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19145681Signed by Artist. Publisher's original wraps boldly signed by Rodin on half-title. A clean copy without names bookplates or other distractions. Grand luxe edition limited to only 100 copies of which this is number 7. Includes the two oft-fugitive unpublished hors-texte plates one of which is in color. All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. Editions Artistique de l'Art et les Artistes paperback books
194531453New York: by the Author 1945 1945. First Limited Edition. The Special Artist's Edition comprised of 250 signed numbered copies this is no.76. Oblong folio 33cm x 43cm. Cloth-board portfolio; 5 preliminary leaves and 52 color lithographic plates loose as issued. Slight wear to the portfolio; plates uniformly clean and unmarked; Near Fine. The plates reproduce 52 of Bourdelle's expressionist battlefield drawings composed while he was serving as an ambulance driver in the North African and Italian campaigns during the Second World War. The plates printed by the New York art printer Albert Carman are of exceptional quality generally in two or three colors on heavy art paper. Preliminary essays by Pierre Claudel and Stephen Galatti Director of the American Field Service. The limited edition is uncommon there was also a trade edition issued the same year by American Studio Books. unknown books
1940177447Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve 1940. Hardcover. Good overall shelfwear to wraps corners bumped spine is significantly torn and mostly missing. Cardboard covers in black and color-illustrated dust jacket with yellow lettering. 73 5 pages. Color and BW illustrations and plates some mounted. Inserted message on title page reads" This issue of Verve was completed just a few days before the occupation of Paris. Extraordinary difficulties and extremely high expenses were incurred in order to bring copies to America. In spite of the greatest efforts and sacrifices more than half of the edition has been lost. Because of these circumstances and the small number of copies which eventually reached this country it has been necessary to establish a price of $3.50 for this issue." Cover illustration by Matisse. Editions de la Revue Verve hardcover books
1940173096Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve 1940. Hardcover. VG- light corner and edge wear to boards and jacket light scuffing to jacket. Cardboard covers in black and color-illustrated dust jacket with yellow lettering. 73 5 pages. Color and BW illustrations and plates some mounted. Inserted message on title page reads" This issue of Verve was completed just a few days before the occupation of Paris. Extraordinary difficulties and extremely high expenses were incurred in order to bring copies to America. In spite of the greatest efforts and sacrifices more than half of the edition has been lost. Because of these circumstances and the small number of copies which eventually reached this country it has been necessary to establish a price of $3.50 for this issue." Cover illustration by Matisse double-page lithograph by Pierre Bonnard. Editions de la Revue Verve hardcover books
SKU1027441ADPF MINISTERE DES AFFAIRES ETRANGERES. PAPERBACK. Good. B0011XU51O A fine copy- clean has a good binding modest cover wear pages are crisp and free of markings/notations. lz ADPF, MINISTERE DES AFFAIRES ETRANGERES paperback books
1948160538Paris: M.J. Challamel Editeur 1948. Paperback. Good clean and tight but with age toning to edges of covers; top inch of paper layer of spine is detaching. Ivory wraps with bw photo. Black lettering on spine. 9 pp. text and 70 bw photos including cover. 2 bw photo postcards of Vezelay laid in. Text in French. Beautiful vintage contemporary at the time photos of the French hill town of Vezelay taken by Jean Roubier. With a preface by Paul Claudel brother of sculptor Camille. Includes a descriptive list of the 70 photos. This publication is No. 7 in the Charme de la France series. One postcard shows an aerial view with the flying buttresses of the cathedral beautifully centered. The other photo features the beautiful relief above the doorway to the narthex of the cathedral. Postcards also vintage and in French. M.J. Challamel Editeur paperback books
194637786Np: Albert Skira 1946. Softcover. Very good/Very good-. Np: Albert Skira 1946. Copious b/w photographs. Photography by Helene Hoppenot. 80 pp. Text in French. Softcover. Folio size. Ivory stiff wrappers. Head and heel bumped and lightly rubbed. Chips along edges of waxy paper dustjacket as usual. A very nice copy. Very good/Very good-. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply Albert Skira paperback books
19562393Librairie Gallimard 1956. First Edition one of 3000 on alfa from a total issue of 2291; handsomely bound in 3/4 plum morocco and marbled pastepaper boards spine with gilt lettering marbled endpapers t.e.g. original wrappers and backstrip printed in red and black bound in fine. With frontispiece portrait after a pencil drawing by Jean Charlot and a hors-texte reproduction of a portrait of Racine engraved by Edelinck. [Librairie] Gallimard unknown books
1954WRCLIT28495Paris: Editions Georges Guillot 1954. Large quarto. Loose gatherings laid into printed wrappers. Frontis and plates. Some offsetting from the engravings to the pages facing the versos of the plates otherwise near fine in lightly worn and nicked slipcase and chemise. First edition thus. Illustrated with twenty- five copperplate etchings by Albert Decaris. One of thirty-five numbered copies printed on velin d'Arches accompanied by a supplementary suite of impressions of the etchings printed on velin d'Arches with remarques. This copy has been signed by Claudel and bears the artist's presentation inscription. MONOD 2838. Editions Georges Guillot unknown books
1940000831Librairie Gallimard 1940. Hardcover. Limited edition this copy #4212; 7 x 8; pp. 13 2-307 15; gorgeous embossed blue cloth over boards; clear acetate DJ; very minor wear - fine condition. Jacket with a small nick to upper corner - near fine. A beautiful edition of Paul Claudel's "The Tidings Brought to Mary." He was a French poet dramatist and diplomat being first vice-consul in New York and Boston in the late 1800s. His current play originally written in 1910 focused on the subjects of sacrifice and sanctification through the experiences of a young woman with leprosy. Librairie Gallimard hardcover books
19472386Paris: Neuchatel Ides et Calendes 1947. First Typeset Edition one of 1500 on verge blanc from a total issue of 1565 handsomely bound in 3/4 bright green morocco and marbled paste-paper boards spine with gilt lettering marbled endpapers t.e.g. original tan printed wrappers printed in black and red the front cover bearing a vignette designed by Henri Matisse bound in fine. Neuchatel, Ides et Calendes unknown books
1943274139Paris: Egloff 1943. hardcover. very good/very good-. Filled with beautiful black-and-white photographs. 248pp. 4to cloth d.w.; dust wrapper chipped. Paris: Egloff 1943. A very good copy in a very good - dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Egloff unknown books
19312405Paris: Librairie Gallimard Nouvelle Revue Francaise 1931. One of 1000 on "chiffon de Bruges" filigrane. 8vo; handsomely bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled paste-paper boards spine with gilt lettering marbled endpapers t.e.g. original brown wrappers and backstrip printed in black and sienna bound in fine. This volume is the 25th in the collection "in-octavo". L'Otage originally published in 1911 was one of the two works which established Claudel's reputation as a writer. [Librairie Gallimard,] N[ouvelle] R[evue] F[rancaise] unknown books
198421868Zurich: Drucke von Josef Stocker 1984. leather_bound. Orig. full navy morocco lettered in lighter blue front cover illustration blocked in white Near fine. Erni Hans. 56 pages. Folio 51 x 41 cm. Limited edition copy 103 of 150 with four original prints each signed by Erni housed in a rear pocket. Text in French and German with numerous black and white lithograph drawings by Hans Erni. The original French text from Editions Gallimard 1963. Bestiary made popular in the Middle Ages particularly in England and France the symbolic language of animals was often accompanied by a moral lesson; however the earliest examples can also be found in early Greek texts. Leonardo da Vinci created his own bestiary. Clean fresh copy slight dings to corners and backstrip extremities. Drucke von Josef Stocker unknown books
192118905Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise 1921. First edition. Cloth. Quarter burgundy calf and floral moire cloth spine lettered in gilt. Fine. Dufy. Raoul. 47 pages in text. 19 x 14 cm. Limited edition copy 491 of 500 on Arches paper with an original lithograph of Claudel by Dufy. Bound by Alfred Launder June 1921. Original purple wrappers bound-in. Commemorates the 600th anniversary of Dante's death. Ex-library Bookplate of Metropolitan Museum of Art on front cover paste-down and a few very discreet one centimeter on a few blanks but a pristine copy otherwise. Nouvelle Revue Francaise unknown books
1946WB16883Lausanne: Mermod 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Copy 66 of a total edition of only 90 copies. 66/90. Exemplaires numérotés sur papier vergé de Rives. Lino original de Henri Laurens. Custom full red leather binding by Suzanne Schrag with pictorial black inlay. Original wrappers bound in. A beautiful book. <br/><br/> Mermod hardcover books
1919222426Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise 1919. Limited. paperback. near fine. Daragnes. Numerous black & white woodcut illustrations by Daragnes. Slim tall square 8vo stiff decorative wrappers spine darkened. Paris: Nouvelle Revue Francaise 1919. Limited Edition. Very Good .<br/><br/> One of only 390 copies.<br/><br/> Nouvelle Revue Francaise unknown books
192084534New Haven: Yale University Press 1920. 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. Very Good. 115p. Original cloth-backed boards. 21cm. Edge tear on one text leaf. Glue remnant and stain and a modest hole in center of title-leaf. No Jacket. <br/><br/> Yale University Press hardcover books
1952006990New York: Pantheon Books 1952. Introduction and notes by Robert Mallet. Prefaced and translated by John Russell. 299p. original cloth. Pantheon Books unknown books
196754769London: Turret Books 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Translated by Edward Lucie-Smith. Two-page illustration. First edition "Copy B" of 26 lettered copies signed by the translator. This copy is additionally inscribed by Lucie-Smith on the title page. The first of the "Five Great Odes" of Paul Claudel 1868-1955 the French author and diplomat who explored the relationship between man the universe and the divine in a highly poetic and original style. In a one-quarter blue calf over marbled paper binding with the original wrappers bound in. The spine is a bit sun faded. Better than very good. Inscribed By Translator. Turret Books hardcover books
1967212409London: Turret Books 1967. Limited. paperback. fine. Translated by Edward Lucie-Smith. 16p. blue printed wrappers. London: Turret Books 1967. First Edition.<br/><br/> One of 100 copies signed by the translator with an additional presentation.<br/><br/> Turret Books unknown books
1922177736Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française 1922. Hardcover. VG age toning to pages as expected with age. Plates and text are very clean. Includes bookplate inside front cover. Red and black marble boards red cloth spine with gilt lettering decorative end pages bw frontispiece with tissue guard 15 unnumbered pages : 10 bw plates including frontispiece. Text in French. Decorated with ten wooden engravings by Andre Lhote. Includes bookplate for Robert Woods Bliss "an American diplomat art collector philanthropist and one of the cofounders of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington D.C."-excerpt " Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry. "-website. Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française hardcover books
005936New York; 1952: Pantheon Books. Octavo. 299pp. Introduction and Notes By Robert Mallet. These letters were published shortly before Gide's death. These letters 171 in all and mostly those of Claudel's as part of his archives were destroyed during the Tokyo earthquake of 1925. These letters were of highly personal and of intimate nature cruel and wounding to both but the authors were prepared for the worse. Bound in light blue cloth lettered in gilt spine lettering gilt a bit of fading to head of spine.A very god copy in unclipped very good dust jacket with chipping to spin ends and toning to rear panel. Pantheon Books unknown books
1949029818Paris: Gallimard 1949. 4e Ãdition. 400p. original wrappers. Gallimard unknown books
1952029981New York: Pantheon Books 1952. Introduction and notes by Robert Mallet. 300p. lightly chipped dj. Pantheon Books unknown books
