Devils Pool by George Sand: First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. 175 pages. First edition thus, limited to 1300 copies (hardback). . Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. Deckle edged ivory laid paper The spine is sunned. Former owner's stamped name of front end page, otherwise unmarked and Very Good. Solid square binding.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. One of 1260 copies, the second volume in a projected edition of the select novels and tales of George Sand. Blue cloth, fore-edges untrimmed, top edges gilt. Covers faded beneath jacket, endpapers foxed, internally very nice, unopened. Jacket soiled, browned, edges ragged; label of American distributor stuck to spine. …

1st edition. 1st edition, 1966. Tidy copy in tight binding. Dust jacket by David Knight. Translated by Antonia Cowan. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First US Edition, Limited Edition. New York: George H. Richmond & Co., 1894. First American edition of the Sedgwick, 1894, number 72 of 750 copies, printed by the De Vinne Press on Windsor hand made paper. Heavily worn copy, blue-gray hardcover wih red cloth spine, gilt top, frontis illustration, about 7 inches tall. Covers heavily rubbed with fraying and peeling to the extremities, binding sound but not ticht, endpapers grubby, faint dampstain to far lower edge and inner margin throughout, not affecting printed areas, pages age-toned with occasional finger soil, no names or other markings. First US Edition, Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. Slight foxing to end pages. Couple of small marks to cloth. Slight shelf wear to edges of D/J/ Price clipped. Translated from the French by Antonia Cowan. This book is one of the group of pastoral novel, together with Fracois le Champi, Les Maitres Sonneurs and La Petite Fadette whichGeorge Sand wrote about her own part of the countryside, Nohant in Berry. These pastoral novels represent the best of her literary output: simple stories of a country life which was becoming a thing of the past even as she wrote about it. This book is a quiet, simple story, the kind of tale that needs the touch of genius to succeed. A young child will enjoy it, while an adult will amrvel at the cunning art of simplicity at its best. 133 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…

Condition: Good. First edition thus, limited to 1300 copies (hardback). 8vo (22cm by 14cm), 175pp. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the spine, top edge gilt. The spine is sunned, there is foxing to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block, and bookplates to the front endpapers. Overall, this book is in good condition. …

Full morocco leather binding. Condition: near fine. The Devil's Pool. Philadelphia: Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie & Sons, [1901]. Limited edition of five copies of which this is number three, Edition Magnifique of Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain, Romanticists, bound for Adelia R. Carr. Octavo. 209 pages. Illustrated after Emond Rudaux, each plate in four states. Full chocolate levant morocco, triple ruled in gilt with stag's head crest and Latin motto in gilt to upper board, spine decorated in gilt with 5 raised spines. Front joint starting. Inlaid levant doublures in green and terra cotta, decorated in gilt and black. Cream silked free endpapers with gold design, binder's stamp to rear doublure. Internally generally clean and tight, all edges gilt; minor intermittent thumbsoiling, Housed in brown Japanese book cloth and morocco slipcase, minor edgewear. Near fine with bright, though somewhat amateur, fore-edge painting. No 3 of a Limited edition of five copies: Edition Magnifique of Chefs-d'Oeuvre du Roman Contemporain. Emond Rudaux (each plate in four states) (illustrator).…