Tartarin of Tarascon & Tartarin on the Alps by Alphonse Daudet - 1954: No. 423

New York: E. P. Dutton. 1936. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Exlibrary with markings. Edgewear; Everyman's Library; Ex-Library; 230 pages .

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1936. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1936. Reprinted. 230 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Everyman's Library No. 423, J. D. Dent (London) and E. P. Dutton, 1961. Near fine blue boards in very good dustjacket with clean text throughout. Neat owner's name to the opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text.

J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1961. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. patterned end-papers; introduction by Jean-Pierre Richard. The Tartarin books are considered to be Alphonse Daudet's (1840-1897) masterwork, albeit one described as "an heroical farce" and " a comedy written with white wine" written "much of the sunshine and all the exterior qualities" of Provence. The Provençal town of Tarascon is so enthusiastic about hunting that no game lives anywhere near it, and its inhabitants resort to telling hunting stories and throwing their own caps in the air to shoot at them. Tartarin, a plump middle-aged man, is the chief "cap-hunter", but following his enthusiastic reaction to seeing an Atlas lion in a travelling menagerie, the over-imaginative town understands him to be planning a hunting expedition to Algeria. So as not to lose face, Tartarin is forced to go, after gathering an absurd mass of equipment… Read More

Sagwan Press, 2015. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1943. Pp. xvi+230+2(publisher's note)+8(advertisements), patterned endpapers; f'cap. 8vo; red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, upper board decorated in blind; top edges brown; dust wrapper, a trifle soiled and slightly foxed, edges lightly rubbed and split, with a little bleeding of the cloth colour to bottom edges on reverse; a little light foxing; J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1943. Reprinted. Everyman's Library No. 423.

Paperback / softback. New.

Dent (Everymans Library), 1913. Book. Good +. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1913 edit - very clean & bright with no name - a little tanning to endpaper only , rest unmarked a nice copy - Just cleared a closing down Book Shop - Guaranteed posting 24hrs St190 Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardback. New.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. 230pp. Quarter pig skin with gilt spine lettering over brown cloth boards. Light rubbing to spine ends and board corners. Clean throughout and binding tight and square. 1913 reprint. Everyman's Library.