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193120127Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran & Company Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1931. First American Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped minimal shelfwear light dust-soiling/spotting to top edge; jacket browned/discolored/faded at spine otherwise just lightly worn and quite attractive Novel about "the darling of the Paris music halls" miserable in her marriage to an unfaithful fop of a husband and her passionate love for "a big simple straightforward landholder from the provinces." Ah it's always the big simple straightforward ones isn't it Especially if they're landholders. The novel based on Colette's own experiences was originally published as "La Vagabonde" in France in 1910 and was adapted into a 1918 silent film "La Vagabonda." Critic James Hopkin celebrated the book's centenary in a rhapsodic 2011 article in The Guardian praising its "energy and inventiveness" and calling it "a rousing novel of love and guile of vulnerability and vituperative wit of poetry and self-empowerment a slim volume scored with little wisdoms sumptuous descriptions and the 'heroic vanity' of an unforgettable cast." Jacketed copies of the original American editions of Colette's novels are all quite scarce. . Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. hardcover books
192924513New York: Albert & Charles Boni. Very Good. 1929. First American Edition. Hardcover Second Printing. no dust jacket light bumping to bottom corners spine cloth a little sun-browned overall a good solid clean copy; bookplate of longtime MGM writer/producer Carey Wilson on front pastedown. B&W illustrations Originally published in France in 1920 this was the first of Colette's novels to appear in America and it set off something of a vogue for her work which lasted until roughly the mid-1930s. It's the story of a gigolo which playwright-journalist Lewis Galantière called "a brilliant work of character portrayal tragic in its implications but on the surface a comedy in a genre new to us and full of a slightly macabre fascination." The first film version was a French production released in 1950 directed by Pierre Billon; more recently Stephen Frears directed an adaptation in 2009 from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton starring Rupert Friend and Michelle Pfeiffer. The novel has also served as the basis for a couple of TV adaptations and a ballet. . Albert & Charles Boni hardcover books
193019718New York: Albert & Charles Boni. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1930. 2nd printing. Hardcover. very nice book with just a touch of shelfwear remnant of removed price-sticker on rear pastedown; jacket shows just a little wear and minor wrinkling at spine ends. drawings The second of Colette's novels to be published in the U.S. following "Cheri" the year before this story of "a Parisian dancing girl and her Lieutenant in Blue" intensified the vogue for her works in America which lasted until about halfway through the Depression. Filmed in 1956 in France by director Jacqueline Audrey starring Danièle Delorme Fernand Gravey and François Guérin. . Albert & Charles Boni hardcover books
195122663Paris: Editions Litteraires De France. 1951. Softcover. Unbound signatures in wraps No. 155 of 159 numbered copies illustrated by Touchagues fine in fine wraps in slightly sunned chemise in a striking box decorated by Touchagues. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall . Editions Litteraires De France paperback books
198322377New York: Limited Editions Club 1983. Hardcover. Full gold stamped blue Chinese silk cloth. Fine in fine light gray slipcase. Gilot Francoise. 154 pages. 28 1/2 x 24 cm. Translated by Enid McLeod Introduced by Robert Phelps. Illustrated with three original silk screens by Francoise Gilot and drawings in the text. Laid-in is an additional silk screen a smaller versiion of the slilkscreen bordering p.60. printed on the same stock as the original. Translated by Enid McLeod. Introduction by Robert Phelps. Limited edition copy 1267 of 2000 signed by Francoise Gilot printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Press. LEC Monthly Letter laid-in. NEWMAN & WICHE 534. As new copy. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
196046859NY: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1960. First American edition. 8vo pp. 160.Translated from the French by Elizabeth Tait and Roger Senhouse. Dark gray cloth. A VG tight copy in chipped and somewhat spotted dj. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy unknown books
196022413Lausana: Mermod. 1960. Softcover. #425 of 4000. Wraps are fine.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . Mermod paperback books
1920226207Paris: Artheme Fayard 1920. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo 3/4 green morocco spine faded to brown; original yellow printed wrappers including spine bound in. Paris: Artheme Fayard 1920. First Edition.<br/><br/> One of 550 numbered copies on papier velin.Lafuma. This is no. 124.<br/><br/> Artheme Fayard unknown books
194522674Paris: Les Editions Nationales. 1945. Softcover. #191 of 300 in wraps. The book contains 16 full page color prints by Berthomee Saint-Andre with numerous black and white illustrations throughout. This copy has an extra suite of prints printed in black. Wraps are fine in publisher's glassine. Chemise is near fine with slightly sunned spine in a close to fine box. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall . Les Editions Nationales paperback books
1934126391New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Frederick A. Blossom. Illustrations by J. O'H. Cosgrave II. A very good plus copy in orange cloth binding with some very slight soiling and a tiny bit of fraying to the spine ends. No dust jacket. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
193431873New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. First edition. Orange cloth a near-fine copy jacket with light edge wear small chip at the top of the spine affecting "THE" <br/><br/> Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1929279161Paris 1929. unbound. good. 1 page 10.25 x 8 inches 9 Rue de Beaujolais Louvre Paris January 30 1929 in French untranslated to an unidentified correspondent and friend "Cher Monsieur et ami." In this letter Colette states that she is unwell afflicted with grippe and bronchitis. She is sending a paper short story and if it is accepted as she hopes she would like to correct it further when she receives the proof "because there are always mistakes." In closing she sends her regards to Madame de Henseler and mentions that she does not have the recipient's personal address. Three binder holes at the left edge natural folds and light foxing. Good condition.<br/><br/> French novelist<br/><br/> unknown books
1953226936Lausanne: Guilde Du Livre 1953. Limited. paperback. near fine. Izis-Bidermanas. Illustrated with handsome b/w photogravures by Isiz-Bidermanas. 128 pages. Slim 4to photographic wrappers; very minor edgewear. Lausanne: Guilde Du Livre 1953. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Limited edition -- one of 15000 copies.<br/><br/> Guilde Du Livre unknown books
1960252714New York: Modern Library 1960. Hardcover. 697p. very good first Modern Library printing stated in lightly-shelf-worn blue buckram cloth boards and unclipped lightly-soiled white dj. ML 251. Modern Library hardcover books
1975125709Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1975. Hardcover. 214p. foreword very good first US edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Autobiography of the writer remembering the years of the Paris Occupation. Indiana University Press hardcover books
197532769London: Peter Owen 1975. Hardcover. 214p. very good first UK edition in boards and unclipped dj. Autobiography of the writer remembering the years of the Paris Occupation. Peter Owen hardcover 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
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
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
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
