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£60 - £80

4 x Antique Part Leather French Fiction Classics inc: L'homme qui assassina (Claude Farrère 1907) Marie-Claire (Marguerite Adoux 1911) Arènes Sanglants (V Blasco Ibanez 1909) &Une Main Sur La Nuque (V. Cyril 1909).  L'homme qui assassina (Librarie Paul Ollendorff), Marie-Claire (Charpentier) Arènes Sanglants (Calmann-Lévy) & Une Main Sur La Nuque (UNION DE LITTERATURE ET D'ART / LIBRAIRIE) All four volumes are in Finet condition with superb leather spines and marbled boards (slight corner scuffing) Clean and tight pages.

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L'homme qui assassina (Librarie Paul Ollendorff), Marie-Claire (Charpentier) Arènes Sanglants (Calmann-Lévy) & Une Main Sur La Nuque (UNION DE LITTERATURE ET D'ART / LIBRAIRIE) All four volumes are in Finet condition with superb leather spines and marbled boards (slight corner scuffing) Clean and tight pages. Provenance: This lot was amongst a collection from the house of a wealthy French family who lived in the 16th arrondissment of Paris, known for ornate buildings and wide boulevards and a favourite of Parisian high society. The gentleman who purchased them was born in 1877 and spent the war years in the same house, having sent his wife children to stay in the Pyrenees to avoid the Nazi occupation of Paris.  He was unable to get out in time but was fortunate enough to be able to sit out the occupation, keeping these and all other books in the collection safe from the Nazis.