Spiral binding with hardcover. Paris: Societe Franco-Belge De Materiel De Chemins De Fer, [1970s]. Quarto; not paginated. Book is bound in a black presentation binder with metal spiral binding. Mustard yellow and white graphic cover. Full-color illustrations and diagrams throughout, some which fold-out. Text primarily in French with some portions... More about Societe Franco-Belge De Materiel De Chemins De Fer
Paris: Librairie Gallimard, 1928. Later printing. Inscibed by author on half-title. Printed wraps. Sextodecimo; 116pp. Lower half of front cover is detached from spine, but top half is holding. Spine itself is chipped and worn and detached at bottom, and back cover is barely holding on. Edges are chipped and... More about Voyage au pays des Articoles
Maurice LaLau. Paris: Boivin & Cie, Editeurs, 1923. Later Printing of the 1914 First Edition. French language. Quarto; iv, 154pp. Nine mounted color plates, with numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Publisher's pink cloth with color illustration to front. Boards bumped at corners and spine ends, with some scuffs down... More about Contes Roses de ma Mere-Grand
Paperback. Paris: Editiones Denoel, 1994. French-language. Signed by the author with brief inscription to fellow writer and journalist William Safire and his wife Helene on half title. Octavo; 302pp. Photo-illustrated paper wraps. Covers faintly shelfworn but clean and crisp with no chips or tears. Binding is sound and pages unmarked... More about La Paix Pour Destin: Quatre Nobel Aux Vies Croisees
Hardcover. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, [1876?]. Three-quarter leather and marbled paper-covered boards. 221p. Portrait frontis. Covers scuffed along fore-edge and bottm, with some light bumping to corners and spine ends. Pencil note on flyleaf, else pages unmarked. Binding is sound. More about Oeuvres de Francois Coppee: Poesies 1864-1869
First Edition. Paris: Henri Laurens, 1927. Octavo; 168pp. Black and white plates. Rebound in colored paper over textured black cloth with leather title card to spine. Library stamp to half-title, but no other library markings present. Spine is faded. Binding is sound. Pages toned and a tad brittle, but unmarked... More about L'Art Negre: L'Art Animiste Des Noirs D'Afrique
Hardcover. Paris: Garnier Freres, [1878]. Volume 1 only. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); cxxix, 368p. Four plates with tissue guards including frontis, all present. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, gilt lettering and ornamentation, and title cards. Bookplate of H.H. Powers on front pastedown. Covers lightly bumped at corners... More about Oeuvres Completes de La Fontaine, Volume I
Hardcover. Paris: Garnier Freres, [1878]. Volume 2 only. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); [vi], 507p. Four plates with tissue guards including frontis, all present. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, gilt lettering and ornamentation, and title cards. Bookplate of H.H. Powers on front pastedown. Covers lightly bumped at corners... More about Oeuvres Completes De La Fontaine, Volume II
Hardcover. Paris: Garnier Freres, [1878]. Volume 7 only. Octavo (9.25" x 6"); cxiv, 488p. Two plates with tissue guards including frontis. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, gilt lettering and ornamentation, and title cards. Bookplate of H.H. Powers on front pastedown. Covers lightly bumped at corners and spine... More about Oeuvres Completes de La Fontaine, Volume VII
Jules Férat. Hardcover. Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1926]. Seventy-Second Edition. Two Volumes. Les Mondes Connus et Inconnus Series / Collection Hetzel. Octavos (7" x 4.75"); [iv], 288p, [iv], 261p. Illustrated frontis in each, with in-text illustrations throughout. Red publisher's cloth with gilt and black stamped lettering and ornamentation. Boards are bright... More about Michel Strogoff (2 Vols
First Edition. Hardcover. Princeton: The University of Cincinnati / Princeton University Press, 1962. First Edition. Octavo; 456pp. Printed dust jacket with original $10.00 price; book in brown cloth with gilt lettering and blue decoration to spine. Bilingual text on facing pages. Jacket shows a clean 1" tear at top front... More about The Romance of Flamenca: A Provencal Poem of the Thirteenth Century
[Paris]: Editiones du Seuil, 2002. Octavo (10" x 7"); 265p +6p index. French-language. Covers lightly shelfworn with a small scuff at top edge. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. More about Le Neutre: Cours au College de France (1977-1978