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Hôtel des Ventes de Clermont-Ferrand

18 - BUTLER (Samuel) and Valéry LARBAUD: 3 titles.
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Estimate €90 - €150
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BUTLER (Samuel) and Valéry LARBAUD: 3 titles. First editions of the translations. - Erewhon, or Beyond the Mountains. Translated from the English by Valéry Larbaud. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920, in-8, 2ff.–XXXIIpp.–230pp.–1f. Paperback. One of the 8 non-commercial copies (A to H, this one being G), amongst the 120 special edition copies reprinted and printed on Lafuma-Navarre pure-fibre laid paper. Raymond Gallimard’s copy with his wood-engraved ex-libris. First edition of Larbaud’s translation and introduction. Printed in a run of 1,160 copies. - Further Journeys in Erewhon, undertaken twenty years after the discovery of the country by the first explorer and his son. Translated from the English by Valery Larbaud. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924, in-8, 308 pp. – 1 folio. Paperback, untrimmed. - One of the 8 non-commercial copies (A to H, this one being G), amongst the 108 special advance copies reprinted and printed on Lafuma-Navarre pure-fibre laid paper. Margins very slightly dusty. First edition of Larbaud’s translation and preface. - *La Vie et l’habitude*. Translated... by Valery Larbaud. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922, small in-4, 291 pp. – 2 ff. Paperback. - One of the 108 deluxe copies reprinted in tellière quarto format, on Lafuma-Navarre pure-thread laid paper. The first 8, marked A to H (this one being G), were not for sale. Margins slightly dusty; spine and edges of the cover very slightly yellowed. First edition of the translation. Printed in a run of 898 copies.
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Auction time 10/29/2026 at 11:00 AM
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