New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x23x2.5cm); xii + 272pp, including chronology, bibliography, and index. Richly illustrated throughout with photographs from the exhibition and ample background and documentary images. Photographic card covers over sewn textblock. Covers lightly rubbed at extremities. Faint..... More

New Haven: Yale University, December, 1965. 8vo, pp. 122; original grey pictorial saddle-stitched wrappers; spine and extremities toned, original price rubberstamped twice on upper cover, spine ends chipped, else Very Good. Articles organized into three sections: Sade the novelist, the philosopher, and the fomenter. More

Paris: Librairie Plon / Plon-Nourrit et Cie., [1921-1922]. First Edition Limited to 2150 copies on alfa of which this is no. 1817. Three volumes; octavo; uniformly bound in publisher's white card wrappers printed in red, black, and gilt; photographic frontispieces to first two volumes and 28 plates, including thirteen folding..... More

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. First Edition. Octavo. 264 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Light scuffing and dust soiling to boards. Binding is sound. Previous owner's inscripton to front free endpaper, but pages otherwise unmarked. More

Paris: Grangé / Duchesne / Poirion, 1750-1753. Eight volumes; 12mo (14.5cm.); near-uniformly bound in mottled calf, gilt spines with tan or brown gilt-lettered onlays, all edges marbled save those of Vol. V (edges stained red); thirty-one engraved plates signed in image by Rococo painter F. Boucher. Light scuffing to extremities..... More

Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1914]. Sixième Édition. 12mo (18.25cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, marbled endpapers; [6],318pp. Spine a bit sunned, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else Very Good or better. More

Paris: Nouveau Quartier Latin, 1966. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's white card wrappers printed in black and purple; 225pp.; illus. throughout. Text in English. Light wear from handling, faint dust-soil and tiny abrasion to front cover very slightly touching text, about a third of textblock toned due to inferior paper quality..... More

Milano: Presso Luigi Cioffi Editore-Libraio, 1860. Seconda Edizione. Small 12mo (16cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, all edges speckled (briefly bleeding to text block); 215pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Some general shelf wear, small contemporary private library spine label; overall Very Good and sound. Uncommon edition of this popular account..... More

Paris: E. Cretté, 1828. Seconde Édition, revue avec soin, corrigée et augmentée. Two volumes; 12mo (17.5cm.); full contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spine with black gilt inlays, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],367; [4],358pp.; engraved frontispieces, six leaves of plates. Extremities rather scuffed, both spine crowns a bit pulled with cracking..... More

Paris: Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (31.5x23.5x4cm); 600pp, including biography, chronology, bibliography, and indexes. Pictorial dustjacket. Blue boards with sienna lettering on spine and front panel. Text entirely in French. Jacket rubbed and lightly bumped along corners and spine ends, with one..... More

Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff / Société d'Éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, 1913. Second Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],302pp.; photographic frontispiece. Spine a bit faded, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership inscription in pencil on front flyleaf, else Very Good and sound. Account of the life and works..... More

Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, [2006]. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[4],349pp.; color illus. throughout. Light bow to front board; a bit of shelf wear, corners gently bumped. Splendid exhibition catalog issued to coincide with the centenary of the artist's death in 1906. More

Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in decorative dust jacket; 317pp.; 8 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear and chipping to jacket extremities, brief bubbling of jacket lamination to upper panel, contemporary ownership inscription (Saigon, 1967)..... More