Written on water

Miomandre, Francis de / Brentano's 1929
THIS IS THE 1929 first American edition; 303 pp., original blue cloth (hardcover), slight bump to the bottom edge of the front cover, else very good in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0804820406
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1265070

$29.97

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Vagaries

Axel Munthe (Lady Layard, association copy) / London: John Murray 1898
first edition, publisher's complimentary copy presented to Lady Layard, wife of archaeologist Austen Henry Layard, with her name inked to the compliments page; xiii, 308 pp.; original gilt stamped green cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature

Item #: 1265064

$42.01

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Akhnaton: King Of Egypt

Dmitri Merezhkovsky. Natalie A. Duddington, translator / London/NY: J.M. Dent & Sons/E. P. Dutton 1927
first British edition; 372 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), top corner of the front cover lightly creased, else very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction russian literature

Item #: 1264088

$18.50

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Strange Stories of Humble Life. The Family

John Ashworth / Cincinnati: Western Tract and Book Society 1867
143 pp., frontis., original gilt & blind stamped green cloth (hardcover), book plate to the front free endpaper, covers lightly rubbed, occasional bits of soiling to the text, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: juvenile fiction religion fbf

Item #: 1264085

$37.91

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Dancing With Demons

Taylor, Lucy, Clark, Alan M., Oberschlake, Jamie / Obsidian Books 1999
limited to 500 numbered copies, signed by all contributors (Lucy Taylor, Alan M. Clark, Jamie Oberschlake); 222 pp., hardcover, NEW in a NEW dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 1891480022
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1264079

$19.84

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In the Miro District and other stories

Peter Taylor / NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1977
first edition, first printing; 204 pp., HARDCOVER (same isbn), near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0394410610
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1264078

$4.94

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McClure's Magazine. Vol. XXVIII No. 4, February 1907. The Defense of Strikerville. After All

Alfred Damon Runyon, Ford Maddox Hueffer, Ford Maddox Ford / S. S. McClure Co. 1907
pp. 339-452 + 126 pages of ads; original illustrated paper wrappers, covers tattered, else good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction literature gbl

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Item #: 1264070

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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man

Thomas Mann. Denver Lindley, translator / NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1955
first printing of the first American edition; 384, [5], [1] pp., original black cloth (hardcover), fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction

Item #: 1262629

$20.12

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The Little Town

Heinrich Mann. Winifred Ray, translator / Boston: Houghton, Mifflin 1931
first printing of the first American edition; 333 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), fine in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: german literature fiction

Item #: 1262618

$39.23

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Mon Frere Yves. Illustrations d'Emilien Dufour

Pierre Loti / Calmann-Levy 1936
282, [1] pp., original illustrated paper wrappers, very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: french literature fiction

Item #: 1261477

$24.20

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Pecheurs d'Islande. Illustrations et decoration de H. Cheffer

Pierre Loti / Paris: L'Edition d'Art H. Piazza 1945
limited to 800 numbered copies; 268 pp., original illustrated paper wrappers, text uncut and unopened, vertical crease to the spine, else near fine in a good slipcase. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: french literature fiction

Item #: 1261476

$64.95

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Voyage Autour de ma Chambre

Xavier de Maistre / Boston/NY: Houghton, Mifflin, & Cie. 1901
limited to 500 numbered copies, book design by Bruce Rogers; [6] (beginning with limitation statement), xi, [1], 157 pp.; original green boards with white parchment finish spine, book plate to the front paste down, minor foxing to the spine, else very good in a faded, albeit very good, dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: french literature fiction

Item #: 1261472

$29.44

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Byblis, Leda, A New Pleasure. Translated by M. S. Buck

Pierre Louys / NY: Privately Printed for Subscribers 1920
limited to 975 numbered copies, 122 pp., frontis., original boards & cloth backstrip (hardcover), very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1261463

$16.37

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Early 20th Century German Fiction: A. Doblin, L. Feuchtwanger, A. Seghers, A. Zweig (German Library)

Stephan, Alexander / Continuum 2003
320 pp., Paperback, previous owner's name to half-title page else LIKE NEW. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0826414559
Subject/Keywords: German Fiction bb2

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Item #: 1261255

$5.22

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Debutant (Le)

BESSETTE ARSENE / Bibliotheque Quebecoise 2003
309 pp., paperback, lower corner bumped, else very good. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 2894062060
Subject/Keywords: ngx fiction

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Item #: 1260795

$17.30

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Moment in Peking. A novel of contemporary Chinese life

Lin Yutang / NY: The John Day Co. 1939
first edition, first printing, signed by Lin Yutang on the front free endpaper; 815 pp., original black cloth, very good in a worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 9997412575
Subject/Keywords: china fiction

Item #: 1260187

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$108.72

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Parenthesis. Translated from the French by Louise Varese

Jacques Lemarchand / NY: Alfred A. Knopf 1947
first American edition; 217, [1] pp., hardcover, very good in a very good dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1260181

$14.94

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A. O. Barnabooth: His diary. Translated by Gilbert Cannan

Valery Larbaud / NY: George H. Doran 1924
318 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), fine in a edge-worn and faded dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: fiction

Item #: 1260178

$28.74

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Dangerous Acquaintances. Translated by Richard Aldington

Laclos, Choderlos De / New Directions 1957
first New Directions printing; 370 pp., HARDCOVER, very good in an edge-worn dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: NA
Subject/Keywords: literature fiction

Item #: 1260177

$47.15

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The Last Temptation of Christ

Nikos Kazantzakis / Simon & Schuster 1960
first American edition, first printing; 506 pp., hardcover, top edge very slightly faded, slight bump to the top corner of the text, else very good in a lightly edge-rubbed and darkened dust jacket. Volumes Included: 1

ISBN: 0671407104
Subject/Keywords: greek literature fiction religion

Item #: 1260058

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$115.67

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