Trans Jacques Clercq (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Boris Artzybasheff (illustrator). The Heritage Press, 1939. Hardcover. Maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering and gold knight drawing on spine. Illustrated with dozens of semi-erotic black and white illustrations. Heritage Club notes (Sandglass Number 2K) laid-in. A Very Good book with no dust jacket or slipcase. Impression seal with prior owner's name to FFEP, no other markings observed. Spine straight, corners and spine ends lightly frayed. No jacket. Not from a library. xxvii + 507 pages. Set in medieval Europe, the Droll Stories were Balzac's attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of medieval France. Balzac took the old themes that had delighted his ancestors?the tales of faithless wives and confiding husbands, of monks incredibly endowed for amorous athleticism, of lusty wenches and adventurous lads, and of great bouts of eating and drinking. Contents: The First Ten Tales: Prologue; The Fair Imperia; The Venial Sin; The King's Sweetheart; The Devil's Heir; The Merrie Jests of King Louis the Eleventh; The High Constable's Lady; The Virgin of Thilouse; The Brother-in-Arms; The Cure of Azay-le-rideau; The Wife's Appeal; Epilogue. The Second Ten Tales: Prologue; The Three Clerks of St. Nicholas; The Privations of King Francis the First; The Merry Tattle of the Nuns of Poissy; How the Chateau D'Azay Came to Be Built; The Unauthentic Courtesan; The Dangers of Excessive Innocence; The Costly Night of Love; The Jocund Cure of Meudon and His Sermon; The Succubus; Despair in Love; Epilogue. The Third Ten Tales: Prologue; Perseverance in Love; Of the Provost's Poor Memory for Things; About the Monk Amador Who Was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay; Bertha the Penitent; How the Pretty Maid of Portillon Confounded Her Judge; Which Proves That Fortune Is Always Feminine; Of a Poor Man Who Had Various Names; The Inconsistent Odd Sayings of Three Pilgrims; Ingenuousness; The Fair Imperia Married; Epilogue.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Thus. In red cloth, 8vo, 841pp. A Modern Library Giant #G65. (light shelfwear and toning to extremities). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/lite chipping, in mylar; 841 clean, unmarked pages; (#G65 in seriues, lists to 367 on d jreverse); rust c e/gilt running on front; owne's stamp; lite toning of end papers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/lite chipping,unclipped, in mylar; red c w/gilt runner on black; 841 clean, unmarked pages.

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVER, no/dj. VG. IN FAIR/GOOD SLIPCSASE. 302PP. Please email w/questions or to request picture(s); refer to our book inventory number. Free media mail shipping. LOCATION F/G (Ilustrated Junior Library Series).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st Modern Library (tatedd); dj w/lite chipping, clipped price, in mylar; (#G65 in seriess, lists to 329 onn dj reverse); 841 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Modern Library Giant. DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; small creases/chips/closed tears; smudges/scuffs/couple small surface tears; yellowin; placed in protective cover. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; few scratches/scuffs; a little cornerwear; yellowing; overall clean. 841 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Modern Library No. 143. Hardcover in navy blue cloth with front cover and spine with labels in red and gilt. "A New Translation by Jacques Le Clercq. xvii (with introduction by le Clercq and author's preface)+ 712 pp. + 4 pp. list of ML titles at rear to No. 288 (Anthology of Irish Literature) indicating 1954 date. Fine in very good dust jacket with price of $1.45, modest wear at the spine extremities.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original colour-printed boards. Light scuffs to covers, with corners slightly worn. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 60, [1] pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cm. Notes; With illustrated title-page, and additional title page. "Selected and translated by Jacques le Clercq ; with wood-engravings by Derrick Harris"--P. [3]. Subjects; Aphorisms and apothegms. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bernard Lamotte (illustrator). 1st Edition. Limited ed. (1949). 69pp. Original quarter brown cloth and marbled paper covered boards, all edges maroon, in maroon cloth covered slipcase, Near fine book in VG slipcase with some slight wear to fore edge and some very light fading, original Heritage Club Sandglass magazine (XII:15) laid in.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original colour-printed boards. Light scuffs to covers, with corners slightly worn. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 60, [1] pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cm. Notes; With illustrated title-page, and additional title page. "Selected and translated by Jacques le Clercq ; with wood-engravings by Derrick Harris"--P. [3]. Subjects; Aphorisms and apothegms. 1 Kg.

IN SLIPCASE, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Three volumes bound in half black cloth over pictorial paper covered boards, 8vo, 257; 263; & 245pp. Number 813 of 1,500 copies designeed by W. A. Dwiggins and printed by the Southworth Press. Numbered and signed by designed W. A. Dwiggins on colophonge page at the rear of volume 3. An attractive set. (lacks slipcase).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Translated from the French by Jacques Le Clercq. Striking, slightly erotic illustrations by Jeff Hill. Assumed First Edition Thus. Peter Pauper Press, New York, USA 1958. illus 62pp hb dw discoloured, inscription, pict white dw, flamboyant pict white covers, otherwise vg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Quarter cloth/gilt. Bumping, mild insecting to edges. PO blindstamp. Pages lightly toned. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is price clipped, toned to spine, chipped to edges. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Condition: fair to good, fair to poor. 212, frontis illus., some foxing, small stains ins rear bd & flylf, DJ worn & discolored: small tears, small pieces missing.

Condition: fair to good, ex-lib. First Edition. 256, library bookplate & sticker, marker from bookplate transferred to front flyleaf, spine faded & scuffed, library call # on spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 3 volumes. printed by the Southworth Press, Portland, ME for the Limited Editions Club #615/1500 & SIGNED by designer, W.A. Dwiggins; 1-color decorations; contents clean; 8" tall; shelf wear to edges of covers & black back strips with gilt lettering; heavy wear to darkened slip case with paper title label on back. Hardcover.