Paris: Combet & Cie 1904. Fine. Combet & Cie Paris 1904 28 x 36 cm reliure de l'éditeur Edition illustrated with color images by Maurice Leloir. Publisher's full green cloth binding smooth spine first cover illustrated with a polychrome plate depicting Cardinal Richelieu brandishing a sword edges gilt endpapers and pastedowns of blue paper marginally discolored without gravity binding signed Poënsin. Gift inscription in pen from a previous owner as a present. Handsome copy. Combet & Cie hardcover
London: Secker & Warburg 1981. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". Not Stated. A fine first edition copy of this novel by Irish author Maurice Leitch winner of the 1981 Whitbread Book Award for novel of the year. A fine copy of this compelling novel which is a seminal fictional portrait of the Troubles an ethnographical conflict that occurred in Northern Ireland from approximately 1960 to 1998. The first edition of this work which was awarded the Whitbread Prize in 1981.Written by Irish author Maurice Leitch who wrote many novels about conflict and ethnography in Northern Ireland. Leitch was awarded a 'Most Excellent Order of the British Empire' for services to literature in 1998.Enclosed in the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with just some light edgewear and light age-toning to the extremities. A small closed tear to the head of the front of the wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine Secker & Warburg hardcover
Paris: Gauthier-Villars 1888. Fine. Gauthier-Villars Paris 1888 15 x 21.50 cm broché First edition. Spine browned otherwise a good copy. Rare. Gauthier-Villars unknown
<p>Collection of stories plus the novels THE GRIP OF FEAR and THOSE WHO RETURN by French author Maurice Level edited by S. T. Joshi. 100-copy edition.</p> Centipede Press hardcover
Référence libraire : WLF2 ISBN : 1933618949 9781933618944
London: Eveleigh Nash 1911. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. An uncommon English translation of this popular mystery novel featuring the French Arsene Lupin and the parody Herlock Sholmes. The second impression of the first English language edition by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.A riveting mystery novel featuring Arsene Lupin a thrilling novel. This novel was first published as 'Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes' or 'Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès'.This is a collection of two adventures in which the French gentleman burglar Arsene Lupin and the parody Herlock Sholmes play their wits against each other.Both of these stories had been previously published in the magazine 'Je Sais Tout' from November 1906 to October 1906.Arsene Lupin is Maurice Leblanc's gentleman thief and master of disguise the French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes.Lupin is Leblanc's best known fictional creation and for his two science fiction novels 'Les Trois Yeux' and 'Le Formidable Evenement'. In the original publisher's cloth binding with a pictorial onlay to the front board. Externally smart. A few light marks to the boards and light patches of rubbing. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Pictorial onlay to the front board is lifting. Spine is a little faded. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright with the occasional spot. Very Good Eveleigh Nash hardcover
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