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84 - [LITERATURE]. 5 works.
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[LITERATURE]. 5 works. - DUMAS (Son). *La question d’argent*. A comedy in five acts, in prose. Paris, Charlieu, 1857, in-8, 151 pp. Paperback. First edition. - LEO LESPES (Napoléon Lespès, known as...). *Les tableaux vivants*. Paris, Leipzig, Jung-Treuttel, 1865, in-12, 2 leaves–315 pp.–1 leaf. Bound in green half-chagrin, ribbed spine, gilt fleurons, gilt head, trimmed, front cover (illustrated) preserved. (Contemporary binding). – Light foxing on the title page, spine faded. First edition. 19 short stories and fantasies by the tireless columnist of *Le Petit Journal*, and later *Le Petit Moniteur*, who also wrote under the pseudonym Timothée Trimm. (Lorenz III, p. 265). - MONSELET (Charles). Les Tréteaux by Charles Monselet. With a frontispiece drawn and engraved by Bracquemond. Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1859, in-12, 2ff.-268pp.-2ff. Bradel ivory cloth, green title label, original cover preserved, untrimmed. (Binding by Pierson). Binding soiled, a stain at the bottom of the front cover, a few scattered foxing spots (more pronounced on the frontispiece), a trace of damp in the lower margin of one leaf. First edition printed in a run of 1,500 copies, plus 10 in Holland. Etched frontispiece by Bracquemont. (Oberlé, Auguste Poulet-Malassis… nos. 699–705). - PORTO (Luigi da). Giulietta and Romeo. A short story… Translation, preface and notes by Henry Cochin. Paris, Charavay, 1879, in-8, 1f.-LVIpp.-194pp.-1f.- frontispiece and 2 photogravures, a few figures in the text. Publisher’s binding in grey-green silk, with a printed design on the cover. – One of 12 copies printed on China paper (the only large-format paper). A few rare small pinholes inside; split hinges on the outside; spine partly detached; scuffing on the spine; a faint stain on the upper corner of the cover. (Choisie Collection). - VAST (Raoul) - RICOUARD. Claire Aubertin. Vices parisiens. Ninth edition. Paris, Ollendorff, 1880, in-12, 2ff.-330pp. Half havana morocco, decorated raised spine, initials A.B. at the tail. - A well-bound copy. Heavy foxing.
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