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1908504223-1: Paris: Ernest Flammarion Editeur. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. Hardcover. Paris: Ernest Flammarion Editeur hardcover
191166533Paris:: Ernest Flammarion 1911. publisher's illustrated cloth; a.e.g. Some light wear to extremities of cloth; clean tight and sound. . Large 8vo. Illustrations de G. Dutriac. Ernest Flammarion, hardcover
191014088Grant Richards 1910. 1st Edition. . Book Book Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Grant Richards 1910. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. Book in VG condition in the original blue pictorial cloth with some wear and rubbing. Forward lean to spine. Small red stain to rear cover which has leeched through a little to the endpapers. Internally clean with 48 black & white illustrations. 294pp. Will incur extra overseas postage. Grant Richards hardcover
1912016448BOSTON NY: LITTLE BROWN & CO. PICTORIAL BLUE BOARDS CLEAN COPY. . VG. Hardcover. First Edition. 1912. LITTLE, BROWN & CO. hardcover
1901920Q3Paris : Ernest Flammarion 1901-2. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 7.5". Leon Couturier . The first two volumes of Capitaine Danrit's heroic war novel surrounding a swift invasion and conquest of England by France with the original wraps bound in. The first edition. Bound in full cloth with the original wraps bound in. Volume I and II only. Published in three volumes. Written by French military author Emile Driant who wrote under the pseudonym Capitaine Danrit. Driant also held positions as a high-ranking army officer and politician ultimately meeting his untimely end as the first official casualty at the Battle of Verdun during the First World War.La Guerre Fatale surrounds a conquest of the United Kingdom by France depicting a crumbling British defence powerless against the ferocious and heroic French advances. Published in three volumes the first part 'A Bizerte' the second 'En Sous-Marin' and the third 'En Angleterre'.Illustrated throughout by Leon Couturier. With stamps from Cercle de L'Union Artistique Bibliotheque and a bookseller label from Reliure Franz. Bound in full cloth with the original wraps bound in. Externally generally smart with bumping to the extremities and slight rubbing causing small tears to the cloth. Cloth is discoloured with marks to boards and darkening to spine. Library location labels to spines. Bookseller label to front paste down. Internally firmly bound Pages are age toned and rather delicate due to paper type used. The occasional tear or chip with handling marks. Library stamps to title page and front wraps and one or two additional pages. Very Good Ernest Flammarion hardcover
190811968Paris: Ernest Flammarion. Paris Ernest Flammarion nd c1908. First edition first impression. Hardback. A very good copy. Presumed first edition smaller volume 115mm x 180mm. Less common it seems than the larger octavo. Rebound in quarter calf with marble boards and the upper wrapper bound in. A little chipping to the leather and some sporadic wear but largely in excellent shape. Illustrations by G. Dutriac 11968 Hyraxia Books. nd c1908 . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1908. Ernest Flammarion hardcover
1909BBS-2018951Ernest Flammarion 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Text in French. Red cloth with gilt titling illustrated front panel; cloth very good with gentle age-soil light general edgewear bumping to spine ends and fore-edge corners fraying to spine foot and bottom fore-edge corners. No DJ if issued; protected in plastic dust wrapper. Pages edged in gilt. Illustrated throughout by G. Dutriac. Gift inscription neatly penned to half title in French; tiny early seller's sticker adhered to verso of FFEP; interior else clean pages lightly toned text and illustrations free of markings. Ernest Flammarion hardcover
1905A115359Paris: Ernest Flammarion 1905. 1st ed. thus. Very Good. tall octavo. 1/2 leather 858pp. illusts. Illustrations by G. Dutriac. A future war novel of the combined Japanese/Chinese Ôyellow perilÕ invasion of Europe. Some browning to some pages o/w nice tight clean copy of a Ôfuture-warÕ classic. Scarce Ernest Flammarion hardcover
191010891London: Grant Richards. London Grant Richards 1910. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. In the rare jacket. Borderline sf featuring a submarine with slightly advanced tech. Illustrated throughout. The jacket has chipping to the top edge and corners with a little foxing and tanning. A couple of short closed tears. Prize plate to the front endpaper. A little foxing here and there. 10891 Hyraxia Books. . Very Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1910. Grant Richards hardcover
190853036Paris: Ernest Flammarion Editeur c. 1908 ca. 1910. Tall 8vo. 7.75 x 10.75 in. 6 428 pp. Frontisp. over 100 text illustrations plates diagrams 1 double-page map of Mediterranean off of Tunisia. Red pictorial publisher’s cloth over beveled boards cover art illustration in full colour of deep-sea diver down on the deck of a submarine gilt lettering & ruling gilt lettering on spine a.e.g. slight bumping to corners minor shelfwear slightly shaken still VG bright copy. First edition early printing of this remarkable submarine adventure relating the story of a 200 ton submarine and sailors trapped below the sea thirty fathoms below the Mediterranean off of the coast of North Africa. Driant 1855-1916 was a noted suspense/thriller writer French Army officer and politician who wrote under the pseudonym of Capitaine Danrit and published more military science fiction before World War I than any other writer. He used this work to push for increasing more safety measures and better procedures for submarines in the French Navy. It was first published in English in 1910 in a translation by Frederick Lawton. He was the first high-ranking casualty of the Battle of Verdun during World War I as he rallied his two battalions of 1200 men in a desperate defense of the Bois de Caures in Flabas buying time for the French High Command to rush troops and weapons into the threatened sector. Ernest Flammarion, Editeur, hardcover
