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MP3 Audio CD. The Wolf-Leader INTRODUCTION WHO MOCQUET WAS, AND HOW THIS TALE BECAME KNOWN TO THE NARRATOR I Why, I ask myself, during those first twenty years of my literary life, from 1827 to 1847, did I so rarely turn my eyes and thoughts towards the little town where I was born, towards the woods amid which it lies embowered, and the villages that cluster round it? How was it that during all that time the world of my youth seemed to me to have disappeared, as if hidden behind a cloud, whilst the future which lay before me shone clear and resplendent, like those magic islands which Columbus and his companions mistook for baskets of flowers floating on the sea? Alas! simply because during the first twenty years of our life, we have Hope for our guide, and during the last twenty, Reality. From the hour when, weary with our journey, we ungird ourselves, and dropping the traveller’s staff, sit down by the way-side, we begin to look back over the road that we have traversed; for it is the… Read More

MP3 Audio CD. The Wolf-Leader INTRODUCTION WHO MOCQUET WAS, AND HOW THIS TALE BECAME KNOWN TO THE NARRATOR I Why, I ask myself, during those first twenty years of my literary life, from 1827 to 1847, did I so rarely turn my eyes and thoughts towards the little town where I was born, towards the woods amid which it lies embowered, and the villages that cluster round it? How was it that during all that time the world of my youth seemed to me to have disappeared, as if hidden behind a cloud, whilst the future which lay before me shone clear and resplendent, like those magic islands which Columbus and his companions mistook for baskets of flowers floating on the sea? Alas! simply because during the first twenty years of our life, we have Hope for our guide, and during the last twenty, Reality. From the hour when, weary with our journey, we ungird ourselves, and dropping the traveller’s staff, sit down by the way-side, we begin to look back over the road that we have traversed; for it is the… Read More

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Prime Press 1950., 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Hardcover.\r\nMinor wear to the dust jacket.\r\nNo cover wear.\r\nClean unmarked text. \r\nTight binding.

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GB: Methuen, 1921. Brown cloth lettered and decorated in black. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. BUT front endpaper browned and paper margins bit browned.. Hardback. VG+/No DW.

237 pages, Cloth. Edited from the Translation of Alfred Allinson by L. Sprague de Camp. Dust jacket and illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. Werewolf story. Book has some light edge wear with a small edge tear at the top of the spine. Dust jacket has numerous small edge tears and small chips at bottom of spine.

Philadelphia: Prime Press. Good+ with no dust jacket; Spine slightly canted and bumped, some smudges . on covers. Pages yellowing.. 1950. Hardcover. L. Sprague de Camp's edit of the Alfred Allinson translation. Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine. ; 8vo; 237 pages .

Philadelphia: Prime Press, [1950]. First U. S. edition. Damp stain corners of cloth, upper corners a bit bumped, a good to very good copy in a good dust jacket with chipping at corners and upper front panel with loss, damp staining at corners and flap edges, tape repair to verso of front spine fold with some bleed through. (24189). Octavo, illustrations by Mahlon Blaine, cloth. THE WOLF-LEADER was first published in Paris by Cadot in 1857 in three volumes. "Dumas's most successful supernatural work by far ... an entertaining historical romance based on traditional legends of the werewolf." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 138. "An excellent story based in the folklore which Dumas encountered as a child..." - Barron: Horror Literature 2-23. Illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 568. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 73. In 333. Bleiler (1978), p. 65. Reginald 04573.

36 Exxex St., London: Methuen & Co.. One of the "Novels of Alexandre Dumas" series put out by Methuen around 1904. Red cloth gilt titles with three colorful plates by Adams. "Never before translated into English" - stated on title page. No markings. general cover wear and some light stains to bottom edge and bottom corners. Light browning of endpaper matching the direct outline of the first color-plate - so probably typical chemicals in the paper ageing. Rare and in decent shape. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 10" Tall . VG. Hardcover. Circa 1904. 1904.