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4630<p>The Hands of Orlac Renard Maurice Published by Souvenir Press London 1981. First UK edition. Translated From the French by Iain White. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 301pp. Black boards with silver titles. Volume is in fine unread condition; housed in a fine unclipped jacket with the lightest of shelf wear.</p><p>First published in 1920 in French as "Les Mains d'Orlac." The First English translation was published by E.P. Dutton New York 1929. The Hands of Orlac was the basis for 4 films including the 1935 Hollywood version with Peter Lorre entitled "Mad Love".</p><p>The story centres round a world-famous concert pianist Stephen Orlac whose hands are horribly mutilated in a train accident. An eminent surgeon grafts on a new pair of hands but with ghastly results for Orlac now finds himself possessed not of musical skills but by strange and terrible impulses. The hands that he has been given were those of a man guillotined for murder and the spirit of the dead man has survived in his hands to live again in the unfortunate pianist.</p> hardcover
1874ZB987716Paris: P. Rouquette Editeur 1874. folio 16 text pp. 20 colored plates depicting individuals dressed in a range of formal or informal clothing; later half leather & marbled boards with the original paper wrappers bound in plates and text are fresh bright and crisp with minimal age spotting to four leaves of the text binding worn else good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Paris: P. Rouquette, Editeur hardcover
2002Q-0471383694Wiley 2002-05-27. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Wiley hardcover
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2021x-1474475000Edinburgh Univ Pr 2021. Hardcover. New. 272 pages. 10.25x7.25x1.00 inches. Edinburgh Univ Pr hardcover
0883730243New. paperback. New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. paperback
199753068Amateur. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. Oversized cloth. Text in French. Slight bumping to points. Tight and square. DJ has a small price sticker slight rubbing. ; French Edition; 308 X 240 X 27 millimeters; 237 pages . Amateur hardcover
194838836Oxford. Los Angeles: Bruno Cassirer Pazifische Presse 1948. First American edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. 671pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over cream quarter cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards and gray lettering on cover red and gray lettering on spine. Illustrated title page. Renard's aphorisms Histoires Naturelles jotted down after the return from a hunting expedition and illustrated with 23 reproductions of lithographs by Toulouse-Lautrec. Translated into English by T. W. Earp and G. W. Stonier. DJ with light wear along edges sunned at spine top and foredge; rubbed with penciled number 59 in upper right corner. Boards with thin sunned strip at top and bottom minor bump at bottom of back cover near spine. Light age-toning of block. DJ in overall good binding and interior in good to very good condition. Bruno Cassirer, Pazifische Presse hardcover
19233717New York: The Macaulay Co. 1923. First U.S. edition. Some offsetting to end papers previous owner bookplate to front paste-down near fine in near fine dust jacket with the spine slightly age darkened. 3717. Octavo Hardcover. This is the first edition in English translated from the French. Renard was the author of many science fiction books which have not been translated. "According to Versins author of Encyclopedie de L'Utopie et de la Science Fiction the most significant French writer in the science fiction genre between the Victorians and the moderns" from: Bleiler-Science Fiction The Early Years #1855. Biological science fiction. The Macaulay Co. unknown
192325067New York:: The Macaulay Company 1923. First edition. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Pencilled initials and date at rear; else very good or better in a nice unchipped jacket with some light fading and a few minor waterspots to spine. . 8vo. The Macaulay Company, hardcover
62304533CABI Publishing pp. 322 . Hardback. New. CABI Publishing hardcover
DADAX0810879735Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2015-11-19. Second. hardcover. New. 6.39x1.81x9.18. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover
2020x-1501750291Cornell Univ Pr 2020. Hardcover. New. 168 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Cornell Univ Pr hardcover
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ria9781032035741_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book examines the evolution of counter-terrorism CT policies in liberal democracies since 2001 with a specific focus on the case of Belgium. hardcover
6255144John Wiley & Sons pp. xii 338 Maps . Hardback. New. John Wiley & Sons hardcover
1960173978Cambridge MA: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts Harvard College Library 1960. Limited to 600 copies in three formats this being No. 75 of copies 51 to 150 that contain an extra set of lithographs. Hardcover. VG/VG case showing very mninor wear to the leather at the base of the spine. pale bluish green printed paper-covered boards with black leather spine with gilt title. 61 pp. 13 mounted lithographs along with a complete extra set of the original lithographs contained in the book separately cased and enclosed with the book in a box case. all contained in a linen covered clamshell case with matching black leather spine with gilt title. Numbered 75 on the limitation page and also signed by the artist and the translator. From a total edition of 600 this is number 56 of 100 copies 51-150 signed by both artist and translator printed on hand-made paper and containing an extra suite of 13 loose lithographs each signed or initialed by Stein in pencil. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library hardcover
1881019556Paris: Hachette 1881 Léon Renard Bibliothêque des Merveilles: Les Phares Library of Marvels: Lighthouses. In French. Paris: Hachette 1881. Stated third edition. Hardcover bottom half-leather. 7" 1/4 x 4" 3/4. 260 pp. 49 engravings. An interesting and graphic-intensive book on lighthouses including chapters on: The Origin of Lighthouses The Science of Lighthouses English Lighthouses Eddystone Smalls Bell-Rock Skerryvore Wolf-Rock North-Unst Sunderland French Lighthouses Corduan Lighthouses of la Hève Héaux de Bréhat Les Triagoz Iron Lighthouses Light Ships and other signaling devices The International Association of Lighthouses of the World Life at the Lighthouses Shipwrecked People. Very light foxing present hand-written inscription on presentation page: "Paris 3.XI.1902 and hand signature unreadable. Very good condition in solid binding. Hachette hardcover
2023x-3031314220Birkhauser 2023. Hardcover. New. 315 pages. 9.25x6.10x9.21 inches. Birkhauser hardcover
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