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Manuscrit autographe de Boris Vian intitulé ""Conseil de révision (des opinions)"" à propos de Paul Anka : « Paul Anka est un garçon de vingt ans qui écrit ses chansons et qui les chante. » by VIAN Boris & (ANKA Paul) - 1958

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Manuscrit autographe de Boris Vian intitulé ""Conseil de révision (des opinions)"" à propos de Paul Anka : « Paul Anka est un garçon de vingt ans qui écrit ses chansons et qui les chante. » by VIAN Boris & (ANKA Paul) - 1958

Manuscrit autographe de Boris Vian intitulé ""Conseil de révision (des opinions)"" à propos de Paul Anka : « Paul Anka est un garçon de vingt ans qui écrit ses chansons et qui les chante. »

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1958. Fine. s.d. (1958), 20,9x26,9cm, 4 pages sur 4 feuillets. - Manuscrit autographe de Boris Vian intitulé ""Conseil de révision (des opinions)"" à propos de Paul Anka. 4 pages rédigées au stylo à bille bleu sur 4 feuillets perforés réunis par des agrafes. Ratures et corrections. Pliure transversale en marge gauche sans gravité. Le manuscrit était destiné à « l'élite », c'est-à-dire aux lecteurs du Canard enchaîné, il a finalement été publié dans La Belle époque (1980). Bel article faisant la promotion du concert à l'Olympia du jeune Paul Anka, alors âgé de dix-sept ans, plus de dix ans avant le succès planétaire de My Way. Boris Vian vieillit d'ailleurs un peu la « vedette américaine » : « Paul Anka est un garçon de vingt ans qui écrit ses chansons et qui les chante. » Vian, lui aussi compositeur et interprète souligne pourtant : « Comme il n'en écrit pas des douzaines, il chante aussi d'autres que les siennes, par exemple « Jingle Bells » puisque c'est l'hiver et Noël. » Le chroniqueur insiste sur le snobisme du public parisien difficile et visiblement peu réceptif à la variété américaine : « Paul Anka, le soir de la première, a fait un triomphe aux « populaires », ce qui a refroidi le parterre, savamment composé de vedettes, demi-vedettes, quarts de vedettes et figurants habituels de ces cérémonies. » Boris Vian répond ensuite point par point aux détracteurs du chanteur, enchaînant les louanges : « Il chante juste, très en place et semble capable de « swinguer » à la latine [...] Il a une excellente présence et presque trop de métier pour son âge. [...] Il « en fait » beaucoup moins que l'on ne pouvait le craindre d'après les disques et la publicité. » Très au fait des nouveautés musicales américaines, Boris se risque à un petit classement, sans perdre son légendaire humour, tout à fait en phase avec le ton caustique du Canard enchaîné : « C'est donc un chanteur classique s'il en fut, et l'Anka de malheur que j'avais craint est jusqu'ici, à mettre bien en avant des Kalin Twins, ces deux affreux singes, et du grimaçant Presley (lui, on l'a vu au cinéma). » Comme l'indique le titre de cet article ""Conseil de révision"", Boris Vian semble avoir changé d'avis quant au jeune chanteur après avoir assisté à sa première française ; dans un autre projet d'article pour le Canard enchaîné rédigé quelque temps plus tôt, il déclarait : « Vous connaissez, évidemment, le dernier surnom du jeune chanteur Paul Anka, le beuglant du Canada. Il est court et charmant : l'Anka de malheur. » Provenance : Fondation Vian [ENGLISH TRANSLATION FOLLOWS] Autograph manuscript by Boris Vian titled ""Conseil de révision (des opinions)"" on Paul Anka: ""Paul Anka is a boy of 20 who writes his own songs and sings them."" n. d. [but 1958] | 20.9 x 26.9 cm | 4 pages on 4 leaves Autograph manuscript by Boris Vian titled ""Conseil de révision (des opinions) [Recommendations for a review of opinions]"" on Paul Anka. 4 pages written in blue ballpoint pen on 4 perforated leaves, stapled. Crossings out and corrections. Lateral fold to left margin, but light. The manuscript was for the ""elite"", which is to say the readers of Canard enchaîné, but was eventually published in La Belle époque (1980). A fine article promoting the Olympia concert of a young Paul Anka, 17 at the time, more than ten years before the global success of My Way. Incidentally, Boris Vian made the ""American star"" a little older than his actual years: "" Paul Anka is a boy of 20 who writes his own songs and sings them"". Vian, himself a songwriter and musician, nonetheless points out: ""Since he has not written dozens and dozens of songs, he also sings other people's, for example 'Jingle Bells', because it's winter and Christmas."" Vian insists on the snobbery of the Parisian public that is obviously less receptive to American innovations: ""Paul Anka, the evening of the premiere, had a triumph with the 'people', which chilled the stalls, composed of knowing stars, semi-stars, demi-stars and the usual suspects at such occasions."" Vian then responds point by point to the singer's detractors, singing his praises. ""He sings very well and seems able to 'swing' in the Latin way...He has an excellent presence and almost too much craft for his age...He has far fewer 'airs' than one might have feared given his sales and publicity."" Very aware of new American musicians, Boris risks a little bit of judgement, without losing his legendary humor, in keeping with the caustic tone of Canard enchaîné : ""He is thus a classic singer when he wants to be, and unfortunately Anka is to be regarded well above the Kalin twins, those two awful monkeys and the grimacing Presley (whom we saw at the cinema)."" As the title of this article indicated, ""A recommendation for a revision"", Boris Vian seems to have changed his mind about the young singer after attending his French premiere. In another article planned for Canard enchaîné and written a little while earlier, he had declared: ""You clearly know the latest nickname for the young singer Paul Anka, 'the Canadian bawler. He is short and charming; the Anka of misfortune."" Provenance : Fondation Vian
Plutarchi Chaeronensis. Vitae parallelae, cum singulis aliquot. Graece et latine. Addunter...
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Plutarchi Chaeronensis. Vitae parallelae, cum singulis aliquot. Graece et latine. Addunter variantes lectiones ex mss. codd. veteres & novae, doctorum virorum notae & emendationes, et indices accuratissimi [Five Volumes]

by Plutarch. Bryan, Augustine. (Plutarchus. Bryanus, Augustinus)

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Londini [London]: Ex Officinâ Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts, 1729. First edition thus. Half brown morocco over marbled boards; heads, tails, and raised bands decorated in gilt, gilt volume numbers and titles to two compartments, blind tooled decorations to three compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Spines scuffed, extremities rubbed, short splits to joints near heads on two volumes, tears to head of spines with some minor loss on three volumes, top edge trimmed, occasional browning or toning, but still overall a very good set.. Illus. with an engraved frontis (in Vol. I) by G[erard] van der Gucht after Thornhill, engraved portrait head pieces (from gems) also by van der Gucht, numerous woodcut head and tail pieces. Title page volume I in red and black; volumes 2-5 titles in. 4to. A much admired and respected edition of Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Brunet called it "Belle edition qui represénte le texte de l'édition de Paris, 1624;" and Lowndes called it "An excellent edition."… Read More
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THE AMICABLE QUIXOTE OR ENTHUSIASM OF FRIENDSHIP (4 volumes)
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THE AMICABLE QUIXOTE OR ENTHUSIASM OF FRIENDSHIP (4 volumes)

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London: Printed for J. Walker, 1788. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 12mo. A very good four volume set in contemporary, full tree calf binding with double lettering pieces in red and green. Complete pp. [iii]-vii, [1] 222; [2], 206; [2], 238 & [2], 198. No half-titles which may or may not be wanting, but the pagination for the prelims to vol. I might suggest that one is required? Very good bindings with a little rubbing, a couple of volumes slightly chipped to the head/tail of the spines, corners lightly bruised. Contents clean and tight, manuscript (Greek?) initials to title pages dated 1788 otherwise unmarked, no foxing, paper crisp. A very good set. A Rare Eighteenth Century Novel. We have managed to located just one other copy at auction in the last thirty years and that at Sotheby's sale of July 21, 1993, where it made £1,000 on the hammer, though seemingly not such a nice copy. Referenced by: ESTC T068744.
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[Pound, Ezra- Autograph Letter Signed, Pre-Raphaelite Association] ALS from Pound to Helen Rossetti Angeli, daughter of William Michael Rossetti

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Three pages, 1949. A sprawling, witty and provocative letter written by Pound early on during his extended stay at St. Elizabeth's hospital (12 years, from 1948-1859) to Helen Rossetti Angeli, the daughter of famed Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood co-founder William Michael Rossetti. Written in pencil on the full opened face, with two notes perhaps by HAR, and then on both flaps on the verso, with two wrap-around portions also possibly by HA Rossetti. A lengthy and fascinating letter. "Dear Mrs. Angeli, Thanks v. much for yo/ volume. but must protest no jacket yr/sister Olivia being certainly more alive than anyone in Italy definite purf, not jacket vs not all brit/publrs/ are of the line of Barabbas & born to be damned- perhaps the very printing machinery in England [side flap] Yeats' definition of yr island 'The only country where a man will lie WITHOUT being paid for it' endemic [side flap] lie DOWN not being able to bear the Truth. cordially Ezra Pound." Pound has also placed in the body of the letter,… Read More
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History of Spanish Literature. In Three Volumes. New Edition. With Notable ALS to Samuel Rogers...
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History of Spanish Literature. In Three Volumes. New Edition. With Notable ALS to Samuel Rogers Tipped In

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London: John Murray, 1855. Autograph Letter Signed from Ticknor to noted British poet and man of letters Samuel Rogers tipped in front of Volume I. Inked notation front end page indicating "Sotherans March 1898 Literature" with the cut-out for the listing of this book, item no. 505, laid in. Finely bound in half crimson crushed Levant morocco extra over marbled boards, marbled end papers, tops gilt. From the private library of renowned British Dante scholar Paget Toynbee (1855-1932) with his engraved bookplate to front pastedowns. Near Fine, slight rubs at corners and edges, a bit of spotting at end papers only. The letter, on a single folded sheet, is headed "Clarendon Hotel, July 19-". runs roughly 70 words, and seems to be arranging a meeting with some American friends of Ticknor's. At bottom of letter in pencil "to Samuel Rogers". Ticknor's most important work, in fine binding and with distinguished provenance and with a wonderful ASSOCIATION ALS to Samuel… Read More
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The Conjure Woman

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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1899. Near Fine, tiny rubs to cloth at corners, the bookplate of L. S. Alexander Gumby front paste down. The author's first book, which includes seven folk tales told in an African-American dialect. Levi Sandy Alexander Gumby (February 1, 1885 - March 16, 1961) was an African-American archivist and historian. His collection of 300 scrapbooks documenting African-American history have been part of the collection of Columbia University since 1950 as the Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana. Gumby was also the proprietor of a popular bookstore during the Harlem Renaissance, where he was host of a salon.(Wikipedia). A lovely copy of this important work, and with wonderful provenance. . First Trade Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Sophoclis tragoediae septem, Latino carmine redditae & annotationibus illustratae, per Thomam...
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Basilae: Per Ioanem Oporinum [ 1558 ], 1558. Hardcover. See Description. 8vo. pp. 499, [13]. Bound in later full red morocco with gilt border fillets on front and rear covers. All edges of the book block are gilt. The binding contains areas of rubbing and wear; minor careful restoration is present to the head cap of the spine and to the corner tips of the boards. The upper corner tip of the front blank fly leaf is restored. Interior pages show some light age-toning and scattered mild foxing but are generally clean. This is a Latin translation from the Greek of the seven tragedies of Sophocles - Ajax Flagellifer, Electra, Oedipus Tyrannus, Antigone, Oedipus Coloneus, Trachiniae, Philoctetes. The translation and notes are by Thomas Kirchmeyer (Naogeorgus) 1508-1563, was an influential dramatist, humanist and Lutheran theologian. The preliminaries include a dedication to Johannes Jacob Fugger and also contain short verses by the educator Johannes Sturm, the Latin poet and theologian Johann Seckervitz… Read More
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London: Cassell & Company, 1935. First Edition. First edition of Lawrence Durrell's first novel. Highly autobiographical in character, an apprentice effort, Durrell's novel sank largely without trace. And as with so many unsold titles, the majority of copies were destroyed during the Blitz. "Pied Piper of Lovers" is part of a loose trilogy with Durrell's subsequent novels, "Panic Spring" and "The Black Book." Blue boards with the barest hint of rubbing to edges; no dustjacket, spine incorrectly lettered Pied Pipers of Lovers, bookseller's price on front free endpaper, slight spotting to fore and top-edges, otherwise a clean, solid, well-preserved copy of Lawrence's exceedingly scarce first novel.
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Lonely Crusade

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Book. Fine Minus. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1st Printing, Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. The book is unmarked throughout, the tips are firm. Text and text block has minor tanning at edges and endpapers with slight stain on front free endpaper. Spine is tight, boards rigid and tips are pointed. The dust jacket IS price clipped and has a couple tear outs on top front cover and spine bottom. Closed tear on top front cover. Edges are not folded or frayed. Back cover has minor mottling. Looks handsome good in its shiny new plastic cover. Shipping box is suitable for wrapping with a non-price listed purchase order inside along with biodegradable packing..
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Original and Genuine Letters Sent to the Tatler and Spectator, During the Time Those Works Were...
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Original and Genuine Letters Sent to the Tatler and Spectator, During the Time Those Works Were Publishing. None of Which Have Been Printed. Two Volumes

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London: Printed by R. Harbin for Charles Lillie, 1725. RARE. (24), 368, Index (8); (1), 391, Index (8). Lowndes V, 2471. Editor's dedication signed: Cha. Lillie, prefatory letter signed Rich. Steele ( both are printed and not original signatures) - With a list of subscribers in vol.1. The last copy sold at auction 1992, with previous sales noted in 1963, 1933, and 1907, so a book that appears once in 30 years on average. No other copies online as of this listing. This copy with the armorial bookplates of "The Rt. Hon.ble William L.d Viscount Bateman", British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1721 and 1734. Two volumes, Very Good, in contemporary calf, backs ornately gilt with tan calf labels lettered in gilt, edges dyed mottled red. In addition to Bateman's bookplates his signature "Bateman" at top edge both title pages. small ink letter B and number front paste downs, calf lightly rubbed. end papers with light toning, interiors quite clean and… Read More
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[Cleveland], 1964. Typescript, two pages, 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). With mailing folds. Two inked corrections. Published in 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle' and anthologized in 'The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry,' ed. Alan Kaufman, New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1999. This typescript shows two corrections made in levy's hand - adding "in cleveland" at the end of the sub-title and changing the last words of the second stanza - that subsequently appeared in the published editions: See 'The Buddhist Third Class Junkmail Oracle,' edited by Mike Golden, NY: Seven stories Press, 1999, p. 199." Original manuscript and typescript material by the famed, and infamous, Cleveland poet is scarce, with only two pieces appearing at auction in the past 50 years.
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L Ecume Des Jours (Ldp Litterature) (French Edition)
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L Ecume Des Jours (Ldp Litterature) (French Edition)

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Chroniques de Jazz
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L'arrache Coeur (Le Livre de Poche) (French Edition)
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Mood Indigo: A Novel (FSG Classics)
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Mood Indigo: A Novel (FSG Classics)

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by Jeffrey Archer

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Red Pottage. By Mary Cholmondeley. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady Newhaven (which he does not originally realize has been discovered by her husband)." Book title is taken from the Bible story of Esau.
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Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain

by Frazier, Charles

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NY: Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good; Light foxing to fore-edges.. 1997. Advance Review Copy. Softcover. 0871136791 . Glossy softcover binding. An advance copy of Frazier's National Book Award-winning first novel, a wonderful Civil War tale about a Confederate soldier who deserts the army after being wounded and hospitalized and tries to make his way back to his North Carolina home and sweetheart. Later made into a great movie directed by Anthony Minghella. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre

The Treasure Of Sierra Madre

by Traven, B

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Large-Print Edition
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts
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The Hand of the Potter: A Tragedy in Four Acts

by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)

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209 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter brow cloth with dark green lettering to spine and cover over green boards. First edition, second state with half-title tipped to stub. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Chip at front edge, spine heal bumped, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural
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Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural

by Dreiser, Theodore Herman Albert (1871-1945)

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228 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's stiff boards with quarter brown spine and dark green lettering to spine label and cover. First edition, first issue. Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency. Condition: Corners bumped and slightly chipped, spine heal rubbed, lightly soiled else about very good lacking jacket.
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The Sky and the Forest
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The Sky and the Forest

by Forester, C.S

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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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We Loved Them Once

by Rivers, Ronda

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NY: Vantage Press, 1954. Pages [135] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Tan boards, black lettering, clean, minor shelf wear. PO's name penned to endpaper. Set in 1950's America. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket.
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England
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St Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England

by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

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v+321 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. First British edition. St. Ives: Being The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England (1897) is an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was completed in 1898 by Arthur Quiller-Couch. Unable to write, Stevenson dictated thirty chapters of the novel to his stepdaughter as a diversion from his debilitating illness. He alternated dictating St. Ives and The Weir of Hermiston but gradually lost interest in the former. The plot concerns the adventures of the dashing Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Napoleonic soldier, after his capture by the British. Condition: Corners bumped and rubbed, shelf wear, hinges and spine heal moderately rubbed, previous owner's name on front end paper else a very good copy.
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