Alice or The Mysteries - A Sequel to "Ernest Maltravers" by Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer - 1895

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. Stated First Edition August 1948. Dark blue title on grey cloth. A very clean and unmarked copy with coloured pictorial dustjacket showing a map of Syria with a wasps' nest. Dustjacket has some wear and a small tear at top of spine but is complete. This is a novel of modern Syria and the author's presentation of the Levant is based on personal experience. An acclaimed novel which won an award from the Society of Authors. *** SCARCE WITH DUSTJACKET *** B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More

London: Robert Hale, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set against a backdrop of England's South Coast with its fascinating history of bold and daring smugglers. After the end of the Peninsular War, Wellington's army is disbanded and a young officer of Hussars, Major Alexander Lacey, returns to England, to his native Sussex, to take up residence at Blakestone House. In bygone days the house was a grand and ancient mansion but now is a blackened ruin devastated by an inexplicable fire and also the scene of an untimely death. His sudden and unexpected arrival is greeted with immediate suspicion and deep hostility from his near neighbours. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Charpentier, 1845. Titre l'or sur les cartes bleues. Rousseurs. Petit nom. 533 pages. Table des Matières: De l'Influence des Passions sur le Bonheur des Individus et des Nations; Réflexions sur le Suicide; De la Littérature Considérée dans ses Rapports avec les Institutions Sociales. B2A. Couverture Rigide. Très Bon/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paris: Michel Lévy Fréres, 1856. CINQ VOLUMES. Très Bon Etat. Quelque rouseurs. Marques mineures. Quelques notes de marge originales au crayon Tampon aveugle de Georges Fagot (dramaturge). Vol.1 - Gabrielle - Comédie en cinq actes et en vers. 111 pages. 1856. Nouvelle edition; Le Joueur de Flute - Comédie un acte en vers. 64 pages. 1851. Édition Originale; Philiberte - Comédie en trois actes et en vers.104 pages. 1853. Troisième Édition. Vol.2 - Les Lionnes Pauvres - Pièce en cinq actes en prose. par Émile Augier et Édouard Foussier. 92 pages. 1858. Édition Originale; L Jeunesse - Comédie en cinq actes et en vers. 127 pages. 1858. Édition Originale; L'Aventurière - Comédie en quatre actes,en vers. 113 pages.1892. Nouvelle Édition; Vol.3 - Les Effrontés - Comédie en cinq actes en prose. 142 pages. Sixième Édition; Le Fils de Giboyer -… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. Stated First Edition August 1948. Dark blue title on grey cloth. A very clean and unmarked copy with coloured pictorial dustjacket showing a map of Syria with a wasps' nest. Dustjacket has some wear and a small tear at top of spine but is complete. This is a novel of modern Syria and the author's presentation of the Levant is based on personal experience. An acclaimed novel which won an award from the Society of Authors. *** SCARCE WITH DUSTJACKET *** B2E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

[i-viii]+[1]+301+[302-04] pages. Octavo (8" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt title and author's name on spine and embossed "SL" on cover in original jacket. (Pastore: 251) First state, limited to 10,000 copies with title page 1/4 inch shorter at bottom than surrounding leaves, corrected in later print run. Lewis had commented to several parties privately that Doubleday, Doran was putting too much focus on the Nobel Prize and too little on him. Word reached the publisher and the result was the addition of Lewis's initials to the olive branch motif on the cover of this and subsequent novels. The novel in an attack on the Communist left as a response the way It can't Happen Here was an attack on the totalitarian right; it deals with the "generation gap" and was soundly criticized by Lewis's former socialistic associates, Upton Sinclair, in particular, who vied the book as an apologia for middle-class values and mores, those same values and mores which Lewis had so well… Read More

London: Robert Hale, 1996. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. An historical novel set against a backdrop of England's South Coast with its fascinating history of bold and daring smugglers. After the end of the Peninsular War, Wellington's army is disbanded and a young officer of Hussars, Major Alexander Lacey, returns to England, to his native Sussex, to take up residence at Blakestone House. In bygone days the house was a grand and ancient mansion but now is a blackened ruin devastated by an inexplicable fire and also the scene of an untimely death. His sudden and unexpected arrival is greeted with immediate suspicion and deep hostility from his near neighbours. **** NOT EX LIB **** D4F. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Charpentier, 1845. Titre l'or sur les cartes bleues. Rousseurs. Petit nom. 533 pages. Table des Matières: De l'Influence des Passions sur le Bonheur des Individus et des Nations; Réflexions sur le Suicide; De la Littérature Considérée dans ses Rapports avec les Institutions Sociales. B2A. Couverture Rigide. Très Bon/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paris: Michel Lévy Fréres, 1856. CINQ VOLUMES. Très Bon Etat. Quelque rouseurs. Marques mineures. Quelques notes de marge originales au crayon Tampon aveugle de Georges Fagot (dramaturge). Vol.1 - Gabrielle - Comédie en cinq actes et en vers. 111 pages. 1856. Nouvelle edition; Le Joueur de Flute - Comédie un acte en vers. 64 pages. 1851. Édition Originale; Philiberte - Comédie en trois actes et en vers.104 pages. 1853. Troisième Édition. Vol.2 - Les Lionnes Pauvres - Pièce en cinq actes en prose. par Émile Augier et Édouard Foussier. 92 pages. 1858. Édition Originale; L Jeunesse - Comédie en cinq actes et en vers. 127 pages. 1858. Édition Originale; L'Aventurière - Comédie en quatre actes,en vers. 113 pages.1892. Nouvelle Édition; Vol.3 - Les Effrontés - Comédie en cinq actes en prose. 142 pages. Sixième Édition; Le Fils de Giboyer -… Read More