La Tentation De St Antoine

Paris: [Jean-Gabriel Daragnès], 1942.

Price: $400.00

Softcover. Limited edition in French. Illustrated by J[ean].G[abriel]. Daragnès and with an introduction by Paul Valéry. Folio. Loose unbound gatherings laid into paper wrappers with both a clear and yellow acetate dustwrapper with accompanying paper clamshell case. Fine in about fine outer acetate wrapper with just a touch of wear with about near fine clamshell with some wear at the spine ends. Inscribed by Daragnès on the front free endpaper. A limited edition of 1480; this is copy #589.

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Item #130747 La Tentation De St Antoine. Gustave FLAUBERT, J. G. Daragnès, Paul Valéry.

Gustave Flaubert
birth name: Gustave Flaubert
born: 12/12/1821
died: 5/8/1880

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Novelist regarded as the foremost exponent of the realist school of French literature and best known for the work that is generally regarded as his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore