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Francis Rabelais; Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson, Navarrone Society
Limited, 1920: THE WORKS OF MR FRANCIS RABELAIS. Doctor in Physick.
Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua
and His Sonne Pantagruel:  François Rabelais (c. 1495-1553), Medieval free
thinker and bold satirist; most famous for La Vie de Gargantua et de
Pantagruel, (translated from the French in 1653). Originally comprised of
four books which appeared from 1532 (or 1533) to 1552; a fifth, with his
most outrageous and daring ideas, published posthumously in (1562-64). His
satire was revolutionary for it's time attacking religous figures,
scholasticism, social and political events; with bold course humour.
Rabelais was the master of Ribaldry. With 100 illustrations by William Heath
Robinson (1872-1944), English Cartoonist and book illustrator; many tail and
headpieces. Glossy printed frontispieces, protected by tissue. Text clean
and bright, solidly bound. Various pages uncut, few roughly cut; vol. I,
illustration page listings rough cut with closed edge tears; vol. II few
content pages, rough cut with closed edge tears. Foxing to e.p., title pages
red and black. TEG. Bound in creme colored linen, gilt decoration to front,
blind stamped gilt lettering and decorations to spine, mild browning to
cloth; volume II rear board few cloth bubbles. Two very sound clean copies
of this great Medieval satirist. Printed upon laid paper of fine quality
specially made for the Navarre Society and is strictly limited. tall 8 vo,
474, 462. Digitals available. N.D. circa 1920. $105.00

Tough Guys Don't Dance, Norman Mailer, Random House, NY, 1984, First
Edition, signed: Signed by Mailer on front e.p., First Ed. Set in
Provincetown, an unsuccessful writer addicted to bourbon, cigarettes and
blonde careless women with money. Awakens one morning with a hangover,
tattoo & the front seat of his Porsche soaked with blood. Blue cloth, bright
gilt. DJ not price clipped, back pictorial yellow lettering. Fine/Fine. In
mylar jacket. tall 8 vo, 229 p $40.00

John LeCarre, The Russia House. Alfred A. Knopf, First Edition, Signed:
Signed by author to e.p. First Ed. Black cloth, silver lettering. DJ not
price clipped, red and black, in mylar jacket. Fine condition. tall 8 vo,
353 pages. $65.00

Joyce Carol Oates, Mysteries of Winterthurn, Illustrated by Daniel Maffia,
The Franklin Library, Phildelphia, 1984, Signed, First Edition thus: 19th
Century Murder Mystery: the unexplained murders at Glen Mawr Manor, and in
its vicinity, aroused great terror in the inhabitants of
Winterthurn........superstitious the inhabitants of Winterthurn doubtless
were, to have feared, for decades, "angels", or "angel-figures", loose in
the night and frequently in the day; an naive in their stubborn belief that
a preternatural force emanated from the Manor. Signed to f.e.p. This limited
first edition of Mysteries of Winterthurn has been privately printed, and
personally signed by Joyce Carol Oates, exclusively for members of The
Signed First Edition Society. Beautifully bound in suuple brown leather,
gilt decorations to boards and raised spine. Silk marker, marbled end
papers, all edges gilt.Two page frontispiece Fine unread condition. sm 4to,
482 pages. $80.00

Hugh Walpole, The Old Ladies, MacMillan and Co. Ltd., London, 1924, First
Edition, signed: Hugh Walpole, British novelist (1884-1941b. New Zealand),
wrote a series of novels set in his fictional seaside cathedral town of
Polchester. Three old women each longing for something; a modern day gothic
novel. First Edition, Signed to f.e.p. "This is one of two hundred and fifty
large paper copies printed in August 1924" . Publishers blue boards, tan
cloth spine, title panel pasted to spine. Upper end of board rubbed, many
pages unopened, those that have been have jagged page edges. Very clean
white text, solidly bound. White publishers DJ, blue lettering; chips to
upper spine end, rear upper edge closed tear, 2 inch pale edge stain to
flap, mild soil in protective brodart mylar. Tall 8 vo, 304 pages $85.00
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