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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
193356039New York: Appleton 1933. hardcover. very good. Translated by H. Miles. Illustrated. viii 391pp. 8vo black cloth. New York: D. Appleton_Century 1933. A very good copy.<br/><br/> Appleton unknown books
1959011771New York: E. P. Dutton 1959. 1st Edition. 292 1p. b/w illus. dj. E. P. Dutton unknown books
63590hardcover. 428pp. 8vo cloth d.w. New York 1944.<br/><br/> unknown books
67884hardcover. illus. 500pp. 8vo cloth. N.Y. 1937.<br/><br/> unknown books
194845196NY: Harper 1948. First Edition. 8vo pp. x 477. Index. Translated from the French by Henry L. Binsse. Illustrated. Dark blue cloth blindstamped and lettered on spine in worn gilt. Cover bumped and faded one hinge tender o/w VG. A history of France through WWII. Harper unknown books
1928013048New York: E.P. Dutton and Company 1928. Paper cover and spine labels. Spine label lightly stained with small piece missing not affecting letters. Tiny piece missing top of cover label. See photos. Previous owner's name top of front free endpaper. The novel is a reflection of post-World War One concern regarding propaganda malleability of public opinion power of press barons. The author presents a future in which the news media control the world's governments. 46pp. First American Edition. Blue Cloth. Moderate General Cover Wear/No Jacket. Duodecimo 6 1/8" x 4 1/2". E.P. Dutton and Company Hardcover books
19281284596New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. First American Edition. 12mo. 46 pp. VG-/no DJ; blue cloth boards beige title labels with black lettering affixed to spine and front board; bumping/chipping/fraying to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards age-toning/cocking to spine no shelf lean boards somewhat shaken binding intact foxing to paper labels lettering legible; age-toning and shelfwear to text-block; mild rubbing to edges of boards; age-toning to endpapers and interior very slight foxing/wear to front endpapers mild stain to fore-edge of title page text legible throughout; pub. 1928 "First Edition" stated to copyright page; INSCRIBED by Maurois to half-title page; LP consignment; shelved Case 8 Dupont. 1284596. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. E.P. Dutton & Co unknown books
193141752NY: Appleton 1931. First Edition. 8vo pp. 193. Cover slightly worn but a VG tight copy. A novel. Appleton unknown books
1974168179New York: Harper & Row Publishers 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 288 pages. Translated from the French by Moura Budberg with Barbara Creed. A profusely illustrated examination of Proust. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Harper & Row, Publishers unknown books
19409023115New York: Harper and Brothers 1940. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth covered boards spine stamped in gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities else fine <br/><br/> Harper and Brothers hardcover books
1940304254New York Harper & Brothers Publishers 1940. 1940. Seventh edition so stated; "L-P". 8vo. Translated from the French by Denver Lindley. Dust jacket unclipped; few nicks; short tear. Very good. 255 pages. Signed and inscribed by Andre Maurois on the half title page: "Pour Arthur S. Wiley qui comprend la France. . .Andre Maurois". Inscribed by Authors. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers [1940]. hardcover books
1940WRCLIT62176New York: Editions de la Maison Francaise 1940. Small quarto. Publisher's printed double wrappers. Outer wrappers darkened and a bit soiled faint discoloration in lower margins of a few leaves otherwise very good the inner wrapper fresh and bright. First edition thus published as the first volume in the expatriate "Voix de France" collection. Inscribed and signed by the author on the first blank and with the recipient's small date ownership signature. One of 450 numbered copies on Strathmore from a total edition of five hundred. Editions de la Maison Francaise unknown books
1932218293Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1932. One page each. 1 vols. Half-sheet quarto. Very good. One page each. 1 vols. Half-sheet quarto. Maurois to a Fellow Biographer. Two letters to Madol concering the latter's book on the Spanish dictator Godoy translated into English as GODOY: THE FIRST OF THE MODERN DICTATORS L. 1934.<br/><br/>In the first letter Maurois acknowledges receipt of the book by the historian and biographer Madol: " I have just read the beginning and the book seems fine to me. I promise to let you know . "<br/><br/>In the second letter Maurois responds to an invitation to write the Preface to GODOY: "I"d be delighted to see your book on Godoy appear in France but I don't feel capable of writing a preface on the subject. It's about a man I know little about except through you and about a period which I have never studied. My Preface would have little authority. I think every man should stay faithful to what he knows. But if you wish I could very well recommend your book to my publisher . "<br/><br/>André Maurois 1885-1967 novelist and biographer was son of an Alsatian draper who worked in the family business until he became a staff liaison officer with the British forces during World War I. His novel Les Silences du colonel Bramble 1918 gained him an immediate celebrity; Maurois wrote prolifically: novels on philosphical and moral themes and well-regarded biographies; he was elected to the Académie Française in 1938. unknown books
1933218257Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1933. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Slight wear at edges and folds. One page. 1 vols. 4to. To the American Spectator. Interesting letter from the French Jewish novelist biographer essayist and historian to the American co-editor along with George Jean Nathan of Nathan's newly formed magazine "The American Spectator."<br/><br/>"My dear Boyd<br/><br/>"I had promised to give some unpublished excepts from my Edward VII. It isn't easy to detach sections from a historical work. However you could take either the first chapter "Final Days and Death of Queen Victoria" which Appleton already has in translation and could give you - or the third chapter "Men and Parties" which contains several potraits of Englihs politicians . a few of them might be amusing ."<br/><br/><br/>Born as Emile Herzog Maurois 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 Edward and the Edawardian Period as discussed here and English history. unknown books
56040hardcover. Transl. by Gerard Hopkins. Illus. 8vo cloth. London 1956. Very good.<br/><br/> unknown books
1928WRCLIT24303Paris: Gallimard 1928. Printed wrappers. First ordinary edition trade issue. Spine a bit used with small tear else very good unopened. BLEILER p.136. TALVART & PLACE MAUROIS 30b. Gallimard unknown books
19631093081963. hardcover. very good/very good. Mendjisky. Illustrated with 66 color and b/w plates. Tall 4to cloth worn d.w. France: N.P. 1963. A very good copy.<br/><br/> unknown books
196345845Paris 1963. 4to pp. not numbered. Menjisky's presentation on flyleaf with large ink drawing of a sunflower. Illustrated in with color and black-and-white reproductions. Essays by the four authors listed. Cover slightly scuffed and soiled o/w a VG tight copy. unknown books
22557Les Peintres Du Livre. N.D. Hardcover. Green cloth No. 372 of 3000 numbered copies illustrated by Carzou; fine in fine slipcase.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Les Peintres Du Livre hardcover books
22210n.p.: Collection Les Images Du Temps. N.D. First Edition. Softcover. Wraps #563 of 1001 copies with a frontispiece portrait of the author by L. Madrassi and 8 lithographs by Edy Legrand. Near fine but for sunning to spine and rear wraps. In previous owner's slipcase and half-chemise.; Aux Editions Lapina V; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Collection Les Images Du Temps paperback books
1926176360Paris: Societe d'edition "le livre" Emile Chamontin directeur 1926. No. 10 of 20 of this edition. Paperback. VG but with soiling to covers where glassine was lacking minor age toning to extremities of some pages not bad overall a tight copy that could have been stored better. The front cover is slightly cattywampus from the two extra sets of engravings being inserted in the front of the book as might be expected. Printed wraps with glassine remnants on inside flaps. 24 pp. 15 engravings etchings withing the text and two extra sets of these illustrations each set representing a different state are included only 20 such sets were issued of the overall edition of 430 copies. Text is in French. The book itself has been printed on Imperial Japon and the extra engraving printed on Imperial Japon and on Holland Van Gelder it appears from the colophon and limitation at the rear of the book. Quite rare as a result of this limited configuration. Each set of plates is wrapped in glassine and the extremities of these plates show age-toning or light soiling. Societe d'edition "le livre", Emile Chamontin, directeur paperback 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
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
1926118726New York: D. Appleton & Company 1926. Octavo original moiree-pattern orange cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold fore and bottom edges rough trimmed light orange endpapers. First U.S. edition. first printing with code "1" at base of text on page 247. Three short novellas fictionalized treatments of Goethe Balzac and the actress Sarah Siddons -- all within the overall framework of an invented world named "Mape." A bright clean very good copy. #118726 D. Appleton & Company unknown books