The Red and the Black (Modern Library 157.1) by STENDHAL (pseudonym of Marie-Henri BEYLE) - [c.1961]

New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. [c.1961]. Hardcover. Stendhal's magnum opus is centered around a young man of simple means who attempts to rise in elite society. This unabridged English-language Modern Library reprint edition features C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation from the French. Two-volumes-in-one. Volume wrapped in variant George Salter-designed jacket with red and black circles to front panel. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 405 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1961 (though 1953 date appears in book). ML #256.2. --- With previous owner's inked info. to verso of half title, otherwise a very nice copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with mild sunning to spine and light chafing to extremities; wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; 288, 352 pages .