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1930532"Voyage autour de ma chambre/ Expedition Noturne/ Le lepreux de la cité d´Aoste. Cover illustrated in color. Watercolors by Maggy Monier. Editions Nilsson hardcover
1925feb34094Garnier 1925. Used. 1925; Romanian Edition of Oeuvres completes; For more details please contact me Garnier unknown
1922803A22Paris: Leon Pichon 1922. Paperback. Very Good/Good Only. 9" by 6.5". Carlegle . A limited edition of Xavier de Maistre's story concerning lepers in Aosta illustrated by Carlegle complete with its glassine wraps. Xavier de Maistre of Savoy was a military man mainly known as a French writer. This short novel is the touching story of leprosy told through a conversation between a soldier and a leper who reminisces about his lost youth and stolen life spent in a tower with a view of the Alps. In the original French. One of three hundred copies printed on Arches paper this copy number two hundred and thirty seven. Decorated in text with woodcuts by Carlègle Swiss-born illustrator and painter. Complete with its glassine dust wrapper. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally smart with minor shelf wear light spotting and age toning to the wraps minor chipping to the head and tail of the spine. The dust wrapper is lacking the spine separating the front from the rear wrap unclipped with a slight shelf wear and chipping to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Odd minor spotting to the odd leaf otherwise the pages are bright and clean. Illustrated in text with woodcuts by Carlègle. Very Good Leon Pichon paperback
19014681Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co 1901. 1st Thus. Very Good. In French. Uncut and complete with the publishers' note in englishloose in the front. Bound in green paper over boards with a vellum-like spine. Author and title gilded on spine with devices and frames. Corners just bumped some scuffing to spine and rubbing to head and tail of same. Rough cut edges on side and bottom. Capitals and some devices in red within the text. Portrait frontispiece of the author protected by sheet. Some pages have spotting. Overall very good. An autobiographical and whimsical account of the authros time in a Turin jail following a duel he imagines wandering around his cell. After finishing the manuscript the author left it with his brother who secretly published it. A very good and interesting copy of this Romantic 19th century work. <br /> <br /> Pages: 24 157 Dimensions: 8¼ x 5⅜ x 1 . Houghton Mifflin & Co unknown
1910feb20961Minerva 1910. Used. 1910; Romanian Edition of Calatorie in jurul odaei mele Biblioteca Minervei 93; For more details please contact me Minerva unknown
1910feb20947Minerva 1910. Used. 1910; Romanian Edition of Siberiana Biblioteca Minervei 75; For more details please contact me Minerva unknown
