Memoirs of Cardinal Dubois. With Photogravure Portraits of Cardinal Dubois and the Duc D'Oleans. In Two Volumes by Cardinal (Guillaume) Dubois (1656-1723); Translated by Ernest Dowson - 1899

NY, NY: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1929. viii, 349 pp., black cloth w/ gold lettering & decoration, red topstain; Book shows slight wear to ends of spine & corners of boards w/ slight bump to bottom corner of rear board; some small dents & bumps to bottom edge of page block; PLEASE NOTE: Many pages of the book are unopened. This means that they would have to be carefully cut at the bottom edges where two leaves have a common fold, as with a letter opener.; Jacket shows browning to spine panel & flap folds; top & bottom edges show wear, esp. at ends of spine & flap folds & more so to top edges, including short tears, small chips & small creases / "Embellished with photogravure portraits of Cardinal Dubois and the Due d'Orleans, together with twelve full page drawings by Lui Trugo." /. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Good to Very Good. Illus. by Lui Trugo. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1929. First edition, number 205 of an edition limited to 1500 copies. Handsome set of two volumes in black cloth printed in gilt, illustrations in black and white, 376 + 349 pages. Very light edge rubbing, good hinges, firm text blocks, very minor foxing to front endpapers, pages very clean and free from names or other markings. . First, Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire, 39391925, paperback. Text in FRENCH. -- Social history focused on gardens, castles, visitors. Includes 40 plates. 121 pages, 9x11.5 inches. Large softcover. Condition: very good (cover light soil; binding bit fragile).

The 1854 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of Madame Roland, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eight B&W engravings are intact, including frontispiece. (Plate on page 97 has a deckled bottom edge.)Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with slight wear on heel and top. Pages are age tanned and have small stains. Two of the pages are uncut.All four endpapers are significantly discolored with a black waxy substance (see photos), something like crayon.

Hugo, Victor. Undated. Circa 1950. William J. Hill Co., Inc. Chicago, Ill. Not an illustrated edition. USED. VG/No DJ Included. Adventure Fiction Romance/Horror. Sorry about the group photo, but please see stock photo of binding for William J. Hill editions for the item being offered here. Blue Boards, gilt titling and red ornamentation on spine. 380 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ¼. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love. A clean, square, solid copy.

Hugo, Victor. Please excuse our group photo, but please see this item (in beige and red dust jacket) at bottom right. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Undated. Circa 1940. Books, Inc. VG/VG original Publishers price-clipped DJ. QUITE RARE THUS. Green leatherette boards. Beige dust jacket with red and yellow titling and ornamentation. Protected in a mylar wrap. 360 pages. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.

Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Library ML 35) Undated, circa 1950, Random House. States complete and unabridged. USED. VG/VG price-clipped original publisher's DJ. Sorry about the group photo, but Please see the item listed for sale here at 2nd book lower row. Front cover illustration depicts Quasimodo atop a moonlit gargoyled roof-top. Red boards, black topstain. 416 pages plus adverts. 4 3/4 X 7 3/8. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.

EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000
Seattle, Washington USA 98155
Printed in the United States of America by
Publishers Press / Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.

The Adventure: Ghosts of the Petit Trianon (2014 reprint, White Rabbit Press) By C. Moberly. Used. Very Good Condition. Paperback. By C. Moberly, L. Jourdain, and Tony Walker. MARIE ANTOINETTE. TIMESLIP, PARANORMAL. Summary: On 10 August, 1901, two English women walked into the past. During a visit to the Palace of Versailles, on the anniversary of the French Revolution, two ordinary women saw the French Queen, Marie Antionette sitting in the gardens in front of them, along with nobles, gardeners, houses, bridges and stones that when they went back were no longer there. Their timeslip experience has become known as the Ghosts of the Petit Trianon. Previously out of print, this is a new edition with additional timeslip type experiences at Versailles. A hard to find item.

Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."… Read More

771HigginsJuggler Higgins, Violet Moore. THE LITTLE JUGGLER and Other French Tales Retold. Story-Time Tales. 1917, Whitman Publishing Company Racine and Chicago. USED. VG CONDITION/ No DJ included if issued. 70 pages 6 ½ X 8 5/8. A nice copy.

Verne, Jules MICHAEL STROGOFF, THE COURIER OF THE CZAR. No info on copyright page. Grosset & Dunlap 1926 Universal-Film de France Photoplay Edition. USED. VG/Acceptable Original charging charioteer dust jacket. Front panel and spine of jacket have some loss. Please see our photos. Apple green boards with orange titles box. Film directed by Jacques de Baroncelli. Now protected by a mylar wrap. 315 pages 5 ¼ X 7 5/8.Please excuse our stack of books photos. Michael Strogoff is the only title available here.