Jerusalem by Pierre Loti - 2009-01-28

Calmann-Levy, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 221 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. French text. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Slight cracking to gutters causing binding to be loose, however pages remain attached. Moderate tanning to pages throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Water staining to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed.

Paris; Londres: Nelson Editeurs, 1920. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardback octavo. Cream pictorial cloth 290 pages Colour frontispiece Near Very Good condition. Previous owner's inscription on inside cover dated 1920

New York: Frederick A. Stokes. Hardcover. Very Good. No date. 8vo. 212 pp. Red cloth with papel label. Label toned, corners slightly bumped, light foxing to inside pages. Very Good. Translated from the French by W. P. Baines.

1920. 1.-3.Tausend. Dresden: Reissner. [um 1920]. Kl.8°. 195 S. Origional Halbleinwand mit verziertem Rückentitel und geprägter Deckel-Vignette. Einband etwas berieben und angestaubt, Vorsätze vorn etwas feuchtwellig, ein- und ausgangs mit Stockfleckchen, innen mit einigen Bleistift-Anstreichungen, einige Seiten mit kleinem Eselsohr, sonst in gutem Zustand. (Opal-Bücherei) Mit 16 ganzseitigen sw Fototafeln und einem vorwort des Verfassers. ##############-WIR MACHEN EINE FRÜHLINGSAKTION MIT 25 PROZENT AUF DEN GANZEN BESTAND BIS ZUM 31.05. ÜBER IHR INTERESSE AN UNSEREN SELTENEN OBJEKTEN WÜRDEN WIR UNS WIE IMMER FREUEN-###############

Paperback / softback. New.

Frederick A. Stokes Book. Fine. Hardcover. No date, but likely First U.S. Edition, c. 1930. Book itself in excellent clean unworn condition with unopened pages. With color frontispiece. Deep maroon covers bright as new. Plain paper jacket is faded to spine and has general wear. .

T. Werner Laurie Ltd, London, 1929. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. The first 'popular edition' of the second volume of Loti's trilogy describing a visit to the Holy Land at the end of the nineteenth century; translated from the French by W. P. Baines; coloured frontispiece from a painting by John Fulleylove; Glorifying Jerusalem while lamenting its lost splendor, Loti commences this book with an epigraphic first chapter: "Jerusalem! What dying splendour clings about the name! How it radiates still, out of the depths of time and dust! Almost I feel that I am guilty of profanation in daring to place it thus, at the head of this record of my unbelieving pilgrimage. Jerusalem! Those that have walked the earth before me have already found in it the inspiration of many books, books profound and books magnificent. All that I am going to try to do is to describe the actual aspect of its desolation and its ruins; to tell what, in our transitory… Read More

1929. French Text. Paris, 1929; hardback, pp. 222, cm 11,5x18,5.

Hardback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.