Madame Gilbert (17 results)

Softcover. Condition: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations. Collectif (illustrator).…

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good copy of the softcover edition. The text, which is in French, is wholly unmarked, pristine, and the binding is bright and fresh in appearance, with no creasing to the spine. A sharp copy.

Condition: New.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. 429pp. 7.2 inches/18.5 cm. No dw as issued. Blue leatherette, gilt titles and decoration to spine, impressed line border to boards, rounded corners. About as new with lightly foxed edges. Internally small faint code and trace of pencilled code or price to endpaper, else all contents pristine. Text in French. Avant-Propos by Gilbert Sigaux. 450g (French, Literature, Biography, Seventeenth Century, Women) Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Broché. Condition: Bon. Petit in-8° broché de 100 pages sur joli papier gaufré teinté, orné de bandeaux et culs-de-lampe, enrichi d'un envoi de l'auteur. Couverture insolée et frottée, rousseurs éparses sinon intérieur frais et en bon état.Peu corant. Signé par l'auteur.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Montez, Madame Lola, Countess of Landsfeld [Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert] 1821-1861. ARTS OF BEAUTY; Or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet with Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 18 Ann Street, (1858). First edition. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt print spine and top board emblem, brown eps. Small 8vo. pp. xvii, (1), 19-132, [2], [28 catalog with various page numberings] . Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Cap chip repaired and rear hinge reinforced by our in-house binder KTB. Several spots of foxing internally. Copy has half title with no bottom print and original tipped in Red printed Ad stub before the catalog. Irish born Elizabeth adopted multiple stage personas throughout her life, but at this time, the Spanish dancer Lola Montez. Multiple male liaisons earned her the title scandalous with one gifting her a countess title (Ludwig I, King of Bavaria). You may 'read all about her' lengthy life exploits in Wikipedia. $750.00.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Madame Lola MONTEZ, Countess of Landsfeld [GILBERT, Elizabeth Rosanna]. The Arts of Beauty; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet. With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascinating. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1858] First edition. Includes the half-title page; copyright page with stereotyper and printer name at bottom, and 12-page publisher's catalogue at rear. A charming guidebook to beauty by Lola Montez (1821-1861), 19th-century global celebrity and one of the most intriguing and notorious women of her time. Born Eliza Gilbert in Ireland, she reinvented herself as Lola Montez, a Spanish dancer who performed the bolero on stages across the world, rose to the title of Countess, dined at the Café de Paris with Balzac and George Sand, nearly caused a revolution in Poland, and brought down the King of Bavaria. Her lovers included Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas. Drawn from the author's own experiences as a courtesan and performer, the book offers advice on exercise, diet, skincare, hair, and fashion, with an additional section on the art of fascinating. This copy has a few ink markings by a previous reader in the chapter dedicated to hair loss, and an annotation to the page containing Lord Dupuytren's recipe for his famous pomade, 'which actually overcame the evil of baldness in thousands of cases where it was applied.' (p 86) xvii, 132, [12 - publisher's catalogue] pp. 8vo, original cloth, gilt to front board and spine. Small loss to top corner of the front endpaper. Some scattered foxing/spotting, occasionally heavy. A few ink markings and annotations. Very good. Ref: Divine Lola by Christina Morato (2017).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 514 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.15 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1913 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 546 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 546 Language: English.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1856 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 696 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 696 Language: English.…

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 696 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1856. A substantial nineteenth-century English edition of fairy tales associated with Madame d'Aulnoy, presented in a large illustrated format and reflecting the Victorian reception of French conte de fées literature. The volume is of bibliographic interest both for its literary content and for the work of James Robinson Planché and John Gilbert, whose names are linked with the English adaptation and illustration of this classic material. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…