Search Results: France from Ray Boas, Bookseller

Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1982. HC. good+ w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 0813909155 Starobinski pursues a subtle and brilliant meditation on the connections between art and revolution, comparing the style of the French Revolution as a political event to style in the contemporaneous visual arts. 298pp.

New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc, 1978. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) small chip on dustjacket. B&W and color ill.. ISBN 0688033660 It is hardly an exaggeration to say that on the slopes of Montmartre between 1900 and 1914 the Renaissance died and that the tiny band of painters, writers and musicians living there initiated the artistic world of today. It is this great flowering of creativity in Paris that the author vividly evokes in this beautifully illustrated book. 240pp.

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1926. HC. good, dark green cloth (hardcover) small stain on spine. B&W illustrations. 276pp.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. HC. good w/good dustjacket (hardcover) - FAINT DAMPSTAIN. ISBN 0195032438 290pp.

Geneve: Minerva, 1981. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). color illustrations. Brittany is really more than a province or a region--it is a land. 96pp.

Paris: J.P.G.F., 1981. PB. very good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. Report of ten years of research in the counties of France by the society. 164pp.

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983. HC. good+ w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0521226031 This is the ISBN for this complete set of two parts (volumes). 2vols, 630pp.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984. HC. very good, blue cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket). ISBN 0192117874 NO DUSTJACKET. A look at the intellectual life of France in the 19th century. 235pp.

London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd, 1934. HC. good++ w/chipped dustjacket (hardcover). Describes the organization and methods of one of the most efficient police bodies in the world, and a narrative of many thrilling adventures. 253pp.

Boston, MA: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1998. HC. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. ISBN 1567920748 149pp.

London: Longmans, 1960. HC. good, red cloth (hardcover) fade to spine (EX-LIB) no dustjacket. NO DUSTJACKET - Contents include: Part One, The Ancien Regime; Part Two, Cincinnatus Returns; and, Part Three, The New Reign. 279pp.

Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1980. HC. good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) owner's name blindstamp. ISBN 0700602011 In this volume Hugh Ragsdale offers a new interpretation of Napoleonic politics. Previous owner's name blindstamped on clean spot on title page. 183pp.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. HC. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations. This vivid account of the Dreyfus Affair reads like a cloak-and-dagger mystery. It provides a chilling example of what can happen when justice and the safeguards of proper legal procedure are sacrificed to some presumed honor or security. 264pp.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. HC. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). 23 B&W tables & 11 figures. ISBN 0521223237 The author provides a detailed analysis of kinship, household, and family relations in early modern France. He uses primarily documentary evidence from early modern France, but also draws comparisons with England in the same period, and with the medieval and modern family. His book provides a fascinating account of the intimate life of men and women in past society, and shows how that society has exerted a lasting influence on the behavior of our contemporaries. 265pp.

Albany, NY: State Univ. of New York Pr, 1982. PB. good+, wraps (softcover). B&W ill., 12 B&W maps. ISBN 0873955633 The history of the communautes, the large patriarchal households of central France, from the close of the medieval era to the nineteenth century. 258pp.

Madison, WI: Univeristy of Wisconsin Pr, 1988. PB. very good+, wraps (softcover). ISBN 0299117944 272pp.

Paris: Editions A. et J. Picard, 1970. PB. good, wraps (softcover). B&W illustrations. 510pp.

New York: Walker and Company, 1968. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). A volume in The Documentary History of Western Civilization. The theme of this volume is the historical development of France from the middle of the last century until her defeat by Germany in the summer of 1940. It spans, in political terms, two of the ten regimes France has known since the beginning of the nineteenth century: the Second Empire of Napoleon III and the Third Republic. 383pp.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1971. HC. very good w/good+ dustjacket (hardcover). ISBN 0804707650 During the 1960's, three major efforts were made to transform the French non-Communist Left into a more modern cohesive type of political organization. This study describes the efforts, explains the reasons for their failure, and makes some general observations on the way parties and party systems are changed. 258pp.

Bath, England: Downside Abbey, 1986. HC. very good, dark blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket-faint bump. B&W illustrations. ISBN 095027593X Faint bump lower corners - probably published without a dustjacket. 301pp.