Napoleon III: The Man of Prophecy
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1859. Stiff Wraps. Stiff cloth-backed wraps, gilt titles. c.1859. 16mo. 102pp. Very Good (minus). Some soiling to wraps, wear at spine-ends and corners, endpapers darkened.
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1859. Stiff Wraps. Stiff cloth-backed wraps, gilt titles. c.1859. 16mo. 102pp. Very Good (minus). Some soiling to wraps, wear at spine-ends and corners, endpapers darkened.
Paris: Emmanuel Ollive, 1956. Hardcover. 1956, annual Christmas publication of French printing, artists and typography. Hardcover, 4to., Unpaginated (quite thick). Fair copy in a Good to Fair dust jacket. Lacks spine. About half of the pages are disbound, however, it appears to be a complete copy, and the contents are.....
Syracuse University Press, 1952. Hardcover. Inscribed by Fellows, in French, at fly leaf. 329 pp. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards, 8vo., facsimilie images. Very Good copy, no dust jacket. Spine shows light rubbing; boards a bit yellowed. Pages show faint age-toningl; an odd pencil mark here or there, but text is bright.....
Washington DC: National Museum of American Art, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. 1990. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. in dust jacket. 430pp. illustrated. Very good in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket sunned at extremities. Internally unmarked.
1985. Paperback. Softcover. c.1985. Folio. 64pp. Illus. Text in French. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, light soil to wraps. Contents unmarked.
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Printing Co., c. 1919. Hardcover. c. 1919. Hardcover, red pebbled cloth, ornate endpapers. 128 pp. Near Fine copy: Light wear to spine ends and corners. Clean and unmarked contents. Illustrated throughout, including a fold-out map of the company's movements through the Artois Sector. The Company, aka the 305th.....
London: A and C Black, c. 1900s. 8vo. in red patterned cloth with gilt titles. 127pp. with frontis, color plates. Very good. Soil and edge wear to boards, edges toned. Internally unmarked.
Paris: Editions Countrepoint, 1982. Limited ed. Hardcover. #277 of 500 copies. Hardcover, 259 pp. Near fine. Light wear to spine. Text in French.
Paris: Phototypie Berthaud, ND. Paperback. Ca. 1910, wraps with cord binding, 7 x 5.5 inches, with 10 handsome phototypes of the Villa. Very good, light wear and soil to covers. Distinctly uncommon.
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1890-1891. Hardcover. 5 Volumes, published 1890-1891, large 8vo, deep burgundy cloth gilt, very good solid set, minor institutional marks (bookplates on pastedowns), texts clean, nicely illustrated, bindings solid. Each volume is several hundred pages. Will require substantial additional postage for expedited or out of country.....
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1891. Hardcover. Vol. 3 only, 1891, large 8vo, burgundy cloth gilt, very good, minor institutional marks, neat reinforcement of inner hinges with rice paper, 903 pp, illustrated, much on railroad engineering.
The Hague / A La Haye: Chez Chrles Le Vier, 1724. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1724. 8vo, bound in full later 18th century maroon morocco gilt, with leather bookplate of well known American book collector Robert Hoe, whose collection was sold at auction in 1912, pp. (8) 157 (3).....
Paris: Emile-Paul Freres, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. 1921. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in red buckram. 536pp. Good+. Scuffing, edgewear to boards. Front and rear inner hinges cracked, revealing stitching. toning to title, page extremities. Contents remain complete, clean, and unmarked. French language.
Paris: Chez F. G. Levrault, 1830. Hardcover. 16mo, 4.25 x 3 inches, original slate blue boards, very good, light wear. Vol. 2 only, complete in itself. 339 pp, plus plates 50-100 on folding leaves (some are two or three plates on one leaf).
New York: French News Service, 1940. Paperback. 4 issues (complete set; there were no more published), each measures 11 x 8.5 inches, stapled wraps, 16 pp. each, very good, some light soil to covers, vertical crease, probably for mailing. At the time these were issued, France was in the middle.....
Angouleme: Pierre & Jeanne Bargeas, 1791. Broadside (43 cm, 17 inches tall), good with portion of lower left margin (6.5 x 1 inches) cleanly cut off, small repaired tear on right edge. RARE, only copies in institutions are the 3pp book version of this printed in various towns throughout France.....
Paris: Louis Conard, 1937. Hardcover. Published 1937 as part of the Oeuvres Completes, tall 8vo, quarter red morocco, marbled red and black boards, very good, light rubbing along outer joints. 381 (4) pp, frontispiece of author (an abraded streak to it).
New York: D. & J. Sadlier & Co. Hardcover. 206 pp. A very good copy in black ink and gilt stamped brown cloth. No date listed. Shelfwear to boards with corners bumped. All edges gilt. No dj. Small ink stamp from local Catholic church on title page and rear endpaper.....
Paris: Herissant Fils, 1767. Hardcover. Published 1767, 4to, contemporary daubed calf, gilt spine, xxviii, 496 (2) pp. Very good, light rubbing. A study of the ordinances passed in 1747 that concerned private family settlements, with an affirmation of the power of nobility firmly established, as was the law of male.....
Paris: La Grande Maison D'ameublement, ca. 1930s. First edition. Paperback. Catalog for La Grande Maison D'ameublement, a large furniture store on the Boulevard Magenta in Paris. Ca. 1930s. First edition. Illustrated wraps, oblong 8vo. 137pp. with illustrations of offered furniture. Good+. Edge wear and soil to wraps, including writing in.....
Paris: Èts Lévitan, 1930. First edition. Paperback. 1930 catalog for Èts Lévitan, the largest furniture maker and store in interwar Paris. First edition. Wraps, oblong 8vo. measuring 12 by 8.5 inches. 124pp. with illustrations in color and b&w. Good. Writing and staining in pink highlighter on front wrap. Wrinkling and.....
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Pr. 1976. First edition. Hardcover. 1976. First edition. Hardcover, 240 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Faint age-toning to pages. Sunning to spine of DJ. Soiling to DJ.
Providence, RI: Brown University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Silver stamped orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 191pp., not illustrated. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has sun toning to spine and edges of wrap, mild edgewear.
Arles: Actes Sud, 2006. Paperback. 906 pp. Softcover, French text, 2006. Near Fine+ copy: covers show slightest signs of shelfwear. Text is Fine; clean, bright and unmarked.
Arles: Actes Sud, 2008. Paperback. 653 pp. Softcover, French text, 2008. Fine copy: a clean, tight copy. Text is Fine; bright and unmarked.