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Paris: Ernest Flammarion Text is in French. Beautiful marbled paper covers and end papers. Rough cut pages. No date given for publication. Blue paper title with gold lettering. Attached ribbon bookmark. Gilt top edge of pages. 250p. Possible war years edition. Also have book #147, Mademoiselle Fifi.. Cloth and Board. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Ernest Flammarion Unknown publication date. Beautiful red marbled cover and end papers. Paper title on spine. Spine faded. Text in French. Rough-cut edges except for gilt top edge. Pages darkened. Attached ribbon bookmark. Also have book #140, Clair De Lune. Cloth and Board. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Hachette , 1883 Believed to be 1883 editition of this text book. Introduction is in both french and english. Notes are in english. Edited with grammatical and explanatory notes by Victor Oger. Green cloth with black lettering on front, gilt lettering on spine. Boards slightly bowed. Light soiling on ends. Chips at top of spine. Cloth shows general wear.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 Two volumes in one. Originally published in 1873. Dark blue cloth with gold title on spine. Spine is faded, head and tail of spine are pulled. Small area of cloth is worn through to board on front. Cloth is dusty. Gutters cracked, front and back. Some foxing to endpapers. Fifty-eight black and white illustrations, some tissued with captions in red on tissue. Some light foxing to illustration pages and surrounding pages. 321p.. Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London Red cloth with paper title on spine. No paublication date given. Title page states only 'London: Published for the Trade'. Sixteen black and white illustrations, name of artist is not given. Paper title on spine with a price of ten shillings and sixpence. Paper title is stained with chips around the edge. Spine is faded. Cloth is worn and slightly soiled. Binding is cracked at rear gutter. 436p.. Unknown. Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1901 "Translated into English by M. S. Henry from the little varying old French texts of H. Suchier, Gaston Paris and F. W. Bourdillon, and the verse translation rhymed by W. Thomson." Binding is very tight, points are firm, spine has very minor pulling. Paper title on yellow spine, slightly rubbed, but still quite legible. Some sunning to edge of boards. Pages are rough-cut with some foxing. Book is in remarkably good condition. 79p.. Cloth and Board. Very Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. more information

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New York: Carleton, 1866 Published in France in 1826. Hugo's second novel. Friendship of an African Prince and a French military officer during the Haitian Revolution. Possible first American edition. Translated from the original French by Charles Edwin Wilbour. Dark green cloth with gold title on spine. Blind embossed publisher's logo on boards. Cloth is heavily worn on all edges, worn through at corners. Crack in cloth at head of spine. Illustration pages are yellow. Blue endpapers. Previous owners name written neatly on first blank. Middle signature cracked. 310p.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by F. A. Beauce. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952 Historical narrative of mass possession in a seventeenth century French convent. Dramatically illustrated dust jacket shows moderate edgewear including small tears, chips and creasing. Not price clipped. Jacket is now protective mylar cover. Dark blue cloth with gold title on maroon background and gold bands on spine. Head and tail of spine are bumped, corners are lightly rubbed. Cloth is nice and clean. Two very small holes in cloth on rear edge of spine. Publisher's logo blind stamped on front board. Some light toning to page edges, but text block is clean. A few pages have creases from being dog-eared. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Various. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Story Classics, 1953 Numbered limited edition in slipcase, #295 of 3000. Translated from the French by Tom Hood. Includes "A Prologue to Set the Scene" by Edward J. Fluck. Reddish brown slipcase is sunned with a few small stains. Some wear to edges of opening. Cream spine with bright gold title. Black boards with small gold spider on front. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous black and white drawings, some with colored backgrounds. 109p.. Unknown. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Gustave Dore. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Chapman & Hall, 1849 This book has been professionally repaired. Rebound at spine with original cloth laid over new cloth. New endpapers. Original binders label replaced on rear endpaper, Bone & Son, 76 Fleet Street, London. The binder we use for repairs does excellent work. Cloth is heavily worn and has some staining. There are both dark and light spots on front board and a faint whitish smear on rear board. Points are bumped and front bottom point is worn through. Cloth is faded around border of both boards. Edges of boards are dinged. Gold title on spine is somewhat dulled, publishers name is rubbed. Pages are browned and there is some foxing. 391p.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935 From the Introduction, "My intention in these pages which formed a series of lectures designed for, and delivered to, a French audience, is to examine certain English writers who, since the opening of the century, have played an important part in the spiritual moulding of one or two generations of human beings." Translated by Hamish Miles. Subjects are: Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Conrad, Lytton Strachey, D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley and Katherine Mansfield. Maroon cloth with gold title on spine, blind embossed emblem on front. Spine and part of rear board are severely faded. Head and tail of spine are bumped as are bottom corners. Cloth is dusty. Numbers stamped on first paste-down. Binding is a little loose and pages are slightly yellowed. Includes portrait of each author discussed. 345p.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Various. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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