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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France


Brennan, Georgeanne

Hardcover. San Francisco, Calif., Chronicle Books, 2nd Printing, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 223 pages, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 457306


Price: $8.00 

 

Accidental Agent


Goldsmith, John

Hardcover. London, Leo Cooper, 1st UK, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Adventures of an SOE agent in France during WWII. Pencil inscription on front flyleaf. Label sticker affixed to front endpapers. Mild age toning to top text block edge. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951725


Price: $15.00 

 

Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist


Lake, Carlton

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st thus, None, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages, b&w photos. Light de-lamination on front cover of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460505


Price: $13.00 

 

Cool Memories: 1980-1985 (FRENCH TEXT)


Baudrillard, Jean

Softcover. Paris , Editions Galilee, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, paperback with French flaps. FRENCH TEXT. Memoir of French artist. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper and front flyleaf. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to wraps. Fading to spine. A tight copy.

Record # 952115


Price: $19.00 

 

Creating Colette (2 vols.)


Francis, Claude and Fernande Gontier

Hardcover. S.Royal, Steerforth Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 367 pages.

Record # 61585


Price: $40.00 

 

Creating Colette (2 vols.)


Francis, Claude and Fernande Gontier

Hardcover. S.Royal, Steerforth Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 367 pages.

Record # 61584


Price: $40.00 

 

Duc de Saint-Simon: Historical Memoirs


Norton, Lucy (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 Volumes in slipcase. 535 and 525 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Blue top edges. Light edge wear to dust jackets. Else very clean, tight copies.

Record # 851365


Price: $40.00 

Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of FranceMayle, Peter

Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France


Mayle, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469275


Price: $10.00 

 

First Time I Saw Paris, The : Photographs and Memories from the City of Light


Miller, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 132 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper, light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460313


Price: $38.00 

 

Foch Speaks


Bugnet, Maj. Charles

Hardcover. New York, The Dial Press, 2nd, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages, hardcover. Translated by Russell Green. Military memoir by Aide-de-Camp to Marshal Foch, the famed French Officer. Stamping to front flyleaf. Moderate foxing and soiling to all copy edges. Edgewear and bumping to all edges, most pronounced at top edge. Soiling and rubbing to boards. Copy slightly yellowed. A tight copy.

Record # 951257


Price: $19.00 

French spirits: a house, a village, and a love affair in BurgundayGreene, Jeffrey

French spirits: a house, a village, and a love affair in Burgunday


Greene, Jeffrey

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469394


Price: $13.00 

 

From the Green Mountains to the Prairies


Barker, Frances Long

Softcover. Great Barrington, MA, The Berkshire Courier Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Green construction paper wrapper (spot on front cover bottom where label was removed-see image), gilt title on front cover. Previously exhibited at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, proprietor label and stamp on front endpapers and flyleaf. Pages clean. Binding (staple) tight, no pages missing. Frances Barker recalls her journey by boat and covered wagon, in 1835 from Vermont to Chicago, at the age of 5 yrs., to start a new life with her family. Book later compiled by a descendant: "In 1835 my father became infected with the 'Western fever,' as it was then called, and resolved to try his fortune with others in the then far West." A true tale of adventure. RARE.

Record # 32281


Price: $25.00 

 

House in France: A Memoir, The


Wells, Gully

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471238


Price: $15.00 

 

Life With the Painters of La Ruche


Marevna

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in brown, has some fading at edges, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Dj has some tanning from age, but still in good shape. Edges and pages also have a touch of tanning, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Artist, Marevna tells the story of her life in La Ruche, a teeming quarter of Paris.

Record # 32123


Price: $19.00 

 

Memoirs of Henry the Great and of the Court of France During His Reign (2 Vols.)


Henry the Great

Hardcover. London, Harding Triphook Lepard, 1st, 1824, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set, 498, 540 pages, volume one with frontispiece portrait. Bound in half-polished brown calf with marbled boards. Spines with raised bands, spine labels with gilt lettering. Marbled edges, very good condition on both with only light edgewear to corners.

Record # 804869


Price: $160.00 

 

Memories of The World War


Alexander , Robert

New York , The Macmillan Company , 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages with maps at end. Gilt decorated cover and spine SIGNED BY AUTHOR Slight edge wear to cover. Foxing on first few pages. Small note on front end paper. clean, tight copy.

Record # 857161


Price: $31.00 

 

Night Will End, The


Frenay, Henri

Hardcover. London, Abelard, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 469 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Memoirs of the French resistance during World War 2. Translated from the French by Dan Hofstadter. Slight soiling and edgewear to dust jacket. Moderate age-toning to text block. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951438


Price: $29.00 

 

Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont, The: 1940-1944


Keegan, John

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 2nd printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 118 pages. Translated by George L. Newman. Dust jacket price clipped, with light bump to lower edge of spine and Discovery Channel sticker to front cover, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 808429


Price: $12.00 

 

Notorious Life of Gyp, The


Silverman, Willa Z.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford U. Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, right-wing anarchist in Fin-De-Siecle France

Record # 6332


Price: $18.00 

Origins: A MemoirMaalouf, Amin

Origins: A Memoir


Maalouf, Amin

Softcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 471393


Price: $15.00 

 

Outwitting the Gestapo


Aubrac, Lucie

Hardcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press , 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages, clean hardcover, illustrated with b&w photos. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 400988


Price: $12.00 

Road to Paris, The: Being the Chronicle of a Three-Month Holiday in France and ItalyMonahan, Michael

Road to Paris, The: Being the Chronicle of a Three-Month Holiday in France and Italy


Monahan, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Frank-Maurice, Inc., 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 379 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some chipping and wear to edges of jacket and fading to spine. Residue from sticker on bottom front of jacket. Previous owner's name in front end papers, and old catalogue number.

Record # 2230688


Price: $25.00 

 

Sea and the Sailor, The: Notes on France and Italy, and Other Literary Remains of Rev. Walter Colton. With a Memoir by Rev. Henry T. Cheever.


Cheever, Rev. Henry T.

Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1st, 1854, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 437 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Wear on bumped edges and spine. Foxing throughout, heavy in parts. Provincetown library sticker on front endpaper. Some b&w illustrations. An interesting biography.

Record # 852467


Price: $20.00 

Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of ProvenceChristensen, Paul

Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of Provence


Christensen, Paul

Hardcover. US, Wings Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Slight wrinkling to front cover and first few pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466922


Price: $13.00 

 

Sun and Shadow


Aumont , Jean-Pierre

Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 315 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket price clipped, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857499


Price: $15.00 

The Surgeon and the Shepherd: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France (SIGNED)Ostrum, Meg

The Surgeon and the Shepherd: Two Resistance Heroes in Vichy France (SIGNED)


Ostrum, Meg

Hardcover. Lincoln, NE, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal wear to jacket, very slight foxing to top of text block, otherwise clean and tight copy. Inscribed by author on front end papers.

Record # 2230607


Price: $35.00 

 

Things That Have Interested Me (Second Series)


Bennett, Arnold

Hardcover. New York, NY, George H. Doran Company, First Edition, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 264 pages. Hardcover. Red boards with faded gilt titles to spine. Light soiling to boards. Light toning throughout. Deckled side edge. Clean, tight & unmarked copy.

Record # 751571


Price: $19.00 

 

Waiting for the Party - The Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett


Thwaite, Ann

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illustrations, 274 pages.

Record # 175662


Price: $31.00 

 

Waiting for the Party


Thwaite, Ann

Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st US, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett

Record # 1880


Price: $25.00 

With Napoleon In RussiaFaur, Faber Du

With Napoleon In Russia


Faur, Faber Du

Hardcover. London, Greenhill Books, Reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Minor yellowing to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. A unique record of Napoleon's invasion of Russia by Faber du Faur, a talented artist and front-line soldier. It combines his detailed, accurate and compelling illustrations of scenes recorded as they actually happened with his vivid and gripping memoirs of the campaign.

Record # 471401


Price: $50.00 

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