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Charles Scribner's Sons,, New York:, 1933. Very good copy of first edition. Contents immaculate with no ownership inscription other than bookseller's label (Shakespeare & Co.) on inside back cover. No wear. Only defect white specks on front cover. Tall octavo, cloth, pp. ix, 89.

First Edition of La Tapisserie de Notre Dame by noted Roman Catholic French Poet, Essayist and Editor Charles Péguy in the Cahier de la Quinzaine Series, Paris. 1913. One of 2000 copies. In acceptable condition for its age. Cover and pages darkened. Two tears to back cover. When the Great War broke out, Peguy became a lieutenant in the 19th company of the 276th Infantry Regiment. He died in battle, shot in the forehead, near Villeroy, Seine et Marne on the day before the beginning of the Battle of the Marne.

Flammarion, 1928. Soft cover. Very good. Uncut Slight shelf wear on spine ends. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Wraps. No. 285 edited by Léon-Paul Quint, Editorial Director of Les éditions du Sagittaire from the thirties to the sixties, publishers of the works of André Breton, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Mann. Author of acclaimed critical works on Proust, Lautréamont and Gide.

#1347 of 2365 copies of work on the Mimetic Arts by noted French Novelist, Scholar, Essayist and Journalist and Resistance fighter Jean Prévost whose life was cut short in 1944 in a German ambush in the Vercors. Uncut copy on verge Bouffant. Slight edgewear on original soft cover. Otherwise very good condition.