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1932ref. 28445Bruxelles: Aux Éditions du Nord 1932. First Thus. Limited to 1111 copies of which this is no. 446 printed on vélin allura. Octavo 20.75cm.; original white pictorial card wrappers in gilt cloth-backed board chemise fore-edge string ties printed paper spine label; 229pp.; color frontispiece decorative title page numerous color pochoir illus. in text throughout. Chemise a bit soiled else Very Near Fine. Quite scarce and attractive edition of this World War I novel first published in 1926 which forms part of the series "Les Gloires Littéraires." OCLC locates one copy in North America as of December 2015 at the University Club Library. Aux Éditions du Nord unknown
1930ref. H26941London: William Heinemann 1930. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Quarto 11 x 9 inches cloth backed pictorial glazed boards in dust jacket book nearly fine touch of offsetting and soil to endpapers corners lightly bumped jacket very good with some general soil edgewear grayish faint staining to borders of front panel. Very uncommon in dust jacket with charming color plates. Children's book by this esteemed French author. William Heinemann hardcover
1928ref. 189059New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 12mo. Fine in lightly soiled near fine dustwrapper. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
1933ref. 218257Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1933. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Slight wear at edges and folds. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Interesting letter from the French Jewish novelist biographer essayist and historian to the American co-editor along with George Jean Nathan of Nathan's newly formed magazine "The American Spectator." "My dear Boyd "I had promised to give some unpublished excepts from my Edward VII. It isn't easy to detach sections from a historical work. However you could take either the first chapter "Final Days and Death of Queen Victoria" which Appleton already has in translation and could give you - or the third chapter "Men and Parties" which contains several potraits of Englihs politicians . a few of them might be amusing ." Born as Emile Herzog Maurois changed his name assimilated and published his first novel in 1918. During WWII he supported the Vichy regime but was a strong opponent of Hitler and eventually had to flee to the United States where he taught at Princeton. He is perhaps even more widely known in Great Britain and the U.S. for his masterful biographies of Shelley and Byron and his books on the Edward and the Edawardian Period as discussed here and English history. unknown
1924ref. 192285London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1924. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 310 pages plus two pages of ads. A fictionalized biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley translated from the French by Ella D'Arcy. A near fine copy in blue cloth boards with some toning to the endpapers and in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Uncommon and especially in the dust jacket. John Lane The Bodley Head unknown books
1930ref. LD5776Paris: Bernard Grasset 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Two volumes. Original wraps printed in two-tone green edges uncut; in glassine dust jacket and slipcase; 4to. Number 32 from a limited edition of 165 "sur velin d'arches." Classic Byronic biography by Maurois in French. Both volumes in good and solid condition only signs of light edgewear. Bright and very nice unopened set. Bernard Grasset paperback books
1928ref. 189059New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. 12mo. Fine in lightly soiled near fine dustwrapper. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover books
1933ref. 218257Neuilly-sur-Seine France 1933. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Slight wear at edges and folds. One page. 1 vols. 4to. Interesting letter from the French Jewish novelist biographer essayist and historian to the American co-editor along with George Jean Nathan of Nathan's newly formed magazine "The American Spectator." "My dear Boyd "I had promised to give some unpublished excepts from my Edward VII. It isn't easy to detach sections from a historical work. However you could take either the first chapter "Final Days and Death of Queen Victoria" which Appleton already has in translation and could give you - or the third chapter "Men and Parties" which contains several potraits of Englihs politicians . a few of them might be amusing ." Born as Emile Herzog Maurois changed his name assimilated and published his first novel in 1918. During WWII he supported the Vichy regime but was a strong opponent of Hitler and eventually had to flee to the United States where he taught at Princeton. He is perhaps even more widely known in Great Britain and the U.S. for his masterful biographies of Shelley and Byron and his books on the Edward and the Edawardian Period as discussed here and English history. unknown books
1932ref. 28445Bruxelles: Aux Éditions du Nord 1932. First Thus. Limited to 1111 copies of which this is no. 446 printed on vélin allura. Octavo 20.75cm.; original white pictorial card wrappers in gilt cloth-backed board chemise fore-edge string ties printed paper spine label; 229pp.; color frontispiece decorative title page numerous color pochoir illus. in text throughout. Chemise a bit soiled else Very Near Fine. Quite scarce and attractive edition of this World War I novel first published in 1926 which forms part of the series "Les Gloires Littéraires." OCLC locates one copy in North America as of December 2015 at the University Club Library. Aux Éditions du Nord unknown books
1949ref. LIQ-5445P. Editions des Deux Rives 1949. Petit in-4° en ff, sous chemise et étui
1928ref. 1247Collection in-octavo.TIRAGE LIMITE NUMEROTE. Exemplaire n°XVII avec un des 120 épreuves du frontispice, lithographie en couleurs d'Yvonne Préveraud de Sonneville.Couverture très satisfaisante. Petit accro sur le mors inférieur. Intérieur propre et frais. Non coupé et non rogné.
ref. 8131Imprimerie TOURNON et Cie. (sans date) - Broché de 24 pages - Avec des textes dont un inédit de Jean Cocteau, André Maurois et André Chamson - Biographie - Essai de bibliographie - 4 pages de photos noir et blanc hors-texte de Roger PIC - Illustrations noir et blanc dans le texte - Cette plaquette a été tirée à 35 exemplaires hors-commerce numérotés de 1 à 35 sur papier vélin d'Arches (n° 29) - Très bon état
1947ref. 210411947 Avant-propos de André Maurois. Frontispice lithographié par Robert WERHLIN et illustrations de Marcel ROCHE. Paris, Marcel Bruker, 1947, grand in-4, en feuilles, couverture grise rempliée, titre imprimé, sous étui cartonné, non paginé.
ref. 25658Paris Grasset 1932 in 4 réimposé Tellière (22,5x18) 1 volume reliure demi maroquin bleu nuit à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, couverture conservée, 339 pages [2]. Reliure signée de L. Cavanoz. Edition originale, celui-ci un des des 200 exemplaires sur vélin pur fil, issus du tirage de tête à 394 exemplaires réimposés au format in-4. Très bel exemplaire, très frais ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request )
1922ref. 13731922 reliure (réalisée par la Librairie Bonneau - binding carried out by) reliure demi-maroquin havane in-douze (binding half morocco duodecimo), dos 5 nerfs (spine with raised bands) décoré or à froid (blind-stamping line decoration) - titre frappé or (gilt title), papier marbré aux plats (cover with marbled paper), tête dorée (top edge gilt) - gouttière long papier rogné (fore-edge - great papier), dos et couverture conservés (spine and cover preserved), sans illustration (no illustration), naissances de rousseurs in fine (beginning of the redness marks at rear), 236 pages, 1922 à Paris Bernard Grasset Editeur,
1929ref. 1052421929 Paris, Le Livre, 1929, 232x168mm, 250pp., broché. Avec 15 gravures au burin de J.E. Laboureur. Exemplaire n°174 sur velin à la forme d'un tirage total de 400.
1926ref. 1052431926 Paris, Le Livre, 1926, 232x168mm, 243pp., broché. Avec 15 gravures au burin de J.E. Laboureur. Exemplaire n°280 sur velin à la forme d'un tirage total de 400.
ref. ORD-7131Paris. Grasset. 1926. Edition originale. In-quarto Tellières (173 x 230mm) bradel, papier moiré dans les tons vert et or, gardes marbrées, couverture et dos conservés, XII, 224 pages. Un des 185 Hollande de l'édition originale, après 25 Chine et 81 Japon, comportant une eau-forte de CHIMOT en double suite, un état en noir et un en couleurs. Bel exemplaire.
ref. 15804Hachette, 1955. In-8°, broché.
ref. 18356Paris, à la société d'édition "Le Livre", 1929. In-4, 86 pp., demi-chagrin à bande lavallière, filets dorés et à froid sur les plats, dos à nerfs, orné de filets dorés et à froid et de fleurons dorés, couverture conservée (quelques petits frottements).
1970ref. 272663La meilleure bibliothèque 1970. Bon Etat taches rousseurs tranche texte frais. in12. 1970. Relié. 335301330285330330245200 pages. La meilleure bibliothèque unknown
1952ref. 109706Paris Gallimard 1952 3 vol. Broché 3 vol. in-12, brochés, 336, 342 et 336 pp. Edition originale. Un des 1040 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. Coupure de presse jointe ayant laissé une infime décharge en regard de la justification du tirage.
1952ref. 109706Paris Gallimard 1952 3 vol. Broché 3 vol. in-12, brochés, 336, 342 et 336 pp. Edition originale. Un des 1040 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin pur fil Lafuma-Navarre. Coupure de presse jointe ayant laissé une infime décharge en regard de la justification du tirage.
1930ref. 6036Édition originale : 1 des 315 exemplaires réimposés au format in-4° sur vergé du Marais.La meilleure des biographies de Maurois. Brochés sous boitier-chemises de l'éditeur. Très bon Paris Grasset 1930 2 volumes in-4°
2026ref. BN659677Patmos Verlag 2026. 2026. Patapuf und Filifer: Aus d. Französ. v. Hans G. Lenzen Patapuf und Filifer: Aus d. Französ. v. Hans G. Lenzen Andre Maurois Patmos Verlag unknown
