MAPE: THE WORLD OF ILLUSION ... Translated by Eric Sutton ..
first edition
1926 · New York
by Maurois, Andre (pseudonym of Emile Herzog)
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1926. Octavo, original moiree-pattern orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, light orange endpapers. First U.S. edition. first printing, with code "(1)" at base of text on page [247]. Three short novellas, fictionalized treatments of Goethe, Balzac and the actress Sarah Siddons -- all within the overall framework of an invented world named "Mape." A bright, clean, very good copy. (#118726) (Inventory #: 118726)