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New York: The John Day Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. VG+ or better copy in edge torn and chipped Dust Wrapper. ; "A lively biography, in Gallic vein, of a great man of letters and life, whose time is not long past, whose spirit moves among us now, whose amazing prophecies keep coming true one by one". Red cloth with gold gilt spine lettering and a portrait of the subject stamped in blind to the front board, black-and-white frontispiece portrait, bibliography, index. Oswald Train's bookplate affixed to the front paste-down. Edge wear, dust soiling to page edges, in dust jacket with numerous tears and chipping bx46