Author: PREVOST, Abbe
Title: The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier Des Grieux
Description: New York, The Heritage Press, 1935. Hardcover. Translation by Helen Waddell. Illustrations by Pierre Brissaud. Small 4to. Leatherette spine with gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards, slipcase. xi, 155pp. Color frontispiece and full-page color illustrations. Very good/very good. Spine sunned on otherwise near fine volume; slipcase a tad edgeworn only. Tight and attractive "poor man's LEC" trade edition of this scandalous, once-banned and often-pirated 1731 French fiction about illicit love in early 18th century France and Louisiana. Appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in. .

Keywords: World Literature


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