The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont as Told By Himself. by de Rougemont, Louis - 1900

PA: J.B. Lippincott. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good illustrated hardcover is lightly worn, spine ends frayed, endpage torn, inside starting to pull away from text. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

London: George Newnes Ltd. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and edgeworn,. 1899. First Edition. Blue illustrated hardback cloth cover. 200mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). xx, 396pp, 32pp ads. 46 b/w illustrations. A hoaxter of Swiss origins, who emigrated to Australia. Taking the nom de plume of Louis de Rougemont, he wrote extensively about his so called travels and adventures there. These included riding a turtle and to have seen flying wombats. Henri Louis Grin or 'de Rougemont' as he was now known was eventually exposed. .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1900. hardcover. Good. 1900, Philadelphia. A Good copy. 8vo., 396 pp., bound in red decorated cloth. From The Sondley Reference Library in Asheville, NC with minimal markings: call letters on spine, bookplate inside front cover, blind stamp on title page, and a small number stamp on copyright page. Spine is darkened with soil and rubbing present. Covers are soiled with edge and tips worn. Previous owners (Sondley) signature also present inside front cover. Slight age smell to text. Forster Alexander Sondley, attorney and scholar, was born at Montrealla, his maternal grandfather's home in Alexander, a community ten miles north of Asheville. As an adult he most often referred to himself as F. A. Sondley. A lawyer. Historian, collector of art, he is chiefly remembered for his personal library of approximately 30,000 volumes containing hundreds of rare works on southern and state history and on natural history. The city of Asheville acquired the library by bequest… Read More

London; William Heinemann: 1899.. First Colonial Library Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. xx, 396, (8); frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, text illustrated with 45 b/w. illustrations, 8 pages of advertisements, bound in original red cloth, title lettered in black on spine and front board, front and back free endpaper replaced, name and date on front fixed endpaper, small closed tear to margin of page viii, pages browned, good copy. The story of a shipwreck survivor who claimed to have lived with the Australian Aborigines for 30 years. Possible that the author was more of an editor than anything else picking up the stories and embellishing them. First serialised in Wide World Magazine, caused a sensation in Sydney and London in 1898.