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1957mc54Barrie 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The jacket is a bit marked and torn. Some mild tanning and a little foxing. Soundly bound. "This Edition First published in 1957 by James Barrie Books Ltd". Possibly 1st UK edition. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Barrie hardcover
MC00C-00713Librairie Gallimard. Collectible - Acceptable. SIGNED! Paris: Librairie Gallimard 1929. 9th edition. 16mo paperback. 86pp. French. Signed by author on front endpage. Poor book. Cover torn. Textblock mostly separated from covers. Owner's name on front endpage. Rouen France Travel Books in French Inquire if you need further information. Librairie Gallimard paperback
1944917T18Paris: Nelson 1944. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 6.5" by 4.5". None. A smart copy of this later French edition of André Maurois's witty account of his experiences in the French army. French. Later edition. The author's debut novel. Recounting the author's own experiences in the French army during the First World War in very witty and socially realistic language which gained him popularity in France upon publication and in the United Kingdom and English speaking countries with the translated edition. Written by Andre Maurois a French author. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor sunning and light marks to the panels. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine Nelson hardcover
19301310NY: D. Appleton and Company 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Edward Abbey's copy of this biography of Lord Byron with "Abbey" written on the bottom edge of the text block but not otherwise signed. A previous owner's inscription reading "From Myron to Inez" dated 1930 is on the front free endpaper. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. A good copy with he front hinge cracked pastedown torn but holding. Wear just through the cloth at corners. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1940007790New York: Henry Holt and Company 1940. First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Funny funny funny! With delightful illustrations. 4to. 28 by 20.5 cm. 92 1 pp. The translator Rosemary Benet was the wife of poet Stephen Vincent Benet and was also an author in her own right. Jean Bruller the illustrator was also a novelist whose best known work is "Le Silence de la Mare". The lightest of wear to the book itself -- light wear of blue fabric in corners and spine tips and gentle age toning of leaves. The dust jacket has minor close tears and shallow edge chipping with some light soiling flattened creasing etc. Dust jacket now protected with mylar. About as nice a copy overall as one is likely to come by. Henry Holt and Company unknown
B175849-1Paris Éditions Kra 1929. 214 8pp. Prof. illus. printed in color pochoir. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 3/4 morocco gilt. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. One of 930 numbered copies on vélin de Rives from the edition of 1000 the text printed by Coulouma and the pochoirs by Ateliers Jacomet. Paris (Éditions Kra), 1929. hardcover
B172842-1Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1932. 229 3pp. Prof. illus. in color. Sm. 4to. 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 1159. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1932. hardcover
B172842-3Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1932. 229 3pp. Prof. illus. in color. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 3/4 morocco. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. T.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1159. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1932. hardcover
B175846-1Paris Éditions Kra 1929. 226 4pp. Prof. illus. printed in color pochoir. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 3/4 morocco gilt. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. One of 930 numbered copies on vélin de Rives from the edition of 1000 the text printed by Coulouma and the pochoirs by Ateliers Jacomet. Paris (Éditions Kra), 1929. hardcover
B172844-2Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1929. 216 6pp. Prof. illus. in color. Dec. wraps. Glassine d.j. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1136. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1929. paperback
B172844-4Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1929. 216 6pp. Prof. illus. in color. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 3/4 morocco. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. T.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1136. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1929. hardcover
feb19101Adeverul. Used. ; Romanian Edition of Actrita Floarea literaturilor straine 515; For more details please contact me Adeverul unknown
51-3937Paris: 1939. TLs inviting Des Roches to his house in July.La premiere guerre mondiale finie André Maurois devait se consacrer pleinement à la littérature et produire une Å“uvre étonnamment nombreuse où les romans dans la veine psychologique et morale : Bernard Quesnay 1926 Climats 1928 Le Cercle de famille 1932 L’Instinct du bonheur 1934 Terre promise 1946 Les Roses de septembre 1956 etc. voisinent avec des contes et nouvelles : Meïpe ou la Délivrance 1926 Voyage au pays des Articoles 1928 Le Pays des trente-six mille volontés 1928 Le Peseur d’âmes 1931 La Machine à lire les pensées 1937 Toujours l’inattendu arrive 1943 Les mondes impossibles 1948 Pour piano seul 1960 mais également avec de nombreux essais : Dialogues sur le commandement 1924 Études anglaises 1927 Sentiments et coutumes 1934 Un art de vivre 1939 Sept visages de l’amour 1946 Destins exemplaires 1952 Lecture mon doux plaisir 1957 La Conversation 1964 Au commencement était l’action 1966 etc.Enfin à côté de livres consacrés à l’histoire : Histoire de l’Angleterre 1937 Histoire des États-Unis 1943 Histoire de France 1947 on doit surtout à André Maurois de nombreuses biographies genre dont l’écrivain fut le maître incontesté. On ne saurait oublier : Ariel ou la vie de Shelley 1923 La Vie de Disraëli 1927 Byron 1930 Lyautey 1931 Tourgueniev 1931 Voltaire 1935 Édouard VII et son temps 1937 René ou la Vie de Chateaubriand 1938 À la recherche de Marcel Proust 1949 Lélia ou la Vie de George Sand 1952 Olympio ou la Vie de Victor Hugo 1954 Les Trois Dumas 1957 Robert et Elizabeth Browning 1957 La Vie de sir Alexander Fleming 1959 Adrienne ou la Vie de Madame de La Fayette 1961 Prométhée ou la Vie de Balzac 1965.Included is a "Certificate d'exportation pour un bien cuturel" issued by by Ministère Culture of France. Expertise by Thierry BodinSyndicat Français desExperts Professionnels en Å’uvres d’Art.Les Autographes45 rue de l’AbbeÌ GreÌgoire 75006 Paris Paris: 1939 unknown
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
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
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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
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
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
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
20626number 15 of 530 8vo. original decorative boards uncut Elkin Matthews hardcover
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