Montagnes Russes.

Rodker (John)

Montagnes Russes.

Traduit de l'Anglais par Ludmila Savitzky. Préface d'Edmond Jaloux.

Description: FIRST EDITION, textblock browned, single instance of faint marginal marking (by Rageot, presumably) to Preface, a little creasing and flakiness to page corners, pp. xxviii, 209, foolscap 8vo, original wrappers, a little rubbed to extremities with some very light dustsoiling and a crease to top corner of front, vertical crease to backstrip with knock at head of same, good

Publication Details: Paris: Librairie Stock, 1923

Notes: Inscribed on the blank following the flyleaf for the French novelist Gaston Rageot, by both Rodker and Jaloux: the first offering 'hommmage de l'auteur', and the second 'avec mes meilleurs souvenirs'.An excellent presentation copy of the author's first novel, which failed to find a publisher in England but was enthusiastically taken up in France in this translation by Rodker's future mother-in-law. Jaloux's Preface identifies him as part of a 'nouvelle génération' alongside Clemence Dane, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Katherine Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, and ...moreInscribed on the blank following the flyleaf for the French novelist Gaston Rageot, by both Rodker and Jaloux: the first offering 'hommmage de l'auteur', and the second 'avec mes meilleurs souvenirs'.An excellent presentation copy of the author's first novel, which failed to find a publisher in England but was enthusiastically taken up in France in this translation by Rodker's future mother-in-law. Jaloux's Preface identifies him as part of a 'nouvelle génération' alongside Clemence Dane, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Katherine Mansfield, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, and David Garnett, and quotes two of his poems in full to demonstrate his literary pedigree. HIDE

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Price: £300

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1923

Stock Number: 58661

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