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Paris: Julliard, [1962 - 1963]. Two volumes (of three in the series). Printed wrappers. A bit tanned and used, with short snags at toes of spines; just a good set. First editions, "S.P." copies on ordinary paper. A good association set: each volume is inscribed by the author to Gaston.....
[ Paris]: Gallimard, [ 1953]. Printed boards. First edition in French of BETTER THAN DYING, a volume in the Serie Noire, edited by Marcel Duhamel. Translated by Minnie Danzas. Laid in is the author's calling card with a brief note: "For Ruth Stephan -- Southern stuff - RF." Substantial crease.....
Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre, 1923. Printed wrappers. Frontis and decorations by Maurice de Becque. One of 1850 numbered sets on Rives, from a total edition of 1955. About fine, unopened.
[Troyes: Imprimerie Paton, 1947]. Quarto. Text and ornaments printed in red and green. Loose folded sheets, laid into printed decorated chemise and slipcase (the latter somewhat darkened and rubbed). First edition. Illustrated with 31 wood engravings by Favet, 26 of them full-page, the remainder as ornaments (this copy lacks one.....
[Troyes: Imprimerie La Renaissance, 1955]. Quarto. Folded sheets, enclosed in decorated board chemise and slipcase. Printed in black and maroon. Slipcase cracked and worn, otherwise very good. First edition. Illustrated with 55 wood engravings by Favet, 26 of them full-page, the remainder as ornaments (this copy lacks one of the.....
Paris: Editions du Seuil, [1958]. Printed wrappers. Slight tanning, four old tape marks on endsheet, but a very good copy. First edition of the "generative" critic and poet's first novel. Review perforation in rear wrapper. Warmly inscribed by the author on the half-title to Wallace Fowlie, with a few of.....
Paris: Editions du Seuil, [ 1961]. Printed wrappers. Slight tanning, rear wrapper a bit soiled. Very good. First edition of the author's second novel. Review perforation in rear wrapper. With the author's long presentation inscription to Wallace Fowlie on the half-title, and a few of Fowlie's markings in the text.....
Paris: Cez Boassange, Masson et Besson, 1807. xxiv,402pp. 12mo. Full contemporary tree calf, gilt extra, gilt morocco label, a.e.g. Nouvelle edition, illustrated with frontis and plates engraved by Lorieux. Bookplate, crown of spine has very shallow loss, forecorners bruised, trace of light foxing, else very good.
Paris: Christian Bourgois Editeur, [1970]. 222pp. Octavo. Stiff printed wrapper. About fine in slightly tanned glassine wrapper. First edition of this bilingual collection, edited and including translations by Mary Beach and Claude Pélieu. This copy is signed by Ferlinghetti on the front free endsheet.
[ Paris]: Collège de 'Pataphysique, Année 'Pataphysique LXXXII [i.e. 1954]. 12mo. Pale green printed wrappers. Wrappers faintly sunned at edges, otherwise fine, unopened. First edition. One of 278 copies on Chiffon, from a total edition of 333 copies. An early example of the prolific film scenarist's work after he disentangled.....
[Lucerne: C. - J. Bucher, 1960]. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Cloth a trace dusty, small crease in rear free endsheet at fore- edge, otherwise a nice copy in very good dust jacket with a few short tears and rubs. First edition. Text in French, German and English. The international showcase of.....
[New York]: Brentano's, [1943]. Quarto. Cloth. Illustrations by Jean Carlu. Parallel French and English texts. Introduction by Janet Flanner. First edition. Endsheets foxed, otherwise a very good copy, in good, moderately dust marked pictorial jacket with a few small chips and edge tears.
[Norfolk]: New Directions, [1954]. Cloth. Light sunning to spine through jacket, otherwise a near fine copy in slightly nicked dust jacket. First U.S. printing of this edition, photo- offset from the UK edition. Translated by T.W. Earp and G.W. Stonier. With an introduction by Lionel Trilling.
Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre, 1924. Two volumes. Printed wrappers. Portraits after Pierre Gandon. Color woodcuts by Paul Baudier. One of 1850 numbered sets on Rives, from a total edition of 1961. Near fine, unopened.
[Paris: Editions A. Tallone, 1945]. 124,[18]pp. Oblong 12mo (8.3 x 13.2 cm). Decorated wrappers. Double-page color frontis. Fine in board chemise and slipcase. One of 2000 numbered copies in this format, printed on "papier vélin invoire pur chiffon à la forme des Paperteries de Lana," from a total edition of.....
Paris: Michel Lévy Frères, 1857. Two volumes. [8],[5]-232;[4],[233]-490pp. plus final blank and 36pp. publisher's catalogue dated "Mars 1857." Octavos. Full brown crushed levant, raised bands, spines lettered in gilt, plum morocco doublures, silk moiré endsheets and decorated paper liners, top and fore-edges gilt, lower edges untrimmed and gilt on the.....
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1943. Small folio. Beige cloth, stamped in black, red and gilt. Fine, with darkened glassine dust jacket (torn) in edgeworn and bruised publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with fifteen colored lithographs (8 full-page) by Warren Chappell. One of 1500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Introduction.....
Lyon: H. Lardanchet, 1925. Printed wrappers. One of 969 press-numbered copies on Vélin, out of a total of 1050 copies. A near fine, unopened copy, in tanned glassine wrapper with a large chip from the top edge.
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[Paris]: Cercle Grolier Les Amis du Livre Moderne, [1957]. Quarto. Gathered signatures, laid into printed wrappers. Portrait and illustrations. Initials in red. Trace of offsetting to wrapper, otherwise fine, in somewhat worn board slipcase and chemise. First edition. Text by Gaston Bachelard. Illustrated with seventeen beautiful original burin engravings by.....
Paris: Chez. Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1812. 139pp. plus frontis and three engraved plates. 12mo. Handsome blue-green straight grain morocco, elaborately gilt, a.e.g. Moderate foxing, hairline crack to upper joint, else about very good. A pleasant and bijou pocket edition, illustrated with engravings after drawings by Alexandre-Joseph Desenne (1785–1827). The half-title.....
Paris: Editions du Chene, 1974. Oblong quarto. Cloth. Illustrations and photographs throughout. About fine in dust jacket, in somewhat rubbed cardboard shipping sleeve. First edition, deluxe issue. One of five hundred numbered copies with an original serigraph by Vostell laid in, signed and numbered by him in pencil. A substantial.....
Paris: Éditions de la Revue Fontaine, [ 1945]. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. Uniform toning of textblock, offset from dw on cream wrappers, otherwise a very good, unopened copy, in a somewhat chipped example of the impossibly fragile dust jacket. First printing in book form of the special double number of.....
Norfolk: New Directions / Poet of the Month, [1942]. Pictorial boards after a drawing by Matisse. First edition, boardbound issue. 1943 gift inscription on free endsheet, some foxing to the endsheets, but a very good copy in lightly foxed dust jacket with small smudge on the rear panel. The issue.....
[ Paris]: Mercure De France, [ 1971]. Decorated wrappers. Large bookplate on half- title, covers rubbed, spine faded, bit of edge wear, but a good or better copy. First French edition of THE DAY OF THE JACKAL. Translated by Henri Robillot. Inscribed in the year of publication, "To John Mallinson.....
[Paris]: NRF / Gallimard, [1966]. 400,[4]pp. plus laid-in detached folding plate. Large, thick octavo. Stiff printed wrappers. Large bookplate on front free endsheet causing some rippling to adjacent leaves, smudge on fore-edge, spine a bit creased and hand-soiled from having been read, but a good copy. First edition, first impression.....
