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Duineser Elegien

“WHO, IF I CRIED OUT, WOULD HEAR ME AMONG THE ANGELS’ HIERARCHIES?”

RILKE, Rainer Maria. Duineser Elegien. Leipzig, 1923.

Deluxe limited large-paper first edition of one of the greatest volumes of poetry of the 20th century, number 83 of only 300 copies, this copy one of the first 100 copies specially bound in full green gilt-decorated morocco at the Wiener Werkstadt. $12,000.

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Madame Bovary

“BOVARY C’EST MOI”

FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Paris, 1857. Two volumes. Rare first edition, first issue in book form, of Flaubert’s literary masterpiece, “the definitive model of the novel” (Émile Zola) and the work that “ushered the age of realism into modern European literature,” in contemporary binding. $9500.

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Fetes Galantes

VERLAINE’S FÊTES GALANTES, SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED BY BARBIER

(BARBIER, George) VERLAINE, Paul. Fetes Galantes. Paris, 1928.

Beautiful limited edition, number 810 of 800 copies on Rives paper (of a total edition of 1200), illustrated by George Barbier with 20 full-page hand-colored pochoir plates in his characteristic Art Deco style. $9000.

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Masterpieces of George Sand

LOVELY SET OF THE MASTERPIECES OF GEORGE SAND, RICHLY ILLUSTRATED WITH THE PLATES IN DOUBLE-SUITE, WITH THREE-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY SAND TIPPED IN

SAND, George. The Masterpieces of George Sand. Philadelphia, 1900-02. Twenty volumes.

"Japan Vellum Edition" of Sand's most famous works, number 42 of only 1000 sets printed on Japan vellum and profusely illustrated with 125 photogravures, each illustration in two states: one in black on India proof paper and mounted, and one in bistre on Japan etching paper (frontispieces finely hand-colored). With an intriguing three-page autograph letter signed by Sand tipped in. $8800.

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Odes and Epodes

WITH ETCHINGS PENCIL-SIGNED BY HOWARD PYLE AND OTHERS

HORACE. Odes and Epodes. Boston, 1901-04. Eight volumes bound as ten.

Limited illustrated edition, number 377 of 467 sets, with title page decoration by Howard Pyle and 12 double suite etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan and Edmund H. Garrett, signed in pencil by the respective artist on one impression, including a Bicknell etching after a Pyle painting, signed in pencil by Pyle. Beautifully bound in full Art Nouveau morocco-gilt with morocco onlays. $6800.

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Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis

"IT IS CHIEFLY THROUGH BOOKS THAT WE ENJOY INTERCOURSE WITH SUPERIOR MINDS"

GENLIS, Countess de. Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis. London, 1825. Eight volumes.

First edition in English of these compelling memoirs, extensively extra-illustrated with approximately 150 relevant portraits and views of France (nearly a third hand-colored), beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Bayntun. $6800.

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Autos Sacramentales, Alegoricos, y Historiales

“SUCCEEDED LOPE DE VEGA AS THE LEADING SPANISH PLAYWRIGHT OF THE GOLDEN AGE”

CALDERON DE LA BARCA, Pedro. Autos Sacramentales, Alegoricos, y Historiales. Madrid, 1717. Six volumes.

First edition of this collection of the great Spanish dramatist’s ‘Autos’—allegorical one-act plays celebrating the mystery of the Eucharist on Corpus Christi—with engraved frontispiece portrait of the playwright, in contemporary vellum. $6500.

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Friend of the Family; and The Gambler

"SOMETHING OF ASTONISHING FORCE CAN BREAK LOOSE IN DOSTOEVSKY, AS IT SO FREQUENTLY DOES IN SHAKESPEARE"

(DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor) DOSTOIEFFSKY, Fedor. Friend of the Family; and The Gambler. London, 1887.

First editions in English of Dostoevsky's Friend of the Family and The Gambler, two of his finest and most influential early novellas, with The Friend begun while imprisoned in Siberia—featuring "the direct precursor of Prince Myshikin in The Idiot"—and The Gambler written against a desperate three-week deadline, an electrifying tale of obsession that "rings true in part because it was true." Together as issued in Volume XXII of Vizetelly's One-Volume Novels with the translation of Frederick Whishaw. $6200.

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