Mamzelle Dragonfly; translated from the French by Linda Coverdale by Confiant, Raphaël - 2000

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 2000. BU3 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good- condition with a dust jacket in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in green paper covered boards quarter bound in burgandy paper with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamps on the half-title page and top outside paper edges plus the dust jacket endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve with the usual library label on the spine that wraps around onto the back plus the endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. A novel about a girl trapped working in the cane fields of Martinique. She is later… Read More

Hard Cover. FSG 2000. Unless Listed in this decription, VG or Better.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000-07-05. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York. 2000. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374199329. Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. 169 pages. hardcover. Jacket art - 'Laetitia' by Catherine Theodose. keywords: Literature Caribbean Black Martinique Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Adelise is a girl trapped working in the cane fields of Martinique. Yearning for communication, she confides in the mysterious flowering tree in her backyard; her mother calls her a dragonfly, for she refuses to settle down and learn that life is not a game. When Adelise is forced to move from her village to Fort-de-France, the island's politically restive capital, her aunt introduces her to the unsavory business of nightlife among the mulatto elite, and she comes to rely even more on an elaborate system of detachment from her body. ‘Raphael Confiant has incontestably become a principal character in French literary history,' a reviewer for Le Monde observed. ‘One is struck by the… Read More

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Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Fine. (1st Thus) Smaller book, maroon spine, darker green boards with very bright gilt initials and design, creased at top front tip and spine top right, very bright gilt lettering on spine, ink name and date at bottom of first front end paper, 169 pages. DJ glossy and colorfully designed with illustration of people on front, ornate design at top and bottom edges. Very Find DJ/Near Very Fine book.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000-07-05. Hardcover. Used:Good.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0374199329 . Very Good in wrappers. Advance Ready Copy (ARC). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .