The Crime Of Sylvestre Bonnard

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1890.. First Edition.. publisher's olive cloth with printed paper label on spine.. Covers worn at extremities; paper label chipped and severely rubbed, affecting lettering.. 8vo,. The Translation and Introduction by Lafcadio Hearn. BAL 7919, noting four states (probably printings), of which this is the second.

London: John Lane, 1931. First printing of this illustrated edition. Gay, Zhenya. Black cloth, gilt, fine in dust jacket.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Tasteful bookplate on the front pastedown. Close to Fine in like slipcase. Sylvain Sauvage. Quarto (9-1/8" x 11-1/2") bound in full green linen, stamped in green and gold from design by LeRoy H. Appleton. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn with an introduction by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Copy #1205 of 1500 illustrated by Sylvain… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. Sauvage, Sylvain. 4to full green gold-stamped linen, illustrated with watercolors by Sylvain Sauvage and signed by him on the colophon. #83 of 1500. Lafcadio Hearn translation. Slipcase worn. Signed by Sauvage.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First Edition, second state. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, printed paper spine label, t.e.g. Head and edges a bit rubbed, label a little scuffed, clippings related to Anatole France pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good. In quarter brown morocco slipcase. First Edition, second state. 1 vols. 8vo. BAL 7919; Perkins… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1922. Book. Near Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Hardcover, blue cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher's dust-jacket. 310 pages. Translated, with an introduction, by Lafcadio Hearn. Decorative end-papers and title-page. First edition thus, Tours Edition, (1922). No previous ownership marks, albeit date 1923… Ler mais sobre este item

London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition thus. 310pp. Gilt titles. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Edited by The Late Frederic Chapman and James Lewis May. Illustrated by Zhenya Gay. Bowed rear board, bumped corners and spine ends else very good in a very good dustwrapper with rubbing and very slight spotting. … Ler mais sobre este item

London / New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd. / Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931. 1st illustrated edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Zhenya Gay. 1st illustrated edition, 1931. A Very Good+ book in a Good slipcase. 8vo., 310 pp., 12 illustrated plates present with tissue guards. Bound in publishers decorated black cloth with titles in gilt on front… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Owner blindstamp on the front free endpape, light adhesive remnant from a bookplate to the front pastedown; sunning to the spine. Very Good in a Good slipcase with wear. Sylvain Sauvage. Quarto (9-1/8" x 11-1/2") bound in full green linen, stamped in green and gold from design by LeRoy H. Appleton.… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Hardcover. Translation by Lafcadio Hearn. Introduction by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Illustrations by Sylvain Sauvage. 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering and dark green rules and pictorial stamping. viii, 190pp. Top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, full-page color plates. Near fine. Lacks slipcase. Bright and handsome volume in the LEC's Ninth Series, being the prolific… Ler mais sobre este item

London, John Lane, 1931. 1st Illustrated Edition, 1931. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 310 pages; Description: viii p. , 3 l. , [3]-310 p. Front. , illus. , plates. 25 cm. Form/Genre: Detective and mystery stories.

New York : Boni & Liveright , 1917 . Reprint . VG . 12MO . Modern Library. Light wear to leather binding esp at head and tail of spine.

London: Folio Society, 1948. 1st UK edition thus this format and a fairly early Folio Society item, 8vo, 180pp, translated by Lafcadio Hearn, Book Society bookplate to fr free endpaper, and boards very mildly rubbed o/w VG Copy in lightly worn DJ, a little sunned at spine and rubbed and nicked about extrems but without significant loss. First Thus. Hard… Ler mais sobre este item

The Library Press Limited, 1925. Hardcover. Good. 1925. No Edition Remarks. 310 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth illustrative boards with gilt lettering to spine and front. Translated and introduction by Lafcadio Hearn. Black and white frontispiece. Binding remains firm. Pages are moderately tanned throughout. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. There is bumping… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition, second state (printing?), 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 281, [1], [6] ads; original brown cloth lightly shelf worn, light staining, printed paper spine label rubbed with small chips, else very good. One of Hearn's scarcer works. BAL 7919.

Collins, 1111. Probably c. 1916 - dated by a wartime advertisement for Wrights Coal Tar Soap. Pocket sized book of 252pp, red cloth covered boards, no dustjacket.Frontispiece illustration. Pencil initials rubbed out on flyleaf, otherwise internally clean.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Dodd, Mead & Co. Good. 1931. Hardcover. Binding sturdy. Pages unmarked and lightly age toned. Evidence of past pastedown on the front endpaper. Black cloth cover with gilt art and title has some discolorations on the front and rubbing at edges, with light fraying at a couple corners and top of spine. ; 8vo 8" -… Ler mais sobre este item

Anatole France (Francois-Anatole Thibault, 1844-1924) was a French poet, journalist and best-selling novelist. He was considered the ideal French man of letters and, in 1921, won the Nobel Prize in Literature. France wrote 25 novels; The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881) was his second. It is about a brilliant historian and linguist who kidnaps a young woman to… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1890. First edition, second state (printing?), 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 281, [1], [6] ads; original brown cloth lightly shelf worn, printed paper spine label rubbed with small chips, else very good in quarter calf brown cloth slipcase, spine gilt and rather rubbed. One of Hearn's scarcer works. BAL 7919.

New York: The Limited Editions Club. Very Good. 1937. Hardcover. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1937. Translation by Lafcadio Hearn, illustrations by A. S. W. Rosenbach, Signed by the Illustrator, Printed at the Marchbanks Press. A Near Fine copy in a slightly chipped slipcase. .