New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1953. First Thus; Limited Edition of 1500 copies, this being #432. Large octavo. 420 pp. Hand-colored gravures by Legrand. Bound in blue silk stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Publisher's prospectus and monthly newsletter laid in at front. Housed in publisher's slipcase... More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1967. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xvii,[7],291pp.; sixteen leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos, facsimiles, maps, and plans throughout. Light toning and dust-soil to jacket, a hint of shelf wear, else Very Good or better. Letterpress..... 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: H. Floury, Editeur, 1923. First Edition. Quarto (10.25" x 8"); 215pp. Illustrated paper covers under folding glassine covering. French-language, with color and black and white illustrations throughout. Glassine torn at spine ends with nearly half of back missing. Book covers are bumped and worn along edges with chipping at..... More

London: J. Debrett, 1796. First Edition. Octavo; removed [from covers]; [4],90pp. ([A]2 B-M4 N1), half title present. Some minor toning to textblock with a few cover remnants along spine, else Very Good and sound. Oft-reprinted contemporary account of the ongoing conflict between Great Britain and France during the French..... More

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

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: Alexandre Cadot, 1856. First Edition. Small octavo (16cm.); contemporary brown calf-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, marbled endpapers; 320pp. Boards a bit scuffed at extremities with some exposure, chiefly at corners, contemporary bookseller ticket to front pastedown and slightly latter rubber-stamps to title page a few internal leaves, stock uniformly..... More

London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, ca. 1870s. Large, thick quarto; contemporary half gilt-ruled morocco over cloth, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; xxviii,737pp.; 118 plates, hundreds of text illus. throughout. Boards scuffed with exposure at corners, spine sunned and leather dried, stock a bit toned and brittle due to..... More

Hollywood: Marcel Rood, 1947. First Thus. Octavo; 128pp. Printed dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; book in brown cloth with gilt lettering. Jacket shallowly chipped along edges with a larger chip at head of spine, losing first half of Isherwood's name, tearing down flap folds, and a good bit of..... 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

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: The Olympia Press, 1954. First Edition. 16mo (7" x 5"); [xi], 12-575pp. Salmon dust jacket folded over plain white wraps. Printed on India paper. Covers rubbed along edges with shallow chips / tears at spine ends, some creasing to back, and a nickel-sized abrasion to top front corner, presumably..... More