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[LITERATURE]. A collection of 36 works by various authors: - APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume). *Les Mamelles de Tirésias* with six previously unpublished portraits by Picasso. Paris: Éditions du Bélier, 1946. — BERGER (Yves). *Le Sud*. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1962. 1/200 on alfa mousse, not for sale (no. SP 64). Signed by the author and sent to Félicien Marceau. — BERGERET (Gaston). *Journal d’un nègre à l’exposition de 1900*. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1901. A copy on vellum presented to Monsieur Maréchal. — BOULANGER (Daniel). *Le Gouverneur polygame*. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1960. 1 of 47 copies on ‘pur fil du Marais’ paper, the only large-format paper (no. 14). — CHADOURNE (Louis). *Le Maître du Navire*. Illustrated with two original woodcuts by Daragnès. Paris: L’Édition française illustrée, 1919. - COCTEAU (Jean) - RADIGUET (Raymond). *Paul and Virginie*. n.p.: JC Lattès Édition Spéciale, 1973. — CONCHON (Georges). *L’État sauvage*. Novel. Paris: Albin Michel, 1964. Autographed copy sent to Pascal Pia. — COUSSE (Raymond). The Discovery of Africa. A Diary to Cut Butter By. Paris: Le Dilettante, 1991. 1 of 33 copies on handmade laid paper (no. 12). — DALIZE (René) - TOULET (Paul-Jean). *Au zanzi des cœurs*. A one-act comedy. Preface by André Billy. Drypoint by Yvonne Préveraud. Paris: Le Divan, 1931. 1 of 500 on tinted vellum (no. 133). — DORGELÈS (Roland). *Sous le casque blanc*. Paris: Les Éditions de France, 1941. 1 of the first 95 copies on pure-fibre vellum (no. 35). - ESCHOLIER (Raymond). *Mahmadou Fofana*. Paris: G. Crès et Cie, 1928. Author’s autograph letter enclosed. — ESCHOLIER (Raymond). *Mahmadou Fofana*. Original woodcuts by Claude Escholier. Paris: J. Ferenczi et fils, 1934. — ESME (Jean d’). *La Terre du jour*. Novel. Paris: Éditions du Dauphin, 1949. Signed copy from the author. — FARRÈRE (Claude). *Lyautey l’africain*. Paris: Les Amis d’Édouard, 1922. 1 of 196 copies on Arches paper (no. 110). — GENET (Jean). *Les Nègres*. Clownerie. Décines: Marc Barbezat, 1958. 1 of 3,500 copies on Lana paper (no. 2533). - GENET (Jean). *Les Nègres*. *Clownerie*. Photographs by Ernest Scheidegger. Décines: Marc Barbezat, 1960. — GENEVOIX (Maurice). *Fatou Cissé*. Paris: Flammarion, 1954. Press copy. Signed copy sent by the author to Gérard Caillet. — GIBBAL (Jean-Marie). *Le Sortilège des terrasses*. Rosporden: Éditions Hôtel Continental, 1984. 1 of the first 30 copies on Johannot pure-fibre paper (no. 12). — GIRAUDOUX (Jean). *Les Hommes tigres*. Paris: Émile Paul frères, 1926. 1 of 800 on Rives vellum (no. 789). — HARAUCOURT (Edmond). *Vertige d’Afrique*. Novel. Paris: Albin Michel, 1922. Press copy. Signed by the author. - HÉMON (Louis). *Battling Malone, the Boxer*. Paris: Grasset, 1925. — HILDRETH. Father Tom’s Companion. The White Slave. Translated by La Bédollière, illustrated by Janet-Lange. Paris: Gustave Barba, 1853. — HUGO (Victor). Bug-Jargal. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1912. 1/10 on Whatman (no. 6). — JOUBERT (Dominique). Les Vents contraires. Paris: Le Dilettante, 1992. 1/33 on laid paper (no. 4). — KESSEL (Joseph). *La Piste fauve*. Paris: Gallimard, 1954. Press copy. - LESSING (Doris). Vaincue par la brousse. Novel. Translated from the English by Doussia Ergaz. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1953. 1/60 copies on alfa, the only large-format paper (no. HC 3). — MILLE (Pierre). *Barnavaux*. Paris: Georges Crès et Cie, 1921. 1 of 1,875 on Rives paper. — PANSAERS (Clément). *A Programmatic Culmination for a Young Orangutan*. Brussels: Phantomas, 1972. — PSICHARI (Ernest). Letters from the Centurion. Introduction by Henriette Psichari. Preface by Paul Claudel. Paris: Louis Conard, 1933. 1/20 copies on Japon paper (no. 28). — REBOUX (Paul). Bamboulina. Original etchings and woodcuts by Charles Hallo. Paris: Lapina, 1926. - SAVITZKAYA (Eugène). The Crossing of Africa. Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1979. Author’s autographed dedication to Yves Bonnefoy. — THARAUD (Jérôme and Jean). The Traveller from Ethiopia. Paris: Librairie Plon, 1936. 1/18 first copies on Japanese paper, this one being one of the 8 unpublished copies, enhanced by an autographed dedication from the authors. — TOULET (Paul-Jean). *Béhanzigue*. Tales. Amiens: Librairie Edgar Malfère, 1921. — VIALATTE (Alexandre). *Le Cri du canard bleu*. Paris: Le Dilettante, 2012. 1 of 99 on pure rag vellum (no. 21). — VIAN (Boris). I Will Spit on Your Graves. Paris: Éditions du Scorpion, 1946. Cover faded, slight water stains. — VIAN (Boris). The Dead All Have the Same Skin. Paris: Éditions du Scorpion, 1947.
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About the sale Claude Mozis Library – Black Africa and the African diaspora
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