Paris: Editions Auguste Picard, 1927, 1936. 563 pp.; 87 pp. Illus. with 300 b/w reproductions. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. No. 2 of 50 copies on pur fil Lafuma. Supplement signed by the author. An important work. First volume with wrappers separated from text block as glue has dried, spine..... More

Paris: Calmann-Levy, n.d. (ca 1905). 305 pp. 12mo. Three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles. Later printing. New Orleans book binder's ticket on front pastedown. In French. We have a number of books similarly bound. Endpapers toned, foxing to edges, edge at head of spine chipped, still a...... More

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. 213 pp. + Adv. [10]. 12mo. Cloth. First American edition. Trans. by Katherine Prescott Wormeley. Bourget, Paul (1852–1935), French novelist, is best remembered for his literary criticism. This, his series of portraits of men, is a sequel to a similar group of female types. Includes Maurice..... More

New York: Four Winds Press, (1982). 187 pp. 8vo. Cloth. First edition. An autobiographical account of a young girl whose ballet career with the Vienna State Opera was interrupted by the invasion of the Nazis and who later had to fight for her life during the Russian occupation. A near..... More

Torino: Tipografia Ferrero e Franco, 1852. 1-392, 649-768, 137-528, 669-812 pp. Illus. with 1 engraved portrait. 8vo. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt title and rules. First edition. Contains six of the ten issues of the first two years. Volume I issues 1,2,5 and Volume II issues 2,3,5. Very good..... More

Washington [D.C.]: Colloguium Internacional de Estudos Luso-Brasileiros, 1950. 152 pp. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. 1600 items listed. A very good copy with a slightly darkened spine. More

Paris: Impr. de Pierre Didot l'aine, et de Firmin Didot, 1802.(An X). 12mo. Full calf with gilt dentelles, morocco spine labels, gilt decorations, marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Ed. stereotype d'apres le procede de Firmin Didot. Prosper Jolyot Crebillon (1674-1762) a popular and esteemed French dramatist of romantic melodramas with..... More

Roma: Fondazione Leonardo per la Cultura Italiana, 1926. 338 pp. 16mo. Paper wrappers. First edition. A very good, unopened (uncut) copy, small ink stamp on top margin of front wrapper, wrappers a bit edgeworn, leaves browned. More

München-Pullach: Bayern-Druck, 1923. 313 pp.; 319 pp.; 357 pp. Sm. 8vo. Limp Cloth. Later printing. Joseph von Eichendorff (1788 – 1857) late romantic German poet. Berg set one of his poems to music in his Jungenlieder. 1.Bd. Gedichte. Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts; 2.Bd. Dichter und ihre Gesellen. Die Entführung;..... More

Berlin: Chretien Frederic Voss, 1760. [2], 306 pp. Illus. with b/w in-text drawings. 12mo. First edition. About very good; spine scuffed, worn at ends and along joints, lacking label on spine, boards rubbed, partially removed bookplate from verso free front end-paper; tiny date written bottom edge of title; else contents..... More

Stockholm: Jos. Müller & Cie, 1874. 412 pp. 12mo. Three quarter calf over marbled boards, five raised bands ruled in gilt, morocco lettering piece, five compartments with gilt flowers and decorations, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. First edition. The most important novel by Gobineau (1816-1882) whose later work is often..... More

[Wien]: [Joh. Jos. Jahn], 1776 but [1791]. [3]-94 pp. 12mo. Paper wrappers. Later printing. Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752-1831), one of the few authors of the time who came from a humble background, burst on the scene in 1776 with his tragedy "Die Zwillinge," taking a prize offered by the..... More