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Best.-Nr. 200508164Paris, Bibliothèque Bernard Grasset chez Arthème Fayard, 1950 ; in-8, broché. Bois originaux de Louis Jou - édition numéroté sur vélin du marais - N° 1069/4600.
Best.-Nr. 10877Paris. Editions Mornay. 1932. Soft cover. 8vo. 20cm 327p. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies this being #638 with colour plates and numerous colour pictorial initials and head & tail pieces by Ferdinand Fargeot with the original colour printed stiff wraps bound in with the spine panel laid down at the back endpaper. All the colour illustrations are hand stenciled pochoir this result in a much more attractive image having the appearance of being hand-painted into the text. This process is distinctly better than the normal printed colour illustration process. Bound in half burgundy morocco with hand marbled boards and endpapers black blind ruled raised bands ornate decoration in the panels with small leather inlay gilt titles t.e.g a brilliant copy Ho.2 Maurois published "Ariel ou la vie du Shelley" his biography of the English poet in 1923. At the time this limited edition appeared he was France's most popular biographer. A devoted anglophile Maurois also produced two amusing novels which drew on his experience with British troops during WWI and which established his literary reputation; Les Silences du Colonel Bramble 1918 and its sequel Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady 1922. Paris. Editions Mornay. 1932 unknown
1990Best.-Nr. 203087New York: Easton Press 1990. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The Library of Great Lives. Easton Press hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 9032209New York: Viking 1931. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's original quarter cream cloth with brown boards and spine label. Writings by G.K. Chesterton André Maurois Churchill Harold Nicholson others. Text block is fine except for previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper sunning to endpapers. Sunning and discoloration to spine. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 379 pages. Viking hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 9032209New York: Viking 1931. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in publisher's original quarter cream cloth with brown boards and spine label. Writings by G.K. Chesterton André Maurois Churchill Harold Nicholson others. Text block is fine except for previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down endpaper sunning to endpapers. Sunning and discoloration to spine. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. 379 pages. Viking hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B172844-3Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1929. 216 6pp. Prof. illus. in color. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 1/2 red morocco by Georges Cretté. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. A.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1136. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1929. hardcover
Best.-Nr. B172842-2Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1932. 229 3pp. Prof. illus. in color. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 1/2 red morocco by Georges Cretté. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. A.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1159. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1932. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. B172844-3Bruxelles Éditions du Nord 1929. 216 6pp. Prof. illus. in color. Sm. 4to. Marbled boards 1/2 red morocco by Georges Cretté. Orig. dec. wraps. bound in. A.e.g. One of 1000 numbered copies on vélin Allura from the edition of 1136. Bruxelles (Éditions du Nord), 1929. hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 970143Bernard Grasset Paris 1930 In-8 carré ( 205 X 145 mm ) de 260 pages, demi-maroquin vert à coins, dos à nerfs orné de filets et fleuron dorés, couvertures et dos conservés. Carlo FARNETI a illustré cet ouvrage de nombreux DESSINS ORIGINAUX aux crayonx de couleurs dans le texte ( bandeaux et culs-de-lampe ), en octobre-novembre 1937. Exemplaires numéroté sur vélin pur chiffon. EXEMPLAIRE UNIQUE magnifié par les fines compositions de Carlo FARNETI. Dos passé, bel exemplaire justifié et signé par Carlo FARNETI à 2 reprises.
1949Best.-Nr. mon0000123829John Lane The Bodley Head 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. in x in x in. Ex-library book usual markings. Well read copy with some spine wear but still useable colouring of page edges and book cover due to age. John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 344579Paris : Bernard Grasset 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Good set in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 2 volumes ; 23 cm. Notes; Limited printing this is no. 44 of only 165. ""Sources"": volume 1 pages 353-365; volume 2 pages 345-353. Subjects; Byron George Gordon Byron 6th Baron 1788-1824. Byron George Gordon Byron Baron 1788-1824 ; Biography. Poets English 19th century ; Biography. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Paris : Bernard Grasset paperback
1930Best.-Nr. 793L46Paris: Bernard Grasset 1930. First edition. Fine Binding. Fine. 8.5" by 6". None. A very smartly bound first edition set of Andre Maurois' biography of Byron. From the library at Julians Park once home to socialite and patron of arts Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. This work is numbered 516 of copies printed on Velin pur Chiffon. In the original French. Rebound in beautiful half morocco bindings. Complete in two volumes. From the library of Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie Audrey Evelyn James Coats and Audrey Evelyn James Field at Julian"s Park. Pleydell-Bouverie was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire. Audrey was also alleged to be the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII although she was also rumoured to be his daugher or the lover of King Edward VIII. She bought Julians Park in 1940 following her third marriage to the Hon Peter Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was a patron of the arts and it is believed that she bound several books herself as many books from her library were stamped with her name and she owned a group of bookbinding tools. Her circle of friends included Winston Churchill Coco Chanel and Nancy Mitford. She was featured in Cecil Beaton's 'Book of Beauty' and was regarded as one of the Bright Young Things. In uniform half morocco bindings with paper covered boards. Externally excellent with minor shelfwear. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright. A few light spots to the preliminary leaves. Otherwise just the odd spot. Fine Bernard Grasset unknown
1940Best.-Nr. 53567New York: Henry Holt and Company 1940. fair to good fair to good. Jean Bruller. Quarto 92 color illus. pencil mark on p.24 p.25 torn and repaired with tape: top corner missing chips/creases to lower edge. DJ soiled and worn: tears and small pieces missing to edges DJ in plastic sleeve. A children's story about the imaginary underground land of the fat and congenial Fattypuffs and the thin and irritable Thinifers--perhaps an allegory of France and Germany before World War II. Henry Holt and Company unknown
1952Best.-Nr. 339411Paris: Grasset 1952. First edition review copy wrapper marked S.P. 2 145 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Textblock toned. Very good. First edition review copy wrapper marked S.P. 2 145 4 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on the first blank "A Mlle M. A. Niering cordialement André Maurois". Originally published by Grasset as a 48-page chapbook in his Cahiers irréguliers series Ce Que Je Crois soon sold out and and provoked responses from early readers. This edition includes Objections by Alfred Fabre-Luce Louis Chaigne and Jean Guitton with Maurois' responses and an additional essay "Les grands courannt de la pensée contemporaine". Grasset unknown books
1960Best.-Nr. 212521New York: Viking Press 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner bookplate on front pastedown. 1 inch closed tear at top of front panel. Viking Press hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. R300316515Société normande des amis du livre. 1947. In-4. En feuillets. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 111 pages - nombreuses eaux fortes et lithographies dans et hors texte, sous serpente. Coins de l'emboîtage légèrement frottés.. Avec Jaquette. Sous Emboitage. . Classification Dewey : 94.4-Editions numérotées
Best.-Nr. LIQ-6224Bruxelles, ditions du Nord 1929 - 1932. 2 volumes in-12°, demi-basane cerise, dos à nerfs ornés d’un demi ”union Jack”mosaïqué sur chaque volumes qui une fois dans l’étui se complètent pour former le drapeau entier, couvertures conservées, têtes dorées, étui bordé. (Petite épidermure en tête du second volume).
Best.-Nr. 86420Paris Paul Hartmann, Editeur 25 octobre 1930, 22 x 28,5 cm, broché crème sous couverture rempliée, titre & Editeur imprimé en rouge et noir, 92p. E.O. Un des 240 exemplaires sur vélin de Rives blanc, après 25 ex. sur Japon, 50 ex. sur Hollande. Suivent 10 ex. sur velin, réservés à René Ferault, Libraire. Marques du temps sur la couverture, petite déchirure en tête. Hormis une pâle mouillure marginale, intérieur de toute fraîcheur.
1930Best.-Nr. 0000791930 Paris, Paul Hartmann, 1930. Grand in-quarto (227 X 285 mm) broché, couverture à rabats imprimée en rouge et noir ; 92 pages. Rousseurs claires éparses, plus marquées aux premier et dernier feuillets blancs.
Best.-Nr. 19677Paris, Société d'édition "Le Livre", 1926. In-8, 243 pp., maroquin bleu nuit de René Kieffer, plats orné de filets et carrés dorés, dos long orné de filets dorés, bordure intérieure de même peau orné de filets et carrés dorés, tête dorée, étui bordé (petites épidermures).
1928Best.-Nr. 18203STOLS 1928 1 Frontispice de Bernard BOUTET de MONVEL. Maastricht, chez A.A.M. Stols, collection "Les Belles Heures III" recueillies par les soins d'Anna Marsan & d'A.A.M. Stols, 1928, in-12, broché, couverture rempliée illustrée par LLANO FLORES d'une clepsydre et d'une rose, 144 pages.
1928Best.-Nr. 24201STOLS 1928 1 Frontispice de Bernard BOUTET de MONVEL. Maastricht, chez A.A.M. Stols, collection "Les Belles Heures III", recueillies par les soins d'Anna Marsan & d'A.A.M. Stols, 1928, in-12, broché, couverture rempliée illustrée par LLANO FLORES d'une clepsydre et d'une rose, 144 pages.
1928Best.-Nr. 10934Paris, NRF, 1928. 1 vol. in-8. Plein box vert, trois pastilles en noir et or ornant les plats, dos lisse, auteur et titre dorés, sept pastilles en noir et or ornant le bord des contreplats, contreplats et gardes ornés d’un tabis vert et beige doré, tête dorée, sous étui bordé, couvertures et dos conservés [M. P. POVIE].
1967Best.-Nr. ABE-1673874942624EXEMPLAIRE N°365 SUR PUR FIL ROYAL DES PAPETERIES DE LANA-TRADUCTION DE JACQUES AMYOT-PREFACE DE ANDRE MAUROIS-GRAVURES AU BURIN DE ALBERT DECARIS-4 VOLUMES 23 CM X 28,2 C SOUS EMBOITAGE TOILE-TOME 1: 412 PAGES THESEE ROMULUS LYCURGUE NUMA POMPILIUS SOLON PUBLICOLA THEMISTOCLE CAMILLE PERICLES FABIUS MAXIMUS ALCIBIADE CORIOLAN TIMOLEON PAUL EMILE PELOPIDAS MARCELLUS ARISTIDE CATON LE CENSEUR-TOME II: 404 PAGES PHILOPEMEN FLAMINIUS PYRRHUS MARIUS LYSANDRE SYLLA CIMON LUCULLUS NICIAS CRASSUS SERTORIUS EUMENE AGESILAS POMPEE ALEXANDRE-TOME III: 412 PAGES JULES CESAR PHOCION CATON D'UTIQUE AGIS CLEOMENE TIBERIUS GRACCHUS CAIUS GRACCHUS DEMOSTHENE CICERON DEMETRIUS ANTOINE ARTAXERXES DION MARCEL BRUTUS ARATUS GALBA OTHON-VOLUME IV: 2 SUITES DES GRAVURES FIGURANT DANS LES 3 VOLUMES (AUREOLE EN PARTIE INF DE L'ETUI)-(400L)
1955Best.-Nr. 19884Librairie Arthème Fayard 1955 in8. 1955. reliure éditeur demi chagrin dos à nerfs tranche dorée. 16 volume(s).