London: The Folio Society 1948. Cloth spine and marbled paper boards in bright condition with a very good dust jacket which is a little browned on the spine page edges spotted. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Hobson Kenneth . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Folio Society Hardcover
Lescaret éditeur Paris 1982. 2 volumes grand in/4 32 x 25 cm reliure éditeur pleine toile à décor à froid et or illustrations : 73 gravures d'époque et 23 dessins romantiques en couleurs 511 pages. Exemplaire relié en remafil ombre numéroté unknown
Paris:: A. Hiard 1833. 1833. Volumes 10 & 11 only. 12mo. 256; 250 pp. Original printed wrappers; waterstained spine tender. Untrimmed. Bookplate of Ward Ritchie. Very good. Provenance: Ward Ritchie Southern California printer spent time in Paris apprenticing to Francois-Louis Schmied 1873-1941 one who would influence Ritchie's work for the rest of his days. A. Hiard, 1833. unknown books
Dedalus 1989. Soft cover. Fine. Tim Gray. First Dedalus edition/printing small trade paperback. As New unread condition. Translated by W. Fleming. Intro by Ben Barkow. Collection of stories. ". as Proto SF is "Micromégas" the title story contained in Le Micromégas de Mr. de Voltaire avec une Histoire des Croisades & un nouveau plan de l'Histoire de l'esprit humain coll 1752; trans Tobias Smollett as Micromegas a Comic Romance for full subtitle see Checklist 1753 in which two Alien giants see Great and Small the larger from a planet circling Sirius and a smaller giant from Saturn visit Earth where their responses to human life make some satirical points not least that our species may not be so very important in the context of the much larger physical Universe that was coming to be accepted at the time Voltaire was writing. " JC/PN Encyclopedia of SF Internet 4th Ed. <br/> <br/> Dedalus paperback
London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1928. 1st Edition First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Norman Tealby. 1928 first edition. Size large octavo 9.25" tall 220 pages. Black buckram cloth covered boards with gilt titles and illustration to the front cover and spine page edges are rough trimmed end-papers printed with repeat pattern of flower baskets. Condition very good corners and spine ends are rubbed creasing at head and tail of spine the rough trimmed page edges are browned there are a few spots to the first and last 10 to 15 pages or so otherwise the pages are very clean throughout. Candide The World As It Is: Babouc's Vision; Memnon or Human Wisdom; Bababec and the Fakirs; Jeannot and Colin; The Story of Scarmentado's Travels; Lord Chesterfield's Ears <br/> <br/> John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. hardcover
T. J. Allman London very good bound in red cloth small 3x6 inches Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. T. J. Allman, London hardcover
Mt. Horeb WI: The Perishable Press 1973. stiff paper wrappers. Perishable Press. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited to 120 numbered copies Hamady 61. Slight sunning to top third of front cover and along the spine of both the front and rear cover else a fine copy. First of a series of playful books perhaps a parody of the structure and parts of a book. Handset type on a variety of Shadwell papers of different sizes. Handsewn into blue Fabriano wrappers with U.S. Geodetic Survey maps of the Blue Mounds region of Dane and Iowa counties Wisconsin as inner wrappers. Dedication table of contents foreword preface acknowledgments introduction. Endnotes bibliography. The Perishable Press unknown
London: The Lutetian Society 1899. First Edition Thus. Full Straight-Grained Morocco. Fine. An exceptional copy. No. 415 of 500 copies limitation. Also extra-illustrated with 23 hand-colored engraved plates 21 of which depict scenes from the play and are after J. M. Moreau and two portraits one of Joan of Arc the other of Voltaire. There are also 25 b/w engravings these proofs of plates done by Duplessis-Bertaux. Bound beautifully by R. Wallis for Robson & Co. a rare bookseller at the turn-of-the-twentieth century stated in full straight-grained morocco with five raised bands and gilt spine decoration gilt turn-ins and gilt edges. And plates are all printed on a luxuriant and thick vellum paper. 8vo. 22 by 16 cm. 406 pp. Pagination continuous between two volumes. Some of the Moreau plates are dated 1788 or 1789. We can assume all of the Moreau plates are from that time. They were created for an earlier French edition of the poem and most of them have two line captions quoting the poem. The Condition: Light rubbing evident on raised bands and spine extremities. Otherwise binding fresh tight. Overall a fine copy. The Lutetian Society unknown
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