1920. (WYETH,N.C.)illus. THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Bost:HM 1920 (1920). 4to, light green cloth pict. paste-on, sl. rubbing, near FINE. 1st ed., illus. by Wyeth with cover plate, 8 color plates plus several smaller black and whites. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Moscow: Self-published, 1920. Text in Russian. Stapled wraps. Illustrated with original vintage Avant-garde photo. [Zemenkov, Boris (1902-1963): Russian Soviet graphic artist and writer. Studied in VKhUTEMAS, the famous school of Russian avant-garde. "Bytie", AKhR. Exhibited in 1927 (Tokyo) with Altman, Lebedev, Stenberg, Favorsky, Chekhonin; in 1931 (Paris) with Klutsis, Lissitzky, Popova, Rodchenko, Stepanova, Telingater, etc. - Extremely Rare. Not in MOMA collection!] Please see the picture. For more images please visit our website.. 1st ed..

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,. [1920]. original red cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, front cover stamped in blind.. Belfast bookseller's small ink-stamp on each paste-down and at top. left corner of page [304]. Private bookplate of a well-known. collector of science fiction affixed to front paste-down. Spine panel. sunned, narrow strip of light sunning along top edge of rear cover,. top edge of text block dusty, some scattered foxing to fore-edge of. text block, a very good copy with tight, clean interior. Nice copies. of the first issue of this book are seldom seen and this is a well. above average copy. (#104175). First edition, first issue, first binding. 1250 copies printed of which this is one of 500 to 600 in the first issue binding. Lindsay's masterpiece. "A classic allegorical romance in which the landscapes and inhabitants of the planet Tormance provide an externalization of the moral and metaphysical questions that preoccupied the author. Its incarnate theological system influenced Lewis's OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET (1938), and it also bears some similarity to George Macdonald's LILITH (1895), although it is very much a work sui generis." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 2- 72. "VOYAGE ... has become one of the most widely discussed and debated fantasies of the twentieth century, and it is well on its way to becoming one of the most influential." - Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 2039-45. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 2-63. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-221. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1019. Cawthorn and Moorcock, Fantasy: The 10 … [Click Below for Full Description]

Paris-Librairie Paul Ollendorf, 1920. Book. Eight volumes half bound in leather with marble paper-covered boards and gilt lettering. Romain Rolland (1866-1944), French dramatist, essayist, art historian and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. He was a lifelong pacifist, his book, Au-dessus de la Melee was a protest written in 1915. He was influenced by Indian philosophy and was a supporter of Gandhi, whom he met in 1931. Jean-Chrisophe was a novel in ten volumes published between 1904-12. It is usually broken up into sections; the first four volumes grouped as Jean-Christophe, the next three as Jean-Christophe a Paris and the final three as La Fin du Voyage. It tells the life story of Jean-Christophe Krafft, a highly talented musician and composer (a figureinspired by Beethoven). Although it is Jean-Christophe's story, Rolland, in imitation of Tolstoy periodically moves away from his hero to temporarily explore some other character and also to discourse on various subjects such as art, social change or feminism. Please note that this set only contains the first eight volumes and the final two volumes of La Fin du Voyage are missing. This book was previously owned by Ronald Lindsayand contains his bookplate. Ronald Lindsay served as British Ambassador to the United States of America 1929-39. Condition: The bindings aretight and firm with the boards and all internal pages securely attached. There is some wear to the extremities includingbumping to the corners, rubbing, fadingandmarks to the leather. The spine of one volume has split and is loose. … [Click Below for Full Description]

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.,, 1920. Authorised Translation by Robert W. Lawson. With Five Diagrams and a Portrait of the Author. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt and to upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and diagrams throughout. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine titles dulled as often, partial tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in the rubbed jacket with two small chips from the tanned spine panel and some loss of text to the front panel where a sticker was removed. First English language edition, first impression of Einstein's popular treatment of relativity, with the addition of an appendix on "The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity" written especially for this edition.

London, Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1920., 1920. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 8vo., pp. xiii, 138 + 8. With five diagrams and a portrait of the author. Publisher's red cloth titled in gilt to backstrip, in the original dustwrapper. Some soiling to fore-edge of covers (mostly to rear board), gilt lettering dulled, edges a little foxed and spotted, flyleaves with some offset toning from jacket flaps, previous name of flyleaf partially erased. Scarce dust jacket has some chips to head and tail of spine and extremities, toned to backstrip, some rubbing. A good to very good copy. Uncommon in jacket. Listed in '100 Books That Shaped World History' [Raftery, 2002].

1920. London: Macmillan, 1920. 4to, 318 pp. With 15 color plates with tissue guards, and numerous black & white illustrations in the text. Original green cloth gilt, backstrip a little dull. § First trade edition.

New York, ca. 1920. (FASHION) Image 9-3/4 x 6-3/4 inches, matted and framed to 16-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches overall. Portrait of a standing woman in gown with orange train, compostion left. Excellent condition . Reynaldo Luza (1893-1978), pre-eminent fashion artist, was born in Lima, Peru. He began training as an architect at the University of Louvain, Belgium, but returned to Peru at the outbreak of World War I, where he changed his studies from architecture to art. In 1918 he came to the United States, where he earned his living by contributing drawings to several fashion publications, principally VOGUE, HARPERS BAZAAR, and VANITY FAIR. In 1921 he joined HARPERS BAZAAR as the principal fashion artist, a position he was to hold for 27 years. He divided his time between New York, Paris and London, working closely with all of the leading fashion designers of the times--Poiret, Patou, Lelong, Paquin, Douillet, Doucet, Cheruit, Worth, Drecoll, Callot Soeurs, Redfern, Martial et Amand, Premet, Reboux, Chanel, Vionnet, Molyneaux, Schiaparelli, Hartnell, Steibel, and Balenciaga, among others. In 1940 Luza made New York his principal base, where, over the next few years, he continued his activities at Harpers as well as creating fabric and furniture designs, and the costumes for the movie "The Bridge of San Luis Rey". Among other distinctions, he received several honorary appointments from the government of Peru, including that of Artistic Director of the Paris Exposition of 1938 and the New York World's Fair of 1939-40; he also did the interior design of the new Lima airport. In 19 … [Click Below for Full Description]

New York, ca. 1920. (FASHION) Image 8 x 5-1/2 inches, matted and framed to 14-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches overall. Portrait of a woman (torso) in gown holding a mirror. Excellent condition . Reynaldo Luza (1893-1978), pre-eminent fashion artist, was born in Lima, Peru. He began training as an architect at the University of Louvain, Belgium, but returned to Peru at the outbreak of World War I, where he changed his studies from architecture to art. In 1918 he came to the United States, where he earned his living by contributing drawings to several fashion publications, principally VOGUE, HARPERS BAZAAR, and VANITY FAIR. In 1921 he joined HARPERS BAZAAR as the principal fashion artist, a position he was to hold for 27 years. He divided his time between New York, Paris and London, working closely with all of the leading fashion designers of the times--Poiret, Patou, Lelong, Paquin, Douillet, Doucet, Cheruit, Worth, Drecoll, Callot Soeurs, Redfern, Martial et Amand, Premet, Reboux, Chanel, Vionnet, Molyneaux, Schiaparelli, Hartnell, Steibel, and Balenciaga, among others. In 1940 Luza made New York his principal base, where, over the next few years, he continued his activities at Harpers as well as creating fabric and furniture designs, and the costumes for the movie "The Bridge of San Luis Rey". Among other distinctions, he received several honorary appointments from the government of Peru, including that of Artistic Director of the Paris Exposition of 1938 and the New York World's Fair of 1939-40; he also did the interior design of the new Lima airport. In 1950 Luza returned to Per … [Click Below for Full Description]

Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 2 volumes In-12, reliure demi cuir noire, lettrage doré, Très Bon Etat, édition originale, exemplaires no. 767/800 sur papier vélin pur fil Lafuma réservés aux amis de l'édition originale, tome 1: 17 août 1920, tome 2: 30 avril 1921.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920., 39. FIRST EDITION. Octavo., pp. 305. Elegantly hand-bound in full dark green oasis morocco leather, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, decrative centre tool, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original cover (mottled) bound in. Internally fine, but for a couple of neat marginal repairs to p300-301. A clean copy in attractive recent binding. The Jazz-age author's second novel; Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. In his quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment, he progresses through a series of relationships, until he is cast out into the real world. Bruccoli. Listed in Modern Library's Top 100 Novels [1998].

London. Nisbet & Co. [1920].. 1920. Hardcover. Book 4to. 29cm, 151p., limited edition of 675 copies, this being #298, (for sale in the British Empire), with 10 tipped in colour plates including frontis, titled tissue guards, decorated endpapers, in the original quarter white fine grain linen backed silver decorated paper over boards, gilt spine titles and device on the spine, paper title label on upper cover, t.e.g., expertly rebacked, some slight foxing throughout, some soiling on the spine and upper cover, upper cover slightly faded, a good to very good sound copy (Igc). - A history and study of the pearl first published in 1919 and vividly enhanced by Dulac illustrations in 1920. The ten delightful water colours are in the artist's characteristic decorative Oriental style. .

London: George G. Harrap & Co, Ltd.. Near Fine. 1920. Hardcover. This is the London, September 1920 Edition - a handsome trade edition, hardcover book of poetry illustrated by Harry Clarke and compiled by L D'O Walters. (1920 on the title page and First Published September 1920 on the copyright page) . The covers are a spring green cloth with decorative border in bright gilt on the front cover and gilt titles on the spine. The binding is tight, corners and spine straight. There is a faint hint of wear at the tips of the corners. Very clean. Well cared for. The end papers are also a soft spring green. There is a former owner gift note and date on the front free end paper. There are no other marks or writing. There is a slight raise to the cloth on the rear end paper possibly from the removal of a tiny price or bookstore label. The interior pages are crisp and clean. There are 24 full page illustrations, 12 in color, including the frontispiece, and 12 in black ink on a beige tone background. The half title page has a large line drawing in black and white. There are numerous black ink drawings within the text and as tailpieces (chapter end decorative drawings) . The Introduction is by Harold Monro. Poets - Belloc, Brooke, Chesterton, De la Mare, Yeats and many more. The Clarke illustratio ns are fantastical and serious, many in plentiful pastels. ; 4to; 128 pages .

ND, NP. Five pages hand-written manuscript, each leaf measuring 9" x 7", of a discourse given before the Society of the History of the Revolution. This is a cut-and-paste effort by France, with emendations, cross-outs, etc., showing how carefully he worked and reworked his speech. Each leaf mounted on tabs and bound in 3/4 red morocco by Stroubants, binding worn but manuscript fine. Inserted is a hand-written notation that this manuscript is from the Library of Mrs. Rita Lydis of Washington Square Village, sold at Anderson Galleries in 1920. France, a Nobel Laureate (1921), used his scholarship and knowledge of the French Revolution to create one of the best novels about the Revolution, LES DIEUX ONT SOIFS, published in 1912.

ca. 1920. Original photographs, silver prints, 10 x 15 cm, on mounts. Contents: Arashiyma, Nagaru Castle, Chery Danee, Kinkukuri Temple, Niyo Castle, Ginkakuri Temple, Amidagamine, Nigatsuda Naru, Gate of Nishi Honganyu Temple, Nishikongwani Temple, Kiomizo Temple, Higashi Otani Temple, Gate of Dangyo Kuden Temple, Seta Bridge, Shimogamio park, Lake Birva, Theatre pictures, Girls in garden, and at work with painting and flowerarranging. KEYWORDS:japan/kioto/photo.

hardcover. Rackham, Arthur. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham with a color frontispiece and 15 additional color plates, all mounted on stiff gray paper; few additional b/w drawings throughout. 170pp. Short square 4to, handsomely rebound in full blue morocco; gilt-decorated spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers, t.e.g. N.Y.: Dodd Mead & Co., (no date, circa 1920). A fine copy.

Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co.,. 1920. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-256 [257: ad] [258: blank] [259-263: ads] [264: blank] [265-267: ads] [268: blank], ten inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John,. original olive-green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black.. Slight spine lean, a bright, nearly fine white paper copy with no. binding wear in very good four-color pictorial dust jacket (with. illustration on front panel by P. J. Monahan) with light wear at. corner tips, rubbing along front flap fold, and dust soiling to spine. and rear panels. A nice copy of an uncommon book with a colorful and. attractive example of the very scarce jacket never touched by a paper. conservationist. (#113333). First edition, first printing. Fourth book of the Mars series. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 307. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 128. Bleiler (1978), p. 36. Reginald 02340. Heins TMM- 1.

Harlech: DH Parry, 1920 In grey card covers, black ink titles, water stain to front & back covers only. Spine, no title, joints worn. Internally, half title, [6], 7-15, 20 pls (tipped-in photomechanical reproductions of photographs), some offsetting to pds, no inscriptions, printed at the Chiswick Press, London. Oblong 23.5*18cm. (The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and ArtistsBy Ann Lee Morgan). Coburn, photographer and mystic, born in Boston, who in in 1930, after destroying 15,000 photographic negatives and giving a collection of photographs to the Royal Photographic Society, moved to Harlech, Merioneth. On 24 May 1932 he was naturalized as a British subject.

Stuttgart: Moritz Verlag, Keine Angabe des Erscheinungsjahres: ca. 1920. XII, 186 Seiten. 170 x 125 mm, Original-Leinenband mit gelbgeprägtem Rücken- und Deckeltitel. Vers la lümière. Erinnerungen eines Kriegsblinden. Gemessen am Alter - sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar. Versand D: 1,80 EUR Französische Literatur, 20. Jahrhundert, Roman, Frankreich, Blind, Blindheit, 1. Weltkrieg,

Moscow: VKhUTEIN, [1920's] Prospectus of VKhUTEMAS-VKhUTEIN. Text in Russian. Folio (13-1/2" x 9-1/2") pamphlet. Illustrated with works of VKhUTEMAS students N. Lapin and Iosif Shpinel (woodcut). 5000 copies only. Professors: Lev Bruni, Vladimir Favorsky, Vadim Falileev, Gustav Klutsis, Nikolay Kupreyanov, Petr L'vov, Petr Miturich, Ignaty Nivinsky, Pavel Pavlinov, Nikolay Piskarev, Nikolay Sheverdiaev, et al. Rare. Please see the picture. For more images please visit our website..

Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1920. Text/Sound, bright, & Near New. Black, full leather boards w/gold spine lettering/NF w/light edge & surface rubs w/small loss to front corner of lower front spine. Black cloth endpapers; text block w/rounded corners; leading edges in gilt. First published 1830. First issued as divided into chapters and verses with reference 1879. And, first issued in double-column pages, with chapter headings, chronological date, revised foot-note references, pronouncing vocabulary, and Index in1920, edited by James E. Talmage. This copy is the 1937 printing of the 1920 edition by the Church. Sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement, stylistically akin to the King James version of the Bible. Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. (1805 - 1844) from a set of golden plates by prophet/historian Moroni, unearthed in Manchester, NY; in same year of the first 1830 publication, Smith organizes the Church of Christ. The Book of Mormon is the earliest of the defining publications of the Latter Day Saint movement. Fine copy.. 1920 Edition, Reprint of 1937. Full-Leather. NEAR FINE/None as Issued.

Marion, OH: Harding Publishing Company, 1920. Book. Very good+ condition. Unbound. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Octavo (8vo). Bank check drawn on the Marion County Bank Co. from the Harding Publishing Company (publishers of The Marion Star) dated June 26, 1920. Payable to W. G. Harding and endorsed [signed] in ink by W. G. Harding on reverse. Americana, U.S. President (1921-23)..

Ca. 1920. 32 x 25 cm. Signed in pencil. Watercolour on heavy paper. A nude girl is undressing, only wearing red silk stockings. Alfred Proessdorf (1882-1925)He was born in Leipzig and was educated in Düsseldorf. He moved to Sweden and Gothenburg. He worked for satirical magazines, such as Sunday-Nisse and Rattle. Images are often elegant and gives a good idea of style in clothes and furnishings.He also worked with graphics, painting and theater decoration. He did the costumes for E. Bauer revues 1919-1923. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Ca. 1920. 22 x 18 cm. Drawing in ink and grey watercolour with the text "Le Bijout Indiscret." Unsigned. It looks like a sketch of a titlepage: a nude girl and two nude men on a stage. ¶ Alfred Proessdorf (1882-1925)<br>He was born in Leipzig and was educated in Düsseldorf. He moved to Sweden and Gothenburg. He worked for satirical magazines, such as Sunday-Nisse and Rattle. Images are often elegant and gives a good idea of style in clothes and furnishings.He also worked with graphics, painting and theater decoration. He did the costumes for E. Bauer revues 1919-1923.

Ca. 1920. 23 x 14,5 cm. Signed in pencil, also with the word "privattryck" and "Till min älskade Astrid". Showing a nude girl wearing a straw hat, boots and stockings. Alfred Proessdorf (1882-1925)He was born in Leipzig and was educated in Düsseldorf. He moved to Sweden and Gothenburg. He worked for satirical magazines, such as Sunday-Nisse and Rattle. Images are often elegant and gives a good idea of style in clothes and furnishings.He also worked with graphics, painting and theater decoration. He did the costumes for E. Bauer revues 1919-1923. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

CADY. BURGESS,THORNTON. BOWSER THE HOUND. Boston: Little Brown 1920 (April 1920). 8vo, green cloth, pictorial paste-on, Fine in dust wrapper (dw chipped and frayed). 1st edition. lllustrated with 8 great color plates by HARRISON CADY. Great copy, rare in wrapper.

. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Ernst Ronau. Mit zehn Radierungen und Buchschmuck von Rolf Schott. Wien: Arthur Wolf 1920. 91 pp. Publisher's full calf, boards richly gilt. * No. 73 of 100 signed copies..

London, William Heinemann, 1920., 1920. First Rackham Edition; slim 4to. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards with cloth spine; titles and decoration in black and pink. Deep pink pictorial dust jacket. Tipped in colour plate to first chapter; delicately illustrated throughout with Rackham's silhouettes, a few with little touches of colour. Slight bumping to spine and corners with a little smudging to front board. Some foxing to page edges, light toning to endpapers. Dust jacket showing some fading to spine area with a loss to upper spine, not affecting titles. A few marks to the back. Very good. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.

London: Grant Richards, 1920. First Edition, first printing of McKay's third publication, his first book of original poetry. Published London: Grant Richard, 1920. Original 8 vo. wrappers, 5 1/8" x 7 7/8", 40 pp., printed on laid paper, bound into tan card wrappers, with printed green publisher's label on cover. Some copies contained a frontis, this one does not. Tiny chip off one corner of cover label. Boards have minor creasing at the top and bottom edges, otherwise near fine. Pages bright and clean. Scarce. . 1st. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 8vo..

New York James A. McCann Co. 1920. First Edition of the AuthorsÕ First Book. Signed by the author, Anita Loos and John Emerson beneath the printed statement ÒWith the AuthorsÕ ComplimentsÓ. Bookplate. Illustrated. Very good lightly used copy with some light scattered foxing and some fading and minor spotting to the spine without dust jacket. A witty and informative guide to the fine art of screenwriting from screenwriter, playwright, novelist Anita Loos and her husband - director, screenwriter, producer, actor John Emerson. Anita Loos and John Emerson collaborated on many film projects in the 20s, including a film adaptation of LoosÕ stage play Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as well as helping to launch the acting career of Douglas Fairbanks in a series of films (1916-17) written by Loos and directed by Emerson. Includes a complete scenario which was co-written by them of the1920 film The Love Expert. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

A HIGHLY EROTIC PRINT [Japan n.d. c.1920' - s]. A color printed woodblock print, verygood, horizontal format 29.5 x 20.5 cm., pastel colors, goodregistry & color, reprint of an 18th century print. Color scans available for this book on request. Description content 2013Copyright Rare Oriental Books Co.

Paris: Nrf, 1920. Broché. 17x21,5cm. Edition originale, un des 118 ex numérotés en chiffres romains sur pur fil réimposés dans le format in-quarto tellière, le nôtre non justifié, tirage de tête. Agréable exemplaire. - Nrf, Paris _1920, 17x21,5cm, broché. - broché

Paris : Nrf, 1920. Broché. 17x22cm. Edition originale, un des 118 ex numérotés sur Lafuma Navarre et réimposés dans le format in-quarto telllière, tirage de tête. Petites traces d'adhésif en têtes et en pieds des gardes, dos passé, agréable état intérieur. - Nrf, Paris _1920, 17x22cm, broché. - broché

Toronto: Continental Publishing, 1920. Toronto: Continental Publishing. Paperback. Contents: Gorgeous colour illustrated ad for Luxite Hosiery inside front cover. Heintzman & Co. Grand Piano ad; Article on the techniques of Breast Feeding; Waltham Watch Ad; Ad for Cutex manicure products; Full-page text-filled ad for Jergen's skin products; The Wooing of Franchette, by Victor Rousseau; The Love Train From Loughborough, by Tom Gallon; When Dreams Come True, by Ernest A. Phillips; Hearts are Trumps, by Leslie Gordon Barnard; Through Canada with Edward, Prince of Wales - article with photos; How to Grow 18 vegetables to combat the high cost of living; Photos of Scenes from the Life of Christ, as sculpted by Mastreianni; Famous Paintings by the Great Masters - as posed by Pearl White, the noted "Movie" star; The Home Cooking Class - Lesson IV - Flour Mixtures and the Rules that Govern Them; What Shall We Have For Breakfast?; The Open-Faced Pie; Eggs are now more Plentiful; Doing Justice to the Left-Over Roast; The Family Laundry Up-to-Date; The Experiment Kitchen - new brooms; Ad for Ivory, 'the safe soap'; The Fashionable Silhouette and other helpful fashion hints; 8 New designs for the spring or summer suit; The First Frock of the Season; *Gorgeous* colour full-page ad for Lawrason's Snowflake Ammonia shows mother and daughter washing dishes and handing laundry; Backside of this ad is a lovely colour ad for Penmans sweater coats which shows a young couple picking posies; Dress designs for the Sports Season; Dresses for Morning and Afternoon; Street Dresses; New styles for y … [Click Below for Full Description]

Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1920 Paris: Calmann-Levy, [no date, circa 1920]. Gift set, three volumes. Text in French. First volume, Prosper Merimee's Colomba; second volume, Pierre Loti's Le Mariage De Loti; third volume, Anatole France' L'Orme Du Mail. All three in About Near Fine to Near Fine condition (see scans), all three in 3/4 morocco with marbled boards, marbled endpapers, gilt spine lettering (and gilt spine designs, in the case of Colomba - see scan), raised bands, and top edges gilt. See scans. Colomba is in indigo morocco with marbled boards, Le Mariage De Loti is in black morocco with marbled boards, and L'Orem Du Mail is in Maroon morocco with marbled boards. Colomba: 401 pp. + 1 pp index, includes novellas La Venus D'Ille and Les Ames Du Purgatoire. Le Mariage De Loti: 313 pp. L'Orme Du Mail: 336 pp. All text in French. A nice, beautifully-bound gift set, circa 1920s-1930s, in superior condition. Vintage eye-candy on the shelf or the cocktail table. Please see scans. l49n

New York:: Knopf,. 1920.. First American edition of ARA VOS PREC, with the order of the poems changed and a few substitutions. His first book published in the U.S. Tan paper boards stamped in brown with top edge brown. Paper at head of spine worn away affecting edge of "P" in the title, gift inscription on front endpaper, and some offsetting to endpapers, otherwise about very good in aged and worn dust jacket, with chipping at top of rear panel not affecting any lettering, but lacking spine portion (both covers and flaps intact). A scarce jacket in any condition. .

New York, Alfred A. Knopf,, 1920. Octavo. Original tan boards, titles to upper board and spine in brown, top edge stained brown. With the dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown but an exceptional copy in the dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing of the first of Eliot's collections to be published in America.

New York:: Knopf,. 1920. First American edition of ARA VOS PREC, with the order of the poems changed and a few substitutions. His first book published in the U.S. Tan paper boards stamped in brown with top edge brown. The book has very minor wear on corners and spine ends and some offset on endpapers, but still very good, in aged and worn dust jacket, with chipping at top of panels, not affecting any lettering, but lacking spine portion of jacket, both covers and flaps intact. A scarce jacket.

Victoria standing, the other two seated in front, with Victoria's hand on Ella's shoulder, in matching belted tunics over striped dresses, in a rustic studio setting, on the back is a pencilled note from the 1920s identifying them and saying "taken about the day they came down to see us at Carshalton, see Mrs Tylers acc[oun]t", no place, no date, circa light traces of gum on blank margins of verso without damage The notes on the back say that Ella "is the 2nd in height & very pretty". Their youngest sister Alix, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, was born only in 1872.

Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1920. Folio, X, 160 págs. adornadas con 159 grabados coloreados, dentro de texto, 5 en color a doble página fuera de texto. Conserva cubierta original. Media piel, nervios, gofrados, hilos dorados. Hermosa edición de imaginería popular, con hermosos grabados realizados en Épinal por diversos artistas en el taller de Jean-Charles Pellerin, del s. XVIII. La mayoría de los grabados, con escenas religiosas, costumbristas o de la vida cotidiana, son reproducidos en color. Buena impresión y conservación. Xilografía. Grabados. Arte popular. Xylography. Engravings. Popular art.

London: George Allen and Unwin, 1920. First state with appropriate points on p. 35. The dj has several tears, and two significant chips - the top 1.5" of the crown and the bottom 1/4" of the heel. Beneath these, the spine of the book is very faded, although the lettering is unaffected. The remainder of the spine is lightly faded. Other than these defects the book is in nice shape.. First Edition. Cloth. Good Plus/Poor.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1920. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to upper board blind stamped, titles to spine gilt. Ownership name to front free endpaper, small nick to head of spine otherwise a bright fresh copy. First Edition, First Printing of the author's landmark first novel. With this novel Fitzgerald more or less invented the roaring 20s or at least positioned Zelda and himself at its very core. It was an instant success, running to a number of printings in the first year.

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York,, 1920. Octavo. Recently bound in full dark green morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rule to boards gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. A fine copy. First edition, first printing, of Fitzgerald's debut novel, one of 3,000 copies.

London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.,, 1920. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to upper board and spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine perhaps a shade darkened but an exceptional copy in the minutely rubbed dust jacket a little tanned at the spine. First edition, first impression, first issue with the broken type on page 35. The author's first book which was not published in the US until 1922. From the library of Frank Adams with his bookplate to the front pastedown.

Aix-en-Provence: Société De l'Histoire Universelle, 1920 Edition originale "NON-COUPÉE". TRÈS RARE, à plus forte raison dans cet état. Tome I: [xvii] - 92 pages. (Tome I en très bonne condition). Tome II: 190 pages (Tome II en très bonne condition, minime déchirure de 0,5cm dans le bas de la reliure). Tome III: 157 pages (Tome III en très bonne condition). Tome IV: 220 pages - [1p] - 2p{Table des matières} (Tome IV en très bonne condition à l'exception d'une déchirure dans le coin supérieur droit de la couverture, affectant aussi la page de garde - voir photo). INDEX GÉNÉRAL: 19 pages (papier légèrement bruni mais en bonne condition; petite déchirure dans le haut des 2 premières pages, ne touchant pas le texte). Cette Histoire Universelle nous fait découvrir une autre facette de l'infatiguable et irremplaçable baron, que l'on qualifie souvent de "petit", alors "qu'immense" serait plus approprié, car son oeuvre est considérable, la partie olympique n'en représentant que la moitié. Photos disponibles sur demande.

A.L. Burt, New York. HBDJ, Handsome Cloth Binding, 1920. EARLY Vintage, Hard Cover. Book Condition: GOOD+. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD, AS-IS, . 12mo, Glancing at the ads in the back section of book, it dictates that this is a probable early 1920's printing. Book has some light amounts insect damage in spots along the edges., O/W FRONT Green Decorated Cover with Oval Paper Label Inset of Side Profile Beautiful Lady wearing Large White Hat & Green Ribbon is Holding Purple Flowers, Lettered in Red Front Cvr, DUSTJACKET light FoX, WEAR, & Tiny Chips Extremities, Back DJ Lists Thru Sara, a Princess. DJ Spine ends FADE & Small Chips, 263 Pgs + ADS end with Boy Spies of Old NY, LIGHT Sprinkling Outer Pgs Edges. Good jacket. [Attributes: Hard Cover; In Dust Jacket]

London: Chatto & Windus,, 1920. Octavo. Original cloth-backed grey boards, paper label to spine, title in black, top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in a burgundy cloth chemise with slipcase. With a frontispiece of Leda and the Swan. Light partial toning to pastedowns and endpapers, spine just a little darkened, an excellent copy. Signed limited edition; one of 160 copies, signed by the author. With autograph excerpt from the poem signed and dated by "Aldous Huxley London 1927." With a postcard illustrating a sculpture after Michelangelo's Leda and the Swan loosely inserted.

New York: The Macmillan Company. 1920. n. Lg. 4to. (2),xxxviii,432pp. Index. Illus. with 10 photogravure plates and 407 text drawings. The special deluxe edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, this being one of 150 which contain an original signed pen & ink drawing by Pennell ti pped in. Orig. brown morocco, gilt, over gilt stamped brown boards. Unopened. Housed in publisher's cardboard folding case, paper labels on spine and front cover (extremities of the case worn). The fine original drawing in this copy is 5" x 7" and titled "The Road to Newlands."

Macmillan, 1920. 2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces, very numerous photographs (many full-page) in the text and a folding map coloured in outline, title and preliminaries of first volume lightly wormed in blank margin; recently bound in full green cloth, gilt backs, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. The first edition of this classic ethnographical study. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]