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A Woman in Revolt: A Biography of Flora Tristan


Desanti, Dominique

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1st U.S., 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 281 pages, translated from French, very clean, tight copy.

Record # 800868


Price: $6.00 

 

Adventures of General Marbot


Thomason, Jr. (Ed.), John W.

NY, Scribners, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Many black & white illustrations by Thomason. 499 pages. Previous owner's signature front end paper,.

Record # 67748


Price: $30.00 

 

Affair of the Poisons, The - Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV


Somerset, Anne

Softcover. London, Phoenix, First Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 464 pages. Softcover with light marginal wear to edges. 12 pages of full page, full color illustrations. Crisp & unmarked copy.

Record # 750925


Price: $15.00 

Alexis de Tocqueville: A LifeBrogan, Hugh

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life


Brogan, Hugh

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 724 pages. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 852528


Price: $18.00 

Alexis de Tocqueville: A LifeBrogan, Hugh

Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life


Brogan, Hugh

Hardcover. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 724 pages. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 852527


Price: $18.00 

 

Alfred de Musset 1810-1857


Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. B&w frontispiece and 4 b&w illustrations and photographs in text. Some wear and rubbing to cover. Some light spotting. Else nice, tight copy.

Record # 851629


Price: $12.00 

 

Baudelaire in Chains: A Portrait of the Artist as a Drug Addict


Hilton, Frank

Hardcover. London, Peter Owen, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 269 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Black covers, gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out. In great condition. Frank Hilton discusses the effect opium addiction had on Baudelaire's career as a poet and artist.

Record # 31422


Price: $19.00 

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and ModernismMcLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Baudelaire's "Argot Plastique": Poetic Caricature and Modernism


McLees, Ainslie Armstrong

Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some soiling to dust jacket. An otherwise clean copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471592


Price: $19.00 

BaudelaireTroyat, Henri

Baudelaire


Troyat, Henri

Softcover. Paris, Flammarion, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages. Softcover. Previous owners inscription to front edge. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 471591


Price: $15.00 

 

Catherine de'Medici


Willisamson, Hugh Ross

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illust. in color, black & white. 288 pages

Record # 53750


Price: $28.00 

 

Cezanne, His Life and Art


Lindsay, Jack

Hardcover. New York, New York Graphics Society, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 360 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Yellow cloth. Lacks dust jacket. Covers slightly worn and sunned. Previous owner's signature on front end papers, else a clean, nice reading copy.

Record # 810181


Price: $12.00 

 

Chanel and Her World


Charles-Roux, Edmonde

Softcover. US, The Vendome Press, 1st, 1979-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Wear and rubbing to wrappers, especially to the spine.

Record # 462842


Price: $38.00 

 

Charles of Orleans - Prince & Poet


McLeod, Enid

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with short tears, edgewear

Record # 55618


Price: $18.00 

Charmed Couple, A: The Art and Life of Walter & Matilda GayRieder, William

Charmed Couple, A: The Art and Life of Walter & Matilda Gay


Rieder, William

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket slightly creased to upper edge of spine, otherwise good condition. Price clipped. Slight foxing to top of text block. Clean and tight copy. 128 illustrations, 55 plates in full color.

Record # 2230871


Price: $19.00 

 

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: An Authorized Biography


Chernow, Burt, Wolfgang Volz (Epilogue

Softcover. New York, NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st paperback, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Remainder marks on top edge. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. In great condition. A look at the backgrounds of these artists and what's behind their temporary masterpieces.

Record # 32226


Price: $15.00 

 

Cocteau: A Biography


Steegmuller, Francis

Softcover. Boston, MA, Nonpareil Books, 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 590 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Minimal amount of black and white pictures throughout. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 30013


Price: $19.00 

 

Colette - A Taste for Life


Mitchell, Yvonne

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with paper curling along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609362


Price: $15.00 

 

Colette


Sarde, Michele

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 479 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609340


Price: $12.00 

Contrasts in Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-80Dabrowski, Magdalena

Contrasts in Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-80


Dabrowski, Magdalena

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. 158 illustrations (71 in color). Slight wear to dust jacket. Light bumping to top of spine. Clean inside.

Record # 30092


Price: $38.00 

 

Correspondence, 1945-1984


Truffaut, Francois

Softcover. US, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1990-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 590 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, and end papers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463742


Price: $13.00 

Cousteau: An Unauthorized BiographyMadsen, Axel

Cousteau: An Unauthorized Biography


Madsen, Axel

Hardcover. New York, Beaufort Books Publishers, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear and light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 470000


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

Creating ColetteFrancis, Claude

Creating Colette


Francis, Claude

Hardcover. US, Steerforth Press, 1st, 1998-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Decorative stitching to cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466659


Price: $13.00 

 

Daughter of the Medicis, A: The Romantic Story of Margaret of Valois


Mariejol, Jean H.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, First Edition, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with sunfade to edge. Sunfade to spine, rubbing & chips to paste down text on spine. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Biographyof the wife of King Henry IV of France. Frontis illustration & tissue guard detached, additional illustrations throughout all protected with tissue guards throughout. Light toning, clean, tight copy.

Record # 6670085


Price: $38.00 

 

Degas


Dunlop, Ian

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 240 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light edge wear, rubbing to price-clipped dust jacket, stain on rear cover. Light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451932


Price: $40.00 

 

DeGaulle - The Ruler 1945-1970


Lacouture, Jean

Paperback. New York, Norton, rep wraps, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 640 pages. Paperback. Black & white photography.

Record # 208035


Price: $12.00 

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 

 

Eug

Hardcover. Boston, MA, James R. Osgood & Company, 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown cloth, gilt title on spine and design embossed on front cover. Cover boards have some age wear, fraying, rubbing, chipping. Front and rear hinges cracked, but binding still tight. Spine slightly cocked. Some moisture staining along foreedge, but doesn't affect text or illustrations. Moisture damage to back cover board. Tanning from age throughout. In great shape for its age.

Record # 31723


Price: $38.00 

 

Exploits of Baron de Marbot, The


Marbot, Baron de

Softcover. 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages. Light edge wear to wrappers; else very good.

Record # 451278


Price: $10.00 

 

Fabulous Life of Sarah Bernhardt, The


Verneuil, Louis

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, First Edition, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with maroon decorative compartment lines & gilt titles to spine. Frontis illustration, Sarah Bernhard and Louis Verneuil in Regine Armand, January 1922. Original dust jacket with chips to edges, small tears & soiling, still elegant, now protected with a plastic cover. Black & white photographs, light toning, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 6670087


Price: $75.00 

 

Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family


Stein, Gertrude

Softcover. New York , Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Maroon oblong paper wrappers with die-cuts, very good. Clean.

Record # 407358


Price: $11.00 

 

Four Lives in Paris


Ford, Hugh D

Hardcover. US, North Point Press, 1st, 1987-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462992


Price: $10.00 

 

Four Lives in Paris


Ford, Hugh D

Hardcover. US, North Point Press, 1st, 1987-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464085


Price: $13.00 

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 

 

Gascon Royalist in Revolutionary Paris, A: The Baron De Batz 1792-1795


Lenotre, G.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead, 1st US, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, 5 b&w plates. Translated by Rodolph Stawell. Red cloth covers with gilt lettering, faded on spine. Previous owner's bookplate and signature on front endpapers, light foxing to title page, top edge soil, otherwise clean and tight.

Record # 402854


Price: $30.00 

 

Gen

Hardcover. New York, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 361 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket very good, unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age. Brown cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Deckled edges, a touch of tanning and the beginnings of foxing to edges. Pages clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape. "Wineapple brings to life the intense, compelling woman who, sporting a monacle, came to be synonymous with our bittersweet, romantic view of Americans in Paris between the wars."

Record # 31768


Price: $15.00 

 

Genet - A Biography


White, Edmund

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 728 pages. Hardcover. Canvas cloth boards with silver titles. Bright dust jacket with illustration in black & white and only marginal wear to edges. Black & white illustrations, tight binding, clean, unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751359


Price: $25.00 

 

Glass of Desire Christian, Ghost for Galle, The


Traub, Jules S.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, The Art Glass Exchange, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. Brown cloth cover, gilt titles to front cover and spine, color illustrated dust jacket, 69 color plates, b&w illustrations throughout text. Light wear to dust jacket, previous owner's nameplate to front endpaper; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605440


Price: $26.00 

 

Gustave Courbet His Life and Art


Lindsay, Jack

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Fading to dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611856


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 

 

Houseboat of the Seine - A Memoir


Wharton, William

Hardcover. NY, Newmarket Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 105814


Price: $18.00 

 

Introduction a La Pensee Juive du Moyen Age


Vajda, Georges

Softcover. Paris, J. Vrin, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages, softcover with white wrappers now tanning. Text in French. Volume has a mild crease as if it was once folded. Clean.

Record # 406119


Price: $38.00 

 

Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924 - 1939 (Harvard Film Studies)


Sesonske, Alexander

Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 463 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges. Light (erasable) pencil throughout. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper. Black & white illustrations throughout. Forward written by Jean Renoir.

Record # 751598


Price: $15.00 

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Volume I 1712-1758


Guehenno, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 460 pages, black cloth. Previous owner's small sticker on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 403332


Price: $15.00 

 

Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Guehenno, Jean

Hardcover. New York , Columbia University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volumes. Vol. 1 - 460 pages. Vol. 2 - 316 pages. Translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. Minor surface wear to covers. Overall tight and clean set.

Record # 401908


Price: $30.00 

 

Jean-Jaques Rousseau: Volume II, 1758-1778


Guehenno, Jean

Hardcover. New York , Columbia University Press, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Volume II. 316 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with light wear and small white mark on font cover. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Nice, bright copy.

Record # 809835


Price: $15.00 

 

John Ford's Stagecoach (Cambridge Film Handbooks)


Grant, Barry Keith

Softcover. Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, First Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Softcover with only marginal wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to preliminary page. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean and unmarked copy.

Record # 751599


Price: $19.00 

Jules Verne: An Exploratory BiographyLottman, Herbert R.

Jules Verne: An Exploratory Biography


Lottman, Herbert R.

Hardcover. New York, St Martins Pr, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 470082


Price: $13.00 

 

La Nouvelle vague: Portrait d'une jeunesse (Collection "Generations") (French Edition)


Baecque, Antoine de

Hardcover. Paris, France, Flammarion, 1ST, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 159 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Black boards with black lettering. Dust jacket faded lightly on edges with light foxing and rubbing on rear, otherwise clean and unmarked copy.

Record # 468184


Price: $38.00 

 

Layfayette


Woodward, W.E.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 472 pages. Dj with edgewear, chipping.

Record # 61245


Price: $20.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 1


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 503 pages, b&w engraved portrait as frontispiece. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume one only of a six volume set.

Record # 404855


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 2


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 540 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. Small chip to bottom of spine. French text. This is volume two only of a six volume set.

Record # 404856


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 3


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 535 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume three only of a six volume set.

Record # 404857


Price: $38.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 4


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 535 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. Calf is separating from spine, clean and very repairable. French text. This is volume four only of a six volume set.

Record # 404858


Price: $31.00 

 

Lettres de Madame De Sevigne avec les notes de Tous les Commentateurs - Tome 6


De Sevigne, Madame

Hardcover. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, reprint, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 520 pages. Tan leather spine and marbled boards with ribbon marker, raised bands on spine with embossed lettering. French text. This is volume four only of a six volume set.

Record # 404859


Price: $38.00 

 

Life of Henry Labouchere, The


Thorold, Algar Labouchere

London, Constable, 1st , 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white frontis portrait. 513 pages.

Record # 67837


Price: $18.00 

 

Life of Monsieur de Moliere, The


Bulgakov, Mikhail

Hardcover. New York , Funk & Wagnalls, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 259 pages. Light wear, rubbing, tanning to pictorial dust jacket. Small stains to for-edge, slight scratch and tear (possible pub. error) to lower edge not disturbing text. A neat, tight copy.

Record # 854608


Price: $18.00 

 

Life of Napoleon Bonaparte; With a Sketch of Josephine, Empress of the French, A


Tarbell, Ida M.

Hardcover. New York , McClure, Phillips & Co., reprint, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 485 pages, b&w illustrations. red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, no dust jacket issued. Light sunning to covers, upper edge of spine with slight bump, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 607958


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Little Saint


Green, Hannah

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 803968


Price: $8.00 

 

Madame de Lafayette - The Story of a Patriot's Wife


Wright, Constance

New York, Holt, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Black & white portraits and paintings. Dust jacket has some edge wear.

Record # 204170


Price: $12.00 

 

Madame Tussaud


Cottrell, Leonard

Hardcover. London, Evans Brothers, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages, b&w illustrations, end paper map. Dust jacket with light wear, soil, price-clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 407330


Price: $13.00 

 

Mademoiselle Libertine: A Portrait of Ninon de Lanclos


Cohen, Edgar H.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Publisher's letter laid in. 329 pages. Edge wear, rubbing, large tape-repaired tears to dust jacket. Small stains on bottom and fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 851518


Price: $18.00 

 

Man About Paris - The Confessions of Arsene Houssaye


Knepler (Ed.), Henry

Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light wear to dj otherwise

Record # 56209


Price: $20.00 

Man Who Lived Twice, TheBarnes, Eric Wollencott

Man Who Lived Twice, The


Barnes, Eric Wollencott

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight fading to upper edge of covers and to spine. With an introductory chapter by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Inscription on front end papers, signed 1956 to "Martin" with inscription by "Frances" allegedly to be actress Frances Starr.

Record # 2230894


Price: $25.00 

Man Who Tried to Buy the World, The: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi UniversalOrange, Martine

Man Who Tried to Buy the World, The: Jean-Marie Messier and Vivendi Universal


Orange, Martine

Hardcover. New York, Portfolio Hardcover, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 268 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Some edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468326


Price: $10.00 

Man Who Wasn't Maigret, The: A Portrait of Georges SimenonMarnham, Patrick

Man Who Wasn't Maigret, The: A Portrait of Georges Simenon


Marnham, Patrick

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st US , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Hardcover. B&w photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468091


Price: $19.00 

Marguerite of Navarre R., E. (Eric Russell) Chamberlin

Marguerite of Navarre


R., E. (Eric Russell) Chamberlin

Hardcover. New York, Dial Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages. Hardcover. Decorative stain to top edge. Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469243


Price: $15.00 

 

MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE JOURNEY


FRASER, ANTONIA

Hardcover. LONDON, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1ST UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, LONDON, WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 1ST UK, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, Color and black and white photographs/illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.. 488 pages. Record # 467261

Record # 467261


Price: $13.00 

 

Marie Antoinette


Belloc, H.

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 559 pages. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Green cloth cover with gold lettering and gold & silver decoration. Corners bumped. Spine and edgewear. Crease in back cover. Soiling to top edge. Front hinge loose.

Record # 500449


Price: $20.00 

 

Marquis de Sade - Letters From Prison


de Sade, Marquis

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, First Edition, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 401 pages. Hardcover. Ivory cloth with red printed titles to black cloth spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. TIght binding, sharp corners, clean unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 750929


Price: $23.00 

 

Maupassant


Lerner, Michael

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 301 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609371


Price: $12.00 

 

Measure of All Things, The - The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World


Alder, Ken

Hardcover. New York, NY, The Free Press, First Edition, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 422 pages. Hardcover. Brown boards with gilt titles to orange colored spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with faint marginal wear to edges. Tight copy, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout. Clean inside and out.

Record # 751439


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Memolrs of a Breton Peasant


Deguignet, Jean-Marie

Hardcover. New York , Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 431 pages. Translated from French by Linda Asher. Completely clean. Dust jacket like new.

Record # 802081


Price: $13.00 

 

Millet: Sessanta capolavori dal Museum of Fine Arts di Boston


N/A

Conegliano, Italy, Ombra, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, text in Italian, exhibition catalog. 60 color reproductions of Millet's works along with black and white photographs and sketches. Also provides a 20 page biography at the close of the book. Rubbing to back wrapper.

Record # 512232


Price: $32.00 

 

Miniature Portraits


Tallemant des Raux, Gedeon

Hardcover. New York, Brentano's, reprint, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Transleted into English by Hamish Miles. 182 pages. Ex-library bookplate on front endpaper. Gilt top edge. Fore and bottom edges uncut. Light rubbing to cover edges. Top and bottom of spine slightly frayed. Pages clean and tight.

Record # 851818


Price: $15.00 

 

Napoleon III and Eugenie


Ridley, Jasper

Hardcover. New York , The Viking Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 768 pages. General wear to dust jacket. Maps and black & white photographs throughout. In six parts. Overall tight and clean copy.

Record # 809199


Price: $15.00 

 

Napoleon: The Last Phase


Rosebery, Lord

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 345 pages, index. Many pages unopened. Light soil, wear to maroon cloth covers.

Record # 900003


Price: $11.00 

 

Nelson's Wife - The First Biography of Frances Herbert, Viscountess Nelson


Keate, E. M.

Hardcover. London, Cassell and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 303 pages. Black & white illustrations. Upper right corner of cloth cover and interior pages bumped. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Blue cloth covers and spine sun faded with minor rubbing. 1/4" tear to cloth at top of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608800


Price: $50.00 

Nelson, A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797Sugden, John

Nelson, A Dream of Glory, 1758-1797


Sugden, John

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 943 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Only slight wear to jacket. Very light foxing to top of text block. Creasing from mark along page 89-90, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230837


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

P. G. Wodehouse: A Biography


Donaldson, Frances

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 369 pages. Minor wear to cover, some wear to edges and corners of dust jacket. Section of b&w illustrations. Inside is clean and bright. A nice copy.

Record # 853152


Price: $12.00 

 

Paul Vel

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. FRENCH TEXT. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Light fading to spine. Minor rubbing and edgewear to boards. Light bumping to corners. Mild age toning to text block edges. Light penciling throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 952054


Price: $31.00 

 

Pauline: Favorite Sister of Napoleon


Carlton, W. N. C.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Harper & Brothers Publishers, Second Printing, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, Princess Pauline Borghese, Portrait by Lefevre in black & white. Previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf. Publisher's navy cloth covered boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Sunfading to spine, board edges & to rear cover board. Light toning throughout with additional illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 6670144


Price: $19.00 

Picasso's MaskMalraux, Andr

Picasso's Mask


Malraux, Andr

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehard and Winston, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some fading and slight tear in top of jacket and sticker residue from old price sticker. Inscription on front end paper, 1981. Translated and Annotated by June Guicharnaud with Jacques Guicharnaud.

Record # 2230526


Price: $19.00 

Picasso, My GrandfatherPicasso, Marina

Picasso, My Grandfather


Picasso, Marina

Hardcover. New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, New York, Riverhead Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 198 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Foxing to top edge. Light soiling to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 198 pages. Record # 467116

Record # 467116


Price: $11.00 

 

Prince of The Renaissance - The Golden Life of Francois I


Seward, Desmond

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1st Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. 40 full page, full color illustrations. 125 illustrations in black & white. Bright dust jacket with sunfading to spine. Bright unmarked copy.

Record # 750358


Price: $15.00 

 

Recollections of the Empress Eugenie


Filon, Augustin

NY, Funk & Wagnalls, 1st US, 1921, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 328 pages. Ex-lib with bookplates, light marking, residue to end papers.

Record # 69518


Price: $12.00 

Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French ResistanceMarnham, Patrick

Resistance and Betrayal: The Death and Life of the Greatest Hero of the French Resistance


Marnham, Patrick

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st US, 2002-03-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 466428


Price: $11.00 

 

Rodin: A Biography


Grunfeld, Frederic V.

Hardcover. New York , Henry Holt, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 738 pages, b&w illustrations. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 407378


Price: $25.00 

 

Rodin: The Shape of Genius


Butler, Ms. Ruth

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993-10-27, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 590 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with sunning to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 465804


Price: $31.00 

 

Rousseau: The Self-Made Saint


Huizinga, J. H.

Hardcover. New York, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Black cloth cover, illustrated dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Record # 804539


Price: $10.00 

 

Saint-Exup

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 525 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Compelling biography of famed French writer. Moderate fading, rubbing, and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight tear to rear panel of dust jacket. Rough cut fore edge. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952055


Price: $23.00 

 

Samuel de Champlain: Father of New France


Morison, Samuel Eliot

Boston, Little, Brown and Co, 2nd, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages. B&w illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Newspaper clipping from 1976 about author laid in. Price-clipped dust jacket in brodart. Light spotting to edges.

Record # 851792


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

Seaman Garnera: Voyages, Aventures et Combats


Garneray, Louis

Hardcover. Scotland, Argyll Publishing, 1st UK, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages, with illustrations throughout. A new translation by Roland Wison. Very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852989


Price: $12.00 

 

Soldat parmi des soldats, Un


Von Choltitz, Dietrich

Softcover. Dublin, Ireland, Aubanel, Reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 347 pages. Hardcover in French Text. Red cloth covered boards with black printed titles. Related ephemera, an article from the New York Times dated 1966, tipped in to rear. Original dust jacket with wear to edges, small tears & chips. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 751520


Price: $25.00 

 

Stowell C. Goding and France: A Festschrift in Honor of Stowell C. Goding


Goding, Stowell C. and Mel B. Yoken (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Peter Lang, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 183 pages, b&w frontispiece. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 452995


Price: $60.00 

 

Studies in Naval History: Biographies


Laughton, M.A., John Knox

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 469 pages. Blue cloth cover with frayed edges, spine, and bumped corners. Spine cocked. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Small tear in both half title page and title page. Pages untrimmed on fore edge. Some foxing on rear endpaper. Otherwise, inside is clean and crisp. A nice copy.

Record # 852494


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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


Ostrum, Meg

Hardcover. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Tight copy with light to no wear to edges.

Record # 2233792


Price: $31.00 

 

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 

 

Thomas Jefferson: A Life


Randall, Willard Sterne

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 708 pages. Hardcover. Gray cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Edges have some light smudges. In very good condition. A single-volume Jefferson biography that captures the public and private man as well as the tumultuous age in which he lived.

Record # 32257


Price: $15.00 

 

Tragic Life of Toulouse-Lautrec, The


Hanson, Lawrence and Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, b&w illustrations. Black Cloth. gilt, green and orange lettering. corners square. Price clipped pictorial jacket is lightly chipped along extremities. Story of Toulouse Lautrec, 19th century French painter known for his candid renderings of Paris life, especially its nightlife.

Record # 407724


Price: $15.00 

Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-FrancaiseBrownstein, Rachel

Tragic Muse: Rachel of the Comedie-Francaise


Brownstein, Rachel

New York, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, b&w illustrations. Lovely copy. Light wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 450511


Price: $18.00 

 

Uncompromising Heart, The - A Life of Marie Mancini - Louis XIV's First Love


Mallet-Joris, Francoise

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Transl. from French by Patrick O'Brian. 274 pages. Dj with light wear, closed tears.

Record # 60125


Price: $15.00 

 

Verlaine


Petitfils, Pierre

Hardcover. Paris, Julliard, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 508 pages, b&w illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Minor edgewear, tanning, chipping to dust jacket. Related articles in French laid in. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855314


Price: $38.00 

 

Victor Hugo in Jersey


Stevens, Phil

Hardcover. Shopwyke Hall, Chichester, Sussex, Phillimore & Co Ltd, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 131 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, edge fade, otherwise, clean and tight.

Record # 457879


Price: $13.00 

Victor HugoRobb, Graham

Victor Hugo


Robb, Graham

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1998-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 682 pages, b&w illustrations. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 466419


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

Woman, A Man, And Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame d'Epinay and the Abbe GalianiSteegmuller, Francis

Woman, A Man, And Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame d'Epinay and the Abbe Galiani


Steegmuller, Francis

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1991-11-05, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 280 pages. Remainder mark and faint foxing to top edge. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462059


Price: $10.00 

 

World of Atget, The


Abbott, Berenice

Softcover. New York, Perigee, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages. Softcover with some wear to the edges. Clean copy with sun fading to back wrapper. Back couple pages stick together due to minor glue residue. Black and white images throughout.

Record # 470885


Price: $35.00 

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