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1953120162AB1953. London Collins 1953. 13 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece 140 pages. Hardcover publisher's original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Hint of foxing to fore-edge. Preowner's name on front endpaper. Brief Lives - No. 8 Includes for example the following: Background to South Africa / From Hertfordshire to Kimberley / Scholar and Speculator / The Jameson Raid / War in Africa and the Death of Rhodes etc. hardcover
445800John Lane the Bodley Head. Hardcover. Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. John Lane the Bodley Head 1941. Book is in good used condition. Some foxing to pages and some damage to hardcovers. John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
2213006210.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1938LTH17-E-7Middlesex: Penguin Books 1938. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. An amusing and highly detailed fictionalised biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Translated by Ella D'Arcy. Includes an advertiser's catalogue to the rear. Seventh impression of 1935 edition. In a half crushed morocco binding. Externally a little shelfwear. Internally firmly bound. The pages have age toning but are generally clean with the odd handling mark. Very Good Penguin Books hardcover
1935857T1London: Penguin Books 1935-1940. Paperback. Very Good/Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. A seven volume set of Pelican Books as published by Penguin Random House. Seven volumes. This set includes: Ariel 1935. The first penguin edition of the work. Written by Andre Maurois a French author. Social Life in the Insect World 1937. The first pelican edition of the work. Illustrated with fifteen plates collated complete. Written by Jean-Henri Fabre a French naturalist entomologist and author. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism Capitalism Sovietism & Fascism in two volumes 1937. The first pelican edition of the work. Written by Bernard Shaw an Irish playwright critic polemicist and political activist. History of the English People Epilogue: 1895-1905 Book 2 1939. The first Pelican edition of the work. Written by Élie Halévy a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of British history. An ABC of International Affair: The Penguin Political Dictionary 1939. The first Penguin edition. A Penguin Special. Compiled by Walter Theimer a German scientist and non-fiction author. The Expanding Universe 1940. The first pelican edition of the work. Illustrated with two plates collated complete. Written by Sir Arthur Eddington an English astronomer physicist and mathematician. In the original paper wraps. Externally very smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Light fading to the boards. All volumes have original unclipped dust wrappers other than Ariel. Dust wrappers are also very smart with light chipping and the odd crease. Minor fading to the spine. Internally generally firmly bound. Hinges starting but firm to a few volumes. Volume one textblock may detach from boards with further handling. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the edges. Very Good Penguin Books paperback
1928905P6London: Jonathan Cape 1928. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Edward Carrick. The first edition in English of this satirical Utopian novel by Andre Maurois with illustrated by Edward Carrick. The first edition in English.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles' is a satirical sci-fi tale in which a man and woman travel to an Utopian island where the dominant class are artists who provide the other classes with their raisons d'etre.Originally written in French by Andre Maurois here translated into English by David Garnett.Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Edward Carrick. In the original publisher's cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Spine is faded. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is edge worn with chips to the head and tail of the spine. Head of the spine is lifting. Spine is a little age-toned. Only a few light handling marks to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine Jonathan Cape hardcover
76971Couverture rigide. Bon/1946. in-8. Paris 1946 in-8 290pp broché Exemplaire en parfait état de l'édition originale sur numérotée sur papier Vélin Crevecoeur du Marais! unknown
1974009293Harper & Row. DJ in archival cover price sticker ghost very minor edge ware. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1974. Harper & Row hardcover
194012238New York: Henry Holt 1940. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Fine. Bruller Jean. 1st ptg. 4to full blue cloth decorated with darker blue designs four-color endpapers and color illustrations throughout by Jean Bruller. 92pp. Bookplate on verso of front endpaper else fine no dj or other owner's marks. Henry Holt hardcover
1520Paris: Reagrds / Editions du Sagittaire 1931. First edition of Maurois' most interesting work. One of 100 numbered copies printed on fine Holland wove paper. 8vo original wraps. Uncut. Fine. <br/><br/> Paris: Reagrds / Editions du Sagittaire, 1931 paperback
195064528Paris: Grasset 1950. Fine. Grasset Paris 1950 12 x 18.50 cm broché First edition one of 103 numbered copies on Madagascar paper deluxe copies after 50 copies on green watermarked vellum hors commerce. Handsome copy despite two small creases at head and foot of covers. Grasset hardcover
194620211Paris: Flammarion 1946. Fine. Flammarion Paris 1946 12 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 165 numbered copies on laid paper deluxe copy. Minor worming to spine and edges otherwise a handsome copy. Flammarion unknown
1969127866London: Bodley Head 1969. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Light scuff on bottom of front panel. Translation From the French by Denver & Jane Lindley. Owner inscription. ; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 296 pages. Bodley Head hardcover
192890385New York: D. Appleton and Company 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good in boards. First Edition noted by Roman numeral "I" on last page of text. Spine sunned and soiled. Bookplate to front pastedown. Previous owner's signature on half-title page. Staining to pages throughout. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
19613547543París.: Hachette. 1961. Hardcover. Good. 20 cm. 570 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura artesanal en plena piel con nervios. Idioma francés . Biografías.929 929 Hachette. hardcover
1929313590New York: D. Appleton and Co 1929. Translated by Hamish Miles. 379 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three quarters blue morocco t.e.g. Very good. Translated by Hamish Miles. 379 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Co unknown
19762111902154608988Misuzushobo 1976. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Misuzushobo paperback
19742111902160304509Misuzushobo 1974. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 185 pages Size: 46 size Misuzushobo paperback
1928mon0002883668London: John Lane the Bodley Hea 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. . Deluxe edition in custom marbled slipcase. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London. Blue half-leather with marbled boards raised bands gilt decoration top edges gilt marbled endpapers. Cover shows minor rubbing and fading to the spine. Pages are clean. London: John Lane the Bodley Hea hardcover
19296355Paris: Hachette 1929. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1929 1st edition. Solid and clean and VG in its original pictorial boards with neat former owner inscription at the half-title. Quarto 72 pgs. Nicely illustrated thruout by D"Adrienne Segur. Hachette unknown
19462091202133001316Hotaka shobo 1946. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hotaka shobo paperback
1957177679New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc 1957. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. 160p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. Edges lightly rubbed endpapers a bit foxed and binding barely cockeyed. Text is unmarked and binding secure. The dustjacket is rubbed and lightly edgeworn with several tiny closed tears along the edges. Advice for women on love romance and marriage written by a Frenchman. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc hardcover
194529397New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1945. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1945. First Edition stated. Octavo 21cm; viii230pp. Publisher's brown cloth with purple and gilt titling to front and spine. No dust jacket. Boards bumped and worn at corners and spine ends with soiling and scuffing to cloth and darkening / dulling down spine. Prior owner's address stamp attached to half title else interior unmarked. Binding is sound.<br /> <br /> Signed by the author without inscription on front free endpaper. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown
193047578New York: D Appleton and Company 1930. First American edition . Hardcover. Fine. 597p octavo illustrated . a fine copy bound in 3/4 red morocco and cloth <br/><br/> D Appleton and Company hardcover
1930160504Paris: Bibliotheque Grasset 1930. Very Good. Very good in Two Volumes Inscribed. Limp binding has browned slightly minor wear at spine ends. IN French. Bibliotheque Grasset unknown