1957rif. 2346DEUTSCHE BUCHGEMEINSCHAFT 1957. 1. hardcover. DEUTSCHE BUCHGEMEINSCHAFT hardcover
1931rif. 62306Paris:: Ernest Flammarion Editeur 1931. half morocco; decorated spine; t.e.g.; original printed wrappers bound in. . A fine copy. 12mo. Signed and inscribed by Colette. Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, unknown
1948rif. 24528Paris: Georges Guillot Editeur 1948. Hardcover. Gray board portfolio spine lettered in red housed in matching very good nicked slipcase. 96 pages. Folio. 32 x 25 cm. One of 45 copies on Arches paper with an extra suite of plates hors commerce for the artist and collaborators -- and numbered XI of a total edition of 325 copies. The extra suite housed in original glassine wrapper. Letterpress printed in black and white and color by Joseph Zichiere with drypoints printed in black & white and color by Georges Leblanc. The author was the talented and prolific chronicler of the female experience in the first half of the twentieth century. She was admired by André Gide and Truman Capote. Gigi title printed in mauve and lavender. Interior contents and images fresh and clean. MONOD 3006. Georges Guillot, Editeur hardcover
1936rif. 176933New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc. 1936. First edition in English first printing one of Colette's "minor masterpieces" Wallace p. 7. Published as La Chatte in 1933 this psychological novel depicts a young couple whose marriage falters under the preference of the husband for their pet. The illustrations and dust jacket art were by Susanne Suba 1913-2012 an author artist for the New Yorker and children's book illustrator. Octavo. Original purple cloth spine and front cover lettered in blue top edge yellow fore edge uncut. With dust jacket by Susanne Suba. Vignette title page and illustrations to text by Susanne Suba. Pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1937; rear endpapers with ticket of Tecolote Bookshop Santa Barbara and an erased ownership inscription dated 1972. Spine cocked top edge foxed; jacket unclipped spine toned 2.5 cm closed tear to head of front flap fold a handful of small tears elsewhere front panel bright: a very good copy in like jacket. Margaret Wallace "Colette and a Cat" New York Times 9 August 1936. hardcover
rif. 61322684John Wiley & Sons . Hardback. New. John Wiley & Sons hardcover
1928rif. 425761Paris: Librairie Hachette 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. Edition Ne Varietur avec 16 gravures originales sur bois Renefer; the first trade edition of the book with these illustrations. Bound in contemporary green quarter calf and marbled paper covered boards with front wrap bound in. Modest rubbing and wear on the boards else near fine; internally fine. Inscribed by the author to her old friend Alice Bénard-Fleury of Toulon with whom she corresponded during World War I: "Pour Alice Bénard-Fleury avec un sentiment amical qui presse vite da la bouteille. Colette." "For Alice Bénard-Fleury with friendly feelings that quickly flows from the bottle". Librairie Hachette hardcover
1920rif. 226207Paris: Artheme Fayard 1920. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo 3/4 green morocco spine faded to brown; original yellow printed wrappers including spine bound in. Paris: Artheme Fayard 1920. First Edition. One of 550 numbered copies on papier velin.Lafuma. This is no. 124. Artheme Fayard unknown
1918rif. 22770Paris: Georges Crès & Cie 1918. Fine. Georges Crès & Cie Paris 1918 13.50 x 17 cm broché First edition one of 60 numbered copies on Hollande the only large paper copies with 6 Chine. Endpapers slightly shaded otherwise a rare and good copy. Georges Crès & Cie unknown
1913rif. 13119Paris: Librairie des Lettres 1913. First Edition. Printed wrappers. Very Good. Small 8vo. Pp. 307. Stiff printed wraps red titles in gray decorative frame. French text. Copyright 1913 stated no printing date. List of available works ends with Prrou Poucette et quelques autres 1913. Advertisement for the "Journal de Colette" appearing in Le Matin from October 1913 laid in. Moderate spine lean top edge dust soiled toning to leaf margins. Signed by Colette on the title page. Continuation of the character Renée Néré based on Colette's marriage to Henry Gauthier-Villars Willy and experiences in the Music-Hall. Colette had married Henry de Jouvenel editor of Le Matin in 1912. A well-preserved first edition signed by the author: scarce in either case. Librairie des Lettres unknown
1971rif. 38740Paris: Les Francs Bibliophiles 1971. A PERFECT COPY OF A GORGEOUS LIVRE D'ARTISTE WITH ONE OF THE RARE SEPARATE SUITES OF THE LITHOGRAPHS. Illustrated with 13 original lithographs by Brianchon: 6 double-page color lithographs 1 full-page color lithograph and 6 single-page lithographs in black. Edition limited to 180 numbered copies printed exclusively for the members of the bibliophile society "Les Francs Bibliophiles" on fine Arches wove paper this copy printed for Christian de Brossard. This copy exceptionally has a separate suite of the 13 lithographs on extremely fine Auvergne handmade wove paper. The double-page lithographs in the suite obviously have never been folded unlike the ones in the book. Only 40 of these suites were printed 16 on Japanese paper 24 on Auvergne paper. Folio book and large folio suite. Book is loose in original wraps cloth chemise and slipcase. Suite in original folder. Both are FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. Les Francs Bibliophiles paperback
1925rif. 022549n.p. n.d. after 1925. Letter. Creases from mailing. Near Fine. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Colette" written in French on both sides of one 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" piece of blue paper with no salutation and dated simply "Vendredi Soir." . Colette writes to an unnamed correspondent about their health and mentioning that she and her third and final husband Maurice Goudeket have little money. unknown
1940rif. mon0000163534Librairie Artheme Fayard 1940. PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol. 7-3/8" x 4-3/4" 49th edition inscribed on the half-title "Pour ma chere Alice de qui je suis si loin - et si pres! son amie bien amie Colette" "For my dear Alice from whom I am so far - and so close! her friend good friend Colette". Bound in the publisher's original printed wrappers with the original glassine foot of spine slightly worn otherwise a VERY GOOD copy.rnThe recipient was Colette's old friend Alice Benard-Fleury of Toulon with whom she corresponded during the War years. Librairie Artheme Fayard unknown
1939rif. mon0000163533Ferenczi 1939. PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol. 7-1/8" x 4-5/8" inscribed on the half-title "Pour Alice Benard-Fleury en souvenir de sa vieille amie Colette" "For Alice Benard-Fleury in remembrance of her old friend Colette". Bound in 1/4 light green cloth backed marbled boards gilt lettered leather label overall VERY GOOD.rnThe recipient was Colette's old friend Alice Benard-Fleury of Toulon with whom she corresponded during the War years. Ferenczi hardcover
1933rif. 85668Paris: Flammarion 1933. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1933 11.50 x 18.50 cm relié First edition with no mention of deluxe paper copies. Half red marbled sheep binding spine faded with four raised bands decorated with a gilt floral motif light rubbing to the bands marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns sprinkled edges front cover preserved modest contemporary binding. Rare signed and inscribed copy by the author Colette Andris to Jean Blavet. Novelist music-hall performer and actress a forgotten and short-lived muse of the Roaring Twenties music-hall Colette Andris the pseudonym of Pauline Toutey managed to write three novels between 1929 and 1935 with a lot of autobiographical elements. She would die in the prime of life the following year. Born into an academic family she quickly gave up the administrative and teaching careers that awaited her in order to become a nude dancer and like her heroine Miss Nocturne to perform in the Parisian music halls. Flammarion hardcover
rif. BN382192Das goldene Zeitalter der Flote: Die Boehmflote in Frankreich 1832-1932 : Durchsetzung Gestaltung Wirkung. Das goldene Zeitalter der Flote: Die Boehmflote in Frankreich 1832-1932 : Durchsetzung Gestaltung Wirkung. Karl Lenski Colette van der Stricht Karl Ventzke. unknown
1942rif. 121753Paris : Les Editions de la Table Ronde 1942. broché. COLETTE. - JACQUEMIN André illustrations de.La Naissance du jour. Eaux-fortes par André Jacquemin. Paris Les Editions de la Table Ronde1942 300x250mm frontispice 169 pages illustré broché. Couverture rempliée. Grande marge. Papier cristal d’origine conservé. Sous chemise et étui rigides. Mors de la chemise fendillés. Sur papier vélin Hollande Van Gelder Zonen numéroté n° 48 / 50. Bel exemplaire. For shipments to the U.S.A. with a value exceeding 800 USD VAT is not included. Please contact us via our website if needed. Les Editions de la Table Ronde unknown
1920rif. 76019Rennes: Menzil 1920. Fine. Menzil Rennes circa 1921 14.50 x 21.80 cm Rare and unpublished childhood portrait of Colette Destouches only daughter of Louis-Ferdinand Céline born in 1920 on albumen paper mounted on cardboard from the Menzil studio. Manuscript caption ""Colette Destouches"" inscribed on recto and verso with the mention ""1920"". The portrait was taken by the Menzil house 6 rue Beaumont Rennes the city where Céline met and spent several years in the company of Édith Follet his second wife and mother of Colette. This photograph of Colette Destouches who is only a few months old is to our knowledge unpublished. Céline retained throughout his life an affection for his daughter whom he saw regularly in Rennes Geneva and Paris and who was ""surely more possessive in his way with her than he had been with any of his wives his mistresses. He had dreamed for her a glorious future of a medical career as if to strengthen their complicity"" Frédéric Vitoux La Vie de Céline coll. Folio 2005 p. 636. Menzil unknown
1923rif. 75257Marseille 1923. Fine. Marseille s. d. novembre 1923 13.70 x 18.70 cm une page sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed by Colette addressed to her friend the man of letters and lawyer Adrien Peytel one page written in black ink on a double sheet with letterhead from the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole in Marseille. A central fold inherent to the mailing of the letter. Handsome letter addressed from Marseille while Colette was conducting a lecture tour: ""I'm finishing my tour. I'll be in Paris on Sunday and we'll take care of this matter - which I still haven't understood anything about."" ""In November 1923 she dealt with . a subject she knew by heart Le Théâtre vu des deux côtés de la rampe. Her very young lover Bertrand de Jouvenel joined her in Marseille at the Grand Hôtel de Noailles et Métropole. Scandal: Bertrand de Jouvenel was none other than the son of her second husband the diplomat Henry de Jouvenel; guaranteed uproar around the fifty-year-old writer while her husband's son had just celebrated his twentieth birthday. Colette had two years earlier initiated the future economist and political scientist into love in this scandalous liaison which provided the theme and situations for Blé en herbe published in that same year 1923."" Rémi Duchêne L'Embarcadère des lettres unknown
2004rif. SBBIH-RGVF5U2H7XISCle Intl 2004. mass_market. Acceptable. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Cle Intl unknown
1933rif. 182953Paris: Bernard Grasset 1933. First edition number 890 of 2170 copies printed on alfa paper. This psychological novel follows the love triangle between a young married couple and their cat. "The surprise ending of this novel has made it one of Colette's most controversial. Her remarkable portrayal of the cat Saha whose psychology is revealed without any recourse to anthropomorphic characterization and the delicacy with which she awakens complex reactions on the part of the reader make this unusual novel an artistic tour de force" Norell. Octavo. Original pale green printed wrappers edges uncut. With glassine. Housed in card slipcase. Wrappers lightly toned spine ends rubbed contents crisp and clean; a handful of chips and tears to glassine: a very good copy. Norell 0272. unknown
2026rif. __1032213698Routledge 2026. Hardcover. New. 9.18x6.12 inches. Routledge hardcover
2010rif. DADAX1848211090Wiley-Interscience 2010-03-29. 3 Volumes. hardcover. New. 6.45x3.41x9.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Wiley-Interscience hardcover
1926rif. 15195Small 4to. Bound uncut with orig. wrappers in a fine green hmorocco 5 raised bands spine with 6 compartments each richly gilt. Top edge gilt. Back slightly faded. No 225 of 350 copies "sur vergé de Rives" a total of 420. With 33 fine original engravings by Laboureur. The first volume of "Grande Collection". hardcover
1972rif. 94691Paris: Pierre de Tartas 1972-73. Deluxe illustrated edition of Colette's four Claudine books with the original lithographic frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau. Quartos 4 volumes bound in full gilt-decorated pebbled morocco with silk endleaves top edges gilt lithographic colored frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau illustrated with 24 original colored lithographs per volume by Dauchot Sala Lelong and others. In near fine condition. Each volume housed in the original marbled slipcase. Just before Colette's death in 1954 Katherine Anne Porter asserted in the New York Times that she was indefinitely ".the greatest living French writer of fiction; and that she was while Gide and Proust still lived." Written in diary form and published between 1900 and 1904 the Claudine series describes the growth to maturity of a young girl Claudine now thought to be largely autobiographical. Pierre de Tartas unknown
rif. 23746Les Éditions de Montfort Paris. 1987. Folio 6 parts housed in custom-made box slip-cases xxii71; xxiv73-168; x169-231; viii234-315; x316-437; viii438-5562pp. number 59 of 200 de-luxe sets signed and numbered by the author total edition limited to 950 sets illustrated throughout many tipped-in 144 coloured loose as issued within orig. card wrappers a different uncoloured design after Creuzevalt on each upper cover. Beautiful work in honour of Henri Creuzevalt produced by his daughter Colette; it not only reproduces most of Creuzevault's bindings but also his preliminary drawings and studies. The text has been contributed by various authors and an index provides full information regarding each illustration. From the library of Bernard H. Breslauer. Les Éditions de Montfort, Paris. 1987 unknown