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19905459Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico 1990. First edition. Oblong folio pp. xxii 189. Pioneering monograph on the subject. Fine copy in like dust jacket. <br/><br/> Univ. of New Mexico unknown books
1901113379Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co. 1901. Octavo pp. 1-12 13-317; 318-320: ads 16-page publisher's catalogue dated 1901 original decorated blue green cloth front cover stamped in white red green and gold spine panel stamped in gold all edges untrimmed. First edition. Half a dozen tales in the manner of medieval romance. One of them "Dan Costard's Tale" concerns the battle between a man and the devil and shows some vivid bits of supernatural imagery. NCBEL IV 601. A bright very good copy. #113379 Archibald Constable & Co. unknown 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
194428081NY: Dutton 1944. First Edition. 8vo pp. 319. Author's presentation on the flyleaf. Dust jacket flaps laid in VG. A tour through the world of Broadway from hat check girls to columnists to nightclub entrepreneurs to panhandlers. Dutton unknown books
194428412New York: E. P. Dutton 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/fair. 8vo. 319 pp. A "hilarious tour through the whacky Broadway world of double-talk glamour and high powered fantasy". A very good copy in rather poor dustwrapper. Wrapper has the $2.75 price on the front inside flap. Spine is completely faded. The book itself is clean and well-bound. In very good condition. This copy nicely INSCRIBED by the author. E. P. Dutton hardcover books
1924216119Reno. : A. Carlisle. 1924 . 1st Edition. Hardcover brown leatherette no spine title. . A very good copy. 27.5x20.5 cm. . Scarce. Paher #1372. weight: 2.7 lb. A. Carlisle. hardcover books
1919RSULNEV00TWA Carlisle circa 1919. Very Good. Sullivan Maurice J. Nevada's Golden Stars: A Memorial Volume Designed as a Gift from the State of nevada to the Relatives of those Nevada Heroes who died in the World War. Reno: A Carlisle circa 1919. 303pp. 4to. Embossed brown cloth. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. A Carlisle hardcover books
1978M12025Ventnor NJ:: Ventnor 1978. 1978. 4to. ix 134 pp. 49 plates index. White-stamped navy blue cloth. Fine. Ventnor, (1978). hardcover books
1970276004New York: Walker 1970. hardcover. near fine/very good. Translated Abridged and Edited by Margery Weiner. ix 468pp. thick 8vo red cloth d.w.; dust wrapper price clipped. New York: Walker and Company 1970. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Walker unknown books
UMARNAP00CMMentor 1966 c1963. Good. Markham Felix Maurice Hippisley. Napoleon. New York: Mentor 1966 c1963. 304 24 of latespp. Mass Market. Book condition: Good with subtle soft creaing in front cover spine slightly darkened and tiny closed tear in rear joint. Small spot on front cover and former owner's notes penciled on last couple pages. Mentor paperback books
UVOXNAP00BJGood. Stern August. Napoleon. Vox Maximilien; Thornton Maurice editor. NP: NP ND. Book condition: Mass market. Good. paperback books
1960702London: Faber and Faber 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 235 pp 24 illustrations from photographs with frontispiece index. Light dust soiling to top edge; else fine. Dust jacket is price clipped with light shelf wear. "Lady Astor has been on the scene of this world for eighty years. Her celebrity rests mainly on what she did between 1919 when she took her seat in the House of Commons the first woman ever to do so and 1945 when she retired from politics after representing Plymouth Sutton Division for over twenty-five years the voters' choice in seven consecutive elections" foreword. Faber and Faber hardcover books
196912772Paris: Presses De La Cite 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. DJ has touches of edgewear. Else bright. Book sound and sharp. INSCRIBED DATED AND SIGNED by author and legendary actor Maurice Chevalier to half title. <br/><br/>True first edition of Chevalier's memoir published in the U.S. as I REMEMBER IT WELL 1970. 280pp. Presses De La Cite hardcover books
1947143065France: Cooperative Generale du Cinema Francais / Productions Synops / Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema 1947. Collection of six vintage oversize double weight photographs from the 1947 film. With the stamp of distributor Les Grands Films Classique on the verso and bottom margin of the recto along with the name of the film in holograph ink. <br/><br/>Based on the operetta "Paris Paris" by Mireille and Jean Nohain about an independent tour bus driver in competition with a local company who takes a bunch of free spirits on a trip without an itinerary leading to numerous comically surreal situations. <br/><br/>11.5 x 9.5 inches with a wide bottom margin. Very Good plus with pinholes to the corners and some light creasing. Cooperative Generale du Cinema Francais / Productions Synops / Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema unknown books
197244983NY: Macmillan 1972. First printing. Small 4to pp. 153. With photographs in color and black and white by Robert Doisneau and a foreword by M. F. K. Fisher. Gray cloth with large pictorial paper label on front. Cover little spotted o/w a nice copy. Macmillan unknown books
193150581London: Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press 1931. First edition limited to 600 copies 8vo pp. 12 128; 2; blue cloth; spine faded label residue on endpaper very good. <br/><br/> Eric Partridge at the Scholartis Press hardcover books
2013291000New York: Harper Collins 2013. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Color illustrations. 31pp cloth d.w. New York: Harper Collins 2013. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Sendak's last book. An elegy for his brother.<br/><br/> Harper Collins unknown books
190053064Paris: Publisher not identified 1900. First edition. 4to. 28 cm. x 19 cm 102 pp. portrait frontispiece with tissue guard illustrations in text 10 plates with tissue guards 1 of these in color. Original printed wrappers. Neat ownership signature of a member of the jury of classe 5 on the blank reverse of the half-title page. Fine as new. A history of photography and processes which includes two chapters by Léon Vidal - one is a history of photogravure and the other on color photography. Details several other photomechanical processes and their inventors. Illustrations include those by Robert Demachy and by Puyo. <br/><br/>There are several issues of this report three of which vary only in size; a fourth a later issue has a slightly different wording to the title and is dated 1903. Étienne-Jules Marey was the president of the committee.<br/><br/>Roosens and Salu No. 3704. <br/><br/> Publisher not identified unknown books
02253Paris: Chez Aubert 1839. With 150 Hand-Colored Lithographs<br/>including Forty-Five by Honoré Daumier and Forty-Two by Gavarni<br/><br/>DAUMIER Honoré Gavarni and others illustrators. ALHOY Maurice Louis Huart and Charles Philipon editors. Le Musée pour rire. Dessins par tous les caricaturistes de Paris; Texte par MM. Maurice Alhoy Louis Huart et Ch. Philipon. Paris: Chez Aubert Editeur des Cent-et-Un Robert-Macaire 1839-1840.<br/><br/>First edition. Three quarto volumes bound in one 10 x 7 5/8 in; 251 x 193 mm. 1 half-title 2 title 600 pp. With 150 numbered hand-colored lithographs heightened with gum arabic by Honoré Daumier forty-five Gavarni forty-two Frédéric Bouchot twenty-two Victor Adam ten Platier seven Benjamin i.e. Benjamin Roubaud four Bourdet three Pruche three Platel two Grandville two Edme-Jean Pigal two Alophe Menut two Charles Vernier two Charles-Joseph Traviès one and others.<br/><br/>Bound ca. 1886-1890 by James Screeton of Hull with label to rear pastedown half black pebbled morocco over gray-brown cloth. Elaborately gilt tooled compartments gilt-rolled raised bands. All edges gilt. Some foxing and toning throughout but still a very good copy.<br/><br/>"The house of Aubert was ingenious in marketing its products. Its lithographs.were published one by one in periodicals like Le charivari and together in suites by the same artist without letterpress. Still a third form of publication was in albums made up of lithographs by several artists with accompanying texts. These collections most commonly took the form of volumes with the generic title Paris comique which consisted of twenty colored lithographs accompanied by quite unrelated texts. Aubert remarked that the resulting hodgepodge had ‘a plan that is easy to follow for it consists in not having any' and in fact this was indeed a frugal procedure for reusing old texts and already published plates. The interest of the various volumes of Paris comique resides entirely in the lithographs they happen to contain. It can be considerable however since Daumier and Gavarni are the predominant artists. Le musée pour rire represents a more considerable effort on the part of Aubert. To accompany 150 lithographs including forty-five by Daumier among them twenty-seven from Croquis d'expressions and eight from La galerie physionomique and forty-two by Gavarni new commentaries were commissioned on each plate all except two by Alhoy and Huart. Daumier's lithographs were trimmed slightly and their captions were relettered. The designs of the other artists were provided with decorative frames. The whole was then published in three handsome volumes and in copies with expert contemporary coloring like this one Le musée pour rire is among the freshest and most attractive of romantic illustrated books" Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book.<br/><br/>Le Musée pour Rire "contained 150 lithographs by Daumier Gavarni Bouchot Traviès etc. These are re-impressions some of them in mirror image which had previously already been used for publication in Le Charivari. Most prints of the series ‘Croquis d'expressions' are contained in the book. The name of the series is missing and the texts were printed in a different type than in the original Charivari version. We do not consider these prints original lithographies but rather prints ‘after Daumier'". <br/><br/>James Screeton was the son of bookbinder William Screeton of Hull. It appears that he was partner of binder William Wardell until opened his own shop in 1886. <br/><br/>Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 164. Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839 unknown books
1981228467Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1981. hardcover. very good/near fine. xxiii 327pp. 8vo purple cloth slightly faded at head of covers d.w faded at spine. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1981. A very good copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Indiana University Press unknown books
195417040301Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Comany 1954. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good . Sendak Maurice. First printing octavo size 128 pp. An early Sendak title third of five in the series about the delightful Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle who "lives in an upside down house smells like cookies and was married to a pirate who buried his treasure in the backyard!" N.B. quote from dust jacket flap quoting the Philadelphia Inquirer. The character remained so enduringly popular that a new title was published in 2016 featuring the character's great-niece "Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure" N.B. from Wiki. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Green cloth boards with a vignette on the front in dark purple of a small girl and boy holding hands dark purple lettering on the spine plain endpapers pictorial title page with illustrations spreading over two pages "First Edition" stated on copyright page correct for first printing per Hanrahan wonderful in-text illustrations by Maurice Sendak throughout; octavo size text block 8" tall pagination: 1-128. Dust jacket has original and correct $2.00 price on the lower front flap wrap-around illustration in purple with on the front panel Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle with a pirate on her shoulder as befits the wife of a pirate with a small boy following her who is beckoning to on the back panel the small girl and boy holding hands with a small dog bringing up the rear all upon a background of white with green highlights purple lettering on the spine; text on flaps in purple the front flap with a summary of this title publisher's ads on back flap for the first two books in the series. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine overall with a strong square text block solid hinges the corners are straight with a bare minimum of rubbing the interior is clean and bright the only prior owner marking is a gift inscription in red ink "To Susan / Christmas 1957" on the front free endpaper. The dust jacket is good or better; it is not price-clipped and is entire; there is sunning to the spine a small chip size of a dot out of the spine not affecting text overall edgewear with minor loss to the head and tail of the spine not affecting any lettering foxing to the creases and a small stain where the back panel meets the spine. <br/><br/>___CITATION: Hanrahan A13. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and the IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions we are here to help. J.B. Lippincott Comany hardcover books