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1993ULOTDES00AFUniversity of Utah Press 1993. Very Good. Loti Pierre. The Desert. Minn Translator Jay Paul. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press 1993. 149pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with institutional stamp inside front cover. Subtly soiled text block edges. University of Utah Press paperback books
19129222New York: Duffield. Very Good. 1912. Hardcover. ex-library; covers rubbed and light soil; contents clean; Good . Duffield hardcover books
190119839Boston: C. C. Birchard & Co. Very Good. 1901. Hardcover. Ex-lib cloth. Teg. Slightly rubbed and bumped at corners. Some soil. A very sound and solid book to handle. 8vo. . C. C. Birchard & Co hardcover books
192440790Garden City NY: Doubleday Page 1924. First Edition. 8vo pp. 178. Translated from the French by Ellen Stein. Owner's name on flyleaf. VG. Doubleday, Page unknown books
191222221NY: Macmillan. Very Good. 1912. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Fred Rothwell. First edition thus. Small octavo blue decorated cloth binding 214 pages advertisements. Light general shelf wear else at least very good. No dust jacket. A solidly bound copy. . Macmillan hardcover books
1926406578Paris: Calmann-Levy 1926. Some wear to joints and extremities otherwise fine. 8vo. 344 pages. Early 20th-century red half morocco original printed wrappers bound in. Later edition. <br/><br/> Calmann-Levy unknown books
189343340Chicago: A.C. McClurg 1893. This tale rings all the notes of tragedy love and death. It must been quite popular in the first half of the 20th century because it shows up in all kinds of fancy leather bindings. This is one of the more modest ones. Still a pretty book. Bound in half blue morocco over marbled boards with gold spine lettering and decoration. 18 cm. viii 252 pp. A.C. McClurg hardcover books
190634121906. LOTI Pierre. DISENCHANTED DESENCHANTEES. Translated by Clara Bell. NY: Macmillan Company 1960 Small 8vo. pictorial cloth; 381 pages. First Edition first printing. Good front cover nice; some darkening spine ink name on each endpaper. $25.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1925445546Paris: Samuel Viaud / Calmann-Levy Editeurs 1925. Softcover. Very Good. Volume one only. 282pp. Yellow printed wrappers. Text in French. Wrappers detached and chipped along the extremities spine chipped and cracked a good only copy. Samuel Viaud / Calmann-Levy, Editeurs unknown books
1912WRCLIT31055New York: Duffield 1912. Cloth. First edition in English translated by Ruth Helen Davis. Save for some short closed tears to the first few leaves a nice bright copy. Duffield hardcover books
190755853Paris: Charles Carrington. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. Frontispiece in color by Robert Dean Six Etchings by Gaston Trilleau. #101 of 1000 copies. Previous owner address label inside front cover otherwise a clean nice copy. . Charles Carrington hardcover books
1986036135New York: Friendly Press 1986. 112p. colored illus. quarto format dj. Friendly Press unknown books
195733658Allhambra California: Printed by the Private Press of C. F. Braun & Co 1957. 1st edition thus. Blue quarter morocco binding with marbled paper boards. Spine a bit sunned. PO signature to ffep. A VG copy. 8 161 3 blank pp. Illustrations by Joe Mugnaini. 8vo. <br/><br/> Printed by the Private Press of C. F. Braun & Co hardcover books
290044New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Good dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Scattered foxing mainly to the preliminaries. Minor wear to the dustjacket. Red cloth with a Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
188959345Chicago: A. C. Armstrong 1889. First American edn. 8vo pp. 252. Bound with the half title in contemporary 3/4 calf rubbed along the extremities a very good copy. A much reprinted story. A. C. Armstrong unknown books
192049934Paris: Calmann-Levy 1920. Third edn. 8vo pp. 291. Chipped wraps cover separate. This was consumer advocate Florence Kelley's copy with her signature on the front cover and 12 lines of her holograph on the rear. Fragile pulpy paper. FK. Calmann-Levy unknown books
1900124268New York New York: Brentano's 1900. Hardcover. VG- Some wear to cloth and vellum. Green cloth over boards; White vellum at spine; 189 pp.; Illustrated title page and text decorations but no other illustrations. Introduction by Henry James. Brentano's hardcover books
62895Paris: Calmann-Levy. Good. N.D. Hardcover. Leather and marbled boards Binding by "Pierson Henry & Joseph." Covers are slightly scuffed with rubbed spine ends. 317 pages French Text . Endpages lightly foxed otherwise a bright complete copy. . Calmann-Levy hardcover books
193615052702n.p.: Calmann-Levy 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dufour D'Emilien. Quarto size 289 pp. all text in French. Pierre Loti the pseudonym of Julien Viaud 1850-1923 was educated to be a naval officer gradually rising in his profession until attaining the rank of captain in 1906. His life at sea among seafaring men inspired this and many of his other stories. Contemporary critic Edmund Gosse said of Loti: "At his best he was unquestionably the finest descriptive writer of the day" n.b. above information from Wiki. <br/><br/>Mon Frere Yves is perhaps Pierre Loti's best-known work a semi-autobiographical novel describing the friendship between French naval officer Pierre Loti and a hard drinking Breton sailor Yves Kermadec during the 1870s and 80s - the descriptions of Breton seafaring life on board ship and on shore set the tone for his later masterpiece An Iceland Fisherman 1886. <br/><br/>Originally published in wraps this volume has been bound as a hardcover book with the front wrapper serving as a front pastedown. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full red cloth over boards illustrated front pastedown in red and black red and black lettering gilt lettering on the spine title page in red and black with a small vignette of a house in a field many signatures unopened several colour illustrations throughout with some retaining the original tissue guards; quarto size 9 1/4" by 7 1/8" pagination: i-vi 1-282 limitation page. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Near fine overall with clean binding straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some light soil to the front pastedown else fine. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply please contact seller for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Calmann-Levy hardcover books
1898129489Westminster: Constable 1898. First Edition. hardcover. very good. With an Introduction by Henry James. 4to parchment backed cloth stamped in gilt & green. Westminster: Constable 1898.<br/><br/> Constable unknown books
1921246493Paris: Marpon 1921. hardcover. very good. Illustrated with woodcuts by A. Roubille. iii 179 pages. 8vo 3/4 leather over marbled boards original wrappers bound in; leather lightly worn. Paris: Collection Marpon & C. 1921. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Marpon unknown books
009853Paris: Calmann-Levy. Half-Leather. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Later Edition. 344 pp. a nice binding with ribbon bookmark. Paris: Calmann-Levy unknown books
1898109487Westminster: Archibald Constable and Co 1898. First edition of Pierre Loti's Impressions. Octavo original green pictorial buckram woodcut pictorial title page woodcut initials. In near fine condition. James writes of Loti in his introduction to the present volume "I may as well admit in the outset that in speaking of Pierre Loti I give way to an inclination of the irresistible sort express indeed a lively obligation. I am conscious of owing him that amount and that kind of pleasure as to which hesitation resides only in the difficulty of statement. He has been for me from the hour of my making his acquaintance one of the joys of the time and the fact moreover of his being of the time has often to my eyes made it seem to suffer less from the presence of writers less delightful yet more acclaimed." Archibald Constable and Co hardcover books
1931267827Stockholm: Limited Editions Club 1931. Limited. hardcover. fine. Yngve Berg. Translated from the French by Guy Endore Illustrated with lithographs by Yngve Berg. 207pp. 4to white cloth-backed patterned boards t.e.g. in board slipcase. Stockholm: The Limited Editions Club 1931. A fine copy in a very good slipcase.<br/><br/> One of 1500 numbered copies on Van Gelder paper signed by the illustrator.<br/><br/> Limited Editions Club unknown books
193112843Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soner 1931. Edition limited to 1500 copies 8vo pp. 207; 15 plates; fine copy in original beige cloth backed boards green paper label gilt on spine in publisher's brown box. <br/><br/> P.A. Norstedt & Soner hardcover books
