MAUROIS, ANDRE

Chateaubriand

London, Jonathan Cape. 1938, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge red. A Very Good+ copy. Translated by Vera Fraser. 360 pages. Portrait to frontispiece and 2 other portraits and a fold out genealogical tree. Excellent biography of the writer and politician François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand, considered by many to have been the father of Romanticism in French literature. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.85 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 12. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000251

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, French Romanticism

MELCHER, EDITH

The Life and Times of Henry Monnier 1799-1877

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press. 1950, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a small name to front endpaper with VG dustjacket which is not price clipped. xiv + 253 pages. 19 illustrations. Versatile, gregarious Henry Monnier was so typical of the 19th century Paris of which he was a quasi-satirical exponent that this colourful biography takes the reader on delightful excursions into the mores of French life and the changing modes of thought during the Restoration, the July Monarchy, and the Second Empire. As lithographer and illustrator second only to Daumier among the satiric artists, he created that epitome of the bourgeois type, Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme, the French Babbitt. Monnier's realistic techniques as monologuist and character actor foreshadowed the later work of Antoine and the Théâtre Libre. As a writer he produced lifelike scenes of manners that influenced Balzac and the Realists, and possibly Flaubert. The diversity of his talents and variety of his friendships included Balzac, who admired him greatly, Mérimée, Eugène Sue, George Cruikshank, Gavarni, Dumas, Latouche. NOT EX LIB 24. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 008416

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: French Author, French Illustrator, Satirist, French Actor, Romantic Art, Balzac, Flaubert, Cruikshank, Second Empire, July Monarchy, Restoration, Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme, Prosper Merimee, Eugene Sue

RIVERS, JOHN

Figaro - the Life of Beaumarchais

London, Hutchinson. 1922, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt title on blue cloth boards which has a faded spine, wear to spine head snd sides and light rub marks to front and back. Internally there is a bookplate to front pastedown and age darkening to endpapers else a clean, tight and unmarked copy. 315 pages. 18 Illustrations. Pierre-Augustin Caron as he was born (he added de Beaumarchais later) the French polymath, was, at various times in his life, a watchmaker, an inventor, a playwright, a musician, a diplomat, a spy, a publisher, a horticulturist, an arms dealer, a satirist, a financier, and a revolutionary (both French and American). A VERY SCARCE TITLE 3. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010878

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

SCOTT, J. M.

George Sand

Geneva, Heron Collectors Edition. 1969. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold decoration and motifs with cream and gold diamond pattern motif to front board on green leatherette boards. Green and gold decorated endpapers. Historical appendix. Yellow page marker bound in. 38 illustrations. Uniform with Women Who Made History Series. 14. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000776

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

STEEGMULLER, FRANCIS

Maupassant

London, Collins. 1950, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth boards with slightly sunned spine but clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean and unmarked. 383 pages. Photograph of Maupassant to frontispiece. An excellent biography of the writer by a well known French translator. NOT EX LIB 5. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000260

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Guy de Maupassant, Gustave Flaubert

STEPHENS, WINIFRED

French Novelists of to-Day

London, John Lane. 1914. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Gilt titles on green cloth boards which have a small mark to spine else clean with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges and endpapers else clean, tight and unmarked. xv + 314 pages. Top edge gilt. This is the second edition with new preface and the preface to the first edition of 1908 by the author. Contains critiques and list of works for Anatole France, Marcel Prevost, Pierre De Coulevain, Paul Bourget, Maurice Barres, Rene Bazin, Edouard Rod and Pierre Loti. A useful reference work. NOT EX LIB 1. Very Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000253

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: French Authors, Biography, Anatole France, Rene Bazin, Maurice Barres, Edouard Rod, Pierre Loti, Paul Bourget, Marcel Prevost, Pierre de Coulevain

JULES-VERNE, JEAN

Jules Verne

London, Macdonald and Janes. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0356081966). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated and adapted by Roger Greaves. Written by the grandson of Jules Verne.Silver lettering on blue. Blue pictorial dustjacket depicting Captain Nemo's vessel with a vignette portrait of Jules Verne and a photographic portrait to back. Dustjacket has slight wear and minor chipping. A biography that gets close to Verne as any book is ever likely to do. Has a comprehensive bibliography. C3C. Fine/Good.

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Book number: 000522

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Jules Verne, Science Fiction 0356081966

WACK, HENRY WELLINGTON

The Romance of Victor Hugo and Juliette Drouet

New York, G. P. Putnams / The Knickerbocker Press. 1905, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gilt signatures of Hugo and Drouet to front and gilt lettering to spine on blue cloth boards, all very bright and clean with just a little wear to spine head and tail and a small light mark to front. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Text surrounded by blocking with words and phrases interspersed throughout at margin. xvii + 152 pages. One facsimile free, fore and lower edges uncut. With an introduction by Francois Coppee. Overall a Good + copy. C3C. Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000256

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: French Biography

ZWEIG, STEFAN

Balzac

New York, The Viking Press. 1946, First. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red title on blue boards which have a stain to front, age darkening to spine but no wear. Internally there is a decorative bookplate of Pamela W. Gores to front endpaper else very clean, tight and unmarked. 404 pages. 14 illustrations. TRUE FIRST EDITION by the copyright holder, Viking Press. Translated by William and Dorothy Rose. 4. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011276

Catalogue: Biography - French Authors

Keywords: Honore de Balzac Biography