first edition Hardcover
1927 · London/New York
by France, Anatole and John Austen (illustrator)
London/New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head/ Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. 1st Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. VG/VG- (dust jacket has wear and tears, pages are very clean). Black cloth boards with gilt stamped design and lettering on front cover and spine, black dust jacket with red lettering and design on front and spine, blue decorative end pages, color frontispiece with tissue guard, 285 pages, 12 unnumbered color leaves of plates, bw illustrations throughout, untrimmed pages. This is a first illustrated edition with original dust jacket. Translated by Alfred Allinson with illustrations and decorations by John Austen.
(Inventory #: 176589)