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1871WRCAM43342Paris 1871. Handcolored lithograph 13 1/2 x 9 inches matted to 19 x 14 inches. A few light spots of foxing in margin but image quite bright and clean; a few small scuffs to uniform. Very good plus. Plate from Jules Renard Draner's series of caricatures entitled TYPES MILITAIRES: GALERIE MILITAIRE DE TOUTES LES NATIONS published from 1862 to 1871. Draner - which was his nom de plume - was a Belgian artist who settled in Paris. Though he undertook a career as a businessman he never lost his zeal for drawing and caricature and in the 1860s he undertook to satirize the world's zest for military pomp with a series of 136 color lithographs depicting various military uniforms from around the world including ten plates showing American uniforms. Though his drawings were executed with an eye toward entertainment and caricature each shows accurate military dress down to appropriate use of feathers and buttons. This image shows a portly artilleryman presumably a German settler in Missouri decked out in a blue uniform with red trims holding a plate in one hand and a fork in the other. He is in New Orleans as indicated by a poster behind him evidently as part of occupying troops during the Civil War. He directs a horrified look at the bits of red food on his plate and fork perhaps intended to be some sort of foreign or New Orleans delicacy. Quite nice and highly displayable. COLAS 891. LIPPERHEIDE 3624. HILER p.744. unknown books
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
20149021876Minneapolis: Graywolf 2014. Paperback. Fine. Advance reader bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. <br/><br/> Graywolf paperback books
2003159752Paris: Editions du Chene 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text in French by Jean-Claude Renard. A collection of Doisneau's black and white images of workers in a wide range of settings. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Editions du Chene unknown 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
1872009009Paris: E. Dentu 1872. RARE. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at front end page -"a mon ami Lambert V. souvenir " Jules Renard". Jules Renard 1813-1877 was a French playwright and vaudevillist not to be confused with the later Jules Renard 1864-1910 who is known for his Journals. A sammelband of ten first editions of his vaudeville comedies in one act all published by A. Dentu Paris between 1863-1872. Bound in contemporary pebbled morocco gilt lettering and rules back with all ten titles in miniature marbled end papers. Near Fine small rubs at spine ends and corners two of the plays with stamp of "Unis et Libres Societe des Auteurs" at title page. The plays are 1. Un Monsieur qui a Perdu Son Mot 1863 36 pp. 2. Un Tailleur Pour Dames 1872 34 pp. 3. Meme Maison 1865 32 pp. 4. Un Habit Par la Fenetre 1867 34 pp. 5. Un Coup de Vent 1872 35 pp. 6. Une Noce sur Le Carre 1868 29 pp. 7. Deux Prisonniers de Theodorus 1868 35 pp. 8. Dans Une Cave 1869 29 pp. 9. L'Amour Mitoyen 1870 1870 34 pp. 10. Le Musee D'Anatole 1870 36 pp. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Editions. Pebbled Morocco. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Presentation Copy. E. Dentu hardcover 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
1871302161Paris: Au Bureau De L`Eclipse 1871. Coloured title-page and 31 hand-coloured paltes. 1 vols. 4to. Green illustrated boards quite damaged. Plates clean. Coloured title-page and 31 hand-coloured paltes. 1 vols. 4to. Au Bureau De L`Eclipse 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
