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FRANCE, Anatole. Illustrated by Carl Gehrts.. ABEILLE Conte.. Paris Charavay Freres editeurs, 1883.
Price: US$48.74 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 1883, French text, 320 x 250 mm, 12¾ x 10 inches, silver/grey cloth with coloured floral decoration and black lettering to upper cover, spine plain, all edges red, endpapers pale green, 74 pages + colophon page. Beautiful coloured frontispiece and 7 colour plates by Carl Gehrts, red ruled frame to all text pages. Spine very slightly faded, neat English inscription dated January 1884 on front endpaper, contents clean, 2 inner joints cracked but binding tight and firm. A very good plus copy. A wonderful fairy tale about the love of two children brought up as brother and sister, the one captured by water sprites, the other by dwarves. After many years apart they are eventually reunited. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. A heavy book which will require extra postage.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.94 + shipping
Description: Dos très insolé et taché, petits frottements en coins, sinon couverture en bon état, intérieur en bon état, défauts superficiels, belles lithographies.
Seller: LE SERPENT QUI PENSE, PRECHAC, France
FRANCE ANATOLE. ABEILLE, CONTE. Charavay Frères, Paris, 1883.
Price: US$93.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO40114558: 1883. In-4. Cartonnage d'éditeurs. Etat passable, Couv. défraîchie, Coiffe en pied abîmée, Mouillures. 71 pages. Gravure en couleur en frontispice. Illustré de gravures en couleur hors texte. Texte encadré de filets rouges. Plats tachés. Couverture et cahiers détachés. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.08-XIX ème siècle
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
France, Anatole.. Abeille. Conte.. Paris, Charavay Frères, 1883., 1883.
Price: US$98.90 + shipping
Description: 4°. Mit 8 farb. Tafeln. 74 SS., 1 Bl. Farb. illustr. OLn. (etw. fleckig, Deckel gelockert). Vgl. Wilpert I, 482.- Erste Ausgabe.- Leicht gebräunt, vereinzelt etw. braunfleckig. Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Seller: Antiquariat MEINDL & SULZMANN OG, Wien - Vienna, Austria
Anatole France. Abeille Conte. Charavay Freres Editeurs, Paris, 1883.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: A solid, well-preserved copy of the 1883 1st thus. Clean and VG in its printed silver cloth, with tender (but still sturdy) rear hinge. Tall quarto, 8 lovely --and uncredited-- color plates. Text in French.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.