Author : Alexandre VIALATTE

ÉDITION ORIGINALE. Un des 33 exemplaires numérotés à la main.

Vialatte s'empare de la figure mythique de Mata Hari pour broder un récit sur le désir, l'illusion et la fatalité.…

FIRST EDITION. One of 25 numbered copies on vellum pur fil, first paper.

Each text often begins with a trivial subject, drifting into offbeat poetry, before invariably concluding with a ritual formula that puts man in his place: a speck of dust in a…

FIRST EDITION. One of 33 numbered copies on vellum marais.

Far from classic adventure stories, Vialatte depicts waiting, provincial boredom and the first stirrings of love. The story focuses on the fragile transition between childhood - that realm of…

LIMITED EDITION. One of 25 numbered copies on vélin pur fil, the only large-format paper.

Publication with thirteen additional texts to the 1937 original. We follow Badonce through his high-school wanderings, his first awkward love affairs and his…

FIRST EDITION. One of 33 numbered copies on vélin pur fil, the only large-format paper.

This is not a book about zoology, but a celebration of the incongruity of the world. Vialatte uses the platypus as a central metaphor: that of a cobbled-together,…

FIRST EDITION. One of 25 numbered copies on Johannot vellum from Arjomari-Diffusion, the only large paper.

For Vialatte, the chronicle was not simply a news post, but a space of total freedom. For decades (notably for the newspaper La Montagne), he…