De Maupassant Guy Preface (30 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

TPB. Condition: G+. GOOD-PLUS TRADE-PAPERBACK.

Condition: Good. Envoi rapide Bon Etat. poche. 1994. broché. 250 pages. Jeanne fille unique très choyée du baron et de la baronne Le Perthuis des Vauds avait tout pour être heureuse. Son mariage avec Julien de Lamare rustre et avare se révélera une catastrophe. Sa vie sera une suite d'épreuves et de désillusions. Ce roman le premier de Guy de Maupassant est une peinture remarquable des moeurs provinciales de la Normandie du XIXème siècle : hobereaux domestiques paysans sont décrits avec beaucoup de réalisme. Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, moderate shelf wear. Pages good. 317 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Octavo softcover (VG): Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Bluish-purple cloth boards, gilt spine titles, some wear, discoloration. Pages generally very good. Hinges intact; bind good. Frontispiece original drawing by V. Rottembourg w/tissue intact. Short stories translated to English from the French. 345 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. …

hardcover no dustjacket. Condition: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED8vo; 317 pages; good hardcover no dustjacket; stain front face board; spine head and heal bumped and nicked; tips bumepd with slight bend or fray; some tanning; guilded top edge; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. The hinges have been meanded preserving the original covers and spine. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Copyright © 1974. 254 pp. Text in French. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Occasional pencil markings on text. Previous owner's name inscribed on inside of front cover. // Texte en français Copie solidement reliée avec une usure externe modérée, des pages nettes et un texte propre. Marquages occasionnels au crayon sur le texte. Le nom du propriétaire précédent inscrit sur l'intérieur de la couverture. Béatrice Simon (Cover Illustration) (illustrator).…

Condition: VeryGood unmarked. 3rd printing. Includes title story plus Old Mother Savage, The Piece of String, A Sale, Two Friends, A Duel, The Umbrella, and At Sea. Solid clean tight copy of rare paperback edition. 4-1/2 x 6, 98 pp, b/w dwgs, red pictorial endpapers. Paperback in red/black illus wraps, top edge tinted red.…

Couverture souple. Condition: Très bon. Fort in-8. 1824 pages. Coll. "Quarto".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Green cloth, beveled-edge boards on this over-sized volume, 9.5x13, are soiled, corners are rubbed, gold and darker green decoration of mermaid and man being shot with cupid's arrow remains vivid. (Not sure why there is a mermaid on the cover.) Cloth hinge has held the binding together admirably over these past 130+ years, some fingerprints and smears. Twelve steel engravings. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. French Dans ce récit fantastique majeur de Guy de Maupassant, le narrateur croit être poursuivi et dominé par une présence invisible qu?il nomme « le Horla ». À travers un journal intime marqué par l?angoisse, la folie et le doute, le texte explore les frontières entre réalité et hallucination. Cette ?uvre emblématique de la littérature fantastique française met en scène la peur de l?inconnu, la perte de contrôle et les troubles psychologiques dans une atmosphère inquiétante et oppressante.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket. First US Edition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1915. Very Good condition. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. Joseph Conrad's preface "To introduce Maupassant to English readersÂ" fills 10 pages. Includes the novelette, YVETTE, and ten short stories: Mademoiselle Fifi; Two Friends; A Duel; Old Mother Savage; Miss Harriet; The Umbrella; The Piece of String; Queen Hortense; At Sea, A Sale; etc. Original blue denim cloth, with gilt-lettered spine. Mounted on the front cover is the original white-paper title label, printed in blue. This appears to be the first American edition of a work first published 1914 in the UK (London: Duckworth and Co). [Walter E. Smith reports that Conrad's essay also appeared in 1919, privately printed in an edition of 25 copies for Thomas J. Wise]. JOSEPH CONRAD, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE (Walter E. Smith, p. 84). Raymond Sutton Collection, Part I, #372 (described as "Probably the first American edition"). Quinn #1928. Keywords: Joseph Conrad . First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. 8vo. xv, 284pp.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. The scarce fin-de-siecle novel by Guy de Maupassant, issued here as the "only and unabridged American edition". In the publisher's original cloth binding. Only and unabridged American edition. A sensational short novel by Guy de Maupassant, set within the decadent and morally complex society of the Parisian fin-de-siecle. Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) was one of the foremost French writers of the nineteenth century, celebrated for his short stories and novels including Bel-Ami and Une Vie. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Externally, sound. Shelf lean. Soiling and discolouration to cloth with one or two minor handling marks. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Rubbing to boards. Rear hinge slightly strained at lower extremity, slightly exposing webbing. Previous owner's contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned to fore edge. One or two minor handling marks to first few leaves. Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Review of Reviews, New York, NY 1903. Nice Firm Clean copies ! No handwriting, no markings. Purple cloth, gold spine decor, top page ends gold gilt. Light general wear. Size: L 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. 1] Short Stories tragic and Comic 2] Short Stories Margot's tapers and Others 3] Short Stories; Les Dimanches D'un Bourgeois 4] Sur L'eau and Other Tales and Poems 5] Pierre et Jean and Other Tales 6] Fort Comme La Mort and Other Tales 7] Au Soleil or African Wanderings; La Vie Errante or In Vagabondia 8] Notre Coeur; Yvette. Fiction Antique::Short Stories Fiction Antique::General 7380.…

Edition: 1st American edition thus. Binding is green cloth w/gilt lettering and gilt & black ornamentation. Condition: ex-library copy w/library markings, label & pocket. Minor wear to binding w/slight fraying to top & bottom edges of spine. Some internal foxing, else very good condition. Illustrated by B&W plates & decorations. Binding is cloth. …

Oversize Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cloth boards are worn and stained. 9"w x 12 3/4"h. Gilt illustration of cupid aiming arrow at a mermaid kissing a man in a boat on front cover. Very sexist preface by Guy de Maupassant. 255 vignettes and ornaments engraved on wood by Jules Huyot. 11out of 12 full-page illustrations with tissue guards (some wrinkled or torn) engraved by Louis Ruet (one is missing). Printed on heavy paper. Some foxing and stains. Keywords: Love Story, Nobleman, Common woman, Living Together, Moral Decline, Guy De Maupassant, Jules Huyot, Louis Ruet, Maurice Leloir, Engravings, Paris Publication 2. Leloir, Maurice (illustrator). …

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Jacket: Good. First Edition. HB NODustjacket, Issued, 1905, 1st Deluxe Salon Edition, #683/1244 copies, F-/VG, AS-IS, Blue & Gold Gilt & red Decorated Leather Cover, Saintdun Stan Binding, Cover Light Rub, wear & Small chips Tears Extremities & top Bottom Spine, Interior nice, tight clean Light FoX, 305 pages.…

1983, Paris, Albin Michel, Livre de poche, texte integral, Firma del anterior propietario, 187 páginas, 16x11, cubierta en tapa blanda ilustrada, buen estado.

souple. Condition: Assez bon. Préface par Guy de Maupassant, exemplaire numéroté (n° 42), 1 vol. grand in-12 br., C. Marpon & B. Flammarion, Paris, s.d. [ 1883 ] Très rare exemplaire d'un tirage numéroté sur papier de hollande, à très grandes marges, et dont aucune justification ne fait mention. Etat très satisfaisant (grandes marges un peu frottées, qq. rouss.). Pseudonyme du baron Toussaint, spécialiste du roman de moeurs souvent "gaulois", René Maizeroy (1856-1918) serait le modèle du personnage de "Bel-Ami" de Maupassant, qui préface l'ouvrage de son ami. Langue: Français. …

Paris, Librairie Charles Tallandier, (1898); 25,5x16,5 cm. Hardcover, cloth (sl.wear, sl.soiled). Xxii, 203 pp.(fine ex-library plate), with 225 text-engravings, 14 plates in colour 'hors-texte' and 2 etchings by Charles Wittmann (incl.tissue guards). Paper slightly age-browned, etchings foxed/ rousseurs, else good. …

Couverture rigide. Condition: Satisfaisant. 3ème Édition, Édition limitée. Relié en demi toile percaline marron à la bradel, pièce d'auteur et de titre dorée sur cuir bleu (frottée), *** couvertures du brochage non conservées, *** in-12, 18,4x12 cm environ, *** beau papier bien blanc exempt de rousseurs (pas de tirage de luxe annoncé). *** XV+214 pages. ********** Mention de troisième édition, parue un mois après la 1ère édition (d'après Guy de Maupassant), avec un avant-propos de Guy de Maupassant concernant la mort du dédicataire Gustave Flaubert daté du 1er Juin 1880 et une lettre-préface de G. Flaubert adressée à G. de Maupassant concernant la défense d'un de ses poèmes "Au bord de l'eau" contre le parquet d'Étampes qui l'attaquait. [Carteret. Le Trésor du Bibliophile Romantique et Moderne, 1801-1875. Tome II, page 106 pour l'édition originale]. ***.…

Hardcover - as published. Limited Edition. VG++. Color illus. throughout by Maurice Leloir, VG+ a.e.g. full blue leather with gilt decorations, five raised bands, decorative endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate, 203pp printed for G. Routledge by G. Chamerot. Spine is slightly sunned. Minor foxing. Binding tight. …

half leather. Condition: Very Good. xx, [4], 204, [3], with twelve full-page tissue guarded plates as called for. Finely bound by Birdsall, with their stamp to verso of first front endpaper. Leather rubbed along extremities; large discard stamp to decorative first endpaper and to verso of second - no other library indications. Swipe of blue stain to lower portion of untrimmed fore-edge. Top edge gilt. A handsome volume; no inscriptions; binding sound. Due to weight, please inquire for overseas shipping quotes. Maurice Leloir (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1. illustrated edition. First illustrated edition (by Maurice Leloir) 12 engraved plates (all with tissue guards) and 225 wood engraved vignettes and ornaments on top and sides of each page. --- --- --- --- London and New York, George Routledge and Sons, 1886. xx, 1st Edition; 4to 11 - 13 inches, [4], 204, [3], published as ONE volume, but here bound by Henry Sotheran in TWO volumes, in three-quarter red morocco, gilt, spines in six panels with raised bands. Some leaves with a little foxing. Near Fine. Maurice Leloir (illustrator). …

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. An exceptional and striking limited edition of the complete works of Guy de Maupassant, beautifully bound in half morocco and illustrated throughout by Robert Bonfils. In the original French. Beautifully uniformly bound in half morocco. Complete in fifteen volumes, this is a scarce limited edition of the works of Guy de Maupassant. This set is number 132 of 630 copies prined on Lafuma paper. Illustrated throughout by French illustrator, painter and designer Robert Bonfils, with 794 monochrome vignettes and 112 full page illustrations, both monochrome and in vibrant colour. Collated, complete. The complete works of 19th-century French author Henri Rene Albert Guy de Maupassant. Maupassant's short stories depict human lives and social forces in disillusioned and often pessimistic terms. Including the poetry and three hundred short stories of Maupassant, alongside the his six novels - including 'Une Vie', 'Bel-Ami' and 'Pierre et Jean' - and his three travel works such as 'La Vie Errante' and 'Sur L'eau'. With the publisher's orginal front wraps bound in to the start of each volume. With a preface and notices from Rene Dumesnil. In half morocco bindings with marbled paper covered boards, and gilt detailing to back strips. Externally, exceptional, with a touch of rubbing to raised bands, and minor loss of paper to rear of one board. Publisher's original front wraps bound in. Internally, generally firmly bound, but with bindings lightly strained following title pages of four volumes. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. Robert Bonfils (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. T-Abprevos; The Abbe Prevost; De Maupassant, Guy (preface); Leloir, Maurice (illustrations) History of Manon Lescaut and of the Chevalier Des Grieux By the Abbe Prevost with a Preface By Guy De Maupassant; Illustrated By Maurice Leloir.

A stunning livre de peintre illustrated with 14 STRIKING ORIGINAL HORS-TEXTE DRYPOINTS BY WEISBUCH, THE LAST OF WHICH IS SIGNED IN PENCIL BY THE ARTIST. Edition limited to 130 numbered copies beautifully printed on fine Rives wove paper (this copy printed for Pierre de Ridder.) Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps. Housed in the original cloth chemise and slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT, WITH NO DEFECTS. Weisbuch (illustrator).…

in-4 (17x25,5cm), reliure éditeur toilée, ornée d'un médaillon entouré d'un semis de fleurs et d'un encadrement doré de feuilles d'acanthe, tranche de tête dorée, 203p. Dos bruni présentant de petits manques de toile en tête et pied. Intérieur de toute fraîcheur. Bandeaux sur toutes les pages, frontispice et illustrations hors-texte en couleurs sous serpente. …