First Edition
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Camus Albert, L’envers et l’endroit, Éditions Edmond Charlot, 1937, Alger.
67 p., exemplaire numéro 68 de 350 exemplaires, sur Hélio. Demi-cuir à coins récent, légères salissures à la couverture de papier conservée. Rare première édition du premier ouvrage de Camus aussi auteur des classiques « L’étranger » ou « La peste ». Camus est né à Alger et il dédit son ouvrage à son professeur…
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JOYCE. JAMES. ULYSSES.
Random House. New York. 1934 FIRST AUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITION. 1st impression. 8vo. (8.3 x 5.9 inches). Finely bound in recent full dark blue morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands. Compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Red title label, gilt. Decorative gilt roll border on boards. All edges gilt. — This edition contains a…
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WOLLSTONECRAFT. MARY. LETTERS WRITTEN DURING A SHORT RESIDENCE IN SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND DENMARK.
J. Johnson. London. 1796 FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (8.6 x 5.4 inches). [4], 262, [4], [2] pp. Complete as issued, with the listing of Wollstonecraft’s book in the back (her first bibliography). A little spotting to some pages but generally a very good copy in contemporary full brown calf, re-backed with the original calf spine, ruled…
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TWAIN. MARK. (Clemens. Samuel L). THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER.
Chatto & Windus. Piccadilly. London. 1876 FIRST EDITION. First impression. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.9 inches). A few small marks to just a handful of pages but generally this is a clean and bright copy throughout. Finely bound in recent full red morocco. Spine with five raised bands. Gilt ruling, lettering and decorations to compartments. Single…
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TRAVERS. P. L. MARY POPPINS. Illustrated by Mary Shepard.
Gerald Howe Ltd. London. 1934 FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). 27 line illustrations by Mary Shepard. One small, faint mark to the title page otherwise a near fine copy which is bright and clean throughout. Publishers yellow cloth with black lettering to the spine and front board, which also has an illustration of…
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SALINGER. J. D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE.
Little, Brown and Company. Boston. 1951 FIRST EDITION. First printing. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). A few marks to some pages but generally a very good copy throughout. Finely bound in recent full red Morocco leather binding. Spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Gilt ruled border on boards. Top…
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RACKHAM. ARTHUR. Illustrates.; SWIFT. JONATHAN.
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. Into several remote nations of the world. J. M. Dent and Co.. London. 1909 FIRST RACKHAM EDITION. 4to. (11.5 x 8.8 inches). LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY RACKHAM. One of only 750 numbered copies. Beautifully illustrated with 13 mounted colour plates, the frontis with a tissue guard, two full page black and white plates,…
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PROHIBTION COCKTAIL BOOK
AMERICANA. Eight Cocktail Napkins, Hand Blocked, with Recipes and the Histories of Eight Famous Drinks. NP. No Date. Circa 1925. FIRST, AND ONLY, EDITION. Oblong octavo. Illustrated with 8 hand blocked, hand coloured cocktail napkins mounted into the book among text pages. White printed boards with later plain burgundy cloth tape spine. Light soiling to…
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Ancient gleanings [Spicilegium Antiquitatis], L. Beger 1692
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Spicilegium Antiquitatis sive Variorum ex Antiquitate Elegantiarum vel Novis luminibus Illustratarum vel recens etiam editarum Fasciculi exhibente L. Begero First edition from 1692 dedicated to Eberhard Christoph Balthasar, Freiherr von Danckelmann. In-folio (33 x 22 cm), work decorated with a large number of engravings in the text, 5 full-page plates outside the text, parchment spine,…
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KIPLING. RUDYARD. REWARDS AND FAIRIES.
Macmillan and Co, Ltd. London. 1910 FIRST EDITION. 1st printing. 8vo.(8.1 x 5.6 inches). Illustrated with four full page mono plates by Frank Craig. Publishers original burgundy cloth boards. Gilt lettering to the spine. Front board with raised circular Ganesha device in gilt. Top edge gilt. In the rare original First edition dustwrapper, with repeat…