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The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Member of the Institute) Modern Library spine 2, ML #22.1
by FRANCE, Anatole
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library / Boni and Liveright. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1921. Hardcover. An early Modern Library reprint edition offering the first novel of Anatole France, pen name of François-Anatole Thibault. Translated from the French, and with an introduction by Lafcadio Hearn. The author had worked as a poet and journalist before trying his hand at prose, a choice which was met with success. --- In Toledano spine #2 / green leatherette ("Croftleather") limp boards / spine with gilt titling & horizontal bars / gilt Modern Library-BL device to cover / Brodzky illustrated M-L endpapers / lacks the dust jacket. Fall 1921 date appears at list of ML titles at rear of volume. ML #22.1. --- A well-preserved copy, though with signature of prior owner to half title page, otherwise unmarked and tightly-bound.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); xii, 281, (8, ads) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85800
- Title
- The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (Member of the Institute) Modern Library spine 2, ML #22.1
- Author
- FRANCE, Anatole
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library / Boni and Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1921
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