Marguerite
by France, Anatole
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1921. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Translated from the original French by J. Lewis France (Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, 1844-1924), a bibliophile and librarian, was a prominent supporter, with Zola, of Alfred Dreyfus. In 1921 (the year of this book's publication) he won the Nobel Prize; in the year all of his works were put on the Index of banned books by the Roman Catholic Church. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition in English. Translated from the original French by J. Lewis May, and illustrated with 29 delightful woodcuts by Simeon. Brown paper-covered boards with a tan linen spine. Illustrated paper label on the front cover; red lettering on the spine. Clean text; 75 pages, followed by one page with a final illustration. Exceptionallly bright text. Red topstain; other page ends rough-cut. There is a previous-owner signature on the FFEP dated 1923. A sweet little book; no dustjacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. Illus. by Simeon. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004289
- Title
- Marguerite
- Author
- France, Anatole
- Illustrator
- Simeon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Lane The Bodley Head Limited
- Place of Publication
- London & New York
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature;
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
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- New
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
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