signed first edition Softcover
1944 · New York
by FLANNER, Janet
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. Very faint dampstain to the tops of the front and rear wrapper and a very faint horizontal crease on the right side of the front wrap, still a nice, very good plus copy of an extremely scarce book. Flanner's view of Marshall Pétain, WWI hero turned figurehead for the Nazi-controlled Vichy government in WWII. This copy Inscribed by the author to *New Yorker* colleague James Thurber and his wife: "To the Thurbers, and the South of France, and their Cook. Janet." A superb association.
(Inventory #: 41058)