adventure france

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a shelfworn dust jacket, 64 pages. With illustrations on nearly every page, including a multi colored double page frontispiece and a double page illustration at the end. This charming story set in a fishing village on a lake in France, and the adventures of two village children.

Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover school primer, blue cloth decorated in black and orange. 303 pages, three-color illustrations by Clara Atwood Fitts. About 10 pages with some chipping and short tears.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally , unknown, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, 15 color plates and b&w drawings by Warner Carr. Green boards with color label, sharp, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st US, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Dust jacket shows wear, chipping and some tears. Internally clean. Quentin Blake illustrations in black & white & blue. Hardbound. One summer, whilst on holiday in northern France Aristide is given a blue Li-Lo by his Grandmother. Despite being told not to go too far from the shore Aristide manages to float all the way across the channel to England where he is captured and held prisoner by some boys. (Robert Tibber is the nom-de-plume of Rosemary Friedman)

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly worn dust jacket. 361 pages, index, b&w illustrations. Benjamin Thompson, later Count Rumford, was one of the most fascinating and complex men of his period (1753~1814). Soldier of fortune, spy, womanizer, brilliant scientist, intriguer, autocrat, inventor, adventurer, an American expatriated to England who did his most productive scientific work in Munich and who died in France, a man devoted to relieving the suffering of the poor, Rumford was all this and more, and Sanborn Brown's biography makes clear that all these aspects merge into a whole human being. The man who conducted experiments on the caloric theory of heat and the ladies' man are one and the same. Clean copy

Hardcover. San Diego, Sunbelt Publications, Revised Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages, color photographs and illustrations throughout, illustrated end paper. The Great Murals of Mexico's Baja California are one of the five greatest sites in the world for primitive rock art. They rank with those of southern France, northern Spain, northwest Africa, and outback Australia. These Great Murals, created by an unknown people, are without doubt the most distinctive trove of rock art in the Western Hemisphere. The site was unveiled to the modern world in the 1960s by adventure/mystery writer Erle Stanley Gardner who brought in UCLA archaeologist Clement Meighan to validate the importance of his find. But it was not until the 1970s, when author/photographer Harry W. Crosby undertook a systematic search for the largely unknown works hidden in the mountains of central Baja that the scope and significance of the find became known. He documented his search and discovery of over 200 previously unreported rock art sites leading to the original publication of The Cave Paintings of Baja California by Copley Books in 1975 which first introduced this cave art to the general public. Since that time, Baja California's Great Murals have been designated a United Nations Heritage Site. This lavishly illustrated full-color account is greatly revised and expanded from the original edition and offers Crosby's unique perspective on the painted sites and painting styles found in different parts of the Great Mural area. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, ist US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, illustrated in color by the author. Text in French and English. Light overall wear about the edges. A sweet shepherdess has an adventure which transports her a wild jungle. She wins over the animals with her love and they refuse to be separated from her. Charming art work. Short tear to paper at spine. Originally published in 1934 in France. A solid, clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st US, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 394 pages, b&w illustrations. The adventures of Tintin and his dog, Snowy, have captivated people worldwide since they first appeared as an insert in the Belgian Catholic newspaper Le Vintieme Siecle in 1929. Available for the first time in English, this insightful biography delves deep into the psyche of Tintin creator Georges Remi and his public persona Herge. Author of the critically acclaimed Tintin and the World of Herge and the last person to interview Remi, Benoit Peeters tells the complete story behind Herge's origins and shows how and why the nom de plume grew into a larger-than-Remi personality as Tintin's popularity exploded. Drawing on interviews and using recently uncovered primary sources for the first time, Peeters reveals Remi as a neurotic man who sought to escape the troubles of his past by allowing Herge's identity to subsume his own. As Tintin adventured, Herge lived out a romanticized version of life for Remi.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt and three colors, 384 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. 12 b&w illustrations by Charles Sheldon. Desmond Kennedy is a young Irish lad who left Ireland to join the Irish Brigade in the service of Louis XIV of France. In Paris he incurred the deadly hatred of a powerful courtier from whom he had rescued a young girl who had been kidnapped, and his perils are of absorbing interest. Captured in an attempted Jacobite invasion of Scotland, he escaped in a most extraordinary manner. As aid-de-camp to the Duke of Berwick he experienced thrilling adventures in Flanders. Transferred to the Army in Spain, he was nearly assassinated, but escaped to return, when peace was declared, to his native land, having received pardon and having recovered his estates. Previous owner's signature on a blank prelim page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Nottingham Society, Ltd Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with 3/4 leather, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt. B&w frontis. Joseph Balsamo is a historical novel set in the late 18th century and tells the story of Joseph Balsamo, a charismatic and mysterious figure who becomes involved in the political and social upheavals of the time. Balsamo is a master of disguise and deception, and he uses his skills to manipulate the people around him and gain power and influence. Along the way, he becomes embroiled in a love triangle with two women, Marie Antoinette and Countess Cagliostro. The novel is full of intrigue, romance, and adventure, and it provides a vivid portrayal of life in France during the years leading up to the French Revolution. 8th volume from the set. Limited to 1000 copies. There is some fraying to the top edge of the cover. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 79 pages. Black & white illustrations by Sherman C. Hoeflich. Green illustrated endpapers. Soiling to endpapers, covers. Spine wear. Charming story with wonderful b/w line drawings about a tadpole who becomes a toad and has many adventures. Written with a factual understanding of the toad, not a fanciful one.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 260 pages. Throughout his long career, Henri Matisse (1869-1954) continually expanded the boundaries of his art. By repeating images in pairs, trios, and series, he conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting." In this fresh approach to a much-studied artist, prominent scholars from the United States and Europe examine more than sixty works in concise chapters that focus on this aspect of Matisse's working process. From early pairs such as Young Sailor I and II (1907-8) through a series of late studio scenes from Venice (1946-48), Matisse is shown revisiting a given theme with the aim of devising innovative, often radical, solutions to such problems as how to portray light, handle paint, select colors, and manipulate perspective.New technical studies of the early paired works and photographs documenting the evolution of his later paintings help to elucidate Matisse's complex evolution. In numerous excerpts from letters and interviews, he is revealed as an artist who regularly questioned himself and his methods, a man of powerful intellect who regarded each new painting as an adventure. A significant addition to art historical literature, Matisse: In Search of True Painting is a revelatory study of a seminal figure in 20th-century modernism.

Hardcover. Paris, Huillery, reprint, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in half red calf over marbled boards. Frontispiece portrait, b&w engraved illustrations. Eugene Vidocq (1775-1857) was a French police officer and adventurer who rose in rank to become chief of a small, specialized detective force in Paris (the Police de Surete). He later organized a daring robbery which he was ironically put in charge of investigating. Eventually found out, he was dismissed from the police force and died in poverty and obscurity. First published 1n 1828. FRENCH TEXT.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace And Company , reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 424 pages, 10 tipped-in color plates & 48 double-sided b/w plates. index. This book is an attempt to tell the story of modern French painting as developed by the Impressionists and subsequent adventurers in the last hundred years in Paris. No date, most likely early 1950s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover in the dust jacket , 263 page book with color and black & white photo illustrations. Written in collaboration with Bernard Matussiere. Translated from the French by Nicholas Elliot. Focuses on Capa's Paris studio, which he used as a global platform for his work; and explores both his professional and personal adventures.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover in the dust jacket , 263 page book with color and black & white photo illustrations. Written in collaboration with Bernard Matussiere. Translated from the French by Nicholas Elliot. Focuses on Capa's Paris studio, which he used as a global platform for his work; and explores both his professional and personal adventures.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 190 pages. A spy adventure featuring agent Tommy Hambledon. Manning Coles was the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning, and Cyril Henry Coles. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Duke University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 440 pages. Black cloth, no dust jacket. The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. He spent his life exploring issues raised by this famous group and by Surrealism itself. Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on concerns crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer a unique perspective on many of twentieth-century France's most significant intellectual movements and figures. Including a masterful introductory essay by Claudine Frank situating his work in the context of his life and intellectual milieu, this anthology is the first comprehensive introduction to Caillois's work to appear in any language. These thirty-two essays with commentaries strike a balance between Caillois's political and theoretical writings and between his better known works, such as the popular essays on the praying mantis, myth, and mimicry, and his lesser-known pieces. Presenting several new pieces and drawing on interviews and unpublished correspondence, this book reveals Caillois's consistent effort to reconcile intellectual rigor and imaginative adventure. Perhaps most importantly, The Edge of Surrealism provides an overdue look at how Caillois's intellectual project intersected with the work of Georges Bataille and others including Breton, Bachelard, Benjamin, Lacan, and Levi-Strauss.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, maroon cloth with orange lettering. Two-color plates, b&w endpapers drawing by Leo O'Donnell. Dust jacket worn with major chipping. Book is clean, tight copy. The story of a fatherless youth in thirteenth century, battling his cousin for his ancestral castle and inheritance.

Joliet IL, P.F. Volland, 3rd pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover In an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Green cloth with colorful pasted down illustration on front cover. Illustrated in color and b&w by Beatrice Stevens. Last 20 pages have light tanning along bottom edge. Set in 1685 France, the story tells of a young boy Philip and the conflict between King Louis XIV and the Huguenots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, unpaginated (approx. 64 pages), illustrated in b&w by Irene Haas. This is a picture book that introduces young readers to a variety of useful French phrases by describing the trip of two intrepid young travellers by sea to France, by boat train to Paris, and then through sight-seeing adventures. Each phrase is accompanied by a detailed, witty, black and white pictures showing when it might be used. A wonderful picture-book for the young French language learner. Clean. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 452 pages. The French painter Jean Helion's unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Helion's infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they march and run, "They shall not have me!" but are quickly captured and sent to hard labor. Writing in English in 1943, after his risky escape to freedom in the United States, Helion vividly depicts the sights, sounds, and smells of the camps, and shrewdly sizes up both captors and captured. In the deep humanity, humor, and unsentimental intelligence of his observations, we can recognize the artist whose long career included friendships with the likes of Mondrian, Giacometti, and Balthus, and an important role in shaping modern art movements. Helion's picture of almost two years without his art is a self-portrait of the artist as a man. Clean copy.