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Softcover. NY, John Wiley & Sons, 1st pbk, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover,452 pages, b&w illustrations. Harlow Unger's Lafayette is a remarkable and dramatic account of a life as fully lived as it is possible to imagine, that of Gilbert de Motier, marquis de Lafayette. To American readers Unger's biography will provide a stark reminder of just how near run a thing was our War of Independence and the degree to which our forefathers' victory hinged on the help of our French allies, marshaled for George Washington by his 'adopted' son, Lafayette. But even more absorbing and much less well known to the general reader will be Unger's account of Lafayette's idealistic but naive efforts to plant the fruits of the American democracy he so admired in the unreceptive soil of his homeland. Short inscription to half-title page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Montreal, Poirier, Bessette & Co., unk., 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 546 pages, many b&w illustrations including maps and fold-outs. Binding is shaken and both covers loose with cracked hinges, front fly leaf loose. Internally good. Leather spine and corners with pink pebbled cloth covers, marled end papers.

Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle Rivington, 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 328 pages, frontispiece engraving of Napoleon. Chronicles the political intrigue that propelled Napoleon from military leader to Emperor. Bound in three-quarter black leather over blue cloth, raised bands on spine, gilt decorations and lettering on spine. Top edge gilt, light corner wear.

Softcover. Paris, La Caravelle, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 169 pages, color frontispiece, b&w text illustrations by Andre Margat. INSCRIBED BY ALI-BERT on front fly leaf to American scholar and professor Stephen Freeman, dated 1945. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Paris, Juvisy, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1Softcover, 69 pages, 9 b&w text illustrations by Andre Margat. INSCRIBED BY ALI-BERT on front fly leaf to American scholar and professor Stephen Freeman, dated 1945. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 406 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&w illustrations. Clean, tight copy. How Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States shaped his critique of the country and affected both his work and the diffusion of his ideas. Le Corbusier's first trip to the United States in 1935 is generally considered a failure because it produced no commissions. The experience nevertheless had a profound effect on him, both personally and professionally. Sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Le Corbusier promoted his ideas through a lecture tour, exhibition, and press conferences, as well as in meetings with industrialists, housing reformers, New Deal technocrats, and editors. His lectures were watershed events that advanced the cause of European modernism. Yet he returned to France empty-handed and published a bittersweet account, Quand les Cathedrales etaient blanches: Voyage au Pays des Timid Personnes (When the Cathedrals Were White: Journey to the Country of Timid People), which faulted America for lacking the courage to adopt his ideas.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This slip-cased, oversized book, weighing 20 pounds and containing over 2000 illustrations, summarizes the life and work of the most important modern architect of the 20th century: the legendary, controversial, and confrontational Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier was not exclusively an architect but an artist (painter and sculptor), urbanist, author, furniture designer, world traveler, and media figure. What is most impressive in this volume are the huge-scale photographs drawn from the Le Corbusier archives at the Fondation Le Corbusier in France. These photographs are personal, professional, indicative, anecdotal, illustrative, and symbolic of the entire saga of Le Corbusier's life and career over 60 years. They make this book an absolute gold mine for anyone wanting to understand and steep themselves in the spirit and character of this greatest modern architect of the last century. The written material is also first-rate: Jean-Louis Cohen, France's best-known historian of modern architecture, contributes an informative introduction, and Tim Benton, a well-known British architectural historian, writes opening texts for individual chapters. Recommended for architecture and art libraries as well as public libraries with serious art collections.--Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr. NOTE; DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT THIS VOLUME CANNOT BE SHIPPED OUTSIDE THE U.S.

Softcover. Paris, Librairie Floury, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray wrappers with black and red lettering, 213 pages. Illustrated with black & white plates. Small tears at foot and crown of paper spine. Clean, tight copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Softcover. Paris FR, Centre National de la Photo Graphie, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 unnumbered pages, 40 b&w plates. FRENCH TEXT. The panoramic photography of Jacques-Henri Lartigue, taken between 1922 and 1929; the catalogue for an exhibition. Wonderful work. Text by Michel Frizot. Unpaginated, 40 full-page duo-toned b&w plates; 11 x 10.25 inches. Bibliography, chronology, exhibitions list.

Hardcover. France, Presses De La Oite, 1st Ltd. ed., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, #996 of 1,500 Ltd Ed. of a speech given by the author in 1958. Slipcased. FRENCH TEXT

Softcover. Paris, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beau, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a plain cardboard slipcase. 239, 105 pages, illustrated in color. FRENCH TEXT. An exhibition of sketches held at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; These works were winners of the one-day sketching competitions held there beginning in 1816; Contains works by Felix-Henry Auvray, Francois-Xavier Dupre, Gustave-Rodolphe-Clarence Boulanger, Andre Giroux, Theodore-Pierre-Nicolas Maillot, Horace Vernet, Henri Lehmann, and many others. Clean set.

Softcover. Paris, Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 56 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. French text.

Softcover. Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversize softcover, 63 pages, French text with color illustrations throughout. Cover edge and spine fade and previous owner's embossed stamp on title page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Paris, Mercvre de France, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. INSCRIBED TO ROGER SHATTUCK BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. With black & white illustrations by: Pablo Picasso, Jean Bazaine, Jacques Villon, Antoni Clave, and others. Spine paper with light sun fading. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Brentano's , reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cloth spine with printed paper label; gray printed paper over cardboard boards. In 1669, a Parisian bookseller published a slim volume called Portuguese Letters, which unveiled a love affair between a young Portuguese nun and a French officer that had occurred a few years earlier during a war-torn period in Portugal. The book contained 12 passionate love letters from the nun when the officer was forced to return to France. The letters took Paris by storm. They spoke of love in a manner so direct, so precise, and so raw, they sent shivers of recognition through the sophisticated stratums of polite society. Equally remarkable was the mystery that surrounds the letters: the author was unknown, and most people assumed they were the fictional product of a French aristocrat. Copy of the 1817 London edition including a frontispiece portrait of the nun writing a letter. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. Sydney AU, T&G PUBLISHING, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Lewis Morley - I to Eye will illuminate and crystallise this body of work in a career retrospective, incorporating literally hundreds of photographs covering all aspects of Morley's work, from England, france and the united States, also the fashion beginnings in the 1950s through the personality portraits of the 60s to his work of the 70's, 80s and 90s. In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960's London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable (and most copied) of any photographs of any time.

Hardcover. Sydney AU, T&G PUBLISHING, 1st, 2011-11-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 395 pages, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Lewis Morley - I to Eye will illuminate and crystallize this body of work in a career retrospective, incorporating literally hundreds of photographs covering all aspects of Morley's work, from England, france and the united States, also the fashion beginnings in the 1950s through the personality portraits of the 60s to his work of the 70's, 80s and 90s. In a career that has spanned some 50 years, Morley has worked with equal ease in theatre, fashion, portraiture, magazine photography and documentary reportage. His body of work, particularly his portraits of key figures of 1960's London, is highly recognised, and with his famous photo of Christine keeler naked upon a chair, Morley produced an image that is probably one of the most memorable (and most copied) of any photographs of any time.

Hardcover. Hanover, NH, University Press of New England , reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 195 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine. Dust jacket his shelf worn with fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, two-volume set complete. Matching dark brown cloth covers stamped in black and gilt, top edge gilt. 639; vi, 653 pages; index, bibliography, frontispiece portrait in each volume - one a quite formal portrait of Voltaire in his prime, the other a sketch of him in old age. Covers show light wear, name on title pages. This is the second printing, the first published a year earlier. A comprehensive life of the great Enlightenment writer. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Francestown NH, Golden Quill Press, 1ST, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dark red faux leather cloth spine with red and white cloth over boards; gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Red and white dust jacket in mylar cover. A collection of short humorous poems previously published in various magazines. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper:

Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, 1st US, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Little Bear, whose family performs in the Papagini Circus, longs to take part, and one night, through a series of accidents, he becomes featured in a way he never imagined. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, illustrated in color and b&w by Harry Toothill. Bright dust jacket with light edgewear.

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.