Custot Pierre (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. [Cat. 58-68.] 12mo frontis. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. 1st U.S. Ed. [1924].-Life of a sturgeon to his inglorious death on a stormy beach.#38-156 G-VG no DJ.

Condition: VG, NO dj. hardcover. 12mo. 127pp. No date, but likely 1920s.

Trade Paperback. Condition: New. First Edition. New! No. 47 in Empyrean Series '"The night had come and suddenly the sea was on fire; they were the Noctilucae, microscopic animalculae, infinitesimal grains which glittered like imperceptible beacons. There were incalculable numbers of them and the phosphorescence was produced by all these scintillations" First published in 1923, Pierre Custot's Sturly recounts the extraordinary life of a male sturgeon as he grows to adulthood and comes to know the mysteries, beauties, and sorrows of a wandering life among countless other creatures of the sea. Both philosophical and scientific in its outlook, here is a tale that teems with dizzying visions of a world all but unknown to the human species. In preparation for the writing of Sturly, Custot spent years studying the life cycles of various aquatic species and marine ecology, both in the field and at the Oceanographic Institute of Monaco. This is the novel's first republication since the 1920s.' ~ Publisher.

Cloth Spine, PaperCov'd Boards. Condition: About VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. G. S. Brien (illustrator). First English Edition. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. Woodcut frontis illustration by G. S. Brien. Bright, clean, unmarked copy with a sound binding. Wear to tips of boards otherwise a bright, clean, unworn exterior. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. Canadian domestic postal rates rise with weight, size and distance; Rates to the USA calculated by weight alone as per the USPS. World rates are based on specific destination and weight. Online estimates by the Listing Site may not be correct and either additional, or reduced postage may be required, particularly for Canadian and Overseas shipments, but not usually to the USA. In case of doubt please email. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 127 pages. Re-bound by library in brown textured cloth. No publication date. Circa 1923. The life story of a sturgeon by a French scientist and poet. Attractive small format: 4 3/4"w x 7 1/4"h. Keywords: Sea, Fish, Fisherman, Ocean, French, Sturgeon, Nature, Animals, Twenties.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First US Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1923. First American edition, undated [1923]. Imaginative and somewhat romanticized book about the life of a sturgeon and the lives of other undersea creatures, written by a poet-scientist. Green cloth with paper spine label, frontis illustration, no dustjacket, possibly as issued. Covers lightly rubbed with some expected shelf soil, spine label a little darkened, additional wear to corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Demi-cuir. Condition: Bon. Fort volume de 321 pages, ici sous une jolie reliure demi-cuir acajou aux plats marbrés, dos à cinq nerfs avec pièces de titre et d'auteur rouges. Les deux plats de la couverture d'origine ont été conservés. Bon état.

Envoi de l'auteur. Relié. 321 pages. (Papier collé sur la couverture).

rigide. Condition: Assez bon. 1 vol. in-12 rel. demi-basane brune dos à 5 nerfs, couv. conservée, Albin Michel Libraire-éditeur, Paris, 1904, 315 pp. Etat très satisfaisant (plat sup. lég. frottée, petit accroc ss. mque en p. de titre, bon état par ailleurs) pour ce livre, beaucoup moins courant que d'autres ouvrages du même auteur (tq. "Sturly", "Midship", "Chichinettte et Cie"), particulièrement en bon état. Langue: Français.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition hard cover book in good condition. No dust jacket. Bumps to head and foot of spine. Some fading and marks to boards. Spotting to edges of text block. Browning to endpapers and foxing to pages throughout. 12mo. 127pp.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A good copy bound in original green cloth, in original d/w that has some wear to edges, not price clipped (5/-). The "blurb" inside the front fold-in reputedly written by TE Lawrence. O'Brien D0008 Not an easy title to find in the wrapper and the wrapper adds real interest to the volume. "There is no moralizing, no rhetoric, no verbiage; just a sinewy tale, so simply told that the labour of its writing is unpercieved".

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO20240254: 1957. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Agrafes rouillées, Intérieur frais. Paginé de de 86 à 132. Pages agrafées. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues.

Condition: Good. 1944. Librairie Vaubaillon 1944. Un des 50 exemplaires numérotés. Avec un envoi à Jean Lutèce daté du 3 juin 1944 évoquant la fin de la guerre. Good.

Paris, L'Édition, s.d. (vers 1914) ; in-12, 287 pp., demi-chagrin vert, dos à nerfs (petites traces d'usage). Bon exemplaire. 1914.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. Black and white frontispiece taken from a woodcut by G. S. Brien, replicated on the front of the dustwrapper. ***Very good in light blue paper over dark blue cloth, with dark blue titles on paper block to spine. Contemporaneous owner's name: Osmond Thompson Smith, 1930 on front -free endpaper. Light off-setting to front and rear free endpapers. ***Lower edge of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut) as called for. Boards nice and clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 5s. net. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed. Very small closed tear to bottom edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Very small closed tear and crease to bottom edge of front panel of dustwrapper near tail of spine. Tiny nick and rubbing to head of spine of dustwrapper. Buff-coloured matt dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, marked and discoloured. ***198 mm x 130 mm. 127 pages including author's dedication 'To my adored mother, whose soul God called to Himself during the Great War because there were not enough women Saints in Heaven to greet the souls of all the heroes who died for France.', a two-page translator's note By Richard Aldington and a four-page preface by the author to the front. ***'A picture of the ocean written from beneath the waves. The author is learned in deep-sea fish, a little of a poet, a skilled hand at prose. He has used his beloved fish as a vehicle to convey to us his comments on the world, and nature and humankind; but with so much skill that the fish always keep the forefront of the view, and tinge the whole story with a vivid strangeness. These hardly known inhabitants of deep water have hitherto been the preserve of scientists, and their marvels have been guesses at rather than described. M. Custot is widely read, and has digested what is to be studied of their lore, while his interest in human life is strong enough everywhere to subordinate the scientist to the philosopher and man of letters. Consequently the instincts and accidents and reflexions of his fishes are lively for us; and they are embedded in such word-pictures of the sea and coasts that the complete work is memorable. there is no moralizing, no rhetoric, no verbiage; just a sinewy tale, so simply told that the labour of its writing is unperceived.' (Quote from inside front jacket blurb). *** A rare first edition, of interest to collectors of Richard Aldington and early Jonathan Cape titles. Very hard to find in its original dustwrapper in such nice condiiton. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

LeatheBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 136. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1925 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 136.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 136. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1925 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 136.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition from British sheets (and almost certainly why Houghton Mifflin didn't follow their normal practice of putting the date on the title page). Translated by Richard Aldington. Fine in very attractive, near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears and slight nicking, mostly at the crown. Biography of a sturgeon by a French poet and scientist. Frontispiece and jacket art by G.S. Brien. Scarce in jacket.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2024, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1925. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol: - , Pages: - 136, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. 136 136.