L'Enfant des Tenebres
Arles: Actes Sud, 2008. Paperback. 653 pp. Softcover, French text, 2008. Fine copy: a clean, tight copy. Text is Fine; 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.
Paris: Flammarion, 2002. Hardcover. First English-language edition. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, heavily illustrated (much in color), clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, light wear to the tips of the book's covers, minor soiling and wear to the dust jacket.
Paris: Librairie des Arts Decoratifs, (1928). First printing. Hardcover. Royal 8vo, 10 x 8.25 inches, publisher's gray cloth, very good, 48 pp. text, 109 handsome gravure photoplates printed by A. Calavas.
Cologne: Taschen, 2014. Hardcover. White stamped brown cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [10.25" x 13.5"], illustrated in b&w and color. Book has hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has hint of edgewear. Text in French, English and German...
Koln: Evergreen, 1999. Hardcover. 1999. Hardcover, folio. LIKE NEW -- still in original shrinkwrap. Fine in fine jacket.
Paris: Chez Jean de Nully, 1736. Hardcover. Vol. 3 of a larger set. 8vo, old calf with gilt spine, very good, light wear and rubbing to binding, contents very good and clean. 492 pp. Cases include "Femme accusée d'avoir fait tuer son Mari..." "Magdeliene Jollivet pretendant avoir epousé le Sieur.....
(Paris): 1946. No. 122 of 250 on velin du Marais Crevecoeur, stiff paper chemise measuring 11 x 7.5 inches, housing loose sheets of the program and several hand-colored pictures, this copy inscribed to Alvin Laidley (a UNESCO administrator) by Guy Arnoux, the illustrator with a pencil sketch of a Legionnaire.....
Lyon: Libraire de la Faculte de Medecine et de la Faculte De Droit, 1895. First edition. Paperback. This volume ONLY. 1895. First edition. Printed wraps, folio, bound with replacement rear wrap. 250pp. with 43 plates of the Lyon Natural History museum's anthropological and archaeological holdings. Very good. Toning, shallow chipping.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 319pp., not illustrated. Book has hint of wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, text has ink underlining and marginalia scattered throughout. DJ gently rubbed and toned.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1962. Hardcover. 8vo. 459pp. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Light general shelfwear, former owner's blindstamp on title page. Light soil to dustjacket, rubbing to edges.
Paris: Albert Morance, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. 1925, First Edition, French text. 61 pp., with 24 plates in rear, including one in color. Rebound in decorative cloth over boards. Original wraps present. Tape repair and light soil along bottom edge of the half-title and title pages. Contents otherwise unmarked. Previous.....
Paris: Librairie Plon, 1951. First printing. Paperback. First edition, 1951, inscribed by Desachy to Alvin Laidley an administrator with UNESCO. Wraps, 320 pp, very good, pages tanning.
Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2002. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, very good or better. 228 pp.
New York (?): Con Licensia, 1809. Hardcover. Possibly printed in New York in 1809 but the binding style seems distinctly Spanish, whereas the typographical font strikes us more as American than Spanish. 8vo, full vellum with leather ties, 294 pp, with 2 pp dedication by the translator to his Spanish-American.....
New York: Peter Lang, 2001. Paperback. Printed paper wraps, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome wraps and tight binding, text clean and unmarked.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1875. Hardcover. Tall 8vo (9.75 inches tall), blue decorated cloth gilt, very good, some darkening and freckling to binding, hinges fine, contents very good, with all 16 plates of famous French beauties (and wits) of the epoch, slight smoky odor. 416 pp, illustrated.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1855. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, green cloth, very good, endpapers have a black splotchy stain to them, common for the period with some kinds of coated papers (an old chemical reaction of some sort). 368 pp.
Tarentum, PA: Word Association, 2009. First edition. Paperback. Inscribed by Graham! First edition, 2009, paperback, octavo, 153pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild rubbing to wrap, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Reims: Grandvalet Fils, 1892. Hardcover. Published 1892, small 8vo, contemporary half morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine decorations, folding frontispiece, 73 (2) pp, one other folding plate of the interior of the theatre. Very good copy.
Paris: Plon, 1951. Paperback. 362 pp. Softcover, French text. Very Good copy: wraps sunned, spine is creased but tight binding. Light fraying of page outsides; pages have faded and darkened but the text has remained bright and unmarked.
London: Constable, 1922. First Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket good or better, light edgewear, spine a little darkened, light loss to spine ends. Rare in jacket.
London: Sampson Low Marston & Co., 1880. Hardcover. 8 volume set. ca. 1880s. Very Good- copies in red cloth, ornately illustrated boards with gilt titles, emblems and upper text block. No DJs. All volumes show wear at head and foot of spine; shallow tearing of heads, vol. 6 shows 1/2.....
New York: Macmillan, 1941. Hardcover. 285 pp. A near fine copy in grey cloth. Dust jacket is very good, in mylar wrap. Minimal edgewear and fading of cloth. DJ shows yellowing, soil and light chipping at head and foot of spine. Clipped but not price-clipped. Two adhesive marks on rear.....
Paris: Boussod, Valadon & Cie. Ca. 1890. Hardcover. Folio (approx. 14 x 12 inches), decorated red cloth gilt, near fine copy with minimal wear. Truly a lovely book. 240 pp, illustrated, including some plates in color and some double-page plates.
Paris: Boussod, Valadon, & Co, ca. 1892. First edition. Hardcover. ca. 1892. First edition. Hardcover, 4to. rebound in quarter leather and marbled boards, with five raised bands, gilt title, and marbled endpapers, and original wraps bound in. 245pp, illustrated by L. Marchetti and Alfred Paris, with six folding and several.....