French Literature & History
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.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, [1993]. Daniel Maffia. Collector's Edition. Quarto. Navy blue leather, 22k gold inlaid on hubbed spine and panels, a.e.g. Blue moiré endpapers, satin-ribbon page marker, acid-neutral paper, all pages sewn. 181,[1] pp. Color frontispiece and nine paintings by Daniel Maffia. Fine; without dust jacket, as issued. .....
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.....