At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque

London: Bodley Head, 1912.

Price: $19.50

Good. No endpaper. Former owner's address sticker on page before title page. Inside back cover has tear at hinge.; The works of Anatole France in an English translation by Fredric Chapman. Top edge is gold. Small tears at the spine ends. Discolored spine. Slightly bumped corners.

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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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Biography

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