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Madame de Staël correspondance générale Tome II, première partie. Lettres inédites à Louise de Narbonne
by Béatrice W. Jasinski (texte établi et présenté par)
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- Used - VERY GOOD+
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- (signed - limited editon)
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- 1960
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- Trade Paperback
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$57.95
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Paris, France: Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1960. (signed - limited editon). Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Inscription to Marc et Jacqueline Chadourne signed by editor. Tight, bright, clean interior, faint age soil to exterior, slight curl. Sunned spine and some minor spotting on exterior page edges. 304 pages with index, 8.5x5.25" ( 21.6x+L913.3cm) Text in French. Item Price
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G.B. Shaw (Gill's Irish Lives)
by O'Donovan, John
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- Used - FINE
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- (1st edition)
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- 1983
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- Paperback
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- 9780717110391
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$34.95
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Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1983. (1st edition). Paperback. FINE. As new and unread but has hand written price on title page. 155 indexed pages. Nobel prize winning author. Born and raised in Ireland. Lived over 70 years in England becoming "an established figure in British life, not just as a dramatist but as a leading socialist. 0.6 Item Price
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Da un Cuore Italiano - From An Italian Heart
by Marrocchino, Virgilio Italo
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- Used - FINE
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- 2002
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NY: Rosen, Mandell & Immerman, 2002. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! Poems (Poesie), writings (scritti) and love letters (Lettere di amore) (each in Italian and in English) written by Virgil Marrocchino. Born in 1927 in Montemilone, Italy, emigrated to America in 1950,. Learned English during service in the Korean War. Courted Angela with his writings… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Journals of Andre Gide - Volume III 1928-1939
by Gide, Andre (Justin O'Brien, trans.)
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- Used - GOOD- / Fair dj
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- (1st American edition)
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- 1949
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- Hardbound
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NY: Knopf, 1949. (1st American edition). Hardbound. GOOD- / Fair dj. Tight, bright, clean and square. Blue cloth with gilt, but gilt on spine is mostly worn away. Gift inscription on first free page. Faint age soil to exterior page edges. Unclipped dust jacket is present but age soiled, tattered along edged and folds and tape repaired on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Hans Christian Andersen: The Man and His Work
by Spink, Reginald
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- Used - NEAR FINE
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- (2nd edition, 1978)
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- 1972
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- Paperback
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- 9788714278823
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Copenhagen, Denmark: Host & Son, 1972. (2nd edition, 1978). Paperback. NEAR FINE. As new except for light shelfwear to spine ends. Illustrated in a lovely cover with French flaps. "A short biography (64 pages) of the man who wrote all those wonderful fairy tales. Includes an extensive "Further Reading" list on his stories and his life. ISBN:… Read more about this item Item Price
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Les Trois Dumas
by Maurois, Andre
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- 1957
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Paris, France: Hachette, 1957. Trade Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, age soiled exterior with sunned spine, clean interior, slight tilt. 1/2" split on top edge of spine hinge. Biography and literary criticism of 3 generations of the Dumas family - Les trois Dumas : le général Dumas, Alexandre Dumas, père, Alexandre Dumas, fils. 499 pages, Text in French. … Read more about this item Item Price
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Lelia ou la Vie de George Sand
by Maurois, Andre
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- (reprint, 1957)
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- 1952
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Paris, France: Hachette, 1952. (reprint, 1957). Trade Paperback. Tight, clean interior, covers age soiled, slight tilt. Sunned spine. Stitched binding, rough cut page edges. Text in French. 563 pages Item Price
$16.95
Jack London Echoes, Vol. IV, December, 1984
by Bates, D. Michael (ed.)
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- 1984
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Chester, SC: Ponderosa Press, 1984. Trade paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean interior, soiled exterior, faint curl to outside edge. Light bump to bottom, outside corner. The final issue of this journal devoted to everything about Jack London. 124 illustrated pages. Item Price
$12.50
Police Secours ou les nouveaux mysteres de Paris
by Simenon
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- Used - FINE
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- 1998
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- Paperback
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- 9780842053525
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$49.95
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Mille et Une Nuits (no. 210), 1998. Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! Text in French. 93 Pages including "Sentir les hommes" (Jose-Louis Bocquet) +"Vie de Georges Simenon" + "Resperes bibliographiques" ISBN: 0842053524. Item Price
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La Fontaine par lui -meme
by Clarac, Pierre
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- 1961
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Paris, France: Ecrivans de Toujours (#55) / editions du seuil, 1961. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean, slight tilt. Initials and date on first free page. Reading crease on spine, light shelfwear to covers. 191 pages including chronologie, bibliographie, illustrations en noir. Item Price
$12.95
Tolv pa det trettonde en berattelse
by Myrdal, Jan
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- 1990
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- Hardcover
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- 9789118937828
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Uppsala, Sweden: Norstedts, 1990. Hardcover. GOOD+. As new except for faint curl and tilt but has English words written in pencil, neatly between lines. Pictorial hardcover, no dust jacket. "en pojkskildring med rackvidd langt utanfor honom sjalv...(a boy's story with ranges far beyond himself ...)" Autobiographical work by the son of Gunnar Myrdal. 237 pages. Text in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rabelais par lui-meme (collection ecrivains de toujours n°48)
by De Dieguez, Manuel
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- 1968
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Paris, France: Editions du Seuil, 1968. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean and square. Hinge crease, faint age soil to exterior and owner's name and date on first free page. 184 pages plus Bibliography. Item Price
$16.95
Mallarme par lui-meme
by Mauron, Charles
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- Used - VERY GOOD+
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- 1964
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France: Ecrivans de Toujours (#67) / editions du seuil, 1964. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean & square. Owner's name on first free page. Text in French. 189 pages. Item Price
$11.95
Andre Gide par lui-meme
by Martin, Claude
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- Used - VERY GOOD-
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- 1966
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France: Ecrivans de Toujours (#62) / editions du seuil, 1966. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight, bright, clean & square. Owner's name on first free page. Small wear hole on back cover. Text in French. 192 pages. ISBN: Andre Gide par lui-meme. Item Price
$6.95
Adolphe suivi de Cecile
by Constant, Benjamin
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- c1957
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editions du seuil / Le Livre de poche (#360), c1957. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean & square. Edgewear to exterior. Reading crease on spine. Roman autobiogarphique. Text in French. 181 pages. Item Price
$12.95
Corneille par lui-meme
by Herland, Louis
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France: Ecrivans de Toujours (#18) / editions du seuil. Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean & square. Reading crease on spine. Owner's name on first free page. Text in French. 192 pages. Item Price
$13.95
Paginas Autobiograficas: Mariano Azuela (Coleccion Popular #134)
by Azuela, Mariano (Francisco Monterde, Prologo)
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- (1st thus)
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- 1974
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Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1974. (1st thus). Paperback. FINE. As new except for faint roughnees to 1 edge of front cover. "autobiografico escritas por el doctor Mariano Azuela desde su mocedad hasta la plenitud en que termino, con su vida, la carrera del novelista de la Revolucion Mexicana…" Text in Spanish, 276 pages. Item Price
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Conversations with Capote
by Grobel, Lawrence James A. Michener, foreword)
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- (1st printing)
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- 1985
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- Hardbound
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- 9780453004947
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NY: New American Library, 1985. (1st printing). Hardbound. FINE/Fine. As new except for slight tilt in fine unclipped Dust Jacket. "extraordinary conversations, recorded over the last two years of Truman Capote's life, the genius that elevated talk to art and gossip to literature lives on…" ISBN: 0453004946. Item Price
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Alfred Jarry
by Perche, Louis
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- Used - NEAR FINE
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- 1965
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$14.95
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Paris, France: Clasiques du XXe Siecle/ Editions Universitaires, 1965. Paperback. NEAR FINE. Tight, slight page yellowing, faint aging and rubbing to exterior, square. 125 pages with bibliography. Text in French. Item Price
$14.95
Abraham Valdelomar (Los Que Hicieron El Peru #30)
by Vigil, Ricardo Gonzalez (Percy Cayo Cordova, Ed.)
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- Used - VERY GOOD
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- 1987
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- Trade Paperback
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Lima, Peru: Biblioteca Vision Peruana, 1987. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD. Tight, bright, clean and square. Peruvian narrator, poet, journalist, essayist and dramatist. - Short biography. 1888 - 1919. 62 pages. Text in Spanish. Item Price
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