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The Abbey Library Murray's Book Sales, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 729 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over dark red cloth with black and white illustrated plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout. Heavy foxing and tanning to text block edges and front hinge is cracked with exposed netting. Boards have light rubbing and visible bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and binding is loose. Unclipped jacket with visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends and rubbing.

Publisher Not Specified, December 1932. Hardcover. Used - Acceptable. Clean copy, binding vulnerable - pages intact.

Abbey Library. Hardcover. Good. Top edge of spine has a small tear, sme foxing to pages and page edges, corners are bumped

Abbey Library. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. Some wear and rubbing to the spine edges. The dust jacket has chips and tears to the edges and some rubbed spots on the panels.; One Volume Edition; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches .

Abbey Library. Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover.

The Abbey Library. hardcover. Good. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Frank C Pape. The complete Works of doctor francois Rabelais, Abstractor of the Quintessence, Being an account of the Inestimable Life of the great Gargantua, and of the Heroic Deeds, Sayings and Marvellous Voyages of his Son the Good Pantagruel. Previous owner's ink inscription. Illustrated by Frank C Pape Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

the Abbey Library Book. Very Good +. Hardcover. Firm hinges, no owenr marks in book and no wear to the cover. Bright gold lettering on spine. Jacket is protected in a Brodart type plastic cover. literature.

Abbey Library. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket Complete in One Volume. (French Literature, Classic Fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Abbey Library, ca 1950, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Wonderfully illustrated. Bound in publisher's beige cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Generally clean. Scattered marginalia. 730 p., illustrations, 23 cm.

UK: The Abbey Library The complete works in One Volume. Undated, circa 1950. Aged textblock, clean and tight, illustrated end papers. All page edges are age-toned. Moisture bubbled front cover to the outer corners, bumped head and foot of spine and corners, slight tilt to the spine. Unclipped dust jacket, small tears and creases to the corners, rubbed edges, lightly character-soiled sides, mylar sleeved. 730p.. Boards. Good+/Good+ (in mylar). Illus. by Frank C. Pape. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

[London]: Abbey Library, [ca. 1950]. Thick 8vo. xxxviii, 730 pp. Numerous plates, illusts., illust. endpapers. Beige cloth, gilt lettrng (uniform light toning), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng, edgewear, creasng frnt cvr), NF/G. First edition, thus, of this classic erotic satires.

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd.. Very Good-. 1927. Hardcover. Hardcover, no dustjacket, black cloth with bright gold titles and decoration, 497 pages, Please Note: this is Volume 1 only of a 2-volume set, features great illustrations by Frank C. Pape, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, with annotations by Duchat, Ozell and others and an Introduction by J. Lewis May, moderate wear is present at the spine-ends, small areas of the corner-tips are worn through, tanning to the blank end-papers, some mild fading to the red-colored top outer page-edge, the text and illustrations are fine, a presentable copy .

London, Abbey Library, nd ;. Hardback. Very good/ Dust jacket very good. xxxviii, 730pp with illustrations by Frank C. Pape , Annotations by Duchat, Ozell and others, A New Intrioduction by J. Lewis May. Decorated endpapers. Brown cover s with gilt title on spine. Protected dust jacket has price intact. A heavy book which may incur additional shipping/ posatage costs depending on destination. Please enquire before ordering. .

Abbey Library. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Poor dust jacket. 1 Volume edition. English edition.(fantasy, giants, french, fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

London: Abbey Library, 1950. Book. Illus. by Pape, Frank C.. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. London: Abbey Library, 1950. First edition. 8vo. Attractive burgundy leatherette with gilt lettering on spine, burgundy top edge on text block, decorated endpapers; featuring the illustrations of Frank C. Pape through-out, 730pp. This book compiles the five novels of 16th century author Francois Rabelis and his tale of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel and their bawdy and sometimes violent adventures. Owner name on endpaper. Very good with fine dust jacket; protected by a mylar cover..

London: John Lane The Bodley Head. Very Good. 1933. New Edition. Hard Cover. 6.25" By 9.5" XXI,499 and xiv,730 pages. Spines faded. Slight shelf wear to extremities. Bright gilt to front cover. Some marks on covers. Some mild foxing but generally clean. Tight binding. .

John Lane The Bodley Head , 1933. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1200grams, ISBN:

London: The Navarre Society, 1954. Third Impression of 1948 Edition. Cloth. Very Good/None. W. Heath Robinson. Thick 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1 3/4"), red cloth with gold lettering on spine; illustrated with B&W frontispiece, 53 full-page sketches, and many in-text vignettes by W. Heath Robinson; xviii + 332 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. François Rabelais (c.1494 - 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, humanist, monk, and Greek scholar. He has been celebrated as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. <br/> <br/> Gargantua depicts a young giant who is rescued from a deplorable education instituted by his father, old women, and dotty professors. Overcoming most obstacles, he becomes a cultivated and most-Christian knight, though his actions satirize chivalric ideals. In Pantagruel, the son of Gargantua, Rabelais further parodied chivalry and satirized major institutions such… Read More

London: The Abbey Library, 1950. Original hard covers, 730pp, paper a little browned, translated by Urquhart & Motteux, in tidy condition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Pape, Frank C.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London and New York:: John Lane; Boni and Liveright,, [1927].. publisher's gilt black cloth; top edge stained red.. Slightly tanned at the endsheets and fore-edges; light use to cloth; both volumes tight and sound.. 8vo,. Illustrated by Frank C. Pape.. With Annotations by Duchat, Ozell and others. New Introduction by J. Lewis May. Additional postage applicable.