Napoléon, son histoire racontée par un vieux soldat dans une grange; précédée d'une vie de Balzac à l'usage de la jeunesse par René Saulnier--arrangements de l'illustration par S. Olesiewicz d'après les images populaires du 1er empir
by Honoré de Balzac
Paris: Duchartre & Van Buggenhoudt, 1927. 45 p. .39 cm.; Illustrations produced by the pochoir (stencil and hand-coloring) method. "Il a été tiré ... des exemplaires sur papier à dessin Olin. Ex. no. 3481." Extract from chapter 3 of the author's Le médecin de campagne. Illustrated boards with discoloration and wear along edges.
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Katharine. A Travesty
by Bangs, John Kendrick
New York: [Gillis Bros. & Turnuré, Art Age Press], 1888. First edition. A travesty of The Taming of the Shrew. First published edition, greatly enlarged from a rare 23-page pamphlet privately printed the same year, second state of the text. The first book Bangs published under his own name. Original flexible black leather, gilt, gilt edges. Slight wear to edges. Presumably a presentation binding (normal copies were bound in wrappers over boards). Inscribed by Bangs on May 21, 1888,... Read More
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The History of Motion Pictures. Translated and edited by Iris Barry
by Bardèche, Maurice ; and Robert Brasillach
New York: Norton, 1938. First edition. Red cloth, fine, in slightly faded dust jacket.
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The Yellow Night. Poems 1940-41-42-43; Portrait and decorations by David Haughton
by (Barker, George); Allison, Drummond
London: The Fortune Press, 1944. First edition. Original black cloth, spine lettering dull as always; fine, basically. With an 8-line autograph working draft, extensively re-written, of Barker's "Love Poem VIII" written in pencil on the front endpaper, dated 1946. Drummond Allison (1921- 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of World War II. He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence... Read More
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Selected Works of Djuna Barnes
by Barnes, Djuna
London: Faber and Faber, 1982. Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket. First English edition, from U.S. sheets.
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Duffy by Dan Kavanagh [pseud]
by [Barnes, Julian]
London: Cape, 1980. Black boards, fine in fine price-clipped dust jacket. First edition, the first of Barnes's pseudonymous mysteries.
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The Sot-Weed Factor
by Barth, John
Garden City: Doubleday, 1960. First edition. Yellow and blue cloth. A fine copy in dust jacket (designed by Edward Gorey).The jacket has a one-inch closed tear at the bottom edge of the spine.
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The History, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Typhoid and of Typhus Fever, with an Essay on the Diagnosis of Bilious Remittent and of Yellow Fever
by Bartlett, Elisha
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1842. First edition. Publisher's cloth, mild marginal stain, otherwise a very good copy.
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Winter. Notes from Montana
by Bass, Rick
Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1991. First edition. Inscribed to his publisher, Seymour Lawrence: "Hi Sam -- Thanks again - It's beautiful & will stay beautiful " Rick Bass. Jackson Mississippi, February 15, 1991." Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket.
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The Watch
by Bass, Rick
New York: Norton, 1989. First edition. Bass's first book of fiction. Inscribed to his publisher, Seymour Lawrence: "Sam -- It is the utmost honor to be one of your writers, and I thank you, Joan, everyone, for bothering to even look at my stuff - I am glad (& honored) you found it -. Best wishes for '89, for OIL NOTES, for WINTER, & beyond, Rick. Yaak MT. 1989." Cloth backed boards, fine in dust jacket.
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L’air de vie. Poèmes 1936-1956.; Couverture illustrée par l'auteur
by Béalu, Marcel
Paris: Seghers, 1958. First edition. 18 cm.,187 pages. Original wrappers, fine copy. Copy number 11 of 15 on Hollande Pannekoek (tirage de tête). Inscribed and signed by the author.
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La poésie érotique de langue française. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée d'inédits
by Béalu, Marcel
Paris: Seghers, 1976. 357 p. Wrappers, slightly faded. Inscribed and signed by the author.
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La Bouche Ouverte. Un conte de Marcl Bealu commenté par Antonin Artaud et précédé d'un portrait inédit d'Atonin Artaud par lui-meme
by Béalu,Marcel; Artaud, Antonin
Paris: Robert Blanchet, 1952. First edition. 40 p. 23 cm. Wrappers, fine. One of 240 copies on papier pur chiffon de Guarro,signed by Bealu, the total edition. Fine.
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Mémoires de l'Ombre. (Edition revue et augmentée)
by Béalu, Marcel
Paris: Le Terrain Vague, 1986. First definitive edition, one of 3000 copies. 19 cm., 190p. Wrappers, a bit faded. Inscribed and signed by author.
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L'aventure impersonnelle et autres contes fantastiques
by Béalu, Marcel
Verviers: Marabout, 1966. 282, 3 pp. 18 cm.;paperback with illustrated cover. Yellowed text. Box.
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La Poudre des songes : roman. Précédé de Lettre a mon Editeur à propos de ce livre et du roman contemporain
by Béalu, Marcel
Paris: P. Belfond, 1977. First edition. 154 p. 23 cm. Illustrated wrpper, lightly used. Inscribed and signed by author.
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L'Écorce et le Vent. Empreintes de Robert Blanchet
by Béalu, Marcel
Boulogne-sur-Seine: Robert Blanchet, 1970. First edition. Robert Blanchet. 19 x 23 cm. [32] pp. A previously unpublished poem, illustrated with colored relief prints, on each page. Wrappers, in slipcase, one spot on the spine, else fine. One of 220 copies, printed on Rives, by the artist. Inscribed and signed by the author.
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The face of the world; an international scrapbook of people and places
by Beaton,Cecil
New York: John Day, 1957. First American edition. Cloth, fine in price-clipped, lightly soiled, dust jacket. 240 p. illus. 29 cm.
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Zero Antholoigy. No.8
by (Beckett Samuel ; Bowles, Paul; Vidal, Gore, et al.
New York: Zero Press, 1958. First edition. Cloth, jacket spine slightly faded, else fine, with wraparound band.
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From an Abandoned Work
by Beckett, Samuel
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Decorated wrappers, fine. First edition.
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Film : suivi de Souffle
by Beckett, Samuel
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1972. First edition. 33, [2] p. ; 19 cm. Original wrappers, fine, unopened copy. One of 200 numbered copies for sale from a total edition of 342.
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Film. Complete scenario, illustrations, production shots, with an essay, On Directing Film by Alan Schneider
by Beckett, Samuel
London: Faber, 1972. First English edition. 95 p. . Essay by Alan Schneider on directing "Film." Softbound, 95 pp. with bw photos throughout. The back magentra cover has some light scratches, otherwise a fine copy.
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Comédie et actes divers. [Traduit de l'anglais par l'auteur]
by Beckett, Samuel
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1972. ; 18 cm. Comédie -- Va et vient -- Cascando -- Paroles et musique -- Dis Joe -- Acte sans paroles I -- Acte sans paroles II -- Film -- Souffle. Wrappers, fine. This edition adds three plays to the 1966 edition which contained only 6.
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Sans
by Beckett, Samuel
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1969. First edition. 20 p. 20 cm. ;Original white wrappers, slightly tanned, else fine. One of 550 numbered copies (total edition of 742, all on vélin).
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Tous ceux qui tombent, pièce radiophonique. Traduit de l'anglais par Robert Pinget
by Beckett, Samuel
Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1957. First trade edition. 77 p. 19 cm. Pinget translated "All that fall," Beckett's first radio play in collaboration with the author. Original wrappers, slight toning to edges, fine. 3000 copies printed. Davis 57A5.
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