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[La Guerre des boutons] The War of the Buttons [Review Copy]
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[La Guerre des boutons] The War of the Buttons [Review Copy]

by PERGAUD, Louis (1882-1915)

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New York: Walker, 1968. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition in English, describing the war between two gangs from rival villages, Longeverne and Velrans, in the countryside of Franche-Comté. Translated by Stanley and Eleanor Hochman. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. 8vo (209 x 139mm): [12],273,[1]pp. Publisher's black coarsely woven quarter cloth over marbled sides, spine lettered in red, top edge stained red, double-page illustrated title page; illustrated dust jacket, priced $5.95. An excellent example (apparently unread), tightly bound (head of spine lightly rubbed) and clean throughout. First published in 1912, as La Guerre des boutons. Those who fall into enemy hands face the humiliation of being stripped naked, spanked, and having the buttons cut off from their shirts and pants. The War of the Buttons has been reprinted more than 30 times, and is included on the French high-school curriculum. It was filmed in 1936, 1962, and 1994. N. B. With few exceptions (always… Read More
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La théorie, et la pratique du jardinage, où l'on traite à fond des beaux jardins appellés...
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La théorie, et la pratique du jardinage, où l'on traite à fond des beaux jardins appellés communément les jardins de plaisance, et de propreté

by [DEZALLIER] L. S. A. J. D. A. [Le Sieur Antione Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville, 1680-1765]

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A La Haye [The Hague]: chés Jean Martin Husson, 1739. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine-. Third Edition of this important French treatise on garden design, "to this day the standard authority on the formal garden." (Henrey) 4to (257 x 193mm): [8],383 [13]pp, with 42 copper-engraved plates (some folding and double page), mostly of plans for parterres, mazes, trellises, cascades, fountains, labyrinths, and other garden structures and woodcut figures in the text; head and tail pieces and historiated initials. Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt in six compartments divided by raised bands, red morocco lettering piece gilt, edges stained red, marbled end papers, title page in red and black. Spine relaid with some loss to gilt, contents sporadically embrowned, light foxing, in all a very handsome copy. Hunt 421. Lewine, p. 33. Cleveland 329. Henrey II: pp 491-493. Haller II, p. 94. First published anonymously, in Paris, in 1709, during the reign of Louis XIV and nine years after the death of the… Read More
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[Lady Chatterley's Lover] My Skirmish with Jolly Roger [offered with:] A Propos of Lady...
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[Lady Chatterley's Lover] My Skirmish with Jolly Roger [offered with:] A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Being an essay extended from "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger

by LAWRENCE, D. H. [David Herbert, 1885-1930]

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New York / London: Random House / Mandrake Press Ltd, 41 Museum Street, 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy No. 241 of D. H. Lawrence's separately published introduction to the Paris popular edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, together with the first trade edition of the expanded introduction, published the following year under the title A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Jolly Roger: Slim Demy 8vo (218 x 147mm): [12]pp, with scarce erratum slip laid in. Publisher's speckled beige paper-covered boards, matching beige paper title label printed in black to upper cover, patterned end papers printed in rose and black. A Very Fine copy without noticeable flaw. A Propos: Slim crown 8vo (189 x 115mm): 62,[2]pp, with title-page vignette. Publisher's French blue cloth ruled and lettered in brown; salmon-pink illustrated dust jacket ruled and lettered in black and priced 3/6. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Roberts A48 (Although the limitation statement states that 600 copies were… Read More
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The Land [together with] The Garden
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The Land [together with] The Garden

by SACKVILLE-WEST, V. (Vita,1892-1962)

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London: William Heinemann / Michael Joseph [through 1946], 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A splendid set (two first impressions) of the author's long narrative poems, each evoking a bucolic idyll. The Land: 8vo: [10],108pp. Publisher's burnt orange buckram, paper title label printed in red to spine (extra label, as issued, attached to colophon leaf), fore- and bottom edges uncut, in the marvelous cream dust jacket printed in black and illustrated by George Plank (who also created dozens of covers for Vogue magazine in an art-deco style), priced 6/- on spine panel. An exceptional copy, one of only 1,000 printed, tight, square and unread; about Fine jacket (back panel lightly dust-soiled). Chosen for the Hawthornden Prize, in 1927. The Garden: Tall, slim 8vo: 134,[1]pp, with title-page vignette, section openers, and tailpieces by Broom Lynne. Publisher's burnt orange cloth, spine stamped in silver, top edge stained terracotta, terracotta floral end papers; matching illustrated dust… Read More
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The Land's End : a naturalist's impressions in West Cornwall
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The Land's End : a naturalist's impressions in West Cornwall

by HUDSON, W. H. [William Henry], 1841-1922

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London: Hutchinson & Co, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo: viii,323,4(advertisements)pp, with 8 (including frontispiece) full-page plates on calendered paper tipped in and 41 pen-and-ink text vignettes by A. L. Collins. Publisher's navy-blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover stamped in gilt with mermaid device within a single rule border, top edge gilt. A superior copy, all but pristine. Payne A26a. By the author of Green Mansions, Hudson's best known novel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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[Latin American trilogy, comprising] The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, [with] Señor Vivo...
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[Latin American trilogy, comprising] The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, [with] Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, [and with] The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal Guzman [All Signed]

by BERNIÈRES, Louis de

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London: Secker & Warburg [through 1992], 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Three Fine and Signed first impressions. Complete in three tall octavo volumes, in the fabulous dust jackets illustrated by Irene von Treskow: viii,376; [8],280; x,388pp. Don Emmanuel: Publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in while, hunter green end papers, jacket priced £13.95. About Fine (bottom outer corners of first few leaves creased; page edges tanned, as always). Presented the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia Region), in 1991.Señor Vivo: Publisher's black cloth, spine stamped in gilt, robin's egg blue end papers, jacket priced £14.99. Fine. Cardinal Guzman: Publisher's black cloth, spine stamped in silver, maroon end papers, jacket priced £14.99. Fine. Louis de Bernières's Latin American trilogy "owes much to the magic realist tradition usually associated with such writers as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. [In the Latin American trilogy,] de Bernières adopts a… Read More
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Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole [Unopened]
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Le Diable Amoureux, Nouvelle Espagnole [Unopened]

by CAZOTTE, Jacques (1719-1792; Jean-Émile Laboureur, 1877-1943 (Illustrates)

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Paris: Chez Camille Bloch, 1921. Limited Edition. Wrappers. Fine. Copy No. 534 of 575 copies, "Réimprimée selon l'édition originale," with the final state of the engravings. Demy 8vo (226 x 140mm): ix,[1],152,[4]pp, printed on on Arches vergé, with six full-page burin engravings (including frontispiece), woodcut initials and chapter heading, and inserted sheet of music. Publisher's blue laid paper wrappers, decorative title label printed in black to upper cover, edges uncut. A remarkably fresh copy, completely unopened and virtually pristine. Laboureur 194. First published in 1772, this occult romance recounts the exploits of Satan and his attempts to seduce a young nobleman by taking the form of a beautiful woman. The Le Diable amoureux inaugurated a literary style known as fantastique, in which surreal events intrude on reality, and the reader is left guessing whether the events actually occurred or were merely figments of the character's imagination. Laboureur based his exquisite engravings… Read More
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Le Paradis Perdu, poëme par Milton; Édition en Anglais et en Français, Ornée de douze...
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Le Paradis Perdu, poëme par Milton; Édition en Anglais et en Français, Ornée de douze Estampes imprimées en couleur d'aprés les Tableaux de M. Schall . .

by MILTON, John (1608-1674)

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Paris: chez Defer de Maisonneuve, rue du Foin S. Jacques, no. 11, 1792. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. First Illustrated French Edition, Second Issue (preferred) by Maisonneuve, one of the earliest examples of coloring printing (preceded in France only by Sergent's Portraits des grands hommes), in magnificent eighteenth-century French calf. Parallel texts in English and French, the latter a prose translation by Nicolas François Dupré de Saint-Maur (first published 1729), revised for this edition by C. J. Chéron de Boismorand. In two volumes. Royal 4to: [4],viii,391,[1]; [4],377,[1]pp, with half-titles and 11 (of 12) color stipple-engraved, unlettered proof plates on papier vélin, by Bonnefoy, Clément, Colibert, Demonchy, and Gautier after paintings by Schall. The plate for Book II ("Crowned skeleton, with menacing hound, fights with a maiden in the heavens") never bound in. Full period marbled calf with gilt-tooled borders, turn-ins and spine, red morocco lettering and green numbering… Read More
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[Le Temps retrouvé] Time Regained [Remembrance of Things Past]
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[Le Temps retrouvé] Time Regained [Remembrance of Things Past]

by PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822)

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London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Part Eight (complete in one volume) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Copy No. 1170 from an edition of 1300. Translated by Stephen Hudson, who took over English translation of Proust's monumental work after C. K. Scott Moncrieff died in February of 1930. Crown 8vo (188 x 128mm): [10],434pp. Publisher's slate blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edges stained blue, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. An excellent example (barring light spotting to first few leaves), tightly bound and clean throughout. The Modern Movement 23. First Printing in English (not to be confused with the more common Phoenix Library edition published by Chatto & Windus in 1929). Written over more than a decade and considerably altered by the outbreak of World War I and its author's tragic experience of love and loss, [À la recherche du… Read More
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Lectures on the art of reading [Parts I & II]
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Lectures on the art of reading [Parts I & II]

by SHERIDAN, Thomas (1719-1788)

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London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, 1775. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. Fine. First Edition, in two parts (volumes): Part I. The art of reading prose. Part II. The art of reading verse. 8vo: xii,392; [4, including Errata],411,[1, publisher's advertisement]pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer in marbled paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines. A superb set, clean, bright, and free of foxing. Lowndes 2380. Sheridan was an Irish stage actor, educator (and, incidentally, godson of Jonathan Swift and father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan), as well as a major proponent of the elocution movement. In Western classical rhetoric, elocution (the art of delivering speeches) was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, emerging as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. Sheridan's lectures on the subject, collected in Lectures on… Read More
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Lectures on the art of reading; First Part: Containing The Art of Reading Prose. By Thomas...
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Lectures on the art of reading; First Part: Containing The Art of Reading Prose. By Thomas Sheridan, A.M. Author of Lectures on Elocution, British Education, &c

by SHERIDAN, Thomas (1719-1788)

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London: printed for J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall; J. Wilkie, St. Paul's Church-Yard; E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and T. Davies, Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, MDCCLXXV, 1775. First Edition. Full Calf. Fine. First Edition. 8vo; xii, 392pp. Beautifully bound by Fitterer to period style in full speckled calf, spine in six compartments between raised bands ruled in gilt, original olive-green lettering piece gilt. An excellent example, the pages clean, bright, and free of foxing. Lowndes 2380. Sheridan was an Irish stage actor, educator (and, incidentally, godson of Jonathan Swift and father of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan), as well as a major proponent of the elocution movement. In Western classical rhetoric, elocution (the art of delivering speeches) was one of the five core disciplines of pronunciation, emerging as a formal discipline during the eighteenth century. Sheridan's lectures on the subject, collected in Lectures on Elocution (1762) and Lectures on Reading (1775), provided directions… Read More
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The Legend of Monte della Sibilla or Le Paradis de la Reine Sibille [H. Balfour Gardiner's copy]
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The Legend of Monte della Sibilla or Le Paradis de la Reine Sibille [H. Balfour Gardiner's copy]

by BELL, Clive (1881-1964)

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Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Hogarth House, 1923. Pictorial Boards. Fine. One of 400 copies printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Royal 8vo (257 x 186mm): 25,[1]pp, with frontispiece and one further drawing by Duncan Grant and one figure by Vanessa Bell. Original pictorial boards printed in black; wanting the scarce plain cream dust jacket. Provenance: H. Balfour Gardiner, with his blue ink stamp to front fly-leaf. Very light occasional spotting, but an excellent example, securely bound and generally clean throughout. Woolmer 27. Laing A8. At the turn of the twentieth century, Bell was prominent in the group of friends who met on Thursday evenings at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, including Virginia Stephen (later Woolf) and her sister Vanessa, who married Bell in 1907 and illustrated this and many other books published by the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press. Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) was a British musician and composer and member of the… Read More
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Les Jockeys Camouflés. Trois Poèmes par Monsieur Pierre Reverdy. Agrementés de cinq dessins...
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Les Jockeys Camouflés. Trois Poèmes par Monsieur Pierre Reverdy. Agrementés de cinq dessins inédits de Monsieur Henri Matisse

by REVERDY, Pierre (1889-1960); Henri Matisse (Illustrates)

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Paris: La Belle Édition, 71, Rue des Saints-Pères, 1918. Limited Edition. Wrappers. First Edition, No. 221 of 300 copies on verge d'Arches, of Matisse's first illustrated book. Square royal 8vo (247 x 224mm): [50]pp, with five plates (one double-page) from early drawings by the French Fauve illustrating three poems by Reverdy. Original wrappers printed in blue and black, untrimmed. Wanting the unprinted glassine dust jacket. An excellent example of this rare survival (many copies were destroyed at the author's request), expertly respined to style, several leaves with archival repairs to margins only, lower right corner of front wrapper renewed, but bright and fresh, tightly bound and clean throughout. The Artist and the Book 195 ("notable for its imaginative use of color in typography [but see below] and for the only appearance of Matisse's early drawing style as book illustration.") Barr, Matisse, pp. 196, 560 ("sometimes considered Matisse's first illustrated book"). Editions Albert Skira,… Read More
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[Letters from an American farmer] Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain, écrites a W. S. Ecuyer,...
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[Letters from an American farmer] Lettres d'un Cultivateur Américain, écrites a W. S. Ecuyer, Depuis l'année 1770, jusqu'a 1781. Traduites de l'Anglois par ***

by CRÈVECOEUR, Michel Guillaume St Jean de (1735-1813)

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A Paris: Chez Cuchet, Libraire, rue & hôtel Serpente, 1784. Quarter-Calf. Fine. First Edition in French, First Issue (with errata, not found in second issue) of the author's free translation (adding a second volume) of his Letters from an American Farmer, "as literature, unexcelled by any American work of the eighteenth century." (Howes) Complete in two octavo volumes: xxiv,iv,422,[2]; [4],iv,400,[2]pp, with head and tail pieces. Half title in second volume. Contemporary tan quarter calf, smooth spines in six compartments divided by wide gilt rolls, citron and blue goat skin labels gilt, marbled paper-covered boards, marbled edges, vellum tips. A remarkably attractive set, securely bound, spine gilt bright, pages fresh and free of foxing with ample margins. Howes C 883. Sabin 17494. Monaghan 502. DAB IV, pp. 542-44. Clark I, 218(4). First published in London, in English, in 1782. Crèvecoeur served in the French and Indian War as a surveyor in the French colonial militia. Following the British… Read More
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Letters to a War Bride
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Letters to a War Bride

by SWAN, Annie S. [Mrs. Burnett Smith, 1859-1943]

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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers. Fine-. First printing of this very scarce epistolary novel. 8vo: 126,[2]pp. Original green paper embossed with crosshatch pattern and printed in red and black over stiff boards. Very slight edge wear, webbing just peaking through between pp 56-57 but binding firm with no loose pages, a gorgeous copy. A fictional collection of letters from a "real war bride." Swan was a Scottish journalist, novelist and story writer, mostly under her maiden name but also as David Lyall and later Mrs. Burnett Smith. She was a popular writer of romantic fiction and published more than 200 novels, serials, short stories and other fiction between 1878 and her death, in 1943. She was politically active throughout her life, as a suffragist, a Liberal activist, and a founder-member and vice-president of the Scottish National Party. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully… Read More
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The Light Around the Body [Inscribed Association Copy]
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The Light Around the Body [Inscribed Association Copy]

by BLY, Robert (1926-2021)

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New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition (so stated) of Bly's second collection, playfully inscribed by him on the front free end paper in three colors of pen in the year of publication: "Oct. 24, '67 / For Henry / who published so many / of these poems / and for Juliet / With warm wishes / Robert." The dedication is to Henry Rago (1915-1969), a poet whose own poems were widely published and editor of Poetry Magazine from 1955-1969, where a full third of the poems in this volume originally appeared. Tall, thin 8vo: viii,62,[2]pp. Publisher's mid-blue paper-covered boards lettered in white, fore-edge untrimmed, cream-colored end papers; matching typographic dust jacket, priced $3.95. An excellent (apparently unread) and important association copy. Roberson A7. Bly's second book of poems "could not be thematically more different from the 'deep image' lyrics of his first book, Silence in the Snowy Fields. A blatantly outspoken attack on the American involvement… Read More
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The Lion and the Lamb
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The Lion and the Lamb

by OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips (1866-1946); Bip Pares [illustrates]

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Boston: Little, Brown, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing ("Published August, 1930," with no further printings noted) of one of the author's later novels. 8vo: [4],294pp. Publisher's yellow cloth stamped in black, pictorial dust jacket by the incomparable Bip Pares, priced $2.00 and with wraparound band announcing "The New Oppenheim—Presenting Tottie Green's Gang." A Fine, virtually pristine copy in like jacket. Oppenheim published some 150 novels, mainly suspense and international intrigue but also romances and comedies. He was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction and of the "Rogue Male" school of adventure thriller later popularized by John Buchan. The year he published The Lion and the Lamb, P. G. Wodehouse's dedicated his collection of short stories, Very Good, Jeeves, to Oppenheim. Ethel "Bip" Pares (1904-1977) is "a name seen so often on some of the most eye-catching designs of the nineteen-thirties and forties. . . . She has long been admired and collected—she… Read More
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A Literary History of Wallpaper
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A Literary History of Wallpaper

by ENTWISLE, E. A. (Eric Arthur, 1900-1998)

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London: B. T. Batsford, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. Scarce First Printing of this chronology, listing more than 600 literary references to wallpaper during the past 450 years. Royal 8vo (246 x 150mm): 211,[1]pp, with colored frontispiece and 126 further illustrations (some in color). Publisher's navy cloth, spine ruled and lettered in gold, illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped). An exceptional example, tightly bound and clean throughout, virtually pristine (apparently unread). A scholarly, original work, ranging from Holinshed's Chronicles to Boswell's Life of Johnson and Proust's A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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The Lives of the Roman Emperors and Their Associates : From Julius Caesar (B C 100) to Augustus...
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The Lives of the Roman Emperors and Their Associates : From Julius Caesar (B C 100) to Augustus (A D 476)

by REED, J. Eugene (edited by)

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Philadelphia: Gebbie & Company [through 1884], 1883. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine. Complete set, in five volumes, in exceptionally fine matching publisher's bindings. Royal 8vo (243 x 165mm): vi,[4],342; [8],342; [8],344; [8],344; [8],344pp, with 50 tissue-guarded steel-engraved plates and numerous woodcuts, "forming a full portrait gallery of the Roman emperors." Original royal blue fine woven cloth, spine and covers blocked in blind with floral friezes and rules, upper cover stamped in gilt with central laurel wreath enclosing gilt lettered title, spine lettered in gilt with fasces and laurel wreath; beveled edges; robin's egg blue end papers, all edges gilt. Virtually pristine (excepting nick to cloth on back board edge of v. II), down to gilt edges, which still sparkle. Gebbie and Co. was justly regarded for publishing handsome illustrated works, with fine bindings and high production values, and proof of that reputation is this set. From the Preface: "In comprehensiveness of scope the… Read More
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Living Painters. With an Introduction by Roger Fry
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Living Painters. With an Introduction by Roger Fry

by GRANT, Duncan (1885-1978)

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London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square, 1930. Stiff Card Covers. Fine. New Edition, bound from first edition sheets with cancel title page and newly printed covers reproducing the design of the first edition. Total print run, combining first and new editions, was only 1010 copies. Royal 8vo (249 x 187mm): xi,[1]pp, with 24 leaves of short captions (printed verso only) and 24 leaves of full-page plates. Original publisher's stiff card tan covers printed in black, upper cover decorated by Duncan Grant. A superb copy, just nicked at spine tips, bright and clean throughout. Seldom seen in such collectible condition. Woolmer 31. Planned as first in a series, but no further installments were published. In his introduction, Roger Fry speaks favorably of Duncan Grant's paintings, but calls special attention to Grant's work as a decorator: "When he was working at the Omega workshops his fellow-artists all recognized the peculiar charm, the unexpected originality, and the… Read More
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