Digireads.com Publishing, March 2020. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). First published in 1837, Carlyle initially was asked to write this account by his overworked friend John Stuart Mill. Taking the commission to heart, Carlyle proceeded to write a historical masterpiece, combining a scrupulous consideration for facts with a......
Grove Press, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). John Julius Norwich--called a "true master of narrative history" by Simon Sebag Montefiore--returns with the book he has spent his distinguished career wanting to write, A History of France: a portrait of the past two centuries of the country.....
NYRB Classics, March 2004. Trade Paperback. A remainder copy. Perhaps no one loves France as much as the English--at least some of the English--and Richard Cobb, the incomparable Oxford historian of the French Revolution, was a passionate admirer of the country, a connoisseur of the low dive and the flophouse.....
Nash & Grayson, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 279 pages. 'A detailed account of Bonaparte's daily movements and activities from the sixth of May 1800, when he left Paris, to the fourteenth of June in the same year, when he fought the battle of Marengo' -- from the preface. With sixteen.....
Centre International de Poesie Marseille, 2003. First Edition. Poster. Poster, 19.6 x 25.5 inches. Poster for Exhibition Goria, October 24-29, 2003. Centre International de Poesie Marseille aims to promote and facilitate the circulation of contemporary poetry and literature and works at connecting writing, visual arts and music. First edition (first.....
Auguste Picard, 1927, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 565, 88 pages. First editions (first printings). Near fine copy of La Litterature rebound with original paper wrappers in marbled paper over boards and leather covers. Spine with 5 raised bands, Title in bright gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers. Limited edition, #183/500. Stamp.....
Princeton University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 241 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and.....
Flammarion, July 2002. Hardcover. Edith Wharton's love affair with the French Riviera began in 1919, and continued to the end of her days. She found there a microcosm of the sort of society that had always fascinated her, that she described in her classic novels. Between the two world wars.....
University of Pennsylvania Press, February 1988. Trade Paperback. In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riché reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were.....
University of Wales Press, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 241 pages. Dialects and grammar of the Celtic language. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a dust jacket that is lightly chipped at the spine head and a bit worn at the edges, else very good.
John Murray, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 284 pages. Biographies and genealogies of French kings and queens from the 14th to the 19th century. First edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy in a dust jacket missing an inch at the top and bottom of the spine. Inscribed by the.....