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The Works of Anatole France
France, Anatole · New York
- Author
- France, Anatole
- Date
- 1924
- Place
- New York
- Publisher
- Gabriel Wells
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 8vo. Beautifully bound in full period green morocco by Spikeman, gilt, top edge gilt, inset leather doublures and silk endpapers. Spine with 4 raised compartments, 2nd panel has gilt stamped title and volume number and 4th panel has title of contents, remaining 3 panels have very heay gilt designswith vine borders and fleur-de-lis center. 5 rule gilt border on covers surround the extensive gilt vines with large fleur-de-lis in each corner.
- Format
- THE AUTOGRAPH EDITION. FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY ANATOLE FRANCE, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. One of 1075 copies. Printed on laid paper and finely bound, with portrait of author to first volume.
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.3567
8vo. 1824. New York: Gabriel Wells. THE AUTOGRAPH EDITION. FIRST VOLUME SIGNED BY ANATOLE FRANCE, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. 30 volumes in total. One of 1075 copies. Printed on laid paper and finely bound, with portrait of author to first volume. All volumes bound in salmon cloth with large, uniform red, gilt lettered leather title labels near the top of the spine. Gilt blind stamped overlayed initials in the center of front cover, top edge gilt. The label of volume XXVII is slightly brighter than the other.
Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament".
France is also widely believed to be the model for narrator Marcel's literary idol Bergotte in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time.
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