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Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1958. 275pp. (".perhaps still the best volume to focus on Drieu La Rochelle as literary artist." Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Grove Press, 1962. 176pp. A collection of satirical stories translated from the Polish by Konrad Syrop (great name). The first of the author's books to appear in the U.K. Illustrated with drawings by Daniel Mroz. Light chipping to dj.. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Mroz, Daniel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Austin, TX: University of Texas, 1963. 330pp/illus. First publication. ffep has been removed - otherwise clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paris, France: Auguste Picard, 1923. Vol 2 - 1-332pp and Vol 3 - 333-729p. Edition Critique avec notices et glossaire. French text. Previous owner bookplate. Corners bumped. Clean. Quarter Leather/Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cambridge, MA: The John Harvard Library / The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1966. Book has 287 pages with a few illustrations. Nice copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1968. 349pp/frontis. A collection of criticisms which Mencken wrote for 'The Smart Set' between 1908 and 1923. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 1988. Oblong 8vo. 224 pp. profusely illustrated. "Selections from 'Italian hours'. Henry James (1843-1916) first visited Italy in 1869 and returned in 1872 for two years as Rome correspondent of The Nation. He continued to visit and write about Italy for the rest of his life. The book is illustrated throughout with contemporary drawings and evocative full-color painting by Corot, Roberts, Prichett, Turner and Lear among many others, and contains color maps of the period.". First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. 127pp/illus. Text immaculate. Lavishly illustrated with charcoal drawings by author. Originally printed Oct., 1914 this is the second printing, Nov., 1914. A book of illustrations with some explanatory extracts from the Master's(Dickens) text, with experiences of the author. Cover a little smudged with small piece on edge pressed in. Corners bumped. Overall clean and nice.. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Univ Pr, 1987. 273pp. Looksat three writers of the Victorian era - Harriett Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot. Clean. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1927. 932pp/illus. Complete in Two Volumes. Burgandy cloth with gilt stamping. Hinges starting, spine ends and cover corners are slightly scuffed and rubbed. Contents are bright and complete. Overall, nice copies.. 2nd Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Drexel Hill, PA: Bell Publishing Company, 1931. 129pp full, maroon cloth gilt titles on spine and front board with maroon coloured top. contains intro by Dhan Gopal Mukerji and extensive notes. beautifully illustrated with b/w plates by Willy Pogany. Glue stain inside front cover from bookplate which has been removed. Note inside front cover - "from former CJCS - Admiral Crowe Estate". Otherwise clean.. Cloth. Very Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Pogony, William. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

St. Petersburg, Russia: V. A. Tikhanov, 1895. 387pp. Light brown cloth. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828-1889) was a Russian writer, socialist and literary critic whose novel "What is to be done?", became a classic of the Russian revolutionary movement. Text in Russian. Clean and unmarked.. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket - Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1979. With the Assistance of Roger Lancelyn Green. Two Volumes. Blue cloth with gilt spine titles and decorative bands. Lavender facsimile endpapers in red. Volume One. ca. 1837-1885. xxxviii, 614 p.p. Volume Two. 1886-1898. viii, 617-1245 p.p. Both volumes Illustrated with portraits, photographs, facsimiles and figures. Clean set in vg Slipcase.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Slipcase. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Bracken Books, 1992. 144pp/illus. Great resource for the Sherlock Holmes fan, written by noted Holmesian scholar. Introduces and summarizes the major cases of Holmes and Watson, gives an interesting account of the life of Conan Doyle, and extends to a vast array of Holmesian collectables and ephemera. Also includes a select list of Holmesian and Sherlockian groups throughout the world. Profusely illustrated with drawings and photographs. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good+. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Mahwah, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Paulist Pr, 1991. 76pp/illus. Inscribed by author/artist on title page. With this volume of paintings and reflections, Meinrad Craighead strengthens her reputation as an artist and seer unique among her contemporaries. 30 new paintings in book - very interesting paintings. Her book uses the abiding images of river and litany - that ancient, repetitive prayer-to weave word and image together. Celebrates the riddles of life as they are sung by the creatures of the earth and the spirits of the waters, the trees and the rocks - songs of creation, the wellspring of our being, of the mysteries of divinity and sexuality, of the turning of the seasons and of birth and death - songs of thanksgfiving for the sacred gift of life. Clean. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London, England: Grafton & Co, 1925. 247 pages. Selection from the 376 "Historiettes" of the noted French author (1619-92), some thing of a scandal in his time so that the completed manuscript (ca. 1659) remained unpublished until 1834; uncredited translation and introduction. 852 of 1000 numbered copies "printed for subscribers" (the entire edition), printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence. A scarce early example of the press's work.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Private Printing, 1922. light bluish-gray boards titled in blue on white labels mounted on the front cover & the spine and with a device of a bee stamped in blue at bottom right of the front cover. The covers are rubbed and soiled and the labels darkened. 174 pages. Corners bumped light shelf wear. Previous owner name on ffep. . First Edition. Boards. Very Good+/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Piscataway, NJ, U.S.A.: Rutgers University Press, 1971. Book has 408 pages. DJ has 1" v-shape missing chip to top edge and a little bit of wear to the edge of dj. Twenty-five of the most respected scholars of medieval literature and folklore have gathered to honor their mentor Utley with original essays on folklore and on the literature of the middle ages.. Hard Cover/Boards. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. 452pp/illus. Biography of H.L. Mencken. Light chipping to dj. Clean. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1949. Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, gilt title spine, dustjacket, 546pp. footnotes, bibliographical notes. Light yelloeing. Light wear/chipping to dj. Text clean.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good++/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.