France from Lorne Bair Rare Books

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999. First English Language Edition. Narrow octavo; black cloth spine over red cloth-covered boards; dustjacket; 151pp. Tight, unmarked copy, Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $18.95 on front flap); crisp, clean and unworn, Fine or very nearly so. This collection of Cioran's aphorisms, originally published in 1952 by Gallimard, was his… Ler mais sobre este item

Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970. First English Language Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; pink topstain; 183,[3]pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95 on front flap), lightly toned and soiled on lighter portions, Very Good+. The second of the Romanian philosopher's works to be… Ler mais sobre este item

N.p. [Washington, D.C: Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army 1918-1919]. Small quarto (28cm). Presentation binding of half calf over dark brown buckram, titled in gilt on spine and front cover, personalized for "Major Tompkins" (see note); 278pp. Text printed recto-only; pages 83-266 comprised entirely of 164 original 8" x 10" photographic plates and 20 folding blueprints. Slight rubbing and soil… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Pierre Seghers, Éditeur, 1949. First Edition. First Impression. Small quarto (24cm); original pale yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; [5],6-135,[5]pp, featuring 130 photogravure images by Doisneau. Spine ends bumped, upper corners tapped, with wear to lower corners, gentle sunning to spine, with some of the usual light dust-soil to… Ler mais sobre este item

Brockport: BOA Editions, 1991. First Edition. First printing of the Crosby translations. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 494pp. A few faint spots of foxing to upper edge of text block, else Fine, with embossed ownership stamp to title page of a previous owner. In the original dustwrapper, also Fine. Illustrations after woodcuts by David Crosby. A bilingual edition, with facing… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue and red paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-326,[2]pp. Contemporary owners penciled signatured and address to front endpaper, spine ends pushed, some dust-soil and rubbing to topstain, with circular rubber stamps of the Circulating… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Peter Owen, 1970. First English Language Edition. First impression. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 260pp. Tight, straight and unmarked; a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped but with a later price sticker overlaid on printed price; slightly rubbed overall and with foxing to rear panel; just VG. First and only English-language edition of this novel originally… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Carrefour Editions, 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 465pp. Mild soil; spine panel slightly toned (but perfectly legible); a tight, straight, Very Good copy. The second collection of Miller's and Fraenkel's volumnious literary correspondence; the first volume was published in 1939. Carrefour Editions, a joint effort by Fraenkel and Walter Lowenfels, was… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1976. First Edition. Trade issue. Small octavo (20cm). Printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued) in original glossy pictorial dust jacket; 321pp. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper. Text entirely in French.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1984. Octavo (26cm). Full black leather, stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; blush pink silk moiré endpapers; xviii,629,[1]pp; black and white illustrations throughout. With silk ribbon bookmark. A bright, tight copy: Fine. From the Collector's Library of Famous Editions. [63741].

York, PA: Strength & Health Publishing Co, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Card wrappers; portrait frontispiece; 320pp. Clean, tight, and unfaded - an attractive copy, Near Fine and quite unusual thus. Hoffman (1898-1985) served on the front in France as a lieutenant in Company A of the 111th Infantry; his memoir provides perhaps the best first-hand… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, N.d. [ca 1920s]. Early reprint. Octavo. Blue linen over boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 537pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy. In the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), lightly soiled and edgeworn; Very Good. An undated reprint. Based solely on the jacket price, and lacking other evidence,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Printed by W. Godbid...to be Sold by Moses Pitt, 1671. First English Language Edition. Small octavo (14.5cm). Full 18th-c. calf, rebacked, with earlier backstrip laid down; page edges dyed red; pp [7],119;71; the second part with separate title page. Leather somewhat parched, especially on spine, and with some crazing to board edges; still a sound, firm copy, textually… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Signed by Tomlinson on the front endpaper. From the library of Hollywood filmmaker and noted bibliophile Frank Capra (1897-1991), with his pencil signature to front endpaper, with additional annotation, apparently in his hand, noting two errors in the text. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket,539pp. A few faint specks of foxing to upper… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1853. First English Language Edition. Octavo (19cm). Two volumes rebound in half brown sheep and marbled paper boards, all edges sprinkled blue; plain endpapers; [ii],303,[1]pp; [ii],307,[1]pp. Tight and sound but lightly rubbed, with leather over spine dried and cracking, title pages and final leaves browned from endleaves, else clean: around Very Good. First… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris: Lafayette Publishing Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 24pp; illus. A fresh, Near Fine cop, . Woollcott's scarce second book, written while a staff writer on (and co-founder of) the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. Illustrated from sketches by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, at this time a private in the AEF.

London: Printed for Thomas Kelly by Weed and Rider, 1818. Second Edition. Quarto (26.5cm). Slightly later half calf with marbled paper boards; marbled endpapers; 509,[1]pp; one-page publisher's advertisement at rear; frontispiece, engraved title page, folding map with touches of hand-coloring, and 18 addtional black and white plates. Slight loss to corner of engraved t.p., not affecting image area. *G… Ler mais sobre este item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Ribbed blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; 347pp. Spine gilt slightly oxidized (but perfectly legible); thin crack to front hinge at title page gutter (but holding strong); still a clean, straight Very Good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Bullard's memoir… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Second Printing of the American Edition. Octavo (22cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; xxiv,744pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), lightly edgeworn, with some trivial dust-soil, a hint of sunning to spine, and one tiny tear. A novel discovered after Proust's death, first… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Cassell and Company Limited, [1939]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's deep tan cloth; ix,[1],389pp. Mild external wear and a bit of faint foxing to text block edges, else Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Novel by the Marxist economist and author, set in the south of France, "a tale of pre-Danzig days, of the France of the Popular… Ler mais sobre este item