New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this award-winning Irish-Canadian writer, set in contemporary Nice, in France, but with its roots in World War II. 335 pp. ISBN: 978-0316491990.

Geneva: Nagel Publishers (Cowles, distributors) (1968) dj. Hardcover - A small, but thick, volume which is a combination travel guide and reference work. Includes 15 pp of town plans in color, 40 plans in black and white and 2 folded maps in three colors, affixed to the versos of the front and back free endpapers. In addition to information on the towns and cities of the area, this also includes selected itineraries, practical information and a selected vocabulary list. Red silk page marker sewn in. Eglish edition by Mrs. H. S. B. Harrison. xii, 640 pp. Map endpapers.

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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: 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.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery novel featuring Bruno, Chief of Police (and the only policeman) in the small town of Saint-Denis in the Dordogne. "Bruno is invited to the lavish birthday celebration of World War II flying ace and national icon Marco 'the Patriarch' Desaix, itÕs the fulfillment of a boyhood dream. But when the party ends in the death of Gilbert, MarcoÕs longtime friend, itÕs another day on the job for the chef de police." A series which celebrates the pleasures of friendship, good food and good wine. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 978-0385354172.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set the early twentieth century in the days leading up to the Great War in France, and continues in combat scenes at the battles of Chteau-Thierry, Montbrhain, and Bois de Fays in France. After serving in the American Expeditionary Forces, two brothers from the Anishinaabe culture return to the White Earth Reservation where they grew up, but leave for a second time to live in Paris. 285 pp. ISBN: 978-0819574169.