About this title: France, whose real name was Jacques Anatole Franois Thibault, was born in Paris in 1844. He was a son of a bookseller who began to write novels. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1921.
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Edition: Modern Library Edition
Binding: Flexible Boards
Publisher: The Modern Library, NY
Date Published: 1923
Description: Very Good- Novel by the French literary genius, Anatole France, in which he ridicules belief in the occult. Minor exterior marks. read more
Binding: Leather Like
Publisher: Boni & Liveright, New York
Date Published: 1923
Description: Fair. Black leather like boards with gold titles; some bubbling in boards; few markings on boards; wear to corners of boards and ends of spine; markings on front pastedown and rear endpaper; few additional internal markings; 253 pages; 16mo. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Modern Library, 1923, later printing, ; Flexible brown cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering, pictorial end papers, three small tears about 1/2" on front end paper, spine lightly creased, else a solid copy, near VERY GOOD. A nice copy you will be happy to own! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Boni and Liveright (c.1923).
Description: 1st printing. Leather-like binding. Gilt lettering. Brodsky endpapers. translated by A.V. Stritzko. Introduction by Cabell. Titles list at end of book. Edges worn on spine ends and front cover. Light wrinkling to covers. One inch tear in rear endpaper near top-close to hinge. No dj. Good [modern library]. read more
Binding: Leatherette
Publisher: The Modern Library, New York
Date Published: 1923
Description: Very Good. This 4.5 x 6.5 flexible leatherette cover book has the author's name and title in gold lettering on the binding with the modern library logo in gold on the green cover. 253 pages. Owner's name, otherwise clean copy with tight binding. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library, New York
Date Published: 1923
Description: Very Good. No dustjacket. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page. Includes Modern Library ephemera-clean staple-bound booklet "Important Additions for Spring-1939-A Complete List of 220 Modern Library Titles and 45 Giants". Book is black faux leather boards with Modern Library/BL logo in gold on front cover, gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and surface wear to corners & spine edges, no fraying. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Slight vertical crease to spine. Toledano binding ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: National Home Library Foundation, Washington, D.C., 1935.
Description: 12 mo., hardcover, light corner wear and hinges cracked else VG in maroon boards with black lettering. No dj. Anatole France (1844-1924) is the nom de plume of Jacques Anatole Thibault, poet, critic, satirist and historian. His place in the literary Hall of Fame is universally conceded. As a novelist, Anatole France is surpassed by few. His works reflect the irony and whimsy of an indulgent skeptic. "The Queen Pedauque, " considered by many as one of the world's greatest novels, is a typical ... read more
Edition: First Edition Thusly
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Modern Library, New York
Date Published: 1923
Description: Near Fine with no dust jacket. Green 'leatherette' binding with gilt spine lettering and an oblong gilt device on the front cover. Mild cover wear else a clean copy.; Small Format Volume. read more
Description: Translated by Jos. A.V. Strizko. Introduction by James Branch Cabell. NY: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First printing. Dark blue cloth over flexible boards. Very good. No dust jacket. Small bookstore label in the back, from Paul Elder of San Francisco. read more
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