Paris: Societe Franco-Belge De Materiel De Chemins De Fer, [1970s]. Quarto; unpaginated. Book is bound in a black presentation binder with internal 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 also translated to English..... More

Paris: Éditions du Panthéon, 1947. Limited Edition, Collection "Pastels": No. 1224 of 2300 copies thus. Octavo; 220pp. Nine tipped-in two-color full-page illustrations by Jacques Roubille. Broché. Pictorial two-color wrapper by Roubille. Title on title-page, page heads, running heads, poem titles, and pagination printed in crimson lettering, contrasting with black text..... More

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

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

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

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

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

Paris: Horizons de France; 1949. First Edition. Octavo; 174pp. B&W photographs, illustrations, and painting reproductions throughout. Original full-color French broché cover bound in as first page; original two-color broché spine bound in among end leaves. Privately rebound by previous owner with black leather spine, gold spine lettering, faux marbleized blue..... More

Paris: Éditions Paris-Méditerranée, 2002. First Edition. Folio; 318pp. Text in French. Pictorial dustjacket over textured ochre boards with brown stamping on spine. Spine slightly cocked; binding otherwise tight. The second in a series of three volumes by Vidal-Bué surveying Algerian painting region by region. Full-color reproductions on most..... More

Lausanne: Roth et Sauter / Au Verseau, 1966. First Edition. Quarto; unpaginated [32pp]. Thirty-two full-layout illustrated pages with incorporated "hand cursive" text. Bound in stiff card with deep reverse flaps. Binding and pages printed throughout in wedgewood blue on off-white, with text in red. Entirely in French. Binding edge-folds..... More