Item #7462 THE COUNTERFEITERS; With Journal of "The Counterfeiters" / The Novel translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy / The Journal translated from the French and annotated by Justin O'Brien. Andre Gide.
THE COUNTERFEITERS; With Journal of "The Counterfeiters" / The Novel translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy / The Journal translated from the French and annotated by Justin O'Brien
THE COUNTERFEITERS; With Journal of "The Counterfeiters" / The Novel translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy / The Journal translated from the French and annotated by Justin O'Brien
THE COUNTERFEITERS; With Journal of "The Counterfeiters" / The Novel translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy / The Journal translated from the French and annotated by Justin O'Brien
THE COUNTERFEITERS; With Journal of "The Counterfeiters" / The Novel translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy / The Journal translated from the French and annotated by Justin O'Brien

THE COUNTERFEITERS; With Journal of "The Counterfeiters" / The Novel translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy / The Journal translated from the French and annotated by Justin O'Brien

New York: The Modern Library #327, 1955. Early reprint. Cloth. 12mo (7 1/4" x 4 7/8"), gray cloth with black labels & gold lettering on spine and ruling on cover, archival polyester-protected lettered dust jacket (price-clipped) with inset B&W sketch of Gide, publisher's gray topstain; gray-patterned Running Torchbearer ML endpapers; [ix] + 432 pages + [6] Ads. Fine / Near Fine. Item #7462

SUPERIOR CONDITION: internally tight, clean, bright; externally the dj is bright with light edgewear.

Copyright states 1955. Toledano Guide (pp.165, 176) indicates a later date range of 1954-59 for the pattern on the rear panel of the dust jacket. It's internal dj number is "415," which indicates a date on or about 1962.

André Gide (1869 – 1951) was a French author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature (in 1947). Gide's career ranged from the symbolist movement to anticolonialism. The New York Times described him as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters."

Price: $35.00

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