Andre Maurois Signed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition, Limited 750 copies. New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1932. INSCRIBED to historian Paul M. Angle and SIGNED "with sincere regards" by the AUTHOR on a preliminary blank page. Near Fine condition in a Good dust jacket. The jacket is largely intact, but has small chips and tears and is separating at the spine. It is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. 1932. First Edition. Limited to 750 copies. Preface by Andre Maurois. Contents in 3 parts: "The Evolution of the Bookcollector," "The Lure of Collecting," and "The Antiquarian Bookseller." Designed by Frederic Warde. Printed by William Edwin Rudge. Bound in the original gilt-stamped, dark brown boards. Gilt stamping is as bright and shiny as new. Complete with dust jacket. The historian Paul McClelland Angle (1900-1975) was one of America's foremost scholars of Abraham Lincoln and his times. Among his many books are MARY LINCOLN, WIFE AND WIDOW, co-written with Carl Sandburg in 1932; THE LINCOLN READER ; BLOODY WILLIAMSON; A SHELF OF LINCOLN BOOKS; THE TRAGIC YEARS , 1860-1865 (with Earl Schenck Miers); etc. Mr. Angle served as Director of the Chicago Historical Society. The front pastedown endpaper bears the bookplate of W. L. Necker (Chicago Academy of Sciences). INSCRIBED / SIGNED by the AUTHOR. First Edition, Limited 750 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 91 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Paper. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed and Inscribed Paper by Andre Maurois (1885-1967), French author; Size 115mm x 90mm Condition is very good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 16140. Signed by Author(s).

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Handwritten and Signed University of Kansas Letter by French Writer André Maurois Discussing Short Stories in relation to US President George Wahington. Undated but Circa 1946 as he was at the University then. A letter discussing George Washington in relation to two short stories Willo the Wisp and The Fox. André Maurois 1885 - 1967 was a French author. During World War I he joined the French army and served as an interpreter for Lieutenant Colonel Winston Churchill. In I938 Maurois was elected to the prestigious Académie française. He died in 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Sein after a long career as an author of novels, biographies, histories, children's books and science fiction stories. Size is 280mm x 215mm. Condition is good. Light folding creases. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18816. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. 217 pages; Contents clean and secure in original brown cloth binding in dustjacket with some minor chipping at spine ends and corners. Bleiler -1978, p. 136. Inscribed and Signed by the author in the halftitle -- " To Garnett / A. Maurois" Inscribed to Garnett Gardiner Stackelberg. Garnett Stackelberg, a chronicler of international society for nearly 60 years and one of Washington's last grande dames was born Garnett Butler in Nebraska -- smart and beautiful, but with limited financial resources. During the Depression, she had to drop out of Oregon State College, but in the summer of 1932, she visited a friend in Shanghai and secured a position with the U.S. Consulate. While in Shanghai, she married Dr. William Gardiner, a prominent Canadian physician. Garnett's close friend Helen Vanderbilt Frye said of Dr. Gardiner: "the man was rich as sin, their home filled with ivory, jade and pearls". The couple was an integral part of the expatriate colony's luxurious lifestyle until December 1941, when Japanese troops invaded Shanghai and took control of their apartment building in the city's European enclave. Garnett said: "life was wonderful, we had a 14-room penthouse and a houseboat. Everybody had a car and a chauffeur. to say nothing of the good and faithful houseboys, cooks, and Amahs. If you were at one of the clubs, swimming or playing cards, you'd call the cook and say, 'we're going to be 12 for dinner' and then you'd go home at 8 p.m., and there would be dinner! Life was so easy and fascinating". For seven months, they were under virtual house arrest. In mid-1942, Dr. Gardiner was assigned to care for ailing American journalist J.B. Powell, who was to be released from a Japanese prison as part of a civilian exchange with Japanese prisoners held by the United States. The Gardiners accompanied Mr. Powell on a ship bound for Mozambique, where the exchange took place. The couple transferred to a Swedish liner that reached New York after two months. They divorced after the war. Mrs. Gardiner traveled nationwide speaking about China and her experiences with the Japanese occupiers. An old promotional poster described her as "a charming, natural, forceful feminine speaker." She also began writing a syndicated column that appeared in many U.S. newspapers. Relocating in Washington, Garnett met Baron Constantine "Steno" Stackelberg at a British Embassy reception. Mr. Stackelberg was a descendant of a family of Teutonic Knights who once had possessed estates in Estonia when that country was part of the Russian empire. Stackelberg worked at the Commerce Department while Garnett Stackelberg chronicled the parties and public activities of Washington's society hostesses, lawmakers and diplomats. She was accredited to the White House for many decades and covered state dinners from the Kennedy through the second Bush administrations, mingling with kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers and giving special attention to the elegance of the setting and the guests' attire. She wrote about the city's social life for the Times Herald, the Washington Star, the Miami Herald, the Oakland Tribune, the Baltimore News American, Dossier, Washington Life, and the Palm Beach Daily News. She frequently wrote about the diplomatic world and regularly led delegations of ambassadors to Palm Beach to attend charity balls and other events. [Washington Times Obituary, 2005] A French literature professor arrives as a guest lecturer at a fictional American university and quickly becomes friends with a physics professor who has invented a "psychograph" -- the titular thought-reading machine. When the machine goes on the public market, "life becomes more complicated and considerably funnier" (Newsweek, New York, May 30, 1938).