Fernand Calmettes (190 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. (1892), Good to Very Good/no dj, 12mo., 286pp., pale green cloth hardcover, gold lettering on pictorial cover & backstrip, several small black dots along cover edges, b&w ill's by author, rear interior hinge paper just starting to crack but binding tight, text unmarked.

Softcover. Condition: Comme neuf. Tome 1. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, As new. Volume 1. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

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Hard Back. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 286 Pages. Pale green boards with gold and black lettering on front with green and black decoration of a young girl. Faded lettering on the spine not readable. Board edges are somewhat frayed. Hinges are loose but holding. Pages are bright, tight, and white with the exception of two illustration pages that are loose. No marks of any sort. Excerpt: From the road that climbed the dune one could see the spot beneath one on the horizon. The color of the sea was lighter there than over the depths, and the rays of the sun made it glisten with a Silvery sheen. It seemed so smiling that one would have declared it harmless. Elise stopped as her thoughts wandered to that accursed gulf. She pressed more closely the hand of her little brother, as a mother who fears for her child's safety. For it was she who had brought him up, this twelve-year-old brother, whom she loves for his sturdy figure and his robust health. She has had one idea only, that of making him a good sailor. It was she who sang him sailors' songs to put him to sleep when little; it was she who carried him, hardly awake, along the dune crests to show him the far-off ships and to direct his first look to what was going on at sea. It was she, too, who took him to the harbor that he might play among the rigging. List of the 20 Illustrations Drawn by the Author: She Pressed More Closely The Hand of Her Little Brother, The Bon-Pedheur Sped Gladly Northward, The Jug Between His Feet, All The Fortune of the Crew Floated With The Current, The White Night Seemed to Penetrate His Heart, Near Her A Sailor Called Out , A Sad Return, She Saw the Little Village With The White House, The Old Woman Barred the Door, She Quickened Her Pace Pressing Here Heaving Chest, The Next Night Elise Saw Her Father Again, She Would See Again Those She Loved, He Was Happy Because Her Confidence Had Returned, Are You Going to Wait There Until You Are Dry, Father If You Will Help I Will Find You, He Uttered A Series of Modulated Barks, His Rigid Fingers Stood Out Stiffly, Calm Yourself Elise We Shall Make the Others Laugh, She Had Picked Up Something to Defend Herself, and She Wished To Carry Him Away. Size: 5 1/2" x 8 ". Calmettes, Fernand - Illustrations (20) (illustrator). …

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Not Issued. 1st Edition. Gray cloth, lettered and illus. in gilt, dark green, and black. [v],286 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. 1st ed. Mild binding lean, text block edges dulled by age, minor rubbing to bottom corner cloth. Moisture contact has led to mild dampstaining along top edge, a bit more evident on plates than on text leaves. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good Spine lean, Edges of pages and panels lightly browned, spine lightly browned, light smudgy stains on paste down and front end page, spine ends bumped with a few small tears in cloth.

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