Paris: Didier, 1840. Troisième Édition. Four volumes (21.25cm.); publisher's dark blue morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. General shelf wear, brief peeling to leather of Vol. IV but otherwise a Very Good or better set.
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Greenwood Mt., Maine: 1942. Slim octavo (26cm.); black cloth-backed paper-covered boards; [12] mimeographed leaves, ten original tipped in photographs. Boards rubbed with some biopredation to fore-edge paper of upper cover, foxing and dampstaining, textblock uniformly toned, else interior fine. Near Very Good overall. Presumably the only copy ever produced as...
Paris: Gallimard, 1980. First Trade Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black; 369pp. Some minor foxing and tiny soil spot to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed with an autograph quote signed by Gary on half title addressed to Edmond and another...
Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1924. First Edition. Octavo (20.25cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xvi,318pp.; photographic frontispiece, three leaves of plates. Jacket quite dust-soiled and worn along the edges with a number of closed tears, some with subsequent creasing, splitting to top and bottom two inches of front...
Paris: Éditions du Trianon, 1923. First Thus. Limited to 450 copies printed on vélin a la forme de Rives of which this is no. 179. Six volumes; octavo (20cm.); uniformly bound in white pictorial card wrappers in cloth-backed paper-covered chemise and matching slipcase, printed paper spine label to chemise; 20...
Paris: Librairie Commerciale, Aristide Quillet, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to; pp. [6], 71; three color plates depicting six moveable models with overlaying flaps on stiff boards; additional text illustrations, many photographic, throughout; original olive pictorial cloth embossed in white, green, gilt, and brown. Endpapers foxed, spine ends a touch rubbed...
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New York: Modern Library, n.d., ca. 1931. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, blue topstain; xxi,[22]-351pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Inscribed and signed on title page: "Inscribed to Fritz Barton by Alexander Woollcott." Cloth spine rather faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Two typed letters, signed "A.W." neatly tipped.....
Kirkby Stephen: J.W. Braithwaite, 1884. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's maroon cloth triple-ruled in black and lettered in gilt, yellow glazed endpapers; [2],134,[1],[33](ads)pp.; color folding map frontispiece, text illus., pictorial ads printed on various colored stock bound in rear. Cloth a bit soiled and slightly rubbed, spine rather faded, a......
Barcelona: Establecimiento Tipográfico la Academia de Evaristo Ullastres, 1880. First Edition. Thick octavo (22.75cm.); contemporary full tree calf, black gilt spine labels, marbled endpapers; [2],xii,[2],838pp. & 20 leaves of plates of which three are comprised of mounted original photographs and 12 are color chromolithographs. Leathera bit rubbed along extremities with...
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Paris: Librairie d'Education nationale, Alcide Picard, ca. 1900. Quatrième édition, large 4to, pp. 324; plain woodcut frontispiece, 4 plates, text illustrations and maps throughout, many full-page; original red cloth gilt; some fraying to edges and spine head, occasional spotting, pages uniformly toned; very good and sound. Forms part of the...
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Monte Carlo: Éditions du Livre, ca. 1948. First edition thus limited to 3150 copies of which this is no. 1484 of 3000 copies printed on "vélin sans bois," 8 volumes, 8vo; illustrations by the author and others; uniformly bound in original cream wrappers printed in red and black, glassine dust...
Philadelphia: Avil Publishing Company, [1901]. Touraine Edition de Luxe. Limited to 1250 sets of which this is no. 898. 36 volumes; octavo (22.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth, paper spine labels printed in red and black; illus. throughout by various artists. General shelf wear, spine labels uniformly dust-soiled, a....
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