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Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condizione: Very Good. 19 pages. Michel de Montaigne is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 13 x 21 cms. Category: Retrospective Review; Special Interest. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pea green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered in black with vertical parallel lines to the front cover. 18mo. 6½'' x 4½''. Contains frontispiece, (viii), 92 pp (+ iv pp publisher's catalogue dated January 1912). Some pencil underlining and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. DJ clipped; small tear on top spine edge; wear on edges. Book is covered in royal blue cloth; gold lettering on spine; ML endpapers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Pictorial DJ unclipped; covered in mylar; light wear on top and bottom spine edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. A PERENIAL FAVORITE. Bright green cloth Boards #11, 1963-67, with bright gold lettering on spine; Kent Endpapers. DJ is covered in mylar; in Very Good condition also. STORY: A plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. In April, thousands of rats stagger into the open and die. When a mild hysteria grips the population.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original beige cloth covers, black and pale blue title block and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. ISBN 0416721206. Contains 250 printed pages of text, dark grey end papers. Fine condition book, in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. LITERARY CRITICISM.

Stipple engraving, from Knight's "Gallery of Portraits",

Stipple engraving, from Knight's "Portraits", a little spotting on surround,

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Gray DJ covered in mylar; wear on top and bottom spine edges; Per Kamin, inside listings has Faulkner, As I Lay Dying but not listed is Faulker's Pylon making this a Spring 1967 book. BOOK is covered in clean Kelly Green cloth; Kent Endpapers. STORY: A plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. In April, thousands of rats stagger into the open and die. When a mild hysteria grips the population.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. DJ is covered in mylar; Very Good condition; BOOK covered in Bright Blue Cloth, Spine #11, clean Kent Endpapers. ABOUT: From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his feelings about women and loneliness and art.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. BROOKLINE BOOKSTALL, 20+ YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Pictorial DJ covered in mylar to protect; top and bottom edges worn; soiling on back; chips on top and bottom edges; with 403 titles listed on inside. BOOK: Bright Kelly green boards #8; clean Kent Endpapers. STORY: A plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. In April, thousands of rats stagger into the open and die. When a mild hysteria grips the population.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains [xxxix]-2, 487 printed pages of text with 12 pages of monochrome archive photographs. Cheap paper browning to the margins, crease lines across the top corners. Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the spine ends, not price clipped, Dillons bookshop sticker to the rear cover. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0297790021 FRANCE [Literature & History).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. SMALL IMPORTANT BOOK: RARE TRUE FIRST: Brown Leatherette; Brown Marble Endpapers; Spine 1; Gold BL logo on front with gold title and author's name on spine; Brown top-stain; C4 Catalog with 50 Titles at front. STORY: Candide, who wanders around the world, going from one misfortune to the next, all the while He feels that His optimistic philosophy is being challenged. It is an interesting read written as a criticism of optimism, and I recommend that everyone reads it at least once in a lifetime. (Wiki).

VIII, 520 untrimmed pages. - Publisher's titled softcover (ca. 22,5 x 15,5 x 5 cm). *** [Ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF bis Donnerstag, den 14.05.2026 / Expiring SPRING-SALE until Thursday, May 14, 2026: um über 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 46,50] --- FIRST EDITION, SOFTCOVER ORIGINAL. - Rearcover with shallow red stamp '"LA REIMPORTATION DE CE LIVRE EN FRANCE EST INTERDIT'. - Cover slightly used, else in best condition.

1 blank page, foretitle, engraved frontispice-portrait, 114 untrimmed pages on large paper, 1 blank p. - Publisher's olive-grey wrapper, bound in modern orange cloth with holograph spinelabel; 8vo.(ca. 23 x 16,5 cm). *** [Ausklingender FRÜHLINGS-VERKAUF bis Donnerstag, den 14.05.2026 / Expiring SPRING-SALE until Thursday, May 14, 2026: um über 30% REDUZIERTER PREIS / PRICE-REDUCTION of over 30%; ehemaliger Preis / previously EUR 46,50] --- FIRST EDITION, 1 OF ONLY 50 COPIES ON 'PAPIER DE HOLLANDE'(only edition / 'seule tirage'); INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ''A Monsieur Francisqu[?] Sarcey /. . .''(French journalist and dramatic critic, 1827-1899). - While the rearcover is bound-in completely, the frontcover is trimmed to its black frame surrounding the title-imprint and tipped-on grey stronger large paper. On the verso of that sheet is tipped-on a cut-out part of the former wide margin of the original cover with the author's holograph dedication. --- Inner frontpanel of the new binding (apparently from the 1980ies) with tipped-in german auction-catalogue extract (of this copy) and a longer typed bio-bibliographic note on Bengesco. A WELL PRESERVED COPY.

Ninth printing in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8½'' x 5¼''. Contains 119 + ii pp catalogue listings of Noonday Press paperbacks. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. PHILOSOPHY.

Uniform matching hard back binding in contemporary aqua green cloth covers, faded gilt title and author lettering to the spines. 12mo 6'' x 4''. Contents: volume II 431; volume III 387; volume IV 346. Volume I is missing, armorial bookplate inside each front end paper belonging to George Blackshaw, rubbing to the covers, hinges still sound, text block with light foxing to the end leaves. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History).

Condizione: Good. - Approximately 119 words penned in black ink on a 8-1/4 inch high by 5-1/4 inch wide sheet of bluish-gray paper. Signed "B. S Hilaire". The paper is lightly bumped with its edges slightly faded. There is a small tear to the right edge. Folded twice for mailing. Good. Barthelemy-Saint-Hilaire writes in French to an English gentleman who has been referred to him by Lord Houghton. He apologizes for failing to find him at a crowded function. He explains that he had ordered the guards to make sure that the gentleman got past the door, and had also brought with him a friend who spoke very good English. He says that he is completely at the gentleman's disposal if he can be of use in acquainting him with "nos affaires politiques", which at the moment are very complicated.Jules Barthelemy-Saint-Hilaire [1805-1895] was a French statesman and philosopher. In his early years he worked for the Ministry of Finance and was an active journalist. After 1830 he gave up politics in order to devote himself to the study of ancient philosophy, undertaking a translation of Aristotle which occupied him for most of his life. After the revolution of 1848 he was elected a republican deputy from the department of Seine-et Oise. Following further political upheavals he was apppointed senator for life. From 18800-81 he was minister of foreign affairs in the cabinet of Jules Ferry.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. RARE SURVIVING DJ is covered in mylar; has price of 95 cents; 242 Titles Listed on Inside of DJ; Spring 1936; inch chip on top spine with small chips on corners (see scan). BOOK is covered in Green BALLOON cloth; Spine #7; Large torchbearer on front; Kent endpaper; and green topstain. SYNOPSIS: The book's controversial assertions that the life of Jesus should be written like the life of any historic person, and that the Bible could and should be subject to the same critical scrutiny as other historical documents caused some controversy and enraged many Christians, and many Jews were enraged because of its depiction of Judaism as foolish and absurdly illogical and for insisting that Jesus and Christianity was superior (Wiki).

Eigenhändiger Brief (Kartenbrief, 1/2 S. kl. 8 to) in violetter Tinte mit Ort, Datum, Unterschrift signiert - an Cher ami, Andre Bequnier in Le Vesinet betreffend Bouquet de Glycere Sncy, Vendredi 26.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Front inner Flap DJ 95 cents INTACK, Yellow & White Torch Bearer endpaper have Date, Name, small ink markout , HBDJ, 1927, Stated 1ST Modern Library EDITION on Copyright pg, Half Title og mended Repair, BLUE cloth with gilt on front cvr running man words modern library in Gilt, Flex Board binding w/ Dust Jacket. Overall: VG- in GOOD+ DJ with tiny Corner DJ Chips & small Chips Tears Base Foxed DJ Spine NOT Affecting Print, ; has name and date on yellow/white endpapers; else Clean interior; front hinge at title page is cracked Slightly ; else Tight binding; Blue flex boards has hint of wear; gilt lettering and design are bright and clean; DJ has list of titles inside But NO specific # mentioned; it doesn't state how many at top, just say complete list of titles; 95 cent price intact inner flap; has chipping at corners; minor edge wear; fits tight. Small 6 3/4 X 4 1/2 IN APPROX, Interior Lite FOX, Back DJ says Are you pleased with this ML Book & has Pre ZipCode coupon & mentions 95 cents.

8vo. 1 p. Thanking a director at Libriaire Stock for a "gesture of sympathy" and expressing his hope to see Gaston: "Merci pour le bon [?] et pour la carte. Vous êtes, et chez Stock et vous, trop diligents dans vos gestes de sympathie. On en a honte. J'espère voir Gaston ces jours ci. Il est en vacances mais il revient de temps en temps à Paris [.]". - On stationery of the Nouvelle Revue française. With some deeper tears and browning.

3 pp. on bifolium. Large 8vo. With integral autograph address panel. To the "bureaux du journal la France rue des filles St. Thomas, place de la bourse, Paris", about linguistic matters, with a reference to M. Ch. Nodier as a linguist and discussing the ancient origins of the grammatical cases: "C'est d'une question de grammaire que je voudrais demander le soutien à [.] mon honorable et spirituel confrère de l'institut M. Ch. Nodier qui s'est particulièrement occupé de Linquistique [.] Mais dans les declinaison des substantifes et leurs differents cas, appelés nominatif, genitif, datif, acusatif, vocatif, ablatif, quelle peut en etre la raison? [.] J'ay [.] y voir l'expression des deux traites qui comprennent toute l'economie des sociétés humaines, societé domestique et de producteur soiciété politique ou publique et de conservation. Le nominatif qui s'exprime ou se nomme lui [meme], ego ego tam qui tam dit le pouvoir supréme [.]". - Bonald took an important role in the Bourbon Restoration, implementing a law that in 1822 abolished the freedom of press. He is remembered for developing a set of social theories that went on to shape the ontological framework from which French sociology would emerge. - Small cuts and clips from opening.

XXVII (I), incl. titlepage, 'Praemonitum', 'Fabricio dedicato', 'Fabricio praefatio', 'De Sexto Empirico Testimonia', 'Editiones Sexti Empirici', 'Henricus Stephani Dedicatio', 'Gentiani Herveti Dedicatio', 'Ad lectorem. . .'; 355 pages. / Titlepage, 894 pages, incl. (startin with p. 829) I. 'Index scriptorum et virorum illustrium a Sexto memoratorum.', II. 'Index vocum graecarum.', III. 'Index locorum s. scripturae in notis ad Sextum . . .', IV. 'Index scriptorum in notis laudatorum.', V. 'Index rerum'. - Publisher's gently gilt-decorated and -titled darker-bronze halfcloth-bindings with brown panels and cloth-sharpcorners; large.-8vo.(ca. 23 x 15 x 8 cm; ca. 1,2 kg.). *** IMPROVED EDITION (1st 1718 in 1 volume), much better readable than the old one; THE 3 KNOWN 'BOOKS ON PYRRHONISM' AND ALL 11 'PROS' IN 2 VOLUMES, WITH NEWLY ADDED COMMENTARIES AND EXTENSIVE INDICES. - Panels slightly rubbed, interior with slight cigarette-smake smell (disappears at open standing over time); A VERY GOOD SET.

3 letters 8vo (135 x 210 mm), 3 pp. (one on a bifolium), plus one letter 12mo (114 x 130 mm), 1 p. Correspondence from one of France's prominent philosophers and republican politicians during the Second Empire and the Third Republic, some dating from his brief tenure as president of the latter. Together, they offer a cross-section of his trajectory from oppositional thinker to head of government. - 1) Undated letter referring to the recent publication of his work Le Devoir, which appeared in 1854: "Permettez-moi de vous offrir un exemplaire d'un livre que je viens de publier sur le Devoir. J'ai choisi, comme vous le voyez, un beau sujet. Puisse je ne pas être la voix qui crie dans le désert." The work was an expression of his republican principles in opposition to the power of Napoleon III. - 2) A statement reading "Je jure obéisance à la constitution en fidélité à l'empereur", dated Paris, 9 May 1863, probably in connection with his standing as a candidate in the elections of the following month. The careful wording was clearly chosen to allow the republican statesman to avoid swearing loyalty to the emperor directly. - 3) Paris, 19 January, year not given but clearly 1877 as it is on letterhead of the Ministery of the Interior, a post he held together with Presidency between 12 December 1876 and 17 May 1877, which accounts for how busy he was at the time: in attempting to arrange dinner with a friend, he states that Monday is the only day he has free all week. - 4) 13 December, no year. Personal blue paper embossed JS. A letter on business, seemingly the signing of a letter - no response from Martel, while Languinois abstains as he is no longer a deputy. If from 1876 as seems likely, this would date to the day after Simon assumed the posts of Président du Conseil des ministres and Ministre de l'Intériuer. The personal letterhead implies a more informal side of political negotiations. - A collection which together offers glimpses into the life of a politician and intellectual of later nineteenth-century France. - Light browning according with age, one item with creases and tears, repaired, some very light smudging and staining in a few places. All items clear and legible, all signatures clean and elegant.

Postcard format. 1 p. With autograph address. To the Parisian publishing house Librairie Stock, requesting a reviewer's copy of Albert Thibaudet's "Histoire de la littérature française" for his journal "Esprit": "Emmanuel Mounier, directeur d'Esprit, serait heureux d'avoir un service personnel de l'histoire littéraire de Thibaudet, dont il fera rendu compte dans notre prochain numéro". - On Esprit stationery. With recipient's mark "fait", date, and stamp.

4to. French manuscript on paper. (2) pp. on 2 ff. Interesting early manuscript of chapter I/2 of his series of articles entitled "Les communistes et la paix" that was first published in Sartre's journal "Les Temps modernes" (July 1952 - April 1954) and later in its entirety and thoroughly revised as part of the collection Situations VI (1964). The original title of the chapter, "Moscou veut la guerre", sets the cynical tone of the text that was first conceived in reaction to the deadly suppression of the Paris protests against General Ridgway on 28 May 1952 and the subsequent wrongful arrest of the French communist leader Jacques Duclos. Sartre accuses Western, particularly U.S. politicians of hypocrisy as, in the name of peace, they employ the violent and belligerent means that theye ascribe to the Soviet Union, polemically asking, in a deleted section: "Do you not also pretend to desire peace? I look for your olive twigs and I see atomic bombs, I look for your doves and I see rocket planes. You say that you show your force so as not to have to make use of it. But to show force is already violence: let your tanks defile, cover the African sky with your bombers [.]". - With "Les communistes et la paix" Sartre publicly affirmed his support of the French Communist Party, despite its loyalty to Stalin, which would cause his rupture with Maurice Merleau-Ponty. In 1956, appalled by the Soviet invasion of Hungary, Sartre definitely broke with the party. Unsurprisingly, the corresponding pages in the 1964 publication Situations VI (96-97) are very different from the manuscript and the article. - Some browning and bent corners.

8vo. 4 pp. on bifolium. To a friend about their mutual acquaintance Félix Stappaerts (1812-85), editor of the "Revue Britannique Belge", who had promised Leopold, Duke of Brabant and heir apparent to the Belgian throne, to use his journal to lobby for the construction of a Belgian fleet, and attempted to convince Alphonse-Nicolas Lebègue (1814-85), the editor of "L'Office de Publicité", to do the same, efforts which led to accusations of his having abandoned his political independence as a journalist to be levelled against him: "M. Stappaerts, de vos amis, est directeur de la Revue Britannique Belge [.] Dernièrement, Monseigneur le duc de Brabant, qui caresse le projet de créer en Belgique une marine de l'Etat, fit prendre 50 abonnement[s] de la Revue en demandant à M. Stappaerts s'il ne lui serait point agréable de défendre, dans son excellent recueil, le projet de marine de Son Altesse. M. Stappaerts répondit, en acceptant les abonnements, que certainement rien n'allait mieux aux idées de la Revue et à son impartialité personnelle, et qu'il était hereux de faire quelque chose pour le bien de l'Etat, et le service de Monseigneur. Là-dessus, Monseigneur d'exprimer sa reconnaissance, en ajoutant qu'il serait tout à fait content, si, par l'entremise de M. Stappaerts, il pouvait obtenir pareille faveur de l'Office de publicité [.] Engagement pris, le Britannique vient donc trouver l'Officieur: Bonne nouvelle, dit-il, je vous apporte cent abonnements. Que me faudra-t-il faire? Presque rien, prendre parti dans l'Office pour la marine belge comme je le fais dans La Revue. À ces mots, la dignité du libraire-éditeur monte sur ses grands chevaux: L'Office est indépendant, nous voulons garder notre position. Vous êtes libre [.] de faire ce qu'il vous plaira de la Revue, mais nous, Office de publicité, il ne saurait nous convenir d'inféoder, à aucun prix, notre opinion [.]". - Small marginal flaws, slightly affecting text. Two small newspaper clippings from "Office de publicité" mounted to third page.

8vo. 2¾ pp. on bifolium. With autograph envelope. Written in exile to the lawyer Gustave Chaudey (1817-71) in Paris fearing the imminent seizure and auction of his and his wife's possessions at their Paris home, hoping she will be able to secure his manuscripts and notes, as well as his collection of the Revue du Peuple, and a Latin Bible with his handwritten annotations: "A présent j'ai à vous consulter sur deux choses: 1. Ne va-t-on pas aller rue d'Enfer, 82, opérer une siasie, mettre à l'encan les logues de ma femme et les miennes, et étaler au grand jour ma vieille misère? [.] J'ai, parmi mes livres, la collection complète du Peuple, etc., et une Bible in 4o, latine, chargée de notes marginales de ma main, que je ne céderais pas pour mille écus [.] En tout cas, et pour éviter l'indiscrétion de ces bons messieurs de la police, je serais bien aise que ma femme mît en sûreté manuscrite, carnets de notes, Peuple, et Bible [.]". - Inquiring about legal options to fight his conviction following the prosecution and confiscation of his famous work "Justice in the Revolution and in the Church", pointing out that even a man sentenced to death and executed can be rehabilitated if the truth comes out later, about his intention to publish a memoir, a plan impeded by the authorities who will not give him sufficient time or listen to his claim that several laws were violated in his conviction, and wishing for a sentence authorising him to publish his memoir in Paris: "Par exemple, il y a moyen de réhabiliter un homme condamné à mort et exécuté, si la vérité se reconnaît plus tard. N'y aurait-il rien pour mon affaire? [.] J'ai dit que je voulais publier un Mémoire, on ne m'en laisse pas le temps - j'ai dit que tous les principes étaient violés dans man condamnation, on n'écoute rien [.] Je veux un arrêt de la Cour qui m'autorise à publier mon Mémoire à Paris, en tel nombre qui me conviendra [.]". - A few tiny marginal flaws. - Corresponance VIII, 135-138.

Large 4to. 1 p. To one "cher ami", i. e. "Raymond Gallimard", publisher of the "Nouvelle Revue française": "Je suis étonné du chire 12.500 - que vous me signelez comme touché par moi en 29. [.] J' aimerais savoir le montant de mon crédit au 10 fevrier [.] Je re-réclame le listé actuell de mes amis avec leur adresses. Que de choses! Amities et merci | votre Paul Valery". - On stationery with headed paper of Librairie Gallimard; small traces of folding.