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London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. Hard Cover. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. First separate edition of this tale from "Arabian Nights"Very good/No dust jacket; moderate wear & light soil to decorated paper boards, top edge gilt, no owner' names, light off-setting on front endpaper, marginal text, deckled pg. edging, 53pp . Hardcover. F. 1914.

MP3 Audio CD. A Lodging For The Night (in Short Story Collection Vol. 055 ) A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT A STORY OF FRANCIS VILLON IT was late in November 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable. To poor people, looking up under moist eyebrows, it seemed a wonder where it all came from. Master Francis Villon had propounded an alternative that afternoon, at a tavern window: was it only Pagan Jupiter plucking geese upon Olympus? or were the holy angels moulting? He was only a poor Master of Arts, he went on; and as the question somewhat touched upon divinity, he durst not venture to conclude. A silly old priest from Montargis, who was among the company, treated the young rascal to a bottle of wine in honour of the jest and the grimaces with which it was accompanied, and swore on his own… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. A Lodging For The Night (in Short Story Collection Vol. 055 ) A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT A STORY OF FRANCIS VILLON IT was late in November 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous, relentless persistence; sometimes the wind made a sally and scattered it in flying vortices; sometimes there was a lull, and flake after flake descended out of the black night air, silent, circuitous, interminable. To poor people, looking up under moist eyebrows, it seemed a wonder where it all came from. Master Francis Villon had propounded an alternative that afternoon, at a tavern window: was it only Pagan Jupiter plucking geese upon Olympus? or were the holy angels moulting? He was only a poor Master of Arts, he went on; and as the question somewhat touched upon divinity, he durst not venture to conclude. A silly old priest from Montargis, who was among the company, treated the young rascal to a bottle of wine in honour of the jest and the grimaces with which it was accompanied, and swore on his own… Read More

Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1902. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Fine/Fine. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. 2nd ed., limited to 425 copies on Japan vellum. 24mo. Stiff wraps with dust jacket. Fine, as new in Near Fine slip case. Leaves unopened. *** part of the Publisher's Brocade Series. ***.

San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1926. First edition thus. Sewn wrappers. Good. 16mo, 27 pages, French wrappers, unopened One of 750 copies printed for C. F. Benoit by the Brothes Johnson, on Rye Mill hand-made paper, with an illustration by Julian A. Links.

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1908. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. Fourth edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xii, 13-71 pages of text. Limited to 425 copies printed on Japan vellum, with the type distributed. Bound is stiff paper wrappers, with minor browning and vertical creasing to spine. Original floral decorated slipcase present, but very shelfworn and somewhat soiled, with seams cracked or cracking, and a few small chips. Contains a few illustrations on title page, head and tailpieces, etc. With a note to the editor, introduced by Sidney Colvin, by French critic and scholar Mr. Marcel Schwob..

San Francisco: The Windsor Press, 1926. Limited edition, 1 of 750 copies on Rye Mill hand made paper, 12mo, pp., vii, [1], 27, [1]; title-page wood engraving by Julian A. Links; original tan cloth-backed boards; a bit shaken, else fine. Not in Beinecke.