Jeffery Jeffery E Translated By (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. RARE FIRST ENGLISH (UK) EDITION! pp.xii, 307 pages, a very good hardback, publisher's original brown cloth binding with black lettering to the spine and front cover. Book was in a uk university library but it is hard to tell.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. First English-language edition. 123pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Red cloth over boards, with a faded backstrip, and light bumping and fraying to the extremities. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle. An odd fantasy of reincarnation. In the tale, a bibliophile's obsession with a theory of metempsychosis (reincarnation) lead to his confinement in a lunatic's asylum, wherein further madness unfolds. A very early work of Guy de Maupassant, written between 1875-77, not published in France until 1921, and here in its first English language book edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book and contents are clean and tight. Former owner name penciled on front end paper. The covers are lightly scuffed.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition in English. 1924. First edition in English (the first edition in French was in 1923). xii, 307pp. Jean de Pierrefeu (1881-1940) was a French journalist working for the French army during the First World War. In this memoir he focuses on his experiences as a member of the French General Headquarters staff during World War I. The book is bound in the original brown cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear and light soiling to the boards and slight fading to the spine. The spine ends and top front corner are lightly bumped. The contents are secure and clean with browning to the free endpapers and an inscription dated 1924 on the front free endpaper.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, viii,307pp, owner's name on endpaper, edges browning, slight foxing, text otherwise clean and binding sound, blue cloth, rubbed, top corners bumped, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Knopf 1924. Good minus. Externally very worn and stained, top and bottom of spine chipped and frayed. Pages yellowed and foxed throughout. Binding firm. Owner signature.