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Flaubert, Gustave. Un Coeur Simple. Eragny Press, London, 1901.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 16mo. Blue, paper-covered boards white white linen spine & small paper title label on front cover. 1/200 copies. Illustrated by Lucien Pissaro. Slight spine cock. Faint damp-stain to spine, not affecting interior. Just looks kind of darkened. Covers bit soiled. Interior clean & tight. Not a bad copy.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$701.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second printing of the series of three Flaubert editions by Lucien Pissaro. One of 226 copies. ¶ Description: Original quarter buff cloth with blue paper-covered boards and printed paper label to front. Sextodecimo: 15 × 10 cm; pp. 113, [3]. With wood engraved frontispiece 'Girl and Cow' and the Eragny device (3rd stage). Printed from 'Vale' type on Arnold's unbleached hand-made paper with Vale watermark. Text in French. ¶ Ref.: Genz EP8 ¶ Condition: Spine and covers showing some abrasions and marks of usage, ink stain at foot of front cover. Usual light age tanning to free endpapers and some foxing to endpapers. Contents clean and free of marks. Despite the occasional minor blemish, a very good copy. ¶
Seller: Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints, Zürich, Switzerland
Price: US$825.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Printed at the Eragny Press for Hacon & Ricketts, 1901 [first thus]. Small octavo, 114, [2] (colophon) pages set in Vale type on Arnold's unbleached handmade paper; wood-engraved title vignette, borders and initials; colophon with wood-engraved printer's device. Original blue papered boards backed in cream linen, all edges uncut; small paper title-label on the front cover; covers lightly tanned and marked, with minimal wear to one corner tip and a small area of wear to the bottom edge of the front board; label lightly chipped at the edges; front free endpaper neatly excised (leaving a 20 mm stub); endpapers and adjacent blank leaf offset and a little foxed, with minimal light foxing elsewhere; an excellent copy. One of only 226 copies (of which 200 were offered for sale), printed at the Eragny Press of Lucien and Esther Pissarro. The title vignette was designed and engraved by Lucien, and Esther engraved the other decorations from his designs. This is the eighth book of the press. 'Un Coeur Simple' is one of three short stories by Flaubert published under the title 'Trois Contes' in 1877. All three were published separately in a uniform format by the Eragny Press ('La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier' in 1900, 'Hérodias' in 1901).
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia