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2009250990Bloomington: Self-published by the author at AuthorHouse 2009. Paperback. xi 98p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Salvadorian-American author. Self-published by the author at AuthorHouse paperback books
1970232699New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1970. hardcover. near fine/very good. Profusely illustrated mostly in black and white. 255 pages square 4to brown cloth dust wrapper gently worn at corners. New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1970. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1968012646New York: Madison Square Press Grosset & Dunlap 1968. Translated by Emma Street. 235p. many colored and b/w illus. square format lightly chipped dj. Madison Square Press, Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1850WRCLIT46300Paris: G. de Gonet et al.& a Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1850. Two volumes. 4316pp. plus frontis and fifteen plates; 2300pp. plus frontis and fifteen plates. Large octavo 27.5 x 18.7cm. Very handsome 20th century half tan morocco raised bands ruled in blind lettered in gilt and marbled boards t.e.g. others rough-trimmed with the original decorative pictorial rose-on- cream wrappers bound in. Occasional very minor foxing or dust-soiling wrappers a trace soiled with a couple of small edge mends a handful of small creases or snags to the edges of the lace borders see below light rubbing to extremities but a near fine large crisp set. First editions in the most desirable form with the texts printed on vélin and with the frontispieces and plates engraved by Geoffrey after Gavarni delicately hand- colored. The plates are of particular interest because in this format they are printed on sheets with elaborate and delicate stencil-cut lace pattern frames and borders. The plates "are studies of beautiful women fashionably attired for the most part which were drawn in London. Méry wrote the 'fantasy' accompanying them to fit Gavarni's designs.in this special edition.Gavarni's designs become fashion plates of the first order" - Ray. "La réunion des deux ouvrages avec les gravures à marges de dentelles est assez rare à recontrer" - Carteret. RAY FRENCH 209a-210. CARTERET III:460-1. VICAIRE V:770-1. G. de Gonet [et al]...[&] a Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer hardcover books
1947811511947. MOREAU DE ST. MERY Mederic-Louis-Elie translated and edited by Kenneth and Anna M. ROBERTS. MOREAU DE ST. MERY'S AMERICAN JOURNEY 1793-1798. Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company 1947. With Kenneth Roberts's personal bookplate inscribed to the previous owner and affixed to the front free endpaper and the owner's bookplate facing it on the front pastedown. A small inkstamp to the ffep at upper right corner. Book in near fine condition minor rubbing to edges clean and bright. Slight offset to half title from newsclipping about Roberts laid in. Preface by Roberts Introductions by Stewart L. Mims and color frontispiece by James Bingham. Born in Martinique in 1750 Moreau was a champion of the French Revolution and initial member of the Commune. At the close of the Constituante he fled with his family to America to escape the guillotine and established a bookstore and press in Philadelphia. He returned to France in 1798 after John Adams deemed him an undersirable alien. His diary includes letters. Indexed. unknown books
04602Paris & Leipzig : G. De Gonet Éditeur & Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. Grandville's "Last Fairy-Tale" <br/>In a Superb Inlaid Binding by Charles Meunier<br/><br/>GRANDVILLE J.J. illustrator MÉRY Joseph. MEUNIER Charles binder. Les Étoiles. Dernière féerie par J.-J. Grandville. Texte par Méry. Astronomie des dames par le Comte Foelix. Paris: G. De Gonet Éditeur & Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. <br/><br/>First edition. Two parts in one quarto volume 11 x 7 3/8 inches; 280 x 187 mm. 4 xvi 252; 4 186 2 pp. With added hand-colored wood-engraved vignette title in each part hand-colored engraved portrait of Grandville by Ch. Geoffroy and twelve hand-colored engraved plates eleven in the first part one in the second part by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville all with original tissue-guards.<br/><br/>Handsomely bound by Charles Meunier stamp-signed in black on front turn-in "Ch. Meunier. 1905". Full blue morocco covers decoratively rued in gilt with gray morocco inlaid borders enclosing an elaborate design of inlaid gray cream and green inlaid flowers with decorative gilt stems. Spine with four raised bands decoratively inlaid in various colored morocco's decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board-edges gilt ruled turn-ins with inlaid gay morocco borders gray-green marbled endpapers top edge trimmed others uncut. Original printed paper wrappers and spine bound in at end. Unidentified bookplate "Nec Tu Semper Eris" You will not always be on verso of front flyleaf. Housed in the original blue leather edged patterned paper board slipcase. A wonderful copy of this lovely book with exquisite plates after Grandville. <br/><br/>"The compositions of this ‘last fairy-tale' brilliantly engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and delicately colored form a fitting memorial to Grandville. They show that his powers remained unimpaired to the end of his short career. Grandville told his wife on the day he began these designs: ‘for too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens' p. ix. The pattern which he follows is similar to that of Les fleurs animées. Nearly every plate has its beautiful lady clad in white and adorned with stars looming in the sky with varied scenes of earthly life below her. These designs Grandville's tranquil refuge from the turmoil that beset his mind are as charming as they are mysterious. Also included in the volume are an unsigned essay which remains the most considerable source of biographical information about Grandville and a fine portrait of him by Geoffroy I xvi with a border of his creations animals paying him tribute as well as his flower- and star-ladies" Ray. <br/><br/>This posthumously published work Grandville died on March 17 1847 was originally issued in fifty parts the first part appearing in September 1849. <br/><br/>Charles Meunier 1865-1940 began his apprenticeship as a bookbinder at age eleven. Five years later at age sixteen he joined master binder Marius-Michel's workshop. He soon grew weary of producing traditional bindings and established his own bindery in 1885 at the tender age of twenty years old. CM was thought to be innovative and instinctive with great reserves of energy and undeniable artistic talent. Drawing on traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration Meuniere mixed classical punches. with newly fashionable incised and modeled leather panels. His output was prodigious; by 1897 he had produced roughly six hundred bindings" Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding p. 194.<br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 200. Vicaire V col. 770. Grandville. Dessins Originaux p. 398. Paris [&] Leipzig : G. De Gonet, Éditeur [&] Chez Charles Twietmeyer, 1849 unknown books
1849247352Paris: G. de Gonet 1849. First. hardcover. near fine. Grandville Jean-Jacques. Including the 2 extra illustrated title pages and portrait page there are 15 fantastic engraved plates by Grandville each delicately hand-colored the protective tissues are discolored but the plates are spotless. 4 xvi 252; 4 186 2 pages. Imperial 8vo contemporary morocco-backed pebbled boards with ornately gilt spine all edges gilt. Paris: G. de Gonet & Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. First edition. A near fine copy of this uncommon book.<br/><br/> Published posthumously this is Grandville's last work which was done in 1847 just before he died at the insane asylum in Vanves.<br/><br/> G. de Gonet unknown books
18283787Paris: Delongchamps 1828. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volumes. 19th century cloth bindings red leather spine labels. A nice serviceable set. <br/><br/> Delongchamps hardcover books
1798261897Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by the Author 1798. hardcover. good. Containing general observations on the climate population and productions; On the character and manners of the inhabitants; With an account of the several branches of the government. Translated from the French by William Cobbett. 2 volumes. 8vo contemporary mottled calf leather labels lacks last two pages of text in volume I head of spine and edges of corners worn on volume I spine ends lightly worn on volume II both volumes rubbed very lightly dampstained on title-page and 8pp. list of subscribers of volume I light browning to many pages of both volumes with some scattered light foxing. Philadelphia: Printed by the Author 1798.<br/><br/> The second edition in English. This edition was published without the map that is present in the first American edition in English. The author was born in Martinique. After being admitted to the French bar he moved to Cap Francais Santo Domingo. In addition to his law practice there he researched colonial law in Santo Domingo and funded the restoration of the tomb of Christopher Columbus. Evans 34138. Sabin 50572.<br/><br/> Printed and Sold by the Author unknown books
