[LITERATURE]. Set of 11 volumes. CARCO (Francis). L'Homme traqué. Paris, Albin Michel, 1929. In-8, industrial binding in olive bakelite, bevelled boards with articulated hinges, moulded iron headband and metal title-pieces inlaid in the front cover and spine, stencilled paper lining and endpapers, gilt head, first cover (Jotau binding). A very fine Jotau binding, an industrial binding process patented by Joseph Taupin which enjoyed great success during the Art Deco period. First board and spine uniformly darkened. COCTEAU (Jean). Thomas l'imposteur. Paris, NRF, 1923. In-12, fawn half-maroquin with corners, spine decorated, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (Modern binding). Numbered first edition on vellum pur fil. COCTEAU (Jean). Orphée. Paris, Stock, 1927. In-12, paperback. Numbered first edition on papier pur fil du Marais. Spine damaged. COCTEAU (Jean). La Machine infernale. Paris, Grasset, 1934. In-12, paperback. Numbered first edition on esparto. COCTEAU (Jean). Journal d'un inconnu. Paris, Grasset, 1953. In-12, burgundy half-maroquin with corners, decorated spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (Modern binding). Numbered first edition on esparto. FOUREST (Georges). La Négresse blonde. Paris, Picart, 1926. In-8, paperback. Sixth revised and enlarged edition. One of the 3 first copies on japon. JOUVE (Pierre Jean). Noces. Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1928. In-8, red half-maroquin with stripes, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine (Period binding). First collective edition, partly original. One of the pass copies on vellum numbered 00. Autograph letter signed: Pour Madame de Bassiano, avec l'hommage de Pierre Jean Jouve. June 1928. The Princess de Bassiano had financed the review Commerce, founded in 1924 by Valéry and Fargue, to which Jouve contributed. From the Albert-Louis Natural library (2009, n°499), with bookplate. LAFORGUE (Jules). Moralités légendaires. Paris, La Revue indépendante, 1887. In-12, bradel green half-percaline with corners, untrimmed, cover (slightly later binding). Posthumous first edition, published by Édouard Dujardin and decorated with an etched portrait of the author by his brother Émile Laforgue. Edition of 420 numbered copies, this one on English mechanical vellum. From the Albert-Louis Natural library (2009, n°237), with bookplate. LOUŸS (Pierre). Isthi. S.l.n.n. [Paris, Georges Crès], 1916. Oblong pamphlet in-8 of [8] ff. mounted on tabs, red half-maroquin with corners, gilt head, cover (Semet & Plumelle). First edition, printed in an edition of 350 copies on Arches vellum, hors commerce, reserved for the author's friends and those of Librairie Crès. From the Albert-Louis Natural library (2009, n°521), with full-page bookplate. [MALLARMÉ (Stéphane)]. BECKFORD (William). Beckford's Vathek, reprinted from the original French edition with preface by Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris, Alphonse Labitte, 1876. In-8, stiff vellum with flaps, smooth spine, red ribbon ties, untrimmed (Publisher's binding). First edition with an important preface by Mallarmé. Unique edition of 220 copies on Rives laid paper, numbered and initialled by the publisher. Supernumerary title stamped at the tail, upside down; two bindings missing. TOURGUENIEV (Ivan). Fumée. Paris, Charles Douniol, 1867. In-8, blue half calf, gilt head, cover (Bernasconi). First edition of the first French translation, published by Prince Augustin Galitzine in Le Correspondant the same year as the Russian original. From the Serrigny library, with bookplate. Upper hinge worn, minor repairs to the cover and false-title, minor scattered foxing.