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Abacus Books
Richard Chant
504 Main St., Unit B Longmont CO 80501
303-817-7349 or 303-717-5476
www.abacususedbooks.com
richard_chant@hotmail.com
Academic and Collectible Books, General Antiquarian Books
Booth Number: 59

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Picasso: Toreros. Sabartes, Jaime. New York: New York, Georg Braziller, Monte-Carlo, Andre Sauret. 1961.

Description: First American edition with four original lithographs by Picasso executed exclusively for this book. One color and three black and white. Hard cover bright red with black illustration and pictorial endpapers. Book is clean and unmarked with a tight binding. Dust jacket shows some rubbing to edges and is price clipped.

Price $2000.00

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Queen Victoria, Special Copy Extra Illustrated. Strachey, Lytton. Chatto & Windus, London. 1921.

Description: Two volumes in contemporary blue leather bindings by BAYNTUN, Bath, England. Both volumes show small amount of rubbing to gilt fore-edges otherwise very good throughout.

Price $995.00

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The Cynic's Word Book. Bierce, Ambrose. New York, Doubleday Page & Company. 1906.

Description: Inscribed by author to his niece. First edition. Inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper. To my beloved niece/Lora, whom I am/so unfortunate as/ never to have seen./ Ambrose Bierce./ Washington, D.C./October 19, 1906. Dark green cloth, black and red illustrations, top edge gilt. Front hinge starting and light rubbing to cover and spine ends.

Price $2200.00