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SAINT-SULPICE: Les Eglises Paroissiales de Paris, Monographies Illustres, #7.
Edition: First printing.
Paris: Ancienne Maison Gaume & Cie, X. Rondelet et Cie, successeurs. nd (ca 1920). Un brochure, avec photographies en sepia. Quarto (19 x 28,5 cm) En francais. 16 pp.
Condition: Bon etat, usure des couvertures.
Book ID: 89062More details Price: $15.00 -
BABAR ET LE PERE NOEL.
Edition: Early printing.
Paris: Librairie Hachette, (ca 1949, c 1941). Hardcover - A lovely book in the original large format edition from Hachette. Lists through the first 8 titles on the verso of the copyright page (also states "Copyright by Librarie Hachette 1941" on copyright page, "depot legal 8213-5-49" on last page.) Text in French / texte en francais. Red elephant endpapers. 40 pp
Condition: Good overall in illustrated boards with a green cloth spine - a line of foxing on verso of endpapers. corners slightly bumped, some age-toning and discoloration to the boards, but still quite attractive.
Book ID: 65313More details Price: $100.00 -
AIME CESAIRE.
Edition: Trade paperback (second printing, originally published in 1962.)
Poitiers, Vienne, France: Editions Pierre Seghers, (1966.). "Presentation par Lilyan Kesteloot, choix de textes, bibliographie, portraits, fac-similes." Text in French (texte en francais.) Contains an introduction and biographical information by Lilyan Kesteloot, includes a generous selection of poems by Cesaire, the Martinque-born poet. Illustrated with several photographs. Poetes d'Aujourd'Hui 85; 211 pp. Small square format.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (from the collection of poet Elizabeth Harrod, with her name and date, and some annotations on a few pages.)
Book ID: 41794More details Price: $25.00 -
COLETTE: The Difficulty of Loving, A Biography.
Edition: First printing.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which attempts to answer the question "who was Colette" by a writer who was herself an acquaintance of Colette, and based on many interviews with those who knew her. Illustrated with photographs. Introduction by Janet Flanner. Chronology, bibliography. xxx, 284 pp plus 5 pp index. ISBN: 0-672517604.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 88908More details Price: $20.00 -
CONDUCTORS OF THE PIT: Major Works by Rimbaud, Vallejo, Csaire, Artaud, Holan.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Paragon House, (1988). Hardcover first edition - Works by five of the great poets of the 20th century - French, Peruvian, Caribbean and Czech - selected, translated and introduced by Clayton Eshleman and co-translators Annette Smith and Frantisek Galan. ix, 230 pp. ISBN: 1-557780587.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 78797More details Price: $25.00 -
QU'EST CE QUE JE FOUS LA? (What Am I Doing Here?)
Edition: Reprint.
Paris: Dargaud Editeur (1983.). Hardcover - 80 pages de bandes dessines et dessins noirs et blancs. Couverture rigide. Texte en francais (text in French). ISBN: 2-205022881.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 54028More details Price: $25.00 -
UN CERTAIN MALAISE.
Edition: Early printing.
Neuilly-sur-Seine & Montreal: Dargaud Editeur & Dargaud Canada, (1977.). Hardcover - The first book of erotic cartoons by the cartoonist, screenwriter and film director GŽrard Lauzier who was described by the Times as epitomizing "a certain vision of France during the prosperous Sixties and Seventies.. . he explored the contradictions and ironies of an epoch that was liberated and anti-materialist in its discourse and, more often than it liked to admit, hung up and rapacious in behaviour. Anti-PC before political correctness had even been thought of," Text is in French (en francais) but the humor shines through regardless of the language. Large format, in color throughout. 64 pp. ISBN: 2-205007068.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 54025More details Price: $28.00 -
CHRONIQUES DE L'ILE GRANDE.
Edition: First edition.
Neuilly-sur-Seine & Montreal: Dargaud Editeur & Dargaud Canada, (1977.). Hardcover first edition - A story told in cartoons by this French comics author and movie director, best known as one of the leading authors in the more adult-oriented French comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Texte en francais (text in French) 60 pages de bandes dessinŽes en couleurs. Mise en couleur Johnny Coca. Couverture rigide. ISBN: 2205011464.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 54026More details Price: $28.00 -
LA COURSE DU RAT.
Edition: First edition.
Neuilly-sur-Seine & Montreal: Dargaud Editeur & Dargaud Canada, (1978.). Hardcover first edition - A story told in cartoons by this French comics author and movie director, best known as one of the leading authors in the more adult-oriented French comics scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Texte en francais (text in French) 61 pages de bandes dessinŽes en couleurs. Mise en couleur Johnny Coca. Couverture rigide. ISBN: 2205012819.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 54027More details Price: $28.00 -
THE TORTOISES.
Edition: First US printing.
Manhasset, New York: Channel Press. (1962) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of adventure, betrayal and suspense at sea set in 1904; a load of giant tortoises is being used as cargo, to disguise the fact that the ship is carrying a real treasure. Winner of the Prix Lausanne in France. Translated from the French by Antonia White 219 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some rubbing and edgewear to the dj, a few marks in red ink on the front flap, crease to lower edge of back cover of dj)
Book ID: 61356More details Price: $30.00 -
RECUEIL DES PUBLICATIONS SCIENTIFIQUES.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Fair condition only in the original wrappers (rear cover missing, front cover detached but present, beginning to separate at signatures, stamp of previous owner and underlining on a few pages.)
Book ID: 59303More details Price: $750.00