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1960170991New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1960. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. A novel from this French author. Translated by Elizabeth Tait and Roger Senhouse. A close to near fine copy with a former owner signature to the front pastedown in a very good price clipped dust jacket that is lightly soiled and with some minor wear. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy unknown books
1972172631Indianapolis IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc 1972. Hardcover. A collection of short stories by French writer Colette. Translated and with an introduction by Margaret Crosland. A very good copy with some foxing in a very good price clipped dust jacket with some foxing rubbing and minor wear. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc unknown books
197330102Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. 1973. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with tears on bottom rear wrap and tiny tear at rear spine fold. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 155 pp . Bobbs-Merrill hardcover books
1946D478Paris: Correa 1946. Paperback. Fine/Near Fine. Wraps. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page "Pour Andre Lang en souvenir de / Colette" and she has corrected an error on the half-title page crossing out the "X" in "Troix" and writing an "S" beneath it. <br/><br/> Correa paperback books
4154Beautiful gray toned bust portrait showing Colette in three-quarter facial profile laid onto textured tan art paper and that laid onto beige mount of the photographer "G.L. Manuel Freres." She signed the photograph "Colette." Art paper and mount have deckled edges slight bends at corners soiling on verso of mat otherwise a clean board. The photograph itself measures 6.5 x 8.75 inches and including photographer's mount the measurement is 10.5 x 14 inches. The fine photograph is accompanied by an ALS that begins without greeting "I trust you will guess how much I detest writing this letter. You are free to tell the truth to those around you or to announce that I am ill." She sends her regrets and signs "Colette. " Full translation: "I trust you will guess how much I detest writing this letter. You are free to tell the truth to those around you or to announce that I am ill. Please believe dear Madam that I deeply dislike such a desertion and that I beg you to find herewith together with my excuses and regrets my very best regards. Colette. unknown books
1948126362Paris: Georges Guillot 1948. Limited. paperback. very good. Lydis Mariette. Illustrated with 15 original pointes seches engravings in color by Mariette Lydis. 93 pages with text in French. Small folio loose signatures within stiff printed wrappers cardboard sleeve & slipcase is soiled bumped and cracked. Paris: Georges Guillot 1948. Internally fine.<br/><br/> Limited Edition one of 100 numbered copies in a total edition of 300 copies. A charming book with Lydis's fine delicate illustrations providing a lovely match for Colette's text.<br/><br/> Georges Guillot unknown books
1979252526Lincoln: Sinister Wisdom 1979. Paperback. 104p. photos by JEB poems stories essays services and resources lightly-worn and soiled paperback journal in tan pictorial wraps. Early and possibly first appearance by Cherrie Moraga here listed as Cherrie Moraga Lawrence. Sinister Wisdom paperback books
1980252528Lincoln: Sinister Wisdom 1980. Paperback. 103p. photos art fiction essays poetry very worn ex-library copy trade paperback journal in pink pictorial wraps with ink markings throughout. Sinister Wisdom paperback books
1980196537Lincoln: Sinister Wisdom 1980. Paperback. 103p. photos art fiction essays poetry lightly-worn trade paperback journal in pink pictorial wraps. Sinister Wisdom paperback books
1981240989Lincoln: Sinister Wisdom 1981. Paperback. 116p. photos art fiction essays poetry wraps worn stained and slightly toned else good condition. Sinister Wisdom paperback books
1981225187Lincoln: Sinister Wisdom 1981. Paperback. 116p. photos art fiction essays poetry lightly-worn trade paperback journal in toned white pictorial wraps. Sinister Wisdom paperback books
1981225189Lincoln: Sinister Wisdom 1981. Paperback. 112p. photos art fiction essays poetry lightly-worn trade paperback journal in lavender pictorial wraps. Sinister Wisdom paperback books
1980225185Lincoln: Sinister Wisdom 1980. Paperback. 112p. photos art fiction essays poetry lightly-worn trade paperback journal in white toned pictorial wraps. Sinister Wisdom paperback books
1954301104New York British Book Centre 1954. 1954. First American edition so stated. 8vo. 10 b/w illustrations. Bibliography. Pictorial dust jacket photograph by Arik Nepo unclipped. Very good. 282 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, British Book Centre [1954]. hardcover books
1983WRCLIT63503New York: Limited Editions Club 1983. Quarto. Gilt cloth. Illustrations and plates. Bookplate on front pastedown binding a trace rubbed otherwise near fine in lightly smudged slipcase. Illustrated with three original multi-color silk screens and color vignettes in the text by Francoise Gilot. Translated by Enid McLeod. Introduction by Robert Phelps. One of 2000 numbered copies printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Press and signed by Francoise Gilot. With the Newsletter laid- in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1983WRCLIT64801San Francisco: George F. Ritchie 1983. Large octavo. Cloth paper spine label. Bookplate on front pastedown a few smudges to cloth else a nice copy very good or somewhat better. First printing in this format of Janet Flanner's translation with an Introduction by Wallace Fowlie. One of 120 copies printed on Tovil handmade paper by Peter Koch at the Black Stone Press. George F. Ritchie hardcover books
19772303196Franklin Center Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library 1977. Reissue. Reissue. Very Good/No Jacket. Johnston David McCall; Duke Chris. A few minor scuffs to boards. 1977 Full-Leather. xi 496 pp. Red full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by David McCall Johnston and Chris Duke. A collection of stories by the French writer known for the originality of her narrative style. The Franklin Library unknown books
19772292804The Franklin Library 1977. Reissue. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Johnston David McCall; Duke Chris. Gilt on top page edge rubbed ribbon marker a bit frayed at end bookplate on front endpaper. 1977 Full-Leather. xi 496 pp. Red full leather gilt titles and decorations all edges gilt silk moire endpapers ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by David McCall Johnston and Chris Duke. A collection of stories by the French writer known for the originality of her narrative style. The Franklin Library hardcover books
197294691Paris: Pierre de Tartas 1972-73. Deluxe illustrated edition of Colette's four Claudine books with the original lithographic frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau. Quartos 4 volumes bound in full gilt-decorated pebbled morocco with silk endleaves top edges gilt lithographic colored frontispiece portrait by Jean Cocteau illustrated with 24 original colored lithographs per volume by Dauchot Sala Lelong and others. In near fine condition. Each volume housed in the original marbled slipcase. Just before Colette's death in 1954 Katherine Anne Porter asserted in the New York Times that she was indefinitely ".the greatest living French writer of fiction; and that she was while Gide and Proust still lived." Written in diary form and published between 1900 and 1904 the Claudine series describes the growth to maturity of a young girl Claudine now thought to be largely autobiographical. Pierre de Tartas unknown books
1975016635Bloomington & London: Indiana University 1975. Translated by David Le Vay. 214p. dj. Indiana University unknown books
135205New York: Farrar 1959. Octavo 404 pp. cloth-backed boards. First U.S. edition in English. Eleven stories and four novellas by the famous French female writer who died in 1954. Mild rubbing to edges of boards a near fine copy in very good dust jacket with light wear at edges and a bit of darkening to spine panel. #135205 Farrar unknown books
1973135778London: Peter Owen 1973. Octavo pp. 155 boards. First edition in English. A collection of articles published in LE MATIN between 1911 and 1914. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #135778 Peter Owen unknown books
197522325Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1975. Blue cloth binding. Dust jacket. NF/VG light edgewear/faint scratch at upper panel. 214 pp. 8vo. 24cm x 15cm. <br/><br/> Indiana University Press hardcover books
198329656New York: Limited Editions Club 1983. No. 780 of 2000 copies signed by the artist. With colored silk-screens by Françoise Gilot. 1 vols. Folio. Original blue cloth a fine copy. No. 780 of 2000 copies signed by the artist. With colored silk-screens by Françoise Gilot. 1 vols. Folio. Limited Editions Club unknown books
195412069New York: British Book Centre 1954. 1st US. Mauve colored cloth with silver lettering. Dust wrapper. VG/VG pc. 282 pp including index illustrated 8vo. <br/><br/> British Book Centre hardcover books