Restif (Over 2,700 results)

Condition: very_good. Fast & Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Introduction by Jacques Barzun.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. DETAILS: very good used black cloth with purple decoration, foredges soiled from handling, cover lightly scuffed. RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE. Les nuits de Paris; or, The nocturnal spectator: a selection. Translated from the French by Linda Asher and Ellen Fertig. With an introduction by Jacques Barzun. New York: Random House, 1964, stated First Printing, xxii, 375pp., . Restif's jottings open a new layer of historical evidence and are of immense value to the social historian. He is the historian of the intimate and the personal rather than of the collective and the general, and his sketches reveal the indi-vidual in bed, in his family, at play, drunk, in the pursuit of vice, etc. . . . He writes with artistry and simplicity of the sprawling, dirty city, noisy with the curses of its three-quarters of a million unruly, disrespectful and brutal in-habitants; many of his brief sketches are poems to urban delight; but, beyond this, his record of nightly wanderings issues into an extraordinary man-in-the-street account of the French Revolution.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Restif de la Bretonne was perhaps the key author inspired by the publication of the Marquis de Sade's obscene' masterworks Juliette and Justine. In 1798 Restif wrote this pornographic epic, thus beginning a long tradition that continues to this day. The story is a pornographic novelization of Restif's sexual debauches, which he tried to defend 'morally' by declaring it an 'antidote' to the supposed poison of de Sade; yet while it opens with a warning to women against cruelty, it soon develops into an odyssey of sexual depravity which rivals de Sade in its relentlessy explicit nature.' Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Fanchette's Pretty Little Foot: The French Orphan Girl. Book.

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hardcover. Condition: Good. Dustjacket has wear and tear with toning and is in mylar. Purple fabric cover has mild soiling. Pages have toning with mild foxing on the edges. If you have any questions, or would like images, please let me know.

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Mass market paperback in very good condition: slight toning; very gentle crease to spine with almost no other wear; straight and tight; very slight ripple to book. Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Size: Mass Market Paperback. Some creasing and wear; discoloring; a good reading copy of an old adult novel. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Paperbacks Sleaze; Inventory No: 216846.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 200 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…

Condition: Trade paperback, Fine. Tarzana: Black Coat Press:, 2016. Trade paperback, Fine, 277 pp. Cover artwork by: Grillon An "as new" copy. "In The Discovery of the Austral Continent by a Flying Man (1781), Victorin devises a set of artificial wings to abduct his beloved Christine, before setting her up on top of a mountain as queen of her own utopia. Then he relocates to the southern ocean where he visits islands inhabited by giants and other variant human species, including beast-men combining the features of humans and animals. His voyage ends in the great City of Sirap, another utopia located in Megapatagonia. The Discovery of the Austral Continent is unique, not only within Restif's oeuvre, but within the context of French imaginative fiction. By virtue of the deft combination of its technological element with the theoretical element, it is undoubtedly the most significant work of science-based speculative fiction produced before the French Revolution.". Grillon (illustrator).…