Preface by Guy De Maupassant (8 results)

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.…

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).…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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). …