[ Paris]: nrf / Gallimard, [ 1968]. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Trace of darkening at wrapper edges, otherwise very good or better. Prospectus laid in. First edition. One of 3500 numbered copies on bouffant alfa, from an edition of 3695 copies. With the author's signed presentation inscription to critic/biographer Germaine Brée.
[ Paris]: nrf / Gallimard, [ 1966]. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Trace of darkening at wrapper edges, otherwise very good or better. Prospectus laid in. First edition. One of 250 numbered hors commerce copies on vélin bouffant alfa, from an edition of 3630 copies. With the author's signed presentation inscription...
[ Paris]: Seghers, [ 1951]. Pictorial wrappers. Photographs and facsimiles. A couple rubs to front wrapper, typical tanning, but very good. First edition, trade issue. With Berger's warm presentation inscription to St.-John Perse, and with Perse's occasional pencil annotations in the text and on the rear wrapper.
Paris: René Kieffer, [1925]. iv,221,[3]pp. including map. Octavo. Full black Niger morocco, raised bands, elaborately decorated in blind with an African shield motif, t.e.g., original decorated wrappers bound in, by Kieffer. A fine copy. First illustrated edition, with color "Décors négres" by Jean Vergély. Prefatory note by Raymond Escholier. This.....
Paris: Le Normant, 1809. xxiv,[2],[3]-414;[2],[3]-403,[3],10pp. Two volumes. Octavo. Contemporary tree calf, spines gilt extra, red and black gilt morocco labels, half-titles, errata and ads bound in. Minor chip at crown of one spine, minor foxing and offsetting from calf turn-ins early and late. A very good set in an attractive.....
Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, 1876. 348,[2]pp. Small quarto. Half gilt morocco and marbled boards. Plates. A late edition of this highly popular narrative. Edges a bit tanned, fore- corners bumped, edges a bit shelf-rubbed, else very good.
New York: Columbia University Press, [1990]. Large octavo. Cloth. First US edition of this translation from the French by Vivian Folkenflik. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
[Np]: Editions de l'Eau, 1989. Oblong small quarto (25.5 x 29 cm). Folded gatherings and plates laid into printed wrappers. Fine in lightly marked silk covered slipcase. First edition in this format, illustrated with six original engravings ("burins et manières noires") by Albert Woda, and six calligraphic interleaves by Lalou...
London: Imprimée par R. Everingham, & se vend chez R. Bentley, & M. Magnes ... 1688 [and] 1686. [36],348,[148]pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, gilt leather label. Corners and spine worn, head and toe of spine chipped, front pastedown loose but present; later bookplate on pastedown, signature on free endsheet: "Rich. Rycroft,"...
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[Paris: Franco London Film S.A., 1955]. [8]pp. Oblong small quarto (21 x 27 cm). Pictorial self-wrappers, string tied. Photographs and illustrations. About fine. An original souvenir program for the French release of Rossellini's 1954 film musical, GIOVANNA D'ARCO AL ROGO, a rendering of Joan of Arc's trial and execution featuring...
Paris: Editions Georges Guillot, [1954]. Large quarto. Loose gatherings laid into printed wrappers. Frontis and plates. Some offsetting from the engravings to the pages facing the versos of the plates, otherwise near fine in lightly worn and nicked slipcase and chemise. First edition thus. Illustrated with twenty- five copperplate etchings...
Paris: A. Rouquette [and last] Techner, 1893- 1895. Three volumes. Small quarto. Original printed wrappers. Spine extremities a bit chipped, but quite sound, the fragile outer wrappers of the second and third volumes are chipped at the spine panels, offsetting from outer wrappers to free endsheets in the second and...
Amsterdam et se trouvant à Paris: Chez les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1786. [4],xxxvi,175,[1]pp. Octavo. Contemporary quarter calf and pastepaper boards. Pictorial title vignette and decorative headpieces. Binding extremities a bit shelfworn, some worming to spine joints (but still intact and sound), half-title creased, with author attribution in 19th century hand.....
Paris: Aux Éditions de la Sirène, 1920. Contemporary cloth and boards, original printed wrappers over stiff wrappers bound in. First edition. One of 1950 numbered copies on alfa, from a total edition of 2000 copies. Some pencil notes, wrapper fold-ins trimmed away in binding; a good, sound copy.
[Norfolk & New York]: New Directions, [1957]. Cloth. Illustrations by the author. First US edition of Rosamond Lehman's translation. Near fine in very good, spine-sunned dust jacket with small nick at crown of spine.
[Norfolk & New York]: New Directions, [1963]. Cloth. First collected US edition, including translations by Auden, Fitts and Cummings. One of ca. 4000 copies bound thus. Near fine in very good dust jacket with rumpling to lower edge of rear panel associated with two internally mended tears.
[ Paris]: Grasset / Les Cahiers Verts XXXIX, 1957. Printed wrappers. Frontis and illustrations by the author. First edition. One of 1350 numbered copies on Alfa. About fine, unopened.
Paris: Editions des Quatre Chemins, [ 1928]. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Illustrated with five plates after designs by de Chirico. First edition. One of 2875 numbered copies (of 2900) of the regular issue on RIVES. There were also 100 deluxe copies. Fine.
Paris: Editions des Quatre Chemins, [ 1928]. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Illustrated with five plates after designs by de Chirico. First edition. One of 2875 numbered copies (of 2900) of the regular issue on RIVES. There were also one hundred deluxe copies. Faintest trace of tanning at edges, else about fine in frayed glassine.
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923. 32pp. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Spine slightly nicked, uniform tanning to textblock, bookseller's ticket on terminal leaf verso, otherwise very good. First edition, ordinary issue, after one hundred copies on Hollande. Published in the series LES CONTEMPORAINS. Curiously, Talvart & Place call for an undated title-page, and...
Nice: Galerie Matarasso, [ 1957]. Pictorial wrappers. Photographs, facsimiles, drawings. First edition. Overlap edges a trifle rubbed and creased, else very good.
Paris: L. Berger et Cie. 1 Decembre 1892. 64pp. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Illustrated. Wrappers foxed and facing pages browned, spine split and extremities chipped, internally near very good. Published as an issue of the 38th series of LES GRANDES USINES DE TURGAN, illustrated with engravings after J.E. Bourdelin, including full-page...
Brueil-en-Vexin, Editions du Vexin Français, 1973. xxvi,1246,[1]pp. Large, thick octavo. Text printed in two columns. Vignettes and full page illustrations. Very occasional scattered notations in text, spine slightly tanned and creased otherwise very good. A reprint of the sixth edition of 1912, revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. One.....
New York: Hacker Art Books, 1969. Two volumes. Large octavo. Gilt buckram. Minor rubbing at tips, top edge dusty, else about fine. A photo-offset reprinting of the 1933 edition of this indexed bibliography of over three thousand works relating to military, religious and public dress, style and coiffure, published both...
![CIRCULAIRE PHYNANCIERE DU NOUVEL AN PATAPHYSIQUE [caption title]. Collège de 'Pataphysique](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT73635.jpg?v=1488345832)
[Charleville: Imp. de L'Ardennais, "15 absolu 89" (ie 1961)]. [4]pp. Folded quarto leaflet, on pale green stock. Horizontal fold, stock sunned to tan at edges and fold, still a very good copy of a fragile piece. A circular, signed at the end "T. Bullin," chiefly concerned with recent publications, including...
