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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
27924S.l. Paul Hartmann 25 octobre 1930. 1 vol. 225 x 285 mm de 92 p. et 2 f. Broché. Édition originale. Un des 240 exemplaires n° 321 sur vélin de Rives. Envoi signé : « Pour Michelle Qui n’est ni patapouf ni filifer mais simplement belle – affectueusement. André Maurois ». Ce conte délicieux est une sorte de parabole sur la différence : deux frères Edmond Double dit Patapouf et Thierry Double dit Filifers s'entendent à merveille jusqu'au jour où l'un s'embarque pour la République des Filifers et l'autre pour le Royaume des Patapoufs. Entre les deux pays que tout oppose la guerre se précise très vite. Après des combats houleux les armes des deux clans se trouvent réunies par d'heureux mariages qui donneront des petits Patapoufilifers. Véritable réussite ce livre est aussi un outil pédagogique efficace pour expliquer aux enfants les mécanismes du racisme. Jean Bruller l'illustrateur disparaît avec l'entrée en Résistance : dans la clandestinité il prendra le nom de Vercors et livrera le texte bouleversant devenu un classique et un livre étendard de la Résistance : Le Silence de la mer. André Maurois eut trois enfants d'un premier mariage dont Michelle née en 1914 à laquelle cet envoi est probablement destiné. Devenu veuf il épousa Simone de Caillavet petite-fille de l'égérie et maîtresse d'Anatole France. Rousseurs éparses. S.l., Paul Hartmann, (25 octobre) 1930. 1 vol. (225 x 285 mm) de 92 p. et [2] f. Broché. unknown
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
63336Nrf - Gallimard 7 volumes In-8 24 cm 3200pp. illustr. 107 dessins de Philippe Jullian gravures sur planches hors-texte reliures pleine peau blanche dos ornes décors à l'or fin sur les plats édition intégrale tirage unique un des 1000 exemplaires numérotés sur vergé ivoire texte conforme a l'edition de la Pleiade revu et etabli sur les manuscrits de Pierre Clarac et Andre Ferre Nb-0189 unknown
69650Doubleday. As New in As New dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. 0881842117 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - TEXT PRISTINE - Corresponds to / earlier edition of ISBN: 0881842117. 498 pages. First edition so stated. Includes a Doubleday business reply card with detachable bookmark -- with a bonus offer-- . Doubleday 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
29038Maurois Andre Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog 1885-1967 & Rudyard Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936. Original Photo. Framed & Glazed. Original Photo. Framed & Glazed. Signed by Author. Maurois Andre Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog 1885-1967 & Rudyard Joseph Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936. Original 4" x 6" Black & White photo Signed. A terrific photo in excellent condition with strong signatures by both authors at the lower portion. A rather unique image set on the path of the estate gardens with both authors relaxed & enjoying each others company. Although Kipling was 20-years older he and Maurois were friends & colleagues. Beautifully framed & glazed & creatively triple matted to an overall size of 13" x 16. An excellent display. "A people always ends by resembling its shadow." Said by Kipling to Author & Critic André Maurois c. 1930 on the subject of the transformation of Germany. Quoted in Maurois The Art of Writing "The Writer's Craft" Sect. 2 1960. Maurois, Andre [Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, 1885-1967] & Rudyard [Joseph Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936] 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