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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 Guinevere, Sir Percivale's Sister, Colombe and Sir Lanceor of Ireland, 
Damsel 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
front hinge. 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, totaling 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 essays 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. Foreword 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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