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— Marcel Proust
London: Cassell, 1941. [Mystery] FIRST US EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] viii; 299 [3]. Publisher's orange cloth with green titles and decoration to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at $2.00. A green ink ownership to front fly-leaf, and heavy toning to pastedowns. Gently toned throughout, otherwise..... More
London: Methuen and Co., 1936. [Modern Literature] FINE PRE-WAR DUST-JACKET, seventh edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6]; 250. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrative dust-jacket designed by Frank Marston with publisher's advertisements to flaps. Toning and light spotting to edges of textblock, toning and some spotting to..... More
London: Methuen and Co, 1934. [Crime Fiction] ATTRACTIVE REPRINT. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.vi; 210. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in black to spine, with black ruling to front board, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 1'- to spine. Spotted internally and to textblock edges, previous ownership stamps to front and..... More
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1953. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.204 [4], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 9/6 to front and rear flaps. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock, extremely light and infrequent spotting throughout..... More
Lippincott's Magazine. 1915. First appearance in print, bound from the parts. 8vo. Attractively bound in recent half green morocco leather with gilt titles to spine, black title label. Green cloth boards and plain endpapers. Near fine. Bound from the parts extracted from the 1915 issues of Lippincott's Magazine predating the..... More