Paris: Gustave Havard, 1846. E. de Beaumont, Laisne, et al. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 554 p. Illustrated edition, IN FRENCH. Two interesting prior owner bookplates, on the front pastedown is a bookplate belonging to George Paget (1818-1880), a British soldier during the Crimean War who took... More about Les Prisons de Paris: Histoire, Types, Moeurs, Mysteres

[Paris]: Editions de la Maison Francaise, [1947]. Dignimont, Andre. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of an unspecified number reserved for "des amis du florilege", inscribed by Andre Dignimont, quarto size, 229 pp., in French, unbound sheets. With original artwork on front blank signed by Dignimont and inscribed to "a moi bien... More about Les Fleurs du Mal [ASSOCIATION COPY - inscribed by artist to Dr. Jean Rousset

Octon, France: Verdigris, 2000. Rothchild, Judith. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. Number 4 of 10 de luxe copies (total edition 50), quarto size, [16] pp., signed by Judith Rothchild with an additional print also signed, in French. A single poem, "L'Invitation au Voyage" is from the collection Les Fleurs... More about L'Invitation au Voyage [ARTIST BOOK - Judith Rothchild]; Petit Poeme en Prose

Hamburg: Raamin-Presse, 1976. Quadflieg, Roswtha. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 37 p. Signed by Artist. Limited edition of 170 signed/numbered copies, this no. 91, SIGNED BY THE ARTIST/BOOK DESIGNER, Roswtha Quadfleig (b. 1949). She founded the Raamin-press in 1973, publishing works of literature printed with... More about Der Ausgestossene [L'expulse

Paris: Chez Saintin, 1811. First Edition. Hardcover. Twenty-fourmo size, 234 pp., in French. The biblical story of Ruth and Naomi, two women who leave the land of Moab to return to Naomi's native land of Bethlehem, is a story of love, devotion, and loyalty; it is a story of strength... More about Ruth et Noemi; ou Les Deux Veuves, Sujet Episodique

Buenos Aires: Edito Vehil, (1955). Botana, Helvio I. Limited Edition. Wraps. Number VIII of XX, octavo size, [124] pp., signature at the colophon. A lovely version, in the original Spanish, with an original drawing by the author serving as frontispiece, and signed by the author at the colophon. Offered as... More about Via Crucis; Con un prologo y un epilogo a las catorce estaciones, de la Pasion del Cristo,...

Rennes-Paris: Imprimerie Oberthur, 1903. 1st Edition. Wraps. Folio size, 23 pp., text in French. Emile Boulanger (1867-1939) was a French pharmacist and biologist. These papers comprise portions of a study on the artificial culture of the truffle following various experiments. Boulanger continued his experiments for some years and published numerous... More about Les Mycelium Truffiers Blancs

New York: [Edition Gunnar A. Kaldewey] Printed in the tower of Poestenkill, 1984. Kuball, Mischa. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 15 deluxe copies bound in vellum, folio size, 40 pp., signed by Mischa Kuball, in German. "Todesfuge" is one of the "great and terrifying literary works" written by survivors of... More about Todesfuge [Death Fugue

San Francisco: Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Leon Gelber and Theodore Lilienthal, 1936. Starr, Judson. Limited Edition. Wraps. One of 200 copies, quarto size, [16] unnumbered pp., with holiday card and ms translation slipped in. An edition of this Christmas poem by Canadian poet Louis Frechette (1839-1908) the poet-laureate... More about Voix de Noel

BS. [Buenos Aires] - Argentina: (Colombo), 1954. Veroni, Raul. Limited Edition. Wraps. Number 40 of 60 copies, quarto size, [32] pp. Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, Duke of Gallese (1863-1938) was an Italian writer, a proto-futurist obsessed with sex, whom some people believe invented fascism. This poem was written in... More about La Pioggia Nel Pineto; (La Lluvia en el Pinar

Paris: Teriade Editeur, 1960. Beaudin, Andre. Limited Edition. Folio. Number 177 of 180 copies (total edition 200), folio size, 127 pp., signed by Andre Beaudin, in French. Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) is the pen name of French Romantic poet and author Gérard Labrunie. His novella "Sylvie" was first published in... More about Sylvie

(Paris): Editions Filigranes, (1995). Limited Edition. Folio. No. 122 of 220 (total edition 250), folio size, 319 pp., in French. Roger Devauchelle (1915-1993) was apprenticed at an early age to a bookbinder and eventually trained in all aspects of bookbinding; he opened his own bindery which, as a family business... More about La Reliure, Recherches historiques, techniques et biographiques sur la reliure francaise (De...

Paris: Garnier Freres, ca. 1880s. Hardcover. Octavo size, 543 pp., in French. "Les Aventures de Telemaque" follows the character Telemachus from Homer's "Odyssey"; the son of Odysseus, Telemachus embarks on an educational journey in search of news of his father, who has not returned after the Trojan War. In Fénelon's..... More about Les Aventures de Telemaque; et Les Aventures d'Aristonous