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Lecture ordinaire d'un pauvre Diable que sa famille a ruine.
Manuscript, French [Maximes and Proverbs]Original price $1,617.00 - Original price $1,617.00Original price $1,617.00$1,617.00$1,617.00 - $1,617.00Current price $1,617.00| /An interesting manuscript collection of French proverbs and maxims written in a legible, neat hand.8vo. Over 220 leaves of manuscript. Period she...
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Les Nouvelles Amoureuses.
AUBERT, Charles.Original price $324.00 - Original price $324.00Original price $0.00$324.00$324.00 - $324.00Current price $324.00| /Complete sets of these racy French novelettes are very scarce. Titles include Une Mission delicate, La Jarretiere, Le Ballon Rouge, Le Fruit Defen...
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Letters from Aubrey Beardsley to Leonard Smithers.
BEARDSLEY, Aubrey.Original price $195.00 - Original price $195.00Original price $0.00$195.00$195.00 - $195.00Current price $195.00| /This comprises 188 letters written by the artist to his publisher.First edition; 4to; 'printed at the Chiswick Press...in Monotrype Bodoni on Arno...
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Letters to Eminent Hands...
[WHITE, Gleeson], "L."Original price $356.00 - Original price $356.00Original price $0.00$356.00$356.00 - $356.00Current price $356.00| /A very good example of this uncommon large paper edition, part of the Moray Library series. Gleeson White (1851-98) was a prolific player on the e...
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Literary London.
RYAN, W.P.Original price $195.00 - Original price $195.00Original price $0.00$195.00$195.00 - $195.00Current price $195.00| /This book was initially withdrawn due to a threatened libel action to be brought against Smithers by Marie Corelli, one of the subjects of the boo...
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Makarony Fables.
[STEVENSON, John Hall].Original price $227.00 - Original price $227.00Original price $0.00$227.00$227.00 - $227.00Current price $227.00| /A poetic satire originally published in 1768, by a notorious friend of Laurence Sterne and author of Crazy Tales (1762), written in the form of ei...
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Margarita Facetiarum.
ADELPHUS, Mülich Johann.Original price $1,617.00 - Original price $1,617.00Original price $1,617.00$1,617.00$1,617.00 - $1,617.00Current price $1,617.00| /A collection of anecdotes, witticisms and facetiae of famous men, first published just a year before; it contains sayings, some serious and others...
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Margery of Quether and Other Stories.
BARING-GOULD, Sabine.Original price $1,132.00 - Original price $1,132.00Original price $0.00$1,132.00$1,132.00 - $1,132.00Current price $1,132.00| /A rare example of an early vampire story. The eponymous Margery of Quether is discovered by a bell-ringer, George Rosedhu on Christmas Eve. She ex...
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Memoirs Of Joseph Grimaldi.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price $2,846.00 - Original price $2,846.00Original price $2,846.00$2,846.00$2,846.00 - $2,846.00Current price $2,846.00| /From the library of Eric Quayle. The first issue Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Charles Dickens is identifiable via the appearance of the plate at p...
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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi.
[DICKENS, Charles].Original price $971.00 - Original price $971.00Original price $0.00$971.00$971.00 - $971.00Current price $971.00| /The first edition of the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Charles Dickens (under the pseudonym 'Boz') with introductory and concluding chapte...
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Miss Cayley's Adventures.
ALLEN, Grant.Original price $227.00 - Original price $227.00Original price $0.00$227.00$227.00 - $227.00Current price $227.00| /The first US edition of these thrilling mini adventures starring one of the first female detectives. After working on the Gazetteer of India in th...
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Obermann.
SENANCOUR, Etienne Pivert de.Original price $1,617.00 - Original price $1,617.00Original price $1,617.00$1,617.00$1,617.00 - $1,617.00Current price $1,617.00| /Fine copy of new edition, revised and corrected, with a foreword by George Sand. Echoing much of the sentiment of Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitar...
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Odd Whims and Miscellanies.
REPTON, Humphry.Original price $841.00 - Original price $841.00Original price $841.00$841.00$841.00 - $841.00Current price $841.00| /First edition, 2 volumes in 1, 8vo. xii, [11], 171; [vi], 164 pp., complete with half-titles, vignettes to title-pages and 10 hand coloured plates...
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Odes by Mr. Gray.
GRAY, Thomas.Original price $2,393.00 - Original price $2,393.00Original price $0.00$2,393.00$2,393.00 - $2,393.00Current price $2,393.00| /Strawberry Hill Press. A famous [re]issue of the first work ever printed by the Strawberry Hill press, which has been the source of considerable bi...
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Oeuvres avec des éclaircissemens historiques donnez par lui-même.
Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas.Original price $5,821.00 - Original price $5,821.00Original price $5,821.00$5,821.00$5,821.00 - $5,821.00Current price $5,821.00| /Premiere edition de luxe que l'on ait donnee de ce grand poete. Elle se recommande et par sa belle execution typogr. et par d'assez bonnes estampe...
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Oeuvres.
MOLIÈRE, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de; BOUCHER, François (illustrator).Original price $6,468.00 - Original price $6,468.00Original price $6,468.00$6,468.00$6,468.00 - $6,468.00Current price $6,468.00| /The first edition illustrated by Boucher. With illustrations by the celebrated Rococo painter François Boucher. 'The book's format is noble, Molièr...
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Orchids.
WRATISLAW, Theodore.Original price $1,100.00 - Original price $1,100.00Original price $0.00$1,100.00$1,100.00 - $1,100.00Current price $1,100.00| /Poems by occasional Uranian Theodore Wratislaw, a contributor to Beardsley's The Yellow Book and The Savoy. Upon the poet's death in 1933, The Tim...
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Our Mutual Friend.
DICKENS, Charles.Original price $1,229.00 - Original price $1,229.00Original price $0.00$1,229.00$1,229.00 - $1,229.00Current price $1,229.00| /An attractive first edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, one of his most enduring novels: 'Our Mutual Friend had a mixed reception (th...
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Our Village.
THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator); MITFORD, Mary Russell.Original price $971.00 - Original price $971.00Original price $971.00$971.00$971.00 - $971.00Current price $971.00| /A very good copy of Mary Mitford's classic study of rural customs, characters and scenery, originally published during the 1820s & '30s. The C...
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