Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 441 pages, index, notes, glossary, chronology, b&w illustrations. A dramatic new interpretation of the French Revolution that draws troubling parallels with today's politic and religious fundamentalism.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with some fading, 461 pages. History of the six-year period between the fall of Robespierre and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 385 pages, b&w illustrations. In this highly original history of the world's most famous bicycle race, Christopher S. Thompson, mining previously neglected sources and writing with infectious enthusiasm for his subject, tells the compelling story of the Tour de France from its creation in 1903 to the present. Weaving the words of racers, politicians, Tour organizers, and a host of other commentators together with a wide-ranging analysis of the culture surrounding the event including posters, songs, novels, films, and media coverage Thompson links the history of the Tour to key moments and themes in French history. He argues persuasively that this hugely popular sporting event has been instrumental in French attempts to grapple with the great challenges they have confronted during their tumultuous twentieth century from World Wars, political divisions, and class conflict to economic modernization, women's emancipation, and threats to public health. Name on half title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton, 2nd pr., 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering (now partially faded). 320 pages, b&w plates. Chapters include: The Scientific detective; Human Monsters; Famous bandits; Crimes of the insane; Political crime; Some famous women criminals; The case of a spy - Mata Hari; The Death Penalty. Spine faded, otherwise, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 487 pages, b&w illustrations. Napoleon's colorful but disastrous Russian campaign has been strangely neglected by American publishers. Bridging the gap between popular and scholarly history, historian Cate has written a thoroughly detailed and researched account that should also appeal to the lay reader. His writing is deliberately paced but dramatic and does far more justice to the extremely complex political and military situation of 1812 than Philippe de Segur's Napoleon's Russian Campaign (1965), the only other work available in the United States. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Two Only. First Edition. Photographs by Eugene Atget. Essay and notes to the plates by Maria Morris Hambourg. Appendixes include Berenice Abbott's typewritten copy of Andre Calmette's handwritten letter to her (late 1928). Maroon cloth with debossed title blind-stamped on cover and in gilt on spine, with dust jacket. 192 pp. with 116 plates and 84 black and white reference illustrations. Printed by The Meriden Gravure Company from halftone negatives made by Richard Benson. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Three Only. First Edition. 188 pages, 120 plates. Fore-edge of dust jacket has chipping, edgewear. Otherwise a clean, VG copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Four Only. First Edition. Photographs by Eugene Atget. Essay and notes to the plates by Maria Morris Hambourg. 182 pages, 117 bw photographic plates and several text illustrations. A nice, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume One Only. First Edition. 180 pages,121 plates with 83 b&w photo illustrations, slight edgewear to jacket, else a very nice, clean copy. Atget was a groundbreaking photographer, documenting three decades of rapid urban transition in Paris from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. His works depict the architecture, streets, gardens, and people of the city.

Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 black and white plates with Subject Guide at rear. Illustrated with black and white plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelfwear present with chipping present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Eugene Atget (1857-1927) was a French flaneur and a pioneer of documentary photography, noted for his determination to document all of the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Most of his photographs were first published by Berenice Abbott after his death. An inspiration for the surrealists and other artists, his genius was only recognized by a handful of young artists in the last two years of his life, and he did not live to see the wide acclaim his work would eventually receive.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with sunning to spine, 325 pages, b&w illustrations. In The World of the Paris Café, W. Scott Haine investigates what the working-class café reveals about the formation of urban life in nineteenth-century France. Café society was not the product of a small elite of intellectuals and artists, he argues, but was instead the creation of a diverse and changing working population. Making unprecedented use of primary sources -- from marriage contracts to police and bankruptcy records -- Haine investigates the café in relation to work, family life, leisure, gender roles, and political activity. This rich and provocative study offers a bold reinterpretation of the social history of the working men and women of Paris. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Garnier, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 625 pages, original blue paper wrappers here bound in half leather and marbled boards, spines with raised ribs and gilt design, floral end papers. Top edge gilt, 4 color plates.

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. 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.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 226 pages of text followed by section of corresponding black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 368 pages plus fold-out list of plates. Hardcover. 54 full color plates plus hundreds of black & white works by Toulouse-Lautrec. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Complete coverage of works in lithography and drypoint including fine prints, posters, illustrations, book jackets, sheet music, etc.

Hardcover. Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages. Light edge wear, soiling to price-clipped dust jacket. Foxing to top and fore-edge. Covers slightly warped. Else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-color, full-color by Booz. Dust jacket chipped, edgeworn.

France, Michelin & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages. Guide book to WW1 battlefield, illust. with black & white photos, maps (color two-page of Verdun). End-pages with ads. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Dust jacket in excellent condition.

Softcover. UK, Antony Rowe, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, b&w illustrations. 178 b/w photos. The great German assault on Verdun opened on 21 February 1916 and the battle went on with furious attacks and counterattacks till it finally petered out on 18 December, ten months later, some two and a half months longer than the British offensives of the Somme and Third Ypres combined. After describing the origins and conduct of the battle with maps and illustrations the book takes us on a tour of the town and of various parts of the battlefield with its numerous forts. Originally published in 1919 by Michelin. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, J. Hetzel, Reprint, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 636 pages. Hardcover. French text only. Previous owners name at top left corner of preliminary page dated 1868. Gilt title and decorations on red leather spine with embossed pebbled cloth covers. Satirical black & white illustrations by Jean-Jacques Grandville. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Light rubbing to cover edges and spine. Small area of discoloration on lower section of front cover. Clean, bright pages.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st English, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, b&w photographs throughout. A very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Worcester MA, Worcester Art Museum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 285 pages. 148 plates including 9 in color. Includes notes, bibliography, and catalogue. Minor edgewear to wrappers, clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Guggenheim Museum, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 147 pages. Softcover. Full color illustrations. Light bump to top right corner. Clean, unmarked copy.