Rare Books, Seven Volumes. John Evelyn's Memoires for my Grand-son, Oxford: Nonesuch, 1926, 12mo, original limp vellum, with the marbled slipcase; Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and Peuchet, London: Nichols, 1896, first English edition, octavo, illustrated, bound in bright blue publisher's cloth, with boldly blocked gilt design on the spine and front board; Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, New York: Harper & Row, [1970], stated first edition, in a good jacket, with the exclamation mark corrected to a period inside the front flap; George Catlin's North American Indians, Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart, and Co., 1913, octavo, in two volumes, color illustrations throughout, in publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in black and gold, some pages loose, spines sunned; Shaw-Ede, T.E. Lawrence's Letters to H.S. Ede 1927-1935, London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1942, limited edition, number 333 of 500, bound in half-morocco, cloth boards, corners bumped; and George Santayana's Lucifer, or the Heavenly Truce, a Theological Tragedy, Cambridge: Duster House, 1924, folio, with a prospectus, printed in red, black, and blue; head-pieces, initials, and end papers designed by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, printed by the Southworth Press in Portland, Maine, end papers are gold with red geometric designs, publisher's black cloth, rubbed, 12 x 8 in. (7)
Rare Books, Seven Volumes. John Evelyn's Memoires for my Grand-son, Oxford: Nonesuch, 1926, 12mo, original limp vellum, with the marbled slipcase; Gustave Flaubert's Bouvard and Peuchet, London: Nichols, 1896, first English edition, octavo, illustrated, bound in bright blue publisher's cloth, with boldly blocked gilt design on the spine and front board; Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, New York: Harper & Row, [1970], stated first edition, in a good jacket, with the exclamation mark corrected to a period inside the front flap; George Catlin's North American Indians, Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart, and Co., 1913, octavo, in two volumes, color illustrations throughout, in publisher's maroon cloth, stamped in black and gold, some pages loose, spines sunned; Shaw-Ede, T.E. Lawrence's Letters to H.S. Ede 1927-1935, London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1942, limited edition, number 333 of 500, bound in half-morocco, cloth boards, corners bumped; and George Santayana's Lucifer, or the Heavenly Truce, a Theological Tragedy, Cambridge: Duster House, 1924, folio, with a prospectus, printed in red, black, and blue; head-pieces, initials, and end papers designed by Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, printed by the Southworth Press in Portland, Maine, end papers are gold with red geometric designs, publisher's black cloth, rubbed, 12 x 8 in. (7)
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