Search Results: Authors starting with M from Varennes Books

#548 of 700 copies in softcover vellum of important work in French on the social fantastic of urban life by noted French author Pierre Mac Orlan whose novel Quai des Brumes inspired Marcel Carne's 1938 film of the same name, starring Jean Gabin. An influential critic of film and photography whose writings influenced Berenice Abbott, Mac Orlan was also a prolific writer of chansons, many of which were recorded and popularized by Juliette Greco, Monique Morelli, Catherine Sauvage and Germaine Montero. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Mac Orlan by Hoffmeister. Some wear to Protective tissue on cover.  

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

Very good used copy of historic account of a former crime reporter who fled South Africa after witnessing the atrocities of Apartheid. No shelf wear. No highlighting.

Very good 1915 first edition of Thomas Mann's Essay in German on Frederick the Great of Prussia. Written at the outbreak of World War I between September and December 1914, the Essay is an indirect expression of scepticism about German war politics at the time. Based on notes for a novel he planned to write about Frederick the Great nearly a decade before, the Essay looks back on German politics in the mid-18th century and revisits the life and deeds of Frederick the Great while shedding light on contemporary events. No edgewear but slight foxing to cover boards. Interior flawless.

Knopf, New York, 1944. hardcover. First American Edition of last volume of Mann's celebrated tetralogy. Condition: Very Good. 422 pp. 5 7/8 x 8 3/4. Black cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on front and spine. No dust jacketj. No shelf wear. Pages intact. No markings or interior damage.

Good + used copy of Autobiographical Coming of Age Memoir of life under Apartheid. Minor tear on spine. No wear on edges, no highlighting. No scuff marks on the softcover. Pages are unmarked or folded.

Very Good copy of George Meredith's (1828-1909),1862 sonnet sequence, described as a novella in verse. Some tanning to to thin cream coloured card wrappers hinged to extend round the front edge of the book, Front of cover has 'Modern love' in a floral medallion,Pp. 141, front and bottom edges deckled, final page uncut. Binding sound.

16th printing of 1931 edition of sonnets inspired by Millay's relationship with poet George Dillon Editor of Poetry Magazine for many years) whom she met in 1928 at the University of Chicago where he was a student. label on spine torn; half black cloth with grey paper over boards, Letter-pressed onto slightly textured paper with rough cut edges The binding is tight, clean bright interior.

Very good unsigned copy of Aller Retour New York, #114 of five hundred copies printed for private circulation in 1945, an account of a round-trip voyage as recorded in a letter to Miller's friend Alfred Perlès. Some wear to gilt lettering on spine and front cover and some scuffing on front and rear boards.

Booster Publications (1938), Paris, 1938. First edition. Inscribed to Henry Church "with best monetary wishes." One of 495 copies. Octavo (18.5cm); in black wrappers, with titles printed in gold on spine and front cover. Some fading to titles. Two white scratches on lower right corner of cover. Spine partly unglued though pages remain intact.

Autographed uncut copy of French translation from the original Polish of The Seizure of Power. Inscribed to L.D. Hirsch, Commercial Director of Gallimard Publishers. Fading to spine.

Fine copy of first English edition of Marianne Moore's Selected Poems with 8 page introduction by T.S. Eliot, This was her first published Collection of Poems that had previously appeared in journals, anthologies and in a few slim volumes. No wear on spine or front cover, no tears or soiling. Bracket marks in pencil on p. 127-128 reference to Diary of Tolstoy in endnotes. From Library of Barbara Church.

Moore, Marianne, Fables of La Fontaine, French-English translation, 342 p. Includes index. Index of first lines in English and French. Marianne Moore, Pulitzer Prize (1951), National Book Award (1952), Bollingen Prize (1953). Slipcase intact (some edgewear on corners). in glassine dust wrapper, Fine uncut, No. 104 of 400 copies, inscribed by Marianne Moore to Barbara Church who is mentioned in the Foreword, "Please feel, dear Barbara, that they have the lilt, from Marianne Moore, with love, " May 17, 1954. Illustrated by B&W frontispiece of La Fontaine by Houdon. Translation reportedly suggested by Miss Moore's friend W.H. Auden, took almost a decade, and earned Miss Moore the Croix de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres of the French Ministry of Culture (1957). Signed by author. Provenance: Library of Barbara Church.

Very Good copy of 1944 Swiss Edition of Novella in Three Parts originally published to great acclaim by the Austrian novelist Robert Musil in 1924. Drei Frauen consists of three long stories, "Grigia," "The Portuguese Lady," and "Tonka." The work was published a few years prior to Robert Musil's twentieth-century masterpiece The Man Without Qualities. Beloved by writers Thomas Mann and Hermann Broch, Musil was several times nominated for a Nobel Prize before his death in 1942. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. - Text in German language. Original boards and dust-jacket.