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Bouvard & Pecuchet
by Gustave Flaubert
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2016. Decorative Cloth. Fine. A pristine copy of this 2016 Arion Press offering, a lovely reprint of Gustav Flaubert's last novel. #88 OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES ISSUED. Clean and Fine in it duotone cloth, with immaculate gilt-titling at the panels and along the spine. Marginalia and frontispiece handwritten by Andrew Hoyem, Arion Press's fouinder and owner. Folio, the text translated from its original French and with an Introduction by Mark Polizzoti. Also includes an As New copy of the publisher's navy-blue cloth slipcase.
Synopsis
Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880. Although conceived in 1863 as Les Deux Cloportes ("The Two Woodlice"), and partially inspired by a short story of Barthélemy Maurice (Les Deux Greffiers, "The Two Court Clerks", which appeared in La Revue des Tribunaux in 1841 and which he may have read in 1858), Flaubert did not begin the work in earnest until 1872, at a time when financial ruin threatened.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21263
- Title
- Bouvard & Pecuchet
- Author
- Gustave Flaubert
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Arion Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- rare French literature, rare Gustave Flaubert, rare Arion Press, the Arion Press, French literature in translation, rare Fine Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Appledore Books, ABAA
All books are offered subject to prior sale. Materials are returnable within 1 week of receipt provided prior notice is given.
About the Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Waccabuc, New York
About Appledore Books, ABAA
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- Folio
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- Reprint
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- Cloth
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- Marginalia
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- New
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- Fine
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- Spine
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