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1930218288Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1930. One page in French. 1 vols. 8vo. Slightly soiled. One page in French. 1 vols. 8vo. "Madame -- Thank you for not forgetting about the project -- I myself had forgotten about the film! But it doesn't matter since I wasn't supposed to play a role in it anyway! If you can find a director for it I'll be delighted . " André Maurois 1885-1967 novelist and biographer was son of an Alsatian draper who worked in the family business until he became a staff liaison officer with the British forces during World War I. His novel Les Silences du colonel Bramble 1918 gained him an immediate celebrity; Maurois wrote prolifically: novels on philosphical and moral themes and well-regarded biographies; he was elected to the Académie Française in 1938. Maurois on the "film project" <br/><br/> unknown
1930624London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot 1930. Limited Edition. Fine/Near fine. 8vo. 7 5/16 x 55 in. 194 x128 mm; pp.vi 58 UNOPENED; original decorative paper-covered boards over a grey cloth spine gilt titles; near fine dust-jacket. Clean and bright with slight offset on the front endpaper. <br /> Copy 151 of 530 printed SIGNED in blue ink by the author on the limitation page. A Proustian pastiche first published in English in this limited edition of 530 copies and in 1934 by Gallimard with the title "Le Côté de Chelsea" this short book echoes the tile of Proust's most famous work "Swann's Way" and was translated by Hamish Miles. <br /> <br /> ANDRÉ MAUROIS born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog 1885 - 1967 was a French novelist biographer storyteller and essayist elected to the prestigious Académie française in 1938. During World War I he joined the French army and served as an interpreter for Lieutenant Colonel Winston Churchill. He was a prolific writer and is best known for his excellence in biographies of important writers -Shelley Byron Victor Hugo George Sand or Balzac-political figures like Disraeli and General Lyautey and scientists like Alexander Fleming. Elkin Mathews & Marrot unknown
1945553505New York: Didier 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Illustrated by Howard Simon. Small quarto. About fine in slightly spine-toned very good or better dust jacket with small chips and tears. Didier hardcover
1943WB16840New York: Brentano's 1943. First Edition thus. Paperback. Very Good. A new edition with 79 illustrations by Michel G. Gilbert. Signed by Maurois and additionally inscribed by the illustrator Gilbert. Original wraps. 8vo 288pp. Housed in a custom clamshell box. <br/><br/> Brentano's paperback
194354083New York: Brentano's 1943. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée avec une Préface inédite de l'Auteur. Number 5 of 100 copies sur papier Corsican signed by the author and illustrator. 79 Illustrations de Michel G. Gilbert. 268 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. In original glassine. Fine. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée avec une Préface inédite de l'Auteur. Number 5 of 100 copies sur papier Corsican signed by the author and illustrator. 79 Illustrations de Michel G. Gilbert. 268 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> Brentano's unknown
Q-009466000XConstable. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Constable paperback
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Q-0525145389E P Dutton 1959-01-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! E P Dutton hardcover
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20626number 15 of 530 8vo. original decorative boards uncut Elkin Matthews hardcover
1926120369Paris : Grasset 1926. 220x170mm. XII - reliure demi-maroquin. Reliure dՎpoque en demi-maroquin brun ˆ coins avec auteur titre encadrements et filets dorÂŽs au dos ˆ quatre nerfs tÂte dorÂŽe plats et gardes de papier marbrÂŽ couvertures et dos conservÂŽs. Belle reliure hormis charniÂre supÂŽrieure trÂs discrÂtement fendillÂŽe en tÂte sans incidence sur la soliditÂŽ de lÕouvrage. Un des 295 exemplaire sur papier pur fil Lafuma numÂŽrotÂŽ n.¡ 20 avec une eau-forte de Chimot en double suite : ÂŽtat noir et ÂŽtat couleurs. Bel exemplaire. 628 Grasset unknown
1949mon0000123829John Lane The Bodley Head 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable colouring of page edges and book cover due to age. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
193074951Paris: Grasset 1930. Fine. Grasset Paris 1930 17 x 22.50 cm 2 volumes reliés sous étui First edition one of 315 numbered copies on laid Marais paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format. Half dark green shagreen bindings with corners spines with five raised bands gilt dates at foot combed paper boards endpapers and pastedowns of matching paper covers and spines preserved slipcase edged with dark green shagreen boards covered with combed paper. Grasset hardcover
192775001Paris: Grasset 1927. Fine. Grasset Paris 1927 17.50 x 23 cm relié First edition one of 13 numbered copies specially printed on Imperial Japan paper for the Librairie des Champs-Elysées. Bound in half black shagreen with bands spine with four raised bands set with sand-colored mosaic shagreen band minor scratches to headcaps almond green wood-effect paper boards framed with two almond green mosaic shagreen bands almond green wood-effect paper endpapers and pastedowns original covers and spine preserved top edge gilt corners slightly bumped contemporary Art Deco binding. Handsome copy attractively bound in a lovely contemporary Art Deco binding. Grasset hardcover
192433055Editions Emile-Paul Freres Paris 1924. 8vo. First Edition thus text in French on Verge de Rives with coloured frontispiece title in red and black and numerous engraved vignettes in red frames in the text endpapers lightly spotted; patterned paper boards green levant morocco back with tan leather label tooled and lettered in gilt uncut a very good bright crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1500 NUMBERED COPIES THIS COPY NO. 1392. Editions Emile-Paul Freres, Paris, hardcover
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193001929FINE BINDING BYRON Bernard Grasset 1930 first edition 2 volumes finely bound in half-leather and marbled boards with raised and decorated spines and marbled end-papers. A limited edition of unknown quantity. Very nice. Text in French. Bernard Grasset 1930 hardcover
74719London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1955. French Literature in Translation FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH first impression. Octavo 22 x 14cm pp.xxiv; 744. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to red backing on the spine. With the pink dust-jacket priced at 30s. Light toning and spotting to edges and endpapers otherwise internally clean. Minor wear and spotting also to cloth. Jacket sunned and toned to spine with some light wear and chipping to edges. Very good. An unfinished novel discovered among the author's private papers after the Second World War anticipating his later great work 'À La Recherche du Temps Perdu'. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955 unknown
