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1944290334New York: Brentano 1944. paperback. very good. In French and English translation and introduction by Maurois. 133 pages. 8vo. toned paper wrappers showing some light edge-wear front hinge is fragile within protective cloth wrappers. New York: Bretano's 1944. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> Inscribed by Maurois on flyleaf: "Pour Teodore . Rousseau ce souvenir de temps difficiles si. vaut traduire . avis . Andre Maurois" Theodore Rousseau curator in chief and vice director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.<br/> <br/> Brentano unknown
194182177Norwalk Connecticut:: The Easton Press 1941. Collector's Edition. publisher's gilt full leather a.e.g. Very fine. 8vo. Illustrations by Lynd Ward. With an Introduction by Andre Maurois. Publisher's unused bookplate and "Notes from the Archives" laid in. The Easton Press, hardcover
1924192285London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1924. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 310 pages plus two pages of ads. A fictionalized biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley translated from the French by Ella D'Arcy. A near fine copy in blue cloth boards with some toning to the endpapers and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Uncommon and especially in the dust jacket. John Lane The Bodley Head unknown
1930LD5776Paris: Bernard Grasset 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Two volumes. Original wraps printed in two-tone green edges uncut; in glassine dust jacket and slipcase; 4to. Number 32 from a limited edition of 165 "sur velin d'arches." Classic Byronic biography by Maurois in French. Both volumes in good and solid condition only signs of light edgewear. Bright and very nice unopened set. <br/><br/> Bernard Grasset paperback
193228445Bruxelles: Aux Éditions du Nord 1932. First Thus. Limited to 1111 copies of which this is no. 446 printed on vélin allura. Octavo 20.75cm.; original white pictorial card wrappers in gilt cloth-backed board chemise fore-edge string ties printed paper spine label; 229pp.; color frontispiece decorative title page numerous color pochoir illus. in text throughout. Chemise a bit soiled else Very Near Fine. Quite scarce and attractive edition of this World War I novel first published in 1926 which forms part of the series "Les Gloires Littéraires." OCLC locates one copy in North America as of December 2015 at the University Club Library. Aux Éditions du Nord unknown
1930H26941London: William Heinemann 1930. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Quarto 11 x 9 inches cloth backed pictorial glazed boards in dust jacket book nearly fine touch of offsetting and soil to endpapers corners lightly bumped jacket very good with some general soil edgewear grayish faint staining to borders of front panel. Very uncommon in dust jacket with charming color plates. Children's book by this esteemed French author. William Heinemann hardcover
1928189059New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 12mo. Fine in lightly soiled near fine dustwrapper. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
1933218257Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1933. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Slight wear at edges and folds. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Interesting letter from the French Jewish novelist biographer essayist and historian to the American co-editor along with George Jean Nathan of Nathan's newly formed magazine "The American Spectator."<br /> <br /> "My dear Boyd<br /> <br /> "I had promised to give some unpublished excepts from my Edward VII. It isn't easy to detach sections from a historical work. However you could take either the first chapter "Final Days and Death of Queen Victoria" which Appleton already has in translation and could give you - or the third chapter "Men and Parties" which contains several potraits of Englihs politicians . a few of them might be amusing ."<br /> <br /> <br /> Born as Emile Herzog Maurois changed his name assimilated and published his first novel in 1918. During WWII he supported the Vichy regime but was a strong opponent of Hitler and eventually had to flee to the United States where he taught at Princeton. He is perhaps even more widely known in Great Britain and the U.S. for his masterful biographies of Shelley and Byron and his books on the Edward and the Edawardian Period as discussed here and English history. unknown
1970272663La meilleure bibliothèque 1970. Bon Etat taches rousseurs tranche texte frais. in12. 1970. Relié. 335301330285330330245200 pages. La meilleure bibliothèque unknown
1938183954NY : Limited Editions Club. 1938. vg. Hardcover. 5 volumes. Limited Editions Club #1485/1500 & SIGNED by the illustrator; contents clean; burgundy illustrations; red top edges; bindings solid; 10.5" tall; black covers with black illustration & lettering on red title bands; chips & wear to black slip case with paper label on back . Limited Editions Club hardcover
193252422Paris: Grasset 1932 . First Edition. Original wraps. Fine. 339p octavo. Numbered limited edition 1/200 on Paper Lafuma this copy #81A fine copy in original cream wraps with tissue dust jacket enclosed in cloth and boards slipcase. Inscribed by Maurois to. Wear to the corners of the slipcase <br/><br/> Grasset paperback
19313713DB1931. 2 Bände. Paris Éditions Émile-Paul frères 1931. 8°. 1 Bl. 290 S. 3 Bl.; 2 Bl. 280 S. 2 Bl. Mit 2 farb. Frontisp. und 39 Vignetten von Hermine David. Orig.-Pergamentbände in Schuber. Monod 7956. - Nr. 30 von 75 Exemplaren "sur papier de Hollande Van Gelder" Gesamtauflage 1300 Ex. unknown
192433820Paris: Grasset 1924. 1st Edition No. 127 of 400. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition No. 127 of 400. Signed by Translator. Garnett David. LA FEMME CHANGÉE EN RENARD. LADY INTO FOX. Translated by André Maurois and Jane<br /> Bussy. Paris: Grasset 1924. First French Edition of the author's first book Inscribed by André Maurois on the half-title.<br /> Awarded the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction Frontispiece and wood engravings by R.A. Garnett. <br /> Small 8vo. 183 pp. Exemplaire de presse No. 127 of 400.<br /> Some minor creases and toning with age. A very rare copy with the original Glassine wrapper intact.<br /> <br /> David Garnett was the son-in-law of Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf.<br /> <br /> André Maurois 1885-1967 was a prominent French author biographer and historian. Born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog he adopted the pen name André Maurois.<br /> Maurois also served as an interpreter for Lieutenant Colonel Winston Churchill during the war. Grasset unknown
1926ABE-174400198Prague: Odeon 1926 Octavo wrappers 192pp. Cover by Jiri Jelinek title page by Karel Teige. A study of the life loves and death of Shelley. Prague: Odeon paperback
1967SDRWN16BC122720182354Pyramid Books 1967-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Very good with light wear. Pyramid Books paperback
1934927M4Paris: Bernard Grasset 1934. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A uniformly bound two-volume set of the first edition seventh printing of Maurois' biography of the notable Romantic poet Lord Byron. The first edition seventh printing of this work in a two-volume set uniformly bound in half morocco bindings with the original paper wraps bound in. A two-volume set of this biography of the renowned Romantic poet Lord Byron by the French author André Maurois 1885-1967. Written in the original French this work is one of Maurois' popular biographies; he also wrote a memoir of Benjamin Disraeli and Percy Bysshe Shelley among others. In half morocco bindings with the original paper wraps bound in. Externally in excellent condition except for small marks to the front board of volume I. Internally firmly bound. Marginal age toning to pages with the odd spot to the first few pages of volume I; otherwise clean. Very Good Indeed Bernard Grasset hardcover
