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1938792A25London: Jonathan Cape 1938. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 8.5" by 6" . Not Stated . The first English translation of this biography of French author François-René de Chateaubriand in an exquisite Bayntun full calf binding. The first edition of this biographical sketch of François-René de Chateaubriand important French author and politician who had a great influence on French literature of the nineteenth century dominating the literary scene of the time. The first English edition translated from the French of André Maurois by Vera Fraser. Recounting from his childhood and youth his time as a soldier and voyager his exile in England and much more. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three full page plates as well as a folding plate illustrating his genealogical tree. Collated complete. In a beautiful fine full calf binding signed Bayntun. In a lovely full calf binding signed Bayntun with five raised bands and gilt tooling to the spine pictorial endpapers and gilt to the edges. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only and some sunning to the spine. Internally firmly bound. With a minor faint spotting to the first few leaves otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three full page plates as well as a folding plate illustrating his genealogical tree. Collated complete. Near Fine Jonathan Cape hardcover
19594036Paris: Arthème Fayard 1959. Beautiful large paper First Edition of this work. Bound in full dark blue Morocco binding. Signed by J. Bonnemort. With a double filet to the boards and simple yet beautiful Taurus design to the front board. Gilt titles to the spine. Lovely pressed flowers under tissue end papers. Original covers are bound in. SIGNED by Maurois to the half title with a dedication to Roger Bellon "ami des beaux livres". The large paper edition on Papier Hollande van Gelder was limited to only 50 copies this being number 37. A fabulous copy of this work. 208 pages. 220 x 160 mm 8¾ x 6¼ inches. . Belle édition originale de cet ouvrage sur grand papier. Reliure en plein maroquin bleu foncé. Signée par J. Bonnemort. Avec un double filet sur les plats et un simple mais magnifique motif de Taureau sur le premier plat. Titres dorés au dos. Jolies fleurs pressées sous les feuilles de papier de soie. Les couvertures originales sont reliées. SIGNÉ par Maurois sur la moitié du titre avec une dédicace à Roger Bellon "ami des beaux livres". L'édition en grand papier sur Papier Hollande van Gelder a été limitée à 50 exemplaires celui-ci étant le numéro 37. Un fabuleux exemplaire de cet ouvrage. 208 pages. 220 x 160 mm Arthème Fayard hardcover
1930136270London: Jonathan Cape 1930. First edition of Maurois' appreciation of Byron. Octavo bound in full morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt gilt tooling to the spine quadruple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles marbled endpapers all edges gilt illustrated tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Byron. In very good condition. "Byron is to a far greater degree than the other romanticists the poet of humankind. He conveys with tremendous power the majesty and desolation of history the vanity of pomp and pride the transitoriness of fame. And he is the poet of contemporary society keen to discern the false and the corrupt courageous in denunciation yet with pity for the young and innocent… As a poet he mirrored brilliantly and without distortion an absorbingly interesting world" Baugh 1229. Jonathan Cape unknown
193115169New York: Viking Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1931. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Spine darkened cloth foxing light tone 1931 owner's signature otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First US Edition First Printing of this classic pioneering anthology of alternative history by historians examining counterfactual events. First published in England in 1931 as If It Had Happened Otherwise but few stories were deleted and Van Loon's Nieuw Amsterdam added for the US. The What-If scenarios of the historians have been considered more methodical with their focus largely on outcomes of specific military battles than the imaginative leaps of the science fiction writers. Robert Reginald; Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist 1700-1974; 13508. Contents: If the Moors in Spain had won / Philip Guedalia; If Don John of Austria had married Mary queen of Scots / G K Chesterton; If the Dutch had kept Nieuw Amsterdam/ H W Van Loon; If Louis XVI had had an atom of firmness / André Maurois; If Drouet's cart had stuck / Hilaire Belloc; If Napoleon had escaped to America / H A L Fisher; If Byron had become king of Greece / Harold Nicolson; If Lee had not won the battle of Gettysburg / Winston S Churchill; If Booth had missed Lincoln / Milton Waldman; If the Emperor Frederick had not had cancer / Emil Ludwig; If it had been discovered in 1930 that Bacon really did write Shakespeare / J C Squire.; ix 379 pages . Viking Press hardcover
192655511Paris: Société D'Édition "Le Livre 1926. Near fine. Limited first edition thus illustrated by Laboureur master of interwar French engraving - handsomely bound by a contemporary French woman binder Marie-Louis H. Farge. First published in 1918 LES SILENCES DU COLONEL BRAMBLE was a popular novel about a French officer working as an interpreter with the British during World War I and based on Maurois's real experiences. Marie-Louis H. Farge's work has touches of fin-de-siècle aesthetics mixed with the harder geometries of modernism. A 1929 notice in ARTS ET MÉTIERS GRAPHIQUES PARIS for an exhibition of around fifty bindings by Farge remarks on her unusual combinations of tools and ornaments. Laboureur was a highly acclaimed engraver of the same era his limited editions highly sought and often serving as the foundation for fine bindings as here. 9'' x 6.25''. Contemporary half goatskin by Marie-Louise H. Farge spine stamped in gilt and blind. Marbled endpapers top edge gilt. Original wrappers bound in. Illustrated with 15 engravings by Laboureur. 243 3 pages. One of 350 copies on Arches paper total limitation 500. Touch of wear to joints some light foxing to text. Société D'Édition "Le Livre unknown
1955JCAM001Paris: Gallimard 1955 1955 First edition review copy with "S P" Service de Presse punched into rear wrapper. Signed and inscribed by Cocteau in the year of publication 1955 on half-title page. Additionally signed by Maurois. Publisher's white wrappers printed in black and red. Near fine with light toning to spine and edges of wrappers. With a yellow Gallimard promotional slip for the book laid in. Overall a tight and clean copy. This volume contains speeches by Cocteau and Maurois regarding Cocteau's election to the French Academy. The Academy was founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 to preserve and protect the French language. It is highly prestigious with only 40 members who are called "les immortales" and often hold their titles for life. Cocteau succeeded French writer Jérôme Tharaud who died in 1953. A particularly lyrical New York Times article announcing Cocteau's election reads: "M. Cocteau poet and film producer will be clad in a green-faced uniform with a two-corner hat hiding his famous halo of thick whitening hair. As his urbane voice sprinkles witticisms on the 'immortals' his hand will be resting on a sword made by Cartier and decorated with an emerald a gift." Jean Cocteau 1889 - 1963 was a French author artist and filmmaker whose most famous works include the novel Les Enfants Terrible 1929 the play La Machine Infernale 1934 and the ballet Parade 1917 for which Cocteau collaborated with Picasso Erik Satie and other notable artists. A writer for the National Observer declared that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man." André Maurois 1885 - 1967 was a French novelist and biographer who wrote acclaimed biographies on Percy Bysshe Shelley Lord Byron Victor Hugo Marcel Proust and others. In his biographies he "combined documentary erudition and imagination to unfold the psychological development of his subjects" Jewish Virtual Library. . Signed. 1st Edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Paris: Gallimard, 1955 paperback
196464203New York: Atheneum 1964. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Hardcover. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Slipcase worn torn and falling apart Some spine discoloration. Front board has some weakness. Ink notation on Preface page. Interior pages typically crisp and clean. de Joinville. 34. 40 p. Includes illustrations. 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. Atheneum hardcover
193011522<p>Jonathan Cape. London. 1930. FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Published the same year as the French edition. 8vo. 8.8 x 6.1 inches. Extra illustrated with 12 full page 19th century engravings including portraits of Mary Shelley The Prince of Wales Thomas Moore Ali Pacha and a charming view of The Hellespont showing Sestos and Abydos to compliment the 11 full page plates published in the book. A Fine copy in a fine late twentieth century leather binding of half dark blue morocco. The spine with raised bands decorated with gilt dotted lines. Compartments ruled decorated and lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Neat previous owner bookplate on the front pastedown endpaper. A wonderful copy. The binding is unsigned but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder.</p> Jonathan Cape. London. 1930 hardcover
B179598-1Paris Société dÉdition Le Livre 1926. 4 243 3pp. 15 copperplate-engraved illus. Stout 4to. Wraps. One of 350 numbered copies on vélin dArches from the limited edition of 430. Paris (Société dÉdition Le Livre), 1926. paperback
193837025Paris: Georges Lang 1938. Limited First edition. Paperback. g to g. 1/1000. Folio. Unpaginated. Original glassine over blind dust-jacket and wrappers. Book housed in its half cloth over paper covered portfolio. Decorative initials. 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 844. Portfolio sunned and slightly water-stained. Glassine slightly age-toned with minor and sporadic abrasion. Lower inner margin of pages water-stained. Text in French. Portfolio in overall good glassine in good to good wrappers and interior in good condition. Georges Lang paperback
1931RGUEIFO00fpViking Press 1931. Very Good. Guedalla Philip. If or History Rewritten. Chesterton G.K.; Van Loon Hendrick Willem; Maurois Andre; Belloc Hilaire; Fisher H.A.L.; Nicolson Harold; Churchill Winston; Waldman Milton; Ludwig Emil; Squire J.C. New York: Viking Press 1931. 8vo. Book condition: Very good. Spine lightly rubbed and darkened. Internally clean and bright. From the Library of Lila and Sam Weller. Viking Press unknown
1962L3 boxtemp531 2tome<p>Andre Maurois: Histoire des Etats-Unis Tome I: De 1917 A 1938; Tome II: De 1939 A Nos Jours. Les Deux Geants Histoire des Etats-Unis et de L'U.R.S.S. De 1917 A Nos Jours. 1962 1963 by Jaspard Polus & Cie Monaco et pour l'edition francaise illustree Editions du Pont Royal Paris. Printed in France. Blue hardcover 364 pp Tome I 388 pp Tome II. Oversize and heavy books.</p> Editions du Pont Royal, Paris. hardcover
2008x-0415461766Routledge 2008. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 288 pages. 8.74x5.71x0.79 inches. Routledge hardcover
51-5760Paris: Antoine Roche 1931. . 4to. 22.5 x 28.5 cm. Original wraps and glassine. Partly uncut. Luc Monod no. 7970. Limited edition; no. 280 of 294 copies printed on vélin d'arches total edition of 366. Plain paper wraps in original plain printed paper folder and glassine jacket. 4to; 188pp. plus frontispiece and 8 watercolor illustrations by Francis Picabia reproduced by Daniel Jacomet. Text in French.Pages very lightly toned at edges with slight grime at corner of front free end paper and half title cracking at hinges; paper folder sunned at edges and spine spine creased edgewear with corners rubbed with small tears and losses at head and tail of spine; glassine with some discoloration small areas of residue at top edge tears and losses at corners and spine with 2 tears with taped repairs. Lacking slipcase. A lovely copy of this illustrated book with most pages uncut. Very good in good jacket. Paris: Antoine Roche, 1931. paperback
B172844-1Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1929. 216 6pp. Prof. illus. in color. Lrg. 8vo. Marbled boards 1/2 morocco gilt Franz. Mosaic inlay at spine raised bands t.e.g. Orig. dec. wraps. and spine bound in. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1136. Presentation copy inscribed Pour M. G. Fourier/ ami de livres/ André Maurois. Bound into this copy before the frontispiece a fine original preparatory drawing in pencil and black ink by Charles Martin perhaps of Lieutenant Tarkington but not directly related to any illustration printed in the book inscribed dessin original de Ch. Martin in pencil at the base. Loosely inserted are three additional drawings: a portrait of Maurois in gouache and colored pencil by J. Bac 1948 and two sketches in pen and in pencil for illustrations by G. Follot. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1929. hardcover
1928FGN22-E-2Paris: Bernard Grasset 1928. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". Not stated. One of Andre Maurois' best-known works in the original French. One of Andre Maurois' best-known works in the original French. With an ink inscription by Andre Maurois to the title page. Ex libris William Tyrell. Tyrrell served in the Foreign Office from 1889 to 1928. He was private secretary to the Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Thomas Sanderson from 1896 to 1903 and then secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence from 1903 to 1904 before being appointed as second secretary at the British embassy in Rome. He returned firstly as precis-writer from 1905 to 1907 and later with Louis Mallet as private secretary to Sir Edward Grey from 1907 to 1915. Tyrrell supported the Entente Cordiale with France and did not think a rapprochement with Imperial Germany was possible before 1914. In the spring of 1915 Tyrrell appears to have suffered an almost total breakdown and he was moved to a less stressful job at the Home Office before being made head of the Political Intelligence Department from 1916 to 1919. He was Permanent Under-Secretary from 1925 to 1928 and British Ambassador to France from 1928 to 1934. As Permanent Under-Secretary he did not think there was a military threat from Japan and that Russia was the enemy and as Ambassador he worked for an Anglo-French agreement. He was also suspicious of Nazi Germany. He was sworn into the Privy Council in 1928 and made a Peer as Baron Tyrrell of Avon in the County of Southampton in 1929. In 1935 he was appointed President of the British Board of Film Censors a post he held until 1947. This book seems to date from his time in Paris as British Ambassador. Numbered 95 to the verso of the title page. Maurois' first novel Les silences du colonel Bramble was a witty and socially realistic account of that experience. It was an immediate success in France. It was translated and became popular in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries as The Silence of Colonel Bramble. Many of his other works have also been translated into English as they often dealt with British people or topics such as his biographies of Disraeli Byron and Shelley. In a quarter-morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally sound though with some rubbing and a few marks. Internally firmly bound. Pages have some slight marginal browning with just a few instances of foxing. Very Good Indeed Bernard Grasset hardcover
1940185911New York: Henry Holt and Company 1940. First edition in English of this vividly illustrated anti-war satire for children first published in France in 1930. Maurois was an interpreter for Winston Churchill during the First World War and with the outbreak of the Second World War was appointed the French Official Observer attached to the British General Headquarters. He went on to write Why France Fell 1941. Fatapoufs & Thinifers which concerns the fantastical world of two countries on the brink of war is strikingly illustrated by Jean Bruller who joined the Resistance during the Second World War and published under the pseudonym Vercors. Quarto. Colour illustrations throughout. Original blue cloth spine lettered in dark blue titles and illustration in dark blue relief on front cover. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Spine ends and corners rubbed faint mottling to covers; jacket unclipped chips and closed tears to creased extremities: a very good copy in like jacket. hardcover
B171707-1<p>Paris Société dÉdition Le Livre 1929. 4 251 3pp. 15 copperplate-engraved illus. 4to. Marbled boards 3/4 leather gilt. T.e.g. Orig. wraps. and spine bound in. Édition de tête: one of 20 numbered copies on Japon Impérial with a double suite of the engravings one on Japon in the first state and one on Hollande van Gelder from the limited edition of 430.</p><p>Originally published under the title Le General Bramble in 1920 the book was then republished in expanded form as Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady in 1922. The novel is about the contemplative conversations of a group of British officers including the titular "Doctor O'Grady" during WWI drawing heavily on the author's experiences who served as an interpreter for the British during the war. The Parisian J.E. Laboureur published three series of engravings on the theme of war despite being conscripted in 1914. He illustrated over 66 titles in his lifetime including works by Jean Giraudoux Remy de Gourmont Marcel Proust et al. and contributed to magazines and journals such as Gazette du Bon Ton. Among the students top whom he taught engraving are Marie Laurencin and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. </p> Paris (Société d?Édition ?Le Livre?), 1929. hardcover
1931008157London: Longmans Green and Co. 1931. First edition. Hardcover. This the first edition first printing of the first volume appearance of Churchill's engaging speculative history essay "If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg". This copy is rendered doubly compelling by being an elusive binding variant and retaining the rare and striking dust jacket. <br /> <br />This jacketed copy the only we have offered - is very good plus in a very good plus dust jacket. The green cloth binding is square and tight with bright spine gilt and sharp corners. We note only light soiling to extremities. The contents remain bright with a crisp feel and no previous ownership marks. Differential toning to the endpapers corresponds to the bright yellow dust jacket flaps confirming that this copy has spent life jacketed. Spotting is heavy to the top edge lighter to the fore and bottom edges occasionally intruding into the blank inner margins. The distinctive dust jacket printed in green and black on yellow stock is complete apart from fractional loss to the spine head and unclipped retaining the original lower front flap price. The spine shows only slight toning and minor wear is substantially confined to extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a removable clear archival cover. <br /> <br />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. This British first edition preceded an American counterpart and oddly we find it scarcer than copies of the original magazine publication. It becomes genuinely rare thus in the original dust jacket and is rendered an elusive prize when found in this variant binding of the British first edition first printing. Per Churchill's bibliographer Ronald I. Cohen this variant binding is "Bound in moderate bluish green embossed calico-texture cloth" as opposed to red cloth and slightly reduced page size from 235 x 151.2 mm to 217 x 140.7 mm. <br /> <br />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.b Woods B18. <br/><br/> Longmans, Green and Co. hardcover
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
L3 boxtemp jfr<p>Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu I II III Bibliotheque de la Pleiade Editions Gallimard Genuine Leather Bound. French Edition. Complete 3 Volumes. Edition Etablie et Annotee par Pierre Clarac et Andre Ferre. Preface D'Andre Maurois. Editions Gallimard. Genuine leather bound complete 3 volumes total 3602 pages: xlii1008 pp I 1224 pp II 1328 pp III.</p><p>I Ce volume contient: Du Cote de Chez Swann; A L'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs.; II Ce volume contient: Le Cote de Guermantes; Sodome et Gomorrhe.; III Ce volume contient: La Prisonniere; La Fugitive; Le Temps Retrouve.</p> Editions Gallimard. hardcover
B172808-1Paris Société dÉdition Le Livre 1929. 4 251 3pp. 15 copperplate-engraved illus. Stout 4to. Wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 30 numbered exemplaires de collaborateurs this one on vélin dArches with an uncalled-for extra suite of the engravings on Japon from the limited edition of 430. This copy especially printed for Mme. André Maurois as stated in the justification. Paris (Société dÉdition Le Livre), 1929. paperback
