Rare invitation card to attend the performance of oriental dances created by Jeanne Ronsay and Toshi Komori, at Raymond Duncan's Akadémia on 20 February 1922.
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
Contemporary full red morocco binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title label. Triple fillet frame on boards. Gilt edges. Traces of rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped.
Fine copy, precious in contemporary red morocco.
Second issue, printed in March-April 1917, one month after the first edition published in February of the same year.
Publisher's red cloth.
Exceptional inscribed copy signed by H.G. Wells to André Citroën: “To André Citröen who has to do his share in making a new world out of a very shattered old one. From H. G. Wells.”
The inscription echoes the chapter of the book entitled New arms for old ones, in which Wells describes the armament factory created by Citroën to remedy the French artillery weakness. Reconverted at the end of the war, the factory will become the first Citroën automobile manufacturer.
First edition, one of 1,000 numbered copies.
A pleasant copy.
Signed and dated presentation inscription from Michel Butor to Joëlle Bensa.
