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1990174379Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in leather boards. Accented in 22kt gold printed on archival paper with gilded edges smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines.; First Easton Press Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1990151444Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; First Easton Press Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1990163816Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine Leather Bound. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; First Easton Press Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1990190790Norwalk Connecticut: Easton Press 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. The Library of Great Lives.; First Easton Press Edition. Easton Press hardcover
1923214947Paris: Bernard Grasset 1923. First edition Number 2901 of total of 3440 copies. 353 6 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half green morocco and marbled boards with green original wrappers bound in. VG/F. First edition Number 2901 of total of 3440 copies. 353 6 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "en ----hommage de l'auteur à Mme. ---- André Maurois. Bernard Grasset unknown
1925217382Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1925. 4 pages in all with a few corrections and one note in ink; on black-bordered stationery. 1 vols. 8 x 10-1/2 3 & 9 x 7 inches 1. Slight wear at edges and folds. 4 pages in all with a few corrections and one note in ink; on black-bordered stationery. 1 vols. 8 x 10-1/2 3 & 9 x 7 inches 1. Maurois receives Howe's translation of his essay on Goethe returns it with praise discusses the possibiliy of Howes' translating Maurois' current work Bernard Quesnay the translator's condition of 1% of the royalty negotiations with Appleton etc. etc.<br /> <br /> Early correspondence by this French Jewish novelist biographer essayist and historian. Born as Emile Herzog he 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 Edwardian era and English history. unknown
1937329838New York: Harper & Brothers 1937. First American edition. 8vo. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown with inscription on front flyleaf; a very good copy in slightly chipped very good dust jacket with few internal tape mends on jacket. First American edition. 8vo. Inscribed by Maurois on half-title page: "To Genevieve Hansy from Andre Maurois." Owner's bookplate on front pastedown with inscription on front flyleaf. Harper & Brothers unknown
192420363Paris Bernard Grasset 1924. Cont. hcalf. Bound uncut with orig. printed wrappers. Back faded. No. 102 of 120 "sur papier Hollande van Gelder". <br/><br/><em>First edition. </em> unknown
1928mon0000069025D.Appleton 1928. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Previous owner's brief gift inscription ffep. Edgeworn boards. D.Appleton hardcover
193716511Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Red cloth cover is sunned along bottom edge and toned along the hinges but clean bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owners name on front end sheet. Gilt patterned end sheets and paste downs are toned. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Dust jacket has light tattered at top and bottom edge of spine panel and upper front corner but clean bright and in very good condition. DJ flap is price clipped. DJ protected by a brand new clear acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. If pictured shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. .; 0 pages . Harper & Brothers hardcover
192670441Paris: Nrf 1926. Fine. Nrf Paris 1926 17 x 22 cm broché sous chemise et étui First edition one of 109 numbered copies on Lafuma Navarre paper and reimposed in Tellière quarto format deluxe issue. Our copy is presented in chemise and slipcase of vellum-style boards marbled paper covers. Fine copy. Nrf hardcover
1990203087New York: Easton Press 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The Library of Great Lives. Easton Press hardcover
19319032209New York: Viking 1931. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's original quarter cream cloth with brown boards and spine label. Writings by G.K. Chesterton André Maurois Churchill Harold Nicholson others. Text block is fine except for previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper sunning to endpapers. Sunning and discoloration to spine. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 379 pages. <br/><br/> Viking hardcover
B172842-2Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1932. 229 3pp. Prof. illus. in color. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 1/2 red morocco by Georges Cretté. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. A.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1159. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1932. hardcover
B172844-3<p>Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1929. 216 6pp. Prof. illus. in color. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 1/2 red morocco by Georges Cretté. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. A.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1136.</p> Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1929. hardcover
1930344579Paris : Bernard Grasset 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Good set in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 23 cm. Notes; Limited printing this is no. 44 of only 165. ""Sources"": volume 1 pages 353-365; volume 2 pages 345-353. Subjects; Byron George Gordon Byron 6th Baron 1788-1824. Byron George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 ; Biography. Poets English 19th century ; Biography. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Paris : Bernard Grasset paperback
1960212521New York: Viking Press 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. 1 inch closed tear at top of front panel. Viking Press hardcover
1952339411Paris: Grasset 1952. First edition review copy wrapper marked S.P. 2 145 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Textblock toned. Very good. First edition review copy wrapper marked S.P. 2 145 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the first blank "A Mlle M. A. Niering cordialement André Maurois".<br /> <br /> Originally published by Grasset as a 48-page chapbook in his Cahiers irréguliers series Ce Que Je Crois soon sold out and and provoked responses from early readers. This edition includes Objections by Alfred Fabre-Luce Louis Chaigne and Jean Guitton with Maurois' responses and an additional essay "Les grands courannt de la pensée contemporaine". Grasset unknown
194053567New York: Henry Holt and Company 1940. fair to good fair to good. Jean Bruller. Quarto 92 color illus. pencil mark on p.24 p.25 torn and repaired with tape: top corner missing chips/creases to lower edge. DJ soiled and worn: tears and small pieces missing to edges DJ in plastic sleeve. A children's story about the imaginary underground land of the fat and congenial Fattypuffs and the thin and irritable Thinifers--perhaps an allegory of France and Germany before World War II. Henry Holt and Company unknown
1930793L46Paris: Bernard Grasset 1930. First edition. Fine Binding. Fine. 8.5" by 6". None. A very smartly bound first edition set of Andre Maurois' biography of Byron. From the library at Julians Park once home to socialite and patron of arts Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. This work is numbered 516 of copies printed on Velin pur Chiffon. In the original French. Rebound in beautiful half morocco bindings. Complete in two volumes. From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie Audrey Evelyn James Coats and Audrey Evelyn James Field at Julian"s Park. Pleydell-Bouverie was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire. Audrey was also alleged to be the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII although she was also rumoured to be his daugher or the lover of King Edward VIII. She bought Julians Park in 1940 following her third marriage to the Hon Peter Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was a patron of the arts and it is believed that she bound several books herself as many books from her library were stamped with her name and she owned a group of bookbinding tools. Her circle of friends included Winston Churchill Coco Chanel and Nancy Mitford. She was featured in Cecil Beaton's 'Book of Beauty' and was regarded as one of the Bright Young Things. In uniform half morocco bindings with paper covered boards. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. A few light spots to the preliminary leaves. Otherwise just the odd spot. Fine Bernard Grasset unknown
10877Paris. Editions Mornay. 1932. Soft cover. 8vo. 20cm 327p. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies this being #638 with colour plates and numerous colour pictorial initials and head & tail pieces by Ferdinand Fargeot with the original colour printed stiff wraps bound in with the spine panel laid down at the back endpaper. All the colour illustrations are hand stenciled pochoir this result in a much more attractive image having the appearance of being hand-painted into the text. This process is distinctly better than the normal printed colour illustration process. Bound in half burgundy morocco with hand marbled boards and endpapers black blind ruled raised bands ornate decoration in the panels with small leather inlay gilt titles t.e.g a brilliant copy Ho.2 Maurois published "Ariel ou la vie du Shelley" his biography of the English poet in 1923. At the time this limited edition appeared he was France's most popular biographer. A devoted anglophile Maurois also produced two amusing novels which drew on his experience with British troops during WWI and which established his literary reputation; Les Silences du Colonel Bramble 1918 and its sequel Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady 1922. Paris. Editions Mornay. 1932 unknown
DADAX0837161517Brand: Greenwood Press 0000-00-00. hardcover. New. 0.00x0.00x0.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Greenwood Press hardcover
1964009610New York: Atheneum 1964. 34pp text with 21 full-page Illustrations in color. This album of painings by the Prince de Joinville were drawn in 1861 and 1862. Preface by the Comte de Paris who said that this editon owed a great deal to Genral Bavin friend of France and former Ambassador of the United States. The Prince de Joinville was the third son of King Louis-Philippe. This book was designed by Neanine Fricker. The type was handset in Baskerville. The plates were made by Mansat Paris. The printing of the text and the illustrations was done on the presses of I. P.E. in Paris. The binding was ong by Prache de Franclieu at Choisy-le-ROi. This paper was made by de la Haye-Descartes at Balemes. purple silk cloth with gilt titles at front and spine in illustrated by The Prince De Joinville covers sunned around edges internally clean and bright book is in excellent-condition slipcase faded with some light stains and scuffs at edges in good condition in box of purple cloth. . 1st Edition. Silk. Near Fine/Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall oblong. Atheneum Hardcover
008751Paris: Librairie De La Revue Francaise Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited and Numbered Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No Date circa 1928. #209 on Manufactures Royales de Vidalon paper of 1125 copies printed in this edition. With five drypoint illustrations with tissue guards by Hermine David. Finely bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards three raised bands marbled end papers. Near Fine rub at lower raised band and small rubs at corners. A lovely copy of this Maurois classic novel on marriage and love. Basis for French movies done in 1962 Climates of Love and 2012 for TV Seasons of Love. Librairie De La Revue Francaise Hardcover
B172106-1Paris Société dÉdition Le Livre 1929. 4 251 3pp. 15 copperplate-engraved illus. 4to. Cloth 3/4 leather gilt hinges cracked. T.e.g. Orig. wraps. bound in. One of 350 numbered copies on vélin dArches from the limited edition of 430. André Maurois own copy with his engraved pictorial ex-libris and that also of Simone André Maurois. Paris (Société dÉdition Le Livre), 1929. paperback
