Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY PROSE on the title page. In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. Autobiography of the owner of the bookshop La Maison des Amis des Livres in Paris, a center, between the World Wars, for the best contemporary French writing and for its authors. 536 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original blue cloth-backed boards. Quarto. 17 pages & 8 plates. From a limited printing of 385 copies under the direction of Bruce Rogers. Also laid in :2 color photos and one b&w photo of the medallion. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Methuen, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 256 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Ernest Howard Shepard was an English artist and book illustrator, best remembered for his charming illustrations of the beloved anthropomorphic animals in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. This fascinating study of Shepard, detailing his childhood, education and artistic development, is richly illustrated throughout with his works. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The marriage of William Michael Rossetti and Lucy Madox Brown united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship provides a fresh perspective on 19th-century marriage and on the private lives of eminent Victorians.
Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 234 pages, b&w plates. Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the ?Antichrist "embodied by contemporary society?to ?witness against the beast." Clean copy.
 "The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired (SIGNED COPY) by: Prose, Francine")
 "The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier: An Intimate Portrait of the Literary and Artistic Life in Paris Between the Wars by: Monnier, Adrienne; translated by McDouga")
 "The Wedgwood Medallion of Samuel Johnson: A Study in Iconography by: Tinker, Chauncey Brewster")
 "The Work of E H Shepard by: Knox, Rawle (ed.)")
 "William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis by: Thirwell, Angela")
 "Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law by: Thompson, E. P.")