L'AFFAIRE JONES.
by Bernstein, Hillel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine in blue cloth boards with a little illustration blocked in gilt, with a beige cloth spine with gilt lettering, top ed/blue cloth boards with a little illustration blocked in gilt, with a beige cloth spine with gilt lettering, top edge tinted red
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: The Literary Guild,, (1933). Hardcover -. Near fine in blue cloth boards with a little illustration blocked in gilt, with a beige cloth spine with gilt lettering, top edge tinted red in a very good dust jacket with the usual stylized art deco design used by the Literary Guild (previous owner's name, a few small chips to the upper edge of the dj) . Book club edition. A humorous novel about a meek American who goes to France and becomes part of an international incident. It begins "For three days I have been a political prisoner in the Sante Prison. All Paris is in uproar. The newspapers denounce me . . . But in spite of everything I cling tenaciously to two facts: I am Henry Jones from Windfall, Georgia, and that I came to France to write a cook book. A two-color frontispiece drawing by the cartoonist Otto Soglow, and three-color cartoon illustrations on the endpapers. 257 pp.
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- Seller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 86381
- Title
- L'AFFAIRE JONES.
- Author
- Bernstein, Hillel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover -
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in blue cloth boards with a little illustration blocked in gilt, with a beige cloth spine with gilt lettering, top ed
- Jacket Condition
- blue cloth boards with a little illustration blocked in gilt, with a beige cloth spine with gilt lettering, top edge tinted red
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Literary Guild,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1933)
- Keywords
- satire, france, cookbook,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage books and paperbacks;
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