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For your consideration: De Conte, Louis The Sieur (her Page and Secretary), 
Translated By Alden, Jean Francois (Mark Twain), Harper & Brothers 
Publishers, N.Y., 1896, Illustrated by F.V. DuMond:; First Edition, First 
State:
This well researched history of Joan of Arc, was written by Mark Twain (S. 
L. Clemens). Both The Sieur Louis De Comte (S.L.C.), and Jean Francois Alden 
were pseudonyms for Twain. Originally appearing in Serial form in Harpers 
Magazine from 1895-1896. The book presents a most extensive description of 
the War; and a detailed historically researched account in Book III of her 
Trial and Martyrdom. With 35 full page illustrations by F.V. Du Mond, plus 
frontispiece and illustrated contents page. Verso for last page blank; 2 
pages of Some Books for The Library ads; 4th ad "Memoirs of Barras" 4 
volumes priced at $3.75. Red buckram, gilt decorative shield with gilt 
lettering, same to spine. Mark Twain's name under shield and sword. Spine 
mildly faded, tiny bump to lower spine, few very pale soil spots. Previous 
owners name pasted to f.e.p. Top edge of first 4 pages have faint thin red 
bleed from cloth. All else clean, tightly bound. In archival polyester film 
wrap. First Edition, First State,  BAL 3446. 461 pp, sm 8 vo. $185.00

Deland, Margaret; Illustrated By Walter Crane, The Old Garden and Other 
Verses By Margaret Deland: Decorated By Walter Crane, Houghton Mifflin, The 
Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1893: Margaret Deland (1857-1945), Allegheny, 
Pa.; novelist, poet, and short story writer. Deland is best known her novel 
John Ward, Preacher and 'Old Chester" tales. Around the 1880's Deland 
started writing verse for a greeting card company. Soon after her poems were 
appearing in Harper's Magazine. In 1886 a collection of these works were 
first published as "The Old Garden". Beautifully illustrated and decorated 
by English illustrator Walter Crane (1845-1915), Liverpool. Verse is in 
chapters of: The Old Garden; Nature; Love Songs; Poems of Life; Verses for 
Children. Decorative type with each page ornately illustrated to fit the 
verse, all in color. Decorated color title page, mild offsetting to facing 
page. Decorated half title. Folded paper, with the pages up to 13 cut at 
fold (neatly). Green and pink decorated end papers.Floral green and dark red 
illustrated boards, title panel to front and white spine. Spotty rubbing to 
boards and spine, rear board same illustration and title panel. Edges 
rubbed. Spine mild soiling title panel clear. Top stain green. Inner hinge 
has some insect holes. Few of the blank rear end papers have some insect 
small holes. Not broken. Solidly bound, text and illustrations clean and 
bright. Slightly cocked. In archival polyester protective film. sm 8vo,114 
pp. Beautiful work by Crane. $85.00

Shaw, Bernard; Works of (George) Bernard Shaw, 4 Plays; Arms and the Man; 
The Admirable Bashiville; Press Cuttings; Major Barbara, Brentano's. N.Y., 
1920: Four complete plays by Shaw: Arms and The Man, A Pleasant Play (1920); 
The Admirable Bashville or, Constancy Unrewarded (being the Novel of Cashel 
Byron's Profession done into a stage play in 3 acts, and in blank verse, 
with a note on modern Prize Fighting)(1913); Press Cuttings, A Topical 
Sketch from the Editorial and correspondence Columns of the Daily Press 
(1913); Major Barbara, with an Essay as First Aid to Critics (an officer of 
the Salvation Army, who learns from her father, a manufacturer of armaments, 
that money and power can be better weapons against evil than love), (1913). 
Each play in stiff green wraps, no writing, clean, clear text, solidly 
bound. Arms and the Man, lower front corner chipped, with mild crease; Press 
Cuttings, color to wraps dulled, mild soil, upper right front corner 
re-attached with filmoplast. Mild rubbing of spine. Shaw's Plays to inside 
front wrap and rear wraps. between 50 to 159 pp.12 mo. George Bernard Shaw 
(1856-1950) - Irish dramatist, literary critic, a socialist spokesman, and a 
leading figure in the 20th century theater. Shaw was a freethinker, defender 
of women's rights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925 he was 
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Shaw accepted the honor but refused 
the money. $35.00

Ann D. Alexander, Illustrator; (Malory, Thomas, Sir); Women of the Morte 
D'Arthur; Twelve of the Most Romantic of the Worlds Love Stories, 
Illustrated by Ann D. Alexander; Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1928, First 
Edition:
Twelve stories selected from Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur; containing 
4 color illustrations, and 23 in black and white (with red). Wonderful tales 
of the women who graced the world of Malory's Arthurian tales of the Knights 
and their adventures in Medieval England; such as: Queen Quenever, Sir 
Percivale's Sister, Colombe and Sir Lanceor of Ireland, Damosel of the Lake, 
The Three Elaines, Sir Launcelot, Linet and Dame Lionesse, Alice La Beale 
Pilgrim, etc. Malory's Morte D'Arthur was written by Sir Thomas Malory of 
Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, (b) 1416, to a gentry family. He lead a very 
traditional country gentleman life until the mid 1400's when his life took 
an extreme turn to crime. During his imprisonment he wrote the Morte 
D'Arthur. Random foxing throughout illustrations clean. Glossary and listing 
of Women of Morte D'Arthur. Red cloth boards and spine, pasted title panel 
to spine, darkened, rubbing of edges, corners and spine ends, mild fraying 
to upper & lower spine end. Tears to rear hinge, repaired, small chip to 
frong hing. Hinges solid, few pages roughly opened, you can see some pale 
evidence of pencil erasures, text legible. 252 pp, tall 8 vo. In protective 
archival polyester wrap. $37.50

Glimcher, Arnold and Marc, Editors, Je Suis Le Cahier, The Sketchbooks of 
Picasso, Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, 1986. First Edition:
At age 13 in Barcelona 1894) Picasso began his sketchbooks, totalling 175 by 
1964. Through the sketchbooks a young painter blossomed and matured into the 
greatest artist of the 20th century. The sketches reveal for the first time 
(privately held by the family) how the masterpieces take shape. In a precise 
progression of images on can trace the development of such works as the 
Family of Saltimbanques, Les Demosielles d'Arignon, and The Rape of the 
Sabines. The first section which relate to the esays are reproduced in full 
and in sequence. The images in the 2nd section have been taken from thirty 
of the finest sketchbooks. The final section is a catalogue raisonne', which 
fully describes all 175 extant sketchbooks and features one image from each. 
175 illustrations and many photos, several portraits of Picasso taken by Man 
Ray. Foreward by his son Claude Picasso, a reminiscence by Francois Gilot. 
Front dw cover taken from a sketchbook dated 1906. Rich red cloth boards and 
spine, blue lettering to spine. DW price clipped, illustrated end papers, 
small closed tear and mild small crease to upper edge f.e.p. All else clean, 
tightly bound. In brodart mylar. First Edition.  4 to. 349 pp. $65.00

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