Hardcover. 8vo. 215 pp. Black boards with quarter yellow cloth, red lettering to spine. Dj in with two tears to back, price-clipped, otherwise very good. A sharp copy of the 1930 1st American edition of the Nobel prize winner's best-known work, translated from its original French by Dorothy Bussy. Gide's masterwork, including his narrator's disaffections with conventional society and strong themes of homosexual desire.
From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His signature of ownership is on the ffe.
Hardcover. 8vo. 215 pp. Black boards with quarter yellow cloth, red lettering to spine. Dj in with two tears to back, price-clipped, otherwise very good. A sharp copy of the 1930 1st American edition of the Nobel prize winner's best-known work, translated from its original French by Dorothy Bussy. Gide's masterwork, including his narrator's disaffections with conventional society and strong themes of homosexual desire.
From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His signature of ownership is on the ffe.