George Sand [Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin] - Winter in Majorca

Mallorca, Valldemosa Edition, 1956. First edition. Paperback. A smart first edition copy of Robert Grave's translation of George Sand's autobiographical travelogue, 'Winter in Majorca.' The first English edition as translated by Robert Graves of George Sand's autobiographical travel novel written at the time in a relationship with Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer and pianist of the Romantic period. It first appeared in 1841 in the Revue des deux Mondes. Sand, pen name for Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, was one of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, more renowned that Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England. Narrating her trip on the island of Majorca and Chopin's illness during their stay at in the charterhouse of Valldemossa until 1839. Illustrated with seven plates and a map of Majorca. Collated, complete. With the Celda Museo F. Chopin Y G. Sand's stamp to the front free endpaper. In the original publisher's wraps. In the original publisher's illustrated wraps. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only and some minor faint marking. With the Celda Museo F. Chopin Y G. Sand's stamp to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound, The pages are clean with only a hint of age toning, as usual. Illustrated with seven plates and a map of Majorca. Collated, complete. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .

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