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LES FRANÇAIS PEINTS PAR EUX-MÊMES. [and] LE PRISME ENCYCLOPÉDIE MORALE DU DIX-NEUVIÈME SIÈCLE by (COLOR PLATE BOOKS). (FRENCH COSTUME AND CULTURE, ROMANTIC). CURMER, HENRI-LÉON, Editor

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: LES FRANÇAIS PEINTS PAR EUX-MÊMES. [and] LE PRISME ENCYCLOPÉDIE MORALE DU DIX-NEUVIÈME SIÈCLE
Author: (COLOR PLATE BOOKS). (FRENCH COSTUME AND CULTURE, ROMANTIC). CURMER, HENRI-LÉON, Editor
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: L. Curmer, 1840-42. First Editions. 264 x 178 mm. (10 3/8 x 7"). Nine volumes. Very pleasing contemporary red cloth backed in red morocco by Weidle (stamp-signed in gilt on tail of spines), raised bands, compartments with gilt lettering or large gilt decorative tool, head compartment on each spine with (sometimes blurred) handwritten ink (shelf?) number. WITH 415 FULL-PAGE PLATES HAND-COLORED AND ENHANCED WITH GUM ARABIC (one in black & white), including eight frontispieces, all of the plates with original tissue guards, one double-page map, and numerous vignettes and head- and tailpieces in black & white after Bellangé, Charlet, Daubigny, Daumier, Gavarni, Grandville, Vernet, Johannot, etc. Front pastedowns with bookplate of Count Grigori Alexandrovitch Stroganov. A hint of rubbing to extremities, occasional trivial scuff or small stain to boards, but A FINE SET, THE PLATES CLEAN AND BRIGHT WITH RICH COLORING, the contents fresh and clean, and the essentially unworn bindings quite attractive on the shelf. Characterized by Carteret as the "most important publication of the Curmer editions," this series is one of the major works of the Romantic era, presenting as it does a panorama of all classes of French society. An adept bookseller and publisher specializing in illustrated books, Henri-Léon Curmer (1801-70) attracted some of the best artisans of the day and was known for the high quality of his output. For the present work he recruited some of the most famous writers of the period--Balzac (one of the main contributors), Gautier, Nerval, Borel, Janin, Monnier, and Sand--to delineate the various professionals, tradesmen, and social "types" populating 19th century France. Their text is accompanied by more than 800 images--all but one of them beautifully hand colored--by Gavarni, Eugène Lami, Grandville, Tony Johannot, Daumier, Henry Monnier, Meissonier, and others; there are also numerous wood-engraved vignettes in the text. The profiles of the various "types" of citizens are accompanied by portraits depicting them in their usual surroundings and featuring the physical characteristics assigned by the popular pseudo-scientific physiognomic theory to that trade, gender, or social class. As Carteret notes, "The plates are of the highest interest for the history of costumes, the fashion and the clothes of all the social classes of French society at the Romantic period; all the artists from the time took part in this huge publication." Of the nine volumes, five depict Parisians, three cover the provinces, and the last, "Le Prisme," looks at everything from "Tourists in Italy" to "A University Education" and "A Woman with No Taste." This final volume was issued exclusively to subscribers; Carteret calls it an "indispensable complement" to the series, and notes that it "became very rare." The present set is comprised of first issue volumes, which "can be recognized thanks to the whiteness of the pages and the delicacy of the coloring which [was] enhanced with gum Arabic; the second issue is on tinted paper and the coloring is less meticulous." (Carteret) This copy belonged to Count Grigori Alexandrovitch Stroganov, who was born in September 1770 in St Petersburg, and died in January 1857 in the same city. A Russian aristocrat and count of the Empire from 1826, Stroganov was also a diplomat and private adviser, patron of the arts, and one of the most cultivated men of his time..

Horses and Men: Tales, long and short, from our American life by ANDERSON, Sherwood

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Title: Horses and Men: Tales, long and short, from our American life
Author: ANDERSON, Sherwood
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1923. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); orange cloth, with title label mounted at upper spine, and publisher's logo embossed on front cover; orange topstain (first issue, per Ahearn); dustjacket; xiv,347,[5]pp. A few small patches of paper adhesed to crown and base of spine, hint of offsetting to pastedowns, else cloth and contents are quite bright and clean; Very Good+. Dustjacket is lighlty edgeworn and dust-soiled, gently spine-sunned, with some faint dampstaining to spine ends corresponding with the adhesed paper on the book; small scuff at mid-spine and a small tear at upper rear joint, both neatly tape-mended on verso; Very Good. Anderson's second collection of short stories, all set in the American midwest. Includes the long stories "Unused," "The Man Who Became A Woman" and "A Chicago Hamlet;" the last of these is an extract from Anderson's unpublished early novel "An Ohio Pagan." HANNA 75.

My Lord, What a Morning by ANDERSON, Marian

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Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Title: My Lord, What a Morning
Author: ANDERSON, Marian
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: New York, The Viking Press, 1956., 1956. First edition (so stated). 8vo. Illustrated. Dust jacket designed by Miriam Woods (price clipped). Very good. No signatures or bookplates. 312 pages.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

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