21. Gérard, Dom.

Demain la Chrétienté. Préface de Gustave Thibon. Postface de Bernard Anhony,

Nouvelle édition revue. Le Barroux, Éditions Sainté-Madeleine, 2005. 8°. 215 pages. Broché / Softcover. Très bon état.

22. Hala, Patrick.

Solesmes, les écrivains et les poètes (1833-1954).

Solesmes, Éditions de Solesmes, 2011. Gr.-8°. VII, 525 pages with many photographs of french writers. Softcover / Broché. Très bon état.

23. Kessel, Sim.

Pendu A Auschwitz.

4e Trimestre. Paris, Presses Pocket, 1974. 11 cm x 17.5 cm. 248 pages. Red painted edges. Original Softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Pages slightly discoloured. Top edge paint faded.

24. La Varende, Jean de.

La Dernière Fête.

Paris, Flammarion, 1953. 13,5 cm x 19 cm. 382 pages. Original Hardcover. Half leather binding with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine in protective Mylar. Inscribed and signed by Jean de la Varende on half title / Avec dedicace de l’auteur: “Pour Gerard Argenton, amicalmend – La Varende”. No. 14 / 20 exemplaires sur papier fil d’Arches. Exlibris / Bookplate of Baron de Mélogue. Top edge gilt. Excellent condition !

25. Le Clézio, Jean Marie Gustave.

The Book of Flights – An Adventure Story. (Translation of Le Livre des Fuites) Translated from the French by Simon Watson Taylor.

New York, Atheneum, 1972. 8°. 319 pages. Original cloth with dustjacket in very good plus (rather better) condition. Rare FIRST American Edition. The jacket with few flaws but complete. The volume itself only with very few signs of use (a little bit of foxing to the edge). Slightly crooked but overall a wonderful collectible.

26. Lobet, Marcel.

La ceinture de feuillage. Essai sur la confession deguisee

[Paris], La Renaissance du Livre, 1966. Octavo. 212 pages. Reliure originale / Broche. First edition of this interesting study of the confessional genre in French literature, starting with Benjamin Constant and Chateaubriand, and moving through Valery Larbaud’s “Barnabooth.” Inscribed by the author to Madame Rene Jasinski, “A Madame Rene Jasinski, dont la curiosite intellectuelle retrouvera dans ces pages anciennes un Benjamin Constant ‘a fleur de peau’, avec mes fideles hommages, Marcel Lobet.”

27. Lobet, Marcel.

Le feu du ciel. Introduction a la litterature prometheene.

[Paris], La Renaissance du Livre, 1969. Octavo. 170 pages. Reliure originale / Broche. First edition of this study of what the author terms “promethean” literature, including Lautreamont, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, Leiris, and other dissident French writers. Preface by Pierre-Henri Simon. Inscribed by the author to Rene Jasinski, “A Monsieur Rene Jasinski, en hommage de haute estime, Marcel Lobet.” With author’s carte-de-visite laid in.

28. Malraux, André.

La Lutte avec L’Ange. / Les Noyers de l’Altenburg. Roman.

Édition Originale. Suisse, Éditions du Haut-Pays, 1943. 22 x 14 cm. 240 pages. Broché. Bon état général. Bon exemplaire. Couverture un peu défraichie protégée avec jaquette protective en plastique transparente. Intérieur très propre. Exemplaire numéroté 277 tiré de 1436 sur volumineux vergé bouffant. / First edition of Malraux’s “The Walnut Trees of Altenberg” – the first volume of a projected cycle that was never continued. The first and last chapters, set in a German detention camp, which frame the story, are printed in red. Of a total edition of 1465 copies, No. 277 of 1436 on ordinary paper. Very good to near fine in publisher’s printed wrappers.

29. Mehlman, Jeffrey.

Cataract: A Study in Diderot.

First edition. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1979. 14 x 22cm. 109 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition.

30. Parent, Michael / Olivier, Julien.

Of Kings and Fools: Stories of the French Tradition in North America. Collected, translated and retold by Michael Parent and Julien Olivier.

Little Rock, August House Publishers, 1996. 13.5 x 21cm. 206 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition, other than sunned spine and some minor text markings. Handwritten dedication by author to previous owner. [American Storytelling from August House].