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The Bibliophilist Society Large, royal octavo bound in black cloth sans dustjacket. Illustrated with numerous full page drawings by Gustave Dore. Top edge stained red. A very good+copy.. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

[New York: no place, 1930. Hardcover. Fair. Privately printed. Illustrated by Gustave Doré, with 20 new illustrations by radical cartoonist William Siegel. Small quarto. 640pp. Binding heavily worn, spine perished and both covers separated; a fair copy save that the textblock is very near fine. A good candidate for rebinding.

John Westhouse, 1945,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1945. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, 269pp, owner's printed notes pasted to endpaper, edges slightly browned, text clean and sound, black cloth, rubbed, Good / Fair dustwrapper; wrapper browned and frayed with tape repairs to edges .

London, UK: Navarre Society. G/NO DUSTJACKET. ca 1948. ........ Cloth. 8vo., 475, 462 pp., spines heavily faded, page toned, covers bumped .

Hardcover. Good. 1927 edition. Sold on behalf of the UK charity Langdon - assisting young people with disabilities.

1948. The Navarre Society, London. 1948. Reprint. Hardback. DW. Large 8vo. 462 pages. Complete in one volume. Frontis and illustrations. Gift inscription to front free endpaper with some foxing to endpapers, pages browned o/w a nice copy in worn and torn wrapper which lacks a portion at the bottom of the front panel near the spine.

London: privately printed for the Navarre Society, nd [c. 1910]., 1910. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Sunning to spine. Internally clean. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: John Camden Hotten Undated, but the publisher's list gives a date of 1872. Maroon cloth covers much worn and marked, spine mended, brown eps, hinges strengthened, much age-mottling throughout, gatherings shaken, good only. 0

NaVARRE,, 1921. Book. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine -. First Illustrated Edition. Custom rebound by Brentano's 1920s, blue half leather, raised spine, five bands, gilt decorations, gte. 2 volumes. xvi + 474p: xvi + 462p. . Frontispiece and black and white illustrations and vignettes by W. Heath Robinson throughout.

London: Navarre Society Limited, 1921. First Thus . Hardcover in Dust Jackets. Very Good. 8vo (462 and 474 pages, with frontispieces and nearly 100 black and white illustrations by Robinson). An very handsome set, with gilt top edges, deckled fore-edges and heavily gilt ornamented covers. In very good condition, without dust jackets.

London: Chatto and Windus, c. 1900. Finley bound example of the works of French Renaissance writer Francois Rabelais. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco with gilt titles and raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated by Gustave Dore with engravings including tissue-guarded frontispiece. In near fine condition. French Renaissance writer and humanist Francois Rabelais is widely considered one of the greatest wirters in world literature and among the creators of modern European writing. His literary legacy is such that today, the word Rabelaisian has been coined as a descriptive inspired by his work and life. Merriam-Webster defines the word as describing someone or something that is "marked by gross robust humor, extravagance of caricature, or bold naturalism".

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1927. Limited edition. Limited edition. Two volumes. Beautiful full crushed red morocco by Cuneo, decorated in gilt and green morocco to the upper and lower boards. Five raised bands, gilt and green morocco decorated compartments, titles in gilt to the spine. Double ruled inner dentelles with decorative corner pieces. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Housed in a bespoke red cloth, felt lined slipcase. Illustrated throughout by Frank C. Pape. A fine set, sumptuously bound by the Chicago master bookbinders The Cuneo Bindery. Limited to 4300 copies of which 2300 are for the United Kingdom and 2000 are for the United States. This set is numbered 95. Translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, with annotations by Duchat, Ozell and others. With a new introduction by J. Lewis May. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.