About this title: Set in Tahiti in 1872, this is an autobiographical novel that tells of the love affair between a beautiful island girl and the French naval officer who wrote under the name of Pierre Loti.
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Description: Good. Book has medium cover wear, light cover lift, spine creases, light creases on covers, small-light page edge soiling, small rub wear on cover. Each book individually hand cleaned. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Co., NY
Description: Good with no Dust Jacket; Condition. Red cloth. Vintage bookplate to front pastedown. Interior pages very good. Color frontispiece. 8vo.; 217 pages pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: KPI., London and New York.
Date Published: 1986
ISBN-13:9780710302311ISBN:0710302312
Description: Very Good. Very good. Softbound 8vo. Pierre Loti was the pseudonym of L.M.J. Viaud, a noted French travel writer. This semi-autobiographical romance contains descriptions of Tahiti in the 1870s: Queen Pomare, the Tahitian people, and a young midshipman's romance of and marriage to "a savage bride. " 217pp. Three b/w illus. Reprint. read more
Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stokes, NY
Date Published: ca1930
Description: First us? . Very good hardcover. Name inside front cover. Label brown on spine, torn on top edge of front board. Translated by Clara Bell. read more
Description: Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, No Date, circa 1930? Translated from the French by Clara Bell. Color frontis illustration. Hardcover. 9 inches tall. 217 pages. Maroon cloth with darkened paper label on spine saying The Works of Pierre Lotti., and also publisher and title. VG (tight copy with a small remnant of masking tape on front free endpaper and some foxing on first 20 or so pages; several pages uncut)/ No dj. read more
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