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(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS the Younger.
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162
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(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS the Younger.
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €200
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Description
(Lot) – Alexandre DUMAS the Younger. Set of 7 volumes.
- Péchés de jeunesse. Paris, Fellens and Dufour, 1847.
In-8, fawn half-calf, smooth spine decorated with fleurons and four gold fillets, speckled edges, dedicatory inscription.
[3 ff.], 403 pp.
First edition.
- Unpublished work. *Césarine*. Paris, Cadot, 1848.
8vo, blue half-maroquin, ribbed spine decorated with gilt florets, gilt head, half-title and title page burnished.
[1 f.], 277 pp., [1 f. advertisement].
First edition.
Vicaire III, 455.
- The Clémenceau Affair – The Accused’s Statement –. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1866.
In-8, red half-shagreen, ribbed spine decorated with double blind-stamped squares, bookplate, caps, corners and ribs slightly rubbed.
[2 ff.], 353 pp.
Vicaire III, 458.
- A Letter on Current Affairs. Paris, Michel Lévy, 1871.
In-18, paperback, untrimmed.
[2 ff.], 31 pp., 36 pp. (catalogue)
First edition. On his return from Versailles in June 1871, where he had gone ‘to have a look’.
Vicaire III, 473.
- Faust. Preface to the new translation by Mr Bacharach. Paris, Imprimerie de J. Clayre, 1873.
In-8, bonze half-maroquin with corner pieces, gilt fillets on the covers, spine with four raised bands gilt and adorned with a gilt fleur-de-lis, covers intact, gilt head, dedicatory inscription (Bound by Ch. Meunier).
[2 ff.], XXIX pp., frontispiece portrait by Lalauze.
Off-print on Holland paper of Dumas Fils’s preface to this translation, published by Michel Lévy in 1873.
Vicaire III, 476 (who cites it on the basis of information provided to him but did not see the book himself).
- Report on the Prix de Vertu. Read at the annual public session of the Académie Française on 2 August 1877. Paris, Firmin-Didot Press, 1877.
Quarto, havan-coloured half-percaline, stain on the front cover, title label rubbed lengthwise, scattered foxing, dedicatory note.
31 pp. (title page detached).
- *A Case of Rupture*. Page-by-page illustrations by Eugène Courboin. Paris, Ancienne Maison Quantin, 1892.
Quarto, paperback, padded cover, portfolio of embossed gold-foil paper, two ribbons missing.
[2 ff.], 98 pp., [1 f.], illustrations in the text by Eugène Courboin. Printed in a run of 1,050 numbered copies, 1/1,000 on vellum.
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