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Scenes De La Vie Privee Et Publique Des Animaux. by GRANDVILLE.; Balzac, L. Baude, E. De La Bedollierr

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Title: Scenes De La Vie Privee Et Publique Des Animaux.
Author: GRANDVILLE.; Balzac, L. Baude, E. De La Bedollierr
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1842. GRANDVILLE, J.J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp., with 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo, 261 x 180 mm., uniformly bound in contemporary black half morocco. Paris: Hetzel et Paulin: 1842-1844. A splendid copy of a Grandville masterpiece, accompanied by two original watercolours by Grandville and a long autograph letter from the publisher, Hetzel. A fantastic example of anthropomorphic illustration and an important precursor of surrealism. These illustrations represent some of Grandville's most memorable creations. Many of the plates are of single figures, but there are also satirical scenes of everyday life, monsters, animals looking at politicians caged at the zoo, etc. The texts contained herein were written by such notable authors as Balzac, Charles Nodier, George Sand, Louis Viardot and even J. Hetzel, the publisher (under the pseudonym of P.J. Stahl). Hetzel was the motivating force behind this work, which he undertook in order to "give words to Grandville's marvellous animals, and to join our pen with his pencil, thereby coming to his assistance in criticizing the aberrations of our epoch, and by preference among these aberrations, those which are of every period and every country." Gordon N. Ray writes: "Through Grandville's animals, Hetzel and his colleagues offered a witty and telling commentary on contemporary politics and personalities." Some slight edge wear, one of the drawings with spotting, else fine. PROVENANCE: Jacques Crepineau, with his bookplate. Ray 194. Carteret III, 552-59. Rebeyrat, Catalogue bibliographique et bibliophilique in: J.J. Grandville (1985), pp. 289-90.

Back Street (Signed Limited Edition) by Hurst, Fannie

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Title: Back Street (Signed Limited Edition)
Author: Hurst, Fannie
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Cosmopolitan, 1931. First edition. One of 250 signed copies. Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Half morocco with gilt on spine and boards. Marbled endpapers. In all, a lovely copy of this important post-WWI novel. A prolific novelist and short story writer, Hurst's work was highly popular in the years after World War I. "Back Street is one of her two best remembered novels. The story of a woman who devoted her life to being the mistress of a married man, it was twice adapted into film, first in 1941 and then again in 1961" (St. Claire-Jackson). Ideas about the social expectations placed on women in a modern world -- and how women's race and religion affected their social standing -- shaped all of Hurst's works. "She wrote of immigrants and shop girls, love, drama, and trauma" (Kroeger).

Printed American passport of 1847 by Rex, George

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Title: Printed American passport of 1847
Author: Rex, George
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; two small mounting stains to last page.
Description: Washington DC: Federal Government, 1847. As issued.. Very good; two small mounting stains to last page.. Folio, 4 pp. measuring appx. 402 x 270 mm. Page 1 printed with holograph additions by the acting Secretary of State W S Derrick. Additional neatly stamped and signed endorsements on verso of page 1 from French officials dated Sept. - October 1847. Integral pages 3 - 4 are blank. A handsome engraved and printed American passport for Mr Rex's travels through France. The document bears a large and impressive headpiece of an American eagle.

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