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An important set composed of MONNIER Henry, Scènes populaires dessinées à la plume, E. Dentu, Paris, 1864, 703 pages. Format in-8 (220 x 140 mm), half-bound in red morocco, spine ribbed and title in gold letters. Age wear, pages browned, but overall good condition; JOHNSON Dr., The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissina, C. Cooke, London, undated, 142 pages. Size in-16 (150 x 90 mm), bound in full calf, flat spine and title in gold letters. Missing spine, age wear; WALKER Hugh, Selected English Short Stories (Nineteenth Century), Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1924, 486 pages. Size in-16 (155 x 100 mm), embroidered binding with flower motifs. Good condition; KIPLING Rudyard, Chansons de la Chambrée, L'Édition française illustrée, Paris, 1920, 300 pages. Format in-12 (210 x 150 mm), half-bound in vellum, spine missing. Good general condition. This work was printed at 12 copies on Hollande Van Gelder, 48 on Lafuma pure thread paper, and 1,540 copies on cream-colored vellum made especially for this edition, numbered from 61 to 1600. This copy is numbered 562; HUYSMANS Joris-Karl, Marthe, Histoire d'une fille, Georges Crès et Cie, Paris, 1914, 182 pages. Format in-12 (210 x 135 mm), half-bound in calf. Boards loose, but fresh inside; SÉAILLES Gabriel, Eugène Carrière, Essai de biographie psychologique, with 8 phototypies hors texte, Armand Colin, Paris, 1911, 270 pages. Format in-12 (187 x 122 mm), half-bound in brown vellum, flat spine decorated with a frieze of interlacing and title in gold letters. Wear to corners and spine, but fresh inside; SEM, Un Pékin sur le Front, Pierre Lafitte, Paris, 1917, 247 pages. Size in-12 (203 x 155 mm), half-bound in brown vellum, flat spine decorated with flower pots and title in gold letters. Good condition; France Anatole, Ce Que Disent Nos Morts, R. Helleu, Paris, 1916, pages not numbered. Format in-4 (320 x 240 mm), hardback. Wear from use, but good condition; MAUCLAIR Camille, Bruges, Henri Laurens, Paris, 1938, 171 pages. Edition with thirty color plates after Mathilde Arbey's paintings. Format in-8° (240 x 190 mm), hardback. A few pages loose, but good general condition; LOTI Pierre, Madame Chrysanthème, Pêcheur d'Islande, Pierre Lafitte, Paris, undated, but 1923, 251 pages. First edition with illustrations in color and black, in the text and out of the text by Lucien Simon, A. Gorguet, A. Gumery, F. Lorioux. Format in-4° (300 x 225 mm), half-bound in vellum, flat spine decorated with stylized plant motifs, title in gold letters. Wear and tear, but good condition, fresh interior; VIALAR Paul, Plumes dans le vent, Amiot-Dumont, Paris, 1951, 90 pages illustrated with 11 original reproductions by Henri de Linarès, two of them engraved on copper. Work printed at 3 150 copies. Format in-4° (280 x 225 mm), half-bound in black percaline. Good condition; VILLON François, Le Testament, La Sirène, Paris, 1918, 135 pages. Size in-12 (185 x 120 mm), half-bound in white vellum, flat spine, hand-painted title. Pages browned, but good condition; MAETERLINCK Maurice, La Sagesse et La Destinée, Charpentier et Fasquelle, Paris, 1918, 310 pages. Format in-12 (185 x 120 mm), half-bound in green vellum, flat spine decorated with stylized flowers, title in gold letters. Wear from use, but good condition; Les Psaumes de David mis en vers, J. P. Heubach et Cie, Lausanne, 1791, pages missing. Size in-12 (180 x 115 mm), leather binding, flat spine decorated with stylized motifs, title in gold letters. Heavy wear and tear, addition of hymns bound at the end of the book.
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