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GREAT CONTEMPORARIES
-Wartime English "Revised" Edition-
…the front face, worn and faded on the spine. The contents are fine with an ink gift inscription on the half-title, dated: “12.4.41.” The front free endpaper has been excised….
A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES
-Later English Edition Set: The Property of Winston Churchill's Nephew, John Spencer Churchill-
This very good later English edition set, in dust jackets, was the property of Winston Churchill’s nephew, John Churchill, whose name is hand-written in ink on the front free endpaper…
LES GENS D’AFFAIRES (ROBERT MACAIRE)
-French Edition-
A very good copy, virtually mint, in the original dust jacket and publisher’s plasticine wrapper. The content are fine, with an ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper….
THE AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF COLONIAL AMERICA
Two-Volume Boxed Set: Volume 1 "Thirteen Colonies," Volume 2 "Colonial Antiques"
A very good set without dust jackets, in the original pictorial slipcase. There is a short ink gift inscription on the front free endpapers of both volumes. Else fine.
WHILE ENGLAND SLEPT
-First American Edition (Third Impression)
…American edition, without dust jacket. As-new, save for very faint creasing along the spine, three dots of foxing to the fore-edge. Discreetly ink-stamped: “Editorial Copy” on the rear free endpaper….
WRITING IN RESTAURANTS
-Signed First American Edition-
As-new, a virtually mint copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket, signed and inscribed by the author in ink on the front free endpaper: “To Jacques…
THE WORLD CRISIS 1911-1918
-First English "Times Book Club" Abridged One-Volume Edition-
This a very good copy, without dust jacket, of the rarely-seen First English “Times Book Club” Abridged One-Volume Edition, which is not mentioned in the Cohen bibliography. Aside from the…
THE WORLD CRISIS: The Story of World War I
-Abridged One-Volume Edition-
…dust jacket, unclipped and intact, with creases and light edge-chipping across the upper edges but fresh overall. The contents are fine, with a vintage bookplate on the front free endpaper….
MARCEL PROUST EN SON TEMPS [“In His Days”]
Catalogue de l'exposition présentée au Musée Jacquemart-André par la Société des Amis de Marcel Proust en 1971
…the First French Edition of this lovelyvmuseum catalogue with the previous owner’s dated name and inscription on the front free endpaper. Laid-in is a slip from rare bookseller Pierre Berès….
THE NABOKOV-WILSON LETTERS
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN VLADIMIR NABOKOV AND EDMUND WILSON, 1940-1971
A very good copy of the First American Edition in an unclipped dust jacket. The book has two price label shadows, one each on the front pastedown and front free…
NABOKOV: NOVELS 1955-1962
[Lolita; Pnin; Pale Fire; Lolita: A Screenplay]
…exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….
CRIME NOVELS: AMERICAN NOIR OF THE 1950S
[The Killer Inside Me; The Talented Mr. Ripley; Pick-up; Down There; The Real Cool Killers]
…handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….