Lorrin Wong, Bookseller

Life and Letters in France: the Seventeenth Century

Howarth, WD · 1965

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1965. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ rear dust jacket panel rubbed otherwise very good dust jacket., An insightful analysis of 17th Century social conventions and habits of thought revealed in the significant literature of t...

Four Lives in Paris

Ford, Hugh With A Foreword By Glenway Wescott · 1987

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

San Francisco: North Point, 1987. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Tortured Subjects: Pain, Truth, and the Body in Early Modern France

Silverman, Lisa · 2001

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ no dust jacket, as issued (in original shrinkwrap).

The Dreyfus Affair: a National Scandal

Schechter, Betty · 1965

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

London: Gollancz, 1965. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket., A cloak-and-dagger account of the Dreyfus affair.

Malraux: a Biography

Madsen, Axel · 1976

$4.00 (€3.63 | £3.03 | ¥639)

NY: Morrow, 1976. 1st edition., Dust soiling along top edge otherwise very good hard cover book/ closed tears otherwise very good price clipped dust jacket, A sweeping biography of Malraux the adventurer, the artist as well as the public and private man.

Paris Journal, 1947-1965

Flanner, Janet Edited By William Shawn · 1977

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,117)

NY: Harvest/Harcourt Brace Johanovich, 1977. 1st Harvest edition, Pages darkening & end papers lightly foxed otherwise a clean, unmarked good paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

De Gaulle

Ashcroft, Edward · 1962

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,117)

London: Odhams Press, 1962. 1st printing of 1st edition., An earlier price & a previous owner's bookplate on front end paper otherwise very good hard cover book/ edgewear otherwise very good price clipped dust jacket, A perceptive biography written while de Gaulle was still in...

French Conservatism in Crisis: the Republican Federation of France in the 1930s

Irvine, William D · 1979

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. 1st printing of 1st edition., Fine hard cover book/ light soiling otherwise very good dust jacket., Although France was the model of stability during the first two decades of the 20th Century, the depression of the 1930s str...

France Fin De Siecle

Weber, Eugen · 1986

$9.00 (€8.17 | £6.81 | ¥1,437)

Cambridge: Harvard Belknap, 1986. 1st printing of 1st US edition., Fine hard cover book/ closed tear with radiating creases otherwise very good dust jacket.

De Gaulle

Ashcroft, Edward · 1962

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

London: Oldhams, 1962. 1st printing of 1st UK edition., An earlier price & a previous owner's bookplate on front end paper otherwise very good hard cover book/ closed tears & edgewear otherwise very good price clipped dust jacket.

The Chateaux of the Loire

Dunlop, Ian With An Introduction By The Duc De Brissac · 1969

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY: Taplinger Publishing, 1969. 1st printing of the 1st US edition., Some light soiling along top edge of front board (cover) otherwise very good hard cover book/ front dust jacket panel chipped and with edgewear otherwise a fair dust jacket., A portrait of the magnificent cha...

Memoirs of Madame de Motteville on Anne of Austria and Her Court (volumes I & II only)

Madame de Motteville · 1901

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Boston: Hardy Pratt, 1901. Versailles edition., A waterstain on the front board & chipping. A previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown otherwise a good hard cover book/ no dust jacket. Copy #726 of limited edition of 800., Born in 1621 Madame de Motteville was waiting-wom...