Item 237731The Works of.
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New York: Gabriel Wells, 1924. No. 934 of 1075 sets SIGNED BY FRANCE in the first volume. Read More Item Details for The Works of .. Add to Wish List
Item #237731
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New York: Gabriel Wells, 1924. No. 934 of 1075 sets SIGNED BY FRANCE in the first volume. Read More Item Details for The Works of .. Add to Wish List
Item #237731
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[Leipzig]: 1784. First edition in German. Read More Item Details for Das Privatleben des Königs von Preußen, oder Nachrichten zum Leben des Herrn von Voltaire, von ihm selbst geschrieben Add to Wish List
Item #211667
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Paris: Au Bureau & Chez Gueffier, August and September 1781. The August issues covers “La Vie de Lazarille de Tormes; so bonne fortune & ses adversités, &c” and “Les Refus.” The September issue contains “Histoire de Mélisthene, Roi de Perse, contenant ses Aventures galantes, ses Combats & ses Victoires” and..... Read More Item Details for Bibliotheque Universelle des Romans; ouvrage Périodique, dans lequel on donne l'analyse raisonné des Romans anciens & modernes, François, ou traduits dans notre Langue… Add to Wish List
Item #20488
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vpub, vd. All these titles are scarce. The Huet, Ruisseau, and "Vers Sur la Mort de Louis le Grand" do not appear in NUC. "Recueil de Stances" does not appear in NUC either, though it does locate books by Daniel Rogers (1573-1652) under the pseudonym D.R.B. on similar subjects in..... Read More Item Details for Conseils d'un Pere a Son Fils. La Haye: T. Johnson, 1713. [With:] Recueil de Stances Morales et Chretiennes ... Par Mr. D. R. B.**** [Daniel Rogers?]. Berlin: Robert Roger 1802; Ode au Roy, sur son Avenement a la Couronne. Np, npub, nd [half-title only]; Vers Sur la mort de Louis le Grand... Accompagnez de quelque Epitaphes de ce Prince. Cologne: Pierre le Jeune, 1715; Fables Nouvelles, par L. S. du Ruisseau. Seconde Edition. La Haye: T. Johnson, 1714 Add to Wish List
Item #54088
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Philadelphia: Barrie. One of 1,000 sets on Japan Vellum printed for Mr. H.R. Parrish. Attractive selection of late-nineteenth century French literature, including: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (2 vols.) Bohemian Life by Henri Murger The Confession of a Child of the Century by Alfred du Musset His Excellency the Minister..... Read More Item Details for Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Romancists [and] Realists Add to Wish List
Item #265969
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Paris: Les Cahiers de Paris, 1925-1926. Each booklet ONE of 1500 NUMBERED COPIES. Beautifully preserved copies, representing two years of this publisher's series, edited by Claude Aveline and Joseph Place. First series: I. Duhamel, George. DELIBERATIONS; II. Lauzanne, Stéphane.LA TABLE QUI PARLE; III. Nolhac, Pierre de. ERASME ET L'ITALIE; IV..... Read More Item Details for Les Cahiers de Paris Add to Wish List
Item #23434
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[France]: [ca. 1770-1815]. The volume commences with three full-page pencil sketches and then begins the manuscripts of verses, epigrams, etc. The first part of the volume contains several verses that are addressed to Madame Sophie Arnould, the famous actress and operatic singer. The latter portion appears to be a slightly..... Read More Item Details for A manuscript volume of some 57 pages of poems, fables, epigrams and songs, in a few hands Add to Wish List
Item #21633
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Paris: Crapelet, 1824. Read More Item Details for Les Poets François depuis le 12e Siecle Jusqu'à Malherbe Add to Wish List
Item #28004
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Baltimore: Chez A. Neal ... ,de l'imprimerie de J.D. Toy, 1823. "Second Édition, revue avec soin et la table particulière entièrement refondue et très-perfectionnée." (i.e., second Baltimore edition). For Anglo-American juveniles, Perrin's Fables in its day, was the standard French primer for more than half a century, since its first..... Read More Item Details for Fables Amusantes, avec une Table Générale et Particulière des Mots et de leur Signification en Anglois ... pour en Rendre la Traduction plus Faciles à l'écolier Add to Wish List
Item #233932
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Paris: Imprimerie Francois Bernouard 71, rue des Saints-Pères, [1920]. Number 59 of 125 copies sur papier vergé d'Arches à la forme, SIGNED BY DERAIN. Read More Item Details for La Cassette de Plomb. Poëmes de monsieur Georges Gabory Add to Wish List
Item #53952
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Paris: Jean Aubier 2, Rue Beaux-Arts, [1947]. Number 15 of 33, signed by artist and author. Read More Item Details for Tracts Add to Wish List
Item #333430
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Paris: Imprimerie de Brasseur Ainé, Capelle & Renand, 1809. First edition. With a splendid ‘Carte Gastronomique de la France’. The Avertissement states that the Cours gastronomique is published under the heading of Second Edition, although it appears here for the first time in its entirety; earlier chapters had been published..... Read More Item Details for Cours Gastronomique, ou les diners de Manant-Ville, ouvrage anecdotique, philosophique, et littéraire. Seconde édition, dédiée à la Société Gastronomique du Caveau moderne, séant au Rocher de Cancalle Add to Wish List
Item #35461
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Paris: Eugène Fasquelle, 1928. Number 242 of 1250 copies. Read More Item Details for Mademoiselle de Maupin Add to Wish List
Item #54720
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Paris: Eugène Fasquelle, 1928. Number 978 of 3000 copies on vélin des Papeteries du Marais. Read More Item Details for Mademoiselle de Maupin Add to Wish List
Item #210144
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New York: Henry Holt, 1974. Signed twice on front free endpapers by George Kennan. George Kennan (February 16, 1845 - 1924) was an American explorer noted for his travels in the Kamchatka and Caucasus regions of Russia. He was diplomat and historian George F. Kennan's cousin twice removed, with whom..... Read More Item Details for A Winter in Russia from the French ... by M.M. Ripley Add to Wish List
Item #234503
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Paris: Victor Magen, 1845. First edition. Gautier's charming and scarce book of travels and miscellanies (A Tour of Belgium, A Day in London, etc.). Read More Item Details for Zigzags Add to Wish List
Item #243913
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London: Printed for Lockyer Davis, 1753. First edition in English. Among the cast of characters referred to in the "Key" in this delicious collection of satirical essays are the King, the Dauphin, Mde de Pompadour, Voltaire, various lords and ladies, clerics, etc. Here a sample: "When Pallades [the Dauphin] walks..... Read More Item Details for The School of Man. Translated from the French. To which is prefixed, a Key to the Satyrical Characters Interspersed in this Work Add to Wish List
Item #28425
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L'Arbalète, [1948]. First Trade edition. Genet's first novel, printed in 1943 by Paul Morihien while Genet was still in prison. Read More Item Details for Notre Dame des Fleurs Add to Wish List
Item #352167
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New York: Grove Press, [1958]. First Grove and First American edition. Read More Item Details for The Balcony. (Le Balcon) A Play in nine scenes. Trans. by Bernard Frechtman Add to Wish List
Item #254429
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London: Faber and Faber, [1958]. First English edition. Read More Item Details for The Balcony...Translated by Bernard Frechtman Add to Wish List
Item #216008
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London: Faber and Faber, 1960. First English edition. Read More Item Details for The Blacks. Bernard Frechtman's translation Add to Wish List
Item #216009
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[Genève]: Aux dépens d'un ami, [1949]. Limited edition, #176/400 copies signed by Genet, on Arches wove paper (from a total edition of 410). A handsome signed limited edition of Genet's fifth, partly autobiographical, novel, rendered into English as The Thief's Journal. Read More Item Details for Journal du Voleur Add to Wish List
Item #346311
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Paris: Marc Barbezat, [1956]. Giacometti. Copy # 1338 of a limited edition of 3000 copies printed on Lana paper. Read More Item Details for Le Balcon Add to Wish List
Item #300241
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[Paris]: Marc Barbezat, 1963. First English edition. Read More Item Details for Les Nègres pour jouer les Nègres Add to Wish List
Item #216010
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np: Pirated Edition, nd (c 1960s). Number 1 of 12 hardbound copies, Signed by Diane di Prima. NUMBER ONE. Inscribed to Bob Wilson on the title-page “For Bob w/ love Diane”. Read More Item Details for The Man Condemned to Death. Le Condamne à Mort. Translated by Diane di Prima, Alan Marlowe, Harriet and Bret Rohmer Add to Wish List
Item #264823