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LA PLEIADE. A collection comprising 140 volumes (mostly with…
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LA PLEIADE. A collection comprising 140 volumes (mostly with dust jackets and slipcases) and 6 diaries: Balzac’s *La Comédie Humaine* (4 vols.), Zola’s *Les Rougon-Macquart* (5 vols.), Julien Green’s ‘Complete Works’ (1 vol.), Borges’ ‘Complete Works’ (2 vols.), Nabokov’s ‘Complete Novels’ (1 vol.), Eugène Ionesco’s ‘Complete Plays’ (1 vol.), *The Epicureans* (1 vol.), Shakespeare’s *Complete Works* (2 vols.), Chateaubriand, *Essay on the Revolutions and the Genius of Christianity* (1 vol.) + *Memoirs from Beyond the Grave* (2 vols.), *The Romance of Reynard* (2 vols.), Chrétien de Troyes, *Complete Works* (1 vol.), Musset, *Poetry* (1 vol.), History of Manners (2 vols.), Box set (2 vols.) Villiers de l’Isle-Adam ‘Complete Works’, History of the Performing Arts (1 vol.), History of Literature (3 vols.), General Geography (1 vol.), Agrippa d’Aubigné (1 vol.), *Language* (1 vol.), Dante’s *Complete Works* (1 vol.), Diderot’s *Tales and Novels* (1 vol.) + *Works* (1 vol.), Box set (2 vols.) Shu Nai-An and Luo Guan-Zhong, *By the Water’s Edge*, Spinoza, *Complete Works* (1 vol.), Brantôme, *Anthology of Ladies’ Poetry and Epitaphs* (1 vol.), Montherlant’s ‘Novels’ (1 vol.), Proust’s ‘In Search of Lost Time’ (2 vols.), Jacques Prévert’s ‘Complete Works’ (1 vol.), Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Works’ (1 vol.), Marguerite Yourcenar, *Novels* (2 vols.), Apollinaire, *Poetic Works* (1 vol.), Malraux, *Complete Works* (2 vols.), Kafka, *Complete Works* (1 vol.), Albert Camus, *Essays* (1 vol.), García Lorca, *Complete Works* (1 vol.), Bernanos, *Novels* (1 vol.), Anton Chekhov ‘Works’ (1 vol.), Tanizaki ‘Works’ (2 vols.), Maupassant ‘Tales and Short Stories’ (1 vol.), René Char ‘Complete Works’ (1 vol.), Céline, *Novels* (1 vol.), Box set (2 vols.) Eluard, *Complete Works*, Saint-Simon, *Memoirs* (8 vols.), Lamartine, *Complete Poetic Works* (1 vol.), Mallarmé ‘Complete Works’ (1 vol.), Mérimée Theatre ‘Novels and Short Stories’ (1 vol.), Albert Cohen ‘Works’ (1 vol.), Julien Green ‘Complete Works’ (1 vol.), Supervielle, *Complete Poetic Works* (2 vols.), Marcel Aymé, *Complete Novels* (1 vol.), 16th-Century Poets (2 vols.), Medieval Poets and Novelists (1 vol.), Rousseau’s *The Social Contract* and *Political Writings* (1 vol.), La Fontaine’s *Complete Works* (1 vol.), Ponge’s *Complete Works* (1 vol.), André Gide, ‘Novels’ (1 vol.) + ‘Diary 1886–1939’ (1 vol.), Jean Giono, ‘Complete Novels’ (5 vols.), German Romantics (1 vol.), Baudelaire’s ‘Complete Works’ (1 vol.), Corneille’s ‘Plays’ (2 vols.), Swift’s ‘Works’ (1 vol.), Sartre, *Novels* (1 vol.), Jacques de Voragine, *The Golden Legend* (1 vol.), Colette, *Works* (2 vols.), Oscar Wilde, *Works* (1 vol.), Valmiki’s Ramayana (1 vol.), Valéry Labraud ‘Works’ (1 vol.), 18th-Century Libertine Novelists (1 vol.), 17th-Century Novelists (1 vol.), Alain, *The Arts and the Gods* (1 vol.), Paul Valéry, *Works* (2 vols.), Rilke, *Poetic and Dramatic Works* (1 vol.), Greek and Latin Novels (1 vol.), Defoe, *Moll Flanders* (1 vol.), Goethe, *Novel* (1 vol.), Nietzsche, *Works* (1 vol.), 16th-Century Spanish Theatre (1 vol.), Spanish Picaresque Novels (1 vol.), Edgar A. Poe, *Prose Works* (1 vol.), Paul Morand, *Complete Short Stories* (2 vols.) – 20 volumes comprising 2 by Malraux, 1 by Aragon, 1 by Montaigne, 1 Wilde, 1 Faulkner, 1 Prévert, 1 Queneau, 1 Diderot, 1 Verlaine, 1 Chateaubriand, 1 Nerval, 1 Green, 1 Colette, 1 Lewis Carroll, 1 Pascal, 1 Borges, 1 NRF, 1 Apollinaire, 1 Voltaire – 6 diaries from: 1988, 1993, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1998
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About the sale COMING SOON – Sunday 16 August at 2.00 pm: Fine Furniture Auction: Interiors from a family home in the medieval heart of Avallon and a property in the Avallonnais region, a collection of 19th-century paintings from a Burgundian collector, and various other items
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Auction time 08/16/2026 at 2:00 PM
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