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MAUROIS André. La Machine à lire les pensées. Paris, NRF, Gallimard, 1937. 19 x 12,5 cm, bound, dark blue half-chagrin with corners, spine with 4 nerves with gilt author and title, gilt head, cover and spine cons. First edition, 1/650 numbered copies on alfa foam of Navarre paper mills. Ex-dono ms. Spine faded, spotting. With, from the same: - Etats-Unis 39. Journal d'un voyage en Amérique. Paris, Editions de France, 1939. 21 x 14 cm, in a binding identical to the previous one, showing the same marks of wear. First edition, 1/100 numbered copies on vellum pur fil Lafuma. - The Speech of Doctor O'Grady. Illustrations by Ch. Martin. Brussels, Editions du Nord, collection Les Gloires littéraires n° XVI, 1932. 21 x 15,5 cm, paperback, illustrated cover. 1/1000 numbered copies on Allura vellum. Small light stain at the top of the 1st plate. - Ariel ou La Vie de Shelley. Illustrations by Ferdinand Fargeot. Paris, Editions Mornay, M.CM.XXXII. [1932]. 20,5 x 15,5 cm, paperback, ill. ed. cover. 1/852 numbered copies on Rives. Fold to spine, tiny tear at foot. - The Silences of Colonel Bramble. Headers and off-text drawn on lithographic stone by Guy Arnoux. Versailles, Jean Variot, 1928. 25 x 19,5 cm, paperback, ill. cover. 1/1045 numbered copies on white vellum of Rives. - Two fragments of a universal history 1992. Paris, Editions des Portiques, 1928. 19 x 12 cm, paperback, publisher's printed cover, silver library label. Ex-libirs ms. with scratched mention. Covers faded, spine partly detached. Set of 6 volumes.