[Text in French]. Pp. [ii](tipped-in Editor's note)+162(last blank), 4 maps; plain paper wrappers, spine titled by hand, edges a trifle rubbed; glassine wrapper, front panel titled by hand, edges browned, chipped and split; uncut; outer leaves and edges browned; Augustin Challamel, Paris, 1920. First edition. *Posthumously published. An account of..... More
Texte de Claude Aubry. Gravures de Saul Field. [Text in French]. Pp. 102, 10 full page coloured illustrations, patterned endpapers; med. 4to; pictorial beige cloth, lettered and decorated in maroon, the boards slightly foxed; text block faintly browned; edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Les Editions des Deux Rives, Ottawa..... More
From the French of L'Abbe Prevost. With an Introduction by J. Lewis May. With decorations by John Austen. Pp. [vi]+x+144(last colophon, verso blank), coloured frontispiece and 11 plates, black & white title page vignette and pictorial head and tailpieces, the title, all text and colophon within decorative blue border; roy..... More
Collected in the monasteries of Touraine and given to the light by Honore de Balzac. Translated into modern English by Alec Brown. With drawings by Mervyn Peake. Pp. viii+408, frontispiece plus 23 plates printed in two colours; roy. 8vo; brown canvas, lettered in gilt and decorated in darker brown &..... More
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. Introduction by Frederic R. Jameson. Pp. xxxvi+238(last blank)+[4](advertisements, last blank), series patterned endpapers, notes, select bibliography, chronology; maroon cloth, spine blocked in black and lettered & ruled in gilt; partial dust wrapper (as issued, comprising a front panel and flap only, with no..... More
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. With an Introduction by Richard Aldington and illustrations by Rene ben Sussan. Pp. xviii+272(last blank), coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, 6 plates (1 double page), and text illustrations; roy. 8vo; qr. green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, patterned cloth boards; within card..... More
Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage, with an Introduction by Francois Mauriac, and illustrations by Rene Ben Sussan. Pp. xviii+318(last colophon), coloured frontispiece, title page vignette, and text illustrations (some full page); narrow impl. 8vo; qr. navy morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards, corners a...... More
Translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt. Pp. [viii]+132+[2](blank, colophon), frontispiece; qr. grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, grey papered boards, with tiny bruise to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse, faint signs of sticker removal from head of front flap; minor production fault (2..... More
Trente-sept lithographies de Berthold Mahn. [Text in French]. Pp. [viii]+304+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece, plus 10 plates, title page vignette, 14 text illustrations, 10 pictorial headpieces and a tailpiece, the title and several small decorative initials printed in red; bound in half orange calf, with gilt lettered and decorated red calf..... More
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Deuxieme Serie. Saint Job, patron des avaries; Comment on meurt en beaute; La fable de la Papesse; Morte au service du Roi; Une consultation pour La Pompadour; Napoleon a-t-il manque sa vocation?; La sante de Napoleon III et la guerre de 1870; Poisons et artifices de la toilette, etc. [Text..... More
A portrait of Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Pp. [xii]+398+[4], 16 plates, notes, bibliography, chronology; med. 8vo; qr. cloth, papered boards; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed, back panel lightly soiled, front flap creased; Random House, New York, 1971. Second printing. More
made by maystere Alain Charretier. Translated thus in Englyssh by William Caxton, 1484. Collated with the French original by Prof. Paul Meyer, and edited by Frederick J. Furnivall. Pp. viii+20, glossary; nineteenth century half calf, the spine blocked in black and lettered in gilt, marbled papered boards, lightly rubbed, edges..... More
A biography. Volume One (1768-93). The Longed-for Tempests. Pp. [x]+322(last blank), 8 plates, endpaper maps, notes, select bibliography, references, index; med. 8vo; dust wrapper, edges a trifle split; edges of leaves faintly foxed; Chatto & Windus, London, 1977. First edition. *Biography of the French romantic writer and statesman. More
Two novels translated from the French and with an Introduction by Margaret Crosland. Pp. viii+214, patterned endpapers; price-clipped dust wrapper, faintly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, outer leaves faintly offset, edges lightly foxed; Peter Owen, London, 1976. First British Commonwealth edition..... More
Translated from the French and with an Introduction by Margaret Crosland. Pp. [x]+226, patterned endpapers; a couple of tiny bruises to edges of boards; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves a trifle foxed;..... More
Translated from the French by Margaret Crosland and David Le Vay and with an Introduction by Margaret Crosland. Pp. 156(last blank), frontispiece portrait; boards slightly sprung, the fore-corners faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the front panel slightly creased near bottom edge; bookseller's sticker at foot..... More
Pp. 306; edges of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper, worn and lightly soiled, edges chipped and split, with a few small tears, the front panel lightly creased; Peter Nevill, London, 1951. First edition. *A translation of Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, followed by Murry's analysis of the novel. More
An autobiography in fact and fiction. Translated and edited by Dan Hostadter. Drawings by Emma Chichester Clark. Pp. viii+140, coloured frontispiece plus 5 plates; navy cloth, lettered and decorated in silver; top edges navy; within cream card slipcase;The Folio Society, London, 1986. Folio 581. More
Translated by J. M. Cohen. Lithographs by M. Lin-Desportes. Pp. 118, black & white frontispiece, plus 6 plates printed in two colours; pictorial tan cloth, lettered in gilt and decorated in black, the boards faintly soiled; top edges yellow; lacking the slipcase; armorial bookplate (Richard George De Burgh Griffith) on..... More
Translated and with an Introduction by Leonard Tancock. Lithographs by Charles Mozley. Pp. 168, frontispiece and 6 plates printed in two colours; qr. black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, black & gold patterned papered boards; top edges grey; within green card slipcase; a little light foxing; The Folio Society, London..... More
Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Pp. [vi]+118(last blank); minor flaws to cloth across both boards and spine; dust wrapper; some of the pages faintly browned; Collins, London, 1988. First U.K. edition. More
Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Pp. [iv]+60; dust wrapper; Grove Press, Inc., New York, 1986. First U.S. edition. More
Translated by Leigh Hafrey. Pp. [vi]+232(last blank); qr. grey cloth, spine lettered in silver, cream cloth boards; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; The New Press, New York, 1992. First U.S. edition. More
Marguerite Duras speaks to Jerome Beaujour. Translated from the French by Barbara Bray. Pp. [viii]+144(last blank); dust wrapper; Collins, London, 1990. U.K. edition. *'Collection of her pieces - about her homes, her past, her writing, her love for a very young man and their love for each other. She writes..... More