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flaubert and madame bovary: A Double Portrait
by Francis Steegmuller
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/no DJ
- Seller
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Kirkland, Washington, United States
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About This Item
433pp. Light sunning to top inch of cover. No dj. Small foxing stain on bottom corner of half-title page, otherwise a clean, tight, unmarked copy. Signed and inscribed by author on ffep to Bobby Berg: "With all good wishes to Bobby Berg from Francis Steegmuller January '57." Berg's bookplate is on facing page. See three photos. Included is bookseller's label on back inside cover from Hartman's Books Inc, Seattle with original sale price and year acquired. A nice copy of this well-regarded biography of Flaubert and analysis of "Madame Bovary." Rare signed copy.
Synopsis
Francis Steegmuller was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1906, and educated in the public schools of Greenwich and at Columbia University. He was the author of many works about French culture and its great literary figures; translator of Gustave Flaubert’s letters and of the Modern Library edition of Madame Bovary . He was the recipient of many literary honors, including the National Book Award for his biography of Jean Cocteau, and he was a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Steegmuller divided his life between New York City and Europe. In 1963, he married the novelist Shirley Hazzard. He died in Naples in 1994. Victor Brombert is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton, and has served as chairman of its Council of Humanities. A former president of the Modern Language Association and member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author of a dozen books of literary criticism, in addition to his wartime memoirs Trains of Thought . He has published extensively on Flaubert, both in this country and in France.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Books Northwest
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1984
- Title
- flaubert and madame bovary
- Author
- Francis Steegmuller
- Format/Binding
- Wheat cloth boards with brown type on cover and spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- no DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing first edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Flaubert Madame Bovary Biography
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