Biography - French Authors from Goldring Books

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme and John Murray, 1805. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION COMPLETE IN FOUR VOLUMES. Vol. I - Front board is detached. Boards have stains and wear. Neat name to front endpaper. 206 pages+ 2 pages of adverts. Front gathering (up to page 24) loose and held on by a single thread. Edges mostly rough cut,… Read more

London: Hutchinson, 1922. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which has a faded spine, wear to spine head snd sides and light rub marks to front and back. Internally there is a bookplate to front pastedown and age darkening to endpapers else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. 315 pages. 18 Illustrations. Pierre-Augustin Caron as he was born (he… Read more

London: Andre Deutsch, 1960. Gold title on orange boards which are unmarked with no wear. Internally there is age tonig to endpapers, a little light foxing to to and fore edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a repaired closed tear and light wear and is not price clipped. 351 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Translated… Read more

London: W.H. Allen, 1967. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped and has a repaired closed tear. 59 pages. Introduction, translation and notes by Francis Steegmuller. 'I go from hope to anxiety, from wild optimism to dreary negation; its rain and sun, but its a gilded cardboard sun and a misty rain with… Read more

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Gilt title on spine with blind embossed title to front on blue cloth boards which have just a little wear to spine head and tail and corner tips and just a few very small light marks to front. Internally there is light foxing to endpapers and to closed edges, the odd spot to some pages… Read more

London: Collins, 1967. A Fine unmarked copy with VG dustjacket which has a very small repaired closed tear and is not price clipped. 344 pages. 7 illustrations and pictorial endpapers. Anatole France - born François-Anatole Thibault (1844-1924), was the son of a bookseller on the left bank, and the Paris he knew was the Paris of Monet and Renoir,… Read more

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1950. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a small name to front endpaper with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 253 pages. 19 illustrations. Versatile, gregarious Henry Monnier was so typical of the 19th century Paris of which he was a quasi-satirical exponent that this colourful biography takes the reader… Read more

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1980. An As New copy with an As New dustjacket. xiii + 285 pages. 18 illustrations. Tracing the connections between the almost comic succession of failures in Stendhal's life and the enduring triumphs of his art, Robert Alter illuminates the process through which the writer's public and private experience fed into his great literary… Read more

London: Yale University Press, 1991. An As New copy with Very Good dustjacket which has a little fading to rear. xvii + 165 pages. The Swiss writer and political theorist Benjamin Constant was a key figure in the early 19th century attempt to come to terms with the new political world created by the French Revolution of 1789. In… Read more

London: Dennis Dobson, 1946. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is a small name to front endpaper and light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket has light wear to edges, two small repaired closed tears and is… Read more

London: Collins, 1950. Red cloth boards with slightly sunned spine but clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked. 383 pages. Photograph of Maupassant to frontispiece. An excellent biography of the writer by a well known French translator. **** NOT EX LIB **** 1. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over… Read more

London: Peter Owen, 1953. Gold title on blue cloth boards which have fading to spine and just a touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 222 pages. Photograph of Colette to frontispiece and 6 other illustrations. An excellent later biography of Colette which includes a useful bibliography. … Read more

London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1976. Gold title on black cloth boards. A near Fine unmarked copy. Slightly chipped dustjacket showing contributors and a stylised portrait of Malraux is not price clipped. Includes a major new essay especially written for this book by Malraux. Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, E.H. Gombrich,Walter Langlois, Hugh Thomas and Tadao Takemoto and 13 others. 37 illustrations.… Read more

London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927. Gilt titles on purple cloth boards with gilt still bright, fading to spine and spine sides but no wear. Internally there is foxing to closed edges, endpapers and to the margins of a few pages else a clean, tight copy. Fore and lower page edges uncut. 301 pages. Photographic portrait frontispiece. An excellent biography of the… Read more

London: Geoge Allen & Unwin, 1916. Gilt title on red cloth boards which have minor marks and wear to spine side. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge red. 302 pages. 8 portraits and 1 illustration. Biographical sketches of Montaigne, Pascal, Balzac, Flaubert, Revolutionary characters, Conan Doyle, Napoleon, Maeterlinck et al. An interesting work by the Belgian author.… Read more

London: Macdonald and Janes, 1976. Translated and adapted by Roger Greaves. Written by the grandson of Jules Verne.Silver lettering on blue. Blue pictorial dustjacket depicting Captain Nemo's vessel with a vignette portrait of Jules Verne and a photographic portrait to back. Dustjacket has slight wear and minor chipping. A biography that gets close to Verne as any book is… Read more

London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978. A near Fine unmarked copy with VG+ dustjacket.which is price clipped. A comprehensive account of the life of Emile Zola and his novels for English readers. Contains 44 illustrations. . PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.18 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1B. First Edition. Hard… Read more

New York: G. P. Putnams / The Knickerbocker Press, 1905. Gilt signatures of Hugo and Drouet to front and gilt lettering to spine on blue cloth boards, all very bright and clean with just a little wear to spine head and tail and a small light mark to front. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Text surrounded by blocking with… Read more

London: Methuen, 1938. Black title to spine on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean and unmarked but with 2 pages and an illustration loose. Dustjacket is age darkened and price clipped. First full length biography in English. She moved amongst the great wits and fine figures of her day, wrote and entertained… Read more

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1966. Gold title and decoration on blue boards which have a small white mark to back, a minor mark to front and a bump to one front corner. Internally there are two pages which have small holes which although affecting the text the text can still be discerned else very clean, tight and unmarked. 457… Read more