Maurois, Andre (1885-1967)Biblio.com
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1927350304Paris : Grasset 1927. Hardback edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 293 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects; Wilde Oscar 1854-1900. Dickens Charles 1812-1870. Ruskin John 1819-1900. Walpole Horace Earl of Orford 1717-1797. English literature History and criticism. Paris : Grasset hardcover
194529397New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1945. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1945. First Edition stated. Octavo 21cm; viii230pp. Publisher's brown cloth with purple and gilt titling to front and spine. No dust jacket. Boards bumped and worn at corners and spine ends with soiling and scuffing to cloth and darkening / dulling down spine. Prior owner's address stamp attached to half title else interior unmarked. Binding is sound.<br /> <br /> Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
1949mon0000123829John Lane The Bodley Head 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable colouring of page edges and book cover due to age. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
19451431New York: Harper and Brothers 1945. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very good . Octavo 230pp. A very good or better copy darkened on the spine and with a small chip on page 86 not affecting any text. SIGNED by Maurois on the front free endpaper. Lacking the dust jacket. Uncommon signed. Harper and Brothers hardcover
1941101238London John Lane 1941. Reprinted Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a poor if somewhat edge-torn with some loss and dust-dulled dw now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. ; 174 pages; Description: 3 p. L. 9-174 p. 19 cm. Subjects: World War 1939-1945 --France. France --Politics and government --1914-1940. London, John Lane hardcover
192852670Paris: Librarie Gallimard 1928. 21 Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 116p duodecimo a very good copy bound in quarter leather and patterned boards. Attractive Engraved Bookplate. Limited to 300 copies. <br/><br/> Librarie Gallimard hardcover
1930mon0000005790Daily Express Publ. 1930. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. First edition without jacket on green cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable Daily Express Publ. hardcover
192775001Paris: Grasset 1927. Fine. Grasset Paris 1927 17.50 x 23 cm relié First edition one of 13 numbered copies specially printed on Imperial Japan paper for the Librairie des Champs-Elysées. Bound in half black shagreen with bands spine with four raised bands set with sand-colored mosaic shagreen band minor scratches to headcaps almond green wood-effect paper boards framed with two almond green mosaic shagreen bands almond green wood-effect paper endpapers and pastedowns original covers and spine preserved top edge gilt corners slightly bumped contemporary Art Deco binding. Handsome copy attractively bound in a lovely contemporary Art Deco binding. Grasset hardcover
192741687Paris : Bernard Grasset 1927. 185x120mm. broch. Non rogn. Bon tat. Ex-libris. Ddicac. Edition originale sur papier alfa satin numrot 1638/3300. 265 Bernard Grasset unknown
1935218295Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1935. One page in French. 1 vols. Half sheet quarto. Very good. One page in French. 1 vols. Half sheet quarto. "I'm sorry but I'm leaving Paris this week to spend several weeks vacation down South. I'll be happy to see you right after Easter ;" 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. <br/><br/> unknown
1932218299London 1932. Brief note on letterhead of Savoy Hotel London with blank conjugate. 1 vols. 12mo. Fine. Brief note on letterhead of Savoy Hotel London with blank conjugate. 1 vols. 12mo. Brief note regarding a possible meeting: " I don't return to Paris before the 20th of June but if you are still there I'll be happy to see you . " 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. <br/><br/> unknown
1933218296Neuilly-sur-Seine 1933. One page in French. 1 vols. Half-sheet quarto. Very good. One page in French. 1 vols. Half-sheet quarto. " . Sorry for this late response but for the last 8 days I've had too much to do to even open my mail. Illl b happy to see you if you can come some Sunday morning ;" 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. <br/><br/> unknown
1937218297Neuilly-sur-Seine 1937. One page in French. 1 vols. Half-sheet quarto. Very good. One page in French. 1 vols. Half-sheet quarto. "Thank you for writing me. The information you sent is quite interesting. Maybe ill see you as I'm thinking myself of checking into the Trianon Hotel to work for a few days . " 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. <br/><br/> unknown
1930218298Neuilly 1930. 5 lines on blank verso of printed and folded aerogramme. 1 vols. 12mo. Dampstained and faded. 5 lines on blank verso of printed and folded aerogramme. 1 vols. 12mo. Brief note of acceptance to a colleague in Paris: "Monsieur et cher confrère . Naturally I accept with pleasure. This contest of yours sounds quite interesting . " 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. <br/><br/> unknown
1933218294Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1933. One page in French. 1 vols. Half sheet quarto. Very good. One page in French. 1 vols. Half sheet quarto. Maurois book EDOUARD VII ET SON TEMPS translated into English as THE EDWARDIAN ERA appeared in French English and German in 1933. The German publisher was R. Piper in Munich. He writes: "Yes I do already have a contract for the German publication of Edouard VII . and I'm sorry that I can't offer it to you. Didn't you receive a copy of the Lyautey Pierre Lyautey CHINE OUR JAPON Plon 1932 I had asked Plon to send you one since i don't have one myself . " 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. <br/><br/> unknown
1933218257Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1933. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Slight wear at edges and folds. One page. 1 vols. 4to. 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
1932218293Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1932. One page each. 1 vols. Half-sheet quarto. Very good. One page each. 1 vols. Half-sheet quarto. 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
1940115203Edition de la Maison Francaise Inc. New York 1940. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In-8 brochéTrès Bon Etat édition numerotée No 242/500. Edition de la Maison Francaise Inc. New York Paperback
194089982New York: Harper & Brothers 1940. Second Edition. Hardcover. Good in a Good price-clipped dust jacket. Edge wear. Front panel of jacket shows chipping to upper left corner and lower right corner. Spine crown and heel shows wear chippingto crown. Lightly soiled to front and back panels. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1940329531New York: Harper 1940. hardcover. very good/very good. viii 255 pages. 8vo black cloth d.w. torn. New York: Harper 1940. Signed by Maurois on the half-title page. Remainder mark on low page edge. Very good in a very good dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> The real and exciting Truth about what happened to France written entirely from first-hand observation and from what Maurois heard at various times from Reynaud Bonnet Chamberlain Churchill Gamelin Gort and other leading figures. No rumors appear in this book. Andre Maurois Official French Observer at British G.H.Q. lived through the events he describes.<br/> <br/> Harper unknown
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
1940004614New York: Harper & Brothers 1940 Fifth edition. Black cloth binding gold titles. 255 pp. Signed by Maurois on half-title. Antique ex-library with hand-numbered and hand-dated bookplate. Dustjacket flap has been cut up and adhered to first free front endpaper half title and rear free endpaper. Solid copy good condition. Harper & Brothers hardcover
1931277011931. Paris Editions Bernard Grasset / Coll. ''Les Cahiers verts'' 1931. Un vol. au format in-12 188 x 123 mm de 248 pp. Reliure de l'ÂŽpoque de demi-maroquin ÂŽmeraude ˆ coins filets en noir portÂŽs sur les plats dos lisse ornÂŽ d'un filet d'encadrement dorÂŽ doubles filets d'encadrement stylisÂŽs dorÂŽs filets dorÂŽs pointillÂŽs dorÂŽs titre dorÂŽ date dorÂŽe en queue tÂte dorÂŽe syr tÂŽmoins couvertures et dos conservÂŽs. Canape et Corriez. Edition originale revÂtue d'une dÂŽlicate reliure du temps de demi-maroquin signÂŽe Canape et Corriez. Un des exemplaires numÂŽrotÂŽs du tirage sur Alfa. L'ouvrage donne ˆ lire quatre confÂŽrences donnÂŽes par Maurois consacrÂŽes ˆ TourgÂŽniev. Dos lÂŽgÂrement passÂŽ. Claires rousseurs dans le texte ; davantage prononcÂŽes sur quelques feuillets. b42961 unknown
19461821Paris: Editions Des Deux Rives 1946. Fine. Editions Des Deux Rives Paris 1946 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 200 numbered copies on vellum the only deluxe copies. A very handsome copy. Editions Des Deux Rives hardcover
195749799New York: E. P. Dutton & Company Inc 1957. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fair condition with a VG DJ. DJ is in a protective acetate. First Ed first printing as far as we can tell. Little fading on the jacket and the book itself is the gorgeous rose pink. . E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc, hardcover
