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The French Procession - A Pageant of Great Writers
by Duclaux, Madame Mary
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909. Gilt title on spine with blind embossed title to front on blue cloth boards which have just a little wear to spine head and tail and corner tips and just a few very small light marks to front. Internally there is light foxing to endpapers and to closed edges, the odd spot to some pages and a small tear and crease to one rear endpaper margin, else clean, tight and unmarked. xiii + 358 pages. 6 plates as called for. Comprises: French poetry, Ronsard, Louis Quatorze, Racine, Fénelon, Fontenelle - the Prophet of Science, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Choderlos de Laclos, La Rochefoucauld Liancourt, Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Balzac, Alfred de Musset, Baudelaire, Gobineau, Michelet, Ernest Renan, Flaubert, Taine, Berthelot, Gaston Paris, Ferdinand Brunetière, Anatole France. B2C. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Goldring Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008471
- Title
- The French Procession - A Pageant of Great Writers
- Author
- Duclaux, Madame Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Ronsard, Louis Quatorze, Racine, Fénelon, Fontenelle, Voltaire, Rousseau, Saint-Pierre, Laclos, La Rochefoucauld Liancourt, Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte, Hugo, Sand, Balzac, de Musset, Baudelaire, Gobineau, Michelet, Renan, Flaubert, Taine, Berthelot
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- Biography - French Authors;
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