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196819062604New York: The Limited Editions Club 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Lamotte Bernard. No 351 of 1500 quarto size 279 pp. signed by Bernard Lamotte with LEC Monthly Newsletter and Announcement. French writer Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893 best known for his short stories written in a naturalist style presents a story of power and corruption in "Bel-Ami"; one of Maupassant's few novels the story has been adapted numerous times to the screen and stage.<br/><br/>Illustrating this publication by the Limited Editions Club is French artist Bernard Lamotte 1903-1983 whose paintings have a dark energy matching the tone of deceit and political urgency in the text; Lamotte was also friends with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry best known for writing and illustrating "Le Petit Prince" and many of his aviation books were illustrated by Lamotte.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full blue cloth gilt lettering and line drawings and ruled borders in white on the front board and spine top edge gilt frontispiece a full-colour illustration by Bernard Lamotte title page in red and black full-page full-colour illustrations by Lamotte throughout; monotype Fournier cream-white Curtis wove paper quarto size 11.5" by 8.5" pagination: i-iv v-ix x-xi 1-2 3-266 267 1 colophon one of 1500 copies this number 351 signed by Bernard Lamotte on the colophon. With the announcement one sheet and LEC Monthly Newsletter one sheet folded once to make four pages with horizontal crease for mailing. In a glassine wrapper housed in a slipcase covered in purple paper with cream paper along the edges and line drawing ruled border and lettering on the spine.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean the corners straight and unrubbed a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean crisp as new. The announcement and Monthly Newsletter are fine clean and without wear. The glassine wrapper is fine clean without wear but for very light wear at the corners. The slipcase is fine strong and sturdy clean but for a few stray marks without wear with light sunning to the edges of the purple paper and light soiling to the bottom edge.<br/><br/>___CITATION: LEC Bibliography no. 405.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE:  International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
196890949Norwalk:: Easton Press. Near Fine. 1968. Hardcover. B00BVQ96HU . Translated from the French. Introduction by Alec Waugh. Collector's edition. Unused publisher's book-plate laid in. Quarto fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon book mark. Near fine.; 266 pages . Easton Press, hardcover books
194567105NY:: Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1945. Hardcover. Modern Library number 98. Selected and with an introduction by Saxe Commins. A later printing. Very good in a very good light age toning along the spine and on the rear panel dust jacket. . Modern Library, hardcover books
192229782New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1922. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket a little tanned at spine. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
19301318853Paris: Editions Excelsior 1930. Limited Edition #141/302. Other. Large octavo 192 pages; VG; housed in matching red cardboard chemise and slipcase with gilt; chemise has tape repair; pages are loose in gatherings as issued; with 14 original etchings loose in rear 14 colored illustrations and colored headbands and vignettes; Limited edition of 302 numbered copies. One of 265 copies on vellum of Rives of which this is number 141; scarce; shelved case 11. 1318853. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Editions Excelsior unknown books
1946132131London England: The Hand and Flower Press 1946. paper-covered boards all edges uncut. Hand and Flower Press. oblong 32mo. paper-covered boards all edges uncut. 23 3 pages. Limited to 750 copies. Translated from the French by Thomas Fassam. Cover sunned at bottom. (The Hand and Flower Press) unknown books
1998117382Edgewater FL: JEN Press 1998. cloth title gilt-stamped on spine and front cover dust jacket. Miniature Books. miniature book 6.4 x 4.8 cm. cloth title gilt-stamped on spine and front cover dust jacket. unpaginated. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by publisher J. Ed Newman Bradbury JEN Press 13. Presentation from Newman to Donn Sanford. Frontispiece and illustrations in text hand colored. JEN Press unknown books
1884175770Paris: Ed. Monnier 1884. 1st Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. VG- light rubbing to boards at spine and edges. Full plum-colored crushed leather with matching silk end papers and doublures original covers bound in. 117 pp. BW and some color illustrations. Binding by Gruel. Illustrations by Arcos Gambard Grasset Jeanniot Le Natur Adrien Marie Merwart Myrbach Renouard Rochegrosse Roy and Tirado. Text in French. Ed. Monnier hardcover books
1920WRCLIT46406Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre 1920. Printed wrappers. Engraved frontispiece by Georges le Meilleur woodcut head and tail- pieces. Very good. First edition with the text edited by Ad. Van Bever. One of 1750 numbered copies on Rives from a total edition of 1910. Very good or better. TALVART & PLACE MAUPASSANT 57. Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre unknown books
192429822New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a very good to near fine dust jacket evenly tanned at spine panel with a one-inch closed tear at bottom of spine but with virtually no paper loss. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
197426067New York: Bantam Books 1974. Paperback. xiii 394p. very good first mass-market paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Y8382. Focuses on 20th century entries. Bantam Books paperback books
1923160871New York: Brentano's Publishers 1923. Octavo pp. i-iv v-xviii 1-123 124-126: blank note: last leaf is a blank title page printed in orange and black original red-brown cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold and blind top edge stained black other edges untrimmed. First edition. An early work written between 1875 and 1877 first published in REVUE DE PARIS in November 1921 and first published here in book form. A bibliophile's obsession with the theory of metempsychosis leads to madness. Spine panel just a bit sunned gold lettering on spine tarnished as usual a very good copy. #160871 Brentano's Publishers unknown books
1948038403Hamburg: Robert Mölich Verlag 1948. 60p. 16 colored reproductions original half-cloth with stiff printed boards large quarto format. Robert Mölich Verlag unknown books
19801507008The Franklin Library 1980. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Bound in premium full leather. Accented in 22kt gold. Gilt title and raised bands to spine with all page edges gilt. High-quality paper with gilded edges ribbon marker and silk moire endpapers. Limited Edition as stated on title page. The Franklin Library hardcover books
19237939Paris: Editions Albert Morance 1923. Three-Quarter Leather. Collectible; Very Good. The 1923 1st thus #86 of 252 copies with the lavish wood engravings of Georges Le Meilleur complementing the text. Bound and signed by Vermorel of Paris in a 3/4 dark-green morocco over marbled boards. Matching marbled endsheets and pastedowns as well. Gilt-rule to the panels raised bands bright gilt-lettering and flourishes at the compartments. Solid and VG with light aging to the leather. Folio 58 pgs. top-edge gilt. Original blue wrappers bound-in. A very handsome edition of De Maupassant's short story. <br/><br/> Editions Albert Morance hardcover books
199390901Mankato:: Creative Education. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0886825032 . Translated from the French. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Creative Education, hardcover books
1993163829Catania Italy: Orizzonti bibliofilia italiana 1993. 54/90 LiV/XC. Hardcover. VG. The whole contained in a portfolio of loose signatures. The whole is contained in a green gilt embossed cloth portfolio with three cloth ties. Within there are loose signatures. The first contains the Title-page The there is a folded signature containing three hand-printed signed original color prints by Fabio Nicola Grasso numbered and signed in pencil. These are followed by a series of signatures beginning with page 11 and moving forward through the end at page 66 followed by a colophon sheet. Contains 38 colored serigraphs within the text by Aldo Turiano as well as the works by Grasso. A translation of part of the printers statement is: ".In the construction of this book Mario Grosso has used the most sought after and effective silk-screen effects to best represent the expressiveness of the artists. In the course of so much work Elsa Sormani Marie Luce de Vautibault Michèle Campagne Concetta Centamore Claudia Di Giacomo and in the concrete and essential form Mario and Lina Garraffo were close to us without whom this book would have seen no light. Hand-rolled by Mario Grosso Emma Cacciola and Fabio Nicola Grosso this book was entirely made at the OBI office in Catania and finished printing on 23 November 1993. This book has 68 numbered pages and three original off-text compositions Fabio Nicola Grosso signed by the author. At the end of the run all the plates have been destroyed so that this edition will no longer be available as justified below: n. 90 specimens with Arabic numeration; n. 90 specimens with Roman numeration; 7 specimens marked in alphabetical letters as mandatory copies; n.13 specimens in proof of printing out of trade reserved for collaborators." Orizzonti bibliofilia italiana hardcover books
1888015838Paris: Maison Quantin 1888. Limited Edition. Small Quarto. # 359/1000 copies 381pp. illustrated by Jules AugustHabert Dys frontispiece etching by E. Abot bound in original pictorial wraps plain paper wrapper used for protection. The etcher Felix Bracquemond discovered a volume of the Japanese artist Hokusai's sketches and soon became an early and fierce proponent of all things Japanese. Edouard Manet and Jules August Habert-Dys were among the artists he influenced with his avid admiration for Japanese creations or Japonism which soon became known as an art form. Maison Quantin unknown books
1889046694Paris: E. Plon Nourrit etc. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Near Fine Condition. Jean-Francois Raffaelli. Half green morocco over marbled boards spine a bit sunned original wrappers bound in. Black and white and hand colored illustrations throughout and 10 heliogravure by Raffaelli - number 29 of 40 on Japan and with an additional folding etching a version of the frontis signed in pencil by Raffaelli tipped in before the frontis. A lovely production. Size: Quarto 4to. Illustrator: Jean-Francois Raffaelli. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 046694. E. Plon, Nourrit etc. hardcover books
192429819New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a superb fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
19012312572New York: Boni and Liveright 1919-01-01. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Toledano 072.1. Corners rubbed with cloth beneath leatherette veneer showing through 1 inch split to edge of front and rear endpaper ink name on half-title page. xi 212 pp. Flexible leatherette boards gilt titles. A collection of works by the French author known for his short stories. Includes: Introduction; Love; Our Letters; For Sale; The Farmer; The Christening; Clochette; The Possessed; The Little Cask; His Wedding Night; The Adoption; The Wolf; The Chair-Mender; Moonlight; The Minuet; A Vendetta; Mother Sauvage; A Fishing Party; A Tragedy of the War; Apparition; Fear; Julie Romain; A Woman's Hair; Rose; The Prisoner of Monaco; A Legend of Mount St. Michael; Happiness. Boni and Liveright hardcover books
1924264059Girard Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company 1924. Pamphlet. 64p. stapled wraps 3.5x5 inches wraps lightly toned along edges pages evenly toned bottom corners of rear wrap chipped with no loss of text else very good condition in orange wraps. The "other stories" are "The Horla or Modern Ghosts" and "A Sale." Little Blue Book No. 292. Haldeman-Julius Company unknown books
19492290314Stravon Publishers 1949. 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Farruggio Remo. Third printing. One inch chip along jacket spine base and along bottom edge of front jacket panel jacket edges rubbed. 1949 Hard Cover. 128 pp. With illustrations specially drawn for this edition by Remo Farruggio. A collection of short stories. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Henri Ren Stravon Publishers hardcover books
1998117388Edgewater FL: JEN Press 1998. cloth title stamped on spine and front cover dust jacket. Miniature Books. miniature book 6.2 x 4.8 cm. cloth title stamped on spine and front cover dust jacket. unpaginated. Limited to 50 numbered copies signed by publisher J. Ed Newman on colophon Bradbury JEN Press 12. Presentation by Newman to Donn Sanford on front free endpaper. Biographical sketch of Maupassant by Newman. JEN Press unknown books
192429820New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1924. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Fine book in a superb fine dust jacket faintly creased at spine. <br/><br/> Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
