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HENRY JAMES: EUROPEAN WRITERS & THE PREFACES

French Writers; Other European Writers; The Prefaces to the New York Edition]

By: Henry James (Leon Edel, Editor)

…handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute….

BULLET PARK

-First American Edition-

By: John Cheever

A very good copy of the First American edition, in a price-clipped dust jacket. A previous owner’s name is written in ink on the front free endpaper, and remnants of…

GUARD OF HONOR

-First American Edition-

By: James Gould Cozzens

A very good Ex–Library copy in a price-clipped dust jacket. A jacket flap is glued to the front free endpaper and a library card pocket is glued to the last…

BY LOVE POSSESSED

-First American Edition-

By: James Gould Cozzens

…with a 1/4-inch closed tear at at the bottom of the rear face.. The front free endpaper has been excised and there is a resulting front hinge break. Else fine….

THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD

By: Max Ehlich

A very good Book Club Edition in a lightly shelf-worn dust jacket. The top fore-edge has faded and the front free endpaper bears a personal bookplate with the signature of…

THE MIRRORS OF DOWNING STREET

Some Political Reflections

By: A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie)

…but the cloth and binding are crisp. The contents are fine, with a private library sticker on the front pastedown and a tiny bookshop sticker on the front free endpaper….

MAYBE

-First American Edition-

By: Lillian Hellman

…the front free endpaper. The contents are otherwise fine. Laid-in at the rear is a New York Times article about Hellman from September 6, 1984, the year of her death….

INNOCENT BLOOD

-First American Edition-

By: P.D. James

A very good copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket. A previous owner’s name is written in ink on the front free endpaper, else fine….

I AM THINKING OF MY DARLING

By: Vincent McHugh

…to be carefree and content to live the good life free of ambitions and schedules. Of course, the powers-that-be see a problem with this and seek to find a cure….

MUSE OF FIRE: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets

-Signed First American Edition-

By: Michael Korda

…the brutality of the Western Front. This mint copy of the First American edition, in an unclipped dust jacket is signed by the author in ink on the front free…

MY AMPUTATIONS

-Special Autographed First Edition-

By: Clarence Major

…unclipped dust jacket with a belly band promoting the “Winner 1986 Western States Book Awards – Special Autographed Copy-“). Signed in ink on the front free endpaper by the author….

MARCEL PROUST EN SON TEMPS [“In His Days”]

Catalogue de l'exposition présentée au Musée Jacquemart-André par la Société des Amis de Marcel Proust en 1971

By: Marcel Proust

…the First French Edition of this lovelyvmuseum catalogue with the previous owner’s dated name and inscription on the front free endpaper. Laid-in is a slip from rare bookseller Pierre Berès….