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René Armand François Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet and writer, the first Nobel Literature Prize laureate, in 1901. Les Principes de M. Taine sur l’Art. Signed autograph manuscript, [c. 1869]. 43 folios, in-8° [numbered 35], rectos […]
Louis-Hyacinthe Bouilhet (1822-1869) poet and playwright, a friend of Flaubert’s. Rognures. Signed autograph manuscript. 1840-ca. 1862. Notebook in-4°. [4], 63 pp., 81 blank leaves, [3] pp. of table, 1 blank leave. Contemporary half-percal, back in midnight blue chagrin, marbled […]
[Charles Bozonnet]. Livret d’Ouvrier-Compagnon, etc. Département de l’Ain. Arrondissement de « Bourg ». Commune de « Bourg ». Bourg, Bottier, 1825. Little in-4°. 8 pp. printed, followed by 16 unnumbered handwritten leaves bearing stamps (2 leaves remain blank). Contemporary mute ivory-coloured vellum. A […]
Léon Husson [- Sacha Simon]. L’Occupant. Nancy, imprimerie Victor Idoux, novembre 1946. In-folio. 2 blank leaves, 64 unnumbered leaves. 59 lithographed drawings by Léon Husson, with a preface by Sacha Simon. Green morocco-bound, long spine (sun-faded), gilt title, bevelled […]
[René Vallery-Radot]. M. Pasteur. Histoire d’un savant par un ignorant. Paris, J. Hetzel and Cie, n.d. [1884]. Large in-12. xiv, [2], 392 pp. Black half-morocco, back with 5 false bands, gilt title, gilt head, gilt cypher on the spine, gilt […]
[Pascal Amouroux]. Hommage respectueux du personnel des Etablissements Amouroux fres à la mémoire vénérée de son Chef : Pascal Amouroux. [A respectful tribute from the staff of Etablissements Amouroux bros. to the cherished memory of their Director: Pascal Amouroux]. […]
Amour, sort of poetic testament of a miserable and desperate Verlaine, the autograph manuscript to the deluxe first edition, including a proof copy and a letter which the poet, in distress, wrote to his publisher. Paul Verlaine. Amour. […]
Marguerite YOURCENAR. L’Œuvre au Noir. Paris, NRF, 1968. In-8°. 340, [2] pp. Binding to Bradel in black half-Rexine, title label and decorative label in red morocco leather, colour jacket and cover preserved. Third edition published a few months after […]
Georges Villa. (Montmédy (Meuse), 1883 – Paris, 1965). Aux Lettres !! Original watercolour and ink on strong paper. Signed autograph : « souvenir reconnaissant. Hopital 2. Georges Villa, avril-mai 1915 ». Dim. 29 x 44,3 cm. Georges Villa, […]
Edmond Rostand, Henri de Régnier, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus and 32 other poets. Les Sonnets de la Guerre. [戦争のソネット ]. Paris, Émile-Paul frères,1916. Little in-4°. xii, 230, [7] pp. Text framed by orange laurel leaves, frontispiece by Combet-Descombes. Orange half morocco […]