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Villette (in 3 vols.)

Villette (in 3 vols.) by [Brontë, Charlotte] Currer Bell

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Villette (in 3 vols.)
Author
[Brontë, Charlotte] Currer Bell
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1853. First edition. Near Fine. With the publisher's catalogue dated January 1853 at the end of volume one. A Very Good+ copy, a clean and appealing set overall. Three volumes, octavo (121 x 191 mm). Collating complete except for the half-titles: [4], 324, [12 pp., publisher's catalogue]; [4], 319, [1]; [2], 350, [2] pp. Attractively bound in late nineteenth-century half red morocco over marbled boards. Top edge gilt. Minor edgewear. Some light occasional foxing and a few dusty finger marks. Leaf O2 in volume one with a small amateur tape repair to margin (not touching text). Small modern ink ownership stamp to lower pastedown of each volume. Published under the pseudonym Currer Bell, Villette was Charlotte Brontë's third and final novel released during her lifetime, following Shirley (1848) and her massively influential debut Jane Eyre (1847). Villette, a masterpiece in its own right, "powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self possession...Brontë's last novel was written in the wake of her grief at the death of her siblings. It has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness" (Vintage). Since its publication, Villette has inspired a broad range of writers, from George Eliot to Kazuo Ishiguro; in the Common Reader, Virginia Woolf called it Brontë's "finest novel" and praised the emotional depth and poetry of the writing (p. 224). Sadleir 394. Near Fine.
Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film)

Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film) by Sylvia Kristel (starring); Alain Robbe-Grillet (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicee Alvina (starring)

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Seller: Royal Books
Title
Playing with Fire [Le jeu avec le feu] (Original lobby cards, program, and photographs from the 1975 film)
Author
Sylvia Kristel (starring); Alain Robbe-Grillet (director, screenwriter); Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Anicee Alvina (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
France: Arcadie Productions, 1975. Collection of promotional ephemera from the 1975 French film, including a program, ten lobby cards, and two black-and-white reference photographs. Text in French. One of ten films directed by Alain Robbe-Grillet, ostensibly about the target of a kidnapping plot hiding out at a high society brothel, but in reality an exercise in image making, fourth wall breaking, and the exploration of Robbe-Grillet's usual concerns of eroticism, voyeurism, and doppelgängers. One of his most commercially successful films, down mostly to the presence of "Emmanuelle" star Sylvia Kristel, far more prevalent in the marketing material than in the actual film. Lobby cards (10): 11.5 x 9.25 inches. Very Good plus. Photographs (2): 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Program: 7.25 x 10.25 inches. 17 leaves. Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. All material housed together in an original glassine envelope as issued.
Sunset Canyon (Black Sun)

Sunset Canyon (Black Sun) by ABBEY, Edward

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Title
Sunset Canyon (Black Sun)
Author
ABBEY, Edward
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780900735035
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
London:: Talmy, Franklin Limited,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0900735031 . A novel. The American edition was published under the title BLACK SUN. First British edition. Near fine in a near fine (tiny closed edge tear at the crown of the spine) dust jacket. ; 159 pages .
Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780

Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780

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Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop
Title
Country Life. Scottish Number. August 14, 1969. Vol. CXLVI No. 3780
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Country Life, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Articles on Scottish farming, Cyclopean kilns and quarries, the Fiat 1256 Special Salon, Dutch art coming to Scotland, Galloway, National Pony Show, and more. Illustrated blue paper wrappers with white spine panel titled in blue. Soiling and wear to covers and edges. Clean interior. Minor wear to page edges. pagination: 368 - 422. PER/102621.
Philosophy: Who Needs It

Philosophy: Who Needs It by Rand, Ayn

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
Philosophy: Who Needs It
Author
Rand, Ayn
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780672527258
Condition
Good
Description
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/very Good. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($15.95), a few shallow chips and tears at the edges. Green paper-covered boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, many dog-eared pages with pencil marginalia. A collection of Rand's essays that reveal "the hidden philosophic premises at work in the human soul.
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The Shadow of the Wind by Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos; Graves, Lucia

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Title
The Shadow of the Wind
Author
Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos; Graves, Lucia
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Penguin, 2004. Very Good. Ruiz-Zafon, Carlos. The Shadow of the Wind. Graves, Lucia. NY: Penguin, 2004. 486pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges and tar in top of front joint. Previous owner's name on first and last pages..

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