![The Count's Ball [= Bal Du Comte D'orgel.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/873/1553873704.0.m.jpg)
The Count's Ball [= Bal Du Comte D'orgel.]
by Radiguet, Raymond; Cowley, Malcolm (trans.); Cocteau, Jean (preface)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- About very good(+) with minor soiling, rubbing & shelfwear. Handsome contemporary owner name and date to front free endpaper. No
- Seller
-
Oakland, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Norton, 1929. 1st US edition. Hardcover. About very good(+) with minor soiling, rubbing & shelfwear. Handsome contemporary owner name and date to front free endpaper. No jacket. Binding tight; leaves clean.. 243 pages; 20 cm. Translation of: Le bal du comte d'Orgel./ "Jean Cocteau's preface to the French edition": pages [v]-xiv/ Also issued online. "Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) was a French author and poet who achieved significant literary acclaim at a young age. Despite his short life-he died at age 20-Radiguet left a lasting impact on French literature. Radiguet's two novels, "Le Diable au corps" (The Devil in the Flesh) and "Le bal du Comte d'Orgel" (Count d'Orgel's Ball), are considered classics of 20th-century French literature. "Le Diable au corps," published when Radiguet was just 20 years old, is a semi-autobiographical novel about a young man's affair with a married woman during World War I. The novel caused a scandal upon its publication due to its explicit content and the youth of its author, but it was later recognized for its literary merit. Radiguet was associated with the avant-garde literary and artistic circles of his time, and he was particularly close with the poet and artist Jean Cocteau, who served as his mentor. Radiguet's promising career was cut short by his untimely death from typhoid fever in 1923. Despite his brief career, his novels have continued to be read and admired for their precocious insight and stylistic elegance." / French fiction. Translations. Fiction. Class Descriptors: LC: PQ2635.A25; Dewey: 117 Responsibility: Raymond Radiguet; translated by Malcolm Cowley. Radiguet, Raymond, 1903-1923. Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989. Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100709
- Title
- The Count's Ball [= Bal Du Comte D'orgel.]
- Author
- Radiguet, Raymond; Cowley, Malcolm (trans.); Cocteau, Jean (preface)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - About very good(+) with minor soiling, rubbing & shelfwear. Handsome contemporary owner name and date to front free endpaper. No
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st US edition
- Publisher
- Norton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- French fiction -- Translations into English
Terms of Sale
Bibliope by Calvello Books
Books may be placed on reserve for one week. Refunds may be issued if book is not as described and is returned in same condition as it was originally shipped, and within two weeks of order.
About the Seller
Bibliope by Calvello Books
Biblio member since 2005
Oakland, California
About Bibliope by Calvello Books
Over thirty-five years experience in the used, out-of-print and rare book trades. Selling online since 1997. WWW.BIBLIOPE.COM (formerly Calvello Books)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- BAL
- Bibliography of American Literature (commonly abbreviated as BAL in descriptions) is the quintessential reference work for any...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...