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193856074Paris: Bernard Grasset 1938. First Edition. Exemplaire De Presse CCXXXVI 236. Signed presentation from Maurois on the half-title page. 12mo. decorative printed wraps; 494 pages. Very Good little darkening covers contents clean & tight. <br/><br/> Bernard Grasset paperback books
1927LD5796Paris: nrf Librairie Gallimard 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Half gilt-ruled black calf and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering on spine t.e.g.; with frontispiece portrait of Disraeli; and preserving original wraps and backstrip. Number 91 from a limited edition of 210 copies "sur Hollande." Small scuff marks at extremities ownership signature on front flyleaf. Otherwise book is fine -- a handsome binding and original wraps and text block very fine indeed. Number 8 in the "Vies des Hommes Illustres" series. <br/><br/> nrf, Librairie Gallimard hardcover books
193275931London Toronto Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell and Company 1932. Octavo pp. 1-2 i-iv v-vi 1-2 3-309 310-312: blank note: first and last leaves are blanks original black cloth front panel ruled in blind spine panel stamped in gold. First edition in English. Mostly nonfiction but collects several parts of Maurois' future history series including "The Earth-Dwellers" "The Next Chapter: The War Against the Moon" is part of this same future history series. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 3-40. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 153. Bleiler 1948 p. 196. A fine copy in near fine printed dust jacket with light wear at head and tail of spine panel and corner tips and a few internal mends of short edge tears with archival tape. The jacket printed on very thin paper is fragile and uncommon in nice condition. #75931 Cassell and Company unknown books
1944008346New York: Didier Publishers 1944. Near Fine slight toning to end papers in a Near Fine dust jacket small closed tear bottom edge front panel spine uniformly browned. Lovely Marcel Vertes illustration front panel of dust jacket. . First American Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Didier, Publishers Hardcover books
1924519381924. MAUROIS Andre. DIALOGUES SUR LE COMMANDEMENT. Paris: Bernard Grasset 1924. 12mo. printed wraps. First Edition. Signed presentation from Maurois on the half-title-page to Catherine Teiton. Good lower inch of spine missing some chipping head of spine. $85.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
192611641926. MAUROIS Andre. MEIPE OU LA DELIVRANCE. Paris: Bernard Grassett 1926. 12mo. printed wraps. First Trade Edition 23rd printing. Signed presentation from Maurois on the half-title page. Meipe is a fantasy country of unknown location created by Maurois' four-year-old daughter Michelle. In Meipe teachers never teach and it is not requried that children address adults politely. Very Good condition minor wear. Signed copies of this fragile paperback edition are uncommon and this copy has survived quite nicely over the years. $85.00. <br/><br/> paperback books
193807331New York: Harper & Brothers 1938. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine bright dust jacket with a few closed edgetears. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1949279581Paris: Hachette 1949. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. A clean copy of this 1949 edition in the original wrappers. Very Good binding. Hachette unknown books
1940WBH1783New York: Henry Holt and Company 1940. Patterned blue green cloth with black spine lettering. Overall brownish soiling. Ex-library with the usual indicia. Half title page cellotape repaired. Pastedowns with foxing. Illustrations in bold beautiful colors. Translated from the French by Rosemary Benet. A scarce children's book by the noted French author. . First American Edition. Cloth. Fair/Poor/No Jacket. Illus. by Jean Bruller. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Childrens. Henry Holt and Company Hardcover books
1960WB16903Paris: Hachette 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. One of a total edition of ten thousand. Original wrappers. Gift inscription. Spine tanned otherwise a fresh copy. Housed in an attractive custom clamshell box. <br/><br/> Hachette paperback books
196860377NY:: Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1968. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Norman Denny. First American edition. Near fine in a near fine light age toning dust jacket. . Knopf, hardcover books
1929246003Paris: Hachette 1929. First. hardcover. very good. Segur. 11 color plates and other black & white illustrations by d'Adrienne Segur. Slim 4to green cloth spine glossy pictorial boards rubbed. Paris: Hachette 1929. Very good.<br/><br/> Hachette unknown books
1929WRCLIT36992Paris: Grasset 1929. Quarto. Original printed wrappers. Fine in bit rubbed slipcase with splits at two joints in bottom panel. First deluxe edition under this title. One of seventy-five numbered copies of eighty-one on vélin pur fil Lafuma Navarre from a total of ninety-four copies in quarto format. TALVART & PLACE MAUROIS 15d. Grasset unknown books
1928162937Paris: Les Éditions des Portiques 1928. Octavo pp. 1-9 10-110 111 112: colophon original cream wrappers printed in pink and black all edges untrimmed. First edition. Le Coffre de l'âge heureux number 2. Translated into English as THE COUNTRY OF THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND WISHES London : William Heinemann Ltd. 1930. Wrappers just a bit dusty else a fine copy. #162937 Les Éditions des Portiques unknown books
1937JC2960New York and London: Harper and Brothers 1937. Hardcover. Very Good. Cloth. Boards a bit rubbed and sunned but a nice reading copy. From the library of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. with his bookplate on the front paste-down and inscribed by him "To Bethie from her Uncle Douglas / Hollywood - 1935." Fairbanks 1909-2000 was an iconic American actor from Hollywoods Golden Era his credits include Gunga Din and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. <br/><br/> Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1930W93005London: William Heinemann 1930. Cloth backed decorated paper covered boards. Some offsetting and foxing throughout. 11 full page full color illustrations and a number of black and white vignettes. A splendid work. First Edition. Cloth Backed Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by D'Adrienne Segur. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. William Heinemann Hardcover books
19275051Paris: Bernard Grasset 1927. 1st ed NCBEL III 845. Original buff printed wrappers. Nr Fine unopened. 243 pp sm 8vo. <br/><br/>An uncommon title. Bernard Grasset unknown books
1924012221NY: D. Appleton & Co 1924. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine copy publisher's green cloth titles stamped in gilt in uncommon dustjacket tanned at spine and edges and shallowly chipped at edges here and there. PON bottom ffe. Solid copy. D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
1955004660Paris France: Litteraires de France 1955. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. Vol I: 276 pages of text. Vol. II: 298 pages of text. Illustrated in black & white with a few colour plates. Limited to 1000 copies un-numbered. Red hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjackets with a few tiny tears and small creases; protected in archival mylar. The text is clean and unmarked. Litteraires de France Hardcover books
19277483London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner and Co. Ltd 1927. 1st. Hardcover. Collectible; Very Good. The 1927 1st edition. VG in its dark-brown boards with very light wear along the spine. 16mo 74 pgs. plus publisher's ads. Housed in a custom-made quarter-morocco box. <br/><br/> Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd hardcover books
192528443New York: D. Appleton and Company 1925. First American Edition. Small octavo 19.25cm.; original cloth in mustard decorative dust jacket printed in brown; 4154pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed and worn spine toned upper panel spotted; contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper coin-size loss to bottom fore-edge corner of half title else contents Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Collection of dialogues between a philosopher and a lieutenant. Translation by J. Lewis May. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
193066983London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The first edition in English #231 of 530 copies signed by the author. A Proustian pastiche translated by Hamish Miles. Octavo. Original decorative paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine with gilt titles. Minor scratch to the front board corresponding with a tear to the dust jacket. Some general browning and wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise very good. Elkin Mathews & Marrot hardcover books
1932WRCLIT22234Paris: Editions Bernard Grasset 1932. Small quarto. Printed wrappers. Fine in slipcase. First edition. One of 220 numbered copies on velin pur fil in quarto format of 394. TALVART & PLACE MAUROIS 51a. Editions Bernard Grasset unknown books
195622005New York: Harper 1956. First American edition. Cloth backed boards very good. Inscribed by Maurois to his American agent: "Pour Dorris Halsey qui a èté mon ange gardien dans le ville des Anges" <br/><br/> Harper hardcover books
194415294NEW YORK DIDLER 1944 1944. DUST JACKET UNCLIPPED; ADVANCE REVIEW COPY FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD FRESH COPY. F. Hardcover. NEW YORK, DIDLER, 1944 hardcover books