of no consequence to headcaps occasional worming. Provenance: from the Robert Hoe library with his bookplate pasted on a pastedown. Marpon & Flammarion hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75053
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Martin Luther KING
Révolution non-violente
Paris: Payot 1968. Fine. Payot Paris 1968 13.50 x 20.50 cm broché First edition in French. Spine creased two small stains on edges handsome interior condition. Payot unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75699
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Paul MORAND
Les extravagants
Paris: Nrf 1936. Fine. Nrf Paris 1936 12 x 19 cm broché First edition a Service de Presse advance copy. Handsome copy. Autograph inscription signed by Paul Morand to René Laporte: "". heureux de son succès."" "".happy with his success."" Nrf unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75071
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Andre JAULME
Les beaux livres d'autrefois : le XVème siècle
Paris: H. Babou 1929. Fine. H. Babou Paris 1929 22.50 x 27.50 cm en feuilles sous chemise à lacets First edition one of 1010 numbered copies on Johannot paper the only printing with 140 on Japan paper. Work illustrated with heliotype plates. Minor scuffs to the joints of the board chemise a shadow on the endpaper otherwise handsome interior condition. H. Babou unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75322
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Henri QUEFFELEC
Frères de la brume
Paris: Les Presses de la Cité 1960. Fine. Les Presses de la Cité Paris 1960 14.50 x 22.50 cm en feuilles sous double chemise et étui First edition one of 100 numbered copies on deluxe paper the only deluxe copies. Handsome copy presented in sheets under double chemise and wine-colored slipcase. A tear with split to one joint of the slipcase handsome copy. Beautiful autograph inscription dated and signed by Henri Queffelec to Doctor Henri Moreau: "". grand connaisseur et grand ami de la mer en espérant qu'il trouve ici un peu d'aliment pour la nostalgie maritime dont il doit souffrir à Paris - bien qu'il soit docteur !."" "".great connoisseur and great friend of the sea hoping that he finds here some nourishment for the maritime nostalgia from which he must suffer in Paris - although he is a doctor!."" Les Presses de la Cité unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75390
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Louis LURINE
Les rues de Paris. Paris ancien et moderne
Paris: Kugelmann 1844. Fine. Kugelmann Paris 1844 16 x 25.50 cm 2 volumes reliés First edition illustrated with 44 wood-engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved vignettes in the text the title page announcing 300 drawings after Nanteuil Gavarni. A handsome Romantic illustrated work. 2 frontispieces the first by Nanteuil the second by Edouard de Beaumont. Contemporary half dark green shagreen binding. Spine with flat false raised bands decorated with compartmentalized Romantic tools gilt and blind fillets. Boards rubbed corners turned over and bumped. Light scattered foxing. A good copy with attractive decorative spines. Historical texts on the streets of Paris by Jules Janin Eugène Briffault Louis Huart. under the direction of Lurine. The work traces the history of certain streets of Paris squares districts. the most famous of the capital. Kugelmann hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75397
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Alfons MUCHA
Couverture de L'Estampe Moderne n°9 janvier 1898
Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1898. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Janvier 1898 41 x 56 cm une feuille Original black and white print with wide margins serving as cover for the celebrated monthly publication L'Estampe Moderne. Entirely printed in black our print is the cover of the rare deluxe wide-margined volume gathering of the first year of publication. Artist's signature in the plate and deluxe edition number added in pencil. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of original chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specifically by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold at 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential deluxe printing: 50 copies on Japan with wide margins and 50 in black on China at the considerable price of 30F. French collectors' interest 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 posted on 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 vocation and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the deluxe 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. The publisher also integrated into his project a Czech artist freshly arrived in Paris Alfons Mucha ""who has recently revealed himself in France and who has immediately conquered such a great place in public favor. As in his posters which everyone knows and seeks he shows us here the varied resources of his multiple and sure talent as draftsman decorator and colorist."" caption printed on the tissue guard of Salomé. It was moreover to him that the first premium of the magazine was entrusted offered ""to all subscribers of the twelve annual issues of L'Estampe moderne"" as well as the famous illustration of the covers. Very handsome copy. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74326
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Alexander CALDER
Alexander Calder May 17 - June 4 1955
New York: Curt Valentine Gallery 1955. Fine. Curt Valentine Gallery New York 1955 12 x 17 cm agrafé First edition of the catalogue of the exhibition of works by Alexander Calder presented at the ""Curt Valentine Gallery"" in New York from May 17 to June 4 1955. Handsome copy. Catalogue illustrated with 8 reproductions of works by Alexander Calder. Curt Valentine Gallery unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75486
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Alexandre LUNOIS
Un cas de jalousie
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet 1896. Fine. Librairie L. Conquet Paris 1896 16 x 24.50 cm relié First edition illustrated with 19 original lithographs by Alexandre Lunois one of 140 numbered copies on Japan paper the only printing with 60 other Japan copies containing the separate suite of illustrations. Half salmon morocco binding with corners smooth spine decorated with gilt cartouches gilt double fillets framing the marbled paper boards pebbled paper endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers preserved bookplate pasted to one pastedown top edge gilt elegant contemporary binding. Handsome copy in perfect condition. Librairie L. Conquet hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 74974
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Eric TABARLY
Pen Duick VI
Paris: Editions du Pen Duick 1974. Fine. Editions du Pen Duick Paris 1974 15.50 x 23.50 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Handsome copy despite a small lack of the plastic film covering the boards at the head of the spine. Iconography. Autograph inscription signed by Eric Tabarly. Editions du Pen Duick hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 75133
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