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I’m a Stranger Here Myself
Ogden Nash, 1935-38
Little, Brown and Company, US, 10th printing November 1938
gift note on first leaf:
Alixe dear—
A few chortles for Xmas 1938 & all the best of 1939
Love
Eileen
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ex libris signature on first leaf:
Alixe G. Waters
102 Redpath Street
Ottawa
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used price on first leaf: 25¢

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy, 1919
Cassel and Company, UK, popular edition second impression February 1926
ex libris note inside front cover erased, “return to” sill legible

The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy, 1905
Nelson Doubleday, US, 1949

Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
Rafael Sabatini, 1921
Broughton Mifflin, US, 1949

The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas, 1844
Nelson Doubleday, US, 1960

The Man in the Iron Mask
Alexandre Dumas, 1849-50
Dean and Son, UK, ~1960

Tales from the Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio, written 1351-53
translated by Richard Aldington, 1930
Garden City Publishing, US, 1930

It’s OK to have a cartoon crush in your 50s when the character is also in her 50s, right?

Malenky, Vidma and I are all lounging directly in the path of the cool air from the air-conditioner (Vidma is under the chair I’m sitting on)

Rabbit, Run
John Updike, 1960
The Franklin Library, US, 1977
signed by author on third leaf