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1. Louis Couperus, Antique Tourism. Novel from Ancient Egypt. Amsterdam, Van Holkema & Warendorf, 1911. 221 pp. 1st edition. Sturdy in the fine binding. First and last pages show some rust.

2. Louis Couperus, Xerxes or the Pride. Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1919. Bound, 261

Literature - Quantity: 2 - Book

Louis Couperus - Antiek Toerisme. Roman uit Oud-Egypte / Xerxes of de Hoogmoed - 1911-1919

Monicelli Tomaso - Aia Madama. Novelle e costumi paesani, La Scolastica, 1912.

In 1912 the first book published by Arnoldo Mondadori appeared, Aia Madama, a collection of children's stories by Tomaso Monicelli, who met Arnoldo Mondadori in 1912, in Ostiglia, and together they

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Novel

Tomaso Monicelli - Aia Madama - 1912-1912

An attractive edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s classic novel Cranford, illustrated with 23 wood engravings by Joan Hassall.

Published in London by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd. The publication page states that this illustrated edition was first published in 1940, but no separate

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

Elizabeth Gaskell / Joan Hassall - Cranford - 1940

George Eliot – Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life – Standard Edition – 3 volumes – ca. 1895.
Complete three-volume edition of one of the most important novels of English Victorian literature: Middlemarch – A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot, the pseudonym of Mary Ann

Literature - Quantity: 3 - Book

George Eliot - Middlemarch (The Works of George Eliot) - 1895-1895

1691 FIRST FRENCH EDITION ON THE HISTORY AND LIFE OF OLIVER CROMWELL, BRITISH CIVIL WAR,  DIPLOMACY, MONARCHY, EUROPEAN POLICY, NUMISMATICS, by François Raguenet (1660–1722) was a French historian, biographer and musicologist. Raguenet details the life and rise of Oliver Cromwell

Archaeology, Art, Biographies and memoirs, Cavalry and chivalry, Economics, Europe, Fine Bindings, Geography, Heraldry, History, Illustrated, Incunabula & early printing, Law, Literature, Memorabilia, Military, Philosophy, Religion, War history - Quantity: 1 - Signed by illustrator - Book

François Raguenet and illustrated by Cornelis Vermeulen - History of Olivier Cromwell, FIRST EDITION, King Louis XIV Original Binding - 1691

Ragazzi di vita – Milano, Garzanti, prima edizione: 27 aprile 1955. in 8vo, 13,50 x 20 cm., tela editoriale con sovraccoperta illustrata, 285 (2) pagine, la sovraccoperta è quella della quinta edizione come segnalato sul testo della bandella (vedi foto), taglio superiore

Literature - Quantity: 2 - Dust jacket - Book

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Due prime edizioni: Ragazzi di vita + La religione del mio tempo - 1955-1961

Charming illustrated edition of this extravagant culinary book that embodies the surreal universe of the artist by transposing his pictorial imagination into the art of the table -

Designed as a gastronomic manifesto, the work gathers twelve thematic chapters inspired by

Cookery, food & drink, Art, Illustrated, Photography, Sociology, Literature, Reference - Quantity: 1 - Book

Salvador Dalí & J. Peter Moore - Les dîners de Gala - 1971

Guillaume Apollinaire. Shadow of My Love. Geneva, Pierre Cailler, 1947, 171 pp.

A volume in-12 (190x130 mm), half morocco, smooth spine, leather title piece (binding of the period). Very beautiful binding condition. Interior very fresh, no foxing. Covers and spine preserved.


Literature, Poetry - Quantity: 1 - Book

Signé ; Guillaume Apollinaire / Picasso - Ombre de mon amour [avec un envoi de Louise de Coligny dite "Lou"] - 1947

This set of 20 volumes brings together the famous Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon, a major literary and historical work for understanding the court of Versailles under Louis XIV and the Regency. Published by the house Jean de Bonnot in 1965, this edition reprints the text

Literature - Quantity: 20 - Book

Louis de Saint-Simon (Texte collationné et annoté par Adolphe Chéruel) - Saint-Simon - Mémoires complets et authentiques (20 Tomes) - 1965 - Édition Jean de Bonnot - 1965

Full title: Pixie Pickles. The Adventures of Pixene and Pixette in their Woodland Haunts.

An attractive copy of this scarce first edition. Undated, but 1904. 

The text is by G. E. Farrow, but the beauty of the book lies in the wonderful red and black illustrations by Harry B.

Children's books, Literature, Illustrated - Quantity: 1 - Book

G. E. Farrow / Harry B. Nielson - Pixie Pickles - 1904

Hardcover from 1968, 1st Edition, first printing as written on the copyright page. Random House. 

First edition points:

- Stated "first printing" on the copyright page.
- Correct date of 1968.
- Bottom left of rear flap stating “1/69” as required.
- Correct price unclipped-

Literature - Quantity: 1 - Dust jacket - Book

John Irving - Setting Free the Bears[First Edition - First Print] - 1968

André L. Simon - The History of Champagne - Signed autograph letter - 1962.
Author: André L. Simon.
Title:  The History of Champagne.
Edition: Ebury Press / George Rainbird Ltd, London, 1962.
Print run: 1962 edition. A unique copy with prestigious provenance, enriched by a signed

Literature, Regional interest, History - Quantity: 1 - Signed by author, Signed, Slipcase - Book

André L. Simon  - The History of Champagne - Ebury Press, 1962 - Exemplaire du Prince Guy de Polignac, enrichi d'une lettre autographe signée de l'auteur - 1962

LA FONTAINE, Jean de.
Tales imitated in English Verse.
London: Privately Printed, 1814. 

A beautiful copy of this first edition of La Fontaine's Tales in two volumes. 

This is the rare "Privately printed" edition. The first complete English edition, in a lovely Riviére binding.

Literature, Illustrated - Quantity: 2 - Book

Jean de la Fontaine - Tales imitated in English Verse - 1814

Frans Masereel – Compendium of 2 early woodcut books – Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich – 1924/1928 – total 190 woodcuts.
Offered is a cohesive compendium of two early works by Frans Masereel (1889–1972) from Kurt Wolff Verlag, Munich. Both books are part of Masereel's characteristic

Illustrated, Humour & caricature, Literature - Quantity: 2 - Book

Frans Masereel - Frans Masereel – Konvolut aus 2 frühen Holzschnittbüchern – Kurt Wolff Verlag, München – 1924/1928 – - 1924-1928

Offered are 4 publications by and about James Joyce (1882-1941): the posthumously issued first edition of Giacomo Joyce (1968), a first edition of a correspondence edition from 1957, a reprint of Chamber Music from 1964, complemented by a volume that appeared to accompany

Literature, Poetry - Quantity: 4 - Book

James Joyce - Giacomo Joyce (1ste druk 1968) [+ 3] - 1957-1968

cover slightly stained.
All the pages are intact; there are no loose pages.
no inscriptions on the pages except for a name and forename in small print on the first page.
the whole book is solid; it has held up well for a book so old.
for the nostalgic.
the book was published in

Alain Fournier - Le Grand Meaulnes édition originale de 1913 numérotée - 1913

Beautiful collection by Jan Wolkers, mostly hardcover. Including the biography of Jan Wolkers.
Het litteken van de dood Onno Blom 2017.
Wolkers in Wolkershof 2000.
Icarus en de vliegende tering 1996.
Kort Amerikaans 1979.
Serpentinas petticoat 2008.
Zwarte bevrijding 1995.

Literature, Art, History - Quantity: 11 - Book

Jan Wolkers - Jan Wolkers collectie - 1979-2017

FMR Collection – The Signs of Man – 24 volumes.
- Author: Franco Maria Ricci (FMR).

- Year or decade of creation: 1980s and 1990s.
- Publisher: FMR Editorial Editions.

- Publisher: Franco Maria Ricci (FMR), Italy.
- Technique: Luxury printed editions with editorial bindings,

Art, History, Literature - Quantity: 25 - Book

Franco María Ricci - Los Signos del Hombre - 1982

Gedichte von Hoffmann von Fallersleben – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben.
Leipzig: Weidmann’sche Buchhandlung, 1843. vi, 576 pages. 16.9cm x 10.8cm. Half-leather binding with mauve coloured patterned cloth boards, and gilt decorated and lettered spine. True first

Poetry, Literature - Quantity: 1 - Book

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben - Gedichte von Hoffmann von Fallersleben - 1843-1843

Rare illustrated edition of 91 drawings by Léon Benett and a color map in its handsome binding "with the fan and two elephant heads" recounting the adventure of fifteen English teenagers shipwrecked on a deserted Pacific island, forced to survive alone for two years -

The work

Literature, Travels, Illustrated, Cartography, Geography, History, Reference - Quantity: 1 - Book

Jules Verne / Léon Benett - Deux ans de vacances - 1888

Collection 'Du monde entier'. Original edition in French. One of 105 copies numbered on Lafuma-Navarre rag paper. Translation from English by R.N. Raimbault in collaboration with G. Louis Rousselet.

William Faulkner - ¨Pylone - 1946-1946

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