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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 (remainder line).
Book ID: 36922More details Price: $15.00 -
MEMOIRS
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Very good+ in a near fine dust jacket. (book- a nice tight copy, but slightly faded along top edges of the boards, blank bookplate over prev owner's name, dj- pc.)
Book ID: 13449More details Price: $28.00
