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Stendhal The Red and the Black
Philadelphia and New York John C. Winston Company 1949 Hard Cover Very Good Fair Frede Vidar
Author aka Marie-Henri Boyle (1753-1842). Red cloth, gilt-stamped lettering & ruled decorations on spine, gilt-stamped title & decoration on front cover, xxiv, 328pp plus three watercolor plates, illustrated half-title page, double title pages & chapter pages in b/w, plus frontispiece illustration of author. First Thus Edition. One of "The Ten Greatest Novels of the World" as selected & edited by W. Somerset Maugham. "Mr. Maugham has edited and condensed his selections, to bring the reader a classic in the modern tempo, excluding the lengthy and wearisome passages originally written when authors were paid by the word." Newly translated by Joan Charles for this edition. Spine ends & corners bumped, edges moderately faded, text crisp & clean. Dust jacket has significant edgechipping, has a thumb-sized open tear at spine panel top & chipping at bottom (title, author & publisher lettering is intact), has a large open tear at bottom of back panel with intrusion into part of the last four lines of publisher's blurb, the upper 2" of the front flap has been removed (with the price & title lettering lacking but synopsis is intact), protected in a new Gaylord-brand archival clear plastic cover (removable). The Red and the Black was published as Le Roughe et le Noire when the author was 47. It examined political and social conditions of France during the period 1815-30 through the experiences of Julien Sorel, a hero and villain.
Price:
12.50 USD
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