Journal de Goncourt. Mémoires de la Vie Littéraire. Deuxième Série. Premier Volume. 1870-1871 by Goncourt, Edmund de - 1890

London Book Co., 1908. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1908. No Edition Remarks. 364 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to front and rear free endpapers. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Notable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Textblock is shaky. Book has a visible forward lean.

L'Harmattan, 1993. Paperback. Good.

No DW. Very pretty rebind. SOme foxing to first and last few pages and fore and bottom edges. Pretty tight due to the rebind. Small spot of damage to rear board design.

Chicago: Albert Roullier's Art Galleries. Used - Good. 1910. Leatherbound. 8vo. Rebinding of individual exhibition catalogs (1900-1901, 1910-1911): Charles Storm Van's Gravesande, Hedley Fitton, T. Francois Simon, Frank Laing, August Lepere, Mariano Fortuny, Paul Helleu, Men of 1830 (Masters of the Barbizon School), Rembrandt to Zorn. Moderate shelf wear to leather binding. Margin notes to some pamphlets. Altogether a rare collection together as a single volume in Good condition. (Subject: Chicago, Illinois, & Midwest.)

Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1892 Red leather spine with gold gilt title and five ridges. Striking red and grey marbled boards and end pages. Toning consistent with age and paper quality. Tight, square binding. A very handsome and well preserved title.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Bibliothèque Charpentier, 1894 Red leather spine with gold gilt title and five ridges. Striking red and grey marbled boards and end pages. Toning consistent with age and paper quality. Tight, square binding. A very handsome and well preserved title.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

William Heinemann, 1902. 12 vols. Honore de Balzac: The Two Young Brides; Alphonse Daudet: The Nabob; Alexandre Dumas: The Black Tulip; Alexandre Dumas: The Lady of the Camellias; Octave Feuillet: The Romance of a Poor Man; Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Jules and Edmond de Goncourt: Renee Mauperin; Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame of Paris; Guy de Maupassant: Pierre and Jean; Prosper Merimee: Colomba and Carmen; George Sand: Mauprat; De Stendhal: The Charterhouse of Parma. Tall 8vo. Original uniform blue cloth, elaborately gilt decorated spines, top edges gilt remainder untrimmed (casings with slight lean; some light spotting on fore-edges - otherwise a bright VG set). Pp. various, illus with coloured and b&w plates with tissue-guards and title pages with decorated initials (no inscriptions).

London: Avin Redman, 1957. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. 1st printing. DJ in plastic protective cover. Shows wear, is complete.

1895. Paris, Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1895-96. Bound in 9 uniformcontemp. hcloth, spines gilt, tome-and titlelabels with gilt lettering.

Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie., 1889. Hardcover - as published. 4to, vii,162pp. Front board decorations bright with strip of fading along edges, spine very worn with 1" piece missing from head & 3" piece from tail, edges & corners worn, overall trifle shaken although hinges are sound; text very clean. Good copy. Profusely illustrated with black & multi-color text illustrations & 10 heliogravure plates by Jean-Francois Raffaelli. Text by 22 well-known contributors, including Edmund de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Emile Zola, Guy de Maupassant, Octave Mirabeau, J.K. Huymans & Stephen Mallarme.