Frankfort Sommerville (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1913. xii, 169 pages. 20 full page color illustrations by Gustav Fraipont, Lucien Gautier, Rachael Kirchner, Maurice de Lambert, A. Marcel-Clement, G. Riom. 9 x 6.5", color stamped pictorial cloth, no dj. No dj, spine worn, edge frayed, library spine number, pocket, plate, text clean, tight, good/none.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 20 full page illustrations by Gustave Fairpont, Lucien Gautier, Raphael Kirchner, Maurice De Lambert, A. Marcel-Clement, G. Riom. Glue repair top of the spine, front blank end page missing, a few spots on side page edges. France.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Scattered foxing. Bookseller stamp and blindstamp to ffep. Covers mildly insected, edge bumped and frayed. Inscribed to the front pastedown by American film director John Frankenheimer to his wife Evans (not author signed. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 169+ads pages.

Illustrated Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. With 20 full-page illustrations in colour by Gustave Fraipont, Lucien Gautier, Raphael Kirchner, Maurice De Lambert, A.Marcel-Clement, G.Riom. 169 pages. Illustrated cloth has a few marks and edge and spine wear. Some of the pages could be cleaner and the binding stronger as some pages are loose. The tissue guarded plates are in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book Description: A & C Black, London, 1913. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good with just sl bumping. xii + 169 pp + leaf of adverts, illustrated by 20 full page colour plates with captioned tissue guards. One plate has a 2cm tear neatly repaired on verso (outside the illustration). Evocative pictorial coloured boards colour just a trifle subdued. t.e.g. A very nice copy. Extra shipping needed outside the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. SOMMERVILLE, Frankfort [169] pp. Adam and Charles Black 1913 w/ twenty full-page illustrations in colour by various Parisian artists: G. Fraipont, Raphael Kirchner, G. Riom, Lucien Gautier, Maurice de Lambert & A. Marcel-Clement A charming book on Paris and its enticing culture, shortly published before World War I and the great celebration of Parisian culture in the early twentieth century. The first edition of The Spirit of Paris, a beautiful book about the delights of the French capital written by Frankfort Sommerville. Published by Adam and Charles Black in 1913.In the publisher's original pictorial cloth, with a colour frontispiece of Notre Dame from the river Seine. Contains all other nineteen charming colour illustrations. Collated complete. Somerville captures the beautiful style which makes Paris the iconic city that it is, from its glorious art, fashion and theatre to its grand amusements, food and theater. During the early twentieth century, Paris saw a boom in culture and American visitors, and this book highlights why such was the case.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Cliford Webb's copy (the actor), signed by him in 1913. A nice clean copy with some minor wear to the boards. Very good or better.

Condition: NF. First edition. Hardcover book bound in the publisher's full decorative cloth-gilt. 23 cm. Top edges gilt. 169 pages. Contains 20 full-page color illustrations by a variety of artists. The book is in near fine condition. A few penciled prices to the front end pages. No other ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, interior pages bright. Light spotting to the front/back matter, book block edges and to a few interior pages. Light edge wear/bumping to the cloth covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fraipont, Gustave et al (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp xi, 169. 20 colour plates. 8 page publisher's list. Original pictorial cloth (binding signed by G. Riom - one of the book's illustrators). Light marking/rubbing to binding. Inscription to ffep and some soiling to the rear paste-down endpaper. A nice copy.

First edition. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to upper cover and spine. 320, [64] pp. A Good copy that is showing some rubbing and marks to the boards; the boards themselves are a little bowed and there is a spot of darkening to the spine. Leaves are tight and clean save for some sporadic foxing throughout. The front endpaper is showing cracks and is a touch loose; it is also showing a price of 6/-. Overall, a clean, sound copy of this rare novel by Sommerville, a France-based British editor and travel-writer.

Hardback, approx 9 x 6.5 inches. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and art nouveau pictorial designs to front and spine. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Some rubbing to corners and ends of spine. Small hole/split to cloth on rear spine edge. Lacks front free endpaper. Some occasional minor light foxing spots else pages clean and tight. Plates clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xii + 169pp. Illustrated with 20 colour plates.

Full Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Original full green cloth with green, red, white, black & gilt illustration on the front cover. Light wear and slightly soiled. Twenty full page color illustrations. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. Photographs available upon request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Gustave Fraipont, Lucien Gautier, Raphael Kirchner, Maurice de Lambert, A Marcel-Clement, G. Riom (illustrator). First edition. A charming book on Paris and its enticing culture, shortly published before World War I and the great celebration of Parisian culture in the early twentieth century. The first edition of The Spirit of Paris, a beautiful book about the delights of the French capital written by Frankfort Sommerville. Published by Adam and Charles Black in 1913.In the publisher's original pictorial cloth, with a colour frontispiece of Notre Dame from the river Seine. Contains all other nineteen charming colour illustrations. Collated complete.Somerville captures the beautiful style which makes Paris the iconic city that it is, from its glorious art, fashion and theatre, to its grand amusements, food and theater. During the early twentieth century, Paris saw a boom in culture and American visitors, and this book highlights why such was the case. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth. Externally, very smart, with the odd faint mark. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. A small scratch to picture on front board. Offsetting to end papers. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down and ink inscription to front free end paper. Internally, firmly bound, with very minor wear to hinge between leaves pp.40-41. Pages are bright and clean, with the rare faint spot to occasional leaf extremities. Very Good. book.

Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1-5] 6-118, original maroon cloth, front and spine panel stamped in gold, all edges untrimmed. First edition. Ten short pieces of fiction. The title story, a novelette, is told within a frame situation and traces a Swedish aristocrat's pursuit of classical learning and lore, culminating in his discovery of a genuine Greek water nymph on a tiny Mediterranean island. Their idyllic affair is overshadowed by tragedy when Count Adrien insists on bringing her back to the continent. She poses for a statue in Rome; importunes a Catholic priest, who comes to a bad end; and has some mysterious connection with a violinist who is himself a Greek satyr in disguise. She disappears one day and he must continue (to the South Seas) to fulfill his vow to erect a temple to Artemis in a place where no man has ever set foot. The hero confidently proclaims (to his audience, the frame narrator) his allegiance to the old gods, yet acts more like a proper Victorian gentleman around his nymph. The real confusion resides with the author. The other stories are not fantastic in any way. Amateurish writing. Bleiler (1978), p. 183. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Owner's name and date on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, a very good copy. A rare book, not found in any COPAC or OCLC libraries. (#113164).