French Imports

Stuart Ng Books is the largest importer of French Bande Dessinee (and related art books) in the United States. We select and stock new titles and current releases and source them directly from the French publishers and distributors. We carry the most mainstream publishers such as Casterman, Dargaud, And Dupuis, to boutique publishers such as Comix Buro, Stardom and Bruno Graff. We also buy and sell used, secondhand, and collectible Bande Dessinee and related art books from collectors here and abroad.

 
Achde, Achde, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Editions Caurette, Buhl, France, 2023, 9782382890530, 11.3 inches, 8.75 inches, 84 pages, color and black & white illustrations throughout, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

A Western-themed sketchbook. Full of cowboys and other stock Western movie character types, horses and other critters, as well as caricatures of familiar...

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Harding Was Here
  $25.00
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VF, Adam, Midam, Adam, Soleil, 2008, 1st, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Thomas Harding is an eminent scientist who travels through time to meet the greatest painters of the past ... and cheaply acquire paintings he can sell for...

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Arthur Adams, Adams, Arthur, Limited to 250 copies, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Longeville-lès-Saint-Avold, Wetta Editions, 2020, 1st, 9782360741212, 12.2 inches, 8.5 inches, 40 pages, black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Limited to only 250 copies, this RAW collector's edition presents Arthur Adams' black & white artwork in a large 12-inch-tall hardcover format. Text in...

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Ange, Patrick Renault, Charlie Adlard, Ange, Patrick Renault, Adlard, Charlie, Signed by the artist, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Soleil, Toulon, 2019, 1st, 15 inches, 10.5 inches, 72 pages, black & white with 16 pages in color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Charlie Adlard was kind enough to sign this copy for us. This limited oversize deluxe edition reproduces the entire 52-page graphic novel from Adlard's...

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Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, One of 30 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Fine, Atomik Strip, Andenne, 2017, 1st, 11.75 inches, 8.25 inches, black & white

Batman by Pierre Alary. Printed on thick white stock.

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One of the first 900 copies which are numbered & signed by the artist, Very Fine, Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Comix Buro, 2011, 1st, 8.7 inches, 7 inches, 48 pages, color and black & white illustrations, Softcover, color wraps, French

One of the first 900 copies which are numbered & signed by the artist. A new collection of drawings, character designs, and color renderings by one of...

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One of 900 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Fine, Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Comix Buro, 2014, 1st, 978-2-916518-70-1, 8.75 inches, 7.25 inches, 48 pages, color illustrations, Softcover, wraps, French

This third Alary sketchbook includes color illustrations created at the end of the work day, or reserved for special editions and small runs. Includes...

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Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, One of 150 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Fine, Folle Image, Paris, 2004, 1st, 10.75 inches, 8 inches, black & white

A special drawing of Belladone by Alary created especially for this exlibris.

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Belladone Exlibris #3 - Signed
  $35.00
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Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Signed by the artist, Very Fine, Folle Image, Paris, 2004, 1st, 10.75 inches, 8 inches, black & white

A special drawing of Belladone by Alary created especially for this exlibris. Beautifully printed with deep blacks on cardstock.

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Belladone Promotional Poster
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Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Fine (factory folded, unused), Toulon, Soleil, 2005, 47 inches, 15.75 inches, color, French

A huge 16 x 47 inch poster for Belladone.

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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Toulon, Soleil, 2004, 1st, 2845658591, 13.5 inches, 9.75 inches, 96 pages, black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

This Limited edition is long out of print and will not be reprinted. This limited edition reproduces the entire first volume of Alary's graphic novel:...

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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, Inscribed by both the writer and the artist, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Toulon, Soleil, 2004, 1st, 2845658591, 13.5 inches, 9.75 inches, 96 pages, black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Inscribed by both the writer and the artist. Inscribed by the writer on the first page: "Une histoire ecrite a la pointe de l'epee...et signee d'un...

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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, Inscribed by the artist with a full-page pencil drawing, Very Good+, issued without dustjacket (bump to the tail of the spine end with a small 1/8" scrape, corners very lightly bumped, interior Very Fine), Toulon, Soleil, 2004, 1st, 2845658591, 13.5 inches, 9.75 inches, 96 pages, black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Inscribed by the artist with a nice full-page pencil drawing of Belladone and dated in the year of publication: 2004! This Limited edition is long out...

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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, Inscribed by the artist with a full-page pencil drawing, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Toulon, Soleil, 2004, 1st, 2845658591, 13.5 inches, 9.75 inches, 96 pages, black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Inscribed by the artist ("Pour Pauline ... Merci ...") with a nice full-page pencil drawing of Belladone in Indian garb! This is long out of print and...

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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, Inscribed by the artist with a full page drawing, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Toulon, Soleil, 2004, 1st, 2845658591, 13.5 inches, 9.75 inches, 96 pages, black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

This limited edition is long out of print and will not be reprinted. This copy has a big, full-page pencil and watercolor dedicace by the artist. This...

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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, One of 200 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Folle Image, Paris, 2004, 1st, 12.5 inches, 9 inches, 96 pages, color and black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

This very deluxe edition of Belladone, limited to 200 copies, consists of: The album in a cloth binding, special covers, plus eight-pages of sketches...

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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, One of 200 numbered copies signed by the artist, Upper corners bumped otherwise Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Folle Image, Paris, 2004, 1st, 12.5 inches, 9 inches, 96 pages, color and black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

This very deluxe edition of Belladone, limited to 200 copies, consists of: -The album in a cloth binding, special covers, eight-pages of sketches and...

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Belladone, Tome 2: Maxime
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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Toulon, Soleil, 2005, 12.75 inches, 9.25 inches, 48 pages, color, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Marie and Maxime pursue the would-be assassin of Louis XIV who escaped them at the end of Tome 1. Like the first volume, this volume has several great...

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Belladone, Tome 3: Louis
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Ange, Pierre Alary, Ange, Alary, Pierre, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Toulon, Soleil, 2007, 12.75 inches, 9.25 inches, 48 pages, color, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

The finale to the 3-part storyline. Pierre Alary is a former animator at Disney's studio in France. His work is fluid and nimble and full of charm. Text...

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Jean-David Morvan, Pierre Alary, Morvan, Jean-David, Alary, Pierre, Bump to top of spine corner otherwise Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Grenoble, Glenat, 2018, 1st, 978-2344011966, 12.5 inches, 9.5 inches, 64 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Pierre Alary's action-packed take on Conan. New adaptation of The Queen of the Black Coast. Plus 16 pages of extras only in this first printing: Five Conan...

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Don Vega
  $30.00
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Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Paris, Dargaud, 2020, 1st, 9782505084976, 12.5 inches, 9.5 inches, 96 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

"Zorro, the birth of a legend." From Pierre Alary, a retelling of Zorro! This 96-page graphic novel was written, illustrated, and colored by Pierre...

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Gone with the Wind, Tome 1
  $36.00
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Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Paris, Rue de Sèvres, 2023, 1st, 9782810202195, 12.6 inches, 9.4 inches, 150 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Our pal, the virtuoso Pierre Alary (Belladone, Silas Corey) adapts Margaret Mitchell's famous novel. Scarlett O'Hara, Ashley Wilkes, Rhett Butler, and the...

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Fine, Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Soleil, 2001, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

This rousing detective thriller is like a 1960s Hammer horror film. In Victorian London, a masked man breaks into homes under cover of night, stealing...

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Fine, Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Soleil, 2001, 1st, 2845651260, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

This is a first printing with a different cover (painted by Pierre) and beautifully illustrated endpapers. Text in French. This rousing detective...

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Mon Traitre
  $30.00
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Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, bumped outer corner otherwise Fine, issued without dustjacket, Rue De Sevres, Paris, 2018, 9782369814740, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 144 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

A graphic novel written, illustrated and colored by Pierre Alary based upon the novel by Sorj Chalandon. Alary's two albums, Mon Traitre and Retour a...

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Retour a Killybegs
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Pierre Alary, Alary, Pierre, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Paris, Rue De Sevres, 2019, 1st, 9782369819028, 11 inches, 8.5 inches, 164 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

A graphic novel written, illustrated and colored by Pierre Alary based upon the novel by Sorj Chalandon. Alary's two albums, Mon Traitre and Retour a...

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Fabien Nury, Pierre Alary, Nury, Fabien, Alary, Pierre, Very Fine, Grenoble, Glenat, 2013, 1st, 9782723483933, 12.5 inches, 9.5 inches, 64 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Our pal Pierre Alary's latest series is this two-volume story set in Paris in the late 1910s. During WWI, Silas Corey, former reporter, secret agent and...

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Fabien Nury, Pierre Alary, Nury, Fabien, Alary, Pierre, Very Fine, Glenat, Grenoble, 2015, 1st, 12.5 inches, 9.5 inches, 64 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

A new diptych from our pal Pierre. November 1918. For millions of French, the war is over ...For Silas Corey, it is just beginning. Paris, November...

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Instinct Sauvage
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NF, Joel Alessandra, Frehel, Herve, Alessandra, Joel, KSTR, 2009, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

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Pluie D'Ete
  $36.00
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Sergio Algozzino, VF, Algozzino, Sergio, Humanoides, 2007, color wraps, French

From the publisher: "An auto-fiction (so-called) in which a young Italian author recounts with a lot of humor, charm and poetry his dreams and desires,...

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Very Fine, Alex Alice, Dorison, Xavier, Alice, Alex, Glenat, 2003, 978272437325, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Before Siegfried, Alex Alice tackled this medieval saga. This is the conclusion.

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Siegfried, Tome 2: La Walkyrie
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Alex Alice, Alice, Alex, Near Fine, issued without dustjacket (light cover wear), Dargaud, Paris, 2009, 1st, 12.5 inches, 9.5 inches, 72 pages, color, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

The original French edition of Alex Alice's adaptation of the Wagner opera, told mostly through visuals. Volume 2 of 3. Text in French. The English language...

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Aristide Broie Du Noir
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Very Fine, Jeremie Almanza, Gauthier, Severine, Almanza, Jeremie, Delcourt, 2008, 1st, 11.75 inches, 9 inches, 32 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French, French

A child is afraid to fall asleep all too aware of the horrors that await him in his dreams. Similar in style and tone to Dave Cooper's dreamlike narratives....

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Coeur De Pierre
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Severine Gauthier, Jeremie Almanza, Gauthier, Severine, Almanza, Jeremie, Very Fine, Paris, Delcourt, 2013, 11.6 inches, 8.7 inches, 32 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

From the publisher: The day the little girl with a heart of artichoke met the boy with a heart of stone, she fell madly in love with him. Therefore she...

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Guillaume Bianco, Jeremie Almanza, Bianco, Guillaume, Almanza, Jeremie, Very Fine, Toulon, Soleil, 2011, 10 inches, 7.5 inches, 80 pages, color, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

"The Beast without a Face."

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Reves & Portraits
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Very Fine, Yoshitaka Amano, Amano, Yoshitaka, Zanpano, 2010, 1st, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

A collection of original illustrations. Portraits offers us a series of drawings on exhibition for six months at Le Maison Autrique in Brussels....

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François Amoretti, Amoretti, François, One of 900 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Fine, Comix Buro, Paris, 2014, 1st, 8.7 inches, 7.1 inches, 48 pages, color, Softcover, wraps, French

This sketchbook will take you on a journey through the very special universe of François Amoretti (Burlesque Girrrl). This atypical artist's...

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One of 900 numbered copies signed by the artist, Very Fine, Jean-Baptiste Andreae, Andreae, Jean-Baptiste, Comix Buro, 2013, 1st, 9782916518657, 8.75 inches, 7.1 inches, 48 pages, color, Softcover, wraps, French

Come discover Jean-Baptiste Andreae's incredible talent & amazing colors through his sketches of girls (luscious girls, pin-ups, vampire girls,...

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Wilfrid Lupano, Jean-Baptiste Andreae, Lupano, Wilfrid, Andreae, Jean-Baptiste, Very Fine, Vents d'Ouest, Grenoble, 2014, 1st, 12.75 inches, 9.6 inches, 48 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

After escaping the judgment of Irenaeus the Magnanimous, the beautiful Mania Ganza and her troupe land on the flying kingdom of Baron Grief. For their part,...

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Wilfrid Lupano, Jean-Baptiste Andreae, Lupano, Wilfrid, Andreae, Jean-Baptiste, Very Fine, Grenoble, Vents d'Ouest, 2016, 1st, 978-2749307817, 12.75 inches, 9.6 inches, 48 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

A beautifully painted graphic novel set in a wild fantasy world, full of strange and wondrous creatures. La description de l'éditeur: Un...

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Creatures
  $50.00
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Jean-Baptiste Andreae, Andreae, Jean-Baptiste, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Paris, Akileos, 2019, 1st, 9782355743337, 12 inches, 9 inches, 176 pages, over 300 color and black & white illustrations, Hardcover, cloth spine, pictorial boards, French

A whole book about what I like most about this artist! Paintings, illustrations and drawings of cuties by Andreae "Beauties" make up most of the book. 32...

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Aslan Calendrier 2013
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Aslan, Aslan, Near Fine, La Musardine, Paris, 2013, 1st, color, softcover

Aslan is a French painter, sculptor and pin-up artist. He is most famous in France and worldwide for his pin up girls. He provided a monthly pin up for the...

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Joerg Asselborn, Asselborn, Joerg, Print run of 1000 copies, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Buhl, Editions Caurette, 2022, 1st, 9791096315987, 8.5 inches, 12 inches, 128 pages, color and black & white illustrations throughout, Hardcover, pictorial boards, English

Jörg Asselborn is a tireless traveller and talented watercolor illustrator. Wherever he goes he is never without his brushes and sketchbook. His art...

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Ata, Leconte, and Zou
Et Paris?
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Ata, Leconte, Zou, Ata, Leconte, Zou, Fine, issued without dustjacket, Paris, Futuropolis, 1987, 1st, 9782737656125, 6.75 inches, 9 inches, 24 pages, black & white, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

A charmingly illustrated comic strip about a young woman doing man on the street interviews.

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Wilfried Lupano, Virginie Augustin, Lupano, Wilfried, Augustin, Virginie, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Delcourt, Paris, 2007, 1st, 12.7 inches, 9 inches, 48 pages, color, hardcover, pictorial boards, French

"This critical and popular success is THE series that revealed to the public Virginie Augustin, alongside Wilfrid Lupano." This is the third of four...

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Virginie Augustin, Augustin, Virginie, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Paris, Glenat, 2019, 1st, 9782344020654, 12.75 inches, 9.5 inches, 72 pages, color, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Virginie Augustin studied animation at the École des Gobelins before working for Walt Disney on films like 'Tarzan' and 'Hercules.' Her comics...

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Joe la Pirate
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Hubert, Virginie Augustin, Hubert, Augustin, Virginie, Very Fine, issued without dustjacket, Paris, Glenat, 2021, 1st, 9782344039434, 11.5 inches, 8.5 inches, 224 pages, black & white, Hardcover, pictorial boards, French

Beautifully illustrated in black & white by Virginie Augustin (with a single sequence in color), this album tells the life story of Marion Barbara 'Joe'...

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Very Fine, Augustin, Virginie, Humanoides, Paris, 2022, 9782731629477, 10.5 inches, 8 inches, 288 pages, color illustrations throughout, Softcover, wraps, French

"Vacation on Mars" On Mars, humans will certainly no longer be Earthlings, but they will not cease to be humans. So what will we do once "up there"? The...

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