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by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays and short stories, more than two hundred essays, and a memoir. His most recent novel is The Golden Age, and his new essay collection, The Last Empire: Essays 1993?2000, has just been published.
Belles Lettres Books & Ephemera
Les Sept Sacrements
by Larrouy, Maurice
Les Editions De France, 1930. Half-Leather. Good. Superbe reilure demi-cuir: rebound in half leather and half marbled boards, spine has 4 raised bands, gilt title/author & anchor emblem. Original plain paperback front cover retained. Yellowed text and POS otherwise minimal wear.
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£13.01
Ninth Wave
by Eugene Burdick
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1956. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fascinating period novel with great detail on Southern California. Mild rounding of spine with separation gap, opens readily to pastedowns, otherwise binding is fine. Foxing to top edge, yellowing edges, generally very well conserved with fine interior. BCE missing dust jacket.
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£17.34
Oeuvres Complètes Ilustrées de Anatole France. Clio. Histoire Comique. Sur la Pierre Blanche. Tome XIII
by France, Anatole
Calmann-Lévy, 1927. Soft cover. Good. Excellent interior, both text and illustrations in fine condition. Binding is solid but there are several stress lines on the spine which is also somewhat sunned. Includes jacket, small chips at both ends of spine, mild wear overall.
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£26.01
Chefs'd'oeuvre de Corneille : Rodogune - Le Menteur
by Corneille
Librairie de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1913. 5th or later Printing. Soft cover. Fair. POS. Tattered deckle edges and paper wraps, yellowed but perfectly legible text, 9.8 x 14.3 cm., binding is intact but weak due to multiple cracks with corresponding stress lines in spine which also has chipped tips. Though title page clearly states 1913 the 3 page publisher catalog printed on the paper wraps dates from 1908. Number 201 in the series Collection des meilleurs auteurs anciens et modernes...
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£5.20
Play It As It Lays
by Didion, Joan
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990. Soft cover. Good. POS, mild general wear especially on corners.
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£22.54
Histoire de La Litterature Francaise Depuis Ses Origines Jusqu'en 1830
by J Demogeot (Jacques) 1808-1894
Hachette, 1852. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good. Rare first edition that is not POD. Green leather spine with 6 raised bands, filets dores, gilt title and author in very good condition with mild wear overall and no obvious defects. The green marbled boards however are considerably worn with large rub marks and rubbed through on edges and corners. Text is in fair condition. Complete and easily readable but unattractive due to extensive foxing throughout. Writing on less than ten pages (one of which is...
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£43.36
Nos Actes Nous Suivent: L'idee de l'ethnie et la philosophie nietzscheenne dans le roman historique de Saint Loup
by Myron Kok
Comfybadger Publications, 2011. Soft cover. Near Fine. Minor edge wear, still looks new.
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£30.35
Les Civilises
by Claude Farrère
FLAMMARION, 1921. Half-Leather. Good. Superbe reilure demi-cuir: rebound in half leather and half marbled boards, spine has 4 raised bands, gilt title/author & anchor emblem. Original paperback wraps not retained. Yellowed text and light shelf wear. Later printing, circa 1930.
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£17.34
Lot of 4 Books: Secret Adversary - Bantam 0553100255175 14th prtg. Secret of Chimneys - Triad Panther 0586045147. Peril at End House - Fontana 3rd prtg. Three Act Tragedy - Fontana 8th prtg.
by Agatha Christie
Mass Market Paperback. Good. The 4 Books look used with shelf wear and rub marks especially on edges but all the cover art looks nice. Crisp unmarked text but yellowed. Bindings are solid with no splits or cracks.
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£8.67
![Tome trente-huiteme [38] des Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Tome 1 - Romans. Nouvelle édition.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/199/458/1175458199.0.b.jpg)
Tome trente-huiteme [38] des Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Tome 1 - Romans. Nouvelle édition.
by Voltaire
Paris: chez Thomine et Fortic, 1821. Hardcover. Good/No DJ as Issued. Tome trente-huiteme [38] des Oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. Tome 1 - Romans. Nouvelle édition. Reliure plein cartonné, dos lisse orné et doré avec pièces de titre et de tomaison maroquin rouges. Bon état. Format in-12° (17x10). Imprimerie Carez. Boards heavily worn throughout (white marks) and rubbed through on all edges and corners, yet binding is solid and it still handles...
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£21.68
Green Grass of Wyoming
by Mary O'Hara
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1946. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. A Story Press Book, 3rd impression. Third volume of the McLaughlin family saga. Bookplates on both front and back inside of boards has made pastedowns loose (open readily) otherwise tight binding, some rounding of spine. Page edges and top margins of text yellowed. DJ nicked at hinges, frayed edges, still attractive collectible early edition.
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£22.54
![13: After [An anthology published by the 2007 MFA class of the Writing and Consciousness program of the New College of California]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/342/704/1448704342.0.b.jpg)
13: After [An anthology published by the 2007 MFA class of the Writing and Consciousness program of the New College of California]
San Francisco: New College of California, 2007. Soft cover. Good. 152 x 277mm; fine interior with moderately scuffed wraps, a few rub marks, one creased corner. Anthology of poetry, short stories, 136 pages.
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£17.34
![La Tulipe Noire [complet] edition francaise](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/798/912/1294912798.0.b.jpg)
La Tulipe Noire [complet] edition francaise
by Alexandre Dumas
Famot, 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/No DJ as Issued. Minimal wear, bel exemplaire. Roman intégral complet (en 1 volume).
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£8.67
Pensées (Folio Classique)
by Blaise Pascal
Gallimard, 1995. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Worn creased covers, one spine crease, slightly yellowed text.
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£13.01
![Une Certaine Mulâtresse [French edition of Mulata de Tal]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/473/057/1167057473.0.b.jpg)
Une Certaine Mulâtresse [French edition of Mulata de Tal]
by Miguel Angel Asturias; Claude Couffon
Albatross, 1974. Soft cover. Good.
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£8.67
Catechisme du Diocese de Paris
by Darboy
Librairie d'Drien Le Clere et Cie., 1863. Hardcover. Fair. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 9 x 14 cm., 144 pages, relié toile avec dos collé. In-16. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. Corners rubbed through, clean text except for foxing on first and last pages, splits in gutter, POS dated 1867.
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£13.01
RIKKI-TIKKI -TAVI / THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD
by Rudyard Kipling ; Marc L. Rocher
Didier, 1961. Staplebound. Good. 1961. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage. 35 pages VO + 2 exemplaires de le FASICULE de 27 pages contenant des notes et exercices en anglais et introduction en francais de Marc L. Rocher. Minor wear to covers, rubbed spine, the 2 copies of the exercise booklets are mildly yellowed.
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£13.01
Le livre d'amour
by Raoul Follereau
Fondation Raoul Follereau, 1997. Staplebound. Good. Presque TBE, 9 x 13 cm., 94 pages
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£6.94
Le médecin criminel, exception monstrueuse (collection 'Vécu' n°1)
by Gérard Stevens
1946. Soft cover. Good. Saddle stitched (3 staples) with illustrated covers wrapped around, 48 pages, text yellowed otherwise attractive copy. Collectible serial.
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£8.67
Modern Drama, Volume 39 (Fall 1996) Number 3
by Graduate Center for Study of Drama
University of Toronto Press, 1996. Soft cover. Good. Fine interior, solid binding, scuffed covers and bumped tail.
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£8.67
Livr'Arbitres: Litterature histoire des idees entretiens portraits, no.5 (printemps 2011) nouvelle serie
2011. Soft cover. Fine. ISSN 2107-3481
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£10.41
NEW ENGLISH SHORT STORIES
by Edward J. O'Brien, editor
Jonathan Cape, 1937. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good. POS ex-libris Roger Perrineau; some fading of the boards; separation gap; discreet pen marks in page margins hard to see at first glance. Florin Books Series.
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£13.01
