D'ormesson Jean Intro (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. WATKIN, David; Hugh MONTGOMERY-MASSINGBERD; Pierre-Jean RÉMY; Frédéric GRENDEL. Introduction by Jean d'ORMESSON of the Académie Française. Conception and design by Marc WALTER. Grand Hotel: The Golden Age of Palace Hotels. An Architectural and Social History. New York: The Vendome Press, 1984. FIRST U.S. EDITION (published the same year in London by J. M. Dent). Large quarto, 12.5 x 10 in., 272 pp., with 470 photographs, 236 of them in color. Translated from the French by Daniel K. Wheeler, Martine Meade and Murray Wyllie. Printed and bound in Hong Kong. A century of palace hotels in Europe and America, 1830 to 1930: César Ritz and Escoffier, the Carlton at Cannes, the Hotel Imperial in Vienna, the great spa, lake and seaside resorts, their ballrooms, kitchens, staff and guests, in period photographs and color plates. Provenance: from the library of Francois de Melogue, with his photographic bookplate on the front pastedown. Book: Very Good. Dark blue cloth clean. Black endpapers lightly rubbed. Small pencil dealer notation at the upper corner of the first leaf. Text and plates clean and bright. No remainder mark. Dust jacket: Very Good, price-clipped. Black pictorial jacket lettered in gilt; front panel and spine bright, light scuffing. Now in a removable mylar protector. Weight 4.38 lb.…

Beyrouth, Edition Terre du Liban, 1997. Complet en 1 vol. de texte et 1 étui de planches in-plano: 24 x 35 cm + 37 x 54 cm: [24]-[4]-884-[2]p. + [1]-70pl. + 14 photos. Reproduction de l'édition de Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1864, avec les 70 planches gravées reproduites, et complétée de 14 clichés photographiques du XXe siècle. Un des 1348 exemplaires numérotés (no. 1054), après 52 de tête. Reliure en pleine toile bordeaux; dos lisse avec pièce de titre en lettres dorées sur cuir noir, chemise-étui habillée de la même manière. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.…