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By: Valery Larbaud
Price: $500.00
Publisher: La Haye, Jean Gondrexon: 1927
Seller ID: fkf16
Condition: Very Good
Copy # 23. printed on Hollande paper. 10 original lithographs by Jean-Emile Laboureur. 200 rooms 200 bathrooms is written at the Palace Hotel in Bussaco, Portugal. On this night of insomnia, Valery Larbaud evokes his journey, hotel life and the characters therein, with the idea of writing a travel book where the writer sits and observes as the world advances before his eyes like a flowing river. View more info
Price: $500.00
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press: 1702
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: yy40
Condition: Very Good
William Whiston was an English theologian, historian, and mathematician, a leading figure in the popularisation of the ideas of Isaac Newton. He is now probably best known for helping to instigate the Longitude Act in 1714 (and his attempts to win the rewards that it promised) and his important translations of the Antiquities of the Jews and other works by Josephus (which are still in print). He was a prominent exponent of Arianism and wrote A New Theory of the Earth. Whiston succeeded his mentor Newton as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and after having lost ... View more info
Price: $44.99
Publisher: New York, Henry Holt & Co.: 1907
Seller ID: wdm5
Condition: Very Good
8vo.1/4 brown calf/gilt. Marbled bd's & e.p's. Top edge gilt VG. Author associated with the pre- Raphaelite circle of artists and craftsmen fiction/binding View more info
By: A.E. Coppard
Price: $50.00
Publisher: NY, Random House: 1934
Edition: Limited 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by A. E. Coppard
Seller ID: aec13
Condition: Very Good
Alfred Edgar Coppard (1878 - 1957) was an English poet and writer, noted for his influence on the short story form.[wiki] View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: CA, Santa Susana Press: 1990
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 125f
Condition: Near Fine
Writer, artist and film director Jean Cocteau was one of the most influential creative figures in the Parisian avant-garde between the two World Wars. He became part of the artistic avant-garde and was known for his variety of accomplishments. Over a 50-year career, he wrote poetry, novels and plays; created illustrations, paintings and other art objects; and directed influential films, including The Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus. this is a signed limited edition, over-sized hardback book, with slipcase titled JEAN COCTEAU & THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK by William A. Emboden. With a four page pro... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Museum Of Art: 1936
Seller ID: clmm11
Condition: Very Good
Imp. 8vo. Re-bound in brown calf and hand decorated paper with a south seas motif. View more info
By: Hewlett, Maurice
Price: $350.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed Maurice Hewlett
Seller ID: xz98
Condition: Near Fine
'The Forest Lovers' is set in France during the Romantic era, and the experiences of Prosper le Gai in the mysterious forest of Morgraunt. Prosper is a happy-go-lucky guy intent only upon adventure. A confirmed bachelor, happenstance suddenly compels him to marry a poor servant-girl in order to rescue her from being hanged as a witch, or handed over to a false monk. In the end his wife, Isoult la Desireé, proves to be the long-lost daughter of the Countess Isabel, Countess of Hauterive and Lady of Morgraunt. The motive of the story is the triumphant progress of Isoult's love for her knig... View more info
