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1928réf. 78926New York NY.: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. Very Good. 1928. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. First edition 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches bound in blue cloth with paper label along the spine and upper board darkened along the lower rubbed edges - private collector bookplate and a soiled worn dust jacket. . E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. hardcover
1930réf. 1310NY: D. Appleton and Company 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Edward Abbey's copy of this biography of Lord Byron with "Abbey" written on the bottom edge of the text block but not otherwise signed. A previous owner's inscription reading "From Myron to Inez" dated 1930 is on the front free endpaper. Translated from the French by Hamish Miles. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. A good copy with he front hinge cracked pastedown torn but holding. Wear just through the cloth at corners. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1931réf. 15169New York: Viking Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1931. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Spine darkened cloth foxing light tone 1931 owner's signature otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover. ; First US Edition First Printing of this classic pioneering anthology of alternative history by historians examining counterfactual events. First published in England in 1931 as If It Had Happened Otherwise but few stories were deleted and Van Loon's Nieuw Amsterdam added for the US. The What-If scenarios of the historians have been considered more methodical with their focus largely on outcomes of specific military battles than the imaginative leaps of the science fiction writers. Robert Reginald; Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature: A Checklist 1700-1974; 13508. Contents: If the Moors in Spain had won / Philip Guedalia; If Don John of Austria had married Mary queen of Scots / G K Chesterton; If the Dutch had kept Nieuw Amsterdam/ H W Van Loon; If Louis XVI had had an atom of firmness / André Maurois; If Drouet's cart had stuck / Hilaire Belloc; If Napoleon had escaped to America / H A L Fisher; If Byron had become king of Greece / Harold Nicolson; If Lee had not won the battle of Gettysburg / Winston S Churchill; If Booth had missed Lincoln / Milton Waldman; If the Emperor Frederick had not had cancer / Emil Ludwig; If it had been discovered in 1930 that Bacon really did write Shakespeare / J C Squire.; ix 379 pages . Viking Press hardcover
1926réf. blb00598London: John Lane The Bodley Head 1926. 1st. Hardback. VG. Translated by Eric Sutton - Four woodcut illustrations - title label on the spine is good - some fading - boards are clean and book is tight John Lane The Bodley Head hardcover
1928réf. blb05272New York: D. Appleton and Company 1928. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Purple/blue patterned silk-like cloth to boards. Book is tight square relatively sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out other than the half title page being loose. Frontispiece sketch by Daniel Maclise. Stamped gilt lettering to front and spine. D. Appleton and Company hardcover
1930réf. blb00491New York : D. Appleton & Co. 1930. 1st. Hardback. Near Fine. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth - bright gilt pressed signature on the cover and only slightly less bright gilt titling on the spine. Really tight particularly given the size. D. Appleton & Co. hardcover
1957réf. 602498New York: E.P. Dutton & Co 1957. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. E.P. Dutton & Co hardcover
réf. 10920998like new. unknown
réf. 2913867499.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
réf. 1406750743.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1928réf. 08603New York: D. Appleton and Co 1928. First Edition. Fine. Fine binding by Donnelley 3/4 Navy blue leather with custom felt-lined slipcase. A fine copy internally clean and bright with no markings of any kind; Slight age-toning at spine. Translated by Hamish Miles. D. Appleton and Co unknown
1929réf. 195455New York: Appleton 1929. Very Good. First edition. Very good minus. Stamp embossing stamp yellowing small fraying. Two volumes. Appleton unknown
réf. 38029Paris. Bernard Grasset. 1928. Hardcover. 12mo 19cm 358p. in contemporary full green decorated calf raised blind ruled bands continued and joined on the boards blind stamped spine titles vertical ribbed blind ribbed on the boards colour decorated endpapers on the boards and free flies inner calf hinges deckled edges text paper somewhat toned a nice copy in attractive fine binding Signed by the Author Andre Maurois on the half title ho2.1. ~ A fictionalized biography of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in fine binding decorated in art deco style. Paris. Bernard Grasset. 1928 hardcover
1930réf. 2113062Published by William Heinemann Ltd. 1930. 1st edition. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Segur D'Adrienne. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Large format. Cloth spine. Pictorial front cover. 11 colour plates including frontis. B/w illustrations. Splitting to spine with some fraying to cloth at loss to top and tail. Bumping to cover edges and corners. A few marks. Contents are still very good. Published by William Heinemann Ltd. hardcover
réf. 10877Paris. Editions Mornay. 1932. Soft cover. 8vo. 20cm 327p. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies this being #638 with colour plates and numerous colour pictorial initials and head & tail pieces by Ferdinand Fargeot with the original colour printed stiff wraps bound in with the spine panel laid down at the back endpaper. All the colour illustrations are hand stenciled pochoir this result in a much more attractive image having the appearance of being hand-painted into the text. This process is distinctly better than the normal printed colour illustration process. Bound in half burgundy morocco with hand marbled boards and endpapers black blind ruled raised bands ornate decoration in the panels with small leather inlay gilt titles t.e.g a brilliant copy Ho.2 Maurois published "Ariel ou la vie du Shelley" his biography of the English poet in 1923. At the time this limited edition appeared he was France's most popular biographer. A devoted anglophile Maurois also produced two amusing novels which drew on his experience with British troops during WWI and which established his literary reputation; Les Silences du Colonel Bramble 1918 and its sequel Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady 1922. Paris. Editions Mornay. 1932 unknown
réf. CB984Fernand Nathan 1967. Hbk square small 4to 92pp profusely illustr throughout in color decorated endpapers text in French no dj as issued fine decorated laminated boards appears unused and an excellent clean tight and unmarked copy becoming harder to find Fernand Nathan, 1967 hardcover
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1938réf. 104954NY:: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1938. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Vera Fraser. Stated first edition thus. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner. Smells a bit musty else very good in a very good moderate edge wear with several chips dust jacket. ; 352 pages; Signed by Author . Harper & Brothers, hardcover
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