French Literature & History
San Francisco: George F. Ritchie, 1983. First edition thus. Large octavo. Black cloth, paper spine label. xiv,[2],97pp. Bookplate on front pastedown, a few rubs to spine and label, ghost of label removed from front panel, else a very good+ copy. First printing in this format of Janet Flanner's translation. Introduction by.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Bright green loth, paper spine label. Frontis, five plates. With the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Little Purdy. Label darkened, else a near fine copy, lacking the jacket. A must for Bloomsbury collectors.First edition. Dedicated to his friend John Maynard Keynes, Strachey presents his biographical portraits.....
London: Faber & Faber, [1946]. First edition. Gilt blue cloth. First British edition. Hunting love and the elusive fascist in post-war France. A near fine copy in a very good, lightly nicked and foxed typographic dust jacket.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [1978]. First edition. Large octavo. Lavender blind-stamped cloth, silver spine. 302,[2] pp. Black & white photographs throughout. Appendix, notes and sources, bibliography. Assembled, and with commentary, by Robert Phelps. Publisher's review slip laid in. Near fine, in a very good plus pictorial dust jacket.....
Paris: Editions Narcisse, 1927. . Folio. Thick paper wrappers, printed in black and red, fold over flaps, leaves sewn. 29.8 x 21.9 cm. [xx],[36] pp. Printed on watermarked paper. Illustrated with three limited edition watercolors by François Quelvée, two with original glassine sheets placed in front of illustration, one more.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Cloth and boards. First U.S. edition. Photographs, including an intriguing 1960 photo of de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Fidel Castro in a powerboat. Translated from the French by Lisa Nesselson. A review copy with the publisher's publicity sheet laid in.....
London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1925. Limited Edition. Cloth and patterned paper boards, gilt spine. Title page printed in red and black. T.e.g., all others untrimmed. Introduction by Shane Leslie. First English translation from the French by H. B. V. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown, offsetting to front and rear.....
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Londres: Heinemann & Zsolnay, Ltd, [1945]. Octavo. Wrappers, printed in red and blue. 223 pp. First French edition, translated from the original 1943 English edition by Xavier H. Réal. Fritz Lang adapted the work to the cinema in 1944, under the title The Ministry of Fear (Espions sur la Thaise.....
Cazenovia, NY: Eva Thoby-Marcelin, 1966. First edition, thus. Etchings portfolio, hand printed by the artist R. E. Marx [1925-2020] in blue and black on Rives paper, each of the ten etchings numbered and signed 26/80 in an edition limited to 80 copies only. The type was handset in 18 pt.....
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black, preserved in the original glassine dust wrappers. 268pp. Bibliography. A bump to the upper corner, else a near fine copy of this uncommon title written in French. From the library of noted Bloomsbury collector, William Beekman.....
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1932. First Edition. Duodecimo. Quarter bound in leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, deep green and black marbled boards. Georgeous green and gilt endpapers. Original wrappers printed in black, bound in; silk place marker. 268pp. Bibliography. Leather rubbed at crown and.....
London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, at the Crown in Ludgate Street, 1739. First edition. Small octavo. [2],44,[2] pp. Likely disbound from a pamphlet collection with vestiges of the leather spine present; outer leaves dust soiled with occasional spots; internal pages near fine. Original price intact on title page.....
Paris: Fontaine, 1947. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies printed on vélin pur fil, this being No. 65. Octavo, pages entirely uncut in original glassine tissue wrapper. Folded cover created by Mario Prassinos after a drawing by Max Ernst. A fine copy, seldom seen complete in its original ephemeral.....
Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau, 1935. First French Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. xvi, 208pp. Traduit de l'anglais par Charles Mauron; Préface de Louis Gillet. Near fine, wrappers preserved in an acetate cover. From the library of the noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman, with his bookplate affixed to the.....
Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau, 1931. First French Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. xiv, 15-266pp. Traduction et préface de Charles Mauron. Introduction by the author, Virginia Woolf. Near fine, a few old spots on wraps, tiny split near toe of spine, else a clean and bright copy preserved in.....