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| to select author names starting with A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z back to page 1 of full catalog (starting with NO authornames) | This selection contains 270 title(s) on 11 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| ALGERIE Paris, Longuet. 1847, First. Ill.: H. Dufour. (54 x 102cm) . A very large, spectacular, hand-coloured map of Algeria. "Algérie, dressée au 1,400,000 par DUFOUR, Géographe. Paris 1847, chez Longuet, éditeur de cartes géographiques, Succ. de Simonneau." Exquisite in its detail, this map is a triumph of mid 19th century French cartography. USD 350.00 [Appr.: EURO 233.5 | £UK 210.5 | JP¥ 30890] Book number: 23056 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Le Cadeau d'Anniversaire de Grand'Mère: Le Vocabulaire du magasinage. Adaptation française par Chrystiane Harnois & Catherine Gautry Montréal, Grolier (Mes premières Rimes avec Disney). 1990. (ISBN: 0717226816) Hard Cover, Small 4to. Hardback, pp 36, Donald Duck cartoon with Candian French verse captions, hardly used. Near Fine/No Jacket. USD 21.78 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 1922] Book number: 1049 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Cambridge word routes: Anglais-Français. Lexique thématique de l'anglais courant Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1994, First. (ISBN: 0521425832) Paperback. Large 8vo (17.5 x 24.5 cm), wrappers. Pp 467, with drawings in the text. Que l'on souhaite y chercher un mot inconnu ou choiser l'expression ou la phrase adéquate, Cambridge Word Routes est un outil indispensable pour tous ceux qui apprennent ou pratiquent l'anglais. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 12004 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Feuilles de Consommation . Full-Leather, 8vo. Private Binding, Full red morocco with stamped vinescroll ornament to spine picked out in gilt & gilt lettering, binding by Flammarion Vaillant, top edge gilt, beautiful crimson and purple marbled endpapers, almost certainly a unique book containing double-page tables for notes on 150 different wines as consumed by the connosieur including checknotes for up to 300 tastings each, price, vintage, vintner and so forth; of these only the first two have been filled out in ornate script, dating the book's use to between 1922 and 1925, there is slight rubbing to the cover over the hinges and at top corners, otherwise no further faults, a real curiosity but also a handsome one. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 48.40 [Appr.: EURO 32.5 | £UK 29.25 | JP¥ 4272] Book number: 1340 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Où est Scamp? Le vocabulaire du voisinage Montréal, Grolier (Mes premières Rimes avec Disney). 1990. (ISBN: 0717226883) Hard Cover, Small 4to. Hardback, pp 34, Lady & Tramp cartoon with Canadian French verse captions, sl soil to bottom edge otherwise very good. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 24.20 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.75 | JP¥ 2136] Book number: 1050 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Petit Cabinet des Fees Paris, Chez Delarue Libraire. 1865, First. Decorative cardboard slip-case containing 16 little "conte de fees" volumes, each bound in marbled wappers (size 70 x 120mm) and each, with two exceptions, having a folding engraved plate depicting the story. The 16 "contes de fées" are: La biche au bois - La barbe bleue - La princesse Fortunée - Le prince lutin - La belle aux cheveux d'or - Le petit poucet, suivi de la belle et la bête - Gracieuse & Percinet - La chatte blanche - Finette Cendron - Les fées - L'oiseau bleu - Riquet a la houpe, suivi de Cendillon - La bonne petite souris - Serpentin vet - Le nain jaune - La princesse belle-étoile (Many contain several stories). Each booklet has a label on the cover giving the title(s) and a framed title-page. A charming item for a collector of rare French juvenilia. The sixteen little volumes compose the complete set. USD 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 197 | £UK 177.5 | JP¥ 26036] Book number: 20810 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Les soirées de Médan Paris, Charpenter. 1893, Nouvelle Édition. 8vo, original black cloth. Pp (VI), 295 + table. The historic journal, "Les soirées de Médan" brought together controversial "nouvelles" by six writers: Zola - Maupassant - Huysmans - Henry Céard - Léon Hennique - Paul Alexis. "Nous les réunissons..nous nous attendons à toutes les attaques.." The first edition was published in 1880. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 | £UK 45.25 | JP¥ 6619] Book number: 22210 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| The song of Roland: a new translation by Dorothy L. Sayers Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1957, First Thus. Paperback. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 203. USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 | £UK 7.25 | JP¥ 1059] Book number: 9973 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| H - T - R Still brighter French. For bright young people who now know more London, Geoffrey Bles. 1932, First. Ill.: Fouet. 8vo, orange cloth. Pp VII, 269. A sequel to "Brighter French" (1927). This one opens with a thousand idiomatic sentences. USD 38.00 [Appr.: EURO 25.5 | £UK 23 | JP¥ 3354] Book number: 22930 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| Le Traversier de Mickey: Le vocabulaire des bateaux Montréal, Grolier (Mes premières Rimes avec Disney). 1990. (ISBN: 0717226794) Hard Cover, Small 4to. Hardback, pp 34, Mickey Mouse cartoon with Canadian French verse captions, sl soil to cover otherwise very good. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 24.20 [Appr.: EURO 16.25 | £UK 14.75 | JP¥ 2136] Book number: 1051 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ANDERSON, J. G. Le mot juste: an Anglo-French lexicon with verbal illustrations London, J. M. Dent. 1932, First. Hard Cover. 8vo (14.5 x 22 cm), brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, library label at base of spine. Pp XV, 383. Avant-propos de M. Louis Cazamian. From the author's preface: "In its present form (this book) took shape about eight years ago, when the author began to classify and arrange notes he had been making for over thirty years of words that required special attention owing to their fatal similarity in the two languages..This Lexicon aims at showing both sides of the subject by giving all the main senses of those French and English words which do not quite cover the same area". Good. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 | £UK 11 | JP¥ 1589] Book number: 12508 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ANOUILH, JEAN Pièces brillantes. Invitation au château - Colombe - La répétition - Cécile Paris, La Table Ronde. 1958, La Table Ronde. 8vo, white cloth, elegant figure pasted down on cover. Pp 535. Valedictory message on front endpaper with various signatures. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 | £UK 21.25 | JP¥ 3089] Book number: 22944 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| ASLAN, ODETTE Roger Blin and twentieth-century playwrights Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0521224403) Hard Cover. 8vo, black cloth, dust wrapper. Pp XIII,178, with twenty-seven plates. A volume in the series 'Directors in perspective', translated from the French by Ruby Cohn. As New. USD 95.00 [Appr.: EURO 63.5 | £UK 57.25 | JP¥ 8384] Book number: 9226 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE About Catherine de' Medici. Edited and with a preface by George Saintsbury London, J. M. Dent. 1897. Cloth. Ill.: D. Murray Smith. 8vo (5¼ inches by 7¾ inches), green cloth with gilt signature device on the front cover, and gilt script-style lettering on the spine with a floral ornamented frame. The top edges of the pages are gilt, other edges are unevenly cut. Pp XIII, 350, with etched frontispiece and two other etched plates, all with tissue guards. Translated from the French by Clara Bell. A volume in George Saintsbury's edition of the Comédie Humaine, with a preface by Saintsbury. There is an armorial bookplate of Herbert Gladstone, son of the Prime Minister. /No Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 11707 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE At the sign of the Cat and Racket (La Maison du Chat-qui-Pelote). Edited and with a preface by George Saintsbury London, J. M. Dent. 1897. Cloth. Ill.: W. Boucher. 8vo (5¼ inches by 7¾ inches), green cloth with gilt signature device on the front cover, and gilt script-style lettering on the spine with a floral ornamented frame. The top edges of the pages are gilt, other edges are unevenly cut, and a number of pages are uncut. Pp XII, 277, with etched frontispiece and two other etched plates, all with tissue guards. Translated from the French by Clara Bell. A volume in George Saintsbury's edition of the Comédie Humaine, with a preface by Saintsbury. There is an armorial bookplate of Herbert Gladstone, son of the Prime Minister. /No Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 11689 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| DE BALZAC, HONORE The atheist's mass London, Penguin. 1995. (ISBN: 0146001990) Paperback. 12mo, wrappers. Pp 82. Three stories: "The atheist's mass", "the conscript", and "the purse", translated by Sylvia Raphael. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 | £UK 3.25 | JP¥ 441] Book number: 9499 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE The Atheist's Mass and other stories. Edited and with a preface by George Saintsbury London, J. M. Dent. 1896. Cloth. Ill.: D. Murray Smith. 8vo (5¼ inches by 7¾ inches), green cloth with gilt signature device on the front cover, and gilt script-style lettering on the spine with a floral ornamented frame. The top edges of the pages are gilt, other edges are unevenly cut and several pages are uncut. Pp XV, 291, with etched frontispiece and two other etched plates, all with tissue guards. Translated from the French by Clara Bell. A volume in George Saintsbury's edition of the Comédie Humaine, with a preface by Saintsbury. The stories in this volume are: "The atheist's mass", "Honorine", "Colonel Chabert", "The commission in lunacy" (L'interdiction), and "Pierre Grassou". There is an armorial bookplate of Herbert Gladstone, son of the Prime Minister. /No Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 11677 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE Béatrix. Edited and with a preface by George Saintsbury London, J. M. Dent. 1896. Cloth. Ill.: W. Boucher. 8vo (5¼ inches by 7¾ inches), green cloth with gilt signature device on the front cover, and gilt script-style lettering on the spine with a floral ornamented frame. The top edges of the pages are gilt, other edges are unevenly cut. Pp XI, 364, with etched frontispiece and two other etched plates, all with tissue guards. Translated from the French by James Waring. A volume in George Saintsbury's edition of the Comédie Humaine, with a preface by Saintsbury. There is a bookplate of Herbert Gladstone, son of the Prime Minister. /No Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 11708 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE The Chouans. Edited and with a preface by George Saintsbury London, J. M. Dent. 1895, First Thus. Cloth. Ill.: D. Murray Smith. 8vo (5¼ inches by 7¾ inches), green cloth with gilt signature device on the front cover, and gilt script-style lettering on the spine with a floral ornamented frame. The top edges of the pages are gilt, other edges are unevenly cut. Pp XV, 370, with etched frontispiece and two other etched plates, all with tissue guards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. A volume in George Saintsbury's edition of the Comédie Humaine, with a preface by Saintsbury. This book has an armorial bookplate of Herbert Gladstone, son of the Prime Minister. /No Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 11684 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE Christ in Flanders and other stories London, J. M. Dent. 1913, Reprint. Hard Cover. 8vo, red cloth with blind stamped crest on front cover and gilt lettering and pattern on spine. Pp XVI, 361. A volume in the series "Everyman's Library", translated from the French by Ellen Marriage and with a preface by George Saintsbury. USD 22.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.75 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 1942] Book number: 9857 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE Comédie Humaine. Edited by George Saintsbury J. M. Dent. 1896. Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 37 volumes (1895 - 1898, mixed 1st & 2nd editions outwardly uniform), green cloth with gilt signature device to front covers, gilt script-style lettering to spines with floral ornamented frames, top edges gilt, each contains etched frontisp with tissue guard & usually 2 other etched plates all by D. Murray Smith & each has volume preface by Saintsbury designed to follow from general intro provided in first vol (though no numbering scheme over edition), individual volume titles as follows: The Wild Ass's Skin (transl Ellen Marriage, with general intro to edition by Saintsbury), The Atheist's Mass and Other Stories (transl Clara Bell), A Harlot's Progress Vols I & II (transl James Waring), The Country Parson (transl Ellen Marriage), Cousin Pons (transl eadem), La Grande Bretêche and Other Stories (transl Clara Bell), The Peasantry (transl Ellen Marriage), The Chouans (transl eadem; 2 copies, 1 each of 1st & 2nd edition), The Seamy Side of History (transl Clara Bell), Ursule Mirouët (Clara Bell), Old Goriot (transl eadem), The Unconscious Mummers and Other Stories (transl Ellen Marriage), At the Sign of the Cat-and-Racket (transl Clara Bell), Seraphita (transl eadem), The Jealousies of a Country Town, (transl Ellen Marriage), A Daughter of Eve & Letters of Two Brides (transl R. S. Scott), A Woman of Thirty (transl Ellen Marriage), Pierrette & The Abbé Birotteau (transl Clara Bell), A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (transl Ellen Marriage), The Lily of the Valley (transl James Waring), Lost Illusions (transl Ellen Marriage), The Quest of the Absolute (transl eadem), The Unknown Masterpiece and Other Stories (transl eadem), The Country Doctor (transl eadem), Modeste Mignon (transl Clara Bell), A Marriage Settlement and Other Stories (transl eadem), Parisians in the Country (transl James Waring), The Thirteen (transl Ellen Marriage), A Princess's Secret (transl eadem), Eugénie Grandet (transl eadem), About Catherine de' Medici (transl Clara Bell), Béatrix (transl James Waring), & César Birotteau (transl Ellen Marriage) A Bachelor's Establishmant (trans. Clara Bell). All vols bear either armorial or smaller bookplate of Herbert Gladstone, son of the Prime Minister; rather dusty, edges unevenly cut & some with sl soil, few hurts to spines & some wear to spine-ends on some vols, but generally a very good full set of this uniform translated edition given a unity by the prefatory material by the great critic Saintsbury. Very Good/No Jacket. USD 670.00 [Appr.: EURO 447 | £UK 402.75 | JP¥ 59132] Book number: 2429 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE Les contes drolatiques, colligez ez abbayes de Touraine..... Paris, Garnier Freres. 1926, Nouvelle Édition. Ill.: Gustave Doré. 8vo, black quarter cloth, boards. Pp XXXII, 615, with 425 drawings by Gustave Doré. Sub-title: "..et mis en lumière par le sieur de Balzac pour l'esbattement des pantagruelistes et non aultres." A monument to Balac's rabelaisian genius for " l 'archéologie littéraire", felicitously conjoined with Doré's drawings, first published in 1855. USD 185.00 [Appr.: EURO 123.5 | £UK 111.25 | JP¥ 16328] Book number: 21834 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE The country parson (Le curé de village). Edited and with a preface by George Saintsbury London, J. M. Dent. 1896. Cloth. Ill.: W. Boucher. 8vo (5¼ inches by 7¾ inches), green cloth with gilt signature device on the front cover, and gilt script-style lettering on the spine with a floral ornamented frame. The top edges of the pages are gilt, other edges are unevenly cut and several pages are uncut. Pp XIII, 291, with etched frontispiece and two other etched plates, all with tissue guards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. A volume in George Saintsbury's edition of the Comédie Humaine, with a preface by Saintsbury. There is an armorial bookplate of Herbert Gladstone, son of the Prime Minister. /No Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 11680 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE The country doctor (Le médecin de campagne) Edited and with a preface by George Saintsbury London, J. M. Dent. 1898, Second. Cloth. Ill.: W. Boucher. 8vo (5¼ inches by 7¾ inches), green cloth with gilt signature device on the front cover, and gilt script-style lettering on the spine with a floral ornamented frame. The top edges of the pages are gilt, other edges are unevenly cut, and a number of pages are uncut. Pp XV, 286, with etched frontispiece and two other etched plates, all with tissue guards. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. A volume in George Saintsbury's edition of the Comédie Humaine, with a preface by Saintsbury. There is an armorial bookplate of Herbert Gladstone, son of the Prime Minister. /No Jacket. USD 14.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 | £UK 8.5 | JP¥ 1236] Book number: 11700 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. | ||
| BALZAC, HONORÉ DE Cousin Bette Harmondsworth, Penguin. 1965. 8vo, wrappers. Pp 444. An incisive study of vengeance, and the culmination of Balzac's "Comedie Humaine". USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 | £UK 5 | JP¥ 706] Book number: 10213 Click here to order or inquire at Kew Books Caxton. |
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