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1939137014Stanford University: Stanford University Press 1939. Octavo pp. xi 128 cloth. First edition. A very good copy in good dust jacket with sunned spine panel some dust soiling small internal tape mend at bottom edge of spine and clipped-price. #137014 Stanford University Press unknown books
17696scsLondon: Butler & Tanner Ltd. MCMXXVII. First Edition. Octavo purple cloth hardcover gilt letters 256 pp. Very Good with former-owner inscription and faded spine in a Very Good dust jacket with darkened spine and light edgewear. This story which centres round an industrial community in a small French provencial town pictures the struggle that takes place in the minds of two brothers between their desire to live their own lives and the ever-present forces which serve to conspire to force them to abandon everything for the sake of the family business.Maurois writes at first hand and with intimate knowledge because for twelve years before he ever began to write he was himself a manufacturer in a provential town. Butler & Tanner, Ltd., MCMXXVII. First Edition. hardcover books
196328444New York: Macmillan Company 1963. First Thus. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm.; original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket red topstain; 187pp.; illus. Jacket extremities rubbed and a bit scratched long paint smear to spine faint dampstain to textblock fore-edge. Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Two science fiction suspense novellas; The Weigher of Souls was first published in the United States in 1931 see BLEILER 1972 p. 196. Macmillan Company unknown books
1956118729London: Michael Joseph 1956. Octavo cloth. First edition. Fourteen short stories of contemporary French life. A bright very good copy. #118729 Michael Joseph unknown books
19409023115New York: Harper and Brothers 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth covered boards spine stamped in gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities else fine <br/><br/> Harper and Brothers hardcover books
193088865London: Elkin Mathews 1930. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Transl. by Hamish Miles. 58p. cloth- backed decorative boards. London: Elkin Mathews 1930. Limited First Edition. One of 500 numbered and signed copies.<br/><br/> Elkin Mathews unknown books
1948272277France: Editions du Dimanche 1948. paperback. very good. DAVID Jacques-Louis. Text in French. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white plates. Slim 4to printed wrappers edge-worn and lightly soiled on covers. France: Editions du Dimanche 1948. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Editions du Dimanche unknown books
1928TB26312Paris: NRF 1928. Very good in 3/4 light brown leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text and decorations on the spine and green marbled paper end sheets with the top edge of the text block gilt. An octavo measuring 8 3/4" by 5 1/2" with a Christmas 1928 gift inscription on the second free end page. Pages 105/106 have been open roughly causing a 2" closed tear to the fore edge. Without a dust jacket. 338 pages of text. NRF hardcover books
1932WRCLIT45388Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset 1932. Printed wrappers. About fine in somewhat tanned glassine wrapper. First edition octavo issue. One of 3300 numbered copies of 3450 on Alfa-Navarre addition to various deluxe issues in 4to format. TALVART & PLACE MAUROIS 51a. Editions Bernard Grasset unknown books
1928WRCLIT24303Paris: Gallimard 1928. Printed wrappers. First ordinary edition trade issue. Spine a bit used with small tear else very good unopened. BLEILER p.136. TALVART & PLACE MAUROIS 30b. Gallimard unknown books
195456479NY: Harper 1954. 8vo pp. 482. Bound in black cloth backed boards a good tight copy. Harper unknown books
1929WRCLIT19215Paris: Emile Hazan 1929. Printed wrappers. Portrait. About fine with prospectus laid in. First edition. One of 120 numbered copies 61- 180 on Hollande van Gelder from a total edition of 1980 copies. Emile Hazan unknown books
1922527401922. MAUROIS Andre. LES DISCOURS DU DOCTEUR O'GRADY. Paris: Bernard Grasset 1922. 12mo. brown quarter-calf leather & boards. First Edition. Very Good bookplate front pastedown. $35.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
22210n.p.: Collection Les Images Du Temps. N.D. First Edition. Softcover. Wraps #563 of 1001 copies with a frontispiece portrait of the author by L. Madrassi and 8 lithographs by Edy Legrand. Near fine but for sunning to spine and rear wraps. In previous owner's slipcase and half-chemise.; Aux Editions Lapina V; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Collection Les Images Du Temps paperback books
193012074London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot 1930. First UK edition. 58 pp. Near fine partially unopened in very good plus dust jacket with light overall edgewear and darkened spine. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Maurois. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot unknown books
193012692NY: D. Appleton & Co. 1930. Hardcover. Good/No dust jacket. NY: D. Appleton & Co. 1930. Translated by Pauline Fairbanks. Numerous b/w text and full page color illustrations by Adrienne Segur including a frontispiece. 66 pp. Hardcover. 4to size size. Green cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards. Extremities including pressure points moderately bumped rubbed and worn head & heel more so. Boards lightly scuffed and soiled with moderate scattered juvenile pencil notations. Edges and pages lightly yellowed with faint very light scattered foxing and staining. Front hinge cracked. Few pages sprung. Interior still clean and bright. Good/No dust jacket. Oversized - extra shipping charges apply D. Appleton & Co. hardcover books
192923561Paris France.: Bernard Grasset 1929. 249 pages; limited edition # 42 exemplaire velin pur fil of 75; well-printed by F. Paillart a Abbeville Somme; approx. 7" x 9" size; bound in the original printed paper wraps with the glassine wrap contained in an over-cover chemise with purple-gray paper covered-boards black paper spine; board covers with wear fraying rubbing especially the paper spine; last page of book frayed chipped at top; overall in good condition; André Maurois pseudonym of Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog 1885-1967 French author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Bernard Grasset Paperback books
1940WRCLIT62176New York: Editions de la Maison Francaise 1940. Small quarto. Publisher's printed double wrappers. Outer wrappers darkened and a bit soiled faint discoloration in lower margins of a few leaves otherwise very good the inner wrapper fresh and bright. First edition thus published as the first volume in the expatriate "Voix de France" collection. Inscribed and signed by the author on the first blank and with the recipient's small date ownership signature. One of 450 numbered copies on Strathmore from a total edition of five hundred. Editions de la Maison Francaise unknown books
19277483London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner and Co. Ltd 1927. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good. The 1927 1st edition. VG in its dark-brown boards with very light wear along the spine. 16mo 74 pgs. plus publisher's ads. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco box. <br/><br/> Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd hardcover books
192528443New York: D. Appleton and Company 1925. First American Edition. Small octavo 19.25cm.; original cloth in mustard decorative dust jacket printed in brown; 4154pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed and worn spine toned upper panel spotted; contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper coin-size loss to bottom fore-edge corner of half title else contents Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Collection of dialogues between a philosopher and a lieutenant. Translation by J. Lewis May. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
193066983London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first edition in English #231 of 530 copies signed by the author. A Proustian pastiche translated by Hamish Miles. Octavo. Original decorative paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine with gilt titles. Minor scratch to the front board corresponding with a tear to the dust jacket. Some general browning and wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise very good. Elkin Mathews & Marrot hardcover books
1932WRCLIT22234Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset 1932. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Fine in slipcase. First edition. One of 220 numbered copies on velin pur fil in quarto format of 394. TALVART & PLACE MAUROIS 51a. Editions Bernard Grasset unknown books
195622005New York: Harper 1956. First American edition. Cloth backed boards very good. Inscribed by Maurois to his American agent: "Pour Dorris Halsey qui a èté mon ange gardien dans le ville des Anges" <br/><br/> Harper hardcover books
194415294NEW YORK DIDLER 1944 1944. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED; ADVANCE REVIEW COPY FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD FRESH COPY. F. Hardcover. NEW YORK, DIDLER, 1944 hardcover books
19562275033Simon and Schuster 1956. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Second printing. Jacket edges lightly rubbed with a few minor creases jacket spine base lightly stained. Page ridges very lightly foxed. 1956 Hard Cover. xxiv 744 pp. Preface by Andre Maurois. "Jean Santeuil French: st Simon and Schuster hardcover books