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186155072Paris:: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie. 1861. Cinquieme edition. original gilt morocco-backed cloth boards a.e.g. Old 1862 ink gift inscription; some leaves at beginning and end foxed; cloth sides of the binding rubbed; tight and sound. 8vo. Illustre par Gustave Dore. Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., hardcover
1884109238Paris: Hachette 1884. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. original quarter leather hardcover with marbled boardsillustrated400 pagesextremities a little rubbedinner hinge weak otherwise very good. <br/> <br/> Hachette hardcover
1860254476Paris : L. Hachette et cie 1860. Troisieme Édition. Hardcover. Finely bound in quarter contemporary gilt-blocked aniline-calf over marble boards. Remains preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 2 p. . 343 1 p. 2 . ; 18 cm. Subjects; Edmond About 1828-1885. French Fiction. Genre; Fiction. Paris : L. Hachette et cie hardcover
188310284Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1883. Hardcover. Gutes Exemplar. 8°. mit einem Frontispiz und einigen s/w Tafeln. Or.Hldr. mit marmorierten Überzügen Frankreich; 19. Jahrhundert; Librairie des Bibliophiles, hardcover
18613677Paris: Michel Lévy 1861. Fine. Michel Lévy Paris 1861 14 x 23.50 cm relié First edition. Half black shagreen binding spine with five raised bands some light wear marks without consequence contemporary binding. Handsome copy. Michel Lévy hardcover
186400236312Paris Librairie de L. Hachette 1864. Hardcover. Good. 5e ed. illustrée par Gustave Doré. Gold on cut.; Foxed; book plate on upper paste down. From the library of prof.dr. Herman de la Fontaine Verwey; corners worn. Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette hardcover
1884917Y26Paris : Librairie Hachette Et Cie 1884. Leather. Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A smart copy of Edmond About's novel delving into themes of love and societal expectations of 19th-century France. A later edition of this French novel from Edmond About.In half crushed morocco binding signed by Riviere and Son. With decorative paper covered boards. This book is a captivating tale of love and revolution that offers rich insight to 19th-century France. The work was adapted into two Italian films in the early 1920s. About initially made his name as an entertaining anti-clerical writer later becoming best remembered as a farceur. In half crushed morocco binding with decorative paper covered boards. Externally smart. With rubbing to the extremities heaviest to the joints. With a bookplate of one W. U. L. Unwin to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with occasional spots heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Good Librairie Hachette Et Cie hardcover
185980045New York: D. Appleton & Company. Good; Minor Cover Wear. 1859. Hardback. 219 pages . D. Appleton & Company hardcover
1872FGN10-E-14Paris : Librarie Hachette 1872. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A farcical novel by author Edmond Francois Valentin About. In original French. About was a French novelist publicist and journalist. He made his career as an entertaining anti-clerical writer. He wrote several satirical works and is best remembered for his farcical writings including Trente et Quarante. Trente et Quarante has been adapted into a 1945 film directed by Gilles Grangier. In a half morocco binding. Externally smart with rubbing to the head of the spine and the paper covered boards. Internally firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned due to paper used. Spotting to the endpapers and occasional scattered spots throughout. Very Good Librarie Hachette hardcover
1896861P9Paris: Petite Bibliotheque-Charpentier 1896. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 4.5" by 3". Uberti. Edmond About's novel following the adventures of a young actress in Paris as she tries to begin her career in the original French. In the original French.'Tolla' is a novel following the story of a young Parisian actress.The publication of this novel in 1855 gave rise to some controversy as some thought the author lifted too freely from an earlier Italian novel named 'Vittoria Savelli'.Illustrated with a frontispiece and one plate.By Edmond Francois Valentin About.Bookplate of Ronald Lindsay to the front paste down likely the British diplomat who was Ambassador to Turkey Germany and the United States. In a half morocco binding with marbled paper to the boards. Externally smart. Spine is a little faded. Some light marks to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front paste down. Spots to the fore edge. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with scattered spots. Very Good Indeed Petite Bibliotheque-Charpentier hardcover
186918934s. l. Paris: Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes 1869. Fine. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes s. l. Paris 1869 15.50 x 25 cm agrafé First edition. Plain paper cover. Rare. Extrait de La Revue des deux mondes unknown
1882032537Boston: James R. Osgood And Company 1882. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece Portrait. Xvii 261 Pp. Brown Cloth Gilt. First Edition. Light Wear Gilt Fairly Bright A Little Bubbling Of Cloth A Few Pinpoint Frays At Edges Rear Hinge Cracked Due To Bancroft's Personal Envelope With Thick Enclosures Tipped To Rear Endpaper Pages Clean But A Little Aged. Ownership Signature Of Textile Manufacturer Samuel Bancroft Jr. Of Rockford Mills Delaware Dated 11/22/81 And With His Large And Elaborate Heraldic Bookplate On Front Pastedown. Also With A Seven Page Holograph Letter From Alfred Darbyshire To His Cousin Bancroft Dated September 11 1881 Apparently In Response To Inquiries From Bancroft Providing A Summary Of Everything Darbyshire Knew Of Mrs. Ward Her Family And Background And Her Current Activities. Also Included Is Bancroft's Copy Of An August 26 1879 Cable From Ward To Derbyshire Accepting The Invitation To Speak At A Calvert Benefit; Also A Note From L. Wingfield To Darbyshire "Good Lord! Genevieve's Biography- All Of It It Would Take From Here To New York" Etc. And Offering To Send Darbyshire A Copy Of This Book; Both Typed Out With An Attestation That The Originals Had Been Returned To Darbyshire. In 1880 Bancroft Was Introduced To Pre-Raphaelite English Artwork By His Cousin Architect Alfred Darbyshire. He Fell In Love With The Art And Once Bancroft Stepped Back From Directly Managing The Family Firm In 1889 He Began To Purchase Numerous Pieces Of Artwork. In 1880 He Was Introduced To Pre-Raphaelite English Artwork By His Cousin Architect Alfred Darbyshire. He Fell In Love With The Art And Once Bancroft Stepped Back From Directly Managing The Family Firm In 1889 He Began To Purchase Numerous Pieces Of Artwork. His Collection Began In 1890 With A Work By Dante Gabriel Rossetti Whose Art And Poetry Featured Prominently In Bancroft's Further Collections Over The Next 25 Years. He Maintained Correspondence With Other Artists In The Movement And Offered Financial Support To The Families Of Some Of Them. Bancroft Continued Adding To The Collection For The Remainder Of His Life And Built It Into The Largest Such Collection Of Pre-Raphaelite Works Outside England. Alfred Darbyshire 20 June 1839 - 5 July 1908 Was An English Architect. He Was A Nephew Of George Bradshaw The Compiler Of Railway Guides. Darbyshire Admired The Gothic Revival Style Of Alfred Waterhouse But Also Designed In The Neoclassical Style. Darbyshire Was A Man Of Many Talents Which Centered On The Theatre. As Well As Building Them He Acted In Them And Became Famous For His Extravagant Stage Productions. In 1869 Charles Calvert Actor-Manager Of The Prince's Theatre Manchester Employed Alfred To Redecorate The Theatre. They Became Good Friends And Alfred Assisted Calvert With The Staging Of Some Of His Great 'Revivals' Of Shakespeare's Plays. Page 139/140 Where Ward's Productions With Calvert Is Turned Down At A Corner By Bancroft. In 1872 He Built A Spectacular Set For The Triumphal Entry Of The King Into London In Henry V. The Production Was Carried Through The United States And Into Australia. In New York More Than 100000 People Visited Booth's Theatre To See The Play. As A Landscape Painter He Sketched And Painted In Italy France Belgium And Germany. Alfred Was An Art Critic For The Manchester Guardian And From 1874 To 1905 He Was An Art Critic For The Courier. He Wrote A Number Of Books On Architecture Heraldry And Art And Innumerable Pamphlets And Brochures. <br/> <br/> James R. Osgood And Company hardcover
1868002954Paris: Hachette 1868. E.O.- Un volume In 8vo di 6-315pp.-4-8pp. Brossura originale. Ex libris De La Tour de Mitry. - Prima edizione. Ce ne furono altre 5. Temi trattati da questo manuale popolare di economia: Produzione moneta e cambio salario risparmio cooperazione assicurazione ecc. Hachette unknown
18837630Librairie des Bibliophiles 1883. Bon état coiffes et coins légèrement usés intérieur propre. in8. 1883. reliure editeur demi basane à coins. 299 pages. Un jeune botaniste allemand ou français selon les sources est envoyé en mission en Grèce et se fait enlever avec deux Anglaises par le chef de bandits Hadji-Stavros dit le "Roi des montagnes". Le roman publié en 1856 mêle aventure palpitante satire sociale et humour pour dénoncer la collusion entre brigands et autorités politiques dans la Grèce post-indépendance Edmond About Le Roi des montagnes Charles Delort Mongin Jouaust 1883 roman d'aventures Grèce brigands édition illustrée bibliophilie Roman d'aventures Littérature française du XIXe siècle Édition illustrée de luxe Brigandage et enlèvement Bibliophilie Librairie des Bibliophiles unknown
1860164746Paris : E. Dentu 1860. First Edition. Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 31 pages; Physical desc. : 31p ; 25 cm. Subject: Europe - Politics and government - 1815-1871. European politics Paris : E. Dentu paperback
186712639THE MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR Leypoldt & Holt 1867 first edition some wear to the spine extremities and fore edge corner tips some rubbing to the cloth covers else a tight near vg copy. Translated from the French by Henry Holt. A member of Napolean's army is re-awoken from an artificially induced sleep after 46 years with alarming results. From the library of Forrest J. Ackerman. Leypoldt & Holt hardcover
1864860B2Paris: L. Hachette 1864 . First edition. Leather. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A first French edition of Le Progres by Edmond about. A first edition copy. In the original French. Edmond About was a French novelist publicist and journalist. This volume contains About's honest recollection on the great affairs of life. Commenting on property education representation politics and war. Bound by Hatchard & Co. In half calf binding with cloth covered boards. Externally smart with some rubbing to the joints spine and extremities. With some marks to the boards. Internally firmly bound with bright pages with some scattered spots throughout. Very Good L. Hachette hardcover
1817D6441London: John Murray 1817. Second Edition. Translated from the French. Hardcover. Very Good. Half calf and marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label. Upper board detached. Some offsetting onto endpapers; very faint foxing on title-page; otherwise internally nice and clean. An excellent candidate for repair though it'd be a shame to lose the previous owner's bookplate attached to front paste-down: "William Hetherington / His Book / 'And please return it. You may think it a strange request but I find that although many of my friends are poor arithmeticians they are nearly all fo them good bookkeepers.' -- Scott." <br/><br/> John Murray hardcover
1859MAIN017213INY: Appleton. VG no dj. 1859. 1st US. hardcover. 16mo . 219pp . Textured brown cloth. Spine lettering not readable minimal edgewear. Binding is square and tight. Important in its day. . Appleton hardcover
185756217New York: Dix Edwards 1857. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. Good. Translated. 360p. Original cloth. 18cm. Spine lettering indistinct. Ends of backstrip frayed. Dix, Edwards hardcover
186535156Paris: Hachette 1865. First Edition. Octavo. Contemporary gilt-decorated morocco over marbled boards spine in six compartments; 424 2pp. Bookplate private shelf label and ownership signature of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge Thomas Jefferson's great-grandson and minister plenipotentiary to France from 1892-1893. Slight rubbing to board edges; sun-darkening to spine with a bit of dryness and minor flaking to leather; still a nicely preserved copy Very Good or better. First title in About's trilogy "La Vieille Roche" which attacked the conventional morals of Parisian society and of the Roman Catholic church. VICAIRE Manuel de L'Amateur 1:p.9. Hachette unknown
1872FGN9-D-1Paris: Librairie Hatchette 1872. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A satirical novel by Edmond About Edmond Francois Valentin About 1828 1885 was a French novelist publicist and journalist. He made his name as an entertaining anti-clerical writer. The satirical Le Roi des Montagnes 1856; translated into English by Mary Louise Booth as The King of the Mountains and by Tom Taylor as The Brigand and His Banker for a dramatised version is the best-known of his novels. About Edmond is also a comic writer as he knows how satire. He became famous with his new style to the quick clear and concise and his novels that evoke imaginary situations often inspired by the progress of science. Weddings of Paris 1856 The King of the Mountains 1857 The Man with the Broken Ear 1862 or The Province Marriages 1868 are all bestsellers. In a half calf binding with marbled paper boards. Externally some rubbing. With a bookplate to the front paste-down. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with some browning to the fore-edges Very Good Librairie Hatchette hardcover
187849635Paris: Calmann Lévy 1878. Fine. Calmann Lévy Paris 1878 11 x 18 cm relié Tenth edition. Half red shagreen binding spine with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with gilt fleurons marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Handsome copy. Calmann Lévy hardcover
186946673Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie 1869. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto 9 x 5 7/8". 6 411 1pp. Contemporary half morocco over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.<br /> <br /> First edition of About's memoirs of his travel to an Egypt under the reign of Ismail the Magnificent Ismail-Pacha in the 1860s.<br /> <br /> The author claims to be the friend of Ismail-Pacha and this work is his description of the fellah native paesant at work for the powerful Khedive of Egypt and Sudan.<br /> <br /> Binding partly age-toned and rubbed along edges. Original wrappers sunned. Minor and sporadic foxing throughout. <br /> <br /> Ex-library copy with reference sticker at upper front joint and tail of spine stamp at top and bottom paper edges bookplate on inside of front cover and pocket at rear. Text in French. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie hardcover
1860ZB464512Paris: E. Dentu 1860. 32 pp. original paper wrappers front cover detached but present covers soiled stained & chipped textually about good only. - 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. Paris: E. Dentu unknown
