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First edition (not published on fine paper) of Audiberti's first novel in very good condition in glassine cover.Inscribed by author to Henry Church. Abraxas means God in Persian. The novel is a work of mysticism on good and evil in which generosity and love prevail.

Barbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Derrida's Collège international de philosophie.

Large in-8 ( 290 X 195 mm ), Frontispiece by Pierre GIRIEUD. Signed by the author and accompanied by a dedication. Printed registered copy for Mr. Georges Leveque. Original edition of work by poet Paul Fort, noted member of the Montparnasse artistic community. By 1912, his accomplishments and influence were such that he was given the title "Prince of the Poets" (honorific title given in France to poets, such as Verlaine and Mallarmé.

Early numbered French edition of post-symbolist poet Paul Valéry's Charmes- no. 2226 (v. 200/3445) on Madagascar. No wear to cover. Interior pages clean and bright.

Numbered limited edition of only novel written by French Art critic Charles Estienne (2569/2750) with 15 illustrations by Charles Lapique. Estienne was a major figure in art circles in France in the 1950s. He was influenced by Kandinsky and promoted the work of the new Paris School - Nicholas de Stael in particular, by organizing countless exhibits. Some spotting to cover. No defects to interior.

Moore, Marianne, Fables of La Fontaine, French-English translation, 342 p. Includes index. Index of first lines in English and French. Marianne Moore, Pulitzer Prize (1951), National Book Award (1952), Bollingen Prize (1953). Slipcase intact (some edgewear on corners). in glassine dust wrapper, Fine uncut, No. 104 of 400 copies, inscribed by Marianne Moore to Barbara Church who is mentioned in the Foreword, "Please feel, dear Barbara, that they have the lilt, from Marianne Moore, with love, " May 17, 1954. Illustrated by B&W frontispiece of La Fontaine by Houdon. Translation reportedly suggested by Miss Moore's friend W.H. Auden, took almost a decade, and earned Miss Moore the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres of the French Ministry of Culture (1957). Signed by author. Provenance: Library of Barbara Church.

First edition of 1993 autobiographical novel by Erik Orsenna, author of numerous essays and novels, including L'Exposition Coloniale, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1988. Elected to the Academie française in 1998. He was an adviser to French President François Mitterand. Slight wear to cover. No defects to interior.

First Edition of La Tapisserie de Notre Dame by noted Roman Catholic French Poet, Essayist and Editor Charles Péguy in the Cahier de la Quinzaine Series, Paris. 1913. One of 2000 copies. In acceptable condition for its age. Cover and pages darkened. Two tears to back cover. When the Great War broke out, Peguy became a lieutenant in the 19th company of the 276th Infantry Regiment. He died in battle, shot in the forehead, near Villeroy, Seine et Marne on the day before the beginning of the Battle of the Marne.

First edition. Université de Paris, Paris, 1936. Uncut edition in Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Softcover with glassine wrap on front cover and light edgewear, No. 25 of 230 copies. With original lithograph in violet on tissue by Cournault. Tear on page 29, faint water stains to inside back cover and edges. First published Collection of Poems by René Daumal (1908-1944) visionary French poet-philosopher spiritual para-surrealilst writer and poet. Awarded Jacques Doucet Prize on 9 July 1935 by Literary Committee of Friends of the Doucet Library composed of Julien Benda, André Gide, Jean Gireaudoux, Adrienne Monnier, Jean Paulhan, André Saurés, Paul Valéry.Inscribed by Barbara Church "to Monique" Noel 1936.

Fine unread copy of Prix Goncourt novel in French on Europe's failed imperial vision. No markings. No wear. Cover and all pages intact.

French Historical Novel on one of Brecht's mistresses and her mission as an East German Government spy. Winner of Goncourt Prize for 2003. No wear. Like new

Large in-8 ( 290 X 195 mm ), Frontispiece by Severini. Signed by the author and accompanied by a dedication. One of limited edition of 300 copies registered for Mr. Georges Leveque. Original edition of work by poet Paul Fort, noted member of the Montparnasse artistic community. By 1912, his accomplishments and influence were such that he was given the title "Prince of the Poets" (honorific title given in France to poets, such as Verlaine and Mallarmé.)

Numbered 51/650 first edition on vellum of Philippe Soupault's Odes. Soupault was one of France's greatest poets of the 20th century, one of the founders of surrealism with André Breton in 1919, active in the Dadaist Movement, novelist and critic. Vellum wraps chipped at top and bottom corners of sunned spine, tiny cut on edge of rear board, soiling to rear board, but internally crisp and clean with the exception of browning to pages opposite photos of L"ocean by Pierre Boucher; New York & London, Keystone, Paris, René Jacques, Bogota, Ramon Ruiz, Prague, Karel Plicka.

#1347 of 2365 copies of work on the Mimetic Arts by noted French Novelist, Scholar, Essayist and Journalist and Resistance fighter Jean Prévost whose life was cut short in 1944 in a German ambush in the Vercors. Uncut copy on verge Bouffant. Slight edgewear on original soft cover. Otherwise very good condition.

Near fine copy of intellectual history of exiled French writers and artists who left occupied France to live in New York between 1940 and 1947. Among them were.André Breton, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Boris Souvarine, Jacques Maritain, Paul Vignaux, Jules Romains, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Saint-John Perse, Max Ernst, Pierre Lazareff..Author Emmanuelle Loyer analyzes the diversity of positions taken vis-à-vis De Gaulle or the Internal Resistance and evokes the creation of publishing houses or institutions such as the Free School of Advanced Studies. Like their German colleagues, French scholars and intellectuals mobilized against fascism to make an original contribution to the Allied war effort. Unlike the German exiles, the French exiles all returned to France at the end of the war, but with a fresh outlook.

Flammarion, 1928. Soft cover. Very good. Uncut Slight shelf wear on spine ends. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Wraps. No. 285 edited by Léon-Paul Quint, Editorial Director of Les éditions du Sagittaire from the thirties to the sixties, publishers of the works of André Breton, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Mann. Author of acclaimed critical works on Proust, Lautréamont and Gide.

Very good copy of leatherbound French Edition of La Pléiade Anthology of French novelists of 17th century - Charles Sorel; Scarron; Furetiere; Madame De La Fayette,1508pp with introduction by Antoine Adam. With dust jacket in glassine cover. No wear to binding. Interior immaculate. 0.5 inch cut to glassine cover on back.

English translation of celebrated work by French novelist Michel Houellebecq in Good+ condition. No shelfwear or edgewear to cover. Pages and cover are clean and intact.

#548 of 700 copies in softcover vellum of important work in French on the social fantastic of urban life by noted French author Pierre Mac Orlan whose novel Quai des Brumes inspired Marcel Carne's 1938 film of the same name, starring Jean Gabin. An influential critic of film and photography whose writings influenced Berenice Abbott, Mac Orlan was also a prolific writer of chansons, many of which were recorded and popularized by Juliette Greco, Monique Morelli, Catherine Sauvage and Germaine Montero. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Mac Orlan by Hoffmeister. Some wear to Protective tissue on cover.  

In French. Very good copy of Special 1951 New Years edition of Vauvenargues quote reserved for the friends of Camille Renault, Restauranteur and Patron of the Artists Ecole de Puteaux limited to 50 copies (of which this is number 49) signed by Camille Renault. In original cellophane cover and original beige wraps