The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
London: John Lane the Bodley Head, (1931).
Price: $40.00
Hardcover. First edition thus. 310pp. Gilt titles. Translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Edited by The Late Frederic Chapman and James Lewis May. Illustrated by Zhenya Gay. Bowed rear board, bumped corners and spine ends else very good in a very good dustwrapper with rubbing and very slight spotting.
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Anatole France
birth name: Jacques-Anatole-Francois Thibault
born: 4/16/1844
died: 10/12/1924
nationality: France
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