|
|
Alexandre Dumas listings. If you can't find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all of our books.
Click to view full description | 1. | Dumas, Alexandre. Introduction by 'Mark White'. Illustrated by R.W. Matthews. THE SON OF PORTHOS.
Collins, London, n.d. (Collins' Clear-Type Press.)
345 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), hard cover (burgundy cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine), in pictorial dust jacket (with ad for Waterman's Pens on rear, 2/- price, portrait of Dumas and series number 339 on spine). Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone plates, including frontispiece, decorated title page. One of 'The D'Artagnan Romances'. Light browning to edges of textblock, minor edge wear, minor rubbing, small shallow bump to top edge of boards. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, a few very small closed tears - some with creases, a few tiny chips, light rubbing, light browning to spine and flap-folds. Very Good/Very Good-
Price: 45.00 USD | See Full
Description |
| 2. | Dumas, Alexandre. Introduction by R. Brimley Johnstone. Illustrated by R.W. Matthews. THE TWO DIANAS.
Collins, London, n.d. (Collins' Clear-Type Press.)
363 pp, 16mo (6 3/16" H), hard cover (burgundy cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine), in pictorial dust jacket (with ad for Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen on rear, 2/- price, portrait of Dumas and series number 326 on spine). Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone plates, including frontispiece, decorated title page. An historical romance set in Reformation France. Very light browning to edges of textblock, very light edge wear. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, a few very small closed tears - one with creases, a few tiny chips, light rubbing/soiling, slight darkening to spine and flap-folds. Very Good/Very Good-
Price: 45.00 USD | See Full
Description |
| 3. | Dumas, Alexandre. Translated by Douglas Munro. Illustrated by Peter Farmer. WHEN PIERROT WAS YOUNG.
Oxford University Press, London, 1975.
88 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0192713736 Beauifully illustrated throughout in color and b&w. "Generations of French children have known the mysterious Pierrot through the charming, plaintive song about him. And at one time in France no children's play was ever performed without the figure of Pierrot making an appearance, usually at the end, a wistful, lovable, clown-like individual, a boy who never aged. The story is Alexandre Dumas pere's account of what Pierrot's life was like before he took to entertaining children, and of his extraordinary adventures in the strange fairy-tale court of Bohemia. Here, we learn, he fell hopelessly in love with the beautiful Princess Fleur-d'Amandier, was the victim of the machinations of an evil courtier, and was saved from peril by his own resourcefulness and the magic of a water-fairy. The book has a simplicity of theme of a classic fairy tale and the narrative exuberance that one might expect from the author of 'The Three Musketeers'. This English version has been made by Douglas Munro, himself a Dumas scholar. It has been illustrated in colour and black and white by Peter Farmer, the distinguished artist and stage designer, and his work creates a world of haunting magic, beautifully complementary to Dumas' text." Moderate edge wear - mainly on bottom of board at bottom of front hinge. Dust jacket is price clipped, has a small tear and chip at bottom of front hinge, very light wear at top/bottom of flap-folds. Very Good-/Very Good
Price: 15.00 USD | See Full
Description |
| 4. | Dumas, Alexandre. Translated by R.W. Plummer and A. Craig Bell. Edited by A. Craig Bell. ALEXANDRE DUMAS' ADVENTURES IN SWITZERLAND.
Chilton, Philadelphia, 1960, first American edition.
246 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Alexandre Dumas was a young man of thirty when he made an extended (and politically necessary) trip to Switzerland. In Paris he had already scored a certain success of scandal and sensation with his Romantic plays. But it was with his first travel book that he received the serious critical praise that foreshadowed his later success in the historical novel of adventure....Having just survived an attack of cholera and an accidental glassful of ether, Dumas had taken a week to write a very profitable play, made more imaginative by his delerium. At this point a mistaken newssheet account of his arrest and execution made it clear that a trip out of the country was in order. It was the ensuing trip to Switzerland which provided the basis of this book. Villages, towns and cities, sights and scenes and people met along the way - all are the matter of masterful description and humorous anecdote. Whether fishing in an icy mountain stream, visiting the morgue of the Grande Chartreuse, or merely chatting with other guests at an inn, Dumas found inspiration for a facile pen....More than an account of a journey, 'Adventures in Switzerland' is a rare collection of anecdote and humor." Very light browning and very tiny foxing marks on top of textblock, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket haslight edge wrinkling - mainly at top/bottom of spine, very light browning to edges, light rubbing/soiling - mainly on rear panel, small light blue rub mark on front panel. Very Good/Very Good-
Price: 50.00 USD | See Full
Description |
| 5. | Dumas, Alexandre. Illustrated by Harold Piffard. LE CHEVALIER DE MAISON ROUGE.
Collins, London, n.d. (Collins' Clear-Type Press.)
378 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), hard cover (burgundy cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine), in pictorial dust jacket (with ad for Waterman's Pens on rear, 2/- price, portrait of Dumas and series number 214 on spine). Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone plates, including frontispiece, decorated title page. The last novel in 'The Marie Antoinette Romances' series. Very light browning to edges of textblock, minor edge wear, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has very light edge wear/wrinkling, small chip at bottom of spine - a few tiyn chips/tears elsewhere, very light rubbing/soiling, light browning to spine and flap-folds. Very Good/Very Good-
Price: 25.00 USD | See Full
Description |
| 6. | Dumas, Alexandre. Introduction by F. Mabel Robinson. Illustrated by Paul Hardy. THE CONSPIRATORS.
Collins, London, n.d. (Collins' Clear-Type Press.)
444 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), hard cover (burgundy cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine), in pictorial dust jacket (with ad for Waterman's Pens on rear, 2/- price, colour illustration and series number 256 on spine). Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone plates, including frontispiece, decorated title page. One of 'The (French) Regency Romances'. Light browning to edges of textblock, very light edge wear, very small bump/tiny tear at top edge of rear board. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, two very small closed tears light rubbing/soiling, slight darkening to spine and flap-folds. Very Good/Very Good-
Price: 30.00 USD | See Full
Description |
| 7. | Dumas, Alexandre. Introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. Illustrated by R.W. Matthews. THE COUNTESS DUBARRY.
Collins, London, n.d. (Collins' Clear-Type Press.)
438 pp, 16mo (6 1/8" H), hard cover (burgundy cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine), in pictorial dust jacket (with ad for Waterman's Pens on rear, 2/- price, colour illustration and series number 289 on spine). Burgundy endpapers, sepiatone plates, including frontispiece, decorated title page. The second novel in 'The Marie Antoinette Romances' series. Light browning to edges of textblock, very light edge wear, very light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, book slightly stressed at gutters of free rear endpaper and at half-title page. Dust jacket has light to moderate edge wear/wrinkling, a few very small closed tears, a few tiny/very small chips, light rubbing/soiling, slight darkening to spine and flap-folds. Very Good/Very Good-
Price: 37.50 USD | See Full
Description |
| 8. | Kimmens, Andrew C., ed. (Francois Lallemand, Alexandre Dumas, Bayard Taylor, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Louisa May Alcott, Jules Giraud, Henry de Monfreid, Garcia da Orta, Jan Huyghen van Linschoten, Laurent d"Arvieux, Jean Chardin, Gerhard Rohles, et al.) TALES OF HASHISH: A LITERARY LOOK AT THE HASHISH EXPERIENCE.
William Morrow, New York, 1977, first edition.
287 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0688031943 "Until the sixties and the dawning of the age of glib talk about marijuana and its potent derivative, hashish, people who used drugs were free of establishment censure. Hashish intoxication was virtually unknown to the middle class, and hardly a burning social issue. So what writers in the past have had to say - usually in the form of first-person narratives - provides a revealing and curiously unaffected view of the pleasures and perils of hashish use....Herodotus, in the fifth century B.C., for example, never ate hashish, but he had ample documentation to write a detailed account of its use in Scythia. Sexual activity and hashish go hand in hand in several stories from the 'Thousand and One Nights'. Marco Polo's thirteenth-century travelogues contained tales of hashish, many of which have passed into folk memory. But the discovery of hashish by a small group of French poets and intellectuals in the nineteenth century, most notably Baudelaire, Gautier and Nerval, did more to give the literary world a view - surprisingly 'anti' at times - of the role of hashish in the life of the artist than any other single factor. Similarly, the writings of Louisa May Alcott and Fitz Hugh Ludlow in the mid-1800's were courageous attempts to tell the American public about the mind-altering qualities of a drug which had been freely available from apothecaries for decades. Here, for the first time in one volume, are the words of literary and historical greats on the experience of hashish, for a fascinating look at the way others before us have praised and damned this dubious paradise." Faint erased pencil mark on free front endpaper, a few pages with small faint liquid stain at top edge - also shows lightly on top of textblock in three places, fading to top edge of spine, light soiling and tiny bump to bottom edge of boards. Dust jacket is price clipped, has monor edge wear/wrinkling. VG/VG
Price: 25.00 USD | See Full
Description |
| 9. | Morrison, Helen Barber, ed. (Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Byron, Charles Burney, Thomas Carlyle, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas, Goethe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Heinrich Heine, Henry James, James Russell Lowell, Macaulay, et al.) THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL: LITERARY IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAND TOUR.
Andrew Melrose, London, 1953, first edition.
271 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. Maps. "....the warmly personal views and comments of a host of famous figures as they journeyed up and down England, Scotland, Italy, France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Bohemia in the 18th and 19th centuries taking the then fashionable Grand Tour. Here the foremost artists, statesmen and scholars of their day mark, in charming 'off-the-record' moments their pleasures, joys, furies and irritations. Shelley writes about Lake Geneva; Thackeray tells why he was refused a good room in a hotel; William James airs his views on Berlin; Chopin speaks about Edinburgh; Mozart comments on Paris; and Dickens tells a hair-raising story about an ascent of Vesuvius....And, for additional company, there is Voltaire, Beethoven, Henry James, Carlyle, Madame de Stael, R.L. Stevenson, Emerson, Dumas, Robert Burns and many more. This masterly selection has humour in abundance, originality and insight and learning - in short, all the qualities that make good travel-writing durable however much travel may change." Small business label on front pastedown, very light browning and a few light foxing marks on endpapers, tiny foxing marks on fore-edge of textblock, minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear, moderate edge wrinkling, a few tiny/small chips, small hole on rear hinge - near bottom, light browning, light soiling/rubbing, a few faint foxing marks. Very Good/Good
Price: 20.00 USD | See Full
Description |
Try these sites for other Alexandre Dumas Listings |
