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207 - QUÉRARD (J-M.) & A.-A. BARBIER.
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QUÉRARD (J-M.) & A.-A. BARBIER. - QUÉRARD. Literary Deceptions Unmasked. A gallery of French writers from across Europe who have disguised themselves under anagrams, asteronyms, cryptonyms, initialisms, literary names, facetious or bizarre pseudonyms, etc... Second edition, considerably expanded, published by Gustave Brunet and Pierre Jannet. (3 volumes, in-8). Followed by: - BARBIER. Dictionary of Anonymous Works. Third edition, revised and expanded by Olivier Barbier, René and Paul Billard. A continuation of the second edition of *Literary Deceptions*… (4 volumes, in-8). Paris, Paul Daffis, 1869–1870. 7 volumes in-8, contemporary red half-cloth, with a black sheepskin title label. VIII pp., [2 ff], 1278 columns; [2 ff], 1324 columns; [2 ff], 1290 columns, [1 p]. And [2 ff], XLV pp, [1], 1,139 columns; [2 ff], 1,360 columns; [2 ff], 1,166 columns, [2 ff]; [2 ff], 1410 columns. Spines worn, corners and edges scuffed, tears to the headbands, damage to the clasps of volume 5. Bindings faded, interior fresh. A working copy.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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Auction time 10/05/2026 at 2:00 PM
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