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By: N/A
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Chez Gaspard Ricci Marchand Libraire: 1844
Seller ID: 2198748
New edition. Boards toned and lightly rubbed, front and end matter foxed, a few text pages foxed, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1844 Hard Cover. 293, 210 pp. 12mo. French text. A 19th century guide to Florence. Two fold-out maps precede text, engraved illustrations and drawings in text. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Au Cabinet a l'Enseigne de Pallas, Pres le Canto de' Pazzi, Rue Balestrieri.: 1819
Seller ID: 2198753
Wrapper beginning to split along front joint, minor loss from spine, handwritten title on spine, ink name on front wrapper. 1819 Soft Cover. 171, [1], xxiv, [173]-178 pp. Printed wrappers. French text. An early 19th century guide to Florence, with fold-out map opposite title page. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Chez Epimaque et Pascal Artaria: 1834
Seller ID: 2199179
Nicely rebound - red cloth spine, paper over boards, gilt titles. Small stamp of Peabody Library appears twice inside, with their number on title page, owner bookplate on front endpaper, ink initials on half-title page. 1834 Hard Cover. 264, viii pp. 12mo. French text. Includes two fold-out maps and a fold-out engraving of the Duomo di Milano. A 19th century guide to Milan focusing on local architecture and other picturesque site-seeing opportunities. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Phileas Frog Paris Musees: 2003
Seller ID: 2202734
Text in English and French. Page very faintly toned. 2003 Soft Cover. 142 pp. Text in English and French. Can anyone every capture Paris? Through the magificent visual journey that is prposed to use, we can find at once the high moments of History and the simplicity of common life, the great portraits of the capital as well as its metamorphoses. Reflected by the masters of yesterday or the photographers of today, the urban landscapes appeal to us like so many inner lands... View more info
By: Anouilh, Jean
Price: $5.00
Publisher: La Table Ronde: 1958
Seller ID: 2208273
Lightly rubbed. 1958 Mass Market Paperback. Two plays by a master of French experimental drama. View more info
By: Appelbaum, Stanley (editor)
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Dover: 2006
Seller ID: 2266107
Faint edge wear. 2006 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. These six riveting fantasy classics from the golden age of the French short story will keep you glued to your chair. Drawn from the genre's outstanding nineteenth-century writers, they range from the Romantic era to the rise of the Symbolists and Decadents. Presented chronologically by date of publication, they include Charles Nodier's Trilby; or, The Elf of Argyll, Théophile Gautier's ... View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Dover: 1999
Seller ID: 2266105
Faint edge wear. 1999 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. This convenient dual-language volume includes six of Balzac's most highly regarded short stories: An Episode During the Terror, a deftly told tale contrasting material poverty with spiritual riches; A Passion in the Desert, inspired by Balzac's interest in the Near East and his fascination with Napoleon; The Revolutionary Conscript, a critique of provincial life; The Forsaken Woman, an i... View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Editions Beauchemin: 1942
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276378
Inscribed and signed by author on front flyleaf. Wrappers toned, crease on back corner. 1942 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 117, [3] pp. French text. The title translates to 'Hunter's Dreams'. Illustrated by Phoebe Thompson and Marjorie Borden. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions of native peoples. View more info
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Musee National du Canada: 1957
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276391
Inscribed to Hella Sachs and signed by author on title page. This volume was acquired from the personal library of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges rubbed. 1957 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. xv, [1], 242 pp. French text. The title translates to 'Treasure of the Old Jesuits'. A study of artifacts left by the Jesuits, who colonized portions of Canada during the 17th century. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology... View more info
![Image for Cote, Sculpteur Sur Bois (Memoires de la Societe Royale du Canada, Troisieme Series - 1942, Tome XXXVI [36]) [Jean-Baptiste Côté]](/assets/images/product/2276905.jpg)
By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1942
Seller ID: 2276905
Letter press invitation laid in, reading 'DaLiLa vous prie de venir Manger La Galette des Rois. 6 Janvier 1943, A 9 heures P.M., 260 MacLaren, R.S.V.P.'). This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., whose wife Hella owned quite a few books by Marius Barbeau, several with notes from the author to her, indicating the two were either good friends or colleagues who worked closely together. 1942 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by... View more info
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By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1943
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276907
Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased. 1943 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 17-23, [1] pp. French text. A brief study of the career of a Canadian sculptor. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a Rhodes Scholar and advocate of the preservation and celebration of the traditions ... View more info
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By: Barbeau, Marius
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Imprime Pour La Societe Royale Du Canada: 1944
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2276909
Inscribed and signed to Hella Sachs by author on front wrapper. This volume was acquired from the personal collection of Julian Street, Jr., Hella's husband. Edges faintly creased, minor loss from corners, light stain on top page margin. 1944 Stapled Binding. We have more books available by this author!. 15-25, [1] pp. French text, title translates as Modality in Our Popular Melodies. A brief study of music. Barbeau, considered the founder of Canadian anthropology, was a... View more info
By: Barth, M.; Roger, M. Henri
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Labe, Editeur, Libraire de la Faculte de Medecine, Place de l'Ecole-de-Medecine, 25.: 1854
Edition: Fourth Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 1976301
1854 fourth edition. Former library copy (University of Pennsylvania), usual marks. Signed by both authors on colophon, which states that copies found without these signatures will be deemed counterfeit, and the publishers will prosecute those distributing them. Backstrip replaced with cloth tape, boards rubbed, front sewings weakening, scattered foxing throughout. xviii, 719, [1] pp. French text. A work on the process of monitoring internal systems of the body through s... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Dover: 1992
Seller ID: 2280215
Bilingual edition. Light edge wear. 1992 Trade Paperback. When Flowers of Evil was first published in 1857, the book almost immediately became the subject of an obscenity trial, and for several generations afterward its themes of eroticism, lesbianism, revolt and decay earned the author a reputation for depravity and morbidity. It was not until 1949 that the French courts removed the ban originally imposed on Baudelaire's masterpiece. View more info
By: Bazin, Germain
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Editions Cercle D'Art: 1958
Seller ID: 1529913
No jacket. Gilt titles on spine mostly rubbed away. 1958 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 258 pp. 13 x 10. Text in French. Numerous illustrations & color plates. The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, c... View more info
By: Berry, Steve
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Cherche Midi: 2014
Seller ID: 2279581
French text. An exceptional copy. 2014 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Une passionnante partie d'échecs se met alors en place. De la révélation contenue dans le journal intime d'un dignitaire mormon du début du siècle dernier à la légendaire prophétie du Cheval blanc, en passant par l'étrange découverte faite dans une grotte du parc de Zion, Cotton va devoir élucider, au péril de sa vie, bon nombre d'énigmes historiques pour, e... View more info
By: Beyala, Calixthe
Price: $5.00
Publisher: J'ai Lu: 1999
Seller ID: 2196626
Light edge wear. 1999 Mass Market Paperback. On m'appelle Loukoum et j'ai maintenant douze ans. Depuis Le Petit Prince de Belleville, beaucoup de choses ont changé : j'ai une nouvelle maîtresse, je parle beaucoup mieux le français, je suis plus que jamais amoureux de Lolita, mais la vie n'est pas tous les jours facile. Surtout quand Maman décide de prendre un amant, un Blanc par-dessus le marché, et qu'elle .se met à vouloir apprendre à lire et à écrire. La libe... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Librarie Scientifique Albert Blanchard: 1957
Seller ID: 1520671
1957 Trade Paperback. 163 pp. French-language book on high mathematics. View more info
![Image for Mort Artu: An Old French Prose Romance of the XIIIth [13th] Century, Being the Last Division of 'Lancelot du Lac,' Now First Edited from Ms. 342 (Fonds Francais) of the Bibliotheque Nationale, with Collations from Some Other Mss.](/assets/images/product/2266474.jpg)
Price: $35.00
Publisher: AMS Press Inc.: 1974
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2266474
Top corner faintly bumped. 1974 Hard Cover. xxxvii, [1], 315, [5] pp. 8vo. 1974 reissue of 1910 edition. View more info
By: Camus, Albert
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Gallimard: 1947
Seller ID: 2208272
Faint toning. 1947 Mass Market Paperback. Often translated as The Plague, this French-language novel tells the story of a plague that sweeps through French Algiers. View more info
By: Cesari, P.
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Dunod: 1955
Seller ID: 1520675
Lightly rubbed. 1955 Trade Paperback. 171 pp. French text. French-language examination of mathematical logic and principles. View more info
By: Char, Rene
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Tupelo Press: 2010
Seller ID: 2279726
Bilingual edition. Tiny ink mark to page ridge. 2010 Trade Paperback. Early Surrealist, resistance fighter, anti-nuclear activist, and exquisite poet, Rene Char is at the heart of 20th century French poetry.... Carlson gives English-language readers a real sense of Char's depth and breadth. And her masterful translations catch the barely contained drama that gives Char's work such tension and presence. View more info
By: Chedid, Andree
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Flammarion: 1998
Seller ID: 2196611
Ink underlining. 1998 Mass Market Paperback. A French-language collection of stories from the Parisian author. View more info
By: Chirol, Pierre
Price: $7.00
Publisher: B. Arthaud: 1931
Seller ID: 1859228
Wrappers lightly toned and rubbed, spine creased and curling at lower half. 1931 Trade Paperback. 192 pp. Includes 184 heliogravures. French text. A beautifully photographed and illustrated architectural tour of the French city of Rouen. View more info
By: Choppin, Jules; Shapiro, Norman R.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Second Line Press: 2013
Seller ID: 2279729
Bilingual edition. An exceptional copy. 2013 Trade Paperback. Jules Choppin, in his time, was a well known New Orleans poet who was published widely in local papers and the important Comptes rendus de l’Athénée Louisianais. Writing in both French and Creole, this bilingual edition is especially notable for the clever, good-humored fables in sprightly Louisiana Creole which this book centers on. Ably translated by renowned French and Creole translator Norman R. Shapir... View more info
By: Cochin, Charles-Nicolas; Michel, Christian
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Ecole Française de Roma: 1991
Seller ID: 2198628
Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1991 Large Hardcover. viii, 510 pp. 57 black-and-white plates. French text. A 1991 facsimile of the 18th century Italian travelogue, originally published in 1758. Edited by Christian Michel. Cochin was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic who worked for King Louis XV and traveled with the famous Madame de Pompadour on a study tour of Italy, and later toured the excavations of Herculaneum. View more info
By: Cocteau, Jean
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Folio: 1972
Seller ID: 2196654
Light edge wear. 1972 Mass Market Paperback. En 1923 parait aux editions Stock le premier livre de dessins de Jean Cocteau. Le poete a alors 34 ans. On y retrouve plus d une centaine d illustrations: des portraits de Raymond Radiguet, Pablo Picasso, la comtesse de Noailles, des scenes de la vie quotidienne, des souvenirs des Ballets russes, des allegories Jean Cocteau s y revele un talentueux caricaturiste, croqueur de visages et d attitudes. Commemorant le cinquantieme ... View more info
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By: Conan Doyle (Doyle, Arthur Conan)
Price: $45.00
Publisher: La Renaissance du Livre:
Seller ID: 2151662
No date, circa 1910. Wrappers & pages toned, wrappers protected by onion skin jacket. Good. 271 pp. A French translation of stories featuring Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. View more info
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By: Conan Doyle (Doyle, Arthur Conan); P.O.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Felix Juven:
Seller ID: 2151661
Circa 1910. Spine creased with loss from head & foot, pages toned, binding shaken. vii, 274 pp. A French translation of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. View more info
By: Corbiere, Tristan; Dale, Peter
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Anvil Press: 2005
Seller ID: 2279735
Bilingual edition. An exceptional copy. 2005 Trade Paperback. The chronically invalid son of a robust sea-captain and novelist father, Tristan Corbière (1845-75) published one book of verse and was virtually unheard of in his lifetime. He is an informal formalist, delighting in clashing registers of diction and outrageous puns. With pervasive self-mocking humour, his poems combine a hopeless love, a grounded sea-fever, a ferocious ironic compassion and a savage sympathy... View more info
