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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
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
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
1956118729London: Michael Joseph 1956. Octavo cloth. First edition. Fourteen short stories of contemporary French life. A bright very good copy. #118729 Michael Joseph unknown books
193141752NY: Appleton 1931. First Edition. 8vo pp. 193. Cover slightly worn but a VG tight copy. A novel. Appleton unknown books
196328444New York: Macmillan Company 1963. First Thus. First Printing. Octavo 21.5cm.; original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket red topstain; 187pp.; illus. Jacket extremities rubbed and a bit scratched long paint smear to spine faint dampstain to textblock fore-edge. Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. Two science fiction suspense novellas; The Weigher of Souls was first published in the United States in 1931 see BLEILER 1972 p. 196. Macmillan Company 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
19324858.1New York: Williiam Edwin Rudge 1932. 1st Edition. Original brown cloth spine lettering stamped in gilt TEG light purple dust jacket with lettering printed in black. A G/VG copy dust jacket faded sun toned on spine water markings on head of upper dust jacket internally clean and bright. 91 1 colophon pp. Frontis plate. 7-3/4" x 5" <br/><br/>1 of 750. Williiam Edwin Rudge hardcover 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
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
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
1945Embry 129454Harper & Brothers 1945. First edition first printing. Spine very slightly toned near fine in custom mylar cover. Tan cloth with plum title labels no dust jacket. Signed by the author on a taped in note card tape yellowed. Harper & Brothers, 1945. First edition, first printing. hardcover books