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1785007940London: Printed for G. Robinson 1785. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Third edition. Octavo 8vo. 426 pages of text including an index. Half-leather binding rebacked with original spine laid-down; suffering major rubbing with deterioration to hinges but remaining intact and attractive with maroon and green leather spine labels. Illustrated with two copperplate engravings and one engraved vignette. Plates are moderately foxed with minor foxing scattered throughout text. Author name written on title page. Translated by de Lolme. Flagellation; Whip; Punishment. Printed for G. Robinson Hardcover books
1959003331London: Hutchinson 1959. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First UK and first English language edition of this collection of two suspense novellas - The Evil Eye and The Sleeping Beauty. A fine copy in very good or better unclipped dustwrapper with stain to rear panel. Exceptionally uncommon. Boileau & Narcejac are best known for their novel The Woman Who Was Not There and The Living and the Dead. Both made into especially memorable noir suspense films. Hutchinson hardcover books
1783234781London: Printed for G. Robinson No. 25 Paternoster Row 1783. Second edition. Engraved vignette on title page one engraved head-piece and 2 engraved plates. 426 pp. 426 misnumbered 226. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf gilt spine black leather spine label. Extremities a bit rubbed overall a very attractive copy. One joint off. Signed on front pastedown by William Nation. Second edition. Engraved vignette on title page one engraved head-piece and 2 engraved plates. 426 pp. 426 misnumbered 226. 1 vols. 8vo. The Spiritual History of Whipping. Second edition in English of this adaptation of Abbé Boileau's classic medical theological and erotic study HISTORIA FLAGELLANTIUM. first published in 1700. De Lolme's English version was first published in 1777 and again here with two quite remarkable engraved plates. OCLC: 6611485 Printed for G. Robinson, No. 25, Paternoster Row unknown books
1729244037Amsterdam: Changuion 1729. hardcover. very good. Engraved illustrations by Bernard Picart. 4 vols. 12mo. Full cont. calf gilt spines; joints & edges somewhat worn; corner of one blank front flyleaf torn off. Amsterdam: Francois Changuion 1729.<br/><br/> Collected works of the great 17th century French poet.<br/><br/> Changuion unknown books
18259942London: Boosey and Sons 1825. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1825 stated 2nd edition "greatly enlarged and improved". 22 plates including the hand-colored frontispiece 7 of them fold-outs. Rubbing and wear to the panels but still very presentable very light foxing to the text light offsetting at the front free endpaper. VG- in its original dark-green cloth. 64mo 102 pgs. plus publisher's ads and plates at rear. <br/><br/> Boosey and Sons hardcover books
1782263940Montparnasse i.e. Paris: Chez Apollon i.e. Hubert Martin Cazin 1782. Engraved frontispiece and 17 engravings. 143; ii 140; 142 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Later nineteenth century full rust orange morocco spines and boards tooled in gilt marbled endpapers a.e.g. by Zaehnsdorf. Joints slightly rubbed. Bookplate of Douglas Maxwell Moffat. Engraved frontispiece and 17 engravings. 143; ii 140; 142 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. An elegant collection of eighteenth century French tales and poems finely bound by Zaehnsdorf. Brunet VI 14177 Chez Apollon [i.e., Hubert Martin Cazin] unknown books
189121706Paris: Np 1891. leather_bound. Full black morocco. Aeg. Near fine. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. Original watercolor title page by J. Ostolle text lettered in gilt. Twenty three full page etchings with lettered tissue guards by French academic painters. Frontispiece by Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard with additional full page contributions by Alexander Cabanel Leon Bonnat Charles De Lort Francoise Flameng Jean-Leon Gerome Jehan Georges Vibert et al. Bound by P. Ruban raised bands spine panels lettered in gilt inner dentelles marbled endpapers slight nicks to corners. Np unknown books
195411566ENew York: Rinehart 1954. First Edition - American. Ownership inscription. Pages slightly tanned very good with some faint rubbing to the corners in a lightly used price-clipped dust jacket with some shallow chips and tears and light edge wear with some darkening to the spine and rear panel. The basis of the classic mystery film Diabolique starring Simone Signoret. Uncommon. Rinehart unknown books
170136963Amsterdam: Chez François vander Plaats 1701. First edition in French. xvi 319 320-330 Table pp. Title in red and black. Error in pagination omitting page numbers 50-59. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sprinkled calf gilt spine. Joints starting but sound otherwise very good. First edition in French. xvi 319 320-330 Table pp. Title in red and black. Error in pagination omitting page numbers 50-59. 1 vols. 12mo. The Ecstasy of Pain. A historical resumé of and an attack on the practice of self-flagellation written by Abbé Jacques Boileau 1635-1716 translated from his own Historia Flagellantium which appeared in the preceding year. An abridged version appeared in Cologne the same year as this Amsterdam possibly fictitious imprint. Boileau was the brother of the poet Nicolas Boileau. Chez François vander Plaats unknown books
1956113597London: Hutchinson 1956. First edition in English of the roman noir that was turned into the 1958 Hollywood classic Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and wear. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. The story concerns a former detective who suffers from vertigo. He is hired to follow the wife of a friend who is puzzled by her strange behavior. The detective becomes obsessed with the woman eventually falling in love with her but unable to explain her strange trances and her belief in a previous life. When she falls to her death from a tower he is unable to save her due to his fear of heights. He experiences a psychotic break. After his partial recovery he encounters a woman who is nearly the image of his dead love and he becomes obsessed with her. In the end she turns out to be the same person he was in love with--an actress who was hired by his friend in order to hide the murder of his actual wife. It was the basis for the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Attracting significant scholarly criticism it replaced Citizen Kane as the best film ever made in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll. It has appeared repeatedly in polls of the best films by the American Film Institute including a 2007 ranking as the ninth-greatest American movie of all-time. Hutchinson hardcover books
195721192New York: Ives Washburn Inc. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. spine slightly turned a little wear to top and bottom edges of covers age-toning and minor soiling to edges of text block; jacket slightly chipped with old small internal tape repairs at spine ends no impact on text faint almost invisible vertical crease in spine light soiling to rear panel a couple of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear panel. Yep it's the book from which Alfred Hitchcock's VERTIGO -- anointed The Greatest Film of All Time by the British Film Institute's "Sight and Sound" panelists' poll -- was rather freely adapted. It's a must-have if you're a "books into film" collector and considerably scarcer for some reason in the American edition than in the British which preceded it by a year -- although if you're into that "true first edition" business you really ought to be on the lookout for the French paperback original Denoël 1954 entitled "D'entre les morts" literally "From the Dead." And if you think this one's expensive prepare yourself for serious sticker shock if you happen to find that one. . Ives Washburn, Inc. hardcover books
178940315Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aine 1789. Large 4to 33 cm 13". 2 vols. I: xxi 447 1 pp. II: 2 ff. 440 pp. <br><br>One of an edition of 250 copies avec les nouveaux caracteres de la fonderie de Didot laîné gravés par Firmin son second fils vol. I p. vii. => Part of the series printed for the education of the Dauphin.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat locates five U.S. libraries reporting ownership Pierpont Morgan Syracuse University the Getty Boston Public Harvard. Later 19th-century quarter brown calf and marbled boards silk place marker. de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aine hardcover books
167413767Paris: Claude Barbin pr. by Denys Thierry 1674. 4to 25.3 cm 10". Frontis. 4 178 12 3102 10 index & colophon pp. 1 plt. <br><br>Early edition following the first of 1670; this is the first edition to appear under the Oeuvres title and contains nine satires the first four epistles L'art poëtique and a number of other shorter pieces followed by the Traité du sublime ou du merveilleux dans le discours translated from Longinus. The handsomely printed volume has much of its text set in italic type decorated with woodcut tailpieces typographic and woodcut headpieces and ornamental capitals. Margins are generous layout is attractive. P. Landry designed and engraved the classically themed frontispiece with the plate preceding Le Lutrin having been done by F. Chausseau.<br>Â Â Â Â Binding: 19th-century signed binding by Léon Gruel: Oxblood morocco framed in gilt double fillets containing a background of gilt-stamped fleurs-de-lis around a central ornamented cartouche. Spine gilt extra with elaborate gilt-stamped inner dentelles over silk endpapers. All edges gilt over marbling. => Silk bookmarker woven with binder's information!<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Front fly-leaf with armorial bookplate of New York attorney and book collector Frederic Robert Halsey and with decorative medieval-inspired bookplate of "G.E." Volume with laid-in handwritten note signed by Gruel on Gruel-Engelmann letterhead dated 1892. Later in the collection of Mary MacMillan Norton sans indicia . . . a woman who knew how to pick books! <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Brunet I 1056; DeBacker Auteurs du XVIIe siècle 1020; Tchemerzine II 271. Binding as above nearly perfect save for just a touch of rubbing to the spine extremities in cloth-covered slipcase worn with cloth starting to split over edges. Frontispiece and title-page separating from binding; title with red-tinted signs near edges that the marbling process did not go entirely smoothly; upper margins of several other leaves with hints of very faint waterstaining. Otherwise clean and quite lovely. Claude Barbin (pr. by Denys Thierry) hardcover books
181940326Paris: De L'Imprimerie et de la Fonderie de Pierre Didot l'aîné . et de Jules Didot Fils 1819. Folio extra 49 cm 19.75". 2 vols. I: 4 ff. xvi 348 pp. II: 355 1 pp. Illus. <br><br>Cette édition imprimée avec mes nouveaux caractères fondus dans un moule contenant et reproduisant à-la-fois la moité de lalphabet na été tirée quà cent vingt-cinq exemplaires seulement tous signés et numérotés. Elle fait suite aux oeuvres de Virgile dHorace de Racine et aux Fables de La Fontaine publiées dans le même format colophon. This copy out of series.<br>Â Â Â Â Edition Dediée au Roi and ornamented with nine vignettes.<br>Â Â Â Â The contents are: Volume I Satires. Épitres LArt poétique and Le Lutrin; volume II Poésies diverse. Pièces diverses en prose Lettres. Réflexions critiques sur quelques passages de Longin Traité du Sublime ou du Merveilleux dans le discours traduit du grec de Longin and Remarques.<br>Â Â Â Â The Huntington Library cataloguer labels this => Didots greatest typographical production.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat finds only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership Huntington Fordham. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Vicaire I 830. 19th-century half leather binding with marbled paper sides. Top edge gilt. Leather replaced in 20th century by brown morocco on spine and board corners. New spine labels. Scattered foxing and spotting. Fore-edges slightly darkened. De L'Imprimerie et de la Fonderie de Pierre Didot, l'aîné ... et de Jules Didot Fils hardcover books
195474068Paris 1954. First edition of the French crime fiction duo's third novel preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three of the roman noir that was turned into the 1958 Hollywood classic Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Octavo original wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by both authors on the half-title page "A Madame Cordroc 'h avec notre gratitude et l'homage de notre deferente sympathie Th. Narcejac Pierre Boileau." Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. In very good condition. The story concerns a former detective who suffers from vertigo. He is hired to follow the wife of a friend who is puzzled by her strange behavior. The detective becomes obsessed with the woman eventually falling in love with her but unable to explain her strange trances and her belief in a previous life. When she falls to her death from a tower he is unable to save her due to his fear of heights. He experiences a psychotic break. After his partial recovery he encounters a woman who is nearly the image of his dead love and he becomes obsessed with her. In the end she turns out to be the same person he was in love with--an actress who was hired by his friend in order to hide the murder of his actual wife. It was the basis for the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo starring James Stewart and Kim Novak. Attracting significant scholarly criticism it replaced Citizen Kane as the best film ever made in the 2012 British Film Institute's Sight & Sound critics' poll. It has appeared repeatedly in polls of the best films by the American Film Institute including a 2007 ranking as the ninth-greatest American movie of all-time. unknown books
1954131410Paris: Denoel 1954. First French Edition preceding all others. The French crime fiction duo's third novel preceding the British edition by two years and the American by three. Basis for the iconic 1958 film noir "Vertigo" directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring James Stewart Kim Novak and Barbara Bel Geddes. <br/><br/>Not only is "Vertigo"' widely recognized as Hitchcock's masterpiece it recently trumped "Citizen Kane" in "Sight and Sounds" definitive once-a-decade poll as the greatest film ever made. A title that is rarely offered in commerce and for such an important film source book surprisingly underrepresented in library holdings with OCLC locating just four in American institutions. An attractive copy of a fragile volume and cornerstone film source title. <br/><br/>Near Fine in photo illustrated wrappers a paperback original. Light rubbing to the wrappers and extremities a few vertical hairline creases along the spine with a small partial ink stamp to the top edge of the text block else Fine and clean throughout. <br/><br/>In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. Denoel unknown books
1952131411Paris: Denoel 1952. First French Edition and correct first. INSCRIBED by Narcejac on the front endpaper and signed by Boileau just below. A French review copy with the necessary PRESSE punch-stamp present on both the rear panel of the jacket and the book. An absolutely pristine extraordinarily well-preserved example. <br/><br/>"Celle Qui N'Etait Plus" was the writing team's first effort basis for Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 masterpiece "Les Diaboliques" or Diabolique starring Simone Signoret. Before Clouzot had even finished making "Diabolique" Alfred Hitchcock had secured the rights to the duo's forthcoming book which would become the basis for his masterpiece "Vertigo." A cornerstone film source title only the second book signed by either of the authors we have ever encountered. Beyond even this however clearly one of the first copies of the title to have been handled by anyone. <br/><br/>Pages uncut. Fine in wrappers in a Near Fine example of the rare dust jacket. <br/><br/>In a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. <br/><br/>Buss French Film Noir. Criterion Collection 35. Grant US. Selby Masterwork US. Spicer US. Denoel unknown books
