[Algerian literature] Hadj-Hamou, Abdelkader. Zohra, la Femme du Mineur

Paris, Les Editions Du Monde Moderne, 1925. 1st edition, 223,(1) p., preface by Albert de Pouvourvile. Collection Le Vaste Monde, no. 10. Orig. ill. paper wr., 8vo.

[Bibliothèque de la Pleiade] Eighteenth century. Twenty vols. of the series

All in orig. supple leather binding; 14x w. transparent dustwr. w. title and back-cover information inside the wr.; 2x in orig. printed board box; 1x in orig. paper wr. in orig....

[Bibliothèque de la Pleiade] Middle Ages, 16th and 17th cent. 29 vols. of the series

All orig. supple leather binding, 19 w. transparent dustwr. w. title and back-cover information inside the wr. (1x in orig. plain board box), 2x w. transparent and paper dustwr.,...

[Bibliothèque de la Pleiade] Nineteenth century, Romanticism. Seventeen vols. of the series

All orig. supple leather binding, 12x w. transparent dustwr., title and back-cover information inside the wr., 1x in orig. paper wr. and in board box, 1x in transparent wr. only...

[Bibliothèque de la Pleiade] Realism and Symbolism (19th cent.). 33 vols. from the series

All orig. supple leather binding; 18x w. transparent dustwr. w. title and back-cover information inside the wr.; 6x w. transparent dustwr. only; 1x w. paper dustwr. only; and 8x...

[Bibliothèque de la Pleiade] Twelve vols. of the series

All in orig. supple leather binding w. transparent dustwr. and in board slipcase; 3 vols. in boxes w. title and back-cover information, the rest plain board boxes w. title and...

[Bibliothèque de la Pleiade] Twentieth century, incl. existentialism. 33 vols. of the series

All in orig. supple leather binding; 12x w. transparent dustwr. w. title and back-cover information inside the wr.; 3x w. transparent dustwr. and paper dustwr.; 8x w. transparent...

[Bindings] Thackeray, William Makepeace. Works

London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1869-1886. 1st ed., 26 vols., 4to. Nums. woodengr. plates and ills., printed in 1000 numb. copies, bound by Francis Bedford in contemp. unif. polished...

[Bonnard, P.] Vollard, Ambroise. Le Père Ubu à l'hopital/ Le Pere Ubu à l'Aviati

Paris/ Zurich, G. Crès et Cie., 1918. 2 vols., (10),1; 15,(1)p., w. four ill. and ill. wr. by Pierre Bonnard, orig. wr. (split at spine). With: Vollard, A. La Politique Coloniale...

Breton, André. L'Amour fou

Paris, Gallimard, 1937. First edition. 176 p. Illustrated with 20 b/w photographs, incl. 7 by Man Ray, 4 by Brassaï, 1 by Dora Maar, and 1 by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Orig. wr. (sl....

Brunelleschi (ill.), two titles: (1) Dorat. Les Baisers

Paris, Eddis, 1947. Col. plates and ill. by Brunelleschi. Numb. 910/3000, one of 1000 copies w. an extra suite of plates. Orig. wr., w. suite in cahier, 4to. A fine copy. (2) Decameron....

Burroughs, William. The naked Lunch, first issue

Paris, The Olympia Press, 1959. First edition, first issue w. "Francs 1500" on inside of rear wrapper. 225,(2)p. Orig. wrapper w. dust-j., des. by B. Gysin.

Christie, Agatha. Ten Little Niggers

Printed in Aylesbury by Hunt, Barnard & Co for Penguin Books in Harmondsworth/ Mitcham, 1958. First Penguin edition, 201,(7) p. Orig. wr., sm. 8vo. Very good copy w. only minimal...

Christophe, Lucien. Hommage à Albert Giraud (copy with dedication)

Brussels, Robert Sand, 1920. Numb. 48/100, orig. wr. Author's dedication to Jules Destrée. With: (2) Hellens, F. Elairages 1916-1923. Paris, Editions des Cahiers, 1926. One of...

Cocteau, Jean. Two titles: (1) Williams, T. Un Tramway nomme Desir

Adapté par Jean Cocteau. Paris, Bordas, 1949. Lithograph and ill. wr. by Cocteau. Very good copy. (2) Cocteau, J. Les enfants terribles. Brussels, Editions du Frêne, 1929. Numb....

[Concrete poetry] Subvers. Tijdschrift voor (onder meer) konkrete po et cie

Near complete run, lacking only no. 7. 11 issues in 9 vols. Ed. Herman Damen and H. Clavin. IJmuiden/ Utrecht, the Subvers press, 1971-1974. Printed in 500 numb. copies, various...

English literature, fourteen titles

A collection of 14 English literary novels, including the following: (1) Cormac McCarthy, The Road. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. (2) Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman. New York,...

English literature. Fourteen vols.: (1) Lewis, C.S. The Four Loves

London, G. Bles, 1960 1st ed., 159,(1) p., orig. boards w. dustwr. (minor imperfections, good copy). (2) G. Greene. Loser takes all. Melbourne etc., W. Heinemann, 1955, 1st ed.,...

[Fine bindings] Notovitch, Nicolas. La Vie inconnue de Jésus-Christ

Paris, P. Ollendorff, 1894. (4),IX,301,(3) p. One of only three deluxe copies printed on Japanese paper (this copy no. 3), in full morocco, spine w. gilt-beset raised bands, gilt...

[Fini, Leonor] Schwob, Marcel and Leonor Fini. Le Livre de Monelle

Paris, printed by Imprimerie Union for Éditions de la Différence, 1976. Printed in 301 copies on vélin de Rives (one of 175 copies), with 24 original etchings by Leonor Fini in...

Forrest, G.F. Misfits: A Book of Parodies

Oxford, F. Harvey, 1905. 1st ed., (8),102,(1) p., orig. cloth. Deluxe copy printed on large paper, this is no. 106 of 150 copies.

France, Anatole Two titles: (1) Balthasar

W. title vignette, pochoir frontispiece and fine pochoir plates by Serge de Solomko. Paris, A. Ferroud, ca. 1890-1900. Orig. wrappers and marbled slipcase. Numbered 1030 of 300-1500...

French literature. Eleven signed titels: (1) Cendrars, Blaise. Ajourd'hui

B. Grasset, 1931. Autograph dedication by the author. Orig. wr. Good copy. (2) Giono, J. Un de Baumugnes. B. Grasset, 1929. Autograph dedication by the author. Orig. wr. Good copy;...

French titles, fourteen titles (partly w. dedications in pen): (1) Marsan, Eugène. Les Cannes

de M. Paul Bourget et Le Bon Choix de Philinte (...). Dessins d'Henri Farge gravés sur bois par Georges Aubert. Paris, Le Divan, 1923. 287,(1) p., illustrated as indicated, orig....

French titles, lot of fourteen: (1) Duhamel, Georges. Des Légendes, Des Batailles

Paris, Edition de l'Abbaye, 1907, 160 p., orig. wr. Bookblock loose from wr. W. autograph signed dedication on first blank: "Hommage de l'Auteur G. Duhamel le. 22. 8bre 1907" and...

Gide, André. Four titles: (1) La porte étroite. Roman

Paris, Mercure de France, 1947. 213,(2) p. Orig. wr., loosely inserted in private rexine covers w. cloth ornament on front and dec. cloth bookmark (probably of Indonesian origin)....

Green, Julien. Five titles, each w. autograph signed dedication, to translator Martin Premsela

(1) Le voyageur sur la terre. Les clefs de la mort. Christine-Léviathan. Paris, Plon, 1930. 267,(4) p., private boards by J. Bergkamp (Zwolle), w. (dam.) mor. letterpiece on spine....

Harbou, Thea von. Metropolis

Berlin, August Scherl, n.d. (ca. 1927). First edition, 3rd printing (12. bis 16. Tausend) of the unabridged text. 274,(5 advert.) p., orig. gilt cloth w. dust-jacket illustrated by W. Reimann.

Harraden, Beatrice. Voorbijgaande Schepen in Donkeren Nacht

naar het Engelsch, transl. A.C.B. Amsterdam, H.J. W. Becht, first edition, [1894]. (4), 203 p. In orig. red cloth binding with gilt lettering.

[Hauser, C.] Sachs, Hanns. Ein Tischzucht

Vienna, Friedrich Siegel, 1922. 9 leaves, text cut in wood by Robert Haas, w. 4 woodcut ill. by Carry Hauser, printed 150 numb. copies (this is no. 15), signed by Haas and Hauser...

Hugo, Victor. Notre-Dame de Paris

Paris, Perrotin, 1844. (2),485,(3) p., w. 55 (full-p.) steel-engravings and many ills. by a.o. de Beaumont, Boulanger and Johannot. Contemp. gilt hmor., 4to.

Jarry, Alfred. Oeuvres complètes

Lausanne, Editions du Grand-Chêne, 1948. 1st ed., 8 vols. Orig. unif. wrs. With: (2) Idem. Ubu Koning. Amst., J. Emmering, 1922. 1st Dutch ed. Orig. ill. wr. (frontwr. dam.) (3)....

Larbaud, Valery. Paris de France

Maastricht/ Paris, A.A.M. Stols/ C. Aveline, 1926. Orig. wr. One of 15 copies on Japanese paper. In fine condition. With: (2) Verlaine, P. Odes en son honneur. Paris, L. Pichon,...

Le sire de Chambley (=Edmond Haraucourt). La légende des sexes

Poëmes Hystériques. Brussels, "Pour l'auteur", 1882 (on colophon: 1883). 1st ed., 147,(1) p. Numb. "b77" of 200 hors commerce copies in 2 series (this one 2nd series), signed by...

[Literary periodicals] Mesures

20 issues. Near complete set, lacking only IV.1 and VI.2. 1935-40. Orig. wrs. Contributions by a.o. P. Claudel, Pushkin, G. Manley Hopkins, L. Pirandello, F. Ponge and Balzac.

Mann, Thomas. Proof copy for Deutsche Hörer

For the preparation of the second edition, published by Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1945. 152 p. Appears to be an uncorrected copy of the first impression, extensively corrected in...

O'Hara, Frank (1926-66). Ten typoscript poems

1960s. W. manuscript corrections by publisher. Incl. a.o. the poems: Chicago, The Green Hornet, Should we Legalize Abortion?, At the Bottom of the Dump. W. "notes on the poems"...

Pinthus, Kurt. Menschheitsdämmerung (dedication copy)

Symphonie jüngster Dichtung. Berlin, E. Rowohlt, 1920. XVI,315,(5) p., orig. cloth. Author's dedication to Alexander Bessmertny on first free endpaper.

[Puerto Rico] Marqués, René. Teatro

Mexico City, Arrecife, 1959. 1st ed. 304,(3) p., orig. wr. W. dedication by René Marqués to Nicolas Debril (?), dated July 1960, on first leaf. Containing the plays: Los Soles...

[Rops, F.] d'Ardenne, Jean. Notes d'un Vagabond, signed copy

Brussels, H. Kistemaeckers, 1887. 382 p., etched frontispiece by Félicien Rops, w. in-text ills. by Henri Cassiers. Author's autograph dedication to Kaerkenbeeck. Later niger morocco...

[Russian literature] Tsvetaeva, Marina. Razluka. Kniga stikhov

(Separation. Book of poetry). Moscow/Berlin, Gelikon, 1922. First edition. 38 p., orig. boards w. paper title label, sm. 8vo. - Some foxing. Otherwise a fine, partly unopened copy. = Rare.

Schlegel, August Wilhelm and Erich Metzoldt. Ion. Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen

Munich, printed by L. Schnitzler & Co for Hesperos-Verlag, (1920). In 500 numb. copies, signed by the artist, (this is copy no. 84), w. title-p. and 20 signed lithographs in beige...

Seven (rare) titles: (1) Oster, Marcel. under monogram M.O.: Croquis

Illustrés de photographies prises par l'auteur. Antw., J.-E. Buschmann, 1926 printed in 160 numb. copies signed by the author (one of 10 lettered copies on Van Gelder, this is...

Tennyson, Alfred. In Memoriam, first edition

London, E. Moxon, 1850. First edition, first issue (w. misprints "the" for "thee" on line 13, p. 2 and "baseness" for "bareness" on line 3, p. 198). VIII,210 p. Finely bound by...

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Road Goes Ever On. A Song Cycle

Poems by J.R.R. Tolkien. Music by Donald Swann, publ. by Allen and Unwin, 1968. First edition.

Vernes, Jules. Voyages Extraordinaires

Paris, J. Hetzel, (ca. 1900). 5 titles in 3 vols., ill. by Riou, de Montaut, de Neuville, Benett, and Roux. Contemp. uniform gilt half morocco, 4to. Comprises: (1) Cinq semaines...

Walker, Scott. Sundog, signed copy

Faber & Faber, 2018. Limited edition of 300 copies, signed and numbered (137) by Walker. Finely bound in black boards w. silver lettering in ill. on front cover, in cloth slipcase.

Whiting, Lilian. Lilies of eternal peace

London, printed by Hazel, Watson and Viney for Gay and Hancock, 1908. First English ed., VIII,51,(5) p., orig. gilt pict. cl. monogrammed "P.W." (almost certainly Paul Woodroffe),...

Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse

Hamburg/ Paris/ Milan, The Albatross, 1932. 1st edition thus. 247 p., sc. Modern Continental Library 7. Spine sl. cracked, else a very good copy. The Albatross' Modern Continental...

Wyatt, Robert & Alfie Benge. Side by Side

Faber & Faber, 2020. Limited edition of 200 copies, this is no. 91 and signed by Wyatt and Benge, with four exclusive col. prints by Alfie Benge. Bound in purple cloth w. mounted...

Zweig, Stefan. Fourteen titles: (1) Erinnerungen an Emile Verhaeren.

N.pl., (Vienna), "Im Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1927, no. 227 of 440 numb. copies, 89,(2) w. woodcut portrait by Frans Masereel, orig. gilt-lettered hvellum. W. occasional annots....