The Works of Francois Rabelais, in five volumes. Translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, with the notes of Duchat, Ozell, and others. Introduction and revision by Alfred Wallis Great Gargantua; Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes; The Heroic Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel; Good Pantagruel, His Voyages and Wonders; Good Pantagruel: His Visit to the Oracle by Francois Rabelais - 1901

UK: The Abbey Library The complete works in One Volume. Undated, circa 1950. Aged textblock, clean and tight, illustrated end papers. All page edges are age-toned. Moisture bubbled front cover to the outer corners, bumped head and foot of spine and corners, slight tilt to the spine. Unclipped dust jacket, small tears and creases to the corners, rubbed edges, lightly character-soiled sides, mylar sleeved. 730p.. Boards. Good+/Good+ (in mylar). Illus. by Frank C. Pape. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: Privately Printed for Members of the Aldus Society, 1902. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two green cloth hardcovers with title labels on spine; top edges gilt;; 374 & 524 pages; b&w illustrations. Volume One: Very good condition with the spine label with stains and chips; initials and small bookseller's label inside. Volume Two: spine label also stained and slightly chipped; very slight wear and soiling to binding; straight; hinges strong; initials, bookplate, and bookseller's label inside. Might cost extra for shipping..

London: The Navarre Society, 1954. Third Impression of 1948 Edition. Cloth. Very Good/None. W. Heath Robinson. Thick 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4" x 1 3/4"), red cloth with gold lettering on spine; illustrated with B&W frontispiece, 53 full-page sketches, and many in-text vignettes by W. Heath Robinson; xviii + 332 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 1 oz. François Rabelais (c.1494 - 1553) was a French Renaissance writer, physician, humanist, monk, and Greek scholar. He has been celebrated as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. <br/> <br/> Gargantua depicts a young giant who is rescued from a deplorable education instituted by his father, old women, and dotty professors. Overcoming most obstacles, he becomes a cultivated and most-Christian knight, though his actions satirize chivalric ideals. In Pantagruel, the son of Gargantua, Rabelais further parodied chivalry and satirized major institutions such… Read More

Nabu Press, 2010-02-23. Paperback. Good.

John Lane The Bodley Head, 1933. Hardcover. Poor/Poor. The jackets are torn. The boards are marked. Some foxing / offsetting. A few pages are torn. Soundly bound.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Bodley Head. Two volume set. Bumped and soiled boards with wear to spine ends. Chipped jackets, with tear to spine head of vol. I. Ffeps removed cleanly. Pages crisp and tight. Minor foxing. . Good. Cloth. 1933.

London, New York: J. Lane ; Boni and Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copies in good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrappers, both now mylar-sleeved.Some sun-toning and foxing along the margins of each copy, no text effected. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 2 volumes plates 24 cm. Notes; Illus. incl. plates, and covers. Includes bibliographical references.

E-204: Covici, Friede Publishers. Very Good. 1929. Hardcover. Hardcover. Small Folio. Covici-Friede, New York, 1929. 3 Volumes, Volume I xxxviii, 515 pgs; Illustrated with color frontis, 8 color plates, a map, and 7 black and white plates; Volume II 519-865 pgs, Illustrated with with a color frontis, 6 color and 2 black and white plates. Volume III 871-1273 pgs. With a frontis portrait and 120 black and white plates. Limited edition of 1300, this being No. 128. Bound in tan paper-covered boards, green cloth spine, leather spine label, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page in red and black, color and black and white plates. Spines sunned, tips and board edges worn and lightly rubbed. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The irrepressibly racy and merrily blasphemous humor of Rabelais is here presented in irrepressibly racy and merrily blasphemous American English by the distinguished scholar Samuel Putnam, who would… Read More

London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd, 1933. Hardcover Small Quarto. Hardcover. Very good. leather bound spine, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled boards, 499 pp (vol 1), 730 pp (vol 2) Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London New York: J. Lane; Boni and Liveright, 1927. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of Haughton. Very good cloth copies in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Volume 2 dust wrapper lacks of back wrapper. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Date is suggested. Physical description: 2 volumes; plates; 24 cm.Notes: Illus. incl. plates, and covers. Includes bibliographical references.Subjects: Rabelais, François 1490-1553; Translations into English. Fantasy fiction, French; Translations into English.Gargantua (Legendary character); Fiction. Giants; Fiction. Fantasy fiction, French. Genre: Fiction. illustrated.