Recent Arrivals: French Decadence, Folio Society, and Satan

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Cazotte, Jacques. The Devil in Love. London: William Heinemann, 1925. 87 pp. 6 engravings by J.E. Laboureur. Limited edition, #324 of 395. Printed by Stanley Morison. Hardcover. Near fine. $250

Gautier, Theophile. Charles Baudelaire: His Life. London: Greening & Co., 1915. 205 pp. 8vo. 4 plates, incl. frontis port. Essay on his influence by Guy Thorne. Tipped-in Oscar Wilde quote on title-page. Green cloth. Very good. $100

Huysmans, Joris Karl. La Bas (Down There). Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1935. Translated by Keene Wallis. Printed in an edition of 850 copies. Red cloth. Gilt design to spine. Very good. Library sticker to front free endpaper. Date (1936) written in pen on front endpaper too. $100

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels. London: Folio Society, 1965. 262 pp. Lithographs by Edward Bawden. Hardcover. Near fine. Owner’s stamp and sig. On front free endpaper. $25

Highsmith, Patricia. Ripley Under Water. Bloomsbury, 1991. 247 pp. Signed limited edition, 54 of 150. Series: London Limited Editions. Hardcover. Near fine. In glassine jacket as issued. $250

Summers, Montague. Malleus Maleficarum. Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science Library, 1990. 272 pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1928 J. Rodker edition. Translated with an introduction, bibliography, and notes by Reverend Montague Summers. Series: The Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science Library. Full leather. Fine. Lacks pamphlet issued with this volume. $250

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Heir, Alexander. Death is Not the End. Sacred Bones, 2014. Limited, signed edition #87 of 200. Softcover. Fine. In slipcase and sealed wraps. Includes patch and bookmark as issued. $100

Coye, Lee Brown. Pulp Macabre: The Art of Lee Brown Coye’s Final and Darkest Era. Feral House/Sacred Bones, 2015. ISBN: 9781627310000. 195 pp. 100 illus. Photos. Edited by Mike Hunchback and Caleb Braaten. In sealed, numbered wraps as issued. Hardcover. Fine. $100

Heir, Alexander. WARRR2k∞ // Work 2014-2017. Sacred Bones, 2018. Hardcover. As new. $50

Misophonia: The Art of Jesse Draxler. Sacred Bones, 2018. 200 pp. Hardcover. Fine. $75

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Mitford, Mary Russell. Our Village. Folio Society, 1997. 422 pp. Illustrated by Joan Hassall. Introduction by Ronald Blythe. Hardcover. Very good. In slipcase. Minor spots to fore-edge. $25

Trollope, Anthony. The Warden. Folio Society, 1996. 172 pp. Second printing. Illustrations by Alexy Pendle. Introduction by Owen Chadwick. Hardcover. Near fine. In slipcase. $25

Orwell, George. Animal Farm. Folio Society, 1996. 104 pp. Eleventh printing. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. Hardcover. Near fine. In slipcase. $30

Joyce, James. Ulysses. Folio Society, 1998. 735 pp. Preface by Stephen James Joyce. Introduction by Jacques Aubert. Etchings by Mimmo Paladino. Hardcover. Fine. In slipcase. $100

Bell, Walter George. The Great Plague in London. Folio Society, 2001. 256 pp. Illus. Edited and introduced by Belinda Hollyer. Hardcover. Fine. In slipcase. $25

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Folio Society, 1996. 206 pp. Second printing. Illustrated by James Lynch. Introduction by Alan Bennett. Hardcover. Near fine. $30

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Folio Society, 2001. 254 pp. Second printing. Hardcover. Near fine. In slipcase. $25

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Moshfegh, Otessa. My Year of Rest and Relaxation. Penguin, 2019. 288 pp. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Lebowitz, Fran. The Fran Lebowitz Reader. Vintage, 1994. 333 pp. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Angelou, Maya. Letters to My Daughter. Random House, 2009. 166 pp. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Dahl, Roald. Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 235 pp. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Wendig, Chuck. Mockingbird. Saga Press, 2015. Softcover. Very good. $10

Heaney, Seamus. Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. 224 pp. Softcover. Near fine. $10

Corton, Christine L. London Fog: The Biography. Harvard University Press, 2015. 391 pp. Illus. Softcover. Near fine. $15

Woodall, James. Borges: a Life. Basic Books, 1996. 333 pp. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket. $20

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