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Pierre and Jean

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Pierre and Jean

by Guy de Maupassant

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London Book Co., 1907. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1907. No Edition Remarks. 234 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains colour plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Notable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Black mark to rear board.

Synopsis

Guy de Maupassant was born in Normandy in 1850. At his parents’ separation he stayed with his mother, who was a friend of Flaubert. As a young man he was lively and athletic, but the first symptoms of syphilis appeared in the late 1870s. By this time Maupassant had become Flaubert’s pupil in the art of prose. On the publication of the first short story to which he put his name, ‘Boule de suif’, he left his job in the civil service and his temporary alliance with the disciples of Zola at Médan, and devoted his energy to professional writing. In the next eleven years he published dozens of articles, nearly three hundred stories and six novels, the best known of which are A Woman’s Life , Bel-Ami and Pierre and Jean . He led a hectic social life, lived up to his reputation for womanizing and fought his disease. By 1889 his friends saw that his mind was in danger, and in 1891 he attempted suicide and was committed to an asylum in Paris, where he died two years later.

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Bookseller
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Bookseller's Inventory #
1642154467LSA
Title
Pierre and Jean
Author
Guy de Maupassant
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
London Book Co.
Date Published
1907

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Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Gutter
The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Acceptable
A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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