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Vernon Lee. Louis Norbert: A Two-fold Romance. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1914.
Price: US$48.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1914. No Edition Remarks. 303 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Front free endpaper missing. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional heavy marks and staining to surfaces. Boards are strongly bowed.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Lee, Vernon (Pseud. Violet Paget). Louis Norbert. London John Lane The Bodley Head 1914, 1914.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Description: First edition. 303 pages + 24 of ads. The book is firmly bound in the publisher's greyish brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and brown, the cloth is somewhat marked and rubbed and the extremities are bumped. The text block is foxed, dusty, slightly marked and age toned, with blue ink staining to the outer edges of the catalogue to the rear, and some dog-eared page corners. A late, mostly epistolatory, novel by Lee, set partly in the 20th century and partly in the 17th, the modern communications between the bewitching Lady Venetia and a young archaeologist. There are hints of the supernatural in the connection between the modern and the historical, when Lady Venetia recounts how as a child she was locked by her brother in The Ghost Room, where she slipped into a trance in front of a painting of Louis Norbert and fell in love with his image, thereafter secretly revisiting the painting until her marriage, sometimes dressing up for the occasion.
Seller: Jonathan Frost Rare Books Limited, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine faded, fore-edge spotted. The author's last novel, with the pencilled ownership signature of Lord David Cecil, first Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at Oxford. On his marriage to Rachel MacCarthy in 1932, the author gave them a set of her works as a wedding present.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom