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: 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

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

Paris: Art Press, 2005. Special Issue May 2005. Quarto periodical (28x21x0.5cm); 114pp, including bibliography. Densely illustrated throughout; advertising restricted to inside covers and three final pages. Entirely in French. Coated periodical-weight covers over lighter coated stock. Minimal paperblock curving, a seeming result of storage conditions, which were exemplary; spine..... 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

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