[Rarebooks] For Sale: Andre Maurois, signed, inscribed limited edition

[Norman Kane]

MAUROIS, ANDRE.   LES DERNIERS JOURS DE POMPEI.  PORTRAIT DE L'AUTEUR 
PAR L. MADRASSI. LITHOGRAPHIES D'EDY LEGRAND.   [Paris]: Collection 
Les Images Du Temps; Editions Lapina, [1928].  First 
edition.  Published in various limitations; this is #602 of 1000 
copies on Verge de Rives B. F. K. pur chiffon.  Interesting 
heart-shaped colophon.  Original wrappers designed by Rapin, 
excellent copy in the scarce original  box (box rubbed and a little 
worn.)  Portrait, illustrations & manuscript facsimile.  SIGNED 
inscription by Maurois for Mme Eduard Jacobs, friend of books, from 
the author, Andre Maurois.  With the bookish bookplate of Marguerite 
Jacobs, and another smaller later bookplate.  (The romance of Edward 
Bulwer-Lytton and Rosina Wheeler; his mother; & his famous 
novel.)    $150.00    (Trade Discount 10%)


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