Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of the revolutionary rhetoric, and how the philosophical ideals behind the Revolution of 1789 led to the dark days of the Terror. Extensive notes, bibliography, index. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-812234146.

New York: Sheed and Ward, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about two lives dedicated to the service and God, and two minds at war on how to do this; The author had herself entered a convent. Originally published in French as Deux Mondiales in 1962, and a finalist for the Prix Goncourt; translated into English by Emma Crawford. 221pp.

New York: Granta USA, 1997. First edition - "The Magazine Of New Writing" This issue "presents fresh voices from a country searching for a new idea of itself." Includes contributions by Luc Sante, Michel Houellebecq, Ivan Klima, Harold Pinter, a selection of photographs by Raymond De pardon and more. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-14-0141472.

New York: The Library of America, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume of Henry James travel writings in the Library of America series (number 65 in series), edited and with notes by Richard Howard. His travel writings display the distinctive charm of his style, serve as guidebooks and including penetrating reflections on the national characteristics and charm. This volume begins with the classic 'A Little Tour in France', illustrated with Joseph Pennell's drawings from the original 1900 edition. The final piece is on the American volunteer motor-ambulance corps in France, during the first World War. Includes chronology, glossary, notes, index. 845 pp. Lists to this title at rear of book. ISBN: 0-940450771.

New York: Harper Collins, (2019). First edition - The first book in a new series set in modern Provence. "Its love at first sight when Penelope Kite sees Le Chant dEau - The Song of Water - the stone farmhouse tucked high in the hills above the Luberon valley. . . Since taking early retirement from her job in forensics at the Home Office in England, shes been an unpaid babysitter and chauffeur for her grandchildren. Though her dream house needs major renovations, Penelope impulsively buys the property and moves to St. Merlot." And then she finds a body floating facedown in her pool, and things get more complicated from there....345 pp.

San Marco Press, (2010). First edition - An original copy of the first book of the Maggie Newberry Provencal mystery series later reissued under the title "Murder in the South of France". "When an American advertising copywriter goes to the Cote d'Azur to find the daughter of her dead sister, she uncovers instead a deadly con game that changes the past she thought she knew--and by default the future, too--that is if she can manage to stay alive long enough to live it." 324 pp. ISBN: 978-1477419496.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, the unusual coming-of-age story of Rosie, an American au pair in Paris. SIGNED on the title page.A New York Times Notable book, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award. 237 pp. ISBN: 0-871137542.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - This Czech writer's "lightest novel, a 'divertimento', an 'opera buffa', with, as the author himself says, "not a single serious word in it"; then, too, it is the first of his novels to have been written in French." A story of two seductions separated by 200 years - set in the same chateau in the 18th and late 20th centuries. Translated from the French by Linda Asher. 156 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0173696.

New York: Scholastic, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1769, thirteen year old Maria Antonia, daughter of Empress Theresa, begins a journal chronicling her days at the Austrian court and preparations for her to become queen of France. Illustrated with photographs.A title in the Royal Diaries Series. 236 pp. ISBN: 0-439-076668.

New York: Putnam, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of three historical novels following the life of Charlotte Morel, set in Paris in the 1860s when France was under the dictatorship of Napoleon III. Translated from the French by Anne Carter. 316 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967) dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth novel by this important and award-winning French writer. Set against the backdrop of the Algerian crisis in the summer of 1962 this is a "novel teeming with life. . Like Camus's later work, it grapples with the basic themes of man's existence: the meaning of God, the possibilities of love, the nature of mortality." Translated from the French by Herma Griffault. 408 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - A protrait of Andre Malraux as a young man, written by his companion and ex-wife - included is an account of their expedition to Cambodia, where he was arrested for the theft of state property. 372 pgs.

New York: Vintage Books, 1992. The author's wonderful account of what it was like to move into a 200 year old farmhouse in a remote region of the Luberon. ISBN: 0-679731148.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's second novel. "A war criminal returns to the scene of the crime. It's 1999 and Emile Poulquet awaits sentencing in a Paris court for deporting thousands to almost certain death during World War II. But haunted by ghosts from his past, and determined to confront his dark legacy, he escapes and heads toward his beloved Finier, a rural town in the south of France where he once served as prefect." 445 pp. ISBN: 0-374130752.

New York: Morrow, (1947.) dj. Hardcover - His first book, a novel about counter-espionage and romance in France during World War II - .the story of an American who is given a mission to work with French collaborator Jean-Louis Mercanton, gain his confidence and then turn him over to the authorities for trial and execution. Although this is possibly slightly autobiographical - Merrick served a counter-intelligence agent in the OSS - the predecessor to the CIA - in Algeria and France, the homosexuality themes are unstated and implicit, and only noticeable in light of his later fame as a pioneering American author of gay-themed novels. 248 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - A light-hearted look at saints, holiness and miracles by the American-born wife of the French sculptor Aristide Mian, and inspired by the years when she and her family summered in an abandoned coffin - in this version, when the nuns move out of a convent they convert it into a Saints' Rest Home, but when Satan finds out, havoc follows. Illustrated with drawings by Susanne Suba. 132 pp.

New York: Putnam, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - As in her earlier novel, 'Labyrinth', this book weaves together a story from over 100 years ago with a contemporary one. In 1891, Anatole Vernier and his family attract the wrath of a truly evil person, and his sister Leonie turns to the supernatural for help. In 2007, Meredith Martin, an American researching Debussy, stumbles upon Leonie's story through a pack of tarot cards painted by Leonie herself. 565 pp. Endpapers depicting the tarot cards. ISBN: 978-0399154676.

New York: Putnam, (2011) dj. Hardcover first edition - " In the winter of 1928, still seeking resolution, Freddie is travelling through the French Pyrenees. During a snowstorm, his car spins off the mountain road. He stumbles through woods, emerging in a tiny village. There he meets Fabrissa, a beautiful woman also mourning a lost generation. Over the course of one night, Fabrissa and Freddie share their stories. By the time dawn breaks, he will have stumbled across a tragic mystery that goes back through the centuries" - the story of the massacre of the Cathars by the Inquisition. An attractively produced book with illustrations at the beginning of each chapter, illustrated endpapers. Author's note. 265 pp. ISBN: 9780399157158.

New York: Grove Press, (1969). A comprehensive survey from the war dead novelists, to the themes of war, surrealism, the new novel and the future of the novel. Among the authors discussed are Saint-Exupery, Beckett, Camus, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Duras, Genet and many more. Translated by A. M. Sheridan Smith. 193 pp plus a list of American translations of books mentioned in the text and index.

New York: Liveright, (1937). Hardcover first edition - A fictionalized biography translated from the French by Warre Bradley Wells. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Napoleon II and 10 glossy plates. Index. 474 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, 1913. Hardcover first edition - As with many of his novels, this is a blend of international intrigue and romance, Oppenheim is considered one of the first writers of modern espionage novels. This is the story of a London politician who is framed in a sex scandal, flees to Paris, in the years just before the first World War. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and three inserted glossy plates by Hanson Booth. 372 pp.

New York: Crown, n.d. (ca 1970) dj. Hardcover - Monograph translated from the French by L.G. Rofe & A.P.H. Hamilton. Illustrated throughout with numerous full color reproductions of his works, plus many black and white sketches. Biographical chronology and bibliography. 93 pp. plus list of illustrations. Large format.

New York: Villard, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of his own attempt to win the love of a woman as they travel in Paris and throughout France interspersed with other tales of men famous for their romantic passion. Bibliography. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-685-63495-7.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in 1925, in the post-war world of New York City and southern France. "On a snowy night in February, in a penthouse high above Fifth Avenue, Delphines mystical talent leads to a tragedy between two brothers. Devastated and disconsolate, Delphine renounces her gift and returns to her old life in the south of France where Picasso, Matisse, and the Fitzgeralds are summering." Author's note. 356 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 978-1476778129.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. dj. Hardcover - The third volume of the Roads to Freedom series, this opens in June 1940 with the fall of France in World War II. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. 421 pp.

New York: Barse & Hopkins, (1921). Hardcover - Poems which chronicle Service's life as a bohemian in Paris and into the trenches as he served with the British Army on the Western Front during the first World War and back to a Paris full of 'les grand mutiles'. Frontispiece portrait, 249 pp. Small format, measuring just 4 x 6 inches, bound in flexible dark red boards with gilt lettering in a vertical rectangle on cover and gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. 249 pp.

Glendora, CA: Sodef Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, introducing Maggy and Fred Renard, set on an island off the coast of France. 202 pp. Publisher's material laid in with the handwritten notation "for the Edgar submissions.". ISBN: 0-965438201.