Mirror of Venus

New York: Random House / Ridge Press, (1966).

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Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Near fine in a good only dustwrapper with a chip on the rear panel, and a couple of creased tears on the front panel. Nicely Inscribed by the photographer to a noted journalist : "To Donald Whistar Diehl, a fellow connoisseur of fine wine, with admiration and affection, Wingate Holmes Paine. New York September, 1966." The first edition is uncommon, but much more so inscribed. Hasselblad. *The Open Book* pp. 224-225.

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Item #92615 Mirror of Venus. Wingate PAINE, Federico Fellini Françoise Sagan.

Francoise Sagan
birth name: Francoise Quoirez
born: 6/21/1935
died: 9/24/2004

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French novelist and dramatist who wrote her first and best-known novel, the international best-seller Bonjour Tristesse (1954), when she was 19. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore