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1957ref. 140204Paris: Cinedis 1957. Seven vintage black-and-white photographs of French actor Gerard Philippe seen signing autographs at a record store. Included is a typed letter from J. Reboulieau at Cinedis a short-lived film distributor in Paris addressed to Christian de la Maziere an impresario of press relations and former Waffen-SS soldier detailing the included photographs and noting "Hernandez" as the photographer on Cinedis parchment. Philippe's film credits include "Beauty and the Devil" 1950 "Fan-Fan the Tulip" 1952 "Rouge et noir" 1954 and Buñuel's "Fever Mounts at El Pao" 1959. Around the time of the included letter January 1957 he had just starred in "Bold Adventure" 1956 distributed by Cinedis and would later star in "Lovers of Paris" 1957 with Dany Carrel. 5 x 7 inches. Very Good with moderate staining and curling. Cinedis unknown books
1987ref. 9022712Cambridge: Belknap 1987. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Bound in the publisher's original black quarter cloth and colored paper covered boards spines stamped in gilt. Lightly rubbed at the edges and extremities of dust jackets closed tears at the heads of volume one & volume 3 chip at the bottom front fore edge of volume two. Editors include Paul Veyne Georges Duby Roger Chartier Michelle Perrot Antoine Prost and Gerard Vincent. Belknap hardcover books
1982ref. 137776Los Angeles: Paul Kohner Inc 1982. Draft script for an unproduced film called "Le Testament D'Archibald" written by Philippe M. Blot. Set in the Caribbean Sea and in France during the 1950s the story involves sunken treasure a Samurai and two pregnant women with their husbands. Gray titled wrappers. Title page present dated 1982 noted as Original story and screenplay with a credit for writer Blot. 81 leaves with last page of text numbered 79. Mechanical duplication. Pages and wrapper Near Fine bound with three gold brads. Paul Kohner Inc unknown books
1827ref. 40377Bruxelles: Ph. Vandermaelen 1827. First edition. Very good bright copies a few minor spots or marginal finger soiling. 2 sheets. Hand-colored lithographic maps. 46 x 53 cm and 50 x 56 cm. Large scale map of Haiti on two sheets usually sold separately. 1. Amer. Sep. Haiti ou St. Domingue. No. 68. Also includes parts of Cuba and the Bahamas and has a text box entitled: Iles Bahamas ou Lucayes. with 2. Amèr. Sep. Curacao. No. 74. Includes the southern and remaining portion of Haiti plus Aruba Bonaire and small parts of Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Text box entitled: Republique d'Haiti. Redigee par A. Delavault. Sheets from Phillipe Vandermaelen "Atlas universel de geographie physique politique statistique et mineralogique." a magnificent and ground breaking six volume atlas of the entire world which was the first Atlas to use lithography to show the entire world using such a large uniform scale approximately 26 miles to the inch and which was designed to be joined together into a three-dimensional globe with a diameter of approximately 25 feet. [Ph. Vandermaelen] unknown books
1971ref. 9014860New York: Viking Press 1971. Hardcover. Fine condition / Fine condition dust jacket. Viking Press hardcover books
1978ref. 9013786Munchen: Carl Hanser 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Fine condition in a near fine dust jacket. The dust jacket has minor wear. Text is in German. Carl Hanser hardcover books
1982ref. 110605Lausanne: La Bibliotheque des Arts 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Text in French. Profusely illustrated monograph. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket and in a fine cardstock slipcase. La Bibliotheque des Arts unknown books
1984ref. 9008805New York: St. Martin's Press 1984. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 194 illustrations including 34 in color. Bound in publisher's original olive colored cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. St. Martin's Press hardcover books
1994ref. 9009157New York: Scribner 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Scribner hardcover books
1999ref. 9007713Mansfield Centre CT: Martino 1999. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Facsimile of the first edition published in 1894 by Huard et Guillemin in Paris. Martino hardcover books
1996ref. 9006276Koln: Taschen 1996. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Illustrated throughout. Bound in the publisher's original boards with the spine stamped in white. Text is in English German and French. Taschen hardcover books
1999ref. 9001462Koln Germany: Evergreen 1999. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Text translated into English. Contains more than 300 illustrations. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. Evergreen hardcover books
2013ref. 54536Beacon NY: Dia Art Foundation 2013. First printing. Near fine. Scarce hardcover first edition of this book presenting comments left by visitors at Dia:Beacon Museum. 7.25'' x 5''. Original grey cloth stamped in dark grey to front board and spine. 48 pages. Touch of shelfwear. Sharp. Dia Art Foundation unknown books
1954ref. 55808New York: Simon and Schuster 1954. First edition. Very good. Lavishly inscribed association copy with multiple drawings from the surrealist master - signed to movie studio mogul Jack Warner and his wife. Jack Warner 1892-1978 was the legendary co-founder and CEO of Warner Bros. Studios which produced such classic films as THE JAZZ SINGER 1927 the first feature-length "talkie" LITTLE CAESAR and PUBLIC ENEMY 1931 THE MALTESE FALCON 1941 CASABLANCA 1943 A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1951 THE SEARCHERS 1956 MY FAIR LADY 1964 and WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF 1966 as well as innumerable other iconic films. By the time Dalí inscribed this copy in 1954 the two had already known each other for at least a decade. In 1944 Dalí had come to Hollywood to work on the Hitchcock film SPELLBOUND for which the artist contributed a pioneering dream sequence. By 1945 Warner had commissioned Dalí to paint portraits of both Warner and his wife Ann with Dalí actually living with the couple while he completed the works Sperling and Millner 269. This unconventional arrangement in fact led to a now-famous meeting between Dalí and Walt Disney an encounter that resulted in "a lifelong friendship between the man behind the mouse and the painter of melted clocks" Jukareddy. At a dinner party hosted by Warner Dalí and Disney were introduced and hit it off so well they began a collaboration that would eventually result in the production of "Destino" a six-and-a-half-minute surrealist animated film: "Dalí and Disney immediately connected and an overjoyed Dalí accepted Disney's proposal to collaborate on a surrealist animated short. Over the next eight months they created more than 200 storyboard sketches" ibid. A work of myth-making and fame-enhancement as much as anything Dalí's whimsical MUSTACHE finds him and his mustache answering questions "Your mustache looks so rigid - how does it react to the winds of public opinion" with playful responses "She bends" all accompanied by surrealist photographs and photo collages. A close and important association between these two titans with among the most elaborate and exuberant Dalí inscriptions we've seen. Original black-and-white pictorial boards. No jacket as issued. 126 pages. Illustrated throughout with photos of Dalí by Philippe Halsman. Preface by Dalí with a "Postface" by Halsman plus publisher's notes "on how some of the photographs were made." Inscribed in year of publication by Dalí to Jack Warner and his wife Ann across the front pastedown and endpaper: "Pur sic a pun / Prince des Gouts Felines / Jack / ei / Anunshka / L'amour de sur tout / Dalí / Gala / 1954. Roughly: "Purr for the Prince of Feline Tastes Jack and Ann Love above all." Dali has added numerous figures including a crown a shooting star a drawing of two figures dancing in a desert plus three scurrying ants and a moon playing a trumpet overhead. Chipping to head of spine with top centimeter or so of spine beginning to separate but holding. Some toning to endpapers and some starting at gutter before title-page. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1966ref. 373638Montreux 1966. Gelatin silver print matted and framed; rubber-stamped on verso "Copyright by Philippe Halsman". 11 x 14 inches; matted to 11 x 12 inches. Fine. Gelatin silver print matted and framed; rubber-stamped on verso "Copyright by Philippe Halsman". 11 x 14 inches; matted to 11 x 12 inches. A rarely-seen portrait of Nabokov hunting butterflies an outtake from the shots Halsman made to appear with Herbert Gold's profile of the author in the Saturday Evening Post eventually published in January 1967. Nabokov apparently liked Halsman's portraits so much that he asked they be used on all subsequent dust jackets. unknown books
1950ref. 235330New York 1950. Gelatin silver prints. Large format 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Light edgewear at corners; docketed on verso with Halsman's studio stamp; prints numbered in pencil 17 31 40; Near Fine. Gelatin silver prints. Large format 13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches. Three intimiate and suprisingly "straight" portraits from a photographer known for his unusual methods and and results. Shirely Kessel was the wife of LIFE photographer Dimitri Kessel. unknown books
1648ref. 311279A Leide: chez les Elzevirs 1648. First Elzevier edition. Engraved title 2476519pp. 1 vols. 12mo 13.3 x 7.5 cm. Beautifully bound in 19th century polished claret red crushed levant with spine and corners richly tooled in gilt with a intricately gilt center ornament of inlaid black morocco gilt inner dentelles a.e.g. by Duru dated 1850. Three bookseller's descriptions tipped to binders blank some minor foxing but a very near fine copy. With the bookplate of Thomas Westwood and of Ex Musaeo PIN Elzéar-Stern. First Elzevier edition. Engraved title 2476519pp. 1 vols. 12mo 13.3 x 7.5 cm. The celebrated memoirs of the foremost French Renaissance historian 1445-1509 notable as an important analysis of 15th century culture politics and personality. ".The graphic style of his narrative and above all the keenness of his insight into the motives of his contemporaries an insight undimmed by undue regard for principles of right and wrong make this work one of the great classics of history" - ENCYC. BRITANNICA. "Authoritative and rare.printed in Paris probably by Le Gras" - Rostenberg & Stern THE HOUSE OF ELZEVIR 27 referencing this edition in their offering of the 1661 edition. "Jolie édition dont les exemplaires grands de marge et bien conservés sont fort recherchés" - Brunet. Rahir 630; Brunet II:191. Willems 634 chez les Elzevirs unknown books
1988ref. 38570Paris: Souvenirs du Futur 1988. First Edition. Oversize folio 46cm.; white paper-covered clamshell box embossed thermoformed plastic plate mounted to upper cover six leaves laid in as issued to which are mounted thermoformed plates on rectos and versos with the exception of the last leaf on whose verso is printed the colophon. Clamshell box a bit dust-soiled else Near Fine. Lacking the cardboard shipping box. Quite possibly the only "comic book" in its class Le Grand Rêve Americain The Great American Dream adapts technology developed by Philippe Schléret and Véronique Hauss using molded plastic to create brilliantly colored 3D images. The work exuberantly lampoons Pop Art American culture and early underground comic books. Of all who have ever encountered the work and written of it seemingly none have failed to mention the heavy use of oversized female breasts that jut out from nearly every panel. Indeed OCLC record no. 712159856 lists "Large-breasted women" as one of the subjects. Other tropes not to be ignored include fancy sports cars gangsters and fastfood joints. OCLC notes 8 holdings. Souvenirs du Futur unknown books
1997ref. 42832Paris: Flammarion 1997. First Edition. Quarto 33cm x 24.5cm. Glossy pictoral paper wrappers paperback; 352pp; illus. Near Fine copy; general shelf wear to extremities else clean and tight. Comprehensive monography of Pieter Breugel The Elder's life and work and the Medieval mystery and Renaissance Humanism intersecting in his paintings represent. In French language only. 361 reproductions of paintings and drawings many in full color. Flammarion unknown books
1792ref. 304899Speyer Austria 1792. 4 pp. pen and ink on paper in French in various hands with embossed seal. Old folds and light soiling paper repairs at folds. 4 pp. pen and ink on paper in French in various hands with embossed seal. Document payorder for firewood for the French Army encamped at Speyer "pour le chauffage de l'armée au Camp et Corps de Gardes" signed by General Adam Philippe Comte de Custine and Claude Blanchard. Both Custine 1740-1793 and Blanchard 1742-1802 fought in the American Revolution. Custine who lead the French forces in the Rhine campagins that seized Speyer and Mainz was guillotined in 1793 during the Reign of Terror. unknown books
1944ref. 266091Paris: Les Joies Secrètes 1944. First edition one of 1000 copies from an edition of 1053 this copy being number 200. 6 full page color illustarions 39 pp. 4to. Printed paper wrappers. First edition one of 1000 copies from an edition of 1053 this copy being number 200. 6 full page color illustarions 39 pp. 4to. Ilustrated throughout by De Hand. Les Joies Secrètes unknown books
1601ref. 62363London: Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for I. Norton 1601. Second edition in English. Title page within large historiated woodcut border bearing the royal arms and motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" the crest of Burghley and the printer's beehive device; several large inital woodcut capitals throughout and genealogical table in rear. 16 364 pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Bound in contemporary paneled calf central gilt lozenge last nine leaves of genealogical tables have contemporary manuscript notes. Upper covers split and pulling away from boards which are nevertheless firmly attached by cords; front free endpaper missing; internally very good. Second edition in English. Title page within large historiated woodcut border bearing the royal arms and motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense" the crest of Burghley and the printer's beehive device; several large inital woodcut capitals throughout and genealogical table in rear. 16 364 pp. 1 vols. Small folio. Second edition in English of a primary source for 15th century European history. Commines has been called "the first critical and philosophical historian since classical times" Oxford Companion to English Literature principally for his shrewd and practical insight into the political realities of his day his psychological insight and his forthright account of the machinations of the politicians he described. His history is divided into 8 books the first six of which deal with the reign of Louis XI; the last two deal with the Italian wars of Charles VIII ending with his death Thomas Danett's English translation was first published in 1596. In his dedication to Lord Burghley dated 1 Nov. 1596 Danett states that thirty years before he presented Lord Burghley and "the late Earle of Leicester my Lord" his 'historie of Commines rudely translated into our vulgar toong' and that he later revised and enlarged his translation at the request of Sir Christopher Hatton. According to the DNB Danett fl. 1566-1601 was also the author of the following works: "1. The Description of the Low Countreys and of the Prouinces thereof gathered into an Epitome out of the Historie of Lodouico Guicchardini' London 1593 dedicated to Lord Burghley. 2. A Continuation of the Historie of France from the death of Charles the Eight where Comines endeth till the death of Henry the Second 1559 collected by Thomas Danett gentleman' London 1600 dedicated to Lord Buckhurst. ." STC 5603 Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for I. Norton unknown books
1849ref. 421001849. Reference to the Treaty of Utrecht. Reference to the Treaty of Utrecht. Controversy Regarding Succession to the Spanish Throne Montpensier Antoine Marie Philippe Louis d'Orleans Duc de 1824-1890. Further Considerations on the Marriage of the Duc de Montpensier With Reference to the Treaty of Utrecht. With a Postscript. London: James Ridgway 1849. i 293 3-72 pp. Octavo 8-3/4" x 5-1/2". Contemporary textured cloth paper spine label. Moderate rubbing with some wear to spine ends and corners some fading to spine front hinge starting rear hinge cracked but secure rear free endpaper lacking. Two partial splits near center of text block numerous unopened signatures. Light foxing to a few leaves interior otherwise fresh. $100. This was one of several publications inspired by the controversy surrounding the claims of Montpensier's children to the Spanish throne. Some argued that the Treaty of Utrecht which ended the War of the Spanish Succession annulled this claim. For them the treaty clearly stated that the crowns of France and Spain remain separate. The anonymous author of the present book does not agree. He supports his claim with an ingenious argument. The final section entitled "Postscript to the Montpensier Marriage" was also published separately. Not in the British Museum Catalogue. unknown books
1984ref. 91380Monte Rio: Doris Green Editions 1984. First edition. 4to. Some scattered foxing along the lower edge of the front panel else near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Translated from the original French by Pat Nolan with his introduction. Monte Rio: Doris Green Editions, unknown books
2016ref. 91710San Francisco: City Lights 2016. First US edition. xiv 102 pp w/notes. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original French by Alan Bernheimer. Introduction by Mark Polizzotti. Afterword by Ron Padgett. San Francisco: City Lights unknown books
