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DURRELL, Lawrence
Monsieur
New York: The Viking Press 1974. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and black paper over boards dust jacket. 306pp. Near fine/very good. First edition. The Viking Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 544
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DEEPING, Warwick
Roper's Row
New York: Triangle Books 1938. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 365pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn but colorful and attractive. Umpteenth reprint a clean and tight example. Triangle Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2678
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MOORE George
Ulick and Soracha
New York: Boni and Liveright 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ivory and pale green paper over boards paper spine label. 235pp. Illustration. Very good. Slight darkening of spine as usual. Edition limited to 1250 signed numbered copies this #548. A clean tight handsome copy. Boni and Liveright hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2746
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HARDY, Thomas
The Mayor of Casterbridge
New York: The Heritage Press 1964. Hardcover. Illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker. Introduction by Frank Swinnerton. 8vo. Tan decorated cloth slipcase. xvi 318pp. Illustrations wood engravings. Near fine/very good. Mild slipcase edgewear. Tight clean handsome copy of this smaller mass-produced version of the Limited Editions Club publication -- known as the "poor man's LEC." Appropriate "Sandglass" issue discussing this volume laid in. The Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 22945
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NATHAN, George Jean (foreword)
Five Great Modern Irish Plays: The Playboy of the Western World by John M. Synge Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey Riders to the Sea by John M. Synge Spreading the News by Lady Gregory Shadow and Substance by Paul Vincent Carroll
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Grey cloth dust jacket. xiii 332pp 5pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Good plus/very good. Jacket slightly edgeworn and age toned with small edge chips; inner rear hinge a tad delicate but expertly archivally strengthened. First of this Modern Library edition #30 which includes John M. Synge's "The Playboy of the Western World" and "Riders to the Sea" Sean O'Casey's "Jano and the Paycock" Lady Gregory's "Spreading the News" and Paul Vincent Carroll's "Shadow and Substance. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30801
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MOORE, George
Memoirs of My Dead Life of Galanteries Meditations and Remembrances.
London: William Heinemann 1921. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ivory and pale green paper over boards. xviii 290pp. Tinted frontispiece. Very good. Couple of small slight cracks in the otherwise-sound spine; overall quite attractive. Edition limited to 1030 signed numbered copies this #778. William Heinemann hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2743
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CLELAND, John
Memoirs of Fanny Hill.; Introduction by J.H. Plumb
New York: New American Library 1965. Hardcover. 12mo. Glazed paper over boards. xiv 221pp. Very good. Tight nice later 8th printing of the Signet edition. An erotica classic. New American Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11120
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PRITCHETT VS. V. S.
On the Edge of the Cliff: Short Stories
New York: Random House 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine and silver paper over boards price-clipped dust jacket. 179pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition. YOUNG 3112. Random House hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10063 ISBN : 0394504852 9780394504858
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SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles
Locrine: A Tragedy
New York: Worthington Company 1888. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Dark green cloth on beveled boards. viii 138pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good. Early not first U.S. edition tight and decent with smal chipping at head and tai of spine. Worthington Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11469
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MOORE, George
Aphrodite in Aulis
London: William Heinemann Ltd 1930. Small 4to. Full vellum gilt. vi 340pp. Near fine. Usual very slight bowing of boards typical of vellum.First edition limited to 1825 numbered copies this #473 signed by Moore. A very handsome copy. William Heinemann Ltd unknown
Bookseller reference : 2693
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MOORE, George
The Coming of Gabrielle: A Comedy
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only 1920. Hardcover. Small 4to. Ivory and pale green paper over boards paper spine label.xxx 146pp. Partly uncut. Very good. Usual slight darkening of spine; small bookplate on front pastedown. Edition limited to 100 signed numbered copies this one unnumbered. A handsome copy of this play. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2748
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HYAMS, Edward
Tillotson
New York: Simon and Schuster 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth dust jacket. 311pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear; usual mild age toning to pages. Tight nice first edition. YOUNG 1940. Simon and Schuster hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9792
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SHAFFER, Peter
The Royal Hunt of the Sun: A Play Concerning the Conquest of Peru
New York: Stein and Day 1965. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and brown cloth price-clipped dust jacket. xii 83pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. First U.S. edition a tight and nice copy. Stein and Day hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11030
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DU MAURIER, George
The Martian
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1897. Hardcover. 12mo. Decorated brown cloth. iv 477pp 2pp ads. Line drawings. Very good. Close to "Near fine" with gold and green pictorial front board stamping bright and fresh and only slightest bit of age toning to spine; nonauthorial period gift inscription on inner flyleaf. First American edition tight and handsome. Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 19325
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THOMSON, James
The Speedy Extinction of Evil and Misery: Selected Prose of James Thomson B.V.
Berkeley: University of California Press 1967. Hardcover. Edited by William David Schaefer. Small 4to. Green cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 353pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn. First edition of this first modern compilation of the 19th century British poet's prose works. University of California Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7388
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FIELDING-HALL, H.
Love's Legend
London: Macmillan and Co 1914. Hardcover. 8vo. Full tan calf with gilt spine panels dentelles. viii 325pp. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Very good. A bit scuffed at edges; front hinge intact but a tad delicate. First edition handsomely bound by Riviere. Macmillan and Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 16169
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HERBERT, AP. A. P.
Holy Deadlock
Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company 1934. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering dust jacket. 372pp. Very good/very good. Spine a bit sunned; 1934 ownership signature on front flyleaf and pastedown; jacket shows slight edgewear with some archivally closed on verso separations but overall attractive. First edition tight 'n' nice and uncommon in such a lovely jacket. Notes jacket front panel "An odyssey of two young people in search of a decent divorce. Doubleday, Doran & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10368
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LAWRENCE, DH. D. H.
Assorted Articles
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Orange cloth. 258pp. Very good. Tight clean attractive first edition. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7860
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DRINKWATER, John
Oliver Cromwell: A Play
London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1921. Hardcover. 12mo. Pink cloth with paper spine label dust jacket. vii 80pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket well chipped but overall still attractive. Tight nice first edition. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11010
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LEHMANN, Rosamond
A Sea-Grape Tree
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and tan paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Near fine/very good. Quite minor jacket wear. Handsome first edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10065 ISBN : 015179720X 9780151797202
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HUGHES, Richard
The Fox in the Attic
New York: Harper & Brothers 1961. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with silver and blue lettering and blue paper over boards dust jacket. 352pp. Decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Slight jacket edgewear. First U.S. edition of this first novel in "The Human Predicament" series boldly signed by Hughes in black ballpoint on a special tipped-in leaf. A 5½" X 3½" printed card from Kroch's & Brentano's "First Edition Circle" is laid in. A handsome copy. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 16422
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BARRIE, JM. J. M.
Tommy and Grizel
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1900. Hardcover. Illustrations by Bernard Partridge. Small 8vo. Brown cloth with gold red and green pictorial stamping. vi 509pp 2pp ads. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear. First U.S. edition of the "Peter Pan" playwright's novel -- tight clean attractive. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 23703
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DAVIES, Rhys
Nobody Answered the Bell
New York: Dodd Mead & Company 1971. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Grey cloth dust jacket. 158pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed. Tight and nice first U.S. edition. Dodd, Mead & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9803 ISBN : 039606373X 9780396063735
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LLEWELLYN, Richard
A Few Flowers for Shiner
New York: The Macmillan Company 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan buckram pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 372pp. Very good/very good. Two 1" abrasions to front jacket cover. First edition tight and attractive. The Macmillan Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 541
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GOLDING, William
The Hot Gates and Other Occasional Pieces
New York: Harcourt Brace & World 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth dust jacket. 175pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear with slightly darkened spine. First U.S. edition tight and attractive. Harcourt, Brace & World hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9928
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SHERIDAN, John D.
God Made Little Apples
New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth spine and green paper over boards pictorial slipcase. 218pp. Near fine/very good. First edition by this "Irish Robert Benchley. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy hardcover
Bookseller reference : 538
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SWIFT, Jonathan
A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms: Being the Fifth Part of the Travels into Several Remote Parts of the World by Lemuel Gulliver
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1970. Hardcover. Edited by Matthew Hodgart. 8vo. Green paper over boards dust jacket. 91pp. Map frontispiece. Near fine/near fine. Second printing of the first U.S. edition of this apparent sequel to "Gulliver's Travels" written by Swift in 1744 and discovered in Dublin in 1968. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3518
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HINDE Thomas
Bird
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1970. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth pictorial dust jacket. 222pp. Very good/very good. First edition. Hodder and Stoughton hardcover
Bookseller reference : 1915
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CONGREVE, William
The Way of the World: Comedy in Five Acts.; Illustrations by T.M. Cleland
New York: The Heritage Press 1959. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black blind-embossed cloth slipcase. xvi 108pp. Frontispiece color illustrations. Very good/very good. Spine slightly sunned. Handsome "poor man's LEC" with the appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in. The Heritage Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11013
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EVANS, Nicholas
The Loop
New York: Delacorte Press 1998. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. 434pp. Near fine/near fine. Second printing of this novel by the "Horse Whisperer" author signed large and sloppy in purple ink on the title page. Delacorte Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 27982 ISBN : 038531700X 9780385317009
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THURSTON, Katherine Cecil
The Masquerador
New York: Harper & Brothers 1905. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth gilt. 328pp. Frontispiece 7 full-page plates. Very good. Slightest bit of edgewear. Second printing a tight and handsome copy of this potboiler by the popular Irish novelist. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 20427
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LISTER, RP. R. P.
The Questing Beast
London: Chapman & Hall 1965. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue paper over boards with silver spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. 230pp. Near fine/very good. First edition. Ironic tale of life in wartime London signed by the author 1914-2014 on the title page and inscribed and signed by him neatly on the front flyleaf "Pat / with love from / Richard. Chapman & Hall hardcover
Bookseller reference : 29841
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WAUGH Alec
The Fatal Gift
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1973. Hardcover. Blue cloth pictorial dust jacket. 314pp. Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight handsome first U.S. edition. Front flyleaf bears the bold ownership signature in blue ballpoint of novelist Judith Krantz 1928-2019. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28046 ISBN : 0374153809 9780374153809
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OSBORNE, John
A Bond Honoured: A Play
London: Faber & Faber 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth dust jacket. 62pp. Near fine/near fine. Handsome first edition. Faber & Faber hardcover
Bookseller reference : 11031
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BAKER, Frank
Sweet Chariot
New York: Coward-McCann 1943. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth dust jacket. 335pp. Very good/very good. Ligt jacket edgewear. First U.S. edition tight and handsome. Coward-McCann hardcover
Bookseller reference : 13820
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LLEWELLYN, Richard
Sweet Morn of Judas' Day
Garden City: Doubleday & Company 1964. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and green cloth dust jacket. 472pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket scuffed and edgeworn -- but overall a tight decent first edition of this "Novel of Modern Brazil." YOUNG 2368. Doubleday & Company hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9587
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MOORE George
Avowals
London: Privately Printed for Subscribers 1919. Hardcover. Small 4to. Vellum spine with paper label and grey paper over boards. 310pp. Very good. Spine a bit darkened; colorful bookplate on front pastedown. First edition limited to 1000 numbered copies this #513 signed by Moore. A tight clean copy. Privately Printed for Subscribers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2692
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FIELDING, Henry
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams.; Introduction by Howard Mumford Jones
New York: The Modern Library n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering price-clipped dust jacket. xxxviii 422pp. Grey patterned endpapers. Very good/very good. Mild edgewear; jacket edgeworn with a few edge chips and one large chip at head of spine. Tight nice later printing of Modern Library #117 undated but circa late 1950s. The Modern Library hardcover
Bookseller reference : 31237
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LAWRENCE DH. D. H.
The Merry-Go-Round: A Play in Five Acts
Charlottesville: The Virginia Quarterly Review 1941. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. 44pp. Very good. Mildly soiled with light sunning along the spine; front and rear flyleaves each show two mysterious 1½" tape stains. Supplement to this publication's Christmas Number the entire issue devoted to Lawrence's play. A tight decent copy. The Virginia Quarterly Review paperback
Bookseller reference : 8116
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PINTER Harold
The Proust Screenplay: a la Recherche du Temps Perdu
New York: Grove Press 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth dust jacket. x 177pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition tight and handsome. Grove Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9974
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TROLLOPE, Joanna
Brother and Sister
New York: Bloomsbury 2004. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black paper over boards with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. 311pp. Near fine/near fine. First edition tight and handsome by this distant relative of British novelist Anthony Trollope -- and signed large and lovely by Joanna Trollope in black fineline on the title page. Bloomsbury hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30259 ISBN : 1582344000 9781582344003
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PITCAIRNE, Archibald
The Assembly: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Notes
Lafayette IN: Purdue University Studies 1972. Hardcover. Edited by Terence Tobin. Small 4to. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering dust jacket. v 112pp. Near fine/very good. First modern edition of this Scottish comic play concerning religious hypocrisy first published in 1722. The front flyleaf is handsomely inscribed by the editor "To the house / of / huge sketch of family crest with "K" in middle / Merry Christmas / Terry Tobin. Purdue University Studies hardcover
Bookseller reference : 5814
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JOHN a Suffolk Herd Boy
The Girl Who Died of a Broken Heart
N.p.: N.p. 1941. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Burgundy cloth. 33pp. Very good. Bookplate of John Starr. Edition not ascertainable; bookplate of Lincoln writer John Starr on the front pastedown. Curious English folk tale. N.p. hardcover
Bookseller reference : 536
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WINTERSON, Jeanette
The PowerBook
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2000. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black and green paper over boards with gilt spine lettering pictorial dust jacket. 289pp. Very good/near fine. Ownership signature/date on front flyleaf. First U.S. edition tight and nice inscribed and signed large and bold by the author in blue fineline on title page: "To Rachel / Jeanette Winterson. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
Bookseller reference : 28292 ISBN : 0375411119 9780375411113
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MacKENZIE, Compton
Thin Ice
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1957. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue paper over boards dust jacket. 224pp. Very good/very good. Couple of archivally-closed on verso tears to otherwise attractive jacket; endpapers a bit age toned. First U.S. edition tight and nice. YOUNG 2433. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 10039
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FRANKAU, Gilbert
Masterson: A Story of an English Gentleman
New York: Harper & Brothers 1926. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth. 418pp. Very good. Inscribed by Frankau. First edition inscribed by the popular English novelist 1884-1952 and dated Cleveland 7 May Front flyleaf bears the ownership signature of noted Lincoln scholar Arnold F. Gates. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 545
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CIBBER, Colley
Love Makes a Man: or the Fop's Fortune: A Comedy
Dublin: W. Wilson 1774. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff grey modern hand-labeled wrapper. 84pp. Very good. Early not first printing of this five-act play by this 18th century playwright. W. Wilson paperback
Bookseller reference : 26248
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LAWRENCE, DH. D. H.
Lady Chatterley's Lover
New York: Penguin Books 1946. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. 260pp. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgewear. First Penguin paperback edition #610 tight and clean and attractive. Clear new mylar wrapper added. Penguin Books paperback
Bookseller reference : 6651
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BOWEN John
The Birdcage
New York: Harper & Row 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and brown paper over boards price-clipped dust jacket. 208pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn with one edge chip and several archivally-closed on verso edge tears. A tight and nice first edition. YOUNG 361. Harper & Row hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9806
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BEARDSLEY Aubrey
Under the Hill or the Story of Venus and Tannh‰user.
New York: Grove Press 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 140pp. Frontispiece illustrations. Very good/very good. Dust jacket slightly soiled. First printing. Clever parody of the legendary wanderings of a thirteenth century German troubadour gloriously illustrated by Beardsley. Grove Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 8184
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