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, 1954. Hardcover. A 1954 reprint of the 1910 issuance. A single Everyman's Library volume presenting two shorter 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 rose cloth-covered boards with spine titling and 'EL' in script at tail of spine in gilt; orange topstain. Red-orange dust jacket with 'Everyman's Library' surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- An excellent copy: tightly-bound, unmarked but with prior owner's dated signature to front free endpaper and inked gift inscription to its verso. Jacket also nice, though with slight sunning to spine; wrapped in removable clear plastic protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, [2], 230, 8 (ads) pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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