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European literature Collection of works in French and other languages

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European literature Collection of works in French and other languages

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European literature Collection of works in French and other languages comprising: Proust, Marcel. Les plaisirs et les jours. Paris: Calmann LÃ©vy, 1896. First edition, folio (29.5 x 20cm), later half morocco, 14 tinted plates, partly unopened, original wrappers bound in; Eluard, Paul. Le dur dÃ©sir de durer. Illustrated by Marc Chagall. Philadelphia: Grey Falcon Press, & London, Trianon Press, 1950. One of 1500 copies, 4to, original wrappers, colour frontispiece; Gide, AndrÃ©. Montaigne. An Essay in Two Parts. London: Blackamore Press, 1929. One of 800 copies signed by the author, 4to, original cloth; Gautier, ThÃ©ophile. MusÃ©e secret ... pointes sÃ¨ches originales de Mya. Paris: Frazier-Soye, 1932. One of 875 copies on vÃ©lin d'Arches, folio, original wrappers, 10 plates, glassine dust jacket, plates and text in unbound bifolia as issued, spotting; Claudel, Paul. Les EumÃ©nides d'Eschyle. Paris: Nouvelle revue franÃ§aise, 1920. One of 100 copies 'sur papier Whatman Ã la forme ... rÃ©servÃ©s aux bibliophiles de la Nouvelle revue franÃ§aise', 4to, original wrappers, glassine dust jacket, edges untrimmed and unopened, glassine dust-soiled; Boiardo, Matteo Maria, conte di Scandiano. Sonetti e canzone. Milan: Societa tip. dei classici italiani, 1845. One of 250 copies only, 4to (24.2 x 18.6cm), 20th-century crushed green morocco gilt by Zaehnsdorf, title-page vignette hand-coloured, top edge gilt, others untrimmed (wide margins); Gallo, Agostino. Elogio storico di Antonio Gagini scultore ed architetto palermitano. Palermo: Reale stamperia, 1821. 4to (26.5 x 19cm), later half morocco, copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, 30 pp., light staining to final leaf, Baron Napier bookplate; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Faust. Jena: Eugen Diederich, 1909. 'Jubilee edition' (JubilÃ¤umsausgabe), one of 1000 copies on Van Gelder paper, 4to, original blind-stamped brown morocco gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, with one clasp (of two); and 6 others similar (14)

Note: Les plaisirs et les jours was Proust's first published book.