Author: DAUDET, ALPHONSE
Title: Tartarin of Tarascon -and- Tartarin on the Alps (Everyman's Library #423)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1969. Hardcover. A 1969 reprint of the 1910 issuance. A single Everyman's Library volume presenting the two novels by Alphonse Daudet, both of which feature his Tartarin of Tarascon character. Tartarin is described on the jacket flap as ".a more robust Don Quixote transported from the Spain of 1600 to the France of 1850.". Rendered into English by unspecified translator(s), and with an introduction by Jean-Pierre Richard. Everyman's Library #423, an entry in EL's "Fiction" series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full brown cloth-covered boards with spine titling and "EL" in script at tail of spine in gilt; orange topstain. Yellow dust jacket with "Everyman's Library" surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- An excellent copy: tightly-bound, unmarked and lacking damages worthy of mention. Jacket also nice, though with light soiling to back panel and with some tanning to verso; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 230 pages. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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