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1935133544Paris: Editions Jean Crès 1935. 126p. text in French inscribed in French & signed by D'Arschot a 1.5 inch rectangle obviously containing the name of the inscribee has been clipped from the top of the f.e.p else good first edition paperback in printed cream wraps with small punch-hole on rear and paperclip mark on verso of front cover. In the introduction Meunier comments that the center of the book "c'est l'åme ardente de la noble Sappho." - p. 12. Editions Jean Crès unknown books
1977427519Societe Les Belles Lettres 1977. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo. Wraps. 235 pp. Text in French. Light soiling and light wear to exterior. Light sun-fading to spine and edges. Very good. Societe Les Belles Lettres paperback books
19801324868La Renaissance du Livre 1980. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 431; VG-/Fair; black/ivory spine with pinkish text; volume one only; dust jacket shows several chips to edges; light sunning to exterior; ex-library sticker to spine; slightly sun darkened flaps; cloth has very little wear to exterior; strong boards; text block has lightly toned exterior edges; pictorial endpapers; ex-library with markings inside; text pages clean; profusely illustrated; text in French; arts - collection; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders;. 1324868. FP New Rockville Stock. La Renaissance du Livre hardcover books
0568<br/><br/>Quinault Philippe 1635-1688. La Mort de Cyrus tragedie. Paris: A. Courbe et G. de Luyne 1659. Five act tragedy in verse. Priv 10 February; Acheve12 July 1659. Rare original edition. Soleinne 1275 for Tragedies et Comedies de Philippe Quinault: Paris Guillaume de Luyne 1668.<br/><br/>12mo. Modern wraps. 1f title page verso blank; 6pp. epistre signed Quinault; 84pp. text; 1p. Priv; 1p. acteurs bound before title leaf. Collation: pi1 A4 A-D alternating 8s & 4s; C12 D6. Browning to text a few margins notes shaved but a good copy.<br/><br/>La Mort de Cyrus is a tragic-comedy is based one of the early French novels of the period especially that of Le Grand Cyrus of Madeline de Scudery ten vols. 1649-53 which was taken from the histories Herodotus and Xenophon. Quinault's play was substantially changed by altering Cyrus' attitude toward the queen and by staging the death of the three leading characters not two as in the histories. The play revolves around Cyrus' love for Tomiris who is forced to marry her general Odartise; otherwise Odartise will kill Cyrus. When the revenge plot unfolds Tomoris is unable to murder Odartise but Cyrus does. <br/><br/> In terms of theatrical form Quinault's tragedy is an early example of the tragic-comedy genre perfected by Thomas Corneille with his Berenice and Darius which were also based on French novels of the period. Quinault along with Thomas Corneille occupied an important place in the history of French drama between the zenith of Pierre Corneille and the rise of Racine. His early tragedies have not lasted compared to his operas to which he devoted himself after 1670. Quinault wrote libretti for the composer Jean Baptiste Lully and is credited with the introduction of dramatic action into the 17th French opera. According to two well-known 20th century critics Barnwell and Lancaster Quinault's La Mort de Cyrus influenced two of Jean Racine's works: Alexandre le Grand 1666 and also Andromaque 1667. According to Barnwell Racine's "Alexandre le Grand 1666 is a concession to contemporary fashion and constitutes a good example of the Romanesque tragedy in vogue when Racine was beginning to write for the theatre: superficially it has much in common with Thomas Corneille's Timocrate 1667 the greatest immediate success of the century and with Quinault's even more improbable but highly successful Mort de Cyrus 1658." Concerning Andromaque 1667 Lancaster wonders aloud: "Had not Racine become aware by then that the original version of his tragedy in which Andromaque's reappearance may derive from such plays as Quinault's La Mort de Cyrus weakened the obsessive hold of her own legendary past over his heroine Such considerations would reinforce Dr Elliot's contention that Andromaque in its original form is rooted in contemporary dramatic conventions." <br/><br/>References: Barnwell H.T. Mythe et legende dans le theatre de Racine by Revel Elliot; The Modern Language Review Vol. 66 No. 4. Oct. 1971 pp. 898-900; Beauchamps Recheches sur les theatres de France 1735; Cesar: http://www.cesar.org. Locations: OCLC. 1 copy. William College. BnF has a copy. paperback books
CA06A-00135Paris : Chez J. A. Brosson 1804. Collectible - Very Good. Collectible - Very Good. Paris: J. A. Brosson Libraire 1804. 2nd Revised & enlarged Edition. First published 1802. xxxii478pp. 2 folding tables. Nineteenth century leather-backed marbled boards. A few trivial paper faults crown lightly shelfworn an attractive unfoxed copy. Inquire if you need further information. Gach Paris : Chez J. A. Brosson 1804 hardcover books
20131328327Paris: Editions du Triomphe 2013. Hardcover. Thin Quarto; pp 46; VG; army green gray dark yellow pictorial spine with white text; no jacket; cloth clean; small sticker to front; strong intact panels; text block clean; pictorial endpapers; profusely illustrated; text in French;. 1328327. FP New Rockville Stock. Editions du Triomphe hardcover books
40916Geneva. hardcover. very good. Color frontispiece 16 gravure and sepia plates tissue guards. 175pp. 4to marbled boards original wrappers bound in. Geneve 1930. Limited numbered edition. Very good .<br/><br/> Geneva in the 19th century reproducing several of the paintings of Adam Topffer. One of 800 numbered copies on papier velin pur fil Lafuma. 2 decorative bookplates.<br/><br/> unknown books
1952025681Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1952. 3e édition revue et augmentée. 623p. original stiff wrappers Pauples et cilivisations: histoire générale 12. Presses Universitaires de France unknown books
200045337Paris: Robert Laffont 2000. Paperback. Very good. 422 pp. Light creasing to the spine else very good in publisher's wraps. Text in French. <br/><br/> Robert Laffont paperback books
197445729Paris: Stock 1974. Paperback. Very good. 282 pp. Light creases to the spine light soiling and edge wear to the front and back else very good in publisher's wraps. Text in French. <br/><br/> Stock paperback books
196343323Montréal: Université de Montréal 1963. 4to pp. 16; original grey printed wrappers; fine. Offprint from Etudes Slaves et Est-Européennes VIII; originally appeared as a paper presented at the Ve Congrès International des Slavistes September 1963. Study of the place name "Kiev." <br/><br/> Université de Montréal unknown books
2014160438Liege: Trésor de Liège 2014. Paperback. VG clean and tight; very light shelf wear. White card wraps with color illus. and maroon lettering. 179 pp. with color images throughout. Text in French. L'ouvrage rassemble les contributions originales sur des oeuvres d'orfèvrerie mosane et septentrionale des XIIe et XIIIe siècles de musées européens et américains par les conservateurs des collections et des scientifiques de plusieurs universités. = The book brings together original contributions on works of Jewish and northern goldsmiths from the 12th and 13th centuries of European and American museums by the curators of the collections and scientists of several universities. From the series Feuillets de la Cathédrale de Liège. Trésor de Liège paperback books
1961WRCLIT30571Paris: nrf / Gallimard 1961. Printed wrappers. First edition of the poet's first novel s.p. copy on ordinary paper with perforation in rear wrapper. Wrappers faintly dust smudged else near fine unopened. nrf / Gallimard unknown books
1989101916Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux 1989. Softbound. VG-. Minor cover wear owner's writing on first page. Pinkish/brown and BW-illustrated wraps. 271 pp. Numerous BW illustrations. Text in French. This is the catalog of an exhibition held at the Musée d'Órsay in 1989. It includes bibliographical references. The catalogue is divided into various aspects of the photographic process as follows: the negative the medium light point of view movement realism geometry and abstraction others. Includes reproductions of photographs by Anna Atkins Le Secq Negre Hugo Baldus Chevalier Talbot Coburn Atget Seeley Stieglitz Muybridge Marey Le Gray Marville and many more. Uncommon and a very nice copy. Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux paperback books
1946WRCLIT84134Montréal: Les Éditions Variétés 1946. Printed wrappers. First edition ordinary issue after ten copies on Japon. A very good copy. Les Éditions Variétés unknown books
1968WRCLIT30574Paris: nrf / Gallimard 1968. Large octavo. Printed wrappers. First edition s.p. copy on ordinary paper with perforation in rear wrapper. Wrappers faintly dust smudged else near fine unopened. nrf / Gallimard unknown books
1969043144Paris: Fayard 1969. Avec la collaboration de Raoul Tubiana. 333p. original stiff printed wrappers Grands documents contemporains. Fayard unknown books
1972105030Ottawa: Galerie Nationale 1972. hardcover. near fine. 2 volumes. Illustrated. 192pp. and 160pp. tall 8vo cloth slipcase; slipcase lightly worn. Ottawa: Galerie Nationale du Canada 1972. A near fine set.<br/><br/> Galerie Nationale unknown books
199843041Paris: Éditions du Sextant Bleu 1998. First Edition. Quarto 28.5cm x 24.5cm. Black paper boards hardcover with titling embossed in red on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 128pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slight shelf wear; sun-fading to top extemities. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities. Exploration of the intersection of art and madness organized around the themes of the madness of Lovers Artists Power and of the Beyond accompanied by Philippe Meyer's essay "A Short History of Madness and its Physicians." Preface by Robert Misrahi. In French language only. Color reproductions. Éditions du Sextant Bleu unknown books
2005103114Germany: Knesebeck 2005. Hardbound. As New ex archival art reference library never used. A lavishly illustrated volume text is in German that details the private art collections of 22 different individuals and provides clues and insight into the criteria used to assemble these collections. Knesebeck hardcover books
1999UWAMKIN00EMDutton 1999. Very Good. Wamba Philippe E. Kinship : a Family's Journey In Africa and America. New York: Dutton 1999. xiv 383pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Light shelf wear. Dutton hardcover books
2012186091Histoire and Collections 2012-07-19. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Only light wear. Histoire and Collections paperback books
1969132781Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1969. Original title card maquette hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1969 film. Based on the "Alexandria Quartet" by Lawrence Durrell. <br/><br/>Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created hand lettered titles on over 100 films worked frequently with Alfred Hitchcock and was a favorite of legendary title sequence designers Saul Bass and Pablo Ferro. In addition to "Justine" his credits include "Comanche!" 1956 "The Man with the Golden Arm" 1955 "The Seven Year Itch" 1955 "Carmen Jones" 1954 "Psycho" 1960 "The Birds" 1963 "In the Heat of the Night" 1967 and "Finian's Rainbow" 1969. In 2012 an exhibition of Adler's work was organized by noted typographer and design historian Jill Bell at the American Advertising Federation Kansas City. <br/><br/>A young British schoolmaster and poet travels to Alexandria where he meets Justine the mysterious wife of a banker whom he discovers is involved in a plot to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. Shot in part on location in Tunisia. <br/><br/>17.25 x 11.5 inches. Black ink on white card stock with tissue paper overlay. Near Fine with light toning to the card edges. Holograph annotations one noting "original" to the tissue overlay and card. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1968128881Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1968. Final Script for the 1969 film. Originally set to be made by maverick director Joseph Strick who actually did some location shooting in Tunisia. However Strick ran into disagreements with Fox executives and was replaced with George Cukor who shot the remainder of the film in Hollywood. <br/><br/>Set in Alexandria in 1938 a young British schoolmaster named Darley meets Pursewarden a British consular officer. Pursewarden introduces him to Justine the wife of an Egyptian banker. Darley befriends her and discovers she is involved in a plot against the British the goal of which is to arm the Jewish underground movement in Palestine. <br/><br/>Partially shot on location at Ennejma Ezzahra a palace at Sidi Bou Said in Northern Tunisia. <br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as Final on the front wrapper and production No. 842 dated July 2 1968. Title page present dated July 2 1968 noted as Final with credit for screenwriter Marcus. 152 leaves mimeograph duplication with blue and pink revision pages throughout dated variously between 7-15-68 and 11-22-68. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine internally bound with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
199129321New York: Rizzoli 1991. First American edition. Cloth. Near Fine/near fine. Tall thick clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 414 pp. A dense illustrated study of the Jourdain family of designers. A handsome near fine copy in dustwrapper. Very large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply. Rizzoli unknown books
