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1952030186Paris: Société Les Belles Lettres 1952. Texte établi et présenté par Charles-H. Boudhors. 374p. original stiff wrappers mostly unopened Les textes français. Société Les Belles Lettres 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
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
19571326718New York: Ives Washburn Inc 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo; pp 191; Fair; light gray spine with green text; no jacket; filmed as "Vertigo" by Alfred Hitchcock in 1950; cloth has some soiling to exterior;rubbed edges and corners; sturdy boards; text block has light toning to exterior edges; ex-library with several stamped markings inside as is; publisher's blurb adhered to front endpapers; slight adhesive residue to rear endpapers; previous owner's embossed stamp to title page; slight foxing to few pages at mid text;. 1326718. FP New Rockville Stock. Ives Washburn, Inc 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
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
192719587Paris: Briffaut 1927. Limited edition. Hemard Joseph. Half brown morocco with marbled boards by Brugalla. One of 1000 numbered copies. Attractive hand-colored illustrations. <br/><br/> Briffaut hardcover books
1951WRCLIT60196Paris: Gibert Jeune Librairie d'Amateurs 1951. Original pictorial wrappers. Frontis illustrations and decorations. Crown and toe of spine slightly worn slight offsetting from glassine wrapper to endleaves otherwise near fine in tanned and lightly chipped glassine. 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 unknown books
194434577Paris: Gibert Jeune / Librairie d'Amateurs 1944. First Thus. Limited to 2000 copies of which this is no. 669. Slim octavo 20cm.; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; 843pp.; color frontispiece text illus. throughout. About Fine. The late 17th-century poetic satire here illustrated with Dubout's typically raunchy and vibrantly colorful cartoons. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label inside front wrapper. Gibert Jeune / Librairie d'Amateurs 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
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
183018723London: Printed for T. and T. Booney 1830. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo: approximately 4¾ v 5½ inches. Publisher's rose-colored paper over boards the upper bard with an engraved pasteon showing title and useful tools. xiii2102pp followed by 2pp of publisher's ads and then 22 engraved plates some of which are folding. Handcolored frontispiece. The Third edition from the German. Ex-Grolier Club with its bookplate on the front pastedown and 'Sold' printed through it Hinges and edges worn board paper somewhat rubbed and faded else this is a very good copy. Printed for T. and T. Booney hardcover 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
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
1840RBOIOEU00HMRLibrairie Classique de L. Hachette 1840. Good. Boileau-Despreaux Nicolas. Oeuvres Poetiques de Boileau Despreaux. Paris: Librairie Classique de L. Hachette 1840. 305pp. 16mo. 1/4 brown cloth. Book condition: Good with rubbing bumping light moisture staining and pencil scribbling. There are two stubs of paper both three leaves from the front and rear endsheets respectively that are the correlates of the pastedowns. They contained no text. Pages are foxed. Uncommon. Librairie Classique de L. Hachette 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
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
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
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
18863138Librairie Furne 1886. BOILEUX-DESPREAUX Nicolas. OEUVRES DE BOILEAU. With a Preface by C.A. Sainte-Beuve. Paris: Librairie Furne 1886. Small quarto blue-green quarter-morocco leather & marbled boards; gilt-stamping on spine top edge gilt; 413 pages. Later Edition but in a lovely leather binding. Boileux-Despreaux 1636-1711 was a French poet and critic. Near fine contents clean & tight; only very minor wear covers gilt quite bright. A nice copy! $100.00. <br/><br/> Librairie Furne 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
180964907Paris: Imprimerie de Mame 1809. Hardcover. Good. 3 vols. cxxxvi 368 492 379p. Contemporary leather.18cm. Title-labels chipped about half gone. Chipping at ends of backstrips. Joints tender. Contents sound but lightly soiled & foxed occasional pencilling as well. French text. <br/><br/> Imprimerie de Mame hardcover books
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