John Dickson Carr’s The Emperor’s Snuff-Box is a 1942 mystery, here in a P. F. Collier hardcover with a skull-and-question-mark cover. G. A. Henty’s Friends Though Divided sets its adventure in England’s Civil War. Dr. Seuss’s The King’s Stilts is a story of a king and his stilts from 1939. In French, Colette remembers her childhood home in La Maison de Claudine, in a 1931 printing with woodcuts by Clément Serveau. In Spanish, Manuel Ciges Aparicio wrote of life and suffering in a hospital, and René Avilés Fabila’s Tantadel, a Mexican novel, is here in its 1975 first edition.
The Emperor’s Snuff-Box, 1942, in a P. F. Collier hardcover.
G. A. Henty’s adventure, in blue cloth with gilt decoration.
The King’s Stilts, copyright 1939, in a later yellow-cloth printing.
La Maison de Claudine, in a 1931 printing with woodcuts by Clément Serveau.
Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s book of illness and suffering.
René Avilés Fabila’s Tantadel, in its 1975 first edition.
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