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No Place Stated: The Golden Bough Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1930. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. The free endpapers have a slight curl, likely from the marbling process. Spine and joints slightly darker than the rest of the leather. Minor rubbing to the joints, cover paper abraded where it wraps under the tail edge of the rear board, corners bumped with wear through to the boards.; Daudet's novel of the personal failings and stumbling, lurching relationship of a young Southern French student Jean Gaussin and his older Parisian lover Fanny Legrand. Jean is troubled by Fanny's life of luxury from many profitable, personal relationships: an engineer, a poet, an engraver, and a sculptor who had her pose for his statue of Sappho. After their living in the country and his dalliance with a young woman, it all falls apart. In the end, Fanny leaves him with little but a letter and he's right to lament his "...broken, wasted life, all wrecked and tearful... From… Read More

London: The Golden Cockerel Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1961. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Ostensibly about cats and their ways, this 1727 work is also a witty satire that mocks people and their ways, various strata of society, and exacting scholarship. The prose and verse are fluid with feline and human characteristics ascribed interchangeably. Contemporary criticism treated 'Les Chats' as frivolous because of its subject and it was long a target of public and artistic ridicule. Contemporaries were seemingly too busy mocking Les Chats to identify the satire buried just below the surface. The author was a thoughtful, tasteful, artistic man of his time, ultimately being admitted to Académie Française. Written as 11 Letters and 10 Poems, although the letters themselves contain some additional poems and fragments. After that are extensive Notes and an Index of Subjects, both infused with satire and essential components of the entire work. Copy 211 of a limited edition of 400. Although a signature… Read More

Goring-on-Thames: Elvendon Press. Near Fine. 1986. Elvendon Press. Hardcover. Head corners of the boards are bumped, probably in the making.; This is Charles Dickens' classic novella, ostensibly a ghost story about Christmas time, but with a parallel meaning. It depicts Victorian English oppression and exploitation of the poor, and the opportunity for oppressors to come to their senses and mend their ways. This version of the story is revised and edited for reading aloud. For the benefit of charities, Charles Dickens gave approximately 125 to 150 public readings of A Christmas Carol. As the complete book required three hours to read, many, if not most of those readings were from a revised, abridged version of the work. Similarly, this book is also considerably abridged for reading aloud. The title page is signed and inscribed by Cedric Charles Dickens (1916-2006), author and great-grandson of Charles Dickens. Cedric was twice the President of the Dickens Fellowship and founder of Dickens Pickwick… Read More

Winston-Salem: Palaemon Press Limited. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Signed, Limited Edition. Hardcover. The front board has some splay, as many, if not most, copies do.; Twelve previously unpublished "translations" of poems by other poets, selected by Dickey and each rewritten by him as an homage and to add his unique perspective to the retelling. Most poems are in a non-linear form: the formatting, word spacing, and line justification are varied and are as essential to the poem as the text. One of an unnumbered limited edition of 475 copies. Elaborately signed by author on the colophon. In polished gray buckram over boards, with title and author framed on a cream-colored paper label to front. No dust jacket, as-issued. In 1977, Stuart Wright founded the Palaemon Press Limited, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA to publish works by Southern authors. Most books are the first appearance, or first separate, printing, of the works. Clean inside and out, sharp cornered, and… Read More