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STRANGER AT THE GATES.
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, (1973). First edition - On a tranquil tree-lined street in Paris, a woman exits a taxi. She has come from Bonn, Germany, on a mission of desperation and revenge. And in a house on the Rue de Varenne, a wife and mother is about to relive the past she thought shed left far behind. In 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, circumstances forced Jean de Bernard and his wife to put up a German officer at their isolated chateau in St. Blaize. A novel which looks at the complexities of loyalty and accomodation during war time, ending in post-war Germany where an SS officer is being tried for wartime atrocities. 332 pp.
Condition: Good in printed orange wrappers (some wear to the covers) An uncommon advance issue.
Book ID: 88128More details Price: $25.00 -
SLAY ME A SINNER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Walker, (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of psychological suspense. On his way home from the south of France, M Pinaud of the Surete has a tire puncture, as he is driving past a small wood in which a man is later found dead. Against the wishes of the town leaders, he remains to investigate the death. 185 pp. ISBN: 0-802754171.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80231More details Price: $17.50 -
MELUSINE: A Mystery.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young adult novel, with a supernatural twist, set in western France.
Roger, his parents, and twin sisters arrive at this crumbling ruin in the wilds of France - Chateau Bois Serpe - there they encounter the owner's strange daughter Mesuline, tending her father's goats. As he befriends her, he begins to realize that there is something very wrong about her, about the chateau, and about her life within it. 248 pp. ISBN: 0-060203951.Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (corners slightly bumped)
Book ID: 85307More details Price: $17.50 -
L'AFFAIRE JONES.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: The Literary Guild, (1933) dj. Hardcover - A humorous novel about a meek American who goes to France and becomes part of an international incident. It begins "For three days I have been a political prisoner in the Sante Prison. All Paris is in uproar. The newspapers denounce me . . . But in spite of everything I cling tenaciously to two facts: I am Henry Jones from Windfall, Georgia, and that I came to France to write a cook book. A two-color frontispiece drawing by the cartoonist Otto Soglow, and three-color cartoon illustrations on the endpapers. 257 pp.
Condition: Near fine in blue cloth boards with a little illustration blocked in gilt, with a beige cloth spine with gilt lettering, top edge tinted red in a very good dust jacket with the usual stylized art deco design used by the Literary Guild (previous owner's name, a few small chips to the upper edge of the dj)
Book ID: 86381More details Price: $21.50 -
THE VILDE AFFAIR: Beginnings of the French Resistance.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Boris Vilde and the beginnings of the French Resistance in Paris, after the fall of France to the Nazis in June 1940, by this noted World War II historian. Based on access to documents not previously accessible, and interviews with the survivors and families of those who were executed. Illustrated with photographs. Author's note, index. xiv, 287 pp. ISBN: 0-395253500.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (price-clipped)
Book ID: 88205More details Price: $21.50 -
VINNIE IN FRANCE.
Edition: First printing.
Vineberg, CA: Pageturner Books, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED by the author and both illustrators on the front endpaper, with the words "Best Wishes." Vinnie the cat has some wild and crazy adventures in France. Map, colorfully illustrated. A title in the Laugh and Learn Travel Series. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-970467818.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards, no dj.
Book ID: 37211More details Price: $25.00 -
LITTLE JEANNE OF FRANCE.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1929.) dj. Hardcover - The fifth title in the "Children of All Lands Stories" series. This is the story of two little French girls and how they met - one grew up in a poor war-torn village, the other in a beautiful apartment in Paris. Illustrated with photographs of children taken by the author. Red and white illustrated endpapers. Bound in light blue illustrated boards with a royal blue cloth spine and printed throughout on good quality semi-glossy paper. Vocabulary list. 190 pp. Flap of dust jacket lists to #11 in this series.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (some light foxing on the endpapers, spine of the dj is sunned, several tears and chips, some tape repaired, front cover illustration is bright and attractive, original price of 50c on flap).
Book ID: 64734More details Price: $18.00 -
CRIME FRAICHE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Kensington, (2011). Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel and the second in the Capucine Culinary Mysteries. "When a peaceful trip to the countryside with her husband is interrupted by a fatal shooting accident, and then more 'accidents' happen, Parisian Commissaire Capucine Le Tellier decides to take matters into her own hands after the local gendarmerie prove either unwilling - or incompetent -in solving these crimes." 310 pp. ISBN: 978-0758246714.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 77719More details Price: $15.00 -
THE DEEPENING STREAM.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good minus in navy blue cloth with orange lettering on spine, no dust jacket (slight spine slant, wear to top edge of spine)
Book ID: 90012More details Price: $35.00 -
THE GOOD MEN.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 89858More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DAY OF THE PANZER: A Story of American Heroisom and Sacrifice in Southern France.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia & Newbury, UK: Casemate, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "This is a rarely detailed 'you are there' account of World War II combat [by the grandson of one of the American officers involved in the battle], describing a brief but bloody tank/infantry action in August 1944. Based on six years of research - drawing from interviews, primary documents, and visits to the battlefield. [this] transports the reader into the ranks of L Company, 15th Regiment, Third Infantry Division, and its supporting M4s of the 756th Tank Battalion as they grapple head-on with the Wehrmacht. " Photographs, maps, bibliography, notes, appendices, index. xxv, 365 pp. ISBN: 978-1932033700.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 45605More details Price: $28.00 -
MOUCHE.
Edition: First printing.
New York & London: Peebles Press International, Inc., (1979) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in The Midnight Library. Demouzon is considered by many to be the successor of Simenon, and this is the first of his novels to appear in English. Set in the core of Paris, in the "tarnished business of high priced sex and underground cinema" this features private investigator Robert Fleheux who finds himself the prime suspect when his client is found murdered. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-856900761.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88240More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring French police inspector Henri Castang mystery. 218 pp. ISBN: 0-670-143987.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58291More details Price: $13.50 -
FLAMINGOS OF THE CAMARGUE.
Edition: First printing.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1950. Hardcover first edition - The preface by Paul Geroudet notes that "information about these colonies of the Camargue was scanty, unpromising and even misleading, and we were doubtful if the bird could succeed in raising its young in this district. To Etieene Gallet, of Arles, was reserved the privilege of discovering, in lonely and inaccessible regions, the localities where these wild and magnificent creatures assure the future of their race. To him we owe our knowledge of the most intimate details of thier life." Illustrated with 53 wonderful black and white photographs by the author. Includes statistical information on the colonies, bibliograpy. 127 pp.
Condition: Very good in tan boards with red lettering (minor wear to the spine ends), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85122More details Price: $20.00 -
THE INQUISITOR'S TALE: Or, The Three Magical Children and Their Holy Dog.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 68533More details Price: $40.00 -
BRAVE GENERAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1942.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Epic historical novel based on the life - and love - of General Boulanger, the "man on horseback," who could have become dictator of France in the years after the bitter defeat in 1870 in the Franco-Prussian war. 632 pp.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering in a good only example of the rather fragile dust jacket (overall edgewear, some loss of paper - about 1 cm on part of the back cover - and a diagonal tear across the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 37245More details Price: $35.00 -
IN A DARK WOOD WANDERING: A Novel of the Middle Ages.
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, (1989.) dj. Hardcover - An historical epic, originally published in the Netherlands in 1949, set in the fifthteenth century, during the Hundred Years War between France and England. Revised and Edited by Anita Miller from an English translation from the Dutch by Lewis C. Kaplan 574 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-897333365.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37466More details Price: $12.50 -
QUEEN OF HEARTS: MARGUERITE OF VALOIS ('La Reine Margot') 1553 - 1615.
Edition: First US printing.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of this often misunderstood queen of France, based on her own memoirs and correspondence. Illustrated with photographs. Sources, notes on translation, map, family tree, index. 307 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (bookplate, one short closed tear to dj)
Book ID: 73964More details Price: $17.50 -
THE NIGHTINGALE.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: St Martin's, (2015) dj. Hardcover - A very highly praised novel of the French Resistance - and especially the role played by women - during World War II. Illustrated endpapers. 438 pp. ISBN: 978-0312577223.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 87383More details Price: $18.00 -
THE NIGHTINGALE.
Edition: Advance Listening Copy.
New York: Macmillan Audio, (2015). Audio Book format of this very highly praised novel of the French Resistance - and especially the role played by women - during World War II. Set of 14 cds with a running time of 17.5 hours.
Condition: New - still in original shrinkwrap, but sold without any warranty.
Book ID: 89098More details Price: $20.00 -
HOLY FOOLS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel by the author of "Chocolat", a story which begins in the year 1605, when a young, pregnant widow seeks sanctuary at the Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer off the coast of Brittany in France. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-060559128.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52978More details Price: $17.50 -
CHOCOLAT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Penguin, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's wonderful and magical first book, inspired by her own childhood in France (her great-grandmother was known locally as a witch) and the basis for the equally charming movie of the same name, starring Johnny Depp and Juliet Brioche.). ISBN: 0-670-881791.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 50390More details Price: $40.00 -
HOLY FOOLS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Morrow, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Historical novel by the author of "Chocolat", a story which begins in the year 1605, when a young, pregnant widow seeks sanctuary at the Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer off the coast of Brittany in France. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-060559128.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (one short closed tear to back cover of dj).
Book ID: 56825More details Price: $19.50 -
FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Perennial - Harper Collins, (2002.). Her fifth novel, a story of mothers and daughters, set in a small village in France. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0198133.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 44997More details Price: $10.00 -
HOLY FOOLS.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historical novel by the author of "Chocolat", a story which begins in the year 1605, when a young, pregnant widow seeks sanctuary at the Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer off the coast of Brittany in France. SIGNED on the title page. Small format. 430 pp. ISBN: 0-385603649.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, but with usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 77376More details Price: $30.00 -
FIVE QUARTERS OF THE ORANGE.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - Her fifth novel, a story of mothers and daughters, set in a small village in France. SIGNED on the title page. Small chunky format. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-385601697.
Condition: Very near fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread but usual toning to the pages)
Book ID: 77553More details Price: $30.00 -
CHOCOLAT.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Penguin, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's wonderful and magical first book, inspired by her own childhood in France (her great-grandmother was known locally as a witch) and the basis for the equally charming movie of the same name, starring Johnny Depp and Juliet Brioche.). ISBN: 0-670-881791.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new, and uncommon in this condition.)
Book ID: 41504More details Price: $60.00 -
CHOCOLAT.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - True first edition of Harris's best known book, inspired by her own childhood in France (her great-grandmother was known locally as a witch) and the basis for the movie of the same name, starring Johnny Depp and Juliet Brioche.) SIGNED on the title page. Shortlisted for Whitbread Best Novel Award. 394 pp. ISBN: 0-670-881791.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (hint of spine slant, usual light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 70805More details Price: $85.00 -
THE LOLLIPOP SHOES.
Edition: First printing.
London: Doubleday, (2007) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by the author of 'Chocolat', set in France. SIGNED on the title page. "Seeking refuge and anonymity in the cobbled streets of Montmartre, Yanne and her daughters, Rosette and Annie, live peacefully, if not happily, above their little chocolate shop. Nothing unusual marks them out; no red sachets hang by the door. The wind has stopped - at leats for a while. Then into their lives blows Zozie de l'Alba, the lady with the lollipop shoes." 459 pp. ISBN: 978-0385609487.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (light toning to the pages).
Book ID: 66152More details Price: $35.00 -
HOLY FOOLS.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Morrow, (2004.). First edition - Historical novel by the author of "Chocolat", a story which begins in the year 1605, when a young, pregnant widow seeks sanctuary at the Abbey of Sainte Marie-de-la-Mer off the coast of Brittany in France. 355 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67335More details Price: $18.50