Pierre custot (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First US Edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin & Company, 1923. First American edition, undated [1923]. Imaginative and somewhat romanticized book about the life of a sturgeon and the lives of other undersea creatures, written by a poet-scientist. Green cloth with paper spine label, frontis illustration, no dustjacket, possibly as issued. Covers lightly rubbed with some expected shelf soil, spine label a little darkened, additional wear to corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. A good copy bound in original green cloth, in original d/w that has some wear to edges, not price clipped (5/-). The "blurb" inside the front fold-in reputedly written by TE Lawrence. O'Brien D0008 Not an easy title to find in the wrapper and the wrapper adds real interest to the volume. "There is no moralizing, no rhetoric, no verbiage; just a sinewy tale, so simply told that the labour of its writing is unpercieved".…

Envoi de l'auteur. Relié. 321 pages. (Papier collé sur la couverture).

Demi-cuir. Zustand: Bon. Fort volume de 321 pages, ici sous une jolie reliure demi-cuir acajou aux plats marbrés, dos à cinq nerfs avec pièces de titre et d'auteur rouges. Les deux plats de la couverture d'origine ont été conservés. Bon état.

rigide. Zustand: Assez bon. 1 vol. in-12 rel. demi-basane brune dos à 5 nerfs, couv. conservée, Albin Michel Libraire-éditeur, Paris, 1904, 315 pp. Etat très satisfaisant (plat sup. lég. frottée, petit accroc ss. mque en p. de titre, bon état par ailleurs) pour ce livre, beaucoup moins courant que d'autres ouvrages du même auteur (tq. "Sturly", "Midship", "Chichinettte et Cie"), particulièrement en bon état. Langue: Français.…

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO20240254: 1957. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Agrafes rouillées, Intérieur frais. Paginé de de 86 à 132. Pages agrafées. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues.

Zustand: Good. 1944. Librairie Vaubaillon 1944. Un des 50 exemplaires numérotés. Avec un envoi à Jean Lutèce daté du 3 juin 1944 évoquant la fin de la guerre. Good.

Paris, L'Édition, s.d. (vers 1914) ; in-12, 287 pp., demi-chagrin vert, dos à nerfs (petites traces d'usage). Bon exemplaire. 1914.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Translated from the French by Richard Aldington. Black and white frontispiece taken from a woodcut by G. S. Brien, replicated on the front of the dustwrapper. ***Very good in light blue paper over dark blue cloth, with dark blue titles on paper block to spine. Contemporaneous owner's name: Osmond Thompson Smith, 1930 on front -free endpaper. Light off-setting to front and rear free endpapers. ***Lower edge of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut) as called for. Boards nice and clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 5s. net. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed. Very small closed tear to bottom edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Very small closed tear and crease to bottom edge of front panel of dustwrapper near tail of spine. Tiny nick and rubbing to head of spine of dustwrapper. Buff-coloured matt dustwrapper very slightly rubbed, marked and discoloured. ***198 mm x 130 mm. 127 pages including author's dedication 'To my adored mother, whose soul God called to Himself during the Great War because there were not enough women Saints in Heaven to greet the souls of all the heroes who died for France.', a two-page translator's note By Richard Aldington and a four-page preface by the author to the front. ***'A picture of the ocean written from beneath the waves. The author is learned in deep-sea fish, a little of a poet, a skilled hand at prose. He has used his beloved fish as a vehicle to convey to us his comments on the world, and nature and humankind; but with so much skill that the fish always keep the forefront of the view, and tinge the whole story with a vivid strangeness. These hardly known inhabitants of deep water have hitherto been the preserve of scientists, and their marvels have been guesses at rather than described. M. Custot is widely read, and has digested what is to be studied of their lore, while his interest in human life is strong enough everywhere to subordinate the scientist to the philosopher and man of letters. Consequently the instincts and accidents and reflexions of his fishes are lively for us; and they are embedded in such word-pictures of the sea and coasts that the complete work is memorable. there is no moralizing, no rhetoric, no verbiage; just a sinewy tale, so simply told that the labour of its writing is unperceived.' (Quote from inside front jacket blurb). *** A rare first edition, of interest to collectors of Richard Aldington and early Jonathan Cape titles. Very hard to find in its original dustwrapper in such nice condiiton. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First American edition from British sheets (and almost certainly why Houghton Mifflin didn't follow their normal practice of putting the date on the title page). Translated by Richard Aldington. Fine in very attractive, near fine dustwrapper with tiny tears and slight nicking, mostly at the crown. Biography of a sturgeon by a French poet and scientist. Frontispiece and jacket art by G.S. Brien. Scarce in jacket.…