Author: FRANCE, ANATOLE
Title: The Red Lily Modern Library Spine 2, ML #7. 1
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Boni and Liveright, [c.1919-1925]. Hardcover. An early Modern Library reprint edition presenting Anatole France's 1894 novel, which is the story about a love affair between a worldly woman, married to a politician, and an artist. The novel is partially based on France's own affair with with Madame Arman de Caillavet. Parts of the story are set in Florence, whose coat of arms is dominated by a red lily. Anatole France is the pseudonym of François-Anatole Thibault. --- In Toledano spine #2 / dark blue leatherette ("Croftleather") limp boards / spine with gilt titling & horizontal bars / gilt Modern Library-BL device to cover / Brodzky illustrated M-L endpapers / blue topstain / lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1919-1925 (no publication date appears in book). ML #7.1. --- A well-preserved copy, tightly-bound and unmarked save for a small 'X' to textblock lower edge and with minor wear to cover extremities.; 16mo (6 to 7 in. tall); (2), 251 pages. Very Good+ with no dust jacket .

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