France from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Brockport: BOA Editions, 1991. First Edition. First printing of the Crosby translations. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 494pp. A few faint spots of foxing to upper edge of text block, else Fine, with embossed ownership stamp to title page of a previous owner. In the original dustwrapper, also Fine. Illustrations after woodcuts by David Crosby. A bilingual edition, with facing… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue and red paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-326,[2]pp. Contemporary owners penciled signatured and address to front endpaper, spine ends pushed, some dust-soil and rubbing to topstain, with circular rubber stamps of the Circulating… Read more about this item

London: Peter Owen, 1970. First English Language Edition. First impression. Octavo. Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 260pp. Tight, straight and unmarked; a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped but with a later price sticker overlaid on printed price; slightly rubbed overall and with foxing to rear panel; just VG. First and only English-language edition of this novel originally… Read more about this item

New York: Carrefour Editions, 1941. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Printed thick-paper wrappers; 465pp. Mild soil; spine panel slightly toned (but perfectly legible); a tight, straight, Very Good copy. The second collection of Miller's and Fraenkel's volumnious literary correspondence; the first volume was published in 1939. Carrefour Editions, a joint effort by Fraenkel and Walter Lowenfels, was… Read more about this item

Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1976. First Edition. Trade issue. Small octavo (20cm). Printed card wrappers (softcover, as issued) in original glossy pictorial dust jacket; 321pp. Near Fine in a Very Good or better dustwrapper. Text entirely in French.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1984. Octavo (26cm). Full black leather, stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; blush pink silk moiré endpapers; xviii,629,[1]pp; black and white illustrations throughout. With silk ribbon bookmark. A bright, tight copy: Fine. From the Collector's Library of Famous Editions. [63741].

York, PA: Strength & Health Publishing Co, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Card wrappers; portrait frontispiece; 320pp. Clean, tight, and unfaded - an attractive copy, Near Fine and quite unusual thus. Hoffman (1898-1985) served on the front in France as a lieutenant in Company A of the 111th Infantry; his memoir provides perhaps the best first-hand… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, N.d. [ca 1920s]. Early reprint. Octavo. Blue linen over boards, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 537pp; illus. Tight, Near Fine copy. In the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.00 on front flap), lightly soiled and edgeworn; Very Good. An undated reprint. Based solely on the jacket price, and lacking other evidence,… Read more about this item

[Harrisburg]: Military Service Publishing Company, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Inscribed on half-title: "To Walter Brinckerhoff / best wishes of the author and co-author," signed by both authors, dated January, 1941. Octavo. Terra-cotta cloth hardcover; gilt titles; 312pp. Trace of wear to board edges and corners; Very Good or better, lacking the dustwrapper. "A true historical narrative… Read more about this item

London: Printed by W. Godbid...to be Sold by Moses Pitt, 1671. First English Language Edition. Small octavo (14.5cm). Full 18th-c. calf, rebacked, with earlier backstrip laid down; page edges dyed red; pp [7],119;71; the second part with separate title page. Leather somewhat parched, especially on spine, and with some crazing to board edges; still a sound, firm copy, textually… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1930. First Edition. First impression. Signed by Tomlinson on the front endpaper. From the library of Hollywood filmmaker and noted bibliophile Frank Capra (1897-1991), with his pencil signature to front endpaper, with additional annotation, apparently in his hand, noting two errors in the text. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket,539pp. A few faint specks of foxing to upper… Read more about this item

London: Hurst and Blackett, 1853. First English Language Edition. Octavo (19cm). Two volumes rebound in half brown sheep and marbled paper boards, all edges sprinkled blue; plain endpapers; [ii],303,[1]pp; [ii],307,[1]pp. Tight and sound but lightly rubbed, with leather over spine dried and cracking, title pages and final leaves browned from endleaves, else clean: around Very Good. First… Read more about this item

Paris: Lafayette Publishing Company, 1919. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial wrappers; 24pp; illus. A fresh, Near Fine cop, . Woollcott's scarce second book, written while a staff writer on (and co-founder of) the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes. Illustrated from sketches by Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge, at this time a private in the AEF.

London: Printed for Thomas Kelly by Weed and Rider, 1818. Second Edition. Quarto (26.5cm). Slightly later half calf with marbled paper boards; marbled endpapers; 509,[1]pp; one-page publisher's advertisement at rear; frontispiece, engraved title page, folding map with touches of hand-coloring, and 18 addtional black and white plates. Slight loss to corner of engraved t.p., not affecting image area. *G… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Ribbed blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; 347pp. Spine gilt slightly oxidized (but perfectly legible); thin crack to front hinge at title page gutter (but holding strong); still a clean, straight Very Good copy, lacking the dustwrapper. Bullard's memoir… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Second Printing of the American Edition. Octavo (22cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; xxiv,744pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $5.95), lightly edgeworn, with some trivial dust-soil, a hint of sunning to spine, and one tiny tear. A novel discovered after Proust's death, first… Read more about this item

London: Cassell and Company Limited, [1939]. First U.K. Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's deep tan cloth; ix,[1],389pp. Mild external wear and a bit of faint foxing to text block edges, else Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Novel by the Marxist economist and author, set in the south of France, "a tale of pre-Danzig days, of the France of the Popular… Read more about this item

Paris: Editions de Minuit, (1974). First Edition. Octavo. Printed card wrappers; 148,3pp. Mild edgewear, signed bookplate and ownership signature; Very Good. Text entirely in French.

New York: Cassell Publishing Co, 1893. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Black cloth stamped in gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],[414]pp. Early owner's address in pencil to f.f.e.p. Straight and bright, with pinpoint rubbing to extremities, endpapers toned toward edges: Near Fine. Zola's treatise on his vision of naturalist fiction, first published in French in 1880.

New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. Quarto (29cm). Dark green pictorial paper-covered boards; xxvi,[1048]pp; black and white in-text illustrations. Light spotting to top edge, text block sagging slightly, generally clean and Very Good.