San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1971. First American Edition, limited to 750 copies. Octavo; publisher's card wrappers in white pictorial dust jacket, matching card slipcase; 60pp.; photographs throughout. Slipcase a bit worn and dust-soiled; overall Near Fine in Good to Very Good slipcase. Prospectus laid in. Compilation of personal accounts..... 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: 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

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

Paris: Eugène Ducrocq, [n.d. but 1864]. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's crimson morocco-backed paneled cloth, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers; [4],204pp.; eau-forte frontispiece, thirteen leaves of plates, including five additional eaux-fortes etchings, text illus. throughout. Extremities a bit rubbed, chiefly at corners and spine crown..... 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

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: 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

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: D'Auguste Delalain, 1822. First Edition. 24mo (5.5" x 3.5"); [iv], 354pp. Contemporary stained calf with gilt decoration and lettering and black leather title card to spine. Marbled endpapers and page edges. 1820s school bookplate on front pastedown. Corners bumped and rubbed, with some scuffs down joints. Binding is sound..... 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