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192831383Montreal: Louis Carrier 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Signed By Both Disraeli & Maurois. 1st Canadian Edition of Maurois' Famous Biography Of Disraeli Rare Montreal Imprint. 1st Edition from the US sheets. 8vo. 379pp. including index 5 pp Ads. Purple silked cloth covered boards. A very good or better copy. Portion of the Dustwrapper flap pasted to the final blank Signed by Disraeli as Beaconsfield to Lady Northcote on his official envelope with the "Honi soit qui mal y pense" insignia engraved on the flap. mounted to the front pastedown. Plus a neat letter in purple ink signed by Maurois to an unnamed recipient dated 26 06 36 thanking the party for having sent him the most interesting article on Bernard Quesnay the subject of the Author's 1928 semi-autobiographical work. Louis Carrier hardcover
1926176360Paris: Societe d'edition "le livre" Emile Chamontin directeur 1926. No. 10 of 20 of this edition. Paperback. VG but with soiling to covers where glassine was lacking minor age toning to extremities of some pages not bad overall a tight copy that could have been stored better. The front cover is slightly cattywampus from the two extra sets of engravings being inserted in the front of the book as might be expected. Printed wraps with glassine remnants on inside flaps. 24 pp. 15 engravings etchings withing the text and two extra sets of these illustrations each set representing a different state are included only 20 such sets were issued of the overall edition of 430 copies. Text is in French. The book itself has been printed on Imperial Japon and the extra engraving printed on Imperial Japon and on Holland Van Gelder it appears from the colophon and limitation at the rear of the book. Quite rare as a result of this limited configuration. Each set of plates is wrapped in glassine and the extremities of these plates show age-toning or light soiling. Societe d'edition "le livre", Emile Chamontin, directeur paperback
1957mon0000077857Jonathan Cape 1957-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Hardback. Clean text sound binding. Jonathan Cape paperback
1956265401956. Paris Imprimerie nationale / AndrÂŽ Sauret 1956. Un fort vol. au format gd in-8 224 x 167 mm de 558 pp. brochÂŽ sous couvertures ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs. Tome Ier seul sur 3. Tirage de tÂte : un des 300 premiers exemplaires numÂŽrotÂŽs CCXXVIII du tirage sur grand vergÂŽ d'Arches ; les seuls ˆ comporter un deuxiÂme ÂŽtat volant sur papier de Chine du frontispice figurant en tÂte de l'ouvrage tirÂŽ en lithographie par les soins de Mourlot FrÂres. La Guerre et la Paix narre lÕhistoire de la Russie ˆ lՎpoque de NapolÂŽon Ier notamment la campagne de Russie en 1812. La richesse et le rÂŽalisme de ses dÂŽtails ainsi que ses nombreuses descriptions psychologiques font quÕil est souvent considÂŽrÂŽ comme un roman majeur de lÕhistoire de la littÂŽrature. Tolsto• y dÂŽveloppe une thÂŽorie fataliste de lÕhistoire o le libre arbitre nÕa quÕune importance mineure et o tous les ÂŽvÂŽnements nÕobÂŽissent quՈ un dÂŽterminisme historique inÂŽluctable. Guerre et Paix a engendrÂŽ un nouveau genre de fiction. Bien quÕaujourdÕhui considÂŽrÂŽ comme un roman cette Ãuvre a cassÂŽ de si nombreux codes du roman de son ÂŽpoque que de nombreux critiques ne le considÂŽrÂrent pas comme tel. Tolsto• considÂŽrait lui-mÂme Anna KarÂŽnine comme sa premiÂre tentative de roman au sens o les EuropÂŽens lÕentendaient. Guerre et Paix fut ˆ lՎpoque de sa publication un immense succÂs bien que Tolsto• ne sÕy attend”t pas ce dernier pensant mÂme que son oeuvre passerait inaperÂue. Cramer 202. Couverture prÂŽsentant un ÂŽclat lÂŽgÂrement altÂŽrÂŽ. Petite dÂŽchirure marginale et lÂŽgÂres plissures angulaires affectant la lithographie volante. Du reste trÂs belle condition. Exemplaire non rognÂŽ. b42961 unknown
1931045174New York: The Viking Press 1931. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Ox 379 Pp. Cream Cloth Spine Gilt On Brown Plum Cloth Boards. First American Edition 1931 Dates On Title And Copyright Pages Three Uk Reviews On Rear Panel Of Dj Published Previously In 1931 By Longmans London As "If It Had Happened Otherwise. Lapses Into Imaginary History" . The First London And New York Printings Are Both Very Scarce In Dust Jacket. Book Near Fine Bright Except For Some Browning To Spine Cloth Where Dust Jacket Above Was Chipped And Slight Browning To Endpapers. Dj Price Clipped Worn Browned Chipped Particularly A Large Loss Of Almost 1/3 Of Bottom Of Spine And Spine Panel Detached From Front Panel. <br/> <br/> The Viking Press hardcover
1942009257New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies 1942 Color printed card covers with blue comb binding comb with one break offsetting opposite artwork as usual. The book originated as a thank you message from a classroom of 5 & 6 year-olds in unoccupied France to the Americans for sending vitamins. Seven watercolors and hand-lettered text tell the tale of a humanized vitamin that makes its journey from the United States to France. Reproduced here the original French text is accompanied by the English translation by Jeannette A Marandon. The book was sold for $1 at the time for the benefit of the agency's relief efforts for the children of unoccupied France. Rare especially in such nice condition. First And Only Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Oblong 12mo. Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies hardcover
1931006122<p>London: Longmans Green and Co. 1931. First edition. Half leather. This is the first edition first printing of the first volume appearance of Winston S. Churchill's engaging speculative history essay "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg". Churchill's intriguing piece first appeared in Scribner's Magazine in December 1930 as part of a series of "What If" articles by eminent authors of the time. In 1931 Longmans published this book-length work on the same theme including Churchill's piece at pp. 173-196. <br /><br />We commissioned this magnificent binding in half red Morocco goatskin over marbled paper-covered boards. The hubbed spine features gilt tooling on and framing the raised spine bands as well as twin dark brown spine labels. The covers feature gilt rule transitions between the Morocco spine and corners and the marbled-paper sides. The contents are bound with matching marbled endpapers silk head and foot bands and gilt top edge. The newly commissioned binding is flawless. The contents are crisp and clean with no previous ownership marks. The only appreciable soiling is a small stain to the upper fore edges that does not intrude on the contents within as well as an incidental hint of spotting confined to the fore edges. <br /><br />This British first edition preceded an American counterpart and oddly we find it scarcer even than copies of the original magazine publication. Churchill's essay herein displays the commanding grasp of history and the facility for extrapolation that made him so formidable as both a statesman and a writer. Moreover his interest in America's great struggle was quite serious; Churchill toured Virginia battlefields with the great Civil War historian Douglas Southall Freeman and toured Gettysburg with none other than Dwight Eisenhower. Thirty years later Churchill would publish a book on the subject The American Civil War 1961 excerpted from his epic A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. <br /><br />Reference: Cohen B43.1.a Woods B18 <br /><br /></p> Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
192912294Paris: Paul Hartmann 1929. No. 109 of 325 copies on Velin de Rives Blanc of a total edition of 395. 17 colour aquatint engravings by Jean Bruller. Sm. 4to. bound by Lucette H. Levy signed on the upper turn-in in full dark blue morocco tooled with gilt fillets in geometric patterns across both boards and the spine spine lettered in gilt triple gilt fillet pattern on turn-ins and gilt fillet on edges metallic patterned paper doublures original wrappers bound in. Spine a trifle darkened. An important work of speculative fiction by Maurois whose real name was Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog. Lévy has responded to it splendidly producing an unusual modernist binding with geometric gold tooling and spectacular metallic endpapers. The gold fillets and triangular lines focus in on the future date of 1992 based on 1929 in bold numbering on the spine. Speculative futurist fiction with a modernist geometric binding Paul Hartmann hardcover
193846412Paris: Georges Lang 1938. Limited First edition. Softcover. g to vg-. 1/1000. Folio. Unpaginated. Original protective glassine wrappers over off-white paper wrappers. Book housed in its half cloth over paper covered portfolio. Decorative initials. Pages uncut. #80 from a limited edition of 1000 copies. Signed in ink on the front free endpaper by 16 of the contributors including Jamot Valery Vaudoyer Fargue Dautry Claudel Maurois and Duhamel.<br /> <br /> This splendid work was published on the occasion of the July 1938 official visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to France. It contains a collection of striking photographs drawings and essays by various authors illustrating the life and rich culture of France paintings sculptures architecture etc. Introduction by Edouard Daladier then President of the Council Prime Minister. Prestigious contributions by Paul Claudel André Maurois Paul Jamot Paul Valéry Georges Duhamel Jean-Louis Vaudoyer Général Gouraud Raoul Dautry and Léon-Paul Fargue. Photographs by Laure Albin-Guillot Giraudon Jacques Seligmann Bulloz L. Rothier Henry de Ségogne Paul Chevalier Le Boyer etc. Each photographic plate is reproduced in glorious photogravure. This homage to France and French culture celebrating the Entente Cordiale is a tour de force of the printer's art by maitre-imprimeur Georges Lang who records that this book was produced in 20 days in a limited edition of 1000 of which this is number 80. <br /> <br /> <br /> Portfolio with minor scratches and smudges to the covers including a small abrasion on the back cover. Protective glassine wrappers chipped and torn at the head and tail of the spine. Paper wrappers with some light rubbing tearing and chipping to the front hinge at the head and tail of the spine. Spine with some light foxing. Interior with some light sporadic foxing to the text pages including the introductory text and the edges of numerous pages throughout. Most of the text itself as well as all of the photographic plates throughout are clean and unaffected. Starting at the number of points throughout. Portfolio in good binding and interior in very good- condition overall. Georges Lang unknown
196047464Paris.: Les Editions la Passerelle. 1960. Loose as issued in original publisher's printed wrappers with engravings to front and rear covers and spine decorative green painted paper-covered chemise with gouache additions and gilt title to spine and matching slipcase. Folio. 446 x 352 mm. Leaf with limitation verso half-title printed title with copyright verso leaf with quotation from Valéry and Maurois' text illustrated with 16 original colour etchings with aquatint by André Masson leaf with achevé d'imprimer recto and colophon verso final leaf with justification with publisher's blindstamp recto. André Masson illustrating André Maurois' Swiftian novel.From the edition limited to 155 copies signed by the author artist and publisher with this one of 104 nominatif examples on vélin pur chiffon de RIves.'Parodiant Jonathan Swift . André Maurois composa une fantaisie d'un pays gullivérien où la race sur l'habitat de laquelle un couple est abandonné est mue par la soif plutôt que par la faim sexuelle . Maurois a suggéré à Masson un thème doublement érotique. Non seulement les illustrations de Masson renferment une certaine dose d'humour abstraction faite du portrait de l'auteur qui sert d'introduction mais encore leur sensualité particulièrement dans les couleurs est rarement égalée même dans l'oeuvre de Masson.' see Cramer pg. 122.Cramer 47. Les Editions la Passerelle. unknown
1964140948953New York: New Directions 1964. First American Paperback Edition. Very Good. First American paperback edition. A fantastic association copy of Borges' first work translated into English signed by Jorge Luis Borges on the title page and additionally inscribed by Borges' editor translator and friend Donald A.Yates on the half title page "This is the first copy I owned of Labryrinths original paperback printing in 1964." With Yates' annotations throughout. Very Good with toning creasing and rubbing to wraps. Front joint rubbed and tender. Donald A. Yates a noted professor academic and Fulbright scholar is credited with introducing and disseminating the Argentinian author's work to English-speaking audiences through this collection of magical realism short stories. New Directions unknown
