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192808603New York: D. Appleton and Co 1928. First Edition. Fine. Fine binding by Donnelley 3/4 Navy blue leather with custom felt-lined slipcase. A fine copy internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind; Slight age-toning at spine. Translated by Hamish Miles. D. Appleton and Co unknown
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
250118EASTON PRESS. Hardcover. GOOD. NOEAN 0 9789900228394 C1990 VERY GOOD GREY LEATHERBOUND HARDCOVER W/ GILT EDGES LIGHT WEAR STAMPED GILT COVER W/ SILK ENDPAPER & RIBBON BOOKMARK TRANSLATED BY HAMISH MILES NOEAN EASTON PRESS hardcover
100-41734Appleton and Co. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Appleton and Co hardcover
1025608607.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
193387898Paris : Editions Bernard Grasset 1933. 205x145mm. reliure toile avec piÂce de titre et dÕauteur dorÂŽs au dos. Edition originale sur papier vÂŽlin pur chiffon numÂŽrotÂŽe n.¡ XIV / XL. Bel exemplaire. 647 Editions Bernard Grasset unknown
19323148928Madrid.: Aguilar. 1932. Paperback. Conserva cubierta original . Good. 12 cm. 191 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda artesanal. Conserva cubierta original . Biografía. Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich 92Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich 92 Literatura francesa. Novelas representativas de costumbres y caracteres. Siglo XX. 84-311.2"19" 821.133.1-3 Aguilar. paperback
19323655899Madrid.: Aguilar. 1932. Hardcover. Contiene pegatina en lomo. Good. 18 cm. 200 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal hol nervios. Contiene pegatina en lomo. Geografía e historia 92Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich Lingüística y literatura 84-311.2"19" Aguilar. hardcover
193221802Madrid: M. Aguilar Ed. 1932.- 197 p.; 8º mayor 193 x128 cm; Media Piel nueva conservando las cubiertas originales. LITERATURA Y ESTUDIOS LITERARIOS EXTRANJEROS DE LOS SIGLOS XVI-XXI Libro en español M. Aguilar hardcover
1960035615Paris France: Editions des Deux Coqs D'Or 1960. Hardcover. Good. Incomplete set of 14 Volumes. Missing Volumes 15 & 16. Good Condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight pages age toned. Pictures available upon request. Editions des Deux Coqs D'Or hardcover
1943408293New York: Éditions de la Maison française 1943. Softcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. 61 1pp. Text in French. Club stamp and price stamp on front wrap as well as some soiling on the wrappers and the spine tined still a tight and presentable partially unopened good plus copy. Inscribed by the author to the socially prominent sometimes Congressman William Astor Chanler. Éditions de la Maison française unknown
194113651Etudes littraires I & Etudes littraires 2. Paul Valry Andr Gide Marcel Proust Henri Bergson Paul Claudel Charles Pguy Georges Duhamel Martin du Gard Jacques de Lacretelle Franois Mauriac Jules Romains Saint Exupry Editions de la Maison Francaise 1941 & 1944 first editions two volumes #1 is fine with a glassine dust-wrapper which has a bit of wear tear and chipping; #2 is fine in near fine glassine dust-wrapper. Each of 200 copies #1 is #5/50 on Sur Papier Texte and SIGNED by the author while #2 is #26/50 on Sur Papier Texte. Text in French. Editions de la Maison Francaise unknown
194113650Etudes littraires I. Paul Valry Andr Gide Marcel Proust Henri Bergson Paul Claudel Charles Pguy Editions de la Maison Francaise 1941 first edition a bit of wear to the upper margin of the rear cover and rear end-paper else just about fine in lightly worn and chipped glassine dust-wrapper. Of 200 copies this is #26/50 on Sur Papier Texte. Text in French. Editions de la Maison Francaise unknown
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
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
194053567New York: Henry Holt and Company 1940. fair to good fair to good. Jean Bruller. Quarto 92 color illus. pencil mark on p.24 p.25 torn and repaired with tape: top corner missing chips/creases to lower edge. DJ soiled and worn: tears and small pieces missing to edges DJ in plastic sleeve. A children's story about the imaginary underground land of the fat and congenial Fattypuffs and the thin and irritable Thinifers--perhaps an allegory of France and Germany before World War II. Henry Holt and Company unknown
194012238New York: Henry Holt 1940. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Fine. Bruller Jean. 1st ptg. 4to full blue cloth decorated with darker blue designs four-color endpapers and color illustrations throughout by Jean Bruller. 92pp. Bookplate on verso of front endpaper else fine no dj or other owner's marks. Henry Holt hardcover
1968020588New York: Alfred A. Knopf Inc. Neat gift inscription facing the title page dust jacket in mylar is price clipped. Q2 . Very Good. Cloth. First US Edition. 1968. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. hardcover
0099141116.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0370010299.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2000Q-1903252075Gardners Books 2000-09-30. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Gardners Books paperback
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
1925217382Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1925. 4 pages in all with a few corrections and one note in ink; on black-bordered stationery. 1 vols. 8 x 10-1/2 3 & 9 x 7 inches 1. Slight wear at edges and folds. 4 pages in all with a few corrections and one note in ink; on black-bordered stationery. 1 vols. 8 x 10-1/2 3 & 9 x 7 inches 1. Maurois receives Howe's translation of his essay on Goethe returns it with praise discusses the possibiliy of Howes' translating Maurois' current work Bernard Quesnay the translator's condition of 1% of the royalty negotiations with Appleton etc. etc.<br /> <br /> Early correspondence by this French Jewish novelist biographer essayist and historian. Born as Emile Herzog he changed his name assimilated and published his first novel in 1918. During WWII he supported the Vichy regime but was a strong opponent of Hitler and eventually had to flee to the United States where he taught at Princeton. He is perhaps even more widely known in Great Britain and the U.S. for his masterful biographies of Shelley and Byron and his books on the Edwardian era and English history. unknown
1064-06Paris Éd. du Sagittaire 1930. août-sept. 1930. 190 2 S. OBrosch. Teils unaufgeschn. Mit eh. 3-zeil. Widmung des Verfassers am Vortitel. (Paris), Éd. du Sagittaire (1930). unknown
1520Paris: Reagrds / Editions du Sagittaire 1931. First edition of Maurois' most interesting work. One of 100 numbered copies printed on fine Holland wove paper. 8vo original wraps. Uncut. Fine. <br/><br/> Paris: Reagrds / Editions du Sagittaire, 1931 paperback