Search Results: Authors starting with Q from Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

[Paris]: Gallimard, 1950. First edition, S.P. copy. 147 p. 13 x 19 cm. Original wrappers, unopened. Paper browned; very good. Inscribed and signed by Queneau "à Madame... à l'aube de ce 16ème. Service de Presse en fidèle hommage / Queneau"

[Paris]: Gallimard, 1953. First edition. Service de presse copy. 122 p. 21 cm. Inscribed and signed by Queneau to Armand Salacrou. Text yellowed. Wrappers. Original Gallimard publiciy included.

Levallois: Association des Amis de Valentin Bru, 1997. First edition. Includes No.1, 2/3,4/5, 6, 10,12/13, 14/15, 16, 17/19, 20/21, 22/23, 24/25, 26/27, 28/30, 31. Original wrappers, in fine condition. 350-400 copies of each issue were printed. 26 of the 31 issues published. With new series No. 1, 1997. = nos. 1-6, 10, 12-31.

Paris: Gallimard, 1951. First edition. Original boards with Mario Prassinos design, 306 pp. Very good copy. Cover is very attactive and shows minimal wear. Copy number 203 of 930. 18 cm X 12 cm.

Paris: Gallimard, 1948. First Gallimard edition, greatly expanded from the 1946 book of the same title which contained only six poems. 136 p. 19 cm. Original wrappers, very fine, unopened. Tirage de tête, copy number II of 13 copies (10 numbered, three lettered) printed on vélin pur fil.

Paris: Fontaine, 1947. First edition. Prassinos. 36 p. ; 14 cm. Paste-paper boards with leather spine, gilt top, by Duhayon; spine trifle faded, otherwise fine. original wrappers preserved. One of 25 copies on Marais paper (tirage de tête) from a total edition of 550.

Paris: Gallimard, 1967. First edition, on ordinary paper. Service de presse copy with perforation on back cover. Wrappers, slight lean, else fine. 199 p. 18 cm. Poems. Inscribed by Queneau to Alain Bosquet.

Verviers, 1961. First edition. Wrappers, fine.

Paris: Editions Hautefeuille, 1958. First edition, on ordinary paper. 19 cm; 40 pp; Collection Caracteres. Inscribed and signed by Queneau to Pierre Josserand. Somewhat yellowed,

Paris: Gallimard, 1977. New edition. Original wrappers, 2 p. l., 7-249 p., 1 l. 19 cm. Copy number 20 of 25 on vélin d'Arches. Very fine.

Paris: Gallimard, 1993. First edition. Wrappers, fine. 239 p. Copy number 21 of 31 copies on vergé, the only limited edition. Very fine. Uncut pages. 21 cm.

Paris: Éditions du scorpion, 1950. First edition. 254 p.19 cm. Original printed wrappers, fine. The only limited issue, copy 40 of 120 on Alfa.

Paris: Gallimard, 1938. First edition, on ordinary paper. Original wrappers, some separation at the front joint, but a very good copy. Service de presse copy, indicated on title page and back wrapper.

Paris: Gallimard, 1961. First edition. Original white cloth, clear plastic jacket. 9-1/2 in. x 11-1/14 in. First printing, May 1961, one of 3000 numbered copies (this is one of 250 hors-commerce). Design by Robert Massin. Fine condition. Presentation copy from Queneau to Anne and Georges-Emmanuel Clancier. Anne Clancier was a doctor, a psychiatrist, and an analyst. She published several books. including "Raymond Queneau et la psychanalyse," (1994), which includes a chapter on her meetings with Queneau. The first work of Oulipo poetry, it contains ten sonnets each divided into 14 strips (one for each line). Each sonnet has the same rhyme sounds, allowing 1014 (= 100,000,000,000,000) different poems. Ref.Massin, La Lettre et L'Image, p. 220.

[Paris]: Gallimard, 1944. First edition. Boards, with decorations after a design by Mario Prassinos. 233 p. ; 18 X 12 cm. "Exemplaire sur Heliona," number 786 of 1000. Very good.

[Paris]: Gallimard, 1951. First edition, on ordinary paper. 306 p. roman. 19 cm.. 20 cm. Inscribed and signed by Queneau to Pierre Josserand, his co-editor for Les écrivans celebrées. Wrappers. Paper yellowed.

Paris: Gallimard, 1948. First edition. Original wrappers, fine. 267 p. 19 cm."Les deux premières parties de Saint Glinglin ont paru sous le titre de Gueule de Pierre et de Les temps mêlés." Tirage de tête, copy number 7 of 18 copies on pur fil, the only special paper issue.

London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. One of 1,500 copies, of which 500 were bound up into the collected edition. Buff sewn wrappers, cover design by John Blanchard. 24 pp. Faint offsetting from another issue of the Letters to the rear cover, else fine. The Hogarth Letters No. 12. Woolmer 305.