Anna E. Brooke

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

23 Smart Ways to See the City

Map your own adventure. Paris Day by Day is the perfect answer for travelers who want to know the best places to visit and the best way to see the city. Packed with color photos, this bestselling guide offers dozens of itineraries that show you how to see the best of Paris in a short time--with bulleted maps that lead the way from sight to sight. Featuring a full range of thematic and neighborhood tours, plus dining, lodging, shopping, nightlife, and practical visitor info, Paris Day by Day is the only guide that helps travelers organize their time to get the most out of a trip. Inside this book you'll find: Full color throughout with hundreds of photos and dozens of maps Sample one- to three-day itineraries that include literary and historic tours, a Paris with Kids tour, the new face of Paris tour, and more. Neighborhood walks take you through picturesque neighborhoods such as the Latin Quarter and the Marais. Day trips include Versailles, Chartres, and Disneyland Paris. Star ratings for all hotels, restaurants, and attractions clue readers in on great finds and values Tear-resistant foldout map in a handy, reclosable plastic wallet Foldout front cover, with at-a-glance maps and quick-reference info

Frommer's Paris day by day

77bb9c26-6c4f-4510-b118-fd967f7f8239-1

Bernard B. Fall

Bernard Fall

Amazing real life story captured by brilliant journalist Bernard Fall who died few years later covering the war in Vietnam. Real pictures, real stories, real history of what led to the historic and tragic conflict

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Arizona

The French Debacle in Indochina

In this classic account of the French war in Indochina, Bernard B. Fall vividly captures the sights, sounds, and smells of the savage eight-year conflict in the jungles and mountains of Southeast Asia from 1946 to 1954. The French fought well to the last, but even with the lethal advantages of airpower, they could not stave off the Communist-led Vietnamese nationalists, who countered with a hit-and-run campaign of ambushes, booby traps, and nighttime raids. Defeat came at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, setting the stage for American involvement and opening another tragic chapter in Vietnam's history. - Back cover.

Street Without Joy

d56da1a3-e71d-479e-9975-8bb166f66da5-1

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

California

A Novel

Sometimes a book has the power to change your life... When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation on the Brittany coast, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of potentially hearing a response from the unknown author. But not before she reads the story and falls in love with it. The response, which she receives a few days later, astonishes her... Not only does the author write back, but he confesses that he lost the manuscript 30 years prior on a flight to Montreal. And then he reveals something even more shocking – that he was not the author of the second half of the book. Anne-Lise can’t rest until she discovers who this second mystery author is, and in doing so tracks down every person who has held this manuscript in their hands. Through the letters exchanged by the people whose lives the manuscript has touched, she discovers long-lost love stories and intimate secrets. Romances blossom and new friends are made. Everyone's lives are made better by this book - and isn't that the point of reading? And finally, with a plot twist you don't see coming, she uncovers the astonishing identity of the author who finished the story.

The Lost Manuscript

35904242-1c7e-4491-90f7-4c98edd95e76-1

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Perrault's Fairy Tales

#paperback #fiction #historical #historicalfiction #WWII #resistance #France #occupiedfrance a bit of wear on the corners of the cover. Damage where the retail sticker was removed from spine. Damage shown in photos.

Texas

From the critically acclaimed author of The Hummingbird and The Curiosity comes a dazzling novel of World War II--a shimmering tale of courage, determination, optimism and the resilience of the human spirit, set in a small village in Normandy on the eve of D-Day

On June 5, 1944, as dawn rises over a small town on France's Normandy coast, Emmanuelle is baking the bread that has sustained her fellow villagers in the dark days since the Germans invaded her country.

Only twenty-two, Emma learned to bake at the side of a master, Ezra Kuchen. Apprenticed to Ezra at thirteen, Emma watched with shame and anger as her mentor was forced to wear the six-pointed yellow star on his clothing. She was powerless to help when Ezra was pulled from his shop at gunpoint, the first of many villagers stolen away and never seen again.

In the years that her sleepy coastal village has suffered under the enemy, Emma has silently, stealthily fought back. Each day, she receives an extra ration of flour to bake a dozen baguettes for the occupying troops. And each day, she mixes that precious flour with ground straw to create enough dough for two extra loaves--contraband bread she shares with the hungry villagers. Under the watchful eyes of armed soldiers, she builds a clandestine network of barter and trade that she and the villagers use to thwart their occupiers.

But her gift to the village is more than these few crusty loaves. Emma gives the people a taste of hope--the faith that one day the Allies will arrive to save them. Stephen P. Kiernan paints a brilliant and vivid tableau of humanity during one of the most harrowing points of modern history.

 

The Baker's Secret

a6d23d88-f009-467e-bdba-977d874c7922-1

vintage 1995, sixth printing, awesome big paperback, great condition! 

InJean de Florette and Manon of the Springs, Marcel Pagnol (called by Andre Malraux "one of the great writers of our generation" and by Jean Renoir "the leading film artist of his age") achieve the fullest and most satisfying expression of a story that haunted him for years, a Provencal legend of vengeance exacted by a mysterious sheperdess. Pagnol brings to his treatment of this powerful, moving story his dramatist's sense of place, ambience, and character and his keen understanding of the Provencal countryside and its people. Richwith twists and ramifications,Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs sets an idealistic city man against two secretive and deceitful Provencal country men in a superbly realized story of a struggle for life, of crime and punishment, of betrayal and revenge, and of judgment and forgiveness. In this edition, illustrated with images from the acclaimed film adaptation by Claude Berri, North Point presents Pagnol's enduring story in W.E. van Heyningen's exact and sensitive translation.

Biblical in its cadences, epic in its sweep to destiny, and old fashioned in development of character and plot, this saga charts the destruction of a Provencal family.

Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs

f9f6c020-d9ca-4d38-85a0-e2793040c6b1-1

Autographed Edition!!
Litjoy
Letter

Paris is a labyrinth of twisted streets filled with beggars and thieves, revolutionaries and magicians. Camille Durbonne is one of them. She wishes she weren’t...

When smallpox kills her parents, Camille must find a way to provide for her younger sister while managing her volatile brother. Relying on magic, Camille painstakingly transforms scraps of metal into money to buy food and medicine they need. But when the coins won’t hold their shape and her brother disappears with the family’s savings, Camille pursues a richer, more dangerous mark: the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Using dark magic forbidden by her mother, Camille transforms herself into a baroness and is swept up into life at the Palace of Versailles, where aristocrats both fear and hunger for magic. As she struggles to reconcile her resentment of the rich with the allure of glamour and excess, Camille meets a handsome young inventor, and begins to believe that love and liberty may both be possible.

But magic has its costs, and soon Camille loses control of her secrets. And when revolution erupts, Camille must choose―love or loyalty, democracy or aristocracy, reality or magic―before Paris burns.

North Carolina

LitJoy

Enchantee - SIGNED!!

Alison Harris

Rebecca Perry Magniant

Slight wear from shelf and traveling to Paris

The founder of Paris's premier shopping service, Chic Shopping Paris, reveals her prized list of more than 80 boutiques whose offerings embody quintessential Parisian style. Travelers can bring back a piece of Paris in their bag.

Chic Shopping Paris

3a7d4e93-0c9d-41f6-88e5-69e2b0017d94-1

Sharon Cameron

An arranged marriage escalates into a tantalizing game of cat and mouse for Sophia Bellamy and the wealthy René Hasard in the Sunken City that was once Paris, where a vigilante is either freeing or kidnapping imprisoned opponents of the new revolution that is unfolding in the city. Simultaneous eBook.

Rook

0d2de66b-ceca-4c9d-8e88-4cf76360659d-1

Thad Carhart

Clean text and dust jacket intact. Signed by the author. 

Massachusetts

An American Boy in France

A beguiling memoir of a childhood in 1950s France from the much-admired New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Shop on the Left Bank

"Like the castle, [Carhart's] memoir imaginatively and smoothly integrates multiple influences, styles and whims."--The New York Times
                                  
For a young American boy in the 1950s, Fontainebleau was a sight both strange and majestic, home to a continual series of adventures: a different language to learn, weekend visits to nearby Paris, family road trips to Spain and Italy. Then there was the château itself: a sprawling palace once the residence of kings, its grounds the perfect place to play hide-and-seek. The curiosities of the small town and the time with his family as expats left such an impression on him that thirty years later Carhart returned to France with his wife to raise their two children. Touring Fontainebleau again as an adult, he began to appreciate its influence on French style, taste, art, and architecture. Each trip to Fontainebleau introduces him to entirely new aspects of the château's history, enriching his memories and leading him to Patrick Ponsot, the head of the château's restoration, who becomes Carhart's guide to the hidden Fontainebleau.
          What emerges is an intimate chronicle of a time and place few have experienced. In warm, precise prose, Carhart reconstructs the wonders of his childhood as an American in postwar France, attending French schools with his brothers and sisters. His firsthand account brings to life nothing less than France in the 1950s, from the parks and museums of Paris to the rigors of French schooling to the vast château of Fontainebleau and its village, built, piece by piece, over many centuries. Finding Fontainebleau is for those captivated by the French way of life, for armchair travelers, and for anyone who has ever fallen in love with a place they want to visit over and over again.

Finding Fontainebleau - signed by author

f7ab2ef1-c715-4610-a092-c262e3a58910-1

A. W. Hartoin

For Stella Bled Lawrence being wealthy and stylish in 1938 is exactly what it's cracked up to be. She's blissfully unaware of the rising tensions in Europe even as she travels to Vienna on the eve of the Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass. Stella and her husband, Nicky, witness the night's atrocities first hand. Even as they watch the horror, they never imagine it will touch them personally, a pair of wealthy Americans on their honeymoon but touch them it does. In the chaotic aftermath, Stella finds passion and purpose in the form of a package with a Paris address. She promises to deliver it, not knowing what it contains or who wants it. Soon Stella must decide who and what she's willing to sacrifice to keep a secret that has been quietly guarded for five hundred years.

The Paris Package

193aa60d-0c5f-4ced-bb3a-10bf8116d3f8-1

Rick Steves

Steve Smith

Gene Openshaw

Some pages dog eared / squished in travels (see side photo). Otherwise excellent condition with no writing or highlighting. 2022 edition.  

Now more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Paris. From the top of the Eiffel Tower to the ancient catacombs below the city, explore Paris at every level with Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves Paris you'll find: Fully updated, comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more in Paris Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from Notre-Dame, the Louvre, and the Palace of Versailles to where to find the perfect croissant How to connect with culture: Stroll down Rue Cler for fresh, local goods to build the ultimate French picnic, marvel at the works of Degas and Monet, and sip café au lait at a streetside café Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a glass of vin rouge Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and incredible museums and churches Detailed maps, including a fold-out map for exploring on the go Over 700 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down Coverage of the best arrondissements in Paris,including Champs-Elysees, the Marais, Montmartre, and more, plus day trips to Versailles, Chartres, Giverny, and Auvers-sur-Oise Covid-related travel info and resources for a smooth trip Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Paris. Spending just a few days in the city? Try Rick Steves Pocket Paris.

Rick Steves Paris

64f8650d-d90c-4341-9335-5a8fec0834f9-1

An Inspiring Tour of the City's Creative Heart

Take a stroll through the real Paris with this beautifully photographd and gorgeously packaged book. Organized by arrondissement, Paris takes readers through the city's most charming streets, revealing best-kept secrets and little gems at every turn: ateliers overflowing with notions, cafés with their neat rows of macarons, markets abundant with fresh flowers, shaded parks, and creative hotspots. Packed with vibrant color photographs that capture the spirit of Paris and packaged as a hefty flexi-bound paperback with a ribbon page marker, the book is a beautiful object in its own right. The accessible writing invites readers to dip in and out and provides history and context for each spot on the journey. Visually rich and totally inspiring, Paris is a treasure for lovers of art, style, design, food, and, of course, Paris!

Paris

c736a52b-0990-441c-9f38-1b30e2bcb48d-1

#paperback #nonfiction #traveling #france

Beginning in Paris and delving into the farthest reaches of the provinces, the National Geographic Traveler: France guides you to the country's best sights, and lesser known ones as well. Veteran travel writer Rosemary Bailey provides the ins and outs of oldtime favorites, including the Loire Valley, Mont Saint-Michel, and Normandy's battlefields, but she also makes sure you won't miss picturesque Saint-Cirq-Lapopie tucked away in the Dordogne Valley, the charming, vine-striped Var region of Provence, and tiny Mirepoix in the Pyrennes, celebrated for the beautiful half-timbered arcading of its main square, to name a few. Among the many special features of the travel guide are mapped walking and driving tours--including a walk in Paris's Latin Quarter, a drive along the magnificent Gorges du Tarn, and a drive along the enchanting Indre River; and two-page write-ups that take an in-depth look at cafe life, while other write-ups explore monasteries and Breton customs.
 
The guide also includes the popular and beautiful three-dimensional artworks that depict the architectural details of the Louvre, Notre-Dame Cathedral, and Chambord castle as well as a hefty chapter on France's history and culture. And the new experiential sidebars will provide information on choosing from a range of opportunities from bird-watching by bike to spending the night star watching from the summit of Pic du Midi or enjoying a quiet flea market or trying your hand at driving the Le Mans circuit yourself.
 
The guide includes essential background information and the author's pick of hotels and restaurants.

National Geographic Traveler: France

fe8f0067-1cad-4d11-9ea9-099b11657e92-1

•1966 Hardcover 
•Good Condition- This book has wear to the dust jacket. The book itself looks great with no markings inside or outside the book. The binding looks good with secure pages. See photos. 

‼️Ask about our book bundle deals‼️*Excludes our handmade gift items and blind date with a book boxes

  #history #nonfiction #france #military #european

Napoleon’s Marshals  

Mammoth Hardcover (8 to 10 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Edward Rutherfurd Collection, 7 Books: London, Paris, Sarum, The Princes of Ireland, The Rebels of Ireland, China, Russka

#vintage #1940s #mystery #thriller #Maryland #Marquis #Dauphin #France

Mystery surrounding an old house in a small town in Maryland, involving the lost Dauphin of France, and the Marquis de Lafayette.

Arkansas

Vintage Book

The Brass Keys of Kenwick

Published 1949, Heritage Press Collector's Edition, illustrated with slipcase and Sandglass insert

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

New Jersey

Crainquebille

Published 1947, Heritage Press Collector's Edition, illustrated with slipcase and Sandglass insert

Penguin Island 

Vincent Mahe

If you could stand still for 750 years, what could you learn about the world? It's time to find out.

750 Years in PARIS

e0ccd2db-4e4f-42c5-8f3a-af3d774e0f83-1

Daniel Soulié

400 Masterpieces

Since first opening its doors in 1793, the Louvre has become one of the largest and most famous museums in the world and, with 8.3 million visitors per year, it is also the most visited. Louvre: 400 Masterpieces showcases a selection of works from this great institution, from the most famous--the Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa--to lesser-known gems.  With a foreword by the institution's director, Henri Loyrette, the book is organized according to the museum's eight departments: Near Eastern Antiquities; Egyptian Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculptures; Decorative Arts; Paintings; and Prints and Drawings. The ninth and final chapter tells the history of this one time imperial palace as seen through its architecture. With its appealing format and carefully selected images, many newly photographed, Louvre: 400 Masterpieces is the perfect book for museum visitors, art lovers, and Francophiles.

Louvre

00a5dd22-2d9d-4bc5-9e0d-6ac5b007624b-1

 Good copy of Frederick Forsyth's historical fiction novel, The Day of the Jackal, a 1972 recipient of the Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. 

Description from the dust jacket “…driving and remarkable novel of terror, suspense, human malevolence, and triumph.”

This copy is a First American trade edition. Fourth printing, published by the Viking Press, of New York in 1971. 380 numbered pages. Book-of-the-Month Club selection. 

The price clipped dust jacket is heavily chipped with small tears and discolored. The book had multiple dog-eared pages, now straightened. Slight stain and discoloration at spine on top and bottom. See photos for condition. 

The Day of the Jackal

John Rewald

Poor condition due to outside blemishes to cover, corners are worn thru the cloth cover. Otherwise an excellent book inside. Spine is in very good shape, still intact and flexible. No markings or highlighting in text. Illustartions are fantastic. A total of 614 pages. Museum of Modern Art, 3rd edition, 1979.

Written by one of the finest art historians ever, the writer had first hand knowledge of the background material with interviews of artist family members and access to artists correspondents previously unpublished. Rewald was a war refugee acutely aware of the way wars end one era and bring about another, with new tastes and styles coinciding. In short, he saw the big picture all the while maintaining a masterful grasp of the minute.


Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

New York

Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin

e7deb2b7-d226-4c52-bfd6-d8d91599640a-1

Larissa Volokhonsky

Leo Tolstoy

Richard Pevear

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Presents a new translation of the classic reflecting the life and times of Russian society during the Napoleonic Wars, in a book accompanied by an index of historical figures, textual annotation, a chapter summary, and an introduction.

Browse by categories

Save this search

Anna E. Brooke

Frommer's Paris day by day

Bernard B. Fall; Bernard Fall

Street Without Joy

Cathy Bonidan

The Lost Manuscript

Charles Perrault, Sasha Moorsom, Landa Crommelynck

Perrault's Fairy Tales

Stephen P. Kiernan

The Baker's Secret

Marcel Pagnol; W. E. Van Heyningen (Translator)

Jean de Florette and Manon of the Springs

Gita Trelease

Enchantee - SIGNED!!

Alison Harris; Rebecca Perry Magniant

Chic Shopping Paris

Sharon Cameron

Rook

Thad Carhart

Finding Fontainebleau - signed by author

A. W. Hartoin

The Paris Package

Rick Steves; Steve Smith; Gene Openshaw

Rick Steves Paris

Janelle McCulloch

Paris

Rosemary Bailey; Gilles Mingasson (Photographer)

National Geographic Traveler: France

R.F. Delderfield

Napoleon’s Marshals

Edward Rutherfurd

Edward Rutherfurd Collection, 7 Books: London, Paris, Sarum, The Princes of Ireland, The Rebels of Ireland, China, Russka

Augusta Huiell Seaman

The Brass Keys of Kenwick

Anatole France

Crainquebille

Anatole France

Penguin Island

Vincent Mahe

750 Years in PARIS

Daniel Soulié; Daniel Soulié

Louvre

Frederick Forsyth

The Day of the Jackal

John Rewald

Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin

Larissa Volokhonsky; Leo Tolstoy; Richard Pevear

War and Peace