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Gigi / Chance Acquaintances / Julie de Carneilhan
by Colette
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good-
- Seller
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New Paltz, New York, United States
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About This Item
Gigi / Chance Acquaintances / Julie de Carneilhan by Colette. 1952 Farrar Straus Young, 315 pages. Colette was a prolific French author, former mime and actress, and "the only great woman writer in France" according to De Beauvoir. This edition includes her most famous work Gigi, a tale of an unwitting courtesan-to-be. Julie De Carneilhan was written in the same time period. Chance Acquaintances is a novella in Colette's usual style using her name as narrator and protagonist.
Condition: Jacket is good-, spine sunned and internal foxing, book in good condition with tanning to the boards and owner name on first page.
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- Bookseller
- Lightholder Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124
- Title
- Gigi / Chance Acquaintances / Julie de Carneilhan
- Author
- Colette
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus Young
- Date Published
- 1952
- Pages
- 315
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- French Women; Women Writers;
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