Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1855-1921
Jullian, Philippe; Translated by John Haylock and Francis King
Published by Viking Press, 1965
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First Printing in price-clipped dust jacket, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, bright purple and black cloth boards near-immaculate, binding tight pages bright, jacket shows virtually no wear, name to endpaper edge, else Fine (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; 288pp indexed & illus. Seller Inventory # 32253
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Title: Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de ...
Publisher: Viking Press
Publication Date: 1965
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition.
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PRINCE OF AESTHETES, COUNT ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU 1855-1921
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Conditiion is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, a touch sunned at edges, minimal shelf wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; rubbed, edges have a few chips. Bio. Stax. Seller Inventory # 54198
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Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1855-1921
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 288 pp. Cloth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1/2" tear to jacket's front panel. Seller Inventory # x08963
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Prince of Aesthetes Count Robert de Montesquiou 1855-1921
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Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Assez bon. Quelques déchirures sur les bords de la jaquette. Seller Inventory # PJM1968
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Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou 1855-1921
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First American edition. First American edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French. Fine in near fine, price clipped dust jacket. Biography if fin-de-siecle figure Robert de Montesque (1855-1921), the French poet, art collector and interpreter, painter and all-around "dandy", an arbiter of poetic and social elegance in the era. As an art critic, he launched the Modern Style (which we now call Art Nouveau); as a model he posed for Whistler and other famous portraitists; ; his poetic experiments influenced Apollinaire; he was a friend of Proust, Oscar Wilde (Dorian Gray was in part modeled on him), Mallarme, and Verlaine. Seller Inventory # E30402
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Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1855-1921
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Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. 288 pages including the index. Dust jacket has 1/4" chip with a tear top rear by spine. Price is clipped. Seller Inventory # 335484
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Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert De Montesquiou, 1855-1921
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Seller: BIBLIOPE by Calvello Books, Oakland, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good(+). First Edition. 288 pages: illustrations, portraits; 22 cm; index. Contents: Introduction -- The upper crust -- The child of his grandmothers -- A much admired young man -- Des esseintes -- Seraphitus -- The Japanese of Passy -- Poetic shopping -- Picture of Dorian Gray -- The mauve peril -- The poet's teachers -- The poet -- 'Marie-Antoinette pensive, and Louis XIV knowing' -- A professor of beauty -- A piano, a cane and some swords -- Nineteen hundred -- The pavilion of the muses -- The peacock and his sorrows -- The hero and the dancing girl -- The palace of quarrels -- The Plato of V?sinet -- Hour-glasses and tear-bottles -- St Charlus. ? Decadence (Literary movement) -- France. Aestheticism (Literature) Dandies -- France -- Biography. ?crivains fran?ais -- 20e si?cle -- Biographies. D?cadentisme -- France. Esth?tisme (Litt?rature) Dandys -- France -- Biographies. Aestheticism (Literature) Authors, French. Dandies. Decadence (Literary movement) Named Person: Montesquiou-F?zensac, Robert, comte de, 1855-1921. Montesquiou-F?zensac, Robert, comte de, 1855-1921. Biographies. Biographies. Biographies. Time: 1900-1999 Geographic: France. Class Descriptors: LC: PQ2625.O39; Dewey: 841/.9/12; B Responsibility: Philippe Jullian; translated from the French by John Haylock and Francis King. Jullian, Philippe, author. Haylock, John, translator. King, Francis, 1904-; translator. Nice copy. Very good(+) to near fine(-) with small neat personal owner signature to front endpaper and edges faintly foxed; in a near fine(+) price-clipped jacket in archival mylar. Seller Inventory # 101135
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Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou, 1855-1921
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Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/W Photo (illustrator). 1st. dj w/lite wear, unclipped price, in mylar; owner's name; black c w/lpurple boards, slight sunning at top edge, gilt & gree titles on spine; 288 clean, unmarked pages/index. Seller Inventory # 094919
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Prince Of Aesthetes Count Robert De Montesquiou 1855-1921
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Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. JULLIAN, Philippe [288] pp. The Viking Press 1968 8 5/8" x 6" Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, Comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac (7 March 1855, Paris 11 December 1921, Menton), was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. He is reputed to have been the inspiration both for Jean des Esseintes in Joris-Karl Huysmans' À rebours (1884) and, most famously, for the Baron de Charlus in Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu (1913 1927). He also won a bronze medal in the hacks and hunter combined event at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Seller Inventory # 16098
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Prince of Aesthetes: Count Robert de Montesquiou 1855-1921
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Seller: Four Rivers Books, LLC, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
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cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Octavo, quarter bound in black cloth with purple cloth covered sides. Fine in a fine dust jacket protected by a plastic sleeve. Inscribed on the half-title page with an extremely elaborate pen drawing in the style of the period Jullian loved. An inflential book in Jullian's long list of important books. His literary efforts helped usher in the revival of interest in Symbolism and Art Nouveau. Seller Inventory # 16591
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