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Paris: Firmin Didot, 1871. IV + 88 page paperback brochure. in-8. Good/none. A proposed reorganisation of the French army following defeat by the Prussians

Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1882. Very Good. Massard. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1882. Ask bookseller for full description. Numbered copy (No. 41) of a limited edition of 100 - sur papier de hollande avec double épreuves des gravures. viii + 308 pp + 4-page facsimile letter. Very Good. Illus. by Massard.

Arnaldo Forni. Very Good +/Very Good. Arnaldo Forni. Reprint. Very Good +/Very Good.

London: Macdonald, 1962. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good/poor. Insert between front cover and FEP: two sets of numbered world service authority stamps. Illustrated. Price clipped dust jacket

London: John Murray, 1978. First Edition. Fine/Very Good +. London: John Murray, 1978. First Edition. Fine/Very Good +.

1928. Good. 1928. Contact bookseller for full details. Good.

London: Reprint Society, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Good +. Short stories originally published in diverse newspapers.

Translated from French by Alys Hallard. Blind-stamped green cloth binding with gold lettering on front boards and spine.

Grenoble: Arthaud, 1933. First Edition. Very Good +. Grenoble: Arthaud, 1933. Rebound with hard cover. Ask bookseller for full description.. First Edition. Very Good +.

xii + 580 pp. including alphabetical list of contents. Very clean and good condition throughout..

Guide de Charme

This is a First edition thus of the "Quatrième Edition, revue & considérablement augmentée", printed in 1780. New articles are starred (*) to differentiate from those which had appeared in previous editions of this momumental work. This a complete 12-volume set, with each volume between 500 and 600 pages. Later bindings are still tight and text remarkably free from foxing, fading or other blemishes, BUT it is in places rather heavily underlined in pencil and/or ballpoint. This concerns maybe 1% of the text and does not impact its readability. See photos.

Dublin: The Inver Press, 1931. Limited. <p>Dublin: The Inver Press, 1931. An early and probably privately printed collection of twenty poems in a 32-page brochure stapled together with overprinted green light paper flapped cover, ink inscribed "Selma from Lyle. August 1934." on title page. Cover with creases and some rusting around the staples. Otherwise clean. Contact bookseller for more information. Limited. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall.</p>

Lausanne: Foetisch Freres, 1927. Good/Fair. Lausanne: Foetisch Freres, 1927. Ask bookseller for detailed condition. Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1888. Hard Cover.  -- 1st Edition seventh thousand.
Bound in the publisher's red cloth, with coated black endpapers, bright gilt lettering to the spine, and an insect gilt-stamped on the front board. Illustrated with six folding maps, all in color and in excellent condition, as well as with several engravings. The cloth is minimally soiled, the corners are slightly bumped; hinges are still strong; text is clean throughout.

193 x 143 mm. (7 5/8 x 5 5/8"). x, 447, [5] pp. With 121 in-text illustrations by the author, many full-page. This is a "first thus" edition of a work that in its day was second in popularity only to Bram Stoker's "Dracula." Set in bohemian Paris in the middle of the 19th century, the novel's title character is a tone-deaf Irish artist's model and laundress who becomes a world-class singer whenever she performs under the spell induced by the mesmerist Svengali. First issued serially in "Harper's Monthly" in 1894, the novel sold 200,000 copies in America alone when it appeared in book form the next year. Artist, book illustrator, and cartoonist George Du Maurier (1834-96) specialised in lampooning the social pretensions of the nouveau riche as a staff cartoonist for "Punch" magazine, but later turned to writing fiction due to worsening problems with his vision. "Trilby" was the second of his three novels, all of which contain supernatural elements (a device that was also employed by his more famous… Read More

French novel. Cloth hardcover. Book number: 7101.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1982. First U.S.. Fair/Fair. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1982. First U.S.. Fair/Fair.

saint-julien: Mariat, 1883. good. <p>Publication of the minutes of a local administration in the period of the French revolution.</p>