ORIENTALE (L'Aventure de Therese Beauchamps). Trans by Ralph Roeder by de Miomandre, Francis - 1929.

UNKNOWN PUBLISHER. Hardcover. USED Good.

New York: Brentano's Publishers, 1929. First American Edition. hardcover. Very good. Canedo, Alexander. Translated by Ralph Roeder. Illustrated by Alexander Canedo. Octavo, yellow cloth covers with black titles on a red background, 199 pages. Small stain near foot of spine, as if label removed. No dust jacket, but book has been supplied with a clear mylar cover. 022904A

New York: Brentano's. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1929. 2nd printing. Hardcover. DETAILS NEEDED. (B&W sketches, decorations) "A boorish husband, a wife starved for love, and a lover out of the East, exotic, passionate, and chivalrous. Then Fate and a senseless betrayal. Who shall blame the downtrodden French bourgeois wife for preferring the most delicate of lovers to her hum-drum existence, especially since he proves to be a highly sensitive Mandarin of China? People may be shocked and perhaps dismayed by the intense love story that is complicated by a question of race feeling. Yet every one will be charmed by the manner and style of M. de Miomandre, who writes with French sophistication and clarity." The author had been a Prix Goncourt winner back in 1908, and is described in the jacket blurb as "one of the best known young writers in France today"; the blurb writer also intimates that the character of the unknown young author whose domestic life is… Read More

New York: Brentano's, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Ralph Roeder. Illustrated by Alexander Canedo. Fine in a modestly age-toned, else near fine dustwrapper with two tiny chips. French wife takes a Chinese lover.