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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wraps clean. 400pp. lightly tanned with light pencilling to a page or two. Binding tight. No prev ownership marks.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Very Good Minus. First Edition. Essays (by various contributors) on relevant topics to mark the retirement of R.L. Graeme Ritchie (1880-1954) from the Chair of French Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham. Topics covered include: Proust and Hardy/'A Semantic Group in Alpine Romance'/'A Bibliography of Eighteenth-Century Translations of Voltaire'/Rene Bruyez/'An Anglo-French Collection of Books in the Royal Malta Library'/Theophile Gautier/Pontigny/'Two French Attempts to Invade England during the Hundred Years' War'/'Ernest Renan and Alfred Loisy'/Taine and the Goncourt Brothers, etc. First Edn., 1949; full green cloth; titling/plain rules blocked in gilt (bright) to spine; xvi+259+[1]pp.; illus. bw. portrait frontispiece. Spine very lightly crushed at tail, but clean/bright/robust; boards clean/robust/quite crisp/very bright; top/fore edges lightly foxed, but pages very clean/crisp/bright; dj. very lightly foxed on front and lightly rubbed at top/bottom edges, with very small nicks to top of lightly scuffed/lightly sunned spine, but clean/complete. No inscriptions. VG in VG- unclipped dj. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by MARGERY B. ALEXANDER (Frontispiece) (illustratore). Hardback.…