Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
24th April 2012
The week before last I was in New York. Last week I was back in England, and now it’s off to Paris on Thursday. This children’s book has similar Anglo-American-French connections. It’s the first edition in French (1826) of The Adventures of Congo in Search of his Master; an American Tale by the children’s writer Eliza Farrar. […]
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10th April 2012
As I’m in New York this week, I thought I’d post a suitable book: the first edition in Russian of City Stories told by City Children as they go exploring New York (1928), ‘told from time to time to Miss [Florence E.] Matthews by her seven-year-olds at the Lincoln School’. The talented young translator, Mikhail […]
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