Tartarin of Tarascon -and- Tartarin on the Alps (Everyman's Library #423)
by DAUDET, Alphonse
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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About This Item
London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. A 1969 reprint of the 1910 issuance. A single Everyman's Library volume presenting the two novels by Alphonse Daudet, both of which feature his Tartarin of Tarascon character. Tartarin is described on the jacket flap as ". . .a more robust Don Quixote transported from the Spain of 1600 to the France of 1850. . .". Rendered into English by unspecified translator(s), and with an introduction by Jean-Pierre Richard. Everyman's Library #423, an entry in EL's "Fiction" series. --- In Everyman's Library larger format binding style 4. Full brown cloth-covered boards with spine titling and "EL" in script at tail of spine in gilt; orange topstain. Yellow dust jacket with "Everyman's Library" surrounded by scrollwork to front panel. --- An excellent copy: tightly-bound, unmarked and lacking damages worthy of mention. Jacket also nice, though with light soiling to back panel and with some tanning to verso; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; xii, 230 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
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- 84872
- Title
- Tartarin of Tarascon -and- Tartarin on the Alps (Everyman's Library #423)
- Author
- DAUDET, Alphonse
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1969
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