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Condition: Good. Good Dodd, Mead 1929 hardcover Heavy cloth binding Cover clean but spine area is sun-faded Binding tight Contents clean Generally a very sound copy.
Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1925
Seller: Cat's Curiosities, Pahrump, NV, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Moderate fraying to head and heel of spine. 1925 printing of a work originally copyright 1900. Includes "Stories from Strange Books," "Old Japanese Songs," "Fantasies," and an essay on "Japanese Female Names." This is the copy of Lorraine Miller Sherer (1898-1985), a specialist in early childhood development at UCLA, who served as superintendent of elementary education for Los Angeles County, and authored "Their First Years In School" (1939.) Sherer's signature here undated to blank FFE. (After her retirement, Sherer began compiling the first history of the Mohave people of California and Arizona.) 268 pp., reduced from $80.
Published by New York: Boni & Liveright, Inc./The Modern Library Edition. First Edition, September 1917, 35 Titles, 1917
Seller: Shepardson Bookstall, Brookline, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. SHEPARDSON BOOKSTALL, 20 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE. Green Leatherette; BL Logo on front; 35 Titles listed at front in C3 catalog; marbled endpapers. Light wear on bottom spine edge and along side seam edge. FIRST BONI & LIVERIGHT/MODERN LIBARY EDITION. STORY: Sylvestre Bonnard, a member of the Institute, is a historian and philologist, gifted with great erudition. He lives among books, and launches himself into the research, in Sicily and Paris, of the precious manuscript of the French version of the Golden Legend, which he finally obtains. By chance he meets a young girl named Jeanne, the daughter of a woman he once loved. To protect the child from her abusive guardian Maitre Mouche, he takes her away, and she ends up marrying Henri Gelis, one of Bonnard's students.