French Language or translation from or about the French

The Belgium Essays – Charlotte and Emily Bronte – Edited and translated by Sue Lonoff.

A first edition of this rather scarce and unknown book published as “A Critical Edition” by the Yale University Press in 1996 [they have done some great stuff].

Large octavo, 468 pages, very good condition in a full clean dust jacket.

In 1842 Charlotte and Emily B went to Brussels to study and write under the tutelage of Constantin Heger. They returned for the same again the next year. The result of this was twenty-eight essays penned in French. This book is the first to contain them all, nine of them have never been published elsewhere. They are presented in their original form with manuscript corrections and notes and with a facing English translation by Lonoff.

Special Bronte work from Charlotte and Emily expanding our knowledge of their prestigious talent.

$50.00

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Clochemerle Les Bains – Gabriel Chevallier – First UK Edition 1964

A super copy of this fun book translated by Xan Fielding and published by Secker & Warburg, Lonon in 1964. Thick octavo, 448 pages, lively dust jacket designed by A Games.

Not sure what age you have to be to remember the riotous naughty comedy series about the characters and goings on in this idyllic French village. Well written but with a wit beyond and a good dousing of hanky-panky, maybe not entirely in fitting with now norms (oh dreary me). Regardless, anyone with warm blood is likely to enjoy until the end and pine a little for French wine and real cheese.

Clochemerle where lives were lived to the full and nobody got injured – well permanently injured

$35.00

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Ten Droll Tales – Honere de Balzac – Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere – First 1926

The best rendition of Balzac’s hilarious and modestly erotic work. A very collectable item. Carries the distinguished bookplate of bibliophile Lancelot Goodenough Hayter (1882-1946) whose family can be traced back to the 16th Century – Hayter is a corruption of a German word meaning “Entertainer”.

A fine production published by John Lane the Bodley Head as a limited edition in 1926. Large octavo, xx, 221 pages, bound in original orange cloth covered boards, lavish gilt decoration, numbered 918 of a limited 1,000 copies. With the originally designer dust jacket; very much a rarity, albeit with the odd chip. Very good condition, decorated boards clean, internally very good a super copy.

Longer title explains more … Ten droll Tales. Being the story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of the Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other Quaint and Piquant Histories making up the First Decade of the Droll Tales of the Master Honore de Balzac rendered faithfully into English by J. Lewis May, with an Introduction by Andre Maurois and Illustrations by Jean De Bosschere.

And, it’s the remarkable, decadent, illustrations by Jean de Bosschere that really make the book as well as his design for the book binding itself. Sixteen full page coloured illustrations – in his usual striking palette; and further line drawings in keeping with the overall theme

Droll and rather titillating – Beautiful Bosschere illustrations – Rare Dust Jacket

$180.00

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A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway – True First Edition 1964 – Predates American Edition by one day

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast”.

A fine copy of this important work. The best we have seen. And, as this is Voyager’s favourite book we have seen a few.

Published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1964. Octavo, 192 pages. We can’t find a mark and the dust jacket is perfect, as if new, except price clipped – a gift givers prerogative.

Scarce Collectable Hemingway First Edition – As fine a condition as will be found

$240.00

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The Divine Sarah – A Life of Sarah Bernhardt – Gold and Fitdale

Large octavo, 349 pages, plus addenda and after introductions. Published by Harpers in 1992. Nicely illustrated from period photographs etc. A very good near fine copy.

The adventurous Bernhardt not satisfied with being the most admired actor of the 19thC took to some strange activities … riding whales, collecting exotic animals, early ballooning and, was a accomplished artist and sculptor.

Sarah Bernhardt we love her at Voyager

$35.00

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A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway True First Edition -1964 – Predates American Edition by one day

First edition published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1964. Octavo, 192 pages with the stunning wrap around dust jacket designed by Hans Tisdall. The font Tisdall invented for this purpose carries his name.

Very good condition with minor mark to front of jacket, otherwise very clean and no dust jacket nibbles. Terrific internally.

Written by Hemingway in his final days before he took his life so tragically. The draft was in his bedroom and published posthumously.

Tells of Hemingway’s early years in Paris with his young bride (1921-1926) and the people (what people) he associated with … Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Scott Fitzgerald … do we need to go on?

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast”.

Scarce Collectable delightful Hemingway – First Edition

$160.00

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The Belgium Essays – Charlotte and Emily Bronte – Edited and translated by Sue Lonoff.

Clochemerle Les Bains – Gabriel Chevallier – First UK Edition 1964

Ten Droll Tales – Honere de Balzac – Illustrated by Jean de Bosschere – First 1926

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway – True First Edition 1964 – Predates American Edition by one day

The Divine Sarah – A Life of Sarah Bernhardt – Gold and Fitdale

A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway True First Edition -1964 – Predates American Edition by one day

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