Andresy 1900-1930, Casquettes & Canotiers
Boulogne: 1981. Hardcover. Quarto, boards, good to very good, light wear and soil, pages a touch rippled at bottom edge throughout from moisture. 50-75 pp, illustrated.
France
Bound volume: Affiches, Annonces et Avis Divers, 1-28 Fevrier 1791, Nos. 32-59, ou Journal General de France
Paris: Bureau des Affiches, 1791. Hardcover. 8vo, 8 x 5.25 inches, in papercovered boards, good with some wear, stains and darkening to covers, spine darkened and rubbed, contents generally very good, first few pages a little rumpled and edgeworn, 1863 French inscription on flyleaf. Paginated 389-764. Rare in the trade.....
Group of 1918 postcards & booklets of postcards: Paris (62), Pantheon de la Guerre (20), Soissons, Arras, La Savoie - Maurienne & Tarentaise
Paris & Chambery: Grimal / Cormault & Papeghin / L. C. H., 1918. Condition mainly very good. With 62 loose gravure photo postcards of Paris, 20 photo postcards of the Pantheon de la Guerre, with cover sheet and in YMCA envelope, booklet of 20 postcards of Arras Apres le Bombardement.....
Late 17th century bound manuscript: La Rethorique Francoise, Livre Second: Du Temoignage Divin
France: Ca. 1650-1700. Hardcover. 13 x 9.25 inches, full old calf, very good, light wear. 369 pp, handwritten. This appears to be an unpublished manuscript on rhetoric, with many examples drawn from the ancients and its application to Christian theology. A previous bookseller erroneously identified this as the work of.....
Memoirs of Empress Josephine (Vol. 2 only, 1829) with anecdotes of the courts of Navarre and Malmaison
London: Henry Colburn, 1829. Second Edition. Hardcover. Vol. II only. 8vo, slightly later half black calf and marbled boards, good or better with some rubbing and wear to leather, contents bright and clean, old 1930 ownership inscription.
Recueil de Bons Mots des Anciens et des Modernes, nouvelle edition augmentee
Paris: Chez Medard Brunet, 1705. Hardcover. 12mo, old leather, about good copy, wear to leather, light loss to corners, joints cracked, light loss along spine, lacking flyleaves (front and rear), title page in red and black, contents VG, bit age toned. 330 pp of anecdotes, tales, aphorisms, maxims, quotations, etc......
Souvenir de Monte-Carlo, Souvenir de la Cote d'Azur (2 postcard booklets, ca. 1910-1920)
Beausoleil: E. G., Ca. 1910-1920. Wraps. 2 booklets, each 3.5 x 5.75 inches, very good, light wear and discoloration to covers, each with 19 postcards, 18 of which are views of various places (Monte Carlo, Monaco, Antibes, Nice, Cannes, etc.) with a 19th postcard in color with advice on how.....
Hommes et Chiens du Grand-Saint-Bernard - inscribed by author
Paris: Les Editions de France, 1937. First printing. Paperback. First edition, no. 13 of 30 copies on Alfa, 1937, wraps, very good, this copy inscribed to the theatrical couple Jeanne Silvain and her husband Edmond Roze (d. Auschwitz, 1943). Achard was a journalist and novelist, and later a script and.....
African Steam Ship Company Rates of Passage to Madeira, Teneriffe, West and South- West Coasts of Africa, December, 1875, With Letter of Transmittal on African Steam Ship Company Letterhead
London: African Steam Ship Company, December, 1875. With letter of transmittal on African Steam Ship Company letterhead addressed to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. December, 1875. Measures 11 by 9 in. Letter measures 8 by 5 inches. Very good. Glue staining and light wear to extremities.....
Traktat über kritische Vernunft
Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1991. Paperback. 284 pp. A fine soft cover copy. Inside cover signed by previous owner, Prof. Tom Rockmore. Rockmore was chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University. He also taught at Yale, Vanderbilt, Fordham, and the University of Nice, France. He is the.....
La Vie des Francais Sous L'Occupation
Paris: Librarie Artheme Fayard, 1961. First edition. Paperback. 1961. First edition. Paperback, 577 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Reading creases to spine. Faint age-toning to pages. Edgewear to head of spine of DJ.
Luis Cernuda
Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1972. Paperback. Softcover. c.1972. 16mo. 188pp. Text in French. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, one small mark to margin of p.13 in green ink.
Unchristian perfidies of the most Christian cabinet of France towards free Spain, being an appeal to the public opinion of Europe, by a British Traveller in the Peninsula
London: A. J. Valpy, 1823. Wraps. Disbound pamphlet from "The Pamphleteer," a compilation of various pamphlets, speeches, articles and letters published quarterly and with uncirculated stock bound up at the end of each year and issued as an annual volume. This is from Vol. XXII. 29 pp. Two staples along.....
Robert Brasillach et la Generation Perdue (Les Cahiers du Rocher 2)
Paris: Rocher, 1987. Paperback. 1987, Softcover. French text. Very Good. Clean text.
Transformation Der Philosophie: Bande 1 and 2 (2 volumes). Vol. 1: Sprachanalytik, Semiotik, Hermeneutik. Vol. 2: Das Apriori Der Kommunikations-gemeinschaft
Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1994. Paperback. 2 volumes. German text. Softcover. Very good+ copies. Light edgewear of wraps. Signed and noted on the inside front wrap of both volumes by Prof. Tom Rockmore. Very sparse marginalia and underlining. Rockmore was chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University. He also taught.....
Il Problema Dell'Instuzione Tre Studi Su Platone Kant Husserl
Bibliopolis, 2002. Paperback. 196 pp. A fine soft cover copy in publisher's shrinkwrap.
La Defense, with inscription from author
Paris: La Table Ronde, 1971. First Printing. Wraps. Trade softcover, very good, light war and soil. With inscription from Arletty on sheet of paper that was taped to title page and facing page; the tape has dried off, leaving expected brown stains, but the page is still there inserted. The.....
The Sentimental Revolution: French Writers of 1690-1740
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965. Hardcover. 1965, Edition not stated. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Very Good condition. The Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear that includes edge wear. The Dust Jacket has been freshly enclosed in an archival gloss Mylar jacket protector...
La Medecine sans le Medecin, ou Manuel de Sante
Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1830. Thirteenth Edition. Paperback. 1830, Thirteenth (Treizieme) Edition. Softcover in original wraps. French text. 368 pp. Good copy: Some loss to corners and edges of wraps; spine creased; tearing along hinges. Spine still intact and sound. Foxing to contents, but text still bright and readable.
Le Louvre et Son Histoire
Paris: Librairie De Paris, 1895. New Edition. Hardcover. 1895. New edition, revised and corrected. Hardcover, 4to. rebound in 1/4 vellum and marbled boards with gilt and leather spine title, with original wraps bound in. 349pp. illustrated with 140 engravings and photogravures. Very good. Boards and title rubbed, spine toned and.....
Le Concept De Modele
Paris: Francois Maspero, 1969. Paperback. 94 pp. A very goos doft cover copy. Light shelfwear and soil to wraps. Signed on flyleaf by Prof. Tom Rockmore. Rockmore was chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Duquesne University. He also taught at Yale, Vanderbilt, Fordham, and the University of Nice, France.....
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down - signed
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's boards in dust jacket, fine copy, signed.
Pascal et Port-Royal
Paris: Artheme Fayard, 1962. Hardcover. 1962, Edition not stated. Hardcover, with Dust Jacket. In Near Fine condition, with very light shelf wear. The Dust Jacket is also in Very Good condition, with light shelf wear and handling soil. The text is in French.
The Deserts of Southern France, 2 vols: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk Plateaux of Ancient Aquitaine
London: Methuen, 1894. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, in contemporary maroon cloth, gilt spines, does not appear to be publisher's bindings, but an early rebind Good with some scuffing, rubbing, small gouges, spines mellowed, contents very good, contents a bit tanned. 296 & 303 pp, illustrated.
Two Summers in Guyenne, A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
London: Richard Bentley, 1894. First Printing. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth gilt, very good, light wear to binding, neat restoration to inner hinges. 411 pp, illustrated, folding map at rear.