L'Enfant du Metro.
by TRUEL, Lucha (illustrates). TRUEL, Madeleine (text)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Les Editions du Chene, Paris., 1943. First edition. Quarto. 53 pages, almost half of which are devoted to colour illustrations by Lucha Truel. Colour pictorial boards sewn into a card backstrip, seemingly without free endpapers. A seven-year-old circulating permanently in the Metro imagines life above ground at various of its stations. Surrealist elements. French text.Madeleine Truel worked as a forger for the French Resistance. She was captured, tortured and killed by the Nazis.Inscription on first blank. A bit of rubbing to covers. Very good.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TRUELLUC016318
- Title
- L'Enfant du Metro.
- Author
- TRUEL, Lucha (illustrates). TRUEL, Madeleine (text)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Les Editions du Chene, Paris.
- Date Published
- 1943
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...