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1962516875Paris: Editions Thea 1962. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Text in French. Tall octavo. Profusely illustrated. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Publisher's small rubberstamp price on front cover spine and covers rubbed very good or better. With publisher's four-page pamphlet laid in printed in German Spanish and English with statements about Brigitte Bardot by Simon de Beauvoir Jean Cocteau Andre Maurois Jean-Jacques Gautier Louis Malle and more. Special issue devoted entirely to Brigitte Bardot. Editions Thea unknown
1929313590New York: D. Appleton and Co 1929. Translated by Hamish Miles. 379 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters blue morocco t.e.g. Very good. Translated by Hamish Miles. 379 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Co unknown
a89508Single complete issue. December 1935. First edition. Folio. Wraps. Fully illustrated in color and bw. This issue contains Ernest Hemingway article "Million Dollar Fright" artwork by George Petty Erskine Caldwell short story "Return to Lavinia" satire by Andre Maurois much more. 218p. VG. light rubbing on cover. no marks; no tears. Great vintage advertisements for fashion sports cars cigarettes and so on. . paperback
192881894New York: Galerie E. Druet 1928. Fine. Galerie E. Druet New York 1928 16 x 19.50 cm agrafé First edition of this catalogue presenting 36 paintings or drawings by Raymond Woog at Jacques Seligmann's Galleries in New York from January 15 to February 5 1928. Covers marginally and lightly shaded three small stains to left margin of front cover otherwise a rare and handsome copy. Catalogue illustrated with 8 reproductions of works by Raymond Woog. Text by André Maurois Galerie E. Druet unknown
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
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
1953120162AB1953. London Collins 1953. 13 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece 140 pages. Hardcover publisher's original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Hint of foxing to fore-edge. Preowner's name on front endpaper. Brief Lives - No. 8 Includes for example the following: Background to South Africa / From Hertfordshire to Kimberley / Scholar and Speculator / The Jameson Raid / War in Africa and the Death of Rhodes etc. hardcover
1959mon0000038641London Cape 1959 1959. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. Fifth Impression with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post London Cape 1959 unknown
1927mon0000138784FELIX ALCAN 1927T. paperback. Good. in x in x in. 1929 Felix Alcan Edition on half bound green cloth & SIGNED BY AUTHOR by way of a dedication french text -Rare and Collectable - will send out 1st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order FELIX ALCAN paperback
1927mon0000140313FELIX ALCAN 1927T. paperback. Good. in x in x in. 1927 felix alcan half bound red martbled boards libris plate to end paper FELIX ALCAN paperback
195571693Limited Editions Club 1955. Signed by the illustrator Bernard Lamotte #1424 of 1500 copies. No slipcase. Very Good condition. Limited Editions Club unknown
19852ivEe0039Norwalk CT: The Heritage Press 1985. Book. Illus. by Edy Legrand Illustrations by. Like New. Decorative Hardcover in Slip Case. Special Contents of This Edition Copyright 1965 © 1985 by The Heritage Press. 8vo or 8° Royal Octavo: 6½" x 10" tall. 430 xiv pp. A rare hard-to-find out-of-print scarce true collectible gem! A wonderful copy! An excellent spotlessly clean copy! Clean fresh sharp tight essentially and virtually flawless copy with crisp pages clean text and very light shelf wear. Addendum included. Slip case in mint condition. No dust jacket. Synopsis: Deep inside the dreaded Bastille a young prisoner has languished his face hidden from all for eight long years. He knows neither his true identity nor the crime that got him there. Then Aramis one of the original three musketeers the finest swordsmen in all of France bribes his way into the young man s cell to reveal the shocking truth. The revelation of this truth could very well topple Louis XIV King of France from his throne and Aramis aims to do just that. But a daring jailbreak a brilliant masquerade and a bloody fight for the throne may make Aramis betray his sacred vow of All for one one for all. And in so doing he will pit musketeer against musketeer bringing an end to this swashbuckling saga and either honor or disgrace upon them all. . The Heritage Press Hardcover
000246France: Paul Dupont presentation de andre maurois. avant propos de daniel benedite. etude et notice musicologiques de frederic robert.hard cover 30x35cm.inside soft cover book 50pp. with text bw photographs and illustrations.includes also 3 records 33 13. they include-des oeuvres de debussyravelsaint-saenscapletbotrel and others. toutes les grandes marches et fanfares militaires. les plus celebres textes discours et proclamations de;jauresalbert 1erpoincarepetainclemenceaufochgallienijoffre.no date. probably 1964. Paul Dupont hardcover
1964SKU1045439Atheneum 1964. hardcover. Good. 12x9x0. Atheneum; New York 1964. Hardcover. A Good to Very Good blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on front board and spine binding sturdy and intact heavily sunned spine buckram bumped top front board corner mild discoloration to board corners without Dust wrapper. In a Good moderate handling/scuff marks bumped top corner with abrasion some offsetting to buckram some shelf wear sturdy Slipcase. Oblong 4toquarto or approx. 11.5 x 13.5 inches. color illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Atheneum hardcover
2008Q-225300491xGrasset 2008-02-01. Pocket Book. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Grasset unknown
194841674D. C. Heath and Company January 1948. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good tight copy with some pencil translated words D. C. Heath and Company hardcover
1935857T1London: Penguin Books 1935-1940. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A seven volume set of Pelican Books as published by Penguin Random House. Seven volumes. This set includes: Ariel 1935. The first penguin edition of the work. Written by Andre Maurois a French author. Social Life in the Insect World 1937. The first pelican edition of the work. Illustrated with fifteen plates collated complete. Written by Jean-Henri Fabre a French naturalist entomologist and author. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism Capitalism Sovietism & Fascism in two volumes 1937. The first pelican edition of the work. Written by Bernard Shaw an Irish playwright critic polemicist and political activist. History of the English People Epilogue: 1895-1905 Book 2 1939. The first Pelican edition of the work. Written by Élie Halévy a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of British history. An ABC of International Affair: The Penguin Political Dictionary 1939. The first Penguin edition. A Penguin Special. Compiled by Walter Theimer a German scientist and non-fiction author. The Expanding Universe 1940. The first pelican edition of the work. Illustrated with two plates collated complete. Written by Sir Arthur Eddington an English astronomer physicist and mathematician. In the original paper wraps. Externally very smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Light fading to the boards. All volumes have original unclipped dust wrappers other than Ariel. Dust wrappers are also very smart with light chipping and the odd crease. Minor fading to the spine. Internally generally firmly bound. Hinges starting but firm to a few volumes. Volume one textblock may detach from boards with further handling. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the edges. Very Good Penguin Books paperback
1956175407New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1956. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Farrar Straus and Cudahy hardcover
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194229465New York: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated 1942. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated 1942. First American Edition with 1 on final leaf of text. Octavo; publisher's cloth black topstain decorative price-clipped dust jacket; 4203pp. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small closed tears spine panel a shade sunned foxing and dust-soil to rear panel and flaps jacket verso and endpapers also quite foxed else a Good to Very Good still attractive copy. D. Appleton-Century Company Incorporated unknown
195528487Brionne Eure: Amelot 1955. Very Good. Brionne Eure: Amelot 1955. First English-Language Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 52pp.; plates throughout. Very light wear to margins spine a shade toned else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper by the author and one other. <br /> <br /> Short dramatic interlude first written for the "Light and Sound" production held at the Palace of Versailles during the summer months at dusk. Amelot unknown
1928905P6London: Jonathan Cape 1928. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Edward Carrick. The first edition in English of this satirical Utopian novel by Andre Maurois with illustrated by Edward Carrick. The first edition in English.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles' is a satirical sci-fi tale in which a man and woman travel to an Utopian island where the dominant class are artists who provide the other classes with their raisons d'etre.Originally written in French by Andre Maurois here translated into English by David Garnett.Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Edward Carrick. In the original publisher's cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Spine is faded. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is edge worn with chips to the head and tail of the spine. Head of the spine is lifting. Spine is a little age-toned. Only a few light handling marks to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Jonathan Cape hardcover
500271251Sans date. Très bon état unknown
196176968Paris: Hachette 1961. Fine. Hachette Paris 1961 15.50 x 21.50 cm relié First edition one of 100 numbered copies on Marais vellum the only deluxe copies after 40 on Arches Half burgundy shagreen binding with corners spine with four raised bands set with cold fillets marbled paper boards endpapers and pastedowns original wrappers and spine preserved top edge gilt retaining deckled edges. Spine and boards very slightly and marginally lightened without gravity. Handsome copy beautifully bound. Hachette hardcover
