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Gertrude's Child Story by Richard Hughes, Pictures by Nicole ClavelouxHarlin Quist, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Claveloux, Nicole. Oblong 8vo. 7'' x 10''. Unpaginated. Bound in full yellow cloth, color illustration pasted to front cover, in full color-illustrated jacket. Story by Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica and In Hazard, with full-color illustrations by Nicole Claveloux. In near fine, as new condition. About the book:First Nicole Claveloux-illustrated edition of the tale of a wooden doll who strikes out on her own after her owner is mean to her. Publisher Harlin Quist had an eye for the unusual, and an affinity for the avant-garde. He worked with a variety of artists to create a spectrum of attractive illustrated titles, from the delightfully spooky penwork of Gorey to vibrant and rather psychedelic watercolors of Etienne Delessert and everything in between.

Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters Translation, Introduction And Notes By Wallace Fowlie The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1966. Hardcover. Light blue cloth. 8vo. Bilingual with French & English text on facing pages. 370 pp. There is some very light spotting to the covers, otherwise unmarked and VG without the jacket. About the book (From the Univ. of Chicago blurb) "The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose. The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was… Read More

The G-String Murders by Gypsy Rose LeeThe World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, 1943. Tower Books edition, the black cloth binding with a small purple bat on the front cover. A very nice vintage dustjacket advertising the film adaptation "Lady of Burlesque" starring Barbara Stanwyck. The jacket is protected in plastic, and the book itself is unmarked and in great condition. Gypsy Rose Lee (born Rose Louise Hovick, 1911 – 1970) was an American burlesque entertainer famous for her striptease act. She also wrote several books and some plays - this is her first. Her memoir was adapted into the 1959 stage musical "Gypsy."

Midnight's Children by Salman RushdieAlfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981, First American Edition (stated.) Hardcover in the original dust jacket. Octavo [24 cm] 1/4 maroon cloth over gray boards. 446 pgs. The book is unmarked and in VG+ condition. The jacket is also VG, unclipped with a little curling and edgewear (please see photos)Second published work by Rushdie and considered by many to be his finest. Midnight's Children was awarded the Booker Prize, and was also awarded the Booker of Booker Prizes in 1993 to the best of the original 25 winners of the Booker Prize.