The Living Thoughts of Montaigne by Gide, Andre - 1942

Cassell & Company, 1942. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1942. Second Edition. 138 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with light tanning and foxing to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Ink stamp inscription to title page. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and splits to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

Longmans, Green & Co. Hardcover. Good. Good condition. Missing dust jacket. Clean inside.

London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney: Cassell & Co Ltd, 1946. 2nd Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Clean red cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. Light corner / spine bumping otherwise no wear. Cut edges clean, top red tinted. Decorated endpapers. Clean age yellowed text block. B/w woodcut frontispiece of subject. Binding solid. No jacket.

Hardcover. Very Good. Very good red cloth hardcover, in no dustjacket, edgeworn slightly at corners. 1st ed/ thus, THE LIVING THOUGHTS LIBRARY, McCay, 1936. Handsome illus. frontis, intro. essay and reduction by Gide of all 3 vols. of Montaigne's work in 162 pps.

New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1939. 162 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering on spine. Clean, square and tight throughout with only small bump on rear corner and slight dust soiling on extremities. Jacket is chipped on extremities and rubbed on folds.; pinhole in spine. Gide, the start of World War II, looks at Montaigne's essays and distills lessons of liberalism: "I think it is the wisest lesson that can be drawn from him at the present time, when political or religious convictions are so miserably dividing all men and opposing them to each other.". First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 12mo.