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several books are stacked on top of each other on a tablethe front cover of a book with the title destines sentimentalesa blue book with a gold border on the front of itthe front cover of the book entre le ciel et l ' eauthe cover of the book silvestre le simplethe front cover of a book with an image of a cross on itthe front cover of a book with red writing on ita white book with red writing on it sitting on top of a tablethe cover of a book with a picture of a man in a suitthe cover of the book les tempss indignes by jules mayoran old book with the title of the novel ' s title on itthe front cover of the book naufrage de la mancheta by henry de monreida white book with a black and white title on it
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70 - [20th-CENTURY LITERATURE]. Set of 12 titles in large-format …
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[20th-CENTURY LITERATURE]. Set of 12 titles in large-format paper: Chardonne, Mauriac, Maurois, Suarès, Derème... A fine set of first editions in softback, printed on large-format paper. - CHARDONNE, Jacques. *Les Destinées sentimentales*. Paris, Grasset, 1934, in-12 (spine warped). First edition. Numbered copy from the press run on Alfax paper (no. XCLXVIII) with a dedicatory inscription to Jacques Boulinger. Please see enclosed insert. - DEREME, Tristan. *L’Enlèvement sans clair de Lune ou les propos et les amours de Monsieur Théodore Decalandre*. With the author’s portrait engraved on copper by Pascin. Paris, Emile-Paul, 1924, in-12. First edition. Numbered copy on laid paper (no. 121). - DORGELES, Roland. *Between Heaven and Water*. Etchings by Eugène Corneau. Paris, Crès, 1930, in-8. First edition. A numbered copy not for sale (no. XXI). - HUMBOURG, Pierre. Silvestre the Simple. Paris, Nrf, 1929, in-12, uncut (cover slightly soiled). First edition. One of 647 numbered copies on Lafuma-Navarre pure-fibre vellum (no. 9). - MALHERBE, Henry. The Last Judgement. Illustrated with woodcuts by Jean Marchand. Paris, La Sirène, 1920. First edition. One of 1,000 numbered copies on Lafuma pure-fibre laid paper (no. 468). - MAURIAC, François. *Les Péloueyre*. *Le Baiser aux lépreux – Génitrix*, in-8. Paris, Calmann-Levy, 1925. Deluxe edition on Marais vellum, limited to 1,850 numbered copies (no. 1373). - MAUROIS, André. *Aspects de la biographie*. Paris: Sans Pareil, 1928, 8vo, untrimmed. One of 72 numbered copies on Holland laid paper (no. 10). - MAUROIS, André. *Journal. Etats-Unis 1946*. Paris, Editions du Bateau Ivre, 1946, in-8. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies on Crèvecoeur vellum (no. 333), this one with full margins. - MAYOR, Jules. *Les Temps indignes*. Paris, Editions de La Ruche Ouvrière, 1960, in-12 (cover slightly soiled). First edition without endpapers. Sent to his colleague Henry Chamayon. - MAYOR, Jules. *Nous n’irons plus au bois… Histoires de ma jeunesse*. Paris, Crès, n.d., in-12 (cover slightly soiled). First edition without endpapers. Sent to his colleague Henry Chamayon. - MONFREID, Henry de. *Le naufrage de “La Mariette”*. Short stories. Paris, Grasset, 1934, in-12, uncut. First edition. One of 255 numbered copies on satin-finished alfa paper (no. XXII). - SUARES, André. *Marsiho*. Paris, Grasset, 1933, in-12. First edition. One of 42 numbered copies on Lafuma pure-fibre vellum (no. I), this one with full margins.
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