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London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. A 1961 reprint edition of the 1930 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition presenting three shorter novels of the 18th century: "The History of Rasselas" by Samuel Johnson, "The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole and "Vathek" by William Beckford. With an introduction and notes by Philip Henderson. Number 856 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full plum cloth-covered boards with spine titling and interlocked "EL" in script at tail of spine, both in copper foil. Volume wrapped in jacket with Douglas Percy Bliss woodcut of a scene from "Rasselas." --- A sound copy but with inked marginal notations to perhaps as many as six pages, prior owner's signature to front free endpaper and discreet Montreal bookseller label… Read More

HBDJ, 1963, 1ST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT ,LARGER FORMAT, A Fine- copy in VG- DJ ,mylar protected DJ with some general rubbing and edgewear SCUFFING & TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS, LAVENDER CLOTH COVER WITH GILT TITLE ON SPINE CVR, SALMON TOPSTAIN, 278 PGS + ADS IN BACK , Novels by Samuel Johnson, WHO MET BOSWEL IN 1766. Horace Walpole & Vathek, an Arabian Tale BY WILLIAM BECKFORD, Inherited Vast fortune at age 9 ,TRANSLATED from Original French by Rev. Samuel Henley SAYS PRICE CATAGORY, ALEGORY OF PRINCE LIVING IN A HAPPY VALLEY WHO SETS OUT IN WORLD TO DISCOVER, SOMETHING HE CAN DESIRE ,, Castle of Otranto, by Horace Walpole a Gothic story & Vathek, an Arabian NIGHTS Tale BY WILIAM BECKFORD, Night of Oriental Mysticism & exotic Splendor TRANSLATED from Original French by Rev. Samuel Henley, NOVE