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A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould by: Susan Ronald

A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould
by: Susan Ronald

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 388 pages, b&w illustrations. A revealing biography of Florence Gould, fabulously wealthy socialite and patron of the arts, who hid a dark past as a Nazi collaborator in 1940's Paris. Born in turn-of-the-century San Francisco to French parents, Florence moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Believing that only money brought respectability and happiness, she became the third wife of Frank Jay Gould, son of the railway millionaire Jay Gould. She guided Frank's millions into hotels and casinos, creating a luxury hotel and casino empire. She entertained Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Joseph Kennedy, and many Hollywood stars-like Charlie Chaplin, who became her lover. While the party ended for most Americans after the Crash of 1929, Frank and Florence stayed on, fearing retribution by the IRS. During the Occupation, Florence took several German lovers and hosted a controversial Nazi salon. As the Allies closed in, the unscrupulous Florence became embroiled in a notorious money laundering operation for Hermann Goring's Aerobank. Yet after the war, not only did she avoid prosecution, but her vast fortune bought her respectability as a significant contributor to the Metropolitan Museum and New York University, among many others. It also earned her friends like Estee Lauder who obligingly looked the other way. A seductive and utterly amoral woman who loved to say "money doesn't care who owns it," Florence's life proved a strong argument that perhaps money can buy happiness after all.

Record # 379315

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A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photographby: McCauley, Elizabeth Anne

A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph
by: McCauley, Elizabeth Anne

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 262 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. This portrait of Disderi and the carte de visite he patented in Paris in 1854 is far more than a biography. The c-d-v, or photographic calling card, was a relatively inexpensive product that made the photographic portrait available to the middle class . McCauley's carefully documented work explores Disderi's career and oeuvre , the impact of mass-produced celebrity cartes on the social and cultural life of mid-19th-century France, and aesthetics in c-d-v portraiture. The final third of the book is an art historical evaluation of the importance of the c-d-v for portrait painting of the period . The fine bibliography, generous illustrative matter, and detailed notes add to the value of this work for the avid student of photohistory or 19th-century studies.

Record # 604113

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Adele & Simon (SIGNED COPY)by: McClintock, Barbara

Adele & Simon (SIGNED COPY)
by: McClintock, Barbara

Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped jacket. SIGNED BY MCCLINTOCK on title page. When Simon's older sister, Adele, picks him up from school, he has his hat and gloves and scarf and sweater, his coat and knapsack and books and crayons, and a drawing of a cat he made that morning. Adele makes Simon promise to try not to lose anything. But as they make their way home, distractions cause Simon to leave something behind at every stop. What will they tell their mother?

Record # 351579

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Aiguille du Midi Vallee Blancheby: Tairraz, George and Pierre

Aiguille du Midi Vallee Blanche
by: Tairraz, George and Pierre

Hardcover. France, Arthaud, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 209 pages. French text. Minor dust jacket edge wear and tear with minor yellowing on inside flaps. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852268

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Albert Gleizes - For and Against the Twentieth Century by: Brooke, Peter

Albert Gleizes - For and Against the Twentieth Century
by: Brooke, Peter

Hardcover. New Havn CT, Yale University Press, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 333 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated in color, B&W. Clean, tight copy. Few painters lived the intellectual adventures of the early twentieth century as intensely as Albert Gleizes. At the centre of the public scandal over Cubism that broke out in Paris in 1911, he was with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in New York during the war and was one of the first European avant-garde artists to respond to the scale and vigour of New York life. Gleizes was also one of the few French painters of the 1920s to recognise nonrepresentational painting as the logical development of Cubism. His work as a painter is accompanied by an immense body of theoretical work, addressing the question posed so starkly by Duchamp and Picabia: why should we paint? What is the justification for the work of art? Over his life he touches on many spheres of human activity - religious, political and cultural history, physics and the philosophy of work. This book follows Gleizes' argument as it evolves, drawing on painting, and both published and unpublished writings. It reveals Gleizes, not just as a significant historical personality, but as a man whose work and thinking remains surprisingly fresh and relevant to the needs of our own time.

Record # 305272

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Algeria, 1830

Algeria, 1830

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 283 pages. A particularly vicious and bloody civil war has racked Algeria for a decade. Amnesty International notes that since 1992, in a population of 28 million, 80,000 people have been reported killed, and the actual total is almost certainly higher. This terrible war overshadows Algeria's long and complex history and its prominence on the world economic stage-second in size among African nations, Algeria has the longest Mediterranean coastline and contains the world's fifth-largest natural gas reserves. Algeria, 1830-2000 is a comprehensive narrative history of the country. Benjamin Stora, widely recognized as the leading expert on Algeria, presents the story of this turbulent area from the start of formal French colonialism in the early nineteenth century, through the prolonged war for independence in the latter 1950s, to the internal strife of the present day. This book adapts and updates three short volumes published originally in French by La Decouverte. For this English edition, Stora has written a new introductory chapter on Algeria's colonial period (1830-1954) and has revised the final section to bring the volume up to date.

Record # 374733

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Alice au Pays des Merveilles, suivi de De l'autre cot

Alice au Pays des Merveilles, suivi de De l'autre cot

Softcover. Paris, DIANE SELLIERS, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, in a pictorial dust wrapper, 395 pages. Color illustrations by Pat Andrea give a whole new surrealistic look to the classic tales. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 379412

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Alligatorby: Evelyn Shaw / Frances Zweifel

Alligator
by: Evelyn Shaw / Frances Zweifel

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 61 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Frances Zweifel. A Science I CAN READ Book. Clean copy.

Record # 397304

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Ambassadors of Progress: American Women Photographers in Paris, 1900-1901by: Griffith, Bronwyn (Contributor)

Ambassadors of Progress: American Women Photographers in Paris, 1900-1901
by: Griffith, Bronwyn (Contributor)

Hardcover. Giverney, France, Library of Congress/Musee d'Art Giverny, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new. An exhibition held in Paris a century ago demonstrated the key role American women photographers played in the international pictorialist movement. Each of the 29 artists, including such well-known figures as Gertrude Kaesebier, Amelia van Buren and Zaida Ben-Yusuf, is represented in a selection of approximately 70 breathtaking color plates drawn from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress and the National Museum of American History. The photographs include landscapes, portraiture, genre scenes, and still-lifes, all of which are evocatively composed and delicately toned using a variety of photographic techniques.

Record # 453859

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Ambassadors of Progress: American Women Photographers in Paris, 1900-1901by: Griffith, Bronwyn

Ambassadors of Progress: American Women Photographers in Paris, 1900-1901
by: Griffith, Bronwyn

Hardcover. Washington DC, Library of Congress/Musee d'Art Giverny, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover exhibition catalog with a dust jacket. 200 pages, 218 bw plates. An exhibition held in Paris a century ago demonstrated the key role American women photographers played in the international pictorialist movement. The accomplishment of these professional and amateur photographers clearly demonstrated a mastery of the medium and made a strong impression on those in attendance. Ambassadors of Progress explores this largely unknown event. Each of the 29 artists, including such well-known figures as Gertrude Kaesebier, Amelia van Buren and Zaida Ben-Yusuf, is represented in a selection of approximately 70 breathtaking color and b&w plates.

Record # 350084

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An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870??"1914 by: Trumbull IV, George R.

An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870??"1914
by: Trumbull IV, George R.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and long-lasting misconceptions about Islam that determined the imperial cultural politics of Algeria and its interactions with republican France. Narratives of Islamic mysticism, rituals, gender relations, and sensational crimes brought unfamiliar cultural forms and practices to popular attention in France, but also constructed Algerian Muslims as objects for colonial intervention. Personal lives and interactions between Algerian and French men and women inflected these texts, determining their style, content, and consequences. Drawing on sources in Arabic and French, this book places such personal moments at the heart of the production of colonial knowledge, emphasizing the indeterminacy of ethnography, and its political context in the unfolding of France's empire and its relations with Muslim North Africa. Clean copy.

Record # 379160

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Andre Kertesz: Paris, Autumn 1963by: Andre Kertesz (Author), Matthieu Rivallin (Introduction)

Andre Kertesz: Paris, Autumn 1963
by: Andre Kertesz (Author), Matthieu Rivallin (Introduction)

Hardcover. NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages illustrated in b&w. A previously unpublished body of work from the late, great photographer Andre Kertesz, featuring a collection of photographs that capture the ephemeral beauty of Paris in 1963. Andre Kertesz, a master photographer of the twentieth century, was a pioneer in photographic composition and photojournalism who gained critical acclaim for his image distortions. Born in Hungary, he moved from Paris to New York during World War II. In 1963, he returned to Paris and took more than 2,000 black-and-white photographs and nearly 500 slides that capture the city's essence--from Montmartre to the banks of the Seine to its gardens and parks. Kertesz edited these photographs into book form, but the work was set aside and was only recently rediscovered in his archives, twenty-five years after his death. The previously unpublished material is reproduced here as he originally intended and completed with archival documents and a critical essay.

Record # 374021

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ANNALES MONEGASQUES. Revue d'histoire de Monaco: No. 37 by: Archives du Palais Princier

ANNALES MONEGASQUES. Revue d'histoire de Monaco: No. 37
by: Archives du Palais Princier

Softcover. Monaco, Archives du Palais Princier, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, color illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Scholarly essays on the history of Monaco. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386052

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Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinetteby: Kahng, Eik and Marianne Roland Michel

Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie-Antoinette
by: Kahng, Eik and Marianne Roland Michel

Hardcover. New Haven CONNECTICUT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, illustrated with 103 color and 262 b&w plates. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744-1818) was one of the most talented still-life painters of the French school. Her exquisite paintings, today located in some of the world's finest museums, were admired and collected by many of her contemporaries, including Marie Antoinette, who became the artist's most important patron.

Record # 351225

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Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria by: Abi-Mershed, Osama

Apostles of Modernity: Saint-Simonians and the Civilizing Mission in Algeria
by: Abi-Mershed, Osama

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages. This study of the specialized military Offices of Arab Affairs in Algeria during the formative decades of French rule from 1830 to 1870 disputes the conventional view that the doctrine of assimilation governed France's colonial policies and practices in the nineteenth century.

Record # 378945

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Architecture of the Renaissance in France, The 1492-1830 (2 vols)by: Ward, W.H.

Architecture of the Renaissance in France, The 1492-1830 (2 vols)
by: Ward, W.H.

Hardcover. London, Batsford, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A history of the evolution of the Arts of Building, Decoration and Garden Design under classical influence. Many b&w photos, Illustrations. 528 pgs. Some sun-fading to spines, else a clean, tight set.

Record # 28689

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Art Nouveau In Franceby: Jean-Paul Midant

Art Nouveau In France
by: Jean-Paul Midant

Softcover. Paris, Books & Co., 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 169 pages. A volume on French Art Nouveau design, architecture and interior decoration. Features designs by Emile Galle, Alphonse Mucha, Paul Signac and others. Color illustrations throughout.

Record # 363442

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Art of French Glass, The - 1860 - 1914by: Bloch-Dermant, Janine

Art of French Glass, The - 1860 - 1914
by: Bloch-Dermant, Janine

Hardcover. New York, The Vendome Press, Reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Hardcover. Purple covers with gilt titles to black cloth spine, gilt vase design to cover. Full page, full color and bw illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. Clean & unmarked pages throughout. Glass from the turn of the 19th - 20th century; the "Belle Epoque" era. Features many glass artists, including Philippe-Joseph Brocard, Auguste Jean, Ernest-Baptiste Leveille, Emile Galle, Les Freres Daum, Henri Cros, Albert Dammouse, Francois Decorchemont, and several others.

Record # 751061

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Art of the Defeat, France 1940-1944by: Dorleac, Laurence

Art of the Defeat, France 1940-1944
by: Dorleac, Laurence

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Art of the Defeat provides an unflinching look at the art scene in France during the German occupation. Black and white photographs throughout.

Record # 353003

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Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700-1914, The/Two Volumes Bound As Oneby: Gordon, N. Ray

Art of the French Illustrated Book, 1700-1914, The/Two Volumes Bound As One
by: Gordon, N. Ray

Softcover. New York, Dover , reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 557 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edge wear, creases to wrappers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452464

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Artwork Caught by the Tail:Francis Picabia and Dada in Parisby: Baker, George

Artwork Caught by the Tail:Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris
by: Baker, George

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1sr, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright gold foil dust wrapper, 476 pages. The artist Francis Picabia -- notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist -- has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dada years, art historian and critic George Baker reimagines Dada through Picabia's eyes. Such reimagining involves a new account of the readymade -- Marcel Duchamp's anti-art invention, which opened fine art to mass culture and the commodity. But in Picabia's hands, Baker argues, the Dada readymade aimed to reinvent art rather than destroy it. Picabia's readymade opened art not just to the commodity, but to the larger world from which the commodity stems: the fluid sea of capital and money that transforms all objects and experiences in its wake. The book thus tells the story of a set of newly transformed artistic practices, claiming them for art history -- and naming them -- for the first time: Dada Drawing, Dada Painting, Dada Photography, Dada Abstraction, Dada Cinema, Dada Montage.Along the way, Baker describes a series of nearly forgotten objects and events, from the almost lunatic range of the Paris Dada "manifestations" to Picabia's polemical writings. Clean copy.

Record # 379157

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Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of Franceby: Brunelle, Gayle/ Finley-Croswhite, Stephanie Annette

Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France
by: Brunelle, Gayle/ Finley-Croswhite, Stephanie Annette

Softcover. University of Toronto Press , 1st pbk, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 312 pages. During the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of the former French Interior Minister, Marx Dormoy. The explosion on the following morning launched a two-year investigation that traced Dormoy's murder to the highest echelons of the Vichy regime. Dormoy, who had led a 1937 investigation into the "Cagoule," a violent right-wing terrorist organization, was the victim of a captivating revenge plot. Based on the meticulous examination of thousands of documents, Assassination in Vichy tells the story of Dormoy's murder and the investigation that followed. At the heart of this book lies a true crime that was sensational in its day. A micro-history that tells a larger and more significant story about the development of far-right political movements, domestic terrorism, and the importance of courage, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of France's deep political divisions, wartime choices, and post-war memory. Clean copy.

Record # 397356

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At the Inn of the Guardian Angelby: Pendelton, Amena and Madame la Comtesse De Segur

At the Inn of the Guardian Angel
by: Pendelton, Amena and Madame la Comtesse De Segur

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated with 4 color plates, many b&w drawings by Margaret Freeman. Blue cloth covers with red design, spine faded. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean, very good internally.

Record # 405594

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Autobiography of Du Pont de Nemours, Theby: Du Pont, Pierre Samuel, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Translator and Introduction)

Autobiography of Du Pont de Nemours, The
by: Du Pont, Pierre Samuel, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (Translator and Introduction)

Hardcover. Wilmington, DE, Scholarly Resources Inc., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Cover boards bound in blue, gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket has a touch of agewear, A little foxing on top edge. Clean inside, binding tight, in great shape.

Record # 31153

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Bacon - Portraits et autoportraits: Francis Bacon, le visage en viscEresby: Kundera, Milan

Bacon - Portraits et autoportraits: Francis Bacon, le visage en viscEres
by: Kundera, Milan

Hardcover. Paris, Les Belles Lettres , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 353291

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Beaumarchaisby: Lemaitre, Georges

Beaumarchais
by: Lemaitre, Georges

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 374 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with short tape repaired tears along edges, fading to spine. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613700

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Before the King's Daughters: The Files a Marier, 1634-1662by: Peter J. Gagne

Before the King's Daughters: The Files a Marier, 1634-1662
by: Peter J. Gagne

Softcover. privately printed, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. Before the state-sponsored immigration program that sent nearly 800 women known as Filles du Roi to Quebec, 262 brave and adventurous women made the journey to New France on their own. Sent by relatives and religious organizations or enlisting on their own account, these women did not benefit from a paid passage and dowry drawn from the King's treasury, but they did face the same if not worse hardships and dangers. Known as the Filles a Marier or "marriageable girls," they were the first single women to set foot in the colony since its return from the English in 1632. True pioneers and heroines, they left their homes in France to found new ones in the New World. This book - the first work dedicated solely to this group of pioneer women - tells their story, collectively and individually. It first examines the much-misunderstood early immigration of women to New France, explaining the need for women in the colony, the difficulties in increasing the population and the unfounded assertions that these women were prostitutes, not pioneers. The book then includes individual biographies of each of these 262 single women and concludes with a table of arrivals per year, an appendix of supporting documentation (marriage and enlistment contracts and inventories), a glossary, index of husbands and a comprehensive index to the book. Like new.

Record # 397499

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Belles Saisons: A Colette Scrapbookby: Phelps, Robert

Belles Saisons: A Colette Scrapbook
by: Phelps, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. 302 pages, many b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 384845

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Berthe Morisot : Impressionistby: Charles F. Stuckey , William P. Scott, et al.

Berthe Morisot : Impressionist
by: Charles F. Stuckey , William P. Scott, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages, 123 color plates. Morisot was a gutsy pioneer among the French impressionists. As a standard-bearer of the avant-garde, she created a scandal by helping to organize a public auction of their works, something very few artists had dared to do. Defying the advice of her parents and Manet, she remained in Paris when Prussian troops besieged the city. In her artistic technique she was no less daring. Around 1874, in pictures of tourists and yacht-filled rivers, she broke through to an abbreviated, shorthand style ahead of her contemporaries. Disregarding her own view that Monet had taken landscape painting to its farthest limits, her late oils of gardens are brilliant fireworks of color. This catalogue of a retrospective exhibition that is to tour the country stands on its own as a valuable study.

Record # 397553

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Best Cartoons from France, Theby: Bennett (Ed.), Edna

Best Cartoons from France, The
by: Bennett (Ed.), Edna

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 b&w cartoons. Preface by Philippe Halsman. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 351973

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Blanche of Castileby: Pernoud, Regine

Blanche of Castile
by: Pernoud, Regine

Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 319 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on preliminary pages. 16 pages of black & white illustrations. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with chipping along edges.

Record # 614453

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Bonnard at Le Cannetby: Terrasse, Michel

Bonnard at Le Cannet
by: Terrasse, Michel

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Preface by Jean Leymarie. Translated from the French by Sebastian Wormell. Vivid recollections of life at La Cannet and descriptions of the house and garden, accompanied by reproductions of related drawings and paintings. With 130 illustrations, 77 in color. Including 14 photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light fading to dust jacket top edge and spine. Mild rubbing to dust jacket as well. A tight and clean copy.

Record # 951647

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Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Workby: Bouvet, Francis

Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work
by: Bouvet, Francis

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 351 pages, 60 color, 476 b&w plates. Gathers all of the French painter's posters, lithographs, and book illustrations and provides commentary on Bonnard's style and technique. Select bibliography, list of exhibitions of Bonnard's graphic works, and index. Introduction by Antoine Terrasse. Small stain to foredge of front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean copy. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 385936

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Boo: Who Used to be Scared of the Dark (SIGNED COPY)by: Leaf, Munro

Boo: Who Used to be Scared of the Dark (SIGNED COPY)
by: Leaf, Munro

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Frances Tipton Hunter. SIGNED WITH SKETCH BY MUNRO LEAF ON PAGE OPPOSITE OF TITLE PAGE. Previous owner's name on front end paper. Dust jacket has chipping and small tears. Covers have rubbing and chipping of laminate on edges. Tight copy.

Record # 368914

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Boyhood Photos of J.H. Lartigue: The Family Album of a Gilded Ageby: Jacques-Henri Lartigue/ Ami Guichard

Boyhood Photos of J.H. Lartigue: The Family Album of a Gilded Age
by: Jacques-Henri Lartigue/ Ami Guichard

Hardcover. Switzerland, A. Guichard, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A very good hardcover copy, 126 pages with decorative burgundy boards and gilding on the spine and covers. Covers, spine head and tail have some light wear. Small scrape on front cover. Tight binding. Clean pages. Though not indicated as such, appears to be a book of 164 facsimile tipped-in plates. Production by Edita S. A. Lausanne. Illustration by Imprimerie Centrale Lausanne S. A. Text by Offset Jean Genoud S. A. Lausanne. Engraving by Photogravure Dupuis & Cie Lausanne. Binding by Maurice Busenhart, Lausanne.

Record # 383476

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Brassai: Paris by Night by: Brassai, Foreword by Paul Morand

Brassai: Paris by Night
by: Brassai, Foreword by Paul Morand

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassai created arresting images of the city's dramatic nocturnal landscape. First published in French in 1932, this new edition brings one of Brassai's finest works back into print. The back alleys, metro stations, and bistros he photographed are at turns hauntingly empty or peopled by prostitutes, laborers, thugs, and lovers. "Paris by Night" is a stunning portrait of nighttime in the City of Light, as captured by its most articulate observer. 62 photos. Short closed tear to rear panel of dj, clean copy.

Record # 398053

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Brassai: Paris Nocturne by: Sylvie Aubenas (Author), Quentin Bajac (Author)

Brassai: Paris Nocturne
by: Sylvie Aubenas (Author), Quentin Bajac (Author)

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 312 pages, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Brassai (1899-1984) was the first and is still the most famous photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Born in Hungary, he came to the French capital in 1924, working first as a journalist and then embracing photography, but it was the Paris of the 1930s that forms the bedrock of his body of work. Walking the city's streets at night, Brassai captured a previously unseen world on camera. He shows us every face and every facet, from tough guys and showgirls to prostitutes and pleasure-seekers, from the bustling cafes and dance halls to the stillness of deserted streets and mist-shrouded monuments. Through his eyes, Paris becomes a world of shadows, in which light, the prerequisite for any photograph, is reduced to dimly lit windows, streetlamps in the fog, or reflections on a rain-soaked pavement. This book brings together some of the best-known images from Brassai's classic Paris After Dark and The Secret Paris of the 30's, showcasing them alongside previously unpublished photos and archive material. It places his work in its historical and artistic context, analyzing the unique nature of his photographic vision: part reportage, part social document, part poetic exploration. 296 illustrations, 214 in duotone.

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Brassai: The Eye of Parisby: Tucker, Anne W.

Brassai: The Eye of Paris
by: Tucker, Anne W.

NY, Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 367 pages. Brassai: The Eye of Paris is both the catalog of an exhibition of Brassai's photographs organized by the Houston Fine Arts Museum and a valuable biography of the artist. In 1932, only three years after he purchased his first camera (a Leica), Brassai published a portfolio of 64 photos titled Paris by Night that caused an immediate sensation. His lively eye (seen in an enigmatic photograph at the beginning of the book) captured fresh, unique images of the city and its citizens. Fascinated by the underworld, he moved easily among gangsters and prostitutes in bars and bordellos; he was equally at home among the fashionable and wealthy, and just as devastating in his depiction of them. He used magnesium flares for low-contrast shadows, catching his subjects in natural poses at significant moments. The wide range of Brassai's work is suggested by his formal nudes, which have an affinity with Edward Weston's, and his informal portraits, which remind viewers of Diane Arbus, who admired his work. Brassai was a central figure in the intellectual and artistic circles of Montparnasse that made Paris the most exciting city in the world during the 1930s. In a long essay that includes lively anecdotes of the photographer's relationships with Picasso, Henry Miller, Kertesz, and many other luminaries, the author re-creates the aesthetic and philosophical ferment of the period. Brassai: The Eye of Paris recognizes the artist's talents in five different media--photography, filmmaking, sculpture, writing, and drawing--but focuses on what he is best known for: lyrical and penetrating photographs of the City of Light.

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Brassai: The Monographby: Alain Sayag and Annick Lionel-Marie

Brassai: The Monograph
by: Alain Sayag and Annick Lionel-Marie

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 319 pages, mostly b&w photographs (some color), essays by 7 contributors including Henry Miller. Beautiful copy in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

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Brassai: The Monographby: Alain Sayag and Annick Lionel-Marie

Brassai: The Monograph
by: Alain Sayag and Annick Lionel-Marie

Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 319 pages, mostly b&w photographs (some color), essays by 7 contributors including Henry Miller. Preface by Jean-Jacques Aillagon. Text essays excerpted from the work of Brassai himself as well as contributions from his wife Mme. Gilberte Brassi and close friends Roger Grenier, Henry Miller, Jacques Prevert and Werner Spies. End-matter includes Biography, Bibliography, Exhibitions and List of Illustrations. Illustrated with 308 photographs, 14 of which are in color. Stated first American edition. A presentation of Brassi's art from his nude drawings and sculpture to his fascination with graffiti but principally featuring on his photographs of nocturnal Paris and the demimonde creatures which inhabited its streets. Remainder mark to top edge, otherwise clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

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Building the Devil's Empire : French Colonial New Orleansby: Dawdy, Shannon Lee

Building the Devil's Empire : French Colonial New Orleans
by: Dawdy, Shannon Lee

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Building the Devil's Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans's early years, tracing the town's development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy's picaresque account of New Orleans's wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city's global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism--where governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined--New Orleans should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism works.

Record # 460625

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Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique XCI, 1967-IIby: Ecole Francaise d'Athenes

Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique XCI, 1967-II
by: Ecole Francaise d'Athenes

Softcover. Athens/Paris, Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Volume Two: pages 371-900, followed by 16 b&w plates. Cream paper wraps. Glossy pages with many black and white photographs are uncut. Text in English and French.

Record # 385352

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Business Contracts of Medieval Provence: Selected Notulae from the Cartulary of Giraud Amalric of Merseilles 1248by: Pryor, John H.

Business Contracts of Medieval Provence: Selected Notulae from the Cartulary of Giraud Amalric of Merseilles 1248
by: Pryor, John H.

Softcover. Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages, b&w frontispiece. Pencil underlining to 3 pages. Light shelfwear, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 403262

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Camille Silvy: Photograher of Modern Life by: Haworth-Booth, Mark

Camille Silvy: Photograher of Modern Life
by: Haworth-Booth, Mark

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, like new in dust jacket. This fascinating account of Silvy's life and photography is published to mark the centenary of his death. Combining research into exhibition prints, still lifes, and street scenes, as well as the intimate, beautifully lit and posed cartes-de-visite, the book demonstrates Silvy's extraordinary originality and his life as a man of both art and commerce. Color and b&w illustrations.

Record # 353225

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Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary in French, Theby: Vallier, Jean/Odette Filloux/P. D. Eastman

Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary in French, The
by: Vallier, Jean/Odette Filloux/P. D. Eastman

Hardcover. New York, Beginner Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 133 pages. Hardcover. Dictionary of French and English for young readers. Full color illustrations by P. D. Eastman. Damp odor. Price clipped dust jacket with closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612872

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Cezanneby: Cachin, Francoise

Cezanne
by: Cachin, Francoise

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, illustrated throughout with 504 illustrations, including 242 plates in full color. Large heavy book. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 460322

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Cezanneby: Cachin, Francoise

Cezanne
by: Cachin, Francoise

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, illustrated throughout with 504 illustrations, including 242 plates in full color. Heavy oversized book. Light edgewear and faint tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A definitive survey of the life and work of the Paul Cezanne follows the evolution of his art from drawing school in the 1860s to his death in 1906, providing more than six hundred reproductions of drawings, watercolors, paintings, and sketchbook pages that demonstrate his masterful artistic style. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397344

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Cezanneby: Cachin, Francoise

Cezanne
by: Cachin, Francoise

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, illustrated throughout with 504 illustrations, including 242 plates in full color. Heavy oversized book. Light edgewear and faint tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A definitive survey of the life and work of the Paul Ce+a7zanne follwows the evolution of his art from drawing school in the 1860s to his death in 1906, providing more than six hundred reproductions of drawings, watercolors, paintings, and sketchbook pages that demonstrate his masterful artistic style.

Record # 458451

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Changing Paris: A Tour Along the Seineby: Trager, Philip & Pierre Borhan, Diane Johnson, Thomas Mellins

Changing Paris: A Tour Along the Seine
by: Trager, Philip & Pierre Borhan, Diane Johnson, Thomas Mellins

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Arena, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good, unclipped dust jacket, 117 pages. 64 duotone photographs. Essays by Pierre Borhan and Diane Johnson, and commentary by Thomas Mellins.

Record # 205117

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Chansons de France pour Les Petits Francais (Songs of France for Little French Children)by: Weckerlin, J. B./M. Boutet de Monvel

Chansons de France pour Les Petits Francais (Songs of France for Little French Children)
by: Weckerlin, J. B./M. Boutet de Monvel

Hardcover. Paris, Plon-Nourrit, reprint, Hardcover. Collection of 24 traditional French songs & rhymes sung by & to children c. 1900 (no date in book), arranged by J. B. Weckerlin, with charming watercolor illustrations by M. B. de Monvel throughout the 48 pages. Oblong hardcover has decorative red cloth-covered boards, embossed lettering in black & gilt to front cover. FRENCH TEXT. Clean copy.

Record # 382424

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