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A BOOK OF THE PYRANEES. With Twenty-Five Illustrations
New York: Dutton, 1908. Maroon cloth gilt lettered. pp [10], 309 + one map and 24 photographic plates; indexed. Oct, 1911, ink private owner inscription on front free endpaper; minor rubbing to spine tips, with a nick at head of spine; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Made from UK sheets. UK and US firsts were in 1907, this copy has the half-title leaf on a stub for some reason.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 26331More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
A LITTLE PATTERN OF FRENCH CRIME
Edition: First printing
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969. Blue boards, pp 177, index. Ink name at front, else fine. Jacket has large price clip, sunning to red portion of spine, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47800More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
A LITTLE TOUR IN FRANCE. With illustrations by Joseph Pennell
Edition: First illustrated edition
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. Second edition, with minor revisions and a new Preface, the first illustrated edition (first was in 1884). Dark green pictorial cloth stamped in red, gilt, and pale yellow, top edge gilt, spine gilt lettered, binding design by Thomas Watson Ball. pp [2], (xiv), (352) + frontispiece with tissue guard and 43 other plates, 22 vignette illustrations in text. Nicks to spine ends; small abrasion to rear cover at inner top edge; small light spot to lower inner corner of front cover; tidy ink owner name at front; some underlining in red on pp 7, 19 and 68; yellowing to page edges; else a VG clean and tight, still atractive copy. BAL 10642. Edition of 2030 copies, of which about 1218 were in this binding.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46917More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A LOVE EPISODE. translated, with a preface, by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly ; and illustrated with ninety-four wood engravings from drawings by E. Thévenot.
London: Hutchinson, 1898. Colonial Library issue, later printing. First was 1895. Translation of PAGE D'AMOUR. Plain red cloth gilt lettered. pp (xii), 386, (2, ads). Also endpaper ads. Spine a little darkened, yellowing to page edges; some separations in gutters; else a VG+ clean and unworn copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50778More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
A PURITAN AT THE COURT OF LOUIS XIV
Edition: First edition.
Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, 1913. pp 17, [3], stapled, in light brown printed paper covers. Front cover has short tear to fore margin internally repaired with archival paper tape and chips to outer corners, VG clean copy otherwise, no owner names. Bulletin of the Departments of History and Political and Economic Science in Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, No. 8, July, 1913. A short monograph on English Presbyterian peer and member of the House of Lords Denzil Holles (b. 1599), who also served as Ambassador to Paris. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Condition: Binding: Softcover.
Book ID: 28047More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
A Sketch of the Public Life of the Duke of Otranto
Edition: First UK edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 50675More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
A STUDY OF VICTOR HUGO
Edition: First printing
London: Chatto & Windus. Octavo, dark green cloth. pp (vi), 148, (1, ad), (3) + 32 pp Jan., 1886, catalogue. Book a little leaned, spine gilt lightly dulled, half inch cloth split to top of front joint, slight cloth bubbling to covers, endpapers foxed, scar from removed label inside front cover, occasional minor text foxing, cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired, darkening to page edges; in all, a good, clean, tight and unworn copy. Edition of 1k copies. Wise 81.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 38433More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
AN ACCOUNT OF CORSICA: the journal of a tour to that island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.The second edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 49746More details Price: USD $595.00 USD $535.50 -
ANDRÉ
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 45241More details Price: USD $1,250.00 USD $1,125.00 -
Art, War and Revolution in France 1870-1871: Myth, Reportage and Reality
Edition: First printing
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Red cloth. pp 243, index, colour and b&w reproductions. Ink owner name, else fine. Jacket has a small creased tear at head of spine, else fine. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48632More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
ARTAUD AND AFTER
Edition: First Edition
London: Oxford, 1977. Octavo, black boards. Fine in VG price-clipped jacket, no owner names. Plates, index. A study of the influential opium addicted playwright, actor, poet and director.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 32385More details Price: USD $12.00 USD $10.80 -
ASMODEUS, The Devil on Two Sticks...With a Memoir of the Author. Embellished with Two Hundred Engravings, After Designs by Tony Johannot.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 14752More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
AUGUSTE BLANQUI AND THE ART OF INSURRECTION
Edition: First UK printing
London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1971. Black boards, pp 364, index. Ink owner name else fine in VG+ jacket. Louis Auguste Blanqui was a professional French revolutionary who was active in period from the restoration of the Bourbons to the defeat of the Paris Commune. He spent 33 of his 76 years in nearly 30 different prisons.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47963More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
AUTOUR DE JEANNE D'ARC
Edition: First Edition
Paris: Librairie Ancienne Édouard Champion, 1916. #319 of 500 copies on d'Arches paper. 4to. [4], (89), [3, blank], [4, ads] pp. Captioned tissue guard to the facsimile letter at front. Bound in grey card covers with original, protective tissue wrapper. Initial and terminal leaves a bit tanned from laid in publisher's advertisements; nicks to spine tips; tissue wrapper tanned, with a few chips and short tears; light tanning to margins of covers; soft corner crease to front free endpaper; else a fine unopened copy.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 12023More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
Aux amis de l'ordre et de la paix, aux Français dignes de ce nom, de quelqu'opinion qu'ils soient ou qu'ils aient été sur l'Urne des Stuarts et des Bourbons (drop title)
(Paris): Imprimerie d'Ant. Beraud, no date (ca 1790s?). Disbound, 20 cm, 8 pp, no wrappers. Fine copy. FRBNF31118695 Pitou "entered the priesthood, but after the beginning of the French Revolution he abandoned his profession. A zealous royalist, he was arrested sixteen times, and finally transported to Guiana under the Directory. Shortly after his arrival at Cayenne he escaped, and after many adventures among the natives he returned to France. He engaged in new conspiracies under the consulate, and was a few years in prison. After the return of the Bourbons, Pitou received a small pension." - Wikipedia. Note: lighter parcel, any default shipping price may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 47497More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
BALTHASAR
Edition: First printing
Paris: Calmann Levy, 1889. 18.5 cm. (iv), (295), (1, blank) pp. Nicely rebound in quarter brown morocco, spine gilt lettered with five raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, original front and rear wrappers bound in. Bookplate on front free endpaper and verso of front wrapper, "P." rubber stamped to half title leaf; bit of rubbing to outer corners; else a fine copy of this collection of seven stories.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 5638More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
BATOUALA
Edition: First of this edition
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1930. Card covers, orange endleaves. pp 207, [3]. A book in the BoniBooks series. Page edges yellowed, mild rubbing to spine folds, owner name at front, a little leaned, VG clean and unworn copy. Translated from the French by Adele Szold Seltzer. Maran was the first black man to win the Prix Goncourt, for this novel, in 1921, Set in French Equatorial Africa.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 52774More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
BATTLE STUDIES: ancient and modern battle. Translated by Colonel John N. Greely and Major Robert C. Cotton
Harrisburg, PA: Military Service Publishing, 1958. pp (xxii), 273. Cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; ink owner name, VG otherwise. Publisher's Military Classics series. Translated from the French original. Du Picq fell during the Franco-Prussian War; the book has bearing on WWI.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 48018More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
BÉLISAIRE
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 13316More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50 -
BELISAIRE. Par M. Marmontel, de l'Académie Françoise
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 47246More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50