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1) Aesop's Fables
Aesop/Leaf, Munro/Lawson, Robert (illus)

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1979. -. Fine/no dust jacket (as issued). xiv, 130 p., frontis, illus, silk ribbon, satin endpapers, AEG, large 8vo brown leather; more information

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Price: $42.50
2) Droll Stories
Balzac, Honore de/Dore, Gustave (illus.)

NP: Bibliophilist Society, ca. 1930. -. VG/no dust jacket. xxxii, 651 p., frontis, illus, large 8vo; more information

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Price: $9.50
3) The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
Bierce, Ambrose/Voss, Richard (trans)/Valency, Maurice (intro)/Ciry, Michel (illus)

NY: The Heritage Press, 1967. -. VG/VG slipcase, spine lightly sunned. xvi, 78 p., color frontis, color illus, large 8vo; more information

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Price: $7.50
4) Amorous Fiammetta
Boccaccio, Giovanni/Hutton, Edward (intro)

NY: privately printed/Rarity Press, 1931. -. VG/VG, 1/2inch top of dust jacket spine missing. xiv, 356 p., frontis, illus, 8vo; more information

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Price: $17.50
5) Junkie (Ace K-202)
Burroughs, William/Lee, William (original pen name)/Solomon, Carl (foreword)

NY: Ace Books, ca. 1964. 2nd Ace edition. Good, crease to front cover. 126 p + 2 pages ads, mass market paperback; more information

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Price: $27.50
6) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Carroll, Lewis/Tenniel, John (illus)

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. -. Fine/no dust jacket (as issued). xiv, 172 p., frontis, illus, silk ribbon, satin endpapers, AEG, 8vo burgundy leather; more information

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Price: $50.00
7) The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes
Conrad, Joseph

Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1919. 1st printing. Good/no dust jacket, front endpaper cleanly removed. 386 p., 12mo blue cloth; more information

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Price: $12.50
8) Stephen Crane: 3 Stories of Peacetime
Crane, Stephen

Kingsport: Kingsport Press, 1965. 1st printing thus. Fine/Fine slipcase. 1 of 1250 copies, vi, 59 p., frontis, chapter vignettes, small 4to in slipcase; more information

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Price: $22.50
9) The Personal History of David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles/Austen, John (illus)

NY: Heritage Press, 1937. -. VG/VG slipcase. 821 p., color frontis, color illus, chapter vignettes, 8vo in slipcase; more information

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Price: $12.50
10) The Book of Rabelais
Falstaff, Jake/Arnoux, Guy (illus)

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1928. 1st printing thus. Good/Poor, interior tight, dj in 2 pieces, stained, edges covers and endpapers water stained. xii, 246 p., frontis, illus, 8vo; more information

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11) This Is the Hour: A Novel About Goya
Feuchtwanger, Lion/Goya (illus)/Lowe-Porter, H. T. (trans)/Fawcett, Frances (trans)

NY: The Heritage Press, 1956. -. VG/VG slipcase, grease pencil price on front endpaper. xvi, 552 p., color/bw illus, large 8vo; more information

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12) Madame Bovary: a Story of Provincial Life
Flaubert, Gustave/Austen, John (illus.)

NY: privately printed/Rarity Press, 1931. -. VG/Good, dust jacket spine sunned. v, 416 p., frontis, illus, 8vo; more information

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13) The Freelands
Galsworthy, John

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1915. 1st American printing. Good/no dust jacket, label on front pastedown. 412 p., 12mo blue cloth; more information

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Price: $15.00
14) An Unhurried View of Erotica
Ginzburg, Ralph

NY: Helmsman Press, 1958. connoisseur's edition. Fine/Good slipcase, 2inch tear bottom spine of slipcase. 128 p., biblio, index, small 4to; more information

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Price: $6.50
15) The Scarlet Letter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1975. -. Fine/no dust jacket (as issued). x, 280 p., frontis, illus, silk ribbon, satin endpapers, AEG, 8vo red leather; more information

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Price: $40.00
16) The Iliad
Homer/Rieu, E.V. (trans)/Frink, Elisabeth (illus)

London: The Folio Society, 1975. -. Fair/no slipcase, front endpaper removed (else VG). 363 p., color frontis, color illus, notes/glossary, large 8vo; more information

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Price: $30.00
17) The Portrait of a Lady (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series)
James, Henry/Stallman, R.W. (trans/intro)/Browning, Colleen (illus)

Norwalk: Easton Press, 1978. Collector's Edition. Fine/no dust jacket (as issued). (iv), xii, 516 p., color frontis, color illus, silk endpapers, notes AEG, large 8vo gilt decorated leather; more information

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Price: $37.50
18) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written series)
Joyce, James/Kenner, Hugh (intro)/Keogh, Brian (illus)

Norwalk: Easton Press, 1977. Collector's Edition. Fine/no dust jacket (as issued). xx, 254 p., color frontis, color illus, silk endpapers, AEG, 8vo gilt decorated leather; more information

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19) Four Famous Greek Plays: The Medea of Euripides; The Oedipus Rex of Sophocles; The Frogs of Aristophanes; The Agammemnon of Aeschylus (Modern Library series)
Landis, Paul (ed)

NY: Modern Library, 1929. reprint. VG/Good, name on front endpaper. xviii, 293 p., 16mo; more information

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Price: $7.50
20) The Mimes of the Courtesans
Lucian/Cullen, Charles (illus)/A.L.H. (trans)

NY: privately printed/Rarity Press, 1931. -. VG/Good. 152 p., frontis, illus, 8vo; more information

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Price: $20.00
21) Tirant lo Blanc
Martorell, Joanot/Galba, Marti Joan de/Rosenthal, David H

NY: Schocken Books, 1984. 1st printing. Fine/Good, 3.5inch tear to dust jacket spine. xxx, 642 p., map on endpapers, notes, 8vo; more information

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Price: $3.00
22) The Satyricon of Petronius
Petronius/Burnaby, William (trans)/Sotomayor, Antonio (illus)/Bagnani, Gilbert (intro)

NY: Heritage Press, 1964. -. Fine/VG. xxiv, 246 p., illus, glossary, small 4to in slipcase; more information

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23) The Works of Rabelais Faithfully Translated From the French with Valiorum Notes, and Numerous Illustrations by Gustave Dore
Rabelais/Dore, Gustave (illus)

NP: privately printed, -. -. VG/Good. xxii, 640 p., illus, 8vo; more information

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24) The Works of Rabelais
Rabelais/Dore, Gustave (illus.)

NP: Bibliophilist Society, 1930. -. Good/no dust jacket, spine slightly faded. xxii, 640 p., frontis, illus., 8vo; more information

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Price: $8.50
25) Julius Caesar (Midget Classics Series)
Shakespeare, William

London: Burgess & Bowes, nd. -. VG/VG. 252 p., AEG, 64mo; more information

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Price: $12.50
26) The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William

NY: Avenel Books, 1975. reprint. VG/VG. 1229 p., 8vo; more information

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Price: $7.50
27) Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis/Wilson, Edward A. (illus)

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1980. -. Fine/no dust jacket (as issued). xvi, 123 p., frontis, illus, silk ribbon, satin endpapers, AEG, 8vo burgundy leather; more information

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Price: $45.00
28) Treasure Island
Stevenson, Robert Louis/Wilson, Edward A. (illus)

Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1977. -. Fine/no dust jacket (as issued). xxiv, 275 p., frontis, illus, map, silk ribbon, satin endpapers, AEG, 8vo blue leather; more information

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Price: $47.50
29) Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien, J.R.R./Tolkien, Christopher (foreword/notes)

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1979. 1st American printing. VG/VG slipcase, name/date on front pastedown (else FINE). vi, color frontis, 48 pages full color illus, 48 pages text, square 4to in slipcase; more information

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Price: $175.00
30) The Prince and the Pauper
Twain, Mark/Hutton, Clarke (illus)

NY: Heritage Press, 1964. -. VG/VG slipcase. 221 p., color frontis, color illus, notes, tall 8vo in slipcase; more information

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31) Zadig and Other Romances
Voltaire (pen name of Francois Marie Arouet)/Woolf, H.I. (trans.)/Jackson, Wilfrid (trans.)/Keen, Henry (illus.)

NY: privately printed/Rarity Press, 1931. -. VG/Good. xxvi, 316 p., frontis, illus, 8vo; more information

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32) Candide or: The Optimist
Voltaire, J.F.M.A. de/Kredel, Fritz (illus)

Mount Vernon: The Peter Pauper Press, nd. -. VG/no dust jacket, light rubbing to bottom corners. 157 p., color illus, tall 8vo; more information

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33) The Desert Daisy
Wells, Herbert George (H.G.)/Ray, Gordon N. (intro)

Urbana: Beta Phi Mu, 1957. 1st printing. VG/no dust jacket. xx, vi, 96 p., illus, 8vo; more information

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34) Salome: A Tragedy in One Act
Wilde, Oscar/Vassos, John (inventions)

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1927. -. VG/Good, tears to edges of dust jacket, bottom corners lightly bumped, gift inscription on front endpaper. xii, 59 p., frontis, illus, decorated endpapers, large 8vo; more information

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Price: $75.00

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