From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter

CARCO FRANCIS

Verlag: London, 1929

Beschreibung

(London: Garant Richards & Humphrey Toulmin at the Cayme Press n.d. [1929]). First UK Edition. Translated by Madeleine Boyd with decorations by Carlegle. Publisher's yellow boards with green lettering to the spine. Offsetting to both sets of end-papers, minor marks to the front board, ex-libris to the front paste-down still overall VG indeed. In the VERY RARE D/W priced 12/6 net to the inside flap (which accords with the English Catalogue of Books (ECB) entry for 1929). A bibliographical note: this book in un-dated but was published in 1929 according to the ECB and not 1928 as erroneously reported elsewhere on the www. Francis Carco - poet, storyteller, critic, playwright and novelist was a master of popular literature and forerunner of the black novel. "His youth dies in the middle of the bohemian Quarter Latin and Butte Montmartre" (Good Reads). In 1923, the French Academy awarded him the Grand Prix of the novel for the Tracked Man. Rare in D/W. Photographs/scans available upon request. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 355490718546

Bibliografische Details

Titel: From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter

Verlag: London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1929

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Dust Jacket

Auflage: First Edition.