Voyage Autour de Ma Chambre
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1901. 1st Thus. In French. Uncut and complete with the publishers' note (in english)loose in the front. Bound in green paper over boards with a vellum-like spine. Author and title gilded on spine with devices and frames. Corners just bumped, some scuffing to spine and rubbing to head and tail of same. Rough cut edges on side and bottom. Capitals and some devices in red within the text. Portrait frontispiece of the author protected by sheet. Some pages have spotting. Overall very good. An autobiographical and whimsical account of the authros time in a Turin jail following a duel, he imagines wandering around his cell. After finishing the manuscript, the author left it with his brother who secretly published it. A very good and interesting copy of this Romantic 19th century work.
Pages: (24) 157 Dimensions: 8¼ x 5⅜ x 1 . Very Good. Item #4681
Price: $95.00