Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1977. First edition of John Fowles' translation, one of 500 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press and bound by Gray Parrot. Signed by Fowles at the end of the epilogue. A famous anonymously written story, told from the perspective of a young black African.....
Middelburg: Gilles Horthemels le Jeune, 1688. First edition. Brunet, II, 470; Cioranescu, Bibliographie de la Littérature Française, 38017; OCLC records 12 copies, five in the US and seven in Europe and Britain. ¶ Three ingenious, bold and entertaining imaginary conversations between the fictional character of Moliere’s famous play, Tartuffe, and.....
Paris: Eugene Renduel, Editeur-Libraire, 1829-31. Second edition of volume one, published the same year as the first; first edition of volume two. An early and scarce work by Paul Lacroix (1806-84), French antiquary, bibliographer, editor and author of novels and short tales, who often wrote under the pseudonym "Bibliophile Jacob,".....