La femme changée en renard [Lady into Fox.]

Garnett (David)

La femme changée en renard [Lady into Fox.]

Traduction de Jane-Simone Bussy et André Maurois [Les Cahiers Verts, 43.]

Description: FIRST FRENCH EDITION, 188/400 'Exemplaires du Presse', wood-engraved illustrations by R.A. Garnett (uncredited), page-borders toned, single manuscript correction by André Maurois to p. 183 (as seen in other presentation copies), pp. [iv], 184, foolscap 8vo, original pale green wrappers, backstrip and borders toned with a few spots, lean to spine, marked as a press copy with initials 'S.P.' at foot of front, good

Publication Details: Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1924

Notes: Inscribed by the translator on the half-title, to a fellow-author: 'Pour M. Jacques des Gachons, Hommage du traducteur, André Maurois'. A lauded novel, praised by Eliot among others and the recipient of the Hawthornden prize, here in its first translation. Garnett would reciprocate by translating Maurois's Swiftian satire 'Voyage au pays des Articoles' a few years later. His co-translator here was Jane-Simone Bussy, the daughter of Simon and Dorothy Bussy - the latter née Strachey and adding to the Bloomsbury credentials of the present work (otherwise represented by its author, his wife as ...moreInscribed by the translator on the half-title, to a fellow-author: 'Pour M. Jacques des Gachons, Hommage du traducteur, André Maurois'. A lauded novel, praised by Eliot among others and the recipient of the Hawthornden prize, here in its first translation. Garnett would reciprocate by translating Maurois's Swiftian satire 'Voyage au pays des Articoles' a few years later. His co-translator here was Jane-Simone Bussy, the daughter of Simon and Dorothy Bussy - the latter née Strachey and adding to the Bloomsbury credentials of the present work (otherwise represented by its author, his wife as illustrator, and his lover Duncan Grant as the dedicatee). HIDE

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Price: £85

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1924

Stock Number: 69132

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