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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. VERY RARE FINE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET IN UNBELIEVEABLY FINE CONDITION. The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal. The Modern Library, 1937 FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION STATED. Here is a one of the most attractive Modern Library copies I've ever seen. Bound in green balloon cloth (spine #7). The book is FINE - PRISTINE! Solid binding, very bright gilt, bright matching green topstain. Contents are very clean and bright(spotless) with no owner's signature or other writing in text. GORGEOUS! The dust jacket is NEAR FINE - slightest of chipping on top and bottom spine and spine slightly darkened. Otherwise extremely clean and bright! The back of the dust jacket lists 245 titles matching a 1937 printing and FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. VERY HARD TO FIND FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION IN DUST JACKET. THE CONDITION OF THIS BOOK AND DUST JACKET IS UNBELIEVABLE. **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. EXTREMELY RARE SURVIVNG PICTORIAL DUST JACKET is covered in mylar; has 245 titles listed on the back and inside; large chips on bottom front and back, smaller ones also; worn through on the seams; inside front flap in two pieces and missing bottom third. BOOK: Rust/Maroon balloon cloth; gold leaping torchbearer on front with gold title and author's name on spine; red topstain (SEE SCANS). Copyright page STATES FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION, 1937. STORY: Chronicles the adventures of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo from his birth in 1798 to his death. Fabrice spends his early years in his family's castle on Lake Como, while most of the rest of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both locations are in modern-day Italy).…