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New Directions, 1954. First Edition . Cloth. Good/Fair. Larger, sturdy book, quality red cloth, very bright giltlettering with blue background at spine top, ligh foxing inside covers and adjacent end papers, spotting to exterior page edges, 220 stiff lightly browned pages, a few glossy illustrations. DJ yellow front and back, a portrait standing with dog on front, foxed back with related titles, clear taped at tips. Fair DJ/Good book.

Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Op. Previous owner's name on ffep. Dj has 1/2" tear on top front. Otherwise vg condition. 220 pp.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hassell Street Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Hardback. New.

London : Faber and Faber , 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Lloyd Austin, University of Manchester. Physical description; 220 p. [5] p. of plates : ill., ports., frontis. ; 23 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 214-216. Includes index. Subjects; Borel, P�trus (1809-1859). Borel, P�trus (1809-1859) - Biography. Borel, Petrus (1809-1859) - Criticism and interpretation. Borel, P�trus (1809-1859) - Contemporaries. French literature - 19th century - History and criticism. French poetry - 19th century - History and criticism. Paris (France) - Intellectual life - 19th century. Genres; Biography. Illustrated.

Rubbed. Some foxing. Some top page-edge soil. Good., dustwrapper 6pp photoplates French Literary History Faber and Faber London (1954) orig. boards 22x14cm, 220 pp, In a rubbed chipped & torn dustwrapper. Spine edge bumped. Contents: The Melting Pot; The Early Years; Le Petit Cénacle; La Bataille d'Hernani; The July Revolution; Aftermath; Spleen; Carnival; The Dandies; The Lycanthrope; Les Bouzingos; Rhapsodies; Feu et Flamme, Champavert; La Bohéme du Doyenné; Madame Putiphar; Satan; The Civil Servant; Algeria; The Inspector; Decline and Fall; The Death of the Wolf; Conclusion; Notes; Appendixes: A 'Platras' by Le Mapah; The Later Life of Philothée O'Neddy; Unpublished Letters; Bibliography.

London: Faber & Faber, 1954. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good to very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Signed copy. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 220p : ill ; 23cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Borel, Petrus. Borel, Petrus 1809-1859 Criticism and interpretation. French poetry 19th century History and criticism. French literature 19th century History and criticism.

London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 9" by 5.5". None. A signed first edition of this biography of Petrus Borel. Signed by the author on the day of publication. Petrus Borel was a French writer of the Romantic movement and is credited as foreshadowing surrealism, though he was not commercially successful. In a cloth binding in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, sound with some rubbing and bumping. Some sunning. Dustwrapper sound with chipping and some slight loss. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Ink inscription from author to front free-endpaper. Very Good