1. Allstadt-Schmitz, Ulrich J.

Erzähltes Exil – Untersuchungen zu Madame de Staëls “Dix années d’exil”

Dissertation. Bonn, 1987. 8°. 209 Seiten. Softcover / Broschur. Sehr guter Zustand. KEINE Anstreichungen. KEIN Besitzvermerk. KEIN Mängelexemplar.

2. Alonso, Juan / Dubois, Pierre (translator).

Le Mur Ecorche.

Paris, Litterature, 1989. 13.5 cm x 21 cm. 99 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains dedication by the author.

3. Apollinaire, Guillaume.

Le Flaneur des Deux Rives.

Première Édition. Paris, Éditions la Sirene, 1918. 17.5 x 10 cm. 113 pages. Broché originale en relié demi-cuir rouge couverture rouge marbré. Bon état. Dos un peu frotté très légèrement craquelé, nom de l’auteur en dorés sur dos en cuir rouge. Intérieur en bon état malgré le jaunissement des pages. Exemplaire avec photographie de l’Auteur. Nom de l’ancien propriétaire inscrit á la plume sur la page de garde, Paris daté 1925. Edition originale avec le monogramme G A a la justification du tirage. / Original brochure bound in contemporary half leather. [Collection des Tracts.– No.2.]

4. Aragon, Louis.

Le Paysan de Paris.

Premiére éditions. Paris, Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1926. 19 x 12 cm. 252 pages. Broché. Bon état général. Trés Bon exemplaire. Intérieur propre malgré de légéres rousseurs éparses. Exemplaire numéroté: 286, un des 900 ouvrage déstinés aux Amis de l’édition originale in-octavo couronne sur papier vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. / One of the great works by this co-founder of surrealism, a prose poem which created a “modern mythology, revealing the wonders of city life and celebrating the fusion of imagination and reality in a virtuoso style.” One of 900 copies for amis de l’edition in a total first printing of 1053 copies. A very good+ copy with some dark shelf residues to bottom edge.

5. Arrabal, Fernando.

Fête et Rite de la Confusion.

Paris, Eric Losfeld, 1967. Small-8°. 185, 3 pages. Broché. Bon état. Very good condition with only few signs of use.

6. Artaud, Antonin / Genet, Jean / Jouhandeau, Marcel / Tardieu, Jean / Vian, Boris.

L’Arbalète – Revue de Littérature. [Boris Vian – “Les Poissons Morts”]. Imprimée tous les six mois sur la presse à bras de Marc Barbezat. No. 12.

Lyon, Chez Marc Barbezat, 1947. 19.5 cm x 28 cm. 184 pages. Original Softcover. Stiff card covers with illustrated paper dust jacket. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some foxing to rear endpaper and inside cover only. Includes two loose sheets (broadsides) of advertising for further publications from the publishing house (Jean Genet’s Poems and Miracle de la Rose (sizeable praise from Jean-Paul Sartre included) and errata-leaf loosely inserted. Several pages untrimmed / unopened. [L’Arbalète (No. 12)].

7. Beaumont, Ernest.

The Theme of Beatrice in the Plays of Claudel.

London, Rockliff Publishing Corporation, 1954. 14 x 22cm. (9), 102 pages. Original clothbound hardcover. Very good condition, spine very slightly scuffed, small ink mark on front board, endpapers slightly foxed. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper.

8. Bernadac, Christian.

L’Holocauste Oublié – Le Massacre Des Tsiganes.

1er Trimestre. Éditions France-Empire, 1982. 11 cm x 16.5 cm. 636 pages. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages slightly discoloured but mostly around margins. Some minor foxing to endpapers and covers.

9. Blais, Marie-Claire.

La Belle Bête [Mad Shadows].

Paris, Flammarion, 1961. 12 cm x 18 cm. 183 pages. Original softcover in protective mylar. One of only five copies of the very rare first french edition. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. / Trente exemplaires sur velin chiffon des Papeteries de Lana dont vingt-cinq numerotes de 1 a 25 et cinq exemplaires numerotes de I a V. This is Exemplaire Numero I / V !!!

10. [Bonnard, Pierre] Anet, Claude.

Notes Sur L’Amour. Illustrated by Pierre Bonnard and engraved by Yvonne Mailliez.

Exemplaire non numéroté sur Alfa bouffant. Paris, G. Crès & Cie, 1922. 26cm x 21.3cm. 74 pages. With beautiful, intimate illustrations. Hardcover / Modern half cloth with marbled-paper-covered-boards in slipcase. Bound with the original wrappers Excellent condition.

11. [Bonnard, Pierre] Chauveau, Léopold.

Les Histoires Du Petit Renaud.

Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1927. Quarto (23 cm wide x 28.5 cm high). 93 pages. Original Softcover Brochure with illustrations by Pierre Bonnard / Broché originale et illustree. Excellent, near fine condition with only minor signs of wear / Avec cinquante illustrations dessinées et coloriées au pochoir, en bleu et en rouge, par Pierre Bonnard. Exemplaire 226 des 322 exemplaires sur vélin d’Arches de ces cinq histoires pour enfants. Les seuls contes pour enfants jamais illustrés par Pierre Bonnard. Tres bon exemplaire !!

12. Brookner, Anita.

The Genius of the Future. Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, The brothers Goncourt, Huysmans.

First edition. London. Phaidon. 1971. 18 x 26 cm. 172 pages with 30 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Very tight and clean copy. One of the few very rare and interesting publications of literary criticism.

13. [Butor, Michel] Santschi, Madeleine.

Voyage avec Michel Butor.

Lausanne, L’Age d″homme, 1982. Octavo. 223 pages. Softcover / Broche. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Inscribed / signed by the author.

14. [Claudel, Paul] O’Flaherty, Kathleen.

Paul Claudel and The Tidings Brought To Mary. Preface by Paul Claudel.

Oxford, B.H. Blackwell Ltd. / Cork University Press, 1948. 12.5 x 18.5cm. 141 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear, including some fading to spine.

15. De Gasztold, Carmen Bernos / Godden, Rumer (translator).

The Creatures’ Choir. Illustrated by Jean Primrose.

New York, The Viking Press, 1965. 16 cm x 23 cm. 69 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, FINE condition.

16. Diderot, Denis.

The Nun. Translated and with an Introduction by Leonard Tancok. Lithographs by Charles Mozley.

London, The Folio Society, 1972. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. 168 pages. With 7 illustrations. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and ornaments to boards. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine slightly faded.

17. Faguet, Émile.

Le Féminisme.

Paris, Société Francaise d’Imprimerie et de Libraire, 1910. 18 x 12 cm. 380 pages. Hardcover / Relié demi-cuir marron. Bel exemplaire. Couverture défraîchie, tranches de couverture et coins frottées. Rousseurs et jaunissement sur tranches. Intérieur bon état malgré le jaunissement des pages. Titre et auteur en dorés sur dos á cinq nerfs orné de fleurons dorés. Belles gardes de papier marbré.

18. Finkielkraut, Alain.

Le Juif Imaginaire.

Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1980. 14 cm x 20 cm. 216 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

19. [Fromentin, Eugène] Marsh, Edward.

Dominique. Translated from the French by Edward Marsh.

London, The Cresset Press, 1948. 14 cm x 21 cm. VIII, 250 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Minor foxing to edges, slight fraying to crown of dustjacket, otherwise in very good condition.

20. Gérard, Dom.

Demain la Chrétienté. Préface de Gustave Thibon. Postface de Bernard Anhony,

Nouvelle édition revue. Le Barroux, Éditions Sainté-Madeleine, 2005. 8°. 215 pages. Broché / Softcover. Très bon état.

21. Hala, Patrick.

Solesmes, les écrivains et les poètes (1833-1954).

Solesmes, Éditions de Solesmes, 2011. Gr.-8°. VII, 525 pages with many photographs of french writers. Softcover / Broché. Très bon état.

22. Kessel, Sim.

Pendu A Auschwitz.

4e Trimestre. Paris, Presses Pocket, 1974. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. 248 pages. Red painted edges. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages slightly discoloured. Top edge paint faded.

23. [Le Clezio, J.M.G.] Martin, Bronwen.

The Search for Gold – Space and Meaning in J.M.G.Le Clezio.

Dublin, Philomel Productions, 1995. Small Quarto (19.5 cm x 21.5 cm). 214 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very Rare !!

24. Le Clézio, Jean Marie Gustave.

The Book of Flights – An Adventure Story. (Translation of Le Livre des Fuites) Translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor.

New York, Atheneum, 1972. 8°. 319 pages. Original cloth with dustjacket in very good plus (rather better) condition. Rare FIRST American Edition. The jacket with few flaws but complete. The volume itself only with very few signs of use (a little bit of foxing to the edge). Slightly crooked but overall a wonderful collectible.

25. Lobet, Marcel.

La ceinture de feuillage. Essai sur la confession deguisee

[Paris], La Renaissance du Livre, 1966. Octavo. 212 pages. Reliure originale / Broche. First edition of this interesting study of the confessional genre in French literature, starting with Benjamin Constant and Chateaubriand, and moving through Valery Larbaud’s “Barnabooth.” Inscribed by the author to Madame Rene Jasinski, “A Madame Rene Jasinski, dont la curiosite intellectuelle retrouvera dans ces pages anciennes un Benjamin Constant ‘a fleur de peau’, avec mes fideles hommages, Marcel Lobet.”

26. Lobet, Marcel.

Le feu du ciel. Introduction a la litterature prometheene.

[Paris], La Renaissance du Livre, 1969. Octavo. 170 pages. Reliure originale / Broche. First edition of this study of what the author terms “promethean” literature, including Lautreamont, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, Leiris, and other dissident French writers. Preface by Pierre-Henri Simon. Inscribed by the author to Rene Jasinski, “A Monsieur Rene Jasinski, en hommage de haute estime, Marcel Lobet.” With author’s carte-de-visite laid in.

27. Malraux, André.

La Lutte avec L’Ange. / Les Noyers de l’Altenburg. Roman.

Édition Originale. Suisse, Éditions du Haut-Pays, 1943. 22 x 14 cm. 240 pages. Broché. Bon état général. Bon exemplaire. Couverture un peu défraichie protégée avec jaquette protective en plastique transparente. Intérieur très propre. Exemplaire numéroté 277 tiré de 1436 sur volumineux vergé bouffant. / First edition of Malraux’s “The Walnut Trees of Altenberg” – the first volume of a projected cycle that was never continued. The first and last chapters, set in a German detention camp, which frame the story, are printed in red. Of a total edition of 1465 copies, No. 277 of 1436 on ordinary paper. Very good to near fine in publisher’s printed wrappers.

28. Mehlman, Jeffrey.

Cataract: A Study in Diderot.

First edition. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1979. 14 x 22cm. 109 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition.

29. [Molière] Petitot, M.

Oeuvres de Molière, Avec Un Commentaire Historique et Litteraire; Précédées du Tableau des Moeurs du dix-septième Siècle, et de la Vie de Moliére par M. Petitot.

Nouvelle Edition. 6 Volumes (complete). Paris, J.P.Aillard, 1823. Octavo (13.5 cm wide x 20 cm high). Pagination: Frontispiece-Portrait of Molière, LXXX, 426 (1), 494 (1), 526 (1), 516 (1), 579 (1), 454 (1) pages. Hardcover / Original full leather of the 19th century with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Bookplate to pastedown. Frontispiece – Portrait cleanly detached and loosely inserted. Very good condition of this set with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown of each Volume.

30. Parent, Michael / Olivier, Julien.

Of Kings and Fools: Stories of the French Tradition in North America. Collected, translated and retold by Michael Parent and Julien Olivier.

Little Rock, August House Publishers, 1996. 13.5 x 21cm. 206 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, other than sunned spine and some minor text markings. Handwritten dedication by author to previous owner. [American Storytelling from August House].

31. [Provenance Marie Cohn (1887-1967) (famously painted by Anders Zohn)] Bashkirtseff, Marie.

Journal de Marie Bashkirtseff – Avec un Portrait.

Onzieme Mille. Two Volumes (complete). Paris, Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1896. Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece-Portrait, 401 pages. / Volume II: 591 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful, blindstamped cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed by a family-member to Marie Cohn (Marie Helene Johanna Weber (Meyer-Cohn) 1887-1967), daughter of Berlin Banker Dr.Heinrich Cohn, on her birthday in 1898 (1887-1967). Marie Cohn has later added her own name to the books and dated her personal enry to 27.II.1898.

32. Queneau, Raymond (editor).

Histoire des litteratures 3: Litteratures francaises connexes et marginales.

France, Editions Gallimard, 1958. 11 cm x 17 cm. 2058 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar, in brown cardboard slipcase. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. [Encyclopedie de la Pleiade]

33. Robbe-Grillet, Alain.

Ghosts In The Mirror. Translated from the French by Jo Levy.

Uncorrected Proof. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. 13.5 x 21cm. (11), 174 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition.

34. Robbe-Grillet, Alain / Underwood, J.A. (translator).

Topology of a Phantom City. Translated from the French by J.A. Underwood.

First Uk Edition. London, John Calder, 1978. 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 142 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Private inscription on the endpaper. Otherwise in excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear to the jacket.

35. Robert, Marthe.

En Haine du Roman – Étude sur Flaubert.

France, Balland, 1982. 8°. 152 Pages. Broché. / Softcover. En bon état. Soulignements en crayon et stylo sur les premieres douzaines de pages. Quelques traces d’usage. / Good. Markings and underlining of sentences on the first dozen or so pages. Slight foxing on inside of front and back cover. Some signs of shelfwear.

36. Rousseau, Henri le Douanier.

Une visite a` l’Exposition de 1889. Avec une preface de Tristan Tzara.

Limited Edition (One of 200 copies). Geneva, Pierre Cailler, 1947. Smoall Octavo. 141 pages. Original Softcover. Unusually excellent condition.

37. [Sand, George] Eisler, Benita.

Naked in the Marketplace: The Lives of George Sand.

Advance Uncorrected Proof. New York, Counterpoint, 2006. 15.5 x 23.5cm. (8), 294 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, as new.

38. Sotheby’s.

The Library of H. Bradley Martin, Part IV: Highly Important French Literature; Monaco, Oct 16 & 17, 1989.

Monaco, Sotheby’s, 1989. 21.3 cm x 27.7 cm. Unpaginated [approx 400 pages]. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to outer cover (spine) and to front and rear endpapers. Minor discolouration to edges. Otherwise binding strong. Interior bright and clean. Contains Price-Result-List of this auction !

39. Stendhal / Seager, Allan (Translator) / Barr, Roger (Illustrator).

Memoirs of a Tourist. Preface by Allan Seager.

Evanston, Northwester University Press, 1962. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XIII, 305 pages. With many illustrations. Original hardcover with protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear. Considerable underlining by preowner. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

40. Von Keyserling, Eduard.

Coeurs Multicolores. Traduit de l’allemand par Jacqueline Chambon.

Nimes, Éditions Jacqueline Chambon, 1991. 12.5 cm x 20 cm. 124 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

41. Zola, Emile / Widmer, Walter [transl.].

Nana. Mit Illustrationen von Vertes.

Guetersloh, Bertelsmann Reinhard Mohn OHG, c 1996. 16 cm x 24 cm. 477 pages. Original Hardcover. With illustrated slipcase. Deutschsprachige Ausgabe / German Translation. Excellent condition, with only very minor signs of external wear.