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1896411448New York: F. Tennyson Neely 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition . Translated from the French by Mrs. Edward Lees Coffey. 12mo. 232 8ads pp. Green decorative cloth. Modest wear to the cloth at the bottom of the spine soiling on the boards about very good. French novel. F. Tennyson Neely hardcover books
18962606Paris: Leon Chailley 1896. 1st . Hardcover. Very good. 17.5 x 12 cm. New quarter calf and marbled boards with the title lettered in gilt on the spine and the original wrapper bound in. 196 2 pp. Text in French. A dramatic presentation of an anti-S emitic lampoon by a very popular author of novels romances satires and other publications dealing largely with marriage divorce courtship etc. The color illustrations by "Bob" are actually by th e author. A nice copy well-preserved in an attractive modern binding. <br/><br/> Leon Chailley hardcover books
18994405Paris: Edition Du Gaulois 1899. Oblong folio red pebbled cloth with large paste-down color pictorial illustration on front cover. About fine. With the appearance of a children's book the setting is a schoolroom with an abbot instructing a child. Actually it is a record of an 1899 campaign for a Boulangiste candidate in the Norman village where Gyp summered told in a childish narrative and 36 full page cartoonish drawings in color and black and white by "Bob". The Countess was a fanatical anti-Semite and anti-Dreyfusard who denounced populist democracry and the parliamentary French Republic in numerous sketches and novels. She identified Boulanger who vowed to save France in a time of crisis with Napoleon I whom she idolized. Georges Boulanger was a conservative French general and politician who threatened a coup d'etat and the establishment of a dictatorship advocating revenge on Germany and a return to the monarchy. According to the newspaper Le Temps Gyp harangued the peasants and fisherman of the peaceful coastal town bribed the children with candy and distributed posters insulting the government for which she was fined. Reference: Willa Silverman The Notorious Life of Gyp. Right-Wing Anarchist in Fin-de-Siecle France." . Color Pictorial Cloth. About Fine. Illus. by "Bob". Oblong Folio. Edition Du Gaulois Hardcover books
1896227334Paris: Academie des Beaux Livres 1896. Limited. hardcover. fine. rops. Illustrated with 8 magnificent colored etchings by Felicien Rops protected by tissue. Each plate is followed by an uncolored duplicate etching. Each page of text is printed within a wide floral border printed in colors. 208pp. Tall 8vo beautifully bound in full crimson crushed levant with wide and ornate gilt borders; gilt-decorated spine with raised bands; inner and outer dentelles; doublures & endleaves of red silk moire a.e.g. The original beautiful color wrappers including the spine are bound-in. Paris: Academie des Beaux Livres 1896. Fine.<br/><br/> Limited edition. Number 177 of only 183 copies printed on Japanese vellum. A masterpiece of Fin-de-Siecle book production in a superb binding and matching morocco-tipped lined slipcase.<br/><br/> Academie des Beaux Livres unknown books