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No date, ca. 1895-1900. Number 2 of 5 copies. 20 volumes plus two bound folio volumes of the plates printed on Whatman paper and finished off in watercolor. Each of the volumes is in full morocco gilt extra in various colors, some with inlays to bindings and some with elaborate inner doublures that include pictorial and decorative inlays, and each has an original fore-edge painting, contents printed on velin with plates in 4 states: bistre, colored, b/w, Chine. Each is housed in a full morocco slipcase. A magnificent set that is as sumptuous a production as can be imagined, all in great condition. The two large folios of color plates include impressions of the plates in watercolors and with a number of original watercolors as well, totalling 201 plates. The Realist titles are: Flaubert's Madame Bovary (2 volumes), Daudet's Sapho, Alexandre Dumas Fils' The Lady of the Camellias, Goncourt's Germinie Lacerteux, Halevy's The Cardinal Family, Zola's Page of Love (2 volumes), George Sand's The Devil's Pool, Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin (2 volumes). The Romantics titles are: De Musset's The Confessions of a Child of the Century, Claretie's His Excellency the Minister, De Lamartine's Raphael, de Bernard's Gerfaut (2 volumes, bound with Gautier's Militona), Musset's Nouvelles, Murger's Bohemian Life, Feuillet's Monsieur de Camors, and Jean Aicard's King of Camargue. A brilliant set not likely to come up on the market in the forseeable future.

Chefs-d'oeuvres du roman contemporain, 20 volumes plus 2 suites of plates, Edition Magnifique: Realists and Romantics: Madame Bovary, Bohemian Life, Sappho, Lady of the Camellias, Devil's Pool, Mme de Maupin, Gerfaut, etc.
Flaubert, Gustave; Alphonse Daudet, Alexandre Dumas Fils, Edmond and Jules Goncourt, Ludovic Halevy, Emile Zola, George Sand, Theophile Gautier, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse de Lamartine, Charles de Bernard, Octave Feuillet, Jean Aicard
Philadelphia: George Barrie, 1900. No date, ca. 1895-1900. Number 2 of 5 copies. 20 volumes plus two bound folio volumes of the plates printed.. more
Price: $22,500.00

First edition, 1890. Large thick quarto, gray cloth hardcover with gilt designs and pictorial front cover, gilt title at spine, 472 pp., heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, about a Very Good copy, general soiling or discoloration to some pages of the text, some pages of the text with light creasing or wear to the page-edges, light soiling to the covers, some rubbing and wear to the covers including some scuffing to the front cover and minor loss to the cloth at the spine-ends. Text in German. A rare book. Digital images available upon request.

Im Wandel der Jahrtausende; Eine Weltgeschichte in Wort und Bild; Herausgegben von Albrecht Wirth; Mit 461 Abbildungen im Text und 49 Kunstbeilagen
Wirth, Albrecht
Stuttgart: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1890. First edition, 1890. Large thick quarto, gray cloth hardcover with gilt designs and pictorial front cover, gilt title at spine,.. more
Price: $300.00

Single issue of Liberty magazine. Feb. 8, 1930 (vol. 7, no. 7). Softcover in original wraps. 78 pp. Very Good copy: mild edgewear and soil to wraps. Pages just starting to tan. Clean and unmarked contents, including numerous color illustrations and ads. There is a small nick, only 1/8th of an inch, to the bottom margin of most the pages. This issue features the 3 page article, "Girls Believe in Girls: Being Certain Impressions of the Flapper's Successor," by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Bruccoli C202). The article is accompanied by 3 illustrations done by James Montgomery Glagg. Scarce.

Liberty, Feb. 8, 1930, a Weekly for Everybody, featuring an article by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Girls Believe in Girls"
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, and A. E. W. Mason, John Snook, Roberta Yates, et al.
New York: Liberty Weekly Inc., 1930. Single issue of Liberty magazine. Feb. 8, 1930 (vol. 7, no. 7). Softcover in original wraps. 78 pp. Very Good.. more
Price: $150.00

1880, First Edition. 109 pp. With 106 color plates and captions, printed on rectos only. Hardcover, mustard cloth, oblong 8vo. Gilt title and green, red and silver illustration on front board. Very Good copy: Moderate soil and edgewear to the covers. Endpapers lightly foxed. There is a tidemark from dampstaining visible on the bottom left corner of the contents, however, the plates and text are unaffected by the staining. Rear fly leaf creased, and its top corner is clipped. Very cool, clean illustrations showing pool shots. Rare. Book comes in a mylar sleeve.

Scientific Billiards: Garnier's Practice Shots, with Hints to Amateurs
Garnier, Albert
New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1880. 1880, First Edition. 109 pp. With 106 color plates and captions, printed on rectos only. Hardcover, mustard cloth, oblong 8vo... more
Price: $225.00

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