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La Princesse de Cleves – Madame de la Fayette – With Aquarelle by Edith Follet – 1920′s

The original novel was published anonymously in 1678. This is the stunning 1920’s production by Nilsson, Paris and contains ten striking tipped in aquarelles (watercolours) as well as the beautiful front cover by Edith Follet.

In the French language, quarto soft covers, 186 pages in very good condition. All the aquarelle bright and clean.

La Princesse de Cleves is regarded by many as the first psychological novel and is now a classic. The story takes place between 1558 and 1559 at the Royal Court of Henry II of France. The novel reflects that era with precision. The characters mainly (apart from the heroine) represent real individual and the events that unfold are faithful to the historical record.

Striking beautiful illustrations by Follet – would make a beautiful gift ….

$120.00

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Biggles Flies to Work – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean, London, no date but 1960’s.

Octavo, 184 pages, ownership to front end papers, dust jacket chipped otherwise a good internally clean copy.

A smorgasbord of eleven Biggles yarns including the case of “the Early Boy”

Fun Biggles Collection

$25.00

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Biggles in Spain – Captain W.E. Johns.

Published by Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, with their style jacket. An early edition, 1948.

Octavo, 183 pages, A couple of pages roughly opened otherwise a very nice copy.

Biggles and his mates are having a hard earned holiday but the Spanish Civil war gets in the way. Can they get the “secret message” through to the Foreign Office. We are not taking bets!!

Biggles in Spain but not on a lounger

SO SORRY SOLD

$30.00

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Biggles and the Black Peril – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean, London, no date but 1960’s.

Octavo, 184 pages, light creases to good jacket, clean internally, a nice copy.

The crash of a mysterious flying boat lead Biggles and his cohorts to Russia and another exciting adventure

Biggles – no Peril too big for him

$30.00

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Biggles Flies Again – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean, London – in arrangement with Thames, no date but 1960’s.

Octavo, 1183 pages, one pen mark on end papers, pages somewhat browned as use with this edition. Dust jacket good all else good to better.

The swamps of British Guiana (British of course). An Arabian island and a Russian Agent

Biggles Again – of course!

$25.00

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The Knightly Quest – A Parody of Espionage Thrillers – (A Novella and Twelve Short Stories) – Tennessee Williams -1968

A first UK edition of this collection published by Secker and Warburg, London in 1968. A novella and twelve short stories. Three of the short stories had appeared in “One Arm” published in 1959 – see our copy.

Octavo, 253 pages, the novella “the Knightly Quest”, a parody of espionage thrillers comprises eighty odd pages. The short stories common with the earlier edition are .. The Poet; Chronicle of a Demise and Desire and the Black Masseur.

The new short stories are … Hard Candy; Rubio y Morena; The mattress by the Tomato Patch; The Vine; The Mysteries of the Joy Rio; Mama’s Old Stucco House; Man Bring This up Road; The Kingdom of Earth and “Grand”. The first two are variations on the same theme, with the same setting but with very different results … interesting idea.

The great Tennessee Williams -his shorter stories and one slightly longer

$40.00

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