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More imagesLanguage: French
Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1946
- Softcover
Seller: Timeless Books, Luton, BEDFO, United KingdomTimeless Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Fair. Title: Elementary French Composition (Nelson's Modern Studies Series, No. 5) Author: R. L. Græme Ritchie, M.A., D.Litt. and James M. Moore, M.A. Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd., London, Edinburgh, Paris, Melbourne, Toronto, and New York Publication Year: Reprint edition, circa 1946 (based on p…rinting history: first published 1930; reprinted 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934 (twice), 1935, 1937, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1946 (twice)) Binding: Hardcover, green cloth boards with embossed lantern motif on front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. Pages: Approximately 172 pp., including preface, contents, vocabulary, index of passages for translation, and illustrations. This is a charming vintage educational textbook designed for elementary French composition, part of Nelson's "Modern Studies" series under the general editorship of Professor Græme Ritchie. Aimed at school students, it provides graded exercises in French writing, focusing on verb tenses (present, perfect, future, imperfect, etc.), vocabulary building, and translation passages. The preface explains its purpose: to aid beginners in composing simple French sentences, drawing from Cambridge University Press materials for "First" and "Second" French Courses. Content includes sections on verb conjugations, sample dialogues (e.g., "A Conversation" on p. 32, "The Perfect Good" on p. 33, "We Cross the Channel" on p. 56), and illustrated stories like "Our Dog" (p. 17), "The Dipper's Nest" (p. 48), and "Moonlight" (p. 49). Features delightful period illustrations. As an ex-school library copy from Luton High School, this book offers a snapshot of mid-20th-century British education, with the checkout ledger providing social history interest—tracking postwar students' use over nearly a decade. Ideal for collectors of vintage language textbooks, educational memorabilia, or local Luton/Bedfordshire history. Despite wear, it remains a functional and evocative piece from the era of rationing and reconstruction. Condition: Good overall for a vintage school textbook, with signs of heavy use commensurate with age and educational context. Exterior: Green cloth covers show moderate fading and rubbing particularly to spine and edges. Corners bumped and frayed; spine worn with minor fraying. Front cover has faint handwritten inscriptions (possibly "English" or similar, faded). Back cover has some staining and scuffs. Binding is sound but with some looseness from use. Interior: Pages are age-toned but clean and unmarked except for occasional pencil notes or underlining in exercises (e.g., future tense conjugations on p. 37). Ex-library from Luton High School (Bedfordshire, UK), with library label on front pastedown (No. 27, "Luton High School Library (Text Books)"), and a checkout record sheet listing student borrowers from 1949-1958, including names like Barbara Baron (Pre. 5C, 1949), Rosemary Dixon (IV M, 1950), V. Wrycroft (IV M, 1951), Sidney Morley (IV A, 1952), Janet Morley (IV S, 1953), Patricia Volger (IV C, 1953), Mollie Bingham (II A, 1954-55), Kathleen Huckstep (II C, 1955-56), Marjorie Rainford (II C, 1956-57), and Billie Major (IV B, 1957-58). Endpapers have tape remnants and minor foxing. No major tears or missing pages, but light creasing in places. Illustrations intact, including black-and-white drawings. The illustrations in "Elementary French Composition" were created by Marcel Jeanjean (1893-1973), a French artist, illustrator, and poster designer. He was a World War I aviator who became known for his aeronautical-themed works, including books, drawings, and posters. Jeanjean was appointed as an official painter to the French Ministry of Air in 1931. His style often featured whimsical, detailed line drawings. Marcel Jeanjean (illustrator).
Cancelled Confessions or Disavowals
Cahun, Claude (CON); Groom, Amelia; De Muth, Susan (TRN); Moore, Marcel (ILT)
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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals). Moore, Marcel (illustrator). Book.
Language: English
Published by The Folio Society, London, 1954
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. First printing from The Folio Society. In near fine cream coloured quarter velum and pale blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. The boards are very flat, tight and clean and have strong spine ends. The free end papers are slightly tanned. The…re is a tiny black bookseller's sticker on the front paste down from Charles Wilson, Liverpool on the front paste down. The text block is illustrated with etchings by Marcel Vertes. The pages are tightly bound, even and not marked. Near fine condition. No dedications etc. In fair pale grey pictorial slip case with tipped in etching on each side and black titles. The slip case's front tail edge is torn and all the edges are quite worn; it is also a little grubby. Marcel Vertes (illustrator).
Cancelled Confessions or Disavowals
Cahun, Claude (CON); Groom, Amelia; De Muth, Susan (TRN); Moore, Marcel (ILT)
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Back in print after over a decade: the playful and genre-shattering memoir of a beloved surrealist known for her gender-bending portraitureFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Editions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)…is Claude Cahun's wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir. Shattering the very premise of the "memoir"--the singularity of identity--into sharp and prismatic fragments, Cahun assembles an ever-mutating inquiry into the instability of "self" and its many masks.Using a multitude of forms (fables, jokes, aphorisms, letters, dialogues, dreams, hymns, pronouncements, etc.), to plumb the subjects of desire, love, gender, sex, fear, faith, religion and vanity (among others), Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is a tour-de-force work of resistance: it provokes the reader to enter the capacious, provocative, playful and deeply imaginative space constructed by Cahun in defiance of all categorization, to repudiate a delimited, censured world and embrace, instead, the outcasts and cast-offs, the unknowable and the unknown.Thoughtfully redesigned to emulate the original artist's book, this revised edition of the out-of-print English translation by Susan de Muth--originally published in the UK by the Tate in 2007 and in the US by MIT Press in 2008--includes novelist and critic Pierre Mac Orlan's original 1930 preface along with contemporary essays by scholar Amelia Groom and translator de Muth. Almost 100 years old, Cancelled Confessions is not only prescient, but urgent: "It is not enough to be vanquished, you also have to turn defeat to your advantage."Born in France in 1894, Claude Cahun (nee Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob) was a writer, artist and anti-fascist activist, associated with the Surrealists, yet who was obscure for decades. Cahun's shape-shifting, gender-bending, "self" portraits--made in collaboration with Marcel Moore (nee Suzanne Malherbe, aka l'autre moi, "the other me")--feature Cahun in androgynous garb with shaved head, or elaborately costumed and adorned with makeup or masks, often with mirrors or doubling, always multiplying the "I." These are the most recognizable works in a highly subversive, multiform oeuvre that includes Aveux non Avenus (Cancelled Confessions) as well as more untranslated writings. Now embraced as a pioneer of queer and feminist expression and heralded for a daring and inventive, years-long resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Isle of Jersey, Cahun created art--and a life--that aimed to disrupt societal, political and artistic orthodoxies with courage, wit and imagination. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Moore, Marcel (illustrator).
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Softcover. Condition: Très bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque avec équipements. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.
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Language: English
Published by Folio Society, London, 1954
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- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 95pp, well-illustrated with etchings by Marcel Vertes, bound in blue cloth with vellum spine, gilt lettered, very good condition with no markings or annotations, The Folio Society, London, 1954. VERTES, Marcel (illustrator).
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Language: English
Published by Folio Society, UK, 1954
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hedgerow Books est.1989, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, United KingdomHedgerow Books est.1989
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Slip-case Fair. 1st Thus. 95pp; illus. Browning to endpapers. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to the white spine. Slip-case complete but with wear/rubbing along edges. Marcel Vertes (illustrator).
More imagesPublished by Folio Society, London, 1954
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Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United KingdomSt Marys Books And Prints
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Add to basketHardback. First. Hardback bound blue cloth with quarter white leather with gold lettering to the spine Cool drawings accompany text No slipcase boards a little grubby but pages cleannbsppp95 Fair To Good. Marcel Vertes (illustrator). book.
Cancelled Confessions or Disavowals
Cahun, Claude (CON); Groom, Amelia; De Muth, Susan (TRN); Moore, Marcel (ILT)
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Published by London: The Folio Society, 1954
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Seller: BookLovers of Bath, Peasedown St. John, BATH, United KingdomBookLovers of Bath
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Slip Case. Condition Notes: Slip case faded, more heavily to the margins. A touch faded at the spine of the binding. The contents lightly toned with age; Hardback in Slip Case. Quarter-Bound White on Blue boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 10" x 7¾" (1.1 kg); pp 95; I…ncludes: Black & white plates; Frontispiece; Title page vignette; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197848 || Hardback in Slip Case (No Dust Wrapper.). Marcel Vertes (illustrator).
Cancelled Confessions or Disavowals
Cahun, Claude (CON); Groom, Amelia; De Muth, Susan (TRN); Moore, Marcel (ILT)
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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Moore, Marcel (illustrator).
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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Moore, Marcel (illustrator).
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Folio Society, London, 1954
- Hardcover
Seller: Rodney Rogers, Shrewsbury, United KingdomRodney Rogers
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st printing thus. Sky-blue cloth with cream-coloured (vellum?) spine with gold lettering, in slipcase. 194 x 252 x 15mm. 95pp. Numerous full-page illustrations. Slipcase heavily worn and split at top and bottom; apart from previous owner details and monogram to front endpapers, book appears as n…ew both inside and out. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive. Marcel Vertès (illustrator).
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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 272 pages. 8.75x6.75x8.60 inches. In Stock. Moore, Marcel (illustrator).
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Published by London: Folio Society, 1954, London, 1954
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Add to basketVellum Backed Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Folio Society. Vellum Backed Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Folio Society. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 95 pages. Endpapers aged; covers dusty, rubbed and marked; bottom edges marked. Marcel Vertes (Etchings) (illustrator).
More imagesCircle: International Survey of Constructive Art
Martin, J. L. ; Ben Nicholson, N. Gabo (eds.) Piet Mondrain; Winifred Dacre; Herbert Read; Lecorbusier; Ben Nicholson; Barbara Hepworth; Henry Moore; J.d. Bernal; Maxwell Fry; Marcel Breuer, et. Al.
Published by Praeger Publishers, 1971
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Add to basketTrade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers, crease at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind save previous owner's name at front and at page ends. 291 pages with photos, prints, floorplan…s, elevations, interiors, exteriors, photos, architectural drawings, architectural details, furniture, etc. Reprint of influential 1937 manifesto originally published by Faber and Faber, featuring essays and 300 black-and-white illustrations documenting constructivist and abstract art movement, edited by architect J.L. Martin, sculptor Naum Gabo, and painter Ben Nicholson with layout by Barbara Hepworth, including contributions from Mondrian, Kandinsky, Klee, Moore, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mumford, and others covering painting, sculpture, architecture, and design theory. Keywords: Constructivism, Abstract Art, 1937 Manifesto, Reprint Edition, Essay Collection, Modern Movement, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Black And White Plates, New Introduction, Layout Hepworth.
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Published by London : Folio Society, 1954
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- First Edition
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed paper-covered boards, in a good (torn) slip-case. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 95 pages illustrations. Notes; Done into English by George Moore, with etchings by Marcel Vertes. Subjects; Daphnis (Greek mythological character) Fiction…. Chloe (Greek mythological character) Fiction. Pastoral fiction, Greek. Longus. Moore, George (translator). Vertes, Marcel (illustrator). Folio Society. 3 Kg.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Back in print after over a decade: the playful and genre-shattering memoir of a beloved surrealist known for her gender-bending portraitureFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Editions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)…is Claude Cahun's wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir. Shattering the very premise of the "memoir"--the singularity of identity--into sharp and prismatic fragments, Cahun assembles an ever-mutating inquiry into the instability of "self" and its many masks.Using a multitude of forms (fables, jokes, aphorisms, letters, dialogues, dreams, hymns, pronouncements, etc.), to plumb the subjects of desire, love, gender, sex, fear, faith, religion and vanity (among others), Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is a tour-de-force work of resistance: it provokes the reader to enter the capacious, provocative, playful and deeply imaginative space constructed by Cahun in defiance of all categorization, to repudiate a delimited, censured world and embrace, instead, the outcasts and cast-offs, the unknowable and the unknown.Thoughtfully redesigned to emulate the original artist's book, this revised edition of the out-of-print English translation by Susan de Muth--originally published in the UK by the Tate in 2007 and in the US by MIT Press in 2008--includes novelist and critic Pierre Mac Orlan's original 1930 preface along with contemporary essays by scholar Amelia Groom and translator de Muth. Almost 100 years old, Cancelled Confessions is not only prescient, but urgent: "It is not enough to be vanquished, you also have to turn defeat to your advantage."Born in France in 1894, Claude Cahun (nee Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob) was a writer, artist and anti-fascist activist, associated with the Surrealists, yet who was obscure for decades. Cahun's shape-shifting, gender-bending, "self" portraits--made in collaboration with Marcel Moore (nee Suzanne Malherbe, aka l'autre moi, "the other me")--feature Cahun in androgynous garb with shaved head, or elaborately costumed and adorned with makeup or masks, often with mirrors or doubling, always multiplying the "I." These are the most recognizable works in a highly subversive, multiform oeuvre that includes Aveux non Avenus (Cancelled Confessions) as well as more untranslated writings. Now embraced as a pioneer of queer and feminist expression and heralded for a daring and inventive, years-long resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Isle of Jersey, Cahun created art--and a life--that aimed to disrupt societal, political and artistic orthodoxies with courage, wit and imagination. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Moore, Marcel (illustrator).
Published by London : Folio Society, 1954
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed paper-covered boards, in a good (torn) slip-case. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 95 pages illustrations. Notes; Done into English by George Moore, with etchings by Marcel Vertes. Subjects; Daphnis (Greek mythological character) Fiction…. Chloe (Greek mythological character) Fiction. Pastoral fiction, Greek. Longus. Moore, George (translator). Vertes, Marcel (illustrator). Folio Society. 3 Kg.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Back in print after over a decade: the playful and genre-shattering memoir of a beloved surrealist known for her gender-bending portraitureFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Editions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)…is Claude Cahun's wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir. Shattering the very premise of the "memoir"--the singularity of identity--into sharp and prismatic fragments, Cahun assembles an ever-mutating inquiry into the instability of "self" and its many masks.Using a multitude of forms (fables, jokes, aphorisms, letters, dialogues, dreams, hymns, pronouncements, etc.), to plumb the subjects of desire, love, gender, sex, fear, faith, religion and vanity (among others), Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is a tour-de-force work of resistance: it provokes the reader to enter the capacious, provocative, playful and deeply imaginative space constructed by Cahun in defiance of all categorization, to repudiate a delimited, censured world and embrace, instead, the outcasts and cast-offs, the unknowable and the unknown.Thoughtfully redesigned to emulate the original artist's book, this revised edition of the out-of-print English translation by Susan de Muth--originally published in the UK by the Tate in 2007 and in the US by MIT Press in 2008--includes novelist and critic Pierre Mac Orlan's original 1930 preface along with contemporary essays by scholar Amelia Groom and translator de Muth. Almost 100 years old, Cancelled Confessions is not only prescient, but urgent: "It is not enough to be vanquished, you also have to turn defeat to your advantage."Born in France in 1894, Claude Cahun (nee Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob) was a writer, artist and anti-fascist activist, associated with the Surrealists, yet who was obscure for decades. Cahun's shape-shifting, gender-bending, "self" portraits--made in collaboration with Marcel Moore (nee Suzanne Malherbe, aka l'autre moi, "the other me")--feature Cahun in androgynous garb with shaved head, or elaborately costumed and adorned with makeup or masks, often with mirrors or doubling, always multiplying the "I." These are the most recognizable works in a highly subversive, multiform oeuvre that includes Aveux non Avenus (Cancelled Confessions) as well as more untranslated writings. Now embraced as a pioneer of queer and feminist expression and heralded for a daring and inventive, years-long resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Isle of Jersey, Cahun created art--and a life--that aimed to disrupt societal, political and artistic orthodoxies with courage, wit and imagination. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Moore, Marcel (illustrator).
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Back in print after over a decade: the playful and genre-shattering memoir of a beloved surrealist known for her gender-bending portraitureFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher Éditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)… is Claude Cahun's wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir. Shattering the very premise of the 'memoir'--the singularity of identity--into sharp and prismatic fragments, Cahun assembles an ever-mutating inquiry into the instability of 'self' and its many masks.Using a multitude of forms (fables, jokes, aphorisms, letters, dialogues, dreams, hymns, pronouncements, etc.), to plumb the subjects of desire, love, gender, sex, fear, faith, religion and vanity (among others), Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is a tour-de-force work of resistance: it provokes the reader to enter the capacious, provocative, playful and deeply imaginative space constructed by Cahun in defiance of all categorization, to repudiate a delimited, censured world and embrace, instead, the outcasts and cast-offs, the unknowable and the unknown.Thoughtfully redesigned to emulate the original artist's book, this revised edition of the out-of-print English translation by Susan de Muth--originally published in the UK by the Tate in 2007 and in the US by MIT Press in 2008--includes novelist and critic Pierre Mac Orlan's original 1930 preface along with contemporary essays by scholar Amelia Groom and translator de Muth. Almost 100 years old, Cancelled Confessions is not only prescient, but urgent: 'It is not enough to be vanquished, you also have to turn defeat to your advantage.'Born in France in 1894, Claude Cahun (née Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob) was a writer, artist and anti-fascist activist, associated with the Surrealists, yet who was obscure for decades. Cahun's shape-shifting, gender-bending, 'self' portraits--made in collaboration with Marcel Moore (née Suzanne Malherbe, aka l'autre moi, 'the other me')--feature Cahun in androgynous garb with shaved head, or elaborately costumed and adorned with makeup or masks, often with mirrors or doubling, always multiplying the 'I.' These are the most recognizable works in a highly subversive, multiform oeuvre that includes Aveux non Avenus (Cancelled Confessions) as well as more untranslated writings. Now embraced as a pioneer of queer and feminist expression and heralded for a daring and inventive, years-long resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Isle of Jersey, Cahun created art--and a life--that aimed to disrupt societal, political and artistic orthodoxies with courage, wit and imagination. Moore, Marcel (illustrator).
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