Results for: France
Ballots and Barricades: Class Formation and Republican Politics in France, 1830-1871.
Aminzade, Ronald.
Princeton University Press, 1993..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. 321 pages with illustrations, tables, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A look at society and politics in mid-nineteenth-century France.
Price: $25.00
Napoleon III and His Regime : An Extravaganza.
Baguley, David.
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with some scuffing to covers. Dj has light wear along edges with light scuffing to covers and numbered tag taped to heel of spine. 425 pages with illustrations, chronology, footnotes, bibliography, and index. A look at the images of Napoleon III and his empire.
Price: $25.00
French Revolutionary Legislation on Illegitimacy, 1789-1804.
Brinton, Crane.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Boards are lightly scuffed. Dj has wear and rubbing along the edges with a few small tears on the upper edge. Dj is browned, especially along the spine and has some scuffing and light soiling. Light browning to page edges. Inscribed by Brinton to "Wolfie" Stolper on the front free endpaper in ink. Wolfgang Stolper, a noted professor of economics, was an instructor at Harvard at the time of this book's publication (1936). 102 pages with footnotes, 2 appendices, and index. An examination of the French Revolution and its ideas on the law of bastardy, law of nature, and revolutionary law.
Price: $35.00
The Executioners : a History of the Sanson Family, Public Executioners in France from 1658 - 1847.
Christophe, Robert.
London: Arthur Baker, LTD., 1961.
Octavo (standard size). Wear to edes and corners of dj, with a few chips at edges and head of spine. Slight wear to boards, with slight fading to edges. The b ooks does have an small unusual flaw: On the copyright page, blue tape had been used to tape over the copyright date and the translation notification, also darkening the reverse on the title page. The tape is long since gone, leaving much of its blue coloration, and a worn spot where its removal must have taken off a small bit of paper. Otherwise internatl as very good. Endpapers have genealogical line of the Sanson family. 205 p. w/bibliography. No index, unfortunately. An interesting history of this family, whose success and decline followed the relative harshness of the penal codes of France.
Price: $25.00
Lazare Carnot : Republican Patriot.
Dupre, Huntley.
Oxford, Ohio: The Mississippi Valley Press, 1940.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with light rubbing to corners and heel of spine. Some light bumping to heel of spine as well. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some small tears and light scuffing to covers with browning along spine. Inscription from author to editor, Philip D. Jordan, on front free endpaper. Light browning to page edges. 343 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and index. A look at the role of Lazare Carnot (d. 1823) in the French Revolution and early Napoleonic era.
Price: $30.00
Piety and Politics : Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis XIV's Chapel at Versailles.
Edmunds, Martha Mel Stumberg.
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2002.
Very good quarto-sized (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. A taped sticker on spine of dj. Number and owner's name in ink on endpaper. 318 pages with endnotes, selected bibliography, and index. An interesting study of the divine aspects of French kingship as illustrated by the art and architecture of King Louis XIV's chapel at Versailles, completed in 1710.
Price: $30.00
Church and State in France, 1300-1907.
Galton, Arthur.
New York, NY: Burt Franklin, 1972.
Originally published in 1907. Very good octavo hardcover in maroon cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with some light scuffing to covers. 290 pages with footnotes, appendix, and index. A reprinting of this classic work on religion and government in France from Philip the Fair's clash with Boniface VIII to the Third Republic and the Dreyfus affair.
Price: $15.00
Empress Josephine.
Knapton, Ernest John.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Some light wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine and a bump on the lower edge of the boards. Dj has wear and rubbing to the edges of the covers with some scuffing and foxing. Dj is also faded along the spine. Light foxing to page edges. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. 359 pages with illustrations, genealogical tables, bibliographical essay, endnotes, and index. An interesting, scholarly biography of the Empress Josephine from her youth in the West Indies to her move to Paris and survival of the French Revolution to her marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte and endin gwith her divorce in 1810 and death in 1814.
Price: $20.00
Treize Fantomes: Recits.
Langelaan, George.
Paris: Editions Albin Michel, 1971..
First paperback edition. Good softcover. Some wear and rubbing along the edges of the covers with light scuffing and scratching. Slight browning to edges of the covers and pages. Clean, unmarked text. 311 pages. Text of this work on ghosts in France is in French.
Price: $20.00
Histoire de L'Administration de 1750 a Nos Jours.
Legendre, Pierre.
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968.
Good softcover in light brown stiff wrapper. Some wear and rubbing to edges of covers with slight creasing on corners and minor scuffing. Slight dirt smudging on edges of pages. Name of previous owner written on title page. 580 pages with footnotes, bibliography, and index. Text of this work is in French.
Price: $45.00
The Victory of the Marne: The Enemy's Onslaught-Order to Stand Firm-The Battle-Immediate Results-Historic Consequences.
Madelin, Louis. Translated by Lilly M. Grove.
1917..
First edition. Poor pamphlet in grey wrappers. Heavy browning to the edges of wrappers and pages. Some wear and small tears along edges and some scuffing to the covers. Pamphlet wrappers are partially detached from pamphlet itself along the spine. 64 pages with foldout map of battle and footnotes. A propaganda piece on the French victory in 1914 over the advancing Germans on the Marne.
Price: $40.00
Beaumarchais : A Bibliography.
Morton, Brian N., and Donald C. Spinelli.
Ann Arbor: The Olivia and Hill Press, 1988.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards and light scuffing to covers with faint purple mark on front cover. Minor bumping to heel of spine. 374 pages with chronology and index. A detailed bibliography of the life and works of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (d. 1799), the author, inventor, musician, and revolutionary.
Price: $35.00
Juziers Pendant la Revolution, 1789-1795.
Ozanne, Michel.
L'Imprimerie Fasse, 1989..
Good softcover in blue wrapper. Wear and light rubbing along the edges of the covers with some scuffing. Stainmark on the front cover and wear along the spine also. Clean, unmarked text. 121 pages with notes and a few illustrations. Text of this work is in French.
Price: $25.00
The Second Ralliement: The Rapprochement between Church and State in France in the Twentieth Century.
Paul, Harry W.
Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 1967.
Very good octavo hardcover in red cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and som scuffing to covers including a few light black marks. Remains of glue from a sticker on front free endpaper. 234 pages with endnotes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $30.00
Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835.
Popkin, Jeremy D.
University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in grey binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with light bumping to the head and heel of the spine and on the corners of the front panel. Light scuffing the covers. 329 pages with illustrations, endnotes, bibliography, and index. This work explores the role of the press and the July Monarchy in France.
Price: $35.00
Le Terroir de Paris aux Epoques Gallo-Romaine et Franque. Peuplment et Defrichement dans la Civitas des Parish (Seine, Seine-et-Oise).
Roblin, Michel.
Paris: Editions A. Et J. Picard, 1951.
Octavo. Some wear and light rubbing to edges of covers with light scuffing. Covers are browned and so are page edges. Creasing along lower edges of last few pages. 381 pages with maps, illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, and index.
Price: $30.00
Les Sophistes Francais et la Revolution Europeenne : Les Hommes de genie-Les Hommes d'esprit et les Sectaires de l'ancien regime.
Th. Funck-Brentano.
Paris: 1905.
Good octaavo hardcover without dust jacket. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Tear on fore-edge of back cover. Slight creases on upper corners of both covers. Appears that a tag was removed from heel of spine. Also bookplate or sticker was partly removed from front pastedown endpaper. Covers are scuffed and browned. Page edges are browned. Name of previous owner stamped on front free endpaper. 330 pages with appendix. Text of this work is in French.
Price: $40.00
The Chevalier de Boufflers : A Romance of the French Revolution.
Webster, Nesta H.
New York, NY: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1925.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some minor tears and creasing/ridges across the front cover and the length of the spine. Light scuffing to dj as well. 441 pages with illustrations, footnotes, 3 appendices, and index. An account of the love between the Chevalier de Boufflers and the Comtesse de Sabran.
Price: $45.00
The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes.
Wiseman, Mary Bittner.
London: Routledge, 1989..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in black cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine and slight scuffing to covers with whitish mark on the front panel. Remains of a price sticker on front free endpaper. 204 pages with notes after each chapter, bibliography, and index.
Price: $20.00
