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Anatole France Abroad

Anatole France Abroad

by Brousson, Jean Jacques

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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 celebrated author. 1. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Balzac

Balzac

by Zweig, Stefan

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New York: The Viking Press, 1946. Red title on blue boards which have a stain to front, age darkening to spine but no wear. Internally there is a decorative bookplate of Pamela W. Gores to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. 404 pages. 14 illustrations. TRUE FIRST EDITION by the copyright holder, Viking Press. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. 4. First. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Benjamin Constant and The Post-Revolutionary Mind

Benjamin Constant and The Post-Revolutionary Mind

by Fontana, Biancamaria

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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 this book Biancamaria Fontana presents an overview of Constant's life and writings, showing the unity of his vision and exploring analogies between the issues he discussed and those that confront modern democratic states today. Constant indicated the principles and designed the constitutional arrangements best suited for a new society that was to be ruled by popular sovereignty and direct political representation and oriented toward economic growth and social equality. 24. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Chateaubriand

Chateaubriand

by Maurois, Andre

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London: Jonathan Cape, 1938. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge red. A Very Good+ copy. Translated by Vera Fraser. 360 pages. Portrait to frontispiece and 2 other portraits and a fold out genealogical tree. Excellent biography of the writer and politician François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, considered by many to have been the father of Romanticism in French literature. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.85 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Figaro  -  THe Life of Beaumarchais
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Figaro - THe Life of Beaumarchais

by Rivers, John

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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 added de Beaumarchais later) the French polymath, was, at various times in his life, a watchmaker, an inventor, a playwright, a musician, a diplomat, a spy, a publisher, a horticulturist, an arms dealer, a satirist, a financier, and a revolutionary (both French and American). A VERY SCARCE TITLE 3. First. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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French Novelists of To-day

French Novelists of To-day

by Stephens, Winifred

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London: John Lane, 1914. Gilt titles on green cloth boards which have a small mark to spine else clean with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. xv + 314 pages. Top edge gilt. This is the second edition with new preface and the preface to the first edition of 1908 by the author. Contains critiques and list of works for Anatole France, Marcel Prevost, Pierre De Coulevain, Paul Bourget, Maurice Barres, Rene Bazin, Edouard Rod and Pierre Loti. A useful reference work. **** NOT EX LIB **** 1. Hard Cover. Very Good TEG/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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The French Procession  -  A Pageant of Great Writers

The French Procession - A Pageant of Great Writers

by Duclaux, Madame Mary

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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 and a small tear and crease to one rear endpaper margin, else clean, tight and unmarked. xiii + 358 pages. 6 plates as called for. Comprises: French poetry, Ronsard, Louis Quatorze, Racine, Fénelon, Fontenelle - the Prophet of Science, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Choderlos de Laclos, La Rochefoucauld Liancourt, Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Balzac, Alfred de Musset, Baudelaire, Gobineau, Michelet, Ernest Renan, Flaubert, Taine, Berthelot, Gaston Paris, Ferdinand Brunetière, Anatole France. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Garden of Zola

Garden of Zola

by King, Graham

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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 Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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George Sand and Her Lovers

George Sand and Her Lovers

by Gribble, Francis

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London: Eveleigh Nash, 1907. Gilt title and decoration to spine with gilt ruling, decoration and monogram to front on blue cloth boards. Some wear to spine sides, head and tail and some bumping to corners. Internally there is a small neat signature and date to front endpaper and age darkening of endpapers else clean and unmarked. Top edge gilt with fore and lower edges uncut. xix + 375 pages. Photogravure plates of George Sand (2), Jules Sandeau, Prosper Merimee, Alfred De Musset and Frederic Chopin tissue protected. One of the best biographies of George Sand with particularly good plates. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.85 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good TEG/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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George Sand

George Sand

by Scott, J. M.

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Geneva: Heron Collectors Edition, 1969. Gold decoration and motifs with cream and gold diamond pattern motif to front board on green leatherette boards. Green and gold decorated endpapers. Historical appendix. Yellow page marker bound in. 38 illustrations. Uniform with Women Who Made History Series. 14. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Goncourt Brothers

The Goncourt Brothers

by Billy, Andre

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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 from the French by Margaret Shaw. Jules and Edmmond de Goncourt were the most remarkable pair of collaborators in the history of literature. Their lives were dedicated to each other and to the art of writing, to the exclusion of anything else of importance. As novelists, they were pioneers of realism; their books, in which the single-minded serch for truth sometimes resulted in over-documentation, are seldom read today, but their influence on the development of novel-writing cannot be overestimated. The brothers also acted as guides to the aesthetic taste of their time, notably in their enthusiasm for the 18th century and for the art of Japan. But it… Read More
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Intimate Notebook 1840-1841

Intimate Notebook 1840-1841

by Flaubert, Gustave

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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 no storm.' These words were written by one of France's greatest writers, the future author of Madame Bovary, when he was 18 years old. At that time Gustave Flaubert was living with his parents in Rouen, dutifully following his father's wishes by studying to enter the Paris Law School. Fortunately, however, his true ambitions were distinctly literary, and it was to an ordinary schoolboy's copybook that Flaubert confided his earliest longings and most intimate thoughts. Passed on to Flaubert's niece as part of his literary estate, and presumed lost for over 80 years, in 1965 the text of this precious document was discovered in France, and published… Read More
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Jean De La Fontaine

Jean De La Fontaine

by Hamel, Frank

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London: Stanley Paul, 1911. Photogravure portrait of La Fontaine to frontispiece tissue guarded and 16 other portraits. Not dated but The British Library has this as 1911 and the preface is dated Autumn 1911. Gilt signature of La Fontaine and lettering to spine on blue bevelled boards. Wear to board extremities, head and tail of spine frayed, contents clean with a small name to verso of frontispiece. Loose half title page at front advertising another book by author. 389 pages + 32 page publisher's catalogue bound in at rear. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.96 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** *** The fairly SCARCE Stanley Paul edition *** *** NOT EX LIB *** C3C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good TEG/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Jules Verne

Jules Verne

by Jules-Verne, Jean

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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 ever likely to do. Has a comprehensive bibliography. C3C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Life and Times of Henry Monnier 1799-1877

The Life and Times of Henry Monnier 1799-1877

by Melcher, Edith

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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 on delightful excursions into the mores of French life and the changing modes of thought during the Restoration, the July Monarchy, and the Second Empire. As lithographer and illustrator second only to Daumier among the satiric artists, he created that epitome of the bourgeois type, Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme, the French Babbitt. Monnier's realistic techniques as monologuist and character actor foreshadowed the later work of Antoine and the Théâtre Libre. As a writer he produced lifelike scenes of manners that influenced Balzac and the Realists, and possibly Flaubert. The diversity of his talents and variety of his… Read More
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Literary Impressions

Literary Impressions

by Lemaitre, Jules

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London: Daniel O'Connor, 1921. Gilt title on red cloth boards which have just a minor touch of wear to spine head and tail. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Translated by A. W. Evans. Short essays on Anatole France, Paul Bourget, Ernest Renan, Emile Zola, Guy De Maupassant, Pierre Loti, Hippolyte Taine, George Sand, Madame Sevigne, Joubert, Neo Hellenism and Madame Adam, Virgil and The Anonymous author of 'The Imitation'. Fascinating small volume by the French academician. B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Madame Colette  -  A Provincial In Paris

Madame Colette - A Provincial In Paris

by Crosland, Margaret

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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. A1B. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Madame De Sevigne: A Portrait in Letters

Madame De Sevigne: A Portrait in Letters

by Allentuch, Harriet Ray

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Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1978. Black title on mustard cloth boards which have a few minor marks. Internally very clean and unmarked. Reprinted from the 1963 John Hopkins Press. xv + 219 pages. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame Sevigne (1626-1696) . Famous for her correspondence over twenty five years . **** NOT EX LIB **** 1. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Malraux Life and Work

Malraux Life and Work

by Courcel, Martine De (Editor)

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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. 21. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Maupassant

Maupassant

by Steegmuller, Francis

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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 **** 5. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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