Lafcadio's Adventures by Gide, Andre - 1953

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

binding is tight, spine is lightly cocked, no spine crease,, spine ends are chipped, covers are rubbed and lightly worn, no tears, a few pages at the end are very lightly creased, text is clean and unmarked, pages and inside covers are lightly yellowed, page edges are lightly soiled

Vintage. Used - Like New. 2003. Paperback. Small remainder mark. Fine.

Vintage Books, 1953. Mass Market Paperback. Good. (Originally published, 1914) Mass-market paperback, color-illustrated wrapper, three round holes punched through bottom front wrapper, another through first front end paper and title page. Wrappers badly rubbed, very slight wear to spine edges. Near Good.

Vintage, 2003-05-13. Paperback. Like New.

New York: Vintage, 1953. good mass market paperback with some wear . Mass Market Paperback. Good.

Vintage V-96, New York, unknown printing. Condition: Near fine, very light edge and corner wear, price sticker on front cover.French writer, humanist, and moralist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Gide's search for self, the underlying theme of his several works, remained essentially religious. Throughout his career Gide used his writings to examine moral questions. He is as well known for his influence as a moralist and a thinker as for his contributions to literature. Lafcadio Wluiki is one of the original creations in modern fiction. Gide's preoccupation with the gratuitous action, the unmotivated crime-it has a place in more than one of his books-here receives its most extended treatment, and Lafcadio is the instrument. With characteristic irony, Gide leads the police to a solution wherein the wrong man is apprehended and punished for the crime, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio goes free. The action passes with cinematographic speed, chiefly in the capitals of Europe. The… Read More

Vintage, 2003-05-13. Paperback. New.

Vintage Books, January 1953. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack . Good. Mass market paperback with sun-lightened spine. Edgewear/shelf worn. [242 pages plus five page list of Vintage paperback titles then available]

U.S.: Vintage Solid with light wear on the covers and the interior is unmarked.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good.