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Anatole France
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Association with David R. Godine, Boston & London, 1983. First Edition Thus. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. 1.430 kg.; V, 6-192 pages, Trustees and Supervisors, Director's Preface, acknowledgements introduction by Edward Maeder, and index. Dark red coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with black-and-white contemporary illustrations, graphs, and coloured and black-and-white photography. At the rear of the book is a facsimile of the original text, in original French language, and engravings. 1/4 dark red cloth backstrip with gilt titles. 3/4 beige coloured boards with ochre coloured titles to the front panel. A little rubbing to the book edges. Colour photographic slipcase with ochre coloured background and pale yellow titles to the backstrip. Rubbing to the slip case corners and to the backstrip corners. Heavy rubbing to the slipcase panels. Translated and annotated by Nikki Scheuer .…
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The National Book association/Hutchinson & Company, London, 1947. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Dust Jacket. 192pp., IV pages., at rear -- short subject index, introduction by author. Illustrated endpapers, showing map of France and areas discussed. Light blue coloured boards with black writing on the spine. Corners of the book are very rubbed and bumped. The head and the heel of the spine are bumped and on the bottom spine cut the edge there is a 0.25 " tear. Rubbing and fading to the spine and to the book panels has also occurred. There are are numerous marks on the front and back panels and there is also an ink mark to the back panel. Foxing marks and browning to the top paper edge, and browning to the other edges. Foxing to the endpapers and for the first few pages and the last few pages of the book. Browning to the internal pages. A look at the relations between Britain and France just after before and after World War II, taking in a historical perspective as…
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The Fall of Paris; the Siege and the Commune 1870-71
by Horne, Alistair
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Penguin, London, 1981. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 540 pages, with maps, 16 pages of black-and-white photographs and reproductions of drawings in central sections, bibliography, references and indexed. In this book, "the author finds the cause of the collapse of France in the shallow brilliance and superficial prosperity of Louis Napoleon's Second Empire. The opening chapters portray this gaslit theatricality, moving as if upon a screen into the shock of the Siege, and the tragedy of the Commune and, later, its brutal repression. The book closes by identifying the paths which led from the Siege to the First World War, from the Commune to Lenin's Russian Revolution of 1917. -- front fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. a clean secondhand copy, no damage to detail apart from age toning of the page edges. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity…
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The Lost Australia of Francois Peron
by Wallace, Colin
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Nottingham Court Press, London, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Illustrated. 670 g.; XX, 176 pages, the last 12 pages not numbered, foreword by David Bellamy, preface by author, acknowledgements, introduction by author, list of illustrations, primary sources, bibliography, chapter notes and index. Black-and-white illustrated frontispiece, showing a portrait of Francois Peron, made 15 days prior to his death ( the only known portrait ). The text is illustrated with 17 black-and-white reproductions of contemporary illustration and a one double page illustration. Black coloured cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Minor bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. Shelf marking to the lower book edges and slight cocking of the spine. Very light age toning of the text block edges and internal text. Black and white illustrated dustwrapper with a red background, the illustrations being executed by Francois Peron.…
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Madame De Stael ; Her Life As Revealed in Her Work 1766-1800, A Biographical Study of a Mind and Soul
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George Routledge and Sons Ltd, London, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. XII, 332 pages, preface by author, 3 appendices and index. Green coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Slight fading of the spine section, previous owner's name in ink on front paste down, offset tanning on front and rear free end pages, handling marks to the front edge, untrimmed bottom edge of text block. A picture can be provided to helplessness condition. Translated from the French by Veronica Lucas. The biography/history of Madame De Stael, French emigre fleeing Napoleon's regime. The book deals with her life in two parts, 1766-1795 and in England from 1795 to 1800. Quoted in the book are some of Madame De Staels' work. . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; 18th Century;…
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Marie Antoinette (The Hallam Edition)
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Cassell, London, 1952. 2nd Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. includes a chronological table the events, a postface (in which the author "in the case of Marie Antoinette it seems to me that it would be more appropriate to mention which sources have not been utilised and why. Even those documents which are as a rule most trustworthy, namely autograph letters, are here unreliable. As has been more than once pointed out in the foregoing pages, Marie Antoinette, being of an impatient disposition, was a careless letter writer." -- Page 593. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. Bound in a decorated cloth, blind stamped titling gilt filled, top edge of text block tinted pale red. Illustrated dustwrapper (same illustration as the underlying boards) with green coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. A study of Marie Antoinette. Bumping and rubbing of the book corners with softening and rubbing of the back strip edges. Light…
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The Night Will End; Memoirs of a Revolutionary
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McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Poor Condition. 900 g; xvi, 469 pp., illustrated dustwrapper, List of abbreviations, organisational chart, index. Top edge of book tinted grey, the dustjacket shows foxing on the underside, chipping, rubbing, and short tears to both top and bottom edges and a general crumpled feel. The author was the founder and leader of the French resistance, this is his memoir as a revolutionary and the inside story of a historic underground movement. After a self imposed silence of thirty years, Henri Frenay, founder and leader of the French Resistance, relives the clandestine war against the Nazis ( "our long past days, with their joys, their sorrows and even their dreams, our profound differences with de Gaulle, our desperate efforts in the hope that victory in war might not be followed by defeat in peace") in a sweeping and suspenseful narrative. ". Size: 4to 9¾" -…
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The Nile Campaign ; Nelson and Napoleon in Egypt
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David & Charles, London, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Various. 600 g; 120 pages, illustrated with 34 reproductions of either art works or documents. The book is arranged in double column format and covers the three-year period from 1798 and the capture of Malta to the defeat of the French army in 1801. Light foxing of the end pages and fold over flap, and of the free end pages and fold over flaps. The rear lower right-hand corner of the dust jacket has been repaired with sticky tape. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Military History -- Naval; History -- France; History -- Egypt; History -- Britain. ISBN: 0715354493. ISBN/EAN: 9780715354490. Inventory No: 0236792. . 9780715354490
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Odette; The Story of a British Agent
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Chapman and Hall, London, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/good. 336pp., author's preface, list of illustrations, official citation and epilogue. Black and white portrait frontispiece. The text is illustrated with black and white photography. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. the dustjacket is rubbed with some chipping to the top edge, and a 2 inch tear to the bottom left of the front panel, and a 0.5 inch tear at the bottom right of the same. Rubberstamped with a 07/52 (year of publication probably) on the rear panel of the jacket. The book comes from a smoking environment." "Biography of Odette Sansom, a young Frenchwoman married to an Englishman, who during World War II returned to France as a resistance fighter. A picture can be provided to confirm condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Military & Warfare;…
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Chapman and Hall, London, 1955. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Poor Condition. 600 g; 336pp., author's preface, list of illustrations, official citation and epilogue. Black and white portrait frontispiece. The text is illustrated with black and white photography. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Minor shelf wear evident to the bottom edges of the book and the head and the heel of the spine are bumped. Photographic/map dustwrapper, with photograph of Odette superimposed over a map of France, with white background and back writing on the front panel and spine. The dust jacket is rubbed and chipped, and missing a couple of pieces of the spine section, and has a 1.5 inch tear on the rear panel top edge. Priceclipping, original bookseller's sticker on front paste down. Biography of Odette Sansom, a young Frenchwoman married to an Englishman, who during World War II returned to France as a resistance fighter. A picture can be provided to confirm condition. Size: 8vo - over…
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Prince Napoleon in America , 1861 Letters from his Aide de Camp
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Galley Press, London, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Walker, Gil. 317 pp., illustrated endpages, line drawings throughout; slight flattening of the left-hand edge of the front panel, top and front edges of the text block at darkens and foxed. Prince Napoleon (cousin of Emperor Napoleon III) visited American during the first year of the Civil War. These letters regarding the visit were written by his Aide-de-camp. Foreword by Bruce Catton . Illustrations by Gil Walker . . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Walker, Gil. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; History; History -- France; America; Inventory No: 0212549. .
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Richelieu And His Age -- Assertion of Power and Cold War
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. Illustrator: Various. 800 g; 472 pages, with bibliography, and index, illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece and 15 black-and-white plates, as well as some drawings within the text. The book is second-hand. Minimal signs of handling. The dustjacket is rubbed across both top and bottom edges, with several short tears on the bottom edge mostly at the heel of the spine and at the front fold over crease. This is the 2nd of 3 volumes and deals in the main with the Thirty-Years' War in its widest implications. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Illustrator: Various. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History -- France; ISBN: 015177160X. ISBN/EAN: 9780151771608. Inventory No: 0233116. . 9780151771608
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Sands of Death; Betrayal, Massacre and Survival the in the Sahara
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good/Good. 650 g.; (10), XI-XVIII, (2), 3-286 pages, acknowledgements, a note on transliteration, notes, bibliography and index. Dark purple coloured endpapers. There is a black-and-white drawing of Major Paul Flatters on the page following the half title page. Map of the routes taken by Major Paul Flatters on the page facing the acknowledgements page. Black coloured boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Very minor rubbing to the book corners. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with orange and white titles to the front panel and backstrip. No damage of note to the dustwrapper. In December 1888 French expedition attempted to map a route for a railway across the Sahara all away to the French territories of west Africa. "Paris to Timbuktu in Six Days" was the slogan the expedition sailed under. No native opposition was expected. "....Four months later a handful of emaciated survivors…
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Ten Thousand Eyes
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Collins, London, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Poor. foreword by author, list of illustrations, appendix. Illustrated endpapers, both different, front endpapers: showing the French Coast Cherbough to Havre, rear endpapers: Chain of Command, Century Network. Within the text there are contemporary black and white photographs. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Dust wrapper illustrated by Kenneth Farnhill, with white, blue and red coloured titles to the front panel and white and red coloured titles to the spine. This is the story of the French men and women who were involved in the spy networks which passed on the secrets of Hitler's Atlantic Wall, pinpointing where the Allies were to land on the Normandy coast on D-Day. The corners of the book are slightly bumped as are the head and the heel of the spine. Browning to the paper edges and previous owners name on the half title page. Erasure mark to the free front end page.…
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Ten Thousand Eyes
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Collins, London, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 500 g; 320pp., foreword by author, list of illustrations, appendix. Illustrated endpapers, both different, front endpapers: showing map of the French Coast Cherbough to Havre, rear endpapers: Chain of Command, Century Network. Within the text there are contemporary black and white photographs. Red coloured boards with gilt writing on the spine. Dust wrapper illustrated by Kenneth Farnhill, with white, blue and red writing on the front panel and white and red on the spine. Gift inscription tucked underneath the front fold over flap at the top of the front paste down, otherwise the book shows no signs of damage. The dust jacket has the original bookseller's foil sticker on front fold over flap, and a quarter of an inch tear at the top left of the front panel. This is the story of the French men and women who were involved in the spy networks which passed on the secrets of Hitler's Atlantic Wall,…
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The Tiger; Georges Clmenceau, 1841-1929
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Jonathan Cape, London, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex Library/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. 590 g.; IV, 5-292 pages, last two pages blank, and index. Sepia toned photographic frontispiece, showing "Clmenceau, 1919" from a bust by Jo Davidson. The text is illustrated with sepia toned photographs and illustrations throughout the book. Red coloured cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the backstrip. Bumping to the backstrip edges and rubbing to the book corners. This book is an ex-library copy and has library stamps to all text block edges and verso of the title page (which has a red cancelled stamp through it), along with a date stamp, 20 Jan 1971, to the top left-hand corner of the verso of the title page. There is a library number to the top right-hand corner of page number five, they are the only signs of library marking. However a previous owner has placed their name sticker to the free front end paper. Browning and slight offset tanning to the endpapers…
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The Uncompromising Heart -- a life of Marie Mancini, Louis XIV's First Love
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W. H. Allen, London, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 600 g; VI, 274 pages, colour illustrated dust jacket. Minor discoloration of the edges of the text block, otherwise it is only the dust jacket that has taken the damage, with rubbing and chipping of both top and bottom edges, and a lifting of the protective laminate along the left-hand side of the front panel. , to show damage. In this biography of one of the most poignant heroines of French history, the author has found a subject perfectly matched to her temperament. Drawing upon Marie Mancini's own memoirs and correspondence, she uses all her talents as a novelist and psychologist to bring to life this fascinating indomitable creature of the Sun King's Court. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; History -- France; Inventory No: 0212442. .
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days with the French Romantics in the Paris of 1830
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Methuen, London, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Various. 800 g; XXIV, 228, 8 pages, the last being a catalogue of books by the publisher, with the book illustrated with 60 black-and-white illustrations. In original green cloth over boards, with softening of the head and tail of the spine section and traces of flecking to the right-hand margin of the front board. Darkening of the top edge of the text block. Internally clean and free of any inscription. England had Bloomsbury, 100 years earlier France, Paris actually had the Romantics. Considered as an influence upon technique, Romanticism broke up the old artistic and literary forms, and invented new ones. Its writers introduced new words and especially new and eliminating adjectives -- which last, according to Alfred de Musset, is the chief contribution of Romanticism to the art of the author. -- Page XVI. ". Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. We are happy…
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