BUTLER (Samuel) and Valery LARBAUD: 3 titles. First editions - Lot 18

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BUTLER (Samuel) and Valery LARBAUD: 3 titles. First editions - Lot 18
BUTLER (Samuel) and Valery LARBAUD: 3 titles. First editions of the translations. - Erewhon, or Beyond the Mountains. Translated from English by Valéry Larbaud. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française, 1920, in-8, 2ff.-XXXIIpp.-230pp.-1f. Paperback. One of the 8 non-commercial copies (A through H; this one is G), among the 120 special edition copies reprinted on Lafuma-Navarre pure-fiber laid paper. Raymond Gallimard’s copy with his woodcut ex-libris. First edition of Larbaud’s translation and introduction. Printed in a run of 1,160 copies. - New Journeys in Erewhon, undertaken twenty years after the country’s discovery by the first explorer and his son. Translated from the English by Valery Larbaud. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924, in-8, 308 pp. – 1 f. Paperback, untrimmed. - One of 8 non-commercial copies (A through H; this one is G), among the 108 special advance copies reprinted on Lafuma-Navarre pure-thread laid paper. Margins very slightly dusty. First edition of Larbaud’s translation and preface. - *La Vie et l’habitude*. Translated... by Valery Larbaud. Paris, Nouvelle Revue Française, 1922, small in-4, 291 pp. – 2 ff. Paperback. - One of 108 deluxe copies reprinted in tellière quarto format on Lafuma-Navarre pure-thread laid paper. The first 8, marked A through H (this one is G), were not for sale. Margins slightly dusty; spine and cover edges very slightly yellowed. First edition of the translation. Printed in a run of 898 copies.
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