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Apollinaire, Guillaume. Cles pour 'Couleur du temps'. Textes reunis et presentes par Michel Decaudin. Paris, Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard, 2000. 12mo (small book). 201 pages. La Revue des Lettres Modernes, 20. Text in French. Very good stiff wrappers. ISBN 225691013X. #22648. $35
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Baatsch, Henri Alexis, and Jean Christophe Bailly. Wozu? Dichter in durftiger Zeit? / A quoi bon des poetes en un temps de manque? / Why poets in a hollow age? Ouvrage Collectif. Paris, France: Soleil noir, 1978. Small 4to (medium-large book). 314 pages. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Text in French. Very good large pictorial trade paperback (soft cover). ISBN 2851310194. #24574. $25
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Baguley, David. Zola et les genres. Glasgow: University of Glasgow French & German Publications, 1993. 1st printing. 204 pages. Bibliography. Text in French. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 0852612788. #23255. $45
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Bousquet, Jacques. Les Themes du Reve dans la Litterature Romantique (France, Angleterre, Allemagne). Essai sur la Naissance et L'Evolution des Images. Paris: Didier, 1965. 656 pages. Index. Bibliography. Etudes de Litterature Etrangere et Comparee, 47. Text in French. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Small colored felt-tip mark on top edge. #24112. $35
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Caraco, Albert. Contes. Le Retour de Xerxes. Buenos Aires: Editorial Argentina, Aristides Quillet, 1942 [i.e. 1943] Small 8vo. 4 preliminary leaves, 7-303 pages. 11 color and black-and-white illustrations. 21 cm. Dated, inscribed and signed by the author, 'Pour Enoch's Publishing Co / Avec les salutations distingues de l'auteur qui espere (?) que vous lirez / son ouvrage et que vous le ferez (?) connaitre au public. Albert Caraco. 475, avenida Quintana / Buenos Aires / 12-III-43.' 'Ce livre fut entierement illustre par l'auteur, lequel en dessina la couverture et disposa le texte selon l'arrangement le plus conforme a sa pensee.' - Preliminary leaf. Text in French. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). Pictorial rear cover. Edges and top and bottom of spine slightly worn and frayed, top of backstrip shows dampstain. #23097. $150
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Chawaf, Chantal. Ble de semences. Paris, France: Mercure de France, 1976. 122 pages. Inscribed and signed by the author. Text in French. Good stiff wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 2720200891. #24578. $20
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Chawaf, Chantal. Chair chaude, suivie de L'ecriture. Paris, France: Mercure de France, 1976. 83 pages. Inscribed and signed by the author. Text in French. Slightly worn stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). #24576. $20
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Chawaf, Chantal. Le soleil et la Terre: Roman. Paris, France: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1977. 169 pages. Inscribed and signed by the author. Text in French. Good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 2720200891. #24577. $25
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Constant, Benjamin. Adolphe: Anecdote Trouvee dans les Papiers d'un Inconnu et Publiee par Benjamin Constant. Illustree de pointes seches de Michel Ciry. Lausanne: Henri Kaeser, Editeur, 1950. Copy 64 of 250. 227 pages. Illustrations. On spine: Editions du Grand-Chene, Lausanne. 'Vingt et une compositions originales de Michel Ciry'. Text in French. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover) with original glassine cover. #24561. $150
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Constantin-Weyer, M. Cavelier de la Salle. Paris: Les Editions Rieder, 1927. Huitieme edition (8th edition). 12mo (small book). 285 pages. Text in French. Good wrappers (soft cover), cover slightly torn. #23096. $17.50
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Courville, Xavier de. Luigi Riccoboni dit Lelio, chef de troupe en Italie. 3 volumes. Paris: Various publishers, 1945-1967. Small 4to (medium-large book). 3 volumes. Volume 3 inscribed to the scholar Oscar Haac by the author. Volume 1: Un artisan de la renovation theatrale avant Goldoni, 1732-1753. Avec une preface inedite pour la reedition. 2d edition. Paris, L'Arche, 1967. One of 500 copies. vii, 356, 65. Index. Bibliography. Illustrations. Volume 2: Un Apotre de l'Art du Theatre au XVIIIe Siecle, 1716-1731. First published Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1945. Bibliotheque de La Societe des Historiens du Theatre, XVIII. 351 pages. Index. Illustrations. Volume 3: Un Apotre de L'Art du Theatre au XVIIIe Siecle, La Lecon, 1732-1753. Paris: Librairie Theatrale, 1958. Publications de La Societe d'Histoire du Theatre. xvi, 394 pages. Index. Illustrations. Text in French. Wrappers. All volumes good. The spine of volume 2 has been reinforced with cloth tape. #22652. $170
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Fleury, Melle (i.e., Mademoiselle). Aglaure d'Almont ou Amour et Devoir. Paris: Hubert, Libraire, Palais-Royal, 1820. 12mo (small books). 2 volumes (172, 179 pages). Text in French. Good. Narrow leather backstrips and leather tipped corners and paper-covered hardcover bindings. Tooled gilt rules, author, title and volume numbers on spines. Small gilt crown and initials (which appear to be M L) on both front covers. Both volumes tightly bound. Volume 1 has mold stains along right-hand side of front cover and left-hand side of rear cover, mold stains inside front and rear covers and along the blank outer margins of most pages. Some foxing in both volumes. Volume 2 is in very good condition and has no mold stains. #24748. $250
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Fourcassie, Sylvain. Martin, gagne ton pain! Roman. Paris, France: Jean-Claude Lattes, 1987. 300 pages. Text in French. Good large pictorial trade paperback (soft cover). #24579. $25
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Gall, Michel. La Vie Sexuelle de Robinson Crusoe. Paris, France: Jean Claude Simoen, 1977. 214 pages. Text in French. Slightly worn large pictorial trade paperback (soft cover). #24566. $15
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Haac, Oscar A. Les Principes Inspirateurs de Michelet: Sensibilite et Philosophe de L'Histoire. New Haven: Yale University Press & Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1951. viii, 242 pages. Index. Bibliographie. Frontispiece portrait of Jules Michelet. Inscribed and signed by the author. Institut D'Etudes Francaises de Yale University. Text in French. Good wrappers. #22651. $17.50
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Hiebel, Martine. D'une ecriture de l'autre. Resonances bibliques d'une oeuvre de fiction 'le moulin a lumiere de Bernanos'. Paris, Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard, 1999. 12mo (small book). 131 pages. La Revue des Lettres Modernes. Themes et Mythes, 20. Text in French. Very good stiff wrappers. ISBN 2256909980. #22649. $35
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Kessel, J. (Joseph). La Rage au Ventre. Paris: Editions Eos, 1927. 1st printing. 16mo (small book). 120 pages. There is an inscription on the half-title page, 'a ma chere Gaby ..., JK (?)'. Text in French. Pages 45-72 torn along the center of the top edges of the pages, not affecting text. Very good self-wrappers (soft cover) in worn original clear glassine wrapper. #23095. $65
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Leroy, Geraldi. Peguy entre L'Ordre et La Revolution. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1981. 294 pages. Index. Bibliography. Text in French. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 272460458X. #23257. $17.50
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Roussel, Raymond. Raymond Roussel: Nouvelles Impressions Critiques. Textes reunis et presentees par Anne-Marie Amiot et Christelle Reggiani, avec la collaboration de Ginette Adamson. Bibliographie par Anne-Marie Basset. Paris, Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard, 2001. 12mo (small book). iii, 247 pages. Bibliography. La Revue des Lettres Modernes, 1. Text in French. Very good stiff wrappers. Rear cover slightly soiled. ISBN 2256910245. #22645. $35
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Societe des Professeurs Francais et Francophones d'Amerique. Francographies, No. Special 2 Nouvelle Serie, 1999. Actes du quatrieme Colloque 'Creation et Realite d'Expression Francaise.' Tome I-II. New York: Bulletin de Societe des Professeurs Francais et Francophones d'Amerique, 1999. 2 volumes. 442 pages. Bibliographical references. Organise par La Societe des Professeurs Francais et Francophones d'Amerique en collaboration avec le Departement des Langues modernes de Fordham University, New York City, 27-28 mars 1998. Very good stiff wrappers (soft cover). #26071. $30
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Viallaneix, Paul, Texte reunis, et publies par Simone Bernard-Griffiths. Dialogues autour de Vascoeuil: Dumesnil et Michelet. Paris: Librairie Nizet, 1995. 206 pages. Inscribed and signed by Simone Bernard-Griffiths. Cahiers Romantique, 1 - Centre de Recherche Revolutionnaires et Romantiques, University Blaise-Pascal, Clermond-Ferrand. Text in French. Very good stiff pictorial wrappers (soft cover). ISBN 2910875024. #23458. $25
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