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ALIBERT, J-L. . Physiologie des Passions, ou Nouvelle Doctrine des Sentiments Moraux. Paris: Bechet Jeune, 1827. 210 x 132mm., 2 volumes, 552pp. Second edition of the work by the famed teacher and one time physician to Louis XVIII. Originally published in 1825, this edition revised and enlarged with additional steel engravings. Half-leather with contemporary marbled boards, edges marbled, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Light foxing to text, rubbing to boards. A very good, attractive, solid set.
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ALTHUSSER, Louis. Pour Marx. Paris: François Maspero, 1965. Octavo, 258pp. First edition. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to J-F Revel important French theorist. Some browning to top edge else a fine copy in gray publisher's printed wrappers.
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850.00 |
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APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. La Rome des Borgia. Paris: Biblioteque des Curieux, 1914. Octavo, 301pp. First edition of this work actually written by Apollinaire’s close friend René Dalize (nom-de-plume of Renée Dupuy), to which Apollinaire affixed his name as author as a favor to Dalize. Authorship notwithstanding, a presentation copy from Apollinaire to another close friend, Henri Duvernois, whom he came to know around the time of publication. In 1916, when Apollinaire underwent trepanning for the head-wound he’d received in combat, Duvernois nursed him during his recuperation from the procedure, "À mon cher Henri Duvernois, son admirateur Guillaume Apollinaire." Wraps illustrated with a licentious painting of one of the Borgia's infamous orgies. Something of a surrealist, or dadaist, object, and surely one of an extremely small number of copies that would have been inscribed by Apollinaire. In addition, a superb association copy.
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2,250.00 |
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APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. The Poet Assassinated. New York: Broom, 1923. Octavo, 158pp. First edition in English translation by American expatriate fixture Matthew Josephson. One of twelve hundred and fifty copies on Alexandra Japan vellum, this being copy number 403. A very good copy in publishers quarter Japan vellum and paper-covered boards and a not-quite-very-good example of the rare and fragile printed dust jacket -- the spine and borders are rather sunned. Inscribed by Josephson to noted modernist painter Charles Sheeler, "July 25, 1925. to my friends Katherine and Charles Sheeler. Matthew Josephson" Ilustrated with frontispiece of Apollinaire by André Rouveyre and four woodcuts by André Dérain, originally executed for the Au Sans Pareil edition.
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ARIES, Philippe. Histoires des populations francaises et de leurs attitudes devant la vie depuis le XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Editions Self, 1948. Octavo, 569pp. Very good in publisher's printed wraps, small chip to bottom of spine, paper browning but solid, pages uncut.
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200.00 |
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BALZAC, Honore de. Le Medecin de campagne. Paris: Werdet, 1834. Second edition, corrected (revue et corrige). "A fragment of Scenes de la vie de campagne, the sixth and final series of Etudes de moeurs au xixieme siecle." Four volumes in two, small octavo: 223pp, 213pp, 205pp, 243pp. Some portions of text rather browned, intermittent foxing, else basically a very good set in contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper-covered boards. This copy inscribed by Balzac, "....." partly on a small integral flap on the upper portion of the title page -- a residue of the larger paper that was trimmed down for binding. The ink has rather faded, a phenomenon we have noted in at least one of the very few other Balzac presentations we have encountered. Balzac inscriptions are astonishingly rare for an author of such extraordinary prominance. We have not noted more than three or four in commerce in the past ten years. The Country Doctor is among the master's best known works
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BARTHES, Roland. Essais critiques. Paris: Editions du Seuil "Tel Quel", (1964). Octavo, 275 pages. First edition, review copy, with publisher's "S.P." perforation to back panel of wrapper and last few pages of text block. A fine copy, inscribed by Barthes on the half-title to editor François Erval, "en hommage amical."
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375.00 |
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BARTHES, Roland. Le Degré zero de l'écriture. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1953. Octavo, 126pp. in wraps with publisher's belly band. First edition of Barthes's first book. Very light wear to edges of wraps -- an exceptional copy of a book typically found in less than satisfactory condition.
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650.00 |
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BECKETT, Samuel. Comment c'est. Paris: Minuit, 1961. Paris: Minuit, 1961. Octavo. 177pp. First edition, the issue on ordinary paper of Beckett’s final full-length novel before his serious descent into silence began. A dark comic allegory of the persistence of the species and its unwitting obsessions, speech chief among them. Spine slightly darkened, else near fine in publisher's printed wrappers. Inscribed by Beckett to Jaques Brennen.
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BECKETT, Samuel. Fin de partie, suivi de acte sans paroles Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1957. Octavo, 122pp. First edition. Only Beckett could make tragedy out of a chess problem. Suffering from increasingly familiar symptoms of creative impasse and depression Beckett had feared that Fin de Partie, or any other new work, would never be completed. Beckett apparently found his way out by writing the short mime "Acte sans paroles" and within a few months was developing the mimic elements of the play in what would become "Fin de Partie." What emerged was described by Beckett as a "rather difficult and elliptic" drama centering on the lives of two men, Hamm and Clov. It has been suggested that the work was influenced by the artist Marcel Duchamp, who "wrote little and spoke less." Beckett knew Duchamp, a formidable chess player, throughout the thirties in Paris often frequenting the cafes where Duchamp and other chess devotees could be found. Inscribed by Beckett to his Swedish translator in 1957.
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7,500.00 |
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