The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes)

New York: New Directions, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. g+. Octavo. xix, 306pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over light green cloth with black lettering on cover. Translated by Françoise Delisle; introduction by Havelock Ellis; cover design by Alvin Lustig. Reprint of the first American edition, originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1928. No printed date, other than the original retained "1928", likely printed circa 1946. "No other writer has so surely captured the poignancy, the mystery, the "out-of-this-world" quality of the first love that grows out of childhood's longing for the unknown. In France The Wanderer is a recognized classic, having gone through some eighty printings and been translated into many other languages" (publisher). DJ with minor wear along edges, small chips and tears; jacket price clipped and protected by Brodart. Binding with minor wear along edges. Previous owner's name on free front endpaper. Block lightly age-toned with very few pencil marks in margins. DJ, binding and interior in overall good+ condition.