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193019557New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1930. 3rd printing. Hardcover. minor wear at spine ends top corner slightly bumped vintage price sticker from The White House San Francisco department store on rear pastedown; jacket a bit edgeworn short closed tear and associated diagonal crease at bottom of front panel light soiling to rear panel. Dutton Clue Mystery Series Mystery tale with a Parisian setting about "a young Frenchman of good family whose engagement to Gilberta Laval a lovely exquisite girl is poisonously opposed by Madame De Prasse and her idolized and gay son Lionel." By the author of "The Hands of Orlac" and "New Bodies for Old." Not a book you'll see every day of the week or maybe even once a year especially in such decent condition. . E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. hardcover books
1929133042New York: E.P. Dutton 1929. First Edition. First Edition in English and first edition in hardcover preceded by the French edition "Les mains d'Orlac" in 1920. With the publisher's wraparound band. <br/><br/>A seminal horror novel rare in dust jacket written by one of the most important French genre fiction writers of the early twentieth century. The basis for several films including the classic German silent film starring Conrad Veidt "Orlacs Hande" The Hands of Orlac 1924 and its American rival the sound version starring Peter Lorre "Mad Love" directed by emigre Karl Freund for MGM in 1935 and today considered one of the greatest horror films of the 1930s. <br/><br/>Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with the publisher's wraparound band "The Dutton Prize Mystery for November". The jacket's deco design is bright and striking with some toning to the spine jacket and band a chip at the crown affecting a portion of the title "The Ha" and part of "n" a portion of the publisher name at the heel the "Du" in "Dutton" and a few tiny chips nicks and closed tears. <br/><br/>Barron 1999 4-125. Bleiler 1948 US. Clute & Nicholls US. Hubin 1994 US. Locke US. Reginald 12140. Senn US. E.P. Dutton unknown books
192919847New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Very Good in Fair dj. 1929. 2nd printing. Hardcover. book is lightly worn with a touch of dust-soiling and faint spotting on the top edge of the text block; the jacket alas is badly compromised due to a large chunk having been torn away from the top left corner of the front panel taking with it about half of the title. "Body horror" novel about the psychological havoc wrought upon a famous pianist when his hands mangled in an accident are surgically replaced by those of a recently-executed murderer. Originally published in France in 1920 the novel was first filmed as a 1924 silent in Austria directed by Robert Wiene of "Caligari" fame; subsequent movie versions acknowledging the source novel were MAD LOVE 1935 starring Colin Clive and Peter Lorre and THE HANDS OF ORLAC 1960 with Mel Ferrer and Christopher Lee. It was also unofficially remade without source attribution as HANDS OF A STRANGER 1962 and is often acknowledged as an inspiration for the 1946 thriller THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS. Rare in the dust jacket this example of which apart from the noted large missing piece is virtually unworn and is a great candidate for professional restoration. Alternatively one could take the much less expensive approach of obtaining a beautiful facsimile of the original jacket from the well-known purveyor of such things; details upon request. . E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. hardcover books
1932165749New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932. Octavo pp. 1 2-24 printed self wrappers stapled. First edition. Published by Hugo Gernsback as "Science Fiction Series" No. 14. Renard is "generally regarded in France as the most important native sf writer for the period 1900-1930." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1993 p. 1003. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-898. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12139. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction p. 734. A fine copy. #165749 Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation unknown books
1932163890New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932. Octavo pp. 1 2-24 printed self wrappers stapled. First edition. Published by Hugo Gernsback as "Science Fiction Series" No. 14. Renard is "generally regarded in France as the most important native sf writer for the period 1900-1930." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1993 p. 1003. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-898. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12139. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction p. 734. "Friends of the Library" rubber-stamped at upper edge of front cover some tanning to paper stock a very good copy. #163890 Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation unknown books
1932136679New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932. Octavo pp. 1 2-24 printed self wrappers stapled. First edition. Published by Hugo Gernsback as "Science Fiction Series" No. 14. Renard is "generally regarded in France as the most important native sf writer for the period 1900-1930." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1993 p. 1003. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-898. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12139. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction p. 734. Mild tanning to edges a nearly fine copy. #136679 Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation unknown books
1932111199New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932. Octavo pp. 1 2-24 printed self wrappers stapled. First edition. Published by Hugo Gernsback as "Science Fiction Series" No. 14. Renard is "generally regarded in France as the most important native sf writer for the period 1900-1930." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1993 p. 1003. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-898. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12139. Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction p. 734. Owner's signature at top edge of front cover some tanning to paper stock a very good copy. #111199 Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation unknown books
1932111198New York: Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation 1932. Octavo pp. 1 2-24 printed self wrappers stapled. First edition. Published by Hugo Gernsback as "Science Fiction Series" No. 14. Renard is "generally regarded in France as the most important native sf writer for the period 1900-1930." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Science Fiction Encyclopedia 1993 p. 1003. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-898. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12139. Versins Encyclopédie de l'Utopie des Voyages Extraordinaires et de la Science Fiction p. 734. Mild tanning to paper stock a fine copy. #111198 Published by Stellar Publishing Corporation unknown books
1983030933Paris: Editions Max Fourny; New York Vilo Inc 1983. Naive art: language and mirror of the soul by Vilem Stransky. With the collaboration of Branka Doljanski for the choice of Yugoslavian works. Trranslated from French by Barbara Allemand et al. 333p. colored and b/w illus. dj large quarto format. Editions Max Fourny; New York, Vilo Inc unknown books
1983178922Paris: Muse d'Art Naif 1983. hardcover. very good/very good. 333pp. profusely illustrated in color and in black and white. Thick 4to glossy pictorial boards d.w. Paris: Muse d'Art Naif 1983. Very good copy.<br/><br/> Muse d'Art Naif unknown books
19961331514London: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc 1996. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp 147; VG; gray spine with red text; no jacket; cloth shows clean exterior; cocked spine; text block clean; illustrated. 1331514. FP New Rockville Stock. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc hardcover books
2000004354New York NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2000. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. 563 pages of text. Hardcover binding. Unclipped dustjacket protected in archival mylar. Bookplate signed by author affixed to front endpaper; from a Heartland Literary Society event. Farrar, Straus & Giroux Hardcover books
2000705555NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. 2000. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Farrar Straus Giroux paperback books
1914WRCLIT46459Paris: Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre 1914. Printed wrappers. Woodcut portrait by P.-E. Vibert. One of 1050 numbered copies on Rives from a total edition of 1062. Very good. Georges Crès et Cie / Les Maitres du Livre unknown books
1970URENNOT00DCeditions du seuil 1970. Very Good. Renard Jean-Claude. Notes Sur la Poesie. Paris: editions du seuil 1970. 153pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle bumps and light rubbing. editions du seuil paperback books
1923159253New York: The Macaulay Company 1923. Original American Edition. Hardcover. NF contents; VG covers; Good DJ with some fading to spine a bump to upper outer front corner and small tears to head/tail of spine. Moss green cloth/boards; black lettering. Moss green dj with black lettering including an excerpt from the dedication to H.G. Wells. All edges painted green. 308 pages with no illustrations. A scarce copy of the American English edition of Renard's early sci-fi novel originally published in France as Le Docteur Lerne. "The publication of Renard's first sf novel in 1908 Le Docteur Lerne Doctor Lerne gained him rave reviews and launched him into the limelight of Parisian literary circles. Although strongly derivative of Wells' The Island of Dr Moreau 1896-an influence openly acknowledged by Renard in his dedication-Le Docteur Lerne extrapolates the notion of biological engineering much further than Wells all the way into the fantastic. After years of experimentation in grafting animal parts to plants and vice-versa producing at times some quite amazing results Dr. Lerne begins interchanging brains between animals between humans and even between animals and humans. As a result of these experiments he ultimately learns how to project his own mind and spirit into other animate and not-so-animate objects like people trees and even an automobile. The narrative itself is recounted in the first person by Dr. Lerne's visiting nephew Nicolas: he gradually in detective-like fashion uncovers the truth of his uncle's experiments and his reactions to them range from morbid curiosity to outright horror. Part of the originality of the tale however is not in the sometimes outlandish plot sequences but in the manner in which they are told. The originality of this novel is two-fold: in its sf eroticism and in how it portrays the mind-body split through narrative point of view. One example: Nicolas is forced to have his brain exchanged with that of a bull. Following the surgery the young man must now struggle to acclimate himself to the alien: not only to his new bovine body and instincts but also to seeing his old self as the "other"-especially when the latter makes overtly sexual advances toward "his" mistress. Another example: later in the text after receiving his own brain back again the narrator is in the throes of a steamy sexual interlude with his aforementioned mistress when he suddenly feels the presence of another person's identity intruding into his mind and taking over his body: it is Dr. Lerne who gazing through a peephole nearby decides to become a more-than-first-hand observer to the proceedings. Such risqué subject matter and offbeat points of view in Le Docteur Lerne-continually oscillating as it does between the vicarious and voyeuristic-make it a quite original sf text and one that foreshadows other erotic science-fiction works by writers like Philip José Farmer Robert Silverberg and Kate Wilhelm published over a half century later. Of course if one were to judge Renard's Le Docteur Lerne from its only-available English translation New Bodies for Old one would never have the opportunity to read such passages. They are not there. In fact this translation seems to aptly exemplify the marketplace strategy known as "bait-and-switch." On its intentionally provocative dust jacket after the title "Maurice Renard's Startling Novel New Bodies for Old or The Strange Experiments of Dr. Lerne" the publisher chooses to quote the most enticingly suggestive portions of the author's dedication to Wells: "When Fortune.allowed me to discover the subject of this allegorical novel I felt bound not to set it aside because of a few audacities which a faithful rendering involved. Far from desiring to arouse.instinct in my reader and amuse him with scandalous descriptions my work is addressed to the philosopher." But when one then reads the actual narrative one discovers that all such "audacities" and "scandalous descriptions"-i.e. all passages of sexuality like those I have discussed-have been thoroughly and meticulously excised. Despite its cover's subtle promises of titillation the content of Renard's book has been truncated so as not to offend its anglophone audience's supposed sense of moral propriety." - by Arthur B. Evans from depauw.edu. The Macaulay Company hardcover books
1923152481New York: The Macaulay Company 1923. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi vii-viii vii a-viii a 9-308 309-310: blank note: last leaf is a blank original olive green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black all edges stained green. First edition in English. The author's first and best novel first published in 1908 as LE DOCTEUR LERNE. Renard ". stands out as one of the most original authors to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century . LE DOCTEUR LERNE impresses the reader with its up-to-date flavor and topicality. In his best pages Maurice Renard comes across as someone far ahead of his time someone who could be called a science fiction visionary." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 560-63. ". a major step toward a recognizable modern science fiction ." - Anatomy of Wonder 1981 p. 13. ". generally regarded in France as the most important native SF writer for the period 1900-1930 ." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction p. 1003. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1855. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 646. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12141. A fine copy in fine printed dust jacket printed on green paper stock. A superior copy of a book seldom found in nice condition. #152481 The Macaulay Company unknown books
1923138506New York: The Macaulay Company 1923. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi vii-viii vii a-viii a 9-308 309-310: blank note: last leaf is a blank original olive green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black all edges stained green. First edition in English. The author's first and best novel first published in 1908 as LE DOCTEUR LERNE. Renard ". stands out as one of the most original authors to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century . LE DOCTEUR LERNE impresses the reader with its up-to-date flavor and topicality. In his best pages Maurice Renard comes across as someone far ahead of his time someone who could be called a science fiction visionary." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 560-63. ".a major step toward a recognizable modern science fiction ." - Anatomy of Wonder 1981 p. 13. ". generally regarded in France as the most important native SF writer for the period 1900-1930 ." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction p. 1003. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1855. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 646. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12141. A fine copy in fine printed dust jacket printed on green paper stock with light tanning to spine panel. A superior copy of a book seldom found in nice condition. #138506 The Macaulay Company unknown books
192384547New York: The Macaulay Company 1923. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi vii-viii vii a-viii a 9-308 309-310: blank note: last leaf is a blank original olive green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black all edges stained green. First edition in English. The author's first and best novel first published in 1908 as LE DOCTEUR LERNE. Renard ".stands out as one of the most original authors to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century. LE DOCTEUR LERNE impresses the reader with its up-to-date flavor and topicality. In his best pages Maurice Renard comes across as someone far ahead of his time someone who could be called a science fiction visionary." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 560-63. ".a major step toward a recognizable modern science fiction." - Anatomy of Wonder 1981 p. 13. ".generally regarded in France as the most important native SF writer for the period 1900-1930." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction p. 1003. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1855. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 646. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12141. Some offsetting to endpapers previous owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down a near fine copy in near fine dust jacket with slight age-darkening to spine panel. #84547 The Macaulay Company unknown books
1923110277New York: The Macaulay Company 1923. Octavo pp. i-iv v-vi vii-viii vii a-viii a 9-308 309-310: blank note: last leaf is a blank original olive green cloth front and spine panels stamped in black all edges stained green. First edition in English. The author's first and best novel first published in 1908 as LE DOCTEUR LERNE. Renard ".stands out as one of the most original authors to emerge at the beginning of the twentieth century. LE DOCTEUR LERNE impresses the reader with its up-to-date flavor and topicality. In his best pages Maurice Renard comes across as someone far ahead of his time someone who could be called a science fiction visionary." - Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 560-63. ".a major step toward a recognizable modern science fiction." - Anatomy of Wonder 1981 p. 13. ".generally regarded in France as the most important native SF writer for the period 1900-1930." - Clute and Nicholls eds The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction p. 1003. Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1855. Clareson Science Fiction in America 1870s-1930s 646. Bleiler 1978 p. 165. Reginald 12141. Slight spine lean mild bruise to lower front corner tip else a fine copy in nearly fine printed dust jacket printed on green paper stock with some tanning to spine panel and along flap folds. A superior copy of a book seldom found in nice condition. #110277 The Macaulay Company unknown books
1966159288New York: George Braziller 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Text by Renard translated from the French by Elizabeth Roget and with black and white illustrations by Toulouse-Lautrec. A near fine copy with some light foxing to the page edges in a near fine dust jacket with some slight sunning to the spine and some very minute edge wear. George Braziller unknown books
1960250268Cambridge. Mass: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts Harvard College Library 1960. Number 29. Copies 1-50 with a series of preliminary trial proofs of the original lithographs . Also a complete extra set of the original lithographs contained in the book separately cased and enclosed with the book in a box case. illustrations by Walter Stein 61 pp. Oblong 8vo. Original quarter calf in original quarter black calf folding linen case. Number 29. Copies 1-50 with a series of preliminary trial proofs of the original lithographs . Also a complete extra set of the original lithographs contained in the book separately cased and enclosed with the book in a box case." illustrations by Walter Stein 61 pp. Oblong 8vo. With note in Phil Hofer's hand on colophon "Special Copy with sheet of proof lithographs for Bob and Deirdre Pirie." The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 #292 p. 197 Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library unknown books
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 books
196043198Cambridge Massachusetts: Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Harvard College Library 1960. One of 100 copies specially bound signed by the Artist and Translator with an extra suite of 13 original lithographs each signed or initialled by the artist in pencil. 13 mounted lithographic plates by Walter Stein several additional offset lithographs in text. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Original quarter black calf and sage green paper boards. Fine in original black calf-backed drop box some light rubbing to spine of box. Stein Walter. One of 100 copies specially bound signed by the Artist and Translator with an extra suite of 13 original lithographs each signed or initialled by the artist in pencil. 13 mounted lithographic plates by Walter Stein several additional offset lithographs in text. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. The Artist and the Book 1860-1960 #292 p. 197 Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. Harvard College Library unknown books
1960WRCLIT21513Cambridge: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts Harvard College Library 1960. Oblong small quarto. Calf backed pictorial boards. Spine extremities quite worn else very good in slipcase. One of 450 numbered copies from a total edition of six hundred copies illustrated with original lithographs by Walter Stein signed by the artist and Philip Hofer editor and translator of the text. This copy bears Hofer's signed presentation inscription. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library hardcover books
