Boston: Chez J.H.A. Frost, 1824. Second American Edition. 12mo. 379 pages + 3 pages advertisements. Contemporary sheep with spine lettered in gilt. Text in French, advertisements in English. Worn at extremities with exposure to edges and loss at spine ends, most significantly to top of spine with gatherings exposed..... More
Paris: Société Franco-Belge de Matériel 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: Charpentier, Librairie-Éditeur, 1867. Small Octavo: Vol I 356pp; Vol II 297pp; Vol III 455pp; Vol IV 428pp; Vol V 372pp; Vol VI 372pp; Vol VII 353pp; Vol VIII 308pp; Vol IX 248pp. Entirely in French. Quarter-bound in umber morocco with raised spine bands and gilt lettering. Boards in..... More
Paris: Hachette, [1960]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's green decorative leatherette stamped in red and gilt, gilt-lettered acetate jacket; 302pp.; 8 mounted color plates, text illustrations throughout. Minor shelf wear along spine edges, jacket a bit dusty with a few tiny losses at extremities, else a Very Good, internally fine..... More
Paris: Perrin et Cie / Librairie Acadèmique, 1912. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],279pp. Spine a bit faded, light wear to extremities, else Very Good and sound. Novel of French adolescence, the first to be awarded the Grand Prix de Littérature of the Académie Française..... More
[Paris]: Hachette, [1964]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's decorative paper-covered boards; 90pp. Ownership sticker to front flyleaf, a hint of rubbing at spine foot, else a Fine copy. More
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
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, [1908?]. First Edition. 12mo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],iii,[1],381pp. Spine a bit faded, light foxing to text, else Very Good and sound. Diplomatic and political account of the United States. Later in his career Tardieu would act as three-time Prime Minister of France, from 1929 to..... More
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Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1867. 2e Édition. Small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],vii,[1],262pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. Includes a contribution by the French..... More
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Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1867. 2e Édition. Small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],v,[1],253pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. Includes essays on the Suez Canal..... More
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Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1864. Small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],410pp. General shelf wear, spine a bit toned, light soil to preliminaries, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. Includes hygienist Apollinaire Bouchardat's..... More
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Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie., 1866. Two volumes; small octavo (17.75cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine; [4],237; [2],238pp. General shelf wear, spines a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of a series of popular science pieces published annually. More
Paris: Hachette, 1962. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 457pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, chiefly at spine ends, corners a bit bumped, else Very Good overall. Prospectus postcard laid in. French film-maker Jean Renoir's memoirs of his father, the painter Auguste Renoir. More
Paris: Maurice Dreyfous, n.d., ca. 1880s. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's pictorial tan wrappers printed lithograph in red and black; [8],353,32pp.; frontispiece. Wrappers quite chipped and rubbed at extremities, rear cover and publisher's advertisements very nearly separated, else a Good, unopened copy in original wrappers. The second..... More
Paris: Éditions Garnier Frères, [1961]. First Thus. Thick 12mo (18.25cm.); publisher's green gilt-embossed cloth, pictorial plate mounted to upper cover, original mylar dust jacket; [6]xxiii,[1],944pp.; four leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, additional text illus. throughout, including many full-paged. Tiny soil spot to rear cover, a few chips..... More
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
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Paris: Éditions Stock, [1948]. First Thus. Limited to 2200 copies of which this is no. 261. Octavo; publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; xxxiii,[1],181pp.; frontispiece and head- and tail-pieces throughout. Very Near Fine condition. Forms part of the series "Cent Romans Français." French social novel set in a small working class..... More
Paris: Flammarion, [1958.] Reprint. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in black and dark red; 232pp.; one photographic plate. Light toning to wrapper extremities, chiefly to spine panel, contemporary (1959) ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good to Near Fine. Collected correspondence of the French novelist..... More
Paris: Librairie Jacques Lecoffre, 1873. Cinquième édition, revue et augmentée. (Fifth edition, revised and augmented.) Seven volumes; octavo (22.5cm.); contemporary blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt spines in six compartments, all edges speckled, marbled endpapers. Ex-Pacific Unitarian School for the Ministry with their early 20th-century markings, boards a bit scuffed..... More
Paris: Bernard Grasset, [1978]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated card wrappers; 248pp. Minor wear from handling, wrappers a bit yellowed, brief soil to rear cover, else Very Good and sound. Account of the treason trial in the Soviet Union of the Jewish oppositionist Anatoly Chtcharansky. 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
Paris: Éditions Georges-Anquetil, ca. 1920. Octavo (23cm.); later maroon cloth, red gilt morocco spine label; viii,728,[16](ads)pp. Bottom margins of both covers discolored from exposure to damp, text block uniformly toned, else Good to Very Good overall. Anthology of 18th-century French erotic and romantic literature. Authors include Diderot, Laclos, Casanova..... More
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, [1956]. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white decorative card wrappers printed in green and white; 362pp. Light dust-soil with some bumping at tail of spine. Forms part of the series "Les Temps et les Destins." More
[Paris]: Mercure de France, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's card wrappers in white dust jacket; 190pp. Light wear and toning to jacket extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. The French playwright's only novel, published in English as "The Hermit" in 1975. More
Paris: P.-V. Stock & Cie., 1913. First Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],240pp. Spine a bit faded, textblock uniformly toned and very lightly foxed, else Very Good and sound. The prolific playwright's comedic portrait of the bourgeois single woman, in this case Thérèse, who loses her..... More