You probably know the story of the two goats who are eating up cans containing the reels of a film taken from a best seller. And one goat says to the other, «Personally, I prefer the book!» (In Le cinéma selon Hitchcock)
Scarce first French edition issued in Hetzel’s Bibliothèque d’éducation et de récréation series.
Translated and adapted by G. Lemaire, with a preface and postface by Bentzon.
Publisher’s red half morocco binding, signed Lenègre at foot, spine with false raised bands richly decorated in gilt and blind, white moiré endpapers, covers framed with blind fillets, light rubbing to edges and corners.
EK catalogue at end.
A few occasional foxing spots and faint browning. A few leaves slightly sprung, otherwise a very good copy.
King Solomon's Mines was first published in London in 1885. The novel recounts the adventures of a party of English explorers venturing into...
First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Holland paper, the deluxe issue.
A fine copy.
First French edition, one of 25 numbered copies on Hollande paper, deluxe issue.
This second volume of La comédie américaine was first published in English as The Ski Bum.
Fine copy.
First edition, one of 20 numbered copies on vélin de cuve paper reserved for the “XX” bibliophile group, the tirage de tête.
A good copy complete with its double covers by Albin Michel and the “XX” bibliophile group.
Joints of chemise rubbed, modern slipcase, tiny insignificant worming to endpapers.
Signed by the author on justification page.
