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Paris: Editions Montaigne, 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. No. 10 in the Collection du Gay Savoir series, bound in wraps, soiled and chipped a bit, but clean of interior, and protected in a stiff Mylar jacket. Trade edition, penned by Maryse Choisy (1903–1979), a French philosophical writer, journalist and founder of the journal Psyché, after World War One's conclusion a student at Girton College, part of the University of Cambridge, and an analysand of Sigmund Freud. This treatise is about love and sexuality in the prisons. Choisy won many awards in her lifetime including the National Order of Merit, a silver Medal of Arts, Lettres, et Sciences, and the Lamennais Prize in 1967.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Editions de Beaune, 1950. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, bound in printed orange wraps, a bit chipped along spine and tips, sunned and soiled slightly, top edges unopened, but clean and unmarked of interior. [2], French language text, and dedicated to the memory of Wilhelm Uhde, being an academic essay by the noted art historian Charles Estienne. 2-29 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Pictorial paper covers, crimped a bit at upper tip. A fine contribution to the series: Bibliotheque de la Vie Artistique. Published by Librairie Delagrave, and complete with 114 black-and-white photographs. [7], 8-189 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1958. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Square 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Vincent van Gogh. Jean Cassou and L.L.L. de Wilde provide the Introduction and the Preface to this fine art exhibit catalogue regarding Dutch art and artists since Vincent van Gogh, with a special focus on Karel Appel, Gerrit Benner, George Hendrik Breitner, Theo van Doesburg, Kees van Dongen, Pieter Mondriaan, and many others. Unpaginated catalogue and then a range of black-and-white reproductions.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Chez Jean-Francois Bastien, Libraire, 1779. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. From the personal library of Gershon Legman, the noted bibliophile and erotophile. Pastepaper over leather boards. Bookplate on front pastedown which reads: Ex Libris a Garriques D.M. Binding sound, moderate wear to covers, short closed tear to an endpaper, else clean and unmarked, a bit waffly of text-block, but signs of neither . Scarcely available to the trade. A scarce little book that appears to be about "training" wives according to what is taken to be their character: the prude, the coquette, the Madonna, etc.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris, France: Librairie Garnier Frères, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo 7" - 7. An exceedingly handsomely bound book, the only copy currently available on-line in hardcover format, bound in two-tone, marbled linen paper over boards, three-quarters red cloth, handsome gray label over spine, gilt letter thereonto. 12mo format, at 281 pp., and with lots of pretty illustrations in black-and-white. A fine contribution to the Garnier Artistic Collection.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Liege: Pierre Mardaga, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight bumping to spine head and foot; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright yellow cloth over boards with bold black lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. French language text. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, diagrams and floor plans throughout. Gift quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of introduction, notes, and bibliography. 237 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Geneve, Switzerland: Editions Sonor, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Handsomely produced volume of disquisition into the art and lives of the Genovese school of painting by an acknowledged author, Louis Gielly, who was born in 1876, bound in brown marbled cloth over boards, brown cloth over tips and spine, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bumping to spine head and foot. French language texts throughout, with 222 pp. and plentiful illustrations, 25 being in black-and-white and printed on high-gloss paper. Withdrawn from the Crocker Art Museum, but with only four ink-stamps to show for it, else quite fine of interior, clean, if toned pages. Note of Erratum laid in at title page.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Editions Jean Cres, 1936. Softcover. Good. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. A fine little reader of French literature and criticism from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Moderate wear to printed, illustrated wraps, to tips, some soiling thereto, front panel and first free endpaper intact but with some separation from text-block. Short closed tears to final several page edges, hole-punch in final three papges French language text. xix [2], 4-282 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Editions Jean Cres, 1936. Nouvelle Edition. Softcover. Fair. 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. A fine little reader of French literature and criticism from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Moderate wear to printed, illustrated wraps, to tips, some soiling thereto, front panel and first free endpaper intact but with some separation from text-block. Short closed tears to final several page edges, hole-punch in final three papges French language text. xix [2], 4-282 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Monaco: Editions du Rocher, 1964. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. French language text, discoursing upon the world of painters and painting. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, in gate-fold, less so to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Stuffed with black-and-white reproductions of famous painters and painting. 120 pp., and with almost twenty plates of collages and newspaper articles, art exhibits, and the like.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris, France : Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1928. First French Edition . Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Translated from the original English into French by Pierre Sayn, this influential treatise by an early English ethnologist is bound in marbled brown paper over boards, brown cloth-backed, and with gilt lettering and ruling to spine, with four raised bands and two other gilt bands stamped. Scuffing to spine head, foot, tips, edges, but fine marbled endpapers, clean, unmarked, if toned text. xiv, 333 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Presses de la S.N.I.L, 1970. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. The inaugural issue of L'Humidity, founded in December 1970, by the readers: Jean-François Bory, Janusz Chodorowicz, Georges Unglik and Leonardo Nunez, this being No. 1, published in 1970 and printed in Arnham, Holland, running for 24 issues, beginning in December, 1970 to Spring of 1977. French language texts. Staple-bound of 16 pages in the format 9" x 11 3/4" in width and height. Printed cover, texts by S.J. Schmidt, Jochen Gerz, Emmanuel Pereire, Jean Schuster, Henri Chopin and others. This is the rare first edition in overall quite fine condition.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Presses de la S.N.I.L, 1971. First Edition. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Review of Humidity, founded in December 1970, by the readers: Jean-François Bory and Janusz Chodorowicz, this being No. 2, of 1971. Staple-bound of 16 pages in the format 9" x 11 3/4" in width and height. Printed cover, texts by F.T. Marinetti on the back of the cover from 1913. Comprised of futuristic manifestos written by F.T. Marinetti, Emilio Settimelli and Bruno Corra reproduced in their original format and typography. This is the rare first edition in overall quite fineMember, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Aux Editions Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1955. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Jean Hugo. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers, less to text-block, and with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Brodart sleeve over the printed tan wraps, slight sunning thereto, and a blind-stamped illustration to front cover of most of a Christian cross, quite nice. Illustrated with 44 lovely full-color illustrations in gouache. Many unopened top edges. [5], 6-233 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Zurich, Switzerland: JRP | Ringier, 2013. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. L'Internationale is a trans09nstitutional network of five major European museums and artists' archives. This volume, edited expertly by Christian Holler, has contributions by Arns, Inke; Badovinac, Zdenka; de Baere, Bart; Wallerstein, Immanuel; Esche, Charles; Mari, Baromeu; de Baere, Bar; Piskur, Bojana; Buden Boris; Cufer, Eda; Grandas, Teresa; and many others. [8], 9-361 pp., and including several score black-and-white reproductions of photographs and glossy, full-color photographs of installations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris, France: Editions Masspacher, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sircley et Jean Le Loup. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, there seeming to be no more than one additional copy available on-line currently. Big, tall, skinny quarto hardcover format, three-color illustration, black lettering to front cover, moderately worn and soiled. Interior quite fine, though text-block has become unstapled from the binding, else quite bright, colorful and delightful, the French language hippo leading the orchestra. Music by Tom Waltham. Unpaginated, but roughly 20 colorful pages.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

The Military Office of the French Occupation, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Place of publication is not given for this work, and a search in WorldCat reveals this edition is alleged (but without definition) to be from 1925. Rebound in quite lovely fashion in a creamy green leather, with diagonal stamping and with 21 gilt stars embossed to front and rear covers, with beveled edges, sharp and distinct gilt stamping of title to spine, new endpapers of marbled green decoration, a bit sunned along the edges. Urdu language for the bulk of this unusual tome, tres scarce to the trade, there currently being only one additional copy available. French language title at rear, noting the presence of 247 gravures coloriees (of banners, pins, weapons, staffs, and the like). French language title is rendered there, a Romanized rendering opposite from the Urdu. The author was the General Divionnaire, Inspecteur General de 1er, 2me et 3me Ordous, a Pasha, Pacha, Pasa (the… Read More

Fresno, California: Fresno Arts Center Museum, 1986. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the brightly illustrated card stock wraps, illustrated with a painting by Pierre Bonnard. First Edition; First Printing. Numerous illustrations including full-page color plates. Preface by Robert Barrett. Foreword by Lawrence Baldwyn, then a long essay by Jane Cleave. Augments the exhibition that was held January 19 through April 17, 1986. Measures nearly 11" x 8". Sections devoted to art historical movements, printmaking, technical terms, full bibliography and artist biographies, from Toulouse-Lautrec to Pierre Bonnard, painters to engravers. 88 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris : Club Bibliophile de France, 1957. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Paulette Humbert. Two good-looking, structurally sound copies bound in hardcover, marbled paper over boards, brown leather-backed spines, with four rubbed but sharp raised bands, sharp and distinct gilt lettering. Decorated endpapers, and with notes from the publisher at end of each volume. Translated from the original French by Joseph KIlar, being thus a First Edition Thus. Illustrations by Paulette Humbert. Volume I: 265 [2] pp. including a facsimile signature of the publisher at page of limitation. Volume II: 277 [2] pp. including a Table of Contents and the same publisher signature in facsimile.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.