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NY: Macy-Masius, 1928. (1st edition). Hardbound. GOOD+. Tight binding, light age soil to covers, slight sun fading to spine, unmarked text, square. No dust jacket. Map endpapers. Over a dozen full page, black and white glossy photos, mostly of drawings for Alger book covers. 6.25x9.25x1.25" Full list of books written by Horatio Alger, Jr. 241 pages. "His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth": a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty..."

Paris, France: Flammarion, ©1963. Trade Paperback. VERY GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean interior, faintest age soil to exterior, square. Reading creases on spine. Gift inscription with illegible signature for PEN conference (1963) and Jean De Beers card from same conference (enclosed). Illustrated with many back and white photos. Portrait-Dialogue. Text in French. 448 pages, 7-7/8x5-3/4" (20x13.6cm). Celui que Bernanos appelait "le plud grand peut-etre de nos ecrivains vivants" a deja donne lieu a une abondante litterature et on hesite si, a travers tant d'exegeses, tant d'interpretations, Montherlant cherche plus a se decouvrir ou a s'expliquer." (The one Bernanos called "perhaps the greatest of our living writers" has already given rise to an abundant literature and we hesitate if, through so many exegeses, so many interpretations, Montherlant seeking more to discover.)

France: Mercure de France, 1977. Trade Paperback. FINE. As new except for tiny corner bump and a sunned streak on the spine hinge. Autobiography of Louis-René des Forêts, one of France's most beloved writers. "Le gris argent du matin, l'architecture des arbres perdus dans l'essaim de leurs feuilles." ("The silver gray of the morning, the architecture of the trees lost in the swarm of their leaves.") Text in FRENCH. 232 pages