Search Results: French Literature from Catron Grant Books

New York: Illustrated Editions Company, 1931 214 pps. plus 6 b/w illustrated plates. Text clean, tight and unmarked. Printed on heavy, toned, deckled stock. Purple silkand black cloth boards are sunned across the top edge, and gold stamping is worn. Spine is faded. A few pages are unopened. Anatole France lampoons the occult with this satiric romance involving a shape-shifting salamander in "wicked" old Paris.. First Thus. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by King, Alexander. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Meridith Corp, 1969 149 pp Introduction in English, libretto in French with study vocabulary and exercises. Text is clean, tight and unmarked except for a price stamp on the flyleaf. Cover is clean and bright.. Trade Paperback. VG.

E.p. Dutton 128 pp. Apart from one fine line of ink on the half-title page, text is clean, tight, toned and unmarked. The blue and yellow softcover with an orange circle above the title is tight bright with minor wear on corners and bottom edge, minor paper loss at the bottom of spine, and one fleck of surface loss on back cover. This is an English translation.. Ist Printing. Softcover. Very Good. 5.25" x 7.5".

Lyon, France: Imprimerie Lescuyer 42 pps. B/W vintage photgraphs throughout. Text clean, tight, bright and unmarked. White, semi-gloss cover with a four-color photograph clean and tight with some wear. A guidebook for tourists written in French.. Soft Cover. Good. 5 7/8" X 7 5/8".

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939 London: The Nonesuch Press, 1939 147 pp with twenty color illustrations in text. translated by Richard Aldington. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Boards quarter-bound in paper printed with fleur-de-lis design are undamaged.Tan paper caseis split along rear edge. Cased Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Sauvage, Silvain. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Illus. by Sauvage, Silvain.

France: Presses Universitaires De France 316 pp. A rebinding of the softcover edition in red and crean half-calf with gold-patterned endpapers. Boards have an outward bow. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. A contemporary (1941) inscription on first free page after title page.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Portales, NM: Scopercraeft Press, 1995 Portales, NM: Scopercraeft Press, 1995 128 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmrked. Covers are clean and bright with a little shelfwear. Seventh Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good.. Seventh Printing.. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1936 55 pp. Translated from the French by Jacques LeClercq with a preface by Francis de Miomandre. A discussion of bibliophilia with a dictionary of terms used for typography, paper and binding. Text is clean, tight, unmarked, slightly yellowed. Orange striped boards are bumped at corners, one 1/4" chip missing along front edge. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First Edition.. Decorative Paper. Good/No Jacket as Published.

Paris: Artheme Fayard & C., 1933 Paris: Artheme Fayard & C., 1933 124 pp with B&W woodcuts in text. Text is clean and unmarked, edges ragged, disbound but all pages present. Yellow paper covers with stamped design in black and red. are loose, soiled, with contemporary owner's name on front cover. An issue of "Le Livre de Demain." Erotic short stories. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soft Cover. Fair. Illus. by Lebedeff,Jean. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Paperback. Fair. Illus. by Lebedeff,Jean.

Paris: Libraire de H. Fournier, 1835 Paris: Libraire de H. Fournier, 1835 Two volumes quarter-bound in calf with mottled paper.boards Text is clean,and unmarked. Volume II front gutter cracked.but holding. Closed tear on title page of volume I. Gold-stamped titles along spine are somewhat dulled. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. 2nd Edition.. Hardcover. Good.

Syracuse University Press, 1966 365 pp. French writers of the 16th century with rather caustic reviews of their works. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, stamp (#1) on front endpapers and page edges.Blue buckram boards with gold-stamped titles are clean, bright, undamaged. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Second Printing.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

UK: Longmans, 1966 149 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, previous owner's name sticker on first free page. DG is clean and bright with light edgewear. Now in protective mylar.. 1st Ed.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lanham, Maryland, U.S.A.: Unniversity Press of America, 1989 10, 223 pp. Text is clean, tight, bright and unmarked. Dark blue/grey boards with metallic gold printing on front cover and spine are bright and undamaged.. Irish Culture - IRA - Sinn Fein.. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 6" x 9.25".

London: Nonesuch Press, 1942 London: Nonesuch Press, 1942 205 pp with color illustrations in text. Introduction by Andre Maurois. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Quarter-bound boards with fleur-de-lis pattern are bright and undmaged. Tan card slipcase is split along botton seam. Cased Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Oberle. Jean. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Illus. by Oberle. Jean.

teNeues, 2003 79 pp with color illustrations on every page. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Boards and dust jacket are "fine" with no damage.. English Edition.. Hardcover. As New/As New.

NYC: A.l. Burt NYC: A.l. Burt 480 pp with sixty-four plates . Text is clean, unmarked, front hinge cracked but holding. Previous owners' names on front endpapers.Blue cloth boardsare clean, spine dulled. Standard Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.. Standard Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.

Paris: Les Editions Traditionnelles, 1951 133 pp.Text is clean, tight and unmarked. toned. Blue buckraam boards are cean and intact.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Slender Octavo.

Torino: Fontana, 1842 Torino: Fontana, 1842 Hardcover bound in beige paper decorated with an elaborate engraved escutcheon. Black& white illustrations from engravings throughout plus twelve plates. All plates present. Pages have considerable foxing.but are tight and unmarked. Front hinge cracked but holding. Boards are rubbed at extremities with some loss of material at corners and edges. François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon more commonly known as François Fénelon (6 August 1651 - 7 January 1715), was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer. He was the tutor to the 7-yrar-old son of the French Dauphin, Louis XV, who was then second in line to the French throne But by far the most lasting of his works that Fénelon composed for the duke was his Les Aventures de Télémaque [The Adventures of Telemachus, Son of Ulysses], written in 1693-94. On its surface, The Adventures of Telemachus was a novel about Ulysses' son… Read More

George Routledge & Sons, 1886 George Routledge & Sons, 1886 Five volumes prefusely illustrated in B&W. All texts are clean and unmarked. Green cloth boards are rubbed and soiled. Spine labels are damaged. Volumes 1, 4 and 5's binding split at gutter, all other volumes sound. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket.

France: M. Weber, 1991 xxiii,373 pp. Text in French. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Covers are bright and undamaged.. Sixth Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.