Recent Arrivals from Varennes Books

Used 2013 Edition, in very good condition. No shelfwear, Pages and cover, clean and intact. Prize-winning Anthropological study of Vita, a Brazilian zone of social abandonment in Porto Alegre by Anthropologist João Biehl centered on Catarina, a woman said to be mad and suffering from a progressive form of paralysis who compiles a dictionary that traces the network of family,… Read more about this item

Very Good Hardcover 1982 Arbor House Book Club Edition in the science fiction-fantasy series begun with Lord Valentine's Castle.

First American paperback edition of Influential 20th century French feminist novel first published in 1969.

Complete Works (in French) of Clément Magloire-Saint-Aude, (1912-1971) Haitian surrealist-symbolist poet and writer.

Second American edition of illuminating work on cricket in the colonial West Indies by influential Trinidadian historian, novelist, cultural and political critic, and activist C.L.R. James (1901-1989) who also worked as cricket correspondent with The Manchester Guardian.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4th Printing, 8vo., 230pp. No dust jacket. Bound in original green cloth with titles in black on paper labels on front board and spine. Clean throughout. Spine sunned. Minor edgewear to top of spine.

Handsome, beautifully preserved leather bound limited Edition of 13 volume 1892 Dodd, Mead Edition of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire printed on Holland hand-made paper. (No. 54 of 250 sets.) With gilt top edge, tissue-guarded frontispieces to each volume by Clement Rollins Grant. Slight chipping to edges. O/W no wear. Interior intact. Provenance. Collection of Henry Church. Additional postage required.

First Edition of La Tapisserie de Notre Dame by noted Roman Catholic French Poet, Essayist and Editor Charles Péguy in the Cahier de la Quinzaine Series, Paris. 1913. One of 2000 copies. In acceptable condition for its age. Cover and pages darkened. Two tears to back cover. When the Great War broke out, Peguy became a lieutenant in the 19th… Read more about this item

Very good+ copy of first edition hardcover copy in very good DJ of classicist Edith Hamilton's seventh book on Ancient history in which she tells of Greek life in the 4th century. This work is a sequel to The Greek Way in which she discusses the political ideas of such teachers and leaders as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, and Alexander… Read more about this item

First Edition in very good condition. Some browning to dust jacket. Boards intact. Interior bright. Volume contains two plays: "Table By the Window" and "Table Number Seven." Though the unpublished work was copyrighted by Rattigan in 1955, the plays did not open on Broadway until October 1956.

First edition of a Random House wartime book. Gertrude Stein remained in southeastern France during World War II though she was a potential target of persecution and had been advised to leave Nazi-occupied France. Here in a series of personal anecdotes, she recalls what she and the people of France endured between 1940 and 1944 during the German Occupation. Boards… Read more about this item

First Hardcover Edition in very good dust jacket with some rubbing to corners.. Binding intact. Clean and bright inside. Debut work of classical scholarship on the martyrdom of Socrates by veteran Washington investigative journalist IF Stone when he was in his eighties (after teaching himself ancient Greek.)

Very good copy of first hardcover cloth 1957 Trade Edition of collection of fourteen unpublished short stories and essays originally published under the sponsorship of the Friends of the Princeton University Library. With an Introd. and Notes by Arthur Mizener. DJ torn and chipped. No wear to Interior.

Very good First Edition / First Printing hardcover copy of Autobiography of American Songwriter and Classical Composer Vernon Duke (1903-1969). A Russian emigré whose songwriting talents were encouraged by George Gershwin, he was also a gifted composer of Concertos, Syphonies and Ballets. In 1924 he moved to Paris, where, as Vladimir Dukelsky, he wrote music for Serge Diaghilev's renowned Ballet… Read more about this item

First edition in very good + condition of hand-lettered texts from Aesop's Fables by noted calligrapher and book designer Philip Grushkin. Book is bound in grey cloth. Interior text is clean and bright. Slipcase shows wear at corners and at bottom edge where separation has occurred.

Very good copy of French Consul Moerenhout's report relative to the California gold discoveries, addressed to the French minister of foreign affairs, May 15, 1848 to October 28, 1849. Moerenhout (1796-1879) was the French consul at Monterey in 1848. The inside story of the gold rush (1935) contains Moerenhout's official dispatches concerning the discovery of gold in California. He reports… Read more about this item

Large hardback , approx 12 x 9.5 inches. 309 pages. No. 410 of limited edition of 525 copies. Halfbound fine vellum binding with blue cloth to boards with gilt crest and lettering. Gilt banding and decorations to spine. Top edges gilt. Edges uncut. In very good condition with some soiling to binding and light scratches to cloth on rear. Minor… Read more about this item

Large in-8 ( 290 X 195 mm ), Frontispiece by Severini. Signed by the author and accompanied by a dedication. One of limited edition of 300 copies registered for Mr. Georges Leveque. Original edition of work by poet Paul Fort, noted member of the Montparnasse artistic community. By 1912, his accomplishments and influence were such that he was given the… Read more about this item

Large in-8 ( 290 X 195 mm ), Frontispiece by Pierre GIRIEUD. Signed by the author and accompanied by a dedication. Printed registered copy for Mr. Georges Leveque. Original edition of work by poet Paul Fort, noted member of the Montparnasse artistic community. By 1912, his accomplishments and influence were such that he was given the title "Prince of the… Read more about this item

English translation of celebrated work by French novelist Michel Houellebecq in Good+ condition. No shelfwear or edgewear to cover. Pages and cover are clean and intact.