Mon Frere Yves
by Loti, Pierre; Dufour, D'Emilien (Illustrations)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Walnut Creek, California, United States
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About This Item
n.p.: Calmann-Levy, 1936. Hardcover. Near Fine. Dufour, D'Emilien. Quarto size, 289 pp., all text in French. Pierre Loti, the pseudonym of Julien Viaud (1850-1923) was educated to be a naval officer, gradually rising in his profession until attaining the rank of captain in 1906. His life at sea, among seafaring men, inspired this and many of his other stories. Contemporary critic Edmund Gosse said of Loti: "At his best [he] was unquestionably the finest descriptive writer of the day" (n.b., above information from Wiki).
Mon Frere Yves is perhaps Pierre Loti's best-known work, a semi-autobiographical novel describing the friendship between French naval officer Pierre Loti and a hard drinking Breton sailor, Yves Kermadec, during the 1870s and 80s - the descriptions of Breton seafaring life, on board ship and on shore, set the tone for his later masterpiece An Iceland Fisherman (1886).
Originally published in wraps, this volume has been bound as a hardcover book, with the front wrapper serving as a front pastedown.
___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full red cloth over boards, illustrated front pastedown in red and black, red and black lettering, gilt lettering on the spine, title page in red and black with a small vignette of a house in a field, many signatures unopened, several colour illustrations throughout with some retaining the original tissue guards; quarto size (9 1/4" by 7 1/8"), pagination: [i-vi] 1-282, [limitation page].
___CONDITION: Near fine overall, with clean binding, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some light soil to the front pastedown, else fine.
___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please contact seller for details.
___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Mon Frere Yves is perhaps Pierre Loti's best-known work, a semi-autobiographical novel describing the friendship between French naval officer Pierre Loti and a hard drinking Breton sailor, Yves Kermadec, during the 1870s and 80s - the descriptions of Breton seafaring life, on board ship and on shore, set the tone for his later masterpiece An Iceland Fisherman (1886).
Originally published in wraps, this volume has been bound as a hardcover book, with the front wrapper serving as a front pastedown.
___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full red cloth over boards, illustrated front pastedown in red and black, red and black lettering, gilt lettering on the spine, title page in red and black with a small vignette of a house in a field, many signatures unopened, several colour illustrations throughout with some retaining the original tissue guards; quarto size (9 1/4" by 7 1/8"), pagination: [i-vi] 1-282, [limitation page].
___CONDITION: Near fine overall, with clean binding, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some light soil to the front pastedown, else fine.
___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please contact seller for details.
___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Swan's Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15052702
- Title
- Mon Frere Yves
- Author
- Loti, Pierre; Dufour, D'Emilien (Illustrations)
- Illustrator
- Dufour, D'Emilien
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Calmann-Levy
- Place of Publication
- n.p.
- Date Published
- 1936
- Keywords
- Lit, D'Emilien Dufour
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