Author: Miguel de Cervantes; Paul Lefevre-Geraldy (ed.)
Title: Don Quichotte de a Manche. Edition Reduite Et Mise a la Portee de la Jeunesse.
Description: Paris, Delagrave, 1936. Cloth. A very scarce abridged children's edition of Cervantes' renowned novel 'Don Quixote', edited by Paul Lefevre-Geraldy and copiously illustrated throughout by Rene Giffey This work is in the original French. With sixteen charming coloured plates by the renowned French artist, illustrator of books and magazines and comic book writer Rene Giffey. Giffey is commonly cited as one of the most prolific artists of the first half of the twentieth century, as well as a prolific author of a vast range of works in his fifty-year career. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, picturing Don Quixote's humourous attack on a windmill that he believes to be ferocious giants. With 'Huitieme Mille' (eighth thousand) to the title page. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelfwear to extremities. Slight bumping to head and tail of spine and slight creasing to spine. The odd light mark to boards. Internally generally firmly bound, with plate facing page 8 detached but present and plate facing page 58 partially detached to gutter. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: René Giffey. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Illustrated French Geraldy Giffey French Children's Cervantes René Giffey
See more books from our catalog: Children's Literature
Title: Don Quichotte de a Manche. Edition Reduite Et Mise a la Portee de la Jeunesse.
Description: Paris, Delagrave, 1936. Cloth. A very scarce abridged children's edition of Cervantes' renowned novel 'Don Quixote', edited by Paul Lefevre-Geraldy and copiously illustrated throughout by Rene Giffey This work is in the original French. With sixteen charming coloured plates by the renowned French artist, illustrator of books and magazines and comic book writer Rene Giffey. Giffey is commonly cited as one of the most prolific artists of the first half of the twentieth century, as well as a prolific author of a vast range of works in his fifty-year career. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, picturing Don Quixote's humourous attack on a windmill that he believes to be ferocious giants. With 'Huitieme Mille' (eighth thousand) to the title page. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelfwear to extremities. Slight bumping to head and tail of spine and slight creasing to spine. The odd light mark to boards. Internally generally firmly bound, with plate facing page 8 detached but present and plate facing page 58 partially detached to gutter. Pages very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: René Giffey. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: Illustrated French Geraldy Giffey French Children's Cervantes René Giffey
Price: GBP 210.00 = appr. US$ 299.88 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 635M33
- Book number: 635M33
See more books from our catalog: Children's Literature