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88 More Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
- £16.00
- Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies…
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
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Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers
- £40.00
- Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers, reprsent Paris, sur le thatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin le 28 decembre 1897, 10 Hors-texte en couleurs de A. Galland, broch, non coup. / Since its premier in 1897, Edmond RostandÕs Cyrano de Bergerac has remained a classic of the…
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David Hockney, a Life
- £10.00
- "Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I recognised myself" DAVID HOCKNEY "A perfect short expos of Hockney's life as seen through the eyes of an admiring novelist" Kirkus Reviews With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English…
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Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles
- £12.00
- The original text of Samuel Beckett's play which would be translated and performed in English in the same year as Endgame.
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Histoire contemporaine I. L’orme du mail
- £35.00
- Vol. I in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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Histoire contemporaine IV. Monsieur Bergeret à Paris
- £35.00
- Vol. IV in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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J’accuse
- £30.00
- In both English and French, on the Dark Side of Nice
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J’accuse
- £30.00
- In both English and French, on the Dark Side of Nice
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La Liturgie ou le Livres des Prières Publiques (BCP in French)
- £16.00
- The BCP translated into French by SPCK
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Le Cimitière Marin / The Graveyard by the Sea (parallel English & French)
- £150.00
- One of 500 numbered copies printed in at Officia Bodoni in Vicenza, Italy, on Magnani paper, French text with Day Lewis' parallel translation.
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Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
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Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
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Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
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Songs of Botrel, France’s War Poet (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Theodore Botrel (1868-1925) was a popular singer-songwriter in France, known particularly for his songs about his native Brittany. During the First World War he was appointed as official War Poet or Bard of the Armies in 1915, granted access to perform throughout French lines. This collection of poems was translated…
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88 More Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant
- £16.00
- Guy de Maupassant was a master of the short story. This collection displays his lively diversity, with tales that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce. In a lucidly direct style, he provides unflinching realism and sceptical irony. He depicts the deceptions, hypocrisies…
- Add to basket
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Ballades (French and English)
- £20.00
- François Villon (c. 1431 – c. 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems. A limited edition (5000 on ordinary paper) of…
- Add to basket
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Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers
- £40.00
- Cyrano De Bergerac Comdie Hroque En Cinq Acte En Vers, reprsent Paris, sur le thatre de la Porte-Saint-Martin le 28 decembre 1897, 10 Hors-texte en couleurs de A. Galland, broch, non coup. / Since its premier in 1897, Edmond RostandÕs Cyrano de Bergerac has remained a classic of the…
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David Hockney, a Life
- £10.00
- "Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I recognised myself" DAVID HOCKNEY "A perfect short expos of Hockney's life as seen through the eyes of an admiring novelist" Kirkus Reviews With clear, vivid prose, this meticulously researched novel draws an intimate, moving portrait of the most famous living English…
- Add to basket
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Fin de partie, suivi de Acte sans paroles
- £12.00
- The original text of Samuel Beckett's play which would be translated and performed in English in the same year as Endgame.
- Add to basket
-
Histoire contemporaine I. L’orme du mail
- £35.00
- Vol. I in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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Histoire contemporaine IV. Monsieur Bergeret à Paris
- £35.00
- Vol. IV in France's Histoire contemporaine (= Chronicle of our times) quartet, published in 1897.
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J’accuse
- £30.00
- In both English and French, on the Dark Side of Nice
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J’accuse
- £30.00
- In both English and French, on the Dark Side of Nice
- Add to basket
-
La Liturgie ou le Livres des Prières Publiques (BCP in French)
- £16.00
- The BCP translated into French by SPCK
- Add to basket
-
Le Cimitière Marin / The Graveyard by the Sea (parallel English & French)
- £150.00
- One of 500 numbered copies printed in at Officia Bodoni in Vicenza, Italy, on Magnani paper, French text with Day Lewis' parallel translation.
- Add to basket
-
Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard, Membre de l’Institut
- £50.00
- First published in 1881, Anatole France's Sylvestre Bonnard is a mild-mannered, kind-hearted book collector and antiquarian, a little tyrannized by his housekeeper maybe, but nonetheless respected and eminent in his field of research into the abbeys, abbots and monks of medieval France. He has spent his life with his books,…
- Add to basket
-
Lire Ted Hughes: New Selected Poems, 1957-1994 (Lectures D’une Oeuvre) (SIGNED)
- £50.00
- 1st edition of anthology of essays on the poetry of Ted Hughes, 10 in English and 5 in French.
- Add to basket
-
Phèdre
- £14.00
- Irving Babbitt was a leading American academic and literary critic, one of the founders of the so-called New Humanism. Initially a classicist he moved around teaching Romance languages, eventually becoming Harvard professor of French Literature. Introduction and notes in English; play text in Racine's orignal French.
- Add to basket
-
Songs of Botrel, France’s War Poet (SIGNED)
- £100.00
- Theodore Botrel (1868-1925) was a popular singer-songwriter in France, known particularly for his songs about his native Brittany. During the First World War he was appointed as official War Poet or Bard of the Armies in 1915, granted access to perform throughout French lines. This collection of poems was translated…
- Add to basket