Cazotte Jacques Sutton Eric (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Tan 1/4 cloth, color patterned paper covered boards, lettered in gilt, top text block edge in gilt. Mild binding lean, corners lightly rubbed. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover, line of tanning along each hinge. Dust jacket quite tanned along flap folds and spine panel, less so to front panel, with several edge and corner chips, now in mylar. No. 868 of 1,000 copies. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited. Hardback with protected dust-wrapper. 23cm x 15.5cm. 189pp. No. 393 of a limited edition of only 1000 copies. Edges of d/w frayed with small losses. Clean inside. A good reading copy. (bs69).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Cloth-backed decorative paper over boards, lettered in gilt on spine; matching decorative paper dust jacket with title in paper label on front panel. Number 987 from an edition limited to 1000 copies. Spine tips and corners a little bumped, otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket chipped at spine tips and corners; a little wrinkling and soiling along top edge of front panel; spine a bit darkened. A nice copy, with bright, clean text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Thousand and One Follies and His Most Unlooked-For Lordship. Translated from the French of Jacques Cazotte by Eric Sutton. With an introduction by Storm Jameson. Published by Chapman & Hall Ltd, Autumn 1927. First edition thus. First English translation. The original works were first published in France in 1742 and 1767 respectively. Limited edition of 1,000 copies for England and America, of which this is No. 489. Part of a Series of XVIII Century French Romances, edited by Vyvyan Holland. Printed at The Curwen Press, Plaistow. A very good hardback with pictorial printed paper over boards with linen spine and gilt title. Cover bumped at corners, with a few wear marks. Bookseller's stamp to first pastedown. Free endpapers with offsetting. Text pages are bright and clean and soundly bound. With uncut edges as issued. Text in English. xvii + 189pp. Dimensions: Approximately 229mm high x 155mm wide x 23mm deep. Weight: Approximately 488g (unpacked). More photos on request.

Quarter cloth. Trans. Eric Sutton; introd. Storm Jameson. (illustrator). 1st Edition in English. Limited edition, number 416 of 1000. Decorative papered boards over cloth gilt title, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed, pp xix, 189. Previous owner's inscription front free endpaper, very small inscription end of each of the two stories. Very good condition. Two tales by the French author Jacques Cazotte, published as part of a series 'XVIII Century French Romantics'. . "A Thousand and One Follies" is a fantastical satire. Despite becoming a 'mystical monarchist', Cazotte was guillotined in 1792.