“WHEN FABLE SITS AT TABLE,
GOOD WORDS ARE AS PALATABLE AS GOOD WINE”
BEROALDE DE VERVILLE, Francois. Le Moyen de Parvenir. No place [probably Paris], 1773.
Lovely 18th-century edition of this classic 17th-century Rabelaisian satire, The Way to Succeed, with engraved frontispiece. Two volumes beautifully bound in richly gilt period-style morocco. $950.
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"ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT FIELDS OF EXPLORATION IN THE WORLD"
(KARAKORAM) VISSER-HOOFT, Jenny. Among the Kara-Korum Glaciers. London, 1926.
First edition of Visser-Hooft's account of her and her husband's expedition to the Karakoram Mountains, richly illustrated with two maps (one folding), and 25 photographic plates. $950.
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"DICKENS SEEMS TO HAVE READ WARREN'S FICTION… AND TO HAVE BORROWED IMAGES AND IDEAS"
WARREN, Samuel. Ten Thousand a-Year. New York, circa 1910. Three volumes.
Later edition of this classic 19th-century novel, popular in both England and the United States for much of the second half of the 19th-century, and a likely influence on Dickens, attractively bound. $225.
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