At the Sign of the Queen Pedauque

New York: Rams Head, 1930.

Price: $19.50

Hardcover. Limited. Illustrated by Alexander King. Good hardcover. Numbered 45 out of 1000 copies. Name plate inside front cover. Title of book on piece of blue paper tipped in on inside rear cover. Shelf rubbing to cover. Edges of blue cover light yellow. Edges of spine starting to fray. Spine browned. Pages look clean.

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Anatole France
birth name: Jacques-Anatole-Francois Thibault
born: 4/16/1844
died: 10/12/1924
nationality: France

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Writer and ironic, skeptical, and urbane critic who was considered in his day the ideal French man off letters. He was elected to the Academie Francaise in 1896 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore