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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
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
182134255Paris: Lefèvre 1821. 4 volumes; octavo 21cm.; early 20th-century black morocco-backed mabled boards gilt-lettered spines; engraved portrait frontispiece in Volume 1. Light shelf wear miniscule gouge to Vol. 4 spine a hint of foxing in each volume else a Very Good to Near Fine set. BRUNET I p. 1061. Lefèvre unknown books
192918041739Paris: Editions Kra printed by M. Massol 1929. 2nd Printing. Wraps. Near fine. Dubout Albert. Second printing with illustrations by Dubout no. 960 of 1000 octavo size 21 pp. in French. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux 1636-1711 known simply as Boileau was a French poet and satirist whose work had a great influence on French poetry. "Les Embarras de Paris" is a long poem relating the narrator's attempt to sleep and find respite in the tumult and bustle of Paris; the scenes and characters are often exaggerated to create a sense of humorous though desperate chaos. <br/><br/>This edition is illustrated by Albert Dubout 1905-1976 a French cartoonist and painter who created illustrations for many editions of books by well-known authors such as Miguel de Cervantes Voltaire and Edgar Allen Poe n. b. info from Wikipedia. His caricatures printed in wildly bright colours bring out the madness and disorder described in the text. This volume is the second printing with Dubout's illustrations.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Light brown paper wraps with black and green lettering and a four-colour illustration by Dubout on the front wrap all edges uncut frontispiece a full-colour illustration of a man writing at his desk title page in green and black full-colour illustrations by Dubout throughout; octavo size 8.5" by 6.25" pagination: 1-4 5-19 20 1 colophon one of 1000 copies this number 960. Please note that the text is in French. With prior owner inscription "Joyeux Noel." written in pen on the front free endpaper. The original glassine wrapper is still over the wraps.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean wraps a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and the only prior owner marking we see is the inscription mentioned above; some minor wear to the head and tail of the spine and some slight foxing to the front wrap and to the free endpapers else fine. The glassine wrapper is very good clean overall with overall minor edge wear and a small three-quarter-inch closed tear to the rear wrap. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Editions Kra [printed by M. Massol] unknown books
1951WRCLIT57482Paris: Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs 1951. Octavo. Silk over boards gilt spine label original wrappers bound in. Frontis illustrations and decorations. Very faint soiling to edges of cloth else near fine. Illustrated with twenty-nine comic or ribald drawings by Albert Dubout colored under the direction of the artist by Jean Monnier. One of three thousand numbered copies on vélin de Condat. MONOD 1662. Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs hardcover books
1944000758Paris: Gibert Jeune Librarie D'Amateurs 1944. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Dubout Albert. Limited edition this copy being # 1656 and featuring 29 brightly colored farcical racy illustrations of Dubout. Color direction under E. Charpentier. x 43 pp. Still intact is original wax paper DJ which has some minor loss and then a fair amount of soilage. Underneath wraps are mostly clean with some light soilage spots. Binding tight and pages clean. Color as bright as if just issued. Book measures 8 by 5.25 inches. Overall very good to fine. <br/><br/> Gibert Jeune, Librarie D'Amateurs paperback 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
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
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
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
197045615Paris: Éditions Denoël 1970. Paperback. Very good. 218 pp. Light creases to the spine light edge wear to the corners else very good in publisher's wraps. Text in French. <br/><br/> Éditions Denoël paperback books
1675002402Paris: Chez Claude Barbin 1675. Full Calf. Good. 12mo. 16 by 10 cm. 4 80 4 68 13 12 99 13 14 8 pp. Contains nine satires Discours sure Satire four epistles Lutrin Poeme Heroique L'Art Poetique Traite du Sublime an Epistre a Monsieur de Guilleragues a Satire contre le Mariage and Le Geay Nouvelle Allegorique. Lacking prelim blanks before title. Starting upper front hinge. Leather is worn with staining veining and general slightly chewed up appearance on spine. Worn edges besides. Scattered soiling within but mostly clean. Bookplate on FEP. Faint inked notes on title not disconcerting and also ancient scrawl on final blank sheet. <br/><br/> Chez Claude Barbin unknown books
1737283451Parisiis: Sumptibus Bartholomaei Alix 1737. Full Leather. Good binding. The works of Nicolas Boileaus Despreaux translated into Latin. Bound in morocco with lettering and decoration stamped in gilt in compartments. Front board detached and now reinforced with leather bands across the top and bottom of the spine. Wear to the spine. Toning and previous owner's names to the title page and pastedown. Lacking front endpaper. Good binding. Sumptibus Bartholomaei Alix 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
1952119002Paris: Denoel 1952. First French Edition and correct first. <br/><br/>The writing team's first effort basis for Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1955 masterpiece Les Diaboliques or Diabolique in the West starring Simone Signoret. A cornerstone film source title. <br/><br/>Very Good in wrappers in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine lean some light creasing to the spine pane. Jacket is lightly soiled on the rear panel and spine splash to the spine panel with minute wear at the extremities and couple of short closed tears. A presentable copy. 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
1970129218N.p.: N.p. 1970. Agency script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1965 novel "Et mon tout est un homme" by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac which was later adapted into the film "Body Parts" 1991 directed by Eric Red and starring Jaff Fahey and Kim Delaney. <br/><br/>A famous professor tries out a brand new technique on seven accident victims transplanting full body parts from the body of a condemned man. But as each of the seven transplant recipients is killed the police chief's struggle for the truth increases. <br/><br/>Red wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriters Carrington and Holderness and for writers Boileau and Narcejac. Xerographically reproduced. 117 leaves. Pages Near Fine wrapper Near Fine bound with a velo binding. N.p. unknown books
