French Alexandre Dumas (47 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket present. The book is bound in blue cloth with noticeable wear on the spine edges and corners. The binding shows some separation, and there is no dust jacket. The pages are aged but legible, with some foxing and discoloration typical of books from this period. The illustrations remain clear and add historical context. Illustrated with drawings on wood by eminent French and American artists (illustrator).…

NEW. NEW.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 322 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only faintly age-toned; frontis. has tissue guard; binding firm although there is a closed tear at upper portion of front gutter; black embossed boards with clear although tarnished gilt lettering on spine have light rubbing along corners and edges; scarcely visible splatter of stains on rear board.…

Condition: Fair. 360 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only faintly age-toned; frontis. has tissue guard; binding firm but both gutters, front and rear, are cracked; unfaded black embossed boards with clear gilt lettering on spine have light rubbing along corners and real abrasion at crown of spine panel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket present. The book is bound in blue cloth with visible wear, including some fraying at the spine edges and minor scratches on the cover. The binding remains intact, although there is some separation visible at the spine. There is no dust jacket present. The pages are slightly yellowed with age, but the text remains clear and legible. Illustrated with drawings on wood by eminent French and American artists (illustrator).…

VGD. VGD.

1st. Edn. of English translation. 305pp. In the original red cloth with gilt lettered spine. Slight damp mark to front board. Lettering to spine slightly dulled. This apart a very good hardback copy in a well worn unclipped wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Firmly bound brown boards, some rubbing and wear on the leather spine title, foxing in places inside. Georges Jeanniot (illustrator).

DER GRAF VON MONTE CHRISTO vollständig neu ins Deutsche übertragen und mit einleitenden Worten versehen von Philipp Wanderer. Mit einem Bildnisse des Dichters. Verlag A. Weichert Berlin o.J. (um 1900) 703 SS. gebunden (Hardcover,8°).

Green Embossed Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Circa 1890's. Please email for further details. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Frontispiece (illustrator). Fitzgerald.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A beautiful hardback book, fabulous design on front board, gilt title impressions on spine. Comes with gilt coloured box, slipcase. The book is in excellent condition, looks like it hardly been used or read. Normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. First published by The Folio Society in 1975. 219 pages, plus a few blank pages at the end of the book. All pages intact, all pages, text and lovely illustrations are in excellent, clean, readable order. Printed in Great Britain by The Compton Press limited, Compton Chamberlayne, Salisbury, set in 11 point Garamond type leaded 2 points, on Dalmore laid paper. Bound by W & J Mackay Limited, Chatham, in art silk cloth, blocked with a design by Sally Lou Smith. Another wonderful book from The Folio Society Limited.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. BOOK: Dark green leatherette; spine 4; gold leaping torchbearer on front with gold title and author's name on spine; Bernhard endpapers; light green topstain; previous owners name lightly and small(y) written on front endpaper; wear on spine edges. STORY: First published in 1848, La Dame aux Camélias (Camille) is a semi-autobiographical novel based on the author's brief love affair with a courtesan, Marie Duplessis. He convinces her to leave her life as a courtesan and to live with him in the countryside.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: slipcase Good. Folio Society Reprint. The boards on this Folio Society Edition are decorated and covered in a ' satin' type cloth , the boards , binding and text block are all square and tight, the text is accompanied by drawings. The cardboard slipcase which is covered in gold paper has a split along one side of the spine , and also wear to the ends of the slipcase. Book price includes 2nd class post in UK only. Drawings by Jennifer Campbell (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF ECELLENCE. FIRST MODERN CLASSIC. RARE First Modern Library Edition. Leatherette is covered in navy blue cloth; spine #4; leaping woman logo on front; Bernhard endpapers; front endpaper has discreet previous owners name written. Tiny store sticker on back EP reads: "The Random Book Shop, 1 Wick Avenue, Youngstown, O." SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, OVER 20 YEARS ON ABEBOOKS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. RARE FIST MODERN LIBRARY CLASSIC. GREEN LEATHERETTE. FIRST Modern Library Edition, 1928; spine #4; leaping woman logo on front; Bernhard endpapers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, VOL 2 ONLY , 1972, 1ST EDITION, LATER REPRINT ISSUE, VG/VG-, SOLD AS-IS, Small Red Cloth with bright Gold Gilt Titles on Spine Cvr, , APPEARS Very Little Read, VG with DJ, PGS ARE Clean, Bright & Tight, Minimal Wear to Bk, DJ Has Very Lite Shelf Wear, No Inscription or Marking, LITE DJ Scuffing & wear, X572 + ADS, BLUE TOPSTAIN ,Introduction by Marcel Girard, Professor French Literature in LONDON, DJ BY FRED EXELL ,Plain Blue Endpapers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback NODustjacket, NO JACKET, 1928, STATED 1st Modern Library, Black Cloth Gold Gilt edge Rub, Type 4 Toledano binding. . Book is VG-, AS-IS, SCUFF TO SPINE END OF CVR, Book is in good condition. Book is unmarked. Page 187 has 1" tear on the fore edge, but does not effect the text. No creased pages. Light tanning to pages. Binding is solid. Minor wear to softcover. , RUBING & SCUFFING TO CVR SPINE ENDS,with no writing or tears; tight unsplit copy, EDGE WEAR, leaping woman logo on front, Leatherette is covered in DARK navy blue cloth; 596 PGS, NO ADS IN Back,Young d'Artagnan wants to fight for the King and his country, but other fights and adventures come first. Who are the Three Musketeers and why do they want to kill him.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Grey & White Rockwell Kent Streamer man Endpapers HBDJ, 1950 , States 1st Modern Library on copyright pg, WITH 300 TITLES MENTIONED ON BACK OF FOXED DJ & Pre Zip code Coupon on back left side, 347 Titles mentioned on DJ VERSO, NF/VG, AS-IS, , NEAR Fine copy in blue cloth, scarlet panels, in correct price-clipped dustwrapper of fleur-de-lys design (347 titles on verso), spine slightly toned.Tiny chips tears edges of dustjacket, , Tight binding, clean pages.THICK dark Blue Cloth with Raised red box on front cvr enclosing title, 712 pgs + plus 6 page catalog of other titles End with Amok, DJ Protected Clear Mylar, Publisher Red Topstain, , , in blue bordered fleur-de-lys design DJ WITH REPEATED RED SYMBOL & 3 MUSAKETEERES IN BEIGE BOX ALL STANDING WITH HATS & SWORDS, Tilted in red & Black, Number 143 in series; For those 3 Inseparables, Athos, Porthos ,& Aramis, with their 4th comrade-in Arms, d'Artagnan, there never can be a Dull Moment.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1st Edition, Early Printing, 1944, UNDATED, (based on DJ 1940-49) BK IS VG+/ DJ GOOD+, AS-IS, (334 titles on DJ verso & OVER 300 TITLES MENTIONED ON BACK OF DJ with PreZipCode Coupon on Left side, 5 X 7 1/4 in. Rear of DJ has a tear and a small portion missing TOP EDGE, now proteccted in brodart. THICK Blue cloth boards. Scarce to find in this state. Rear of DJ has a FOX, Blue cloth with Gilt title inside red box , Plain Blue Dustjacket titled in black with running Streamer Man btm rt, front corner, , .Interior nice tight clean light wear, FOX, Tiny chips to DJ Spine Ends , 596 pgs+ ADS end with G73 subtreasury of American Humour, red Topstain , Number 143 in series; For those 3 Inseparables, Athos, Porthos ,& Aramis, with their 4th comrade-in Arms, d?Artagnan, there never can be a Dull Moment.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus or First Edition. Green cloth border embossed hardcover with a gilt spine title. Just slightly shaken otherwise secure binding with clean pages and light to moderate foxed pages. And some heavy color faded damp stains to the rear cover. About 7-1/2 x 5 with 400 pages. Rare. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HBDJ, 1928, STATED 1st Modern Library, PREZIP CODE COUPON ON BACK OF DJ MENTIONS 95 CENTS, ,12 mo, hardcover, black flex covers, first Modern Lib. edition. VG+/GOOD, TINY CHIPS, RUB WEAR EXTREMITIES & SPINE ENDS OF DJ, Top pages TOPSTAIN in pinkred. 596 pp. THICK .DARK BROWN Cloth Gold Gilt edge Rub, Type 4 Toledano binding. . Book is VG, AS-IS, LITE WRINKLE TO SPINE CVR GOLD GILT TITLE BRIGHT, Book is in VERYgood condition. Book is unmarked. No creased pages. Light tanning to pages. Binding is solid. tight unsplit copy ,LITE EDGE WEAR, leaping woman logo on front, Leatherette is covered in DARKBROWN cloth; 596 PGS, NO ADS IN Back.…

8vo. ½ p. on bifolium. - Together with three letters in relation to a magnetist séance organized by Alexandre Dumas. 8vo. Altogether 8 pp. Further includes a printed leaflet of the "Cercle Magnétique de Paris" from March 1882. Highly interesting collection of letters relating to a séance with the celebrated medium Alexis Didier, organized by Dumas on 10 October 1847. The autograph letter by Dumas is addressed to the Abbé Villette, chaplain at Saint-Cyr, who was present at the séance and is central to Dumas's description of the event in an article for La Presse from 17 October 1847 entitled "Magnétisme". Dumas asks the Abbé for a meeting in Versailles in response to a letter: "Oui je me mets sur les rangs. Mais voyez je reçois votre lettre aujourd'hui. Pouvez vous prendre un autre rendez-vous je veux être entendu à Versailles - voyez agréez - mon jour sera le votre où plutôt votre jour sera le mien". While the context of this undated letter is not specified, it may have been written in the aftermath of the publication of the article that had affected Villette greatly. On 24 October 1847, Villette wrote to the director of La Presse, Émile de Girardin, quoting an earlier letter that he had asked Girardin to publish in reply to Dumas's article and renewing this request: "In an article entitled 'Magnetism' my name appeared in your journal of the 17th inst.; immediately and for important reasons I appealed to your justice, objecting to this article. My request should have appeared on the 20th inst. and my letter has nevertheless not been seen among the columns of La Presse. [.] Here is a copy of my first letter: a friend of mine has just brought me the issue of your journal from the 17th inst., wherein I see, to my great astonishment, M. Alexandre Dumas in an article [on] Magnetism, citing my name in testimony to the facts that he articulates. Mere chance brought me to this séance of magnetism: I did not express my opinion either for or against the facts cited by M. Dumas; why then does he choose to stress my being a priest, who must remain a stranger to everything that is not religion? I have never liked to talk publicly about myself but today I am forced to overcome this repugnance because I cannot allow anyone to invoke my name to vouch for the facts he states and for the consequences that could be drawn from them" (transl.). - Indeed, Dumas' article from 17 October 1847 states that Villette joined the séance accidentally and more or less unsuspectingly. As Villette and Didier did not know each other and Villette was not dressed in his cassock, Dumas asked the "somnambulant" Didier about Villette's profession and his work as a chaplain at Saint-Cyr. To the great astonishment of the participants, Didier gave the correct answers, at least according to the article. - It is unclear whether Villette had to fear negative consequences from the clergy or his employer for being invoked in an article on magnetism. He did, however, receive at least two letters from readers of La Presse, who were eager to know more about the séance and attached great importance to Villette's opinion on magnetism; these letters form part of the collection. On 22 October 1847, Jules Bouly de Lesdain, a judge in Dunkerque, wrote in reference to the article, finally to ask Villette: "In spite of all the merit we all recognize in our great novelist as a writer, we are a little suspicious of the deviations of his imagination, and when it comes to serious matters, we need further testimony than his to assure us that he has not been mistaken, that he could not have been mistaken. I would like to believe in magnetism, but I shall still hesitate unless a respectable testimony such as yours, dear Sir, proves to me that my hesitation is unfounded, that my doubts are not reasonable. I do not have the honour of knowing you, dear Sir, but I have the confidence to address you, convinced that you will enlighten me and tell me whether I should believe or not" (transl.). - Even more curious is a long letter by Colonel Julien Combe, commander of the fortress of Soissons and "former pupil of the military school of Saint-Cyr" from 27 October 1847, that invokes Villette's priesthood in requesting a final answer to the question whether "God has deigned to grant to some privileged creatures like Alexis such a large share of his immeasurable intelligence" and whether Villette really "arrived unexpectedly at M. Alex.dre Dumas' house, in such a way that he could not warn Alexis, and provide him with the necessary information on your account". Should this be true, Combe "will believe in it as in the mysteries of our religion", and asks Villette for Alexis Didier's contact information. - We do not know whether or not Alexandre Dumas actually believed in magnetism, but occult phenomena featured prominently in his novels. The article on the séance was certainly just as much an advertisement for his serialized novel "Joseph Balsamo" that is indirectly referenced as it is testimony to his fascination with magnetism. - Alexis Didier (1826-86) was one of the most famous mediums and clairvoyants of his time. He was on familiar terms with Alexandre Dumas and inspired his characterization of the Italian occultist Joseph Balsamo. - The letter by Dumas with several minor tears to the margins minimally affecting the text and stronger browning to the upper margin. The letter by Villette shows strong foxing and minor tears partly affecting the text; the letters to him have minimal browning and tears.…

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8vo. 2 pp. With autograph envelope. To an unidentified count in Saint-Gratien, asking him to forward an originally enclosed letter of apology to Julie Bonaparte, marquess of Roccagiovine: "Voulez-vous bien faire passer la lettre ci-jointe à la marquise de Roccagiovine dont j'ignore l'adresse. Je suis absent de Paris depuis deux mois et ce n'est qu'hier en traversant la ville et en entrant à l'académie que j'y ai trouvé sa carte avec ses félicitations à propos de ma croix de commandeur. Je lui explique mon silence et je lui fais mes excuses, qu'est ce qu'elle doit penser de moi.".…

An interesting item occupying the zone in which French connoisseurship and literature overlap. In 1880 - three years before the present item - Maurice Mauris (Marchese di Calenzano) described a visit to Dumas fils's Paris house in Rue de Villers. 'The walls above the library are enriched with a priceless collection of paintings, modern and antique. Diaz, Fortuny, Marchal, Vernet, Delacroix are there seen at their best. Dumas generally presents himself with a new painting after he has presented a new book to the public. Those paintings he styles "the prizes of encouragement he has won." This letter is 5pp, 12mo. Fifty-six lines, neatly written. On two matching bifoliate letterheads. In good condition, lightly aged, with unobtrusive remains of tape mounts. Folded once for postage. Addressed to 'Mon cher ami' and signed 'A vous. | A. Dumas fils'. No dated, but with '1883' in another hand at top right of first page. He begins by explaining why he is 'à la campagne', and noting that he doesn't have a very good recollection of the pictures and their prices. He begins by stating: 'Il y avait, je crois, un paysage de Courbet dont je ne demandais que 1200 f. pour moi'. He proceeds to refer to 'un paysage de Rousseau, avec soleil couchant', and 'un jeune fille de Diaz assise dans un jardin avec des fleurs - Homme au balai de Meissonier 1500 f.' The prices, he explains, are 'pour vous et dans l'espérance de vous êtes utile'. The recipient can ask '2 ou 300 f de plus de chaque chose', and the outcome 'fera encore une bonne affaire'. He refers to a 'très joli Fromentin dont Petit m'a offert 1700 f. et que Je lui ai refusé si vous le voulez pour ce prix, il est à vous. Si j'étais a Paris, je trouverais peut être autre chose. Je ne me souviens plus de quelles acquarelles vous voulez parler. Seulement, cette fois, vous le comprenez, les tableaux me peuvent partir que vendus. Ah! il y avait aussi un paysage de Rousseau, crépuscule'. There is another Rousseau, 'de sa première manière, très intéressantes entre 250 et 400 f. selon la dimensions - des Daubigny, des Troyon - Je ne me rappelle plus tout - il y en a dans toutes les chambres'.…

8vo. Together 2 pp. According to a collector's note, one of the letters was addressed to the fellow playwright Victorien Sardou. Dumas asks the recipient to join a meeting with the playwright Émile Augier on the "affair of the théâtre français" the following day: "Augier vient demain matin à 9 h pour causer avec nous de l'affaire du Théâtre français [.]". - The second letter is to ask an intimate friend or family member to keep him updated over the next two days, probably in a matter of health, since he is not able to go to Colombes himself: "Il m'est impossible d'aller à Colombes. Donne des nouvelles aux porteurs et tiens-moi au courant par un mot demain et après - qui sont les deux jours définitifs dans ces atteintes-là." - Dust-stained.…

4to (218 x 278). 4½ pages on blue stationery. French manuscript of Dumas's article "I voti di Lord Palmerston", published in Italian in his Neapolitan newspaper, "L'Indépendent", on 8 April 1863. Dumas directly addresses Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister of the UK from 1859 to 1865, criticizing the United Kingdom's lack of support for the Italian and Polish causes and arguing that the existence of small countries should be supported to promote a healthy competition among the peoples. - Dumas attacks Palmerston by comparing the UK and France: unlike Britain, he writes, France (which had begun to back Italy in 1859) was not a country which acted upon its interests, but instead gave in to its passions. While revolutions were not in the French national interest, they benefitted humanity as a whole through achievements such as the constitutional system or universal suffrage, which he calls the last word in popular liberty. Dumas states that it was not England but France that had called for universal suffrage among the army, servants, and Black people: "Est-ce l'angleterre qui à appelle au vote universel, l'armée, les domestiques a la même les nègres - non, c'est la france". He criticises Palmerston's inaction with regard to Poland, wondering whether the UK thought that moral support was enough to rein in Russia: "Lord Palmerston espère que grace à l'appui moral quel angleterre donne a la pologne - les empereurs de Russie serons liberaux et magnanimes envers les polonais". He postulates that ultimately the causes of all countries were the same and that the ruin of any one of them would mean the loss of a champion in the struggle for the future: "[.] leur cause est la même et que chacun d'eux qui tombe enlève un athlète à lutte de l'avenir". - Alexandre Dumas, author of "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo" and "Les Trois Mousquetaires", founded the newspaper "L'Indépendent" in Naples in 1861, having left France ten years prior due to frictions with Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. Published in Italian, "L'Indépendent" supported the cause of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Risorgimento. Dumas was convinced that the function of writers in society was through politics, and attempted to enter the political sphere directly through publishing his own newspaper. - First leaf slightly frayed on one edge.…

4to (218 x 278). 2½ pp. On blue stationery. A manuscript for Dumas's Neapolitan newspaper "L'Indépendent" in which he recorded several incidents about which he intended to write in the next issue. These include the report of a poor woman from the Pennino district who fell from the third floor while shaking out carpets from her window: "Hier une pauvre femme du quartier Perrino, secouant des tapis par la fenêtre, tomba du troisième étage, etre blessa grièvement sur le pave". Dumas further records a dagger fight, the arrest of a man who had insulted a guard "au par simple distraction", an accident caused by a carriage driver, the revenge of a jealous husband, and the stoning of a pretty girl. He concludes that it would be difficult to believe the lust for evil betrayed by these occurrences, were it not for the obliging reports of the police: "La vérité de nous lesions de pareils facts ailleurs que dans les rapports même que la police nous communiquéz avec une obligéance dans nous ne savions trop la remercier - nous ne croisions pas à une lettre luxure du mal .". - Alexandre Dumas, author of "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo" and "Les Trois Mousquetaires", founded the newspaper "L'Indépendent" in Naples in 1861, having left France ten years prior due to frictions with Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte. Published in Italian, "L'Indépendent" supported the cause of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Risorgimento. Dumas was convinced that the function of writers in society was through politics, and attempted to enter the political sphere directly through publishing his own newspaper.…

4to. 2 pp. Pasted on a slightly larger sheet of paper. Published in his newspaper Le Mousquetaire" in 1854, an adaption of Moritz Saphir aphorism about Max von Goritz": Une femme muette peut-elle contredire son mari? Oui en devenant sourde car elle ne l'écoute pas. Le mot Politique commence par un P parce que cette lettre pareille aux hommes politiques sait adopter toutes les positions: en la tournant de droite à gauche, elle devient un Q; en la plaçant debout, elle devient un D; et en la retournant de gauche à droite elle se transforme en B. [] Dieu, dans Sa Divine prévoyance n'a pas donné de barbe aux femmes parce qu'elles n'auraient pas su se taire pendant qu'on les eut rasées. [] Rougir est chez les Jeunes Filles tantôt la carte de visite, tantôt la lettre mortuaire de l'innocence".…

4to. 1/3 p. Autograph manuscript of an early version of a passage from Garibaldi's Memoirs in 1860. Here in the third person, it would be developed in the first person at the end of Chapter XIV of the second volume and recounts a moment during the siege of Rome against the French under General Oudinot (1849), evoking the towering figure of his chaplain Ugo Bassi.…