Author: MAUPASSANT Guy de
Title: The Mountain Inn and other Stories. A New Translation by H N P Sloman. [Penguin Classics]. DAVID GENTLEMAN'S FIRST COMMISSION FOR PENGUIN
Description: Penguin, [Harmondsworth,, 1955]. Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original pictorial green wrappers, a near fine copy. First appearance in Rieu's renowned 'Penguin Classics' series, and first publication of Sloman's translation. The cover roundel is designed by David Gentleman: 'This was one of the first jobs that I was ever paid for by anybody and it was the first thing I did for Penguins…I did a rough in my digs in Battersea at the time and posted it back to [Tanya] Schmoller or John [Curtis] at Penguins and they sent it back more or less instantly and I engraved it at the next weekend'. [John Curtis Memorial Evening, 2006]. Penguin Classics L65.

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