Paris: Aux dépens des libraires associés pour les Usages du Diocèse, 1765. 12mo (17 × 9.3 cm). Contemporary red crushed marocco (originally attributed to Nicolas-Denis Derome, but most likely by another contemporary French bookbinder), gilt-tooled with fleurons, fillets, dots, and other decorative elements; spine over five raised bands, compartments ruled..... More

Paris: [Librairie Jean Budry et Cie], 1923. Folio (46.4 × 31.6 cm). Newsprint, once folded; [4] pp. Stabilized with washi paper; small missing areas on the edges and folds. The only issue of this journal published on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants 1923. The satirical articles about the..... More

Tananarive (Antananarivo), Madagascar: Imprimerie B. Fourgs, November 1923 through December 1924. Octavos (20.1 × 15.4 cm to 21.3 × 15.7 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 20 pp. per issue (the final double issue 34 pp). Each issue typically illustrated with between one and three (one issue with eight illustrations, including..... More

Paris: L'Anglois, 1647–1651. Quarto (27.8 × 21 cm). Eighteenth-century leather bindings, each with two colored spine labels and gilt ornaments and fillets to spines and boards; 2 blank leaves, [49] pp., 172 [recte 173] numbered leaves and [36] pp. interspersed between the seven parts, [11] pp., 4 blank leaves; 4..... More

Paris; Imprimerie "Le Souterrain", 1970–1973. Folios (43.8 × 31 cm). Original color illustrated self-wrappers; first issue 16, all other issues 24 pp. each with numerous reproductions of photographs, mostly printed in one or two colors, as well as several comic strips. A few leaves somewhat toned and with wear to..... More

Paris: Éditions des Réverbères, 1939. Tall narrow octavo (25.7 × 7 cm). Original sewn decorative wrappers; [40] pp. Printed on differently colored paper stock of slightly different sizes. Wrappers and one leaf with overlapping edges with minor fraying to edges; still about very good. Rare volume of poems published by..... More

Lyon: Imprimeries Réunies, August 1924. Square octavo (22.5 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched typographically designed wrappers; pp. 93–108. With one woodcut by László Moholy-Nagy and illustrations by Serge Charchoune and others. Wrappers and leaves somewhat toned; else very good. Single issue of the rare avant-garde journal, of which a total..... More

Tananarive (Antanarivo), Madagascar: Henri Vidalie, 1936. Quarto (31.5 × 23.8 cm). Original printed card folder with three flaps, housing a volume bound with braided green silk cord; 64 leaves printed to rectos on stiff cream paper (Canson-Voiron). Signed and inscribed with a four-line dedication by the author to Auguste Trévis..... More

Bordighera, Italy, dated March 26, 1907. Single folded leaf, measuring 18.2 × 22.5 cm. unfolded, with holograph text to recto and verso in brown ink. Illegible note to first page and two words underlined in blue pencil. Old horizontal crease; else very good. Autographed letter signed by French musician and..... More

Paris: self-published (Imprimerie des 2 Artisans), April 1938 to March 1939. Quartos (33 × 25.2 cm). Original printed self-wrappers; 8 pp. each, and every issue with a full-page graphic print as well as four issues with a second print version (by Michel Tapié, Roger Sby, Pierre Minne, Aline Gagnaire, Ulrich..... More