Author: Anatole France
Title: Histoire Contemporaine. Le Mannequin D&Apos;Osier
Description: Paris, Calmann Levy, 1897 . Leather. A smart copy of the twenty-first thousandth of this novel by Anatole France, published in the same year as the first edition. In the original French.An early copy of the second volume of France's tetralogy 'Histoire Contemporaine', depicting the humour of bourgeois society at the end of the nineteenth century. France was a prolific French poet, journalist and novelist, who won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature.With the bookplate of Ronald Lindsay to the front pastedown. Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay was a British civil servant and diplomat. He held several important posts, including Minister Plenipotentiary to France, Ambassador to Turkey and later Germany, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, before becoming the Ambassador to the United States. Lindsay married twice, first to Martha Cameron, and after her death, to Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt. In a quarter morocco binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing to board perimeters, most concentrated to rear board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with light spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: The Wicker Mannequin Ronald Lindsay L'Orme du mail Anatole France Ronald Lindsay None
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Title: Histoire Contemporaine. Le Mannequin D&Apos;Osier
Description: Paris, Calmann Levy, 1897 . Leather. A smart copy of the twenty-first thousandth of this novel by Anatole France, published in the same year as the first edition. In the original French.An early copy of the second volume of France's tetralogy 'Histoire Contemporaine', depicting the humour of bourgeois society at the end of the nineteenth century. France was a prolific French poet, journalist and novelist, who won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature.With the bookplate of Ronald Lindsay to the front pastedown. Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay was a British civil servant and diplomat. He held several important posts, including Minister Plenipotentiary to France, Ambassador to Turkey and later Germany, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, before becoming the Ambassador to the United States. Lindsay married twice, first to Martha Cameron, and after her death, to Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt. In a quarter morocco binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing to board perimeters, most concentrated to rear board. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned, with light spotting throughout. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .
Keywords: The Wicker Mannequin Ronald Lindsay L'Orme du mail Anatole France Ronald Lindsay None
Price: GBP 44.00 = appr. US$ 62.83 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 863F25
- Book number: 863F25
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