Le Ventre du Grand Bouddha
by COTARD, JEAN [INSCRIBED w/ ALS]
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Slight creasing to spine, light foxing and wear to wraps, with small tear to backstrip at spine head, else fine. JBS-124
- Seller
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Addison, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Slight creasing to spine, light foxing and wear to wraps, with small tear to backstrip at spine head, else fine. JBS-124.
Jean Cotard. Le Ventre du Grand Bouddha: Contes Extrordinaires et Coloniaux (The Belly of the Great Buddha: Extraordinary and Colonial Tales). Paris: L. Fournier (Collecion de L'Ancre), 1931. First edition.
Inscribed by Jean Cotard with additional four-page autograph letter signed laid-in.
Small octavo. 300pp. Publisher's printed card wraps, lettered in red and black to spine and covers, deckled edges. Text in French.
From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs.
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- Bookseller
- InkQ Rare Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124
- Title
- Le Ventre du Grand Bouddha
- Author
- COTARD, JEAN [INSCRIBED w/ ALS]
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight creasing to spine, light foxing and wear to wraps, with small tear to backstrip at spine head, else fine. JBS-124
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Keywords
- Drugs, Opium, Memoir, ALS
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