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A Woman's Life
by Maupassant, Guy de
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Orig. white leather spine and marbled boards. Very good in very good matching marbled slipcase
- Seller
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ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1952. Hardcover. Orig. white leather spine and marbled boards. Very good in very good matching marbled slipcase. Illustrated by Edy Legrand. Translated from the French by Marjorie Laurie; with an Introduction by Edmond Jaloux. NEWMAN & WICHE 226. Marbled boards and white, quarter calf with brown leather spine label. Backstrip darkened, spine label nicked at foot.
Synopsis
Jeanne, ayant fini ses malles, s'approcha de la fenetre, mais la pluie ne cessait pas. L'averse, toute la nuit, avait sonne contre les carreaux et les toits. Le ciel bas et charge d'eau semblait creve, se vidant sur la terre, la delayant en bouillie, la fondant comme du sucre. Des rafales passaient pleines d'une chaleur lourde. Le ronflement des ruisseaux debordes emplissait les rues desertes ou les maisons, comme des eponges, buvaient l'humidite qui penetrait au-dedans et faisait suer les murs de la cave au grenier. Jeanne, sortie la veille du couvent, libre enfin pour toujours, prete a saisir tous les bonheurs de la vie dont elle revait depuis si longtemps, craignait que son pere hesitat a partir si le temps ne s'eclaircissait pas, et pour la centieme fois depuis le matin elle interrogeait l'horizon. Puis elle s'apercut qu'elle avait oublie de mettre son calendrier dans son sac de voyage. Elle cueillit sur le mur le petit carton divise par mois, et portant au milieu d'un dessin la date de l'annee courante 1819 en chiffres d'or. Puis elle biffa a coups de crayon les quatre premieres colonnes, rayant chaque nom de saint jusqu'au 2 mai, jour de sa sortie du couvent.
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- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2739
- Title
- A Woman's Life
- Author
- Maupassant, Guy de
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. white leather spine and marbled boards. Very good in very good matching marbled slipcase
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Press; Women; Social Life; Ltd. Ed. Club;
Terms of Sale
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
All books returnable 10 days of invoice date with prior notification
About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
About Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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