France Travel

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 NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages illustrated in b&w. A previously unpublished body of work from the late, great photographer Andre Kertesz, featuring a collection of photographs that capture the ephemeral beauty of Paris in 1963.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 The previously unpublished material is reproduced here as he originally intended and completed with archival documents and a critical essay.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 3rd pr., 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 354 pages, b&w photos. Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is a travelogue, a love story, an irreverent collection of visual and verbal snapshots. In May 1982, Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop climbed aboard Fafner, their VW camper van, and embarked on an exploration of the uncharted territory of the Paris-Marseilles freeway. It was a route they had covered before, usually in about ten hours, but his time they loaded up with supplies and prepared for an ardous voyage of thirty-three days without leaving the autoroute. Along the way they would uncover the hidden side of the freeway and record The trip's vital minutiae with light-hearted abandon. At roadside rest areas, armed with typewriters, cameras, and mutual affection, the authors composed this book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1999-12-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 132 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. SIGNED BY MILLER.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A Stokes, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 215 pages. Red cloth, gilt lettering. Very minor wear to spine. Full illustrated plates by Edwards, some with tissue guard. Frontispiece illustration. Illustrated end papers. Top edge gilt. Some pages uncut.

Hardcover. Paris, Guide Conty, 2nd Ed., circa 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black and gilt, now faded. A charming pocket-size travel guide to the Loire/Orleans region. 336 + 56 + 72 + IV pages. No date but presumed circa 1900. Lots of ads, illustrations, several fold-out maps. ALL IN FRENCH LANGUAGE. Nice condition.

Hardcover. New York , DK Publishing/Dorling Kindersley, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color by Burningham. Clean hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BURNINGHAM on a bookplate pasted to the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with a chunk gone from rear panel, 309 pages. This book gives a complete account of all that Locke saw, did and heard during his four years in France. The entries vary from laconic jottings to detailed accounts - full of colour and wit - of life in Paris and the provinces. Locke's variety of interests presents a vivid and thorough account of France at that time. He observed and recorded the absolutism of Louis XIV and the poverty of the peasants, the growing persecution of the Protestants and the external manifestations of Catholicism, recent developments in science and technology - even agricultural methods and the system of taxes. So that this is a book for the general reader as well as for the student of Locke, the social historian and the historian of science. Three b&w plates including a map of his travels. Name on front fly leaf, rubber withdrawn stamp on copyright page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride & Co., 5th pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 173 pages. Illustrated with b&w plates. 12mo. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on spine.

Softcover. Edinburgh, Luath Press Ltd, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. In 1923 Charles and Margaret Mackintosh escaped Britain for France.Monsieur Mackintosh is the only book available on Mackintosh's years in France. With reproductions of 40 of his French paintings alongside photographs of the actual locations today, and images from the period 1923-1927, this is a comprehensive and pictorial account. Written in close collaboration with experts from Glasgow University, the National Gallery of Modern Art and the Glasgow School of Art, and edited by Professor Pamela Robertson, author and leading expert on Mackintosh, Monsieur Mackintosh includes new research and is written with the French and English translations side-by-side. Published to coincide with and accompany a major exhibition of Mackintosh's work in France Monsieur Mackintosh contains more than 250 images reproduced in full colour throughout.

Hardcover. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 286 pages. Hardcover with marbled covers and page block decoration, gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Previous owner's name on title page. Ex-Library with usual stamping and embossed seal on preliminary pages.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 153 pages, foreward by M.F.K. Fisher. A collection of b&w photos, some color, by Robert Doisneau. Commentary by Chevalier. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, soiling to rear panel. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Flammarion , 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages. Color and b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. teNeues, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages. Photographer Edward Quinn chronicles the sweet life of the French Riviera in the 1950s and 60s in this homage to the stylish celebrities who lived and loved on this chic coastline. Born in Dublin in 1920, Edward Quinn played Hawaiian guitar in Belfast, then went into the Royal Air Force. He eventually made his way to the Cote d'Azur, where he photographed world leaders, glamour girls and playboys, as well as figures from the worlds of art, music and literature. His most memorable work included images of an unknown Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly's first meeting with Prince Rainier, and a precocious Brigitte Bardot. His exacting eye showcased Picasso, T.S. Eliot, and Gary Cooper. With a polished technique and great patience and charm, Quinn caught some of the post-war Riviera's most memorable moments.

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 143 pages Illustrated with B&W plates throughout. Reproduces over 100 examples of Doisneau's evocative photographs of 1930s Parisian street life. Includes extensive essay by Doisneau on his life and work. Clean copy.