Hallard Alys Translator (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Yellow w/black lettering. Minor general soil/wear, faint uneven sunning mark to rear board. Previous owner signature front pastedown, list of names in pencil rear endpaper, wrinkle in paper of rear pastedown appears to be binding flaw. Text is clean and bright save a handful of thumb smudges. I think this is perhaps an autobiography of Laperche, or that of a fictitious novelist named Madame de Myeres.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. Original publisher's blue cloth binding. Two volumes, complete. 6 1/4" x 9." Volume One: 326 pages, complete; nine black and white plates, complete. Volume Two: 445 pages, complete; six black and white plates, complete. Gilt laurel wreath decoration on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Edouard Herriot (1872-1957) was a French Radical politician of the French Third Republic. He served three times as Prime Minister and many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies. Herriot also led the first Cartel des Gauches (Left Cartel), an alliance between the Radical-Socialist Party and the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO). This book is a biography of French socialite Jeanne-Francoise Julie Adelaide Recamier (1777-1849) who is commonly known as Juliette Recamier. Recamier had a popular salon which drew many Parisians from leading literary and political circles.…