France Resurgent
[London: International Publishing Co., 1943]. Third Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original pale grey staplebound wrappers printed in red; 48pp. Extremities a bit toned, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. More
[London: International Publishing Co., 1943]. Third Edition. Octavo (21cm.); original pale grey staplebound wrappers printed in red; 48pp. Extremities a bit toned, light wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. More
Paris: Souvenirs du Futur, [1988]. First Edition. Quite possibly the only comic book in its class, Le Grand Rêve Americain (The Great American Dream) adapts technology developed by Philippe Schléret and Véronique Hauss, using molded plastic to create brilliantly colored 3D images. The work exuberantly lampoons Pop Art, American culture..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. First Edition. First Printing, Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the cover and spine; red topstain; decorated endpapers; dustjacket; 398,[6]pp.; spine ends lightly pushed; minor spot of discoloration to topstain; small strip / shallow loss to bottom of front free..... More
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1982. First Canadian Edition. First printing. Octavo; plain card wrappers with printed dustjacket; 69pp. Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustwrapper. More
[Varsovie: Centre Polonais de l'Institut International du Théâtre, 1978]. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.75cm.); original glossy blue printed card wrappers; 64pp.; folding map plate laid in, photographic illus. throughout. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better. French-language overview of modern Polish theater. OCLC locates two copies in North..... More
Paris: Librairie de l'Echo de la Sorbonne, 1872. First Edition. Account of the trial following the hostage situation at the rue Haxo in the final days of the Paris Commune, which resulted in forty-seven deaths and seven death sentences. Small octavo (ca. 19cm.); contemporary morocco-backed gilt-lettered cloth prize binding, gilt..... More
London: Richard Bentley, 1862. Second English edition. Octavo; contemporary full calf, boards ruled in gilt; spine in six compartments, extra-gilt with morocco spine label; marbled page edges; viii,463pp. Handsome copy, with spine and board edges just lightly rubbed; internally clean, tight and unmarked. Contemporary presentation inscription inside front cover: "C.B...... More
Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art / University Press of New England, 2006. First Edition. Quarto (28cm x 28cm). Pictorial glossy card wrappers (paperback); 88pp; illus. Near Fine copy; small mark on back cover, else fine. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg"..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1878. First American Edition. Short biographies of five notable 19th century Frenchmen including: 1. Victor Jacquemont, traveller and naturalist 2. Henri Perreyve, Ecclesiastic and orator 3. François Rude, sculptor 4. Jean Jacques Ampère, historian, archæologist, traveller 5. Henri Regnault, painter and patriot. 12mo. Cloth boards titled in..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First Edition. First States. Two volumes; small octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's green blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spines (binding A per BAL); [2],307; [2],306pp. Ex-Fitchburg Public Library with their internal markings and "Withdrawn" rubberstamps, evidence of shelfmarks removed from spines, bindings expertly recased with renewed endpapers..... More
Paris: Éditions Émile-Paul Frères, 1926. First Edition. Autobiographical novel by the Belgian author and founder of the influential periodical "Signaux de France et de Belgique" (later "Le Disque Vert"). Though this is a psychological study of childhood, Hellens was also a major figure in Belgian magical realism, and while mostly..... More
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 191pp. Fine and unmarked in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; Near-New. More
London: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1899. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); blue cloth boards stamped in gilt on cover and spine; deckles edges. Illustrated; fold-out map at rear; 520pp.; light rubbing at corners and spine ends; endpapers slightly darkened, else internally clean, tight and unmarked; Very Good+. Former owner's name [Adelaide..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1890. First Edition. Miscellany of French prose pieces, including works by Louis Bertrand, Paul Leclercq, Judith Gauthier, Baudelaire, and others. Howells' 4-pp. introduction is titled "The Prose Poem." 12mo. Cloth boards, decoratively stamped in silver with gilt titles; xvi,[1]-268pp; illus. A tidy, Near Fine copy..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); russet cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; xiv,338, with 8pp of illustrations at center. Spine ends gently nudged, hint of a lean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is..... More
Paris: Éditions de la Revue Blanche, [1902]. First Edition. Jarry's last major publication, and, along with its companion novel Messaline (1901), his most accessible. However, while Messaline is set in ancient Rome, this "roman moderne" is set nearly twenties years in the future, in 1920. Nevertheless, Le Surmâle is considered..... More
London: Printed for J. Rivington and Sons (et al), 1778. "A New Edition." Five octavo volumes. Modern half-calf over marbled boards, with printed linen spine labels; two portraits; folding map; pp. xxxiii,414 + viii,399 + vii,416 + ix,473 + vi,226,[270 = Index]. Complete, Very Good or better set in a...... More
Ain-Sebaa, Maroc & Paris: Éditions de l'Impremierie d'Ain-Sebaa / Librairie Historique et Documentaire Raymond Clavreuil, 1953. First Edition. Limited to 300 copies of which this is no. 135. Octavo (24.5cm.); later half crimson morocco over blue boards decorated with gilt fleurs-de-lis in the style of the Capetian arms, gilt spine..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1931. First Edition. Large octavo. Black cloth boards (hardcover); 346pp; 12 inserted leaves of plates (halftones). Brief pencil annotation inside front cover, else a tight, VG or better copy, free of textual markings or significant wear. Though clearly superseded by later scholarship, Josephson's remains one of..... More
Napoli: Vivarium, 1997. First Thus. Large octavo (24cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers; xiv,[2],588pp.; illus. and facsimiles throughout. Light shelf wear, wrappers rather dust-soiled, else Very Good overall, internally fine. Collected correspondence and professional documents issued by the Jacobin revolutionary who served as the general secretary to the provisional government..... More
[London: Friends' Council for International Service, 1925]. Offprint. Octavo (20.5cm.); bifolium. Fine. Article first published in the World Outlook Section of The Friend, March, 1925. At head of title: "C.I.S." NYPL only in OCLC as of June, 2015. More
[Paris]: Pierre Jean Oswald, [1972]. First Edition. 12mo (18cm.); original blue printed wrappers; 37,[2]pp. Fine. Poetry collection by Kayo, chairman of the National Association of Poets and Writers of Cameroon, a post he held from 1969 to 1981. More
London: Printed for Thomas Kelly by Weed and Rider, 1818. Second Edition. Quarto (26.5cm). Slightly later half calf with marbled paper boards; marbled endpapers; 509,[1]pp; one-page publisher's advertisement at rear; frontispiece, engraved title page, folding map with touches of hand-coloring, and 18 addtional black and white plates. Slight loss to..... More
New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. Quarto (29cm). Dark green pictorial paper-covered boards; xxvi,[1048]pp; black and white in-text illustrations. Light spotting to top edge, text block sagging slightly, generally clean and Very Good. More
[New York]: Harry N. Abrams, [1999]. First Edition. Quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 469pp.; chiefly color illus. throughout, including folding plates. Bottom fore-edge corners scuffed, else Very Good or better. More