A USELESS DAY ... Translated

by Bernard Frechtman by Janine Brégon

$25 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1968 . Large 16mo, 90 pp., cloth. First edition in English. A translation of UNE JOURNÉE INUTILE 1966 . First novel by this French author, a prolonged burp of existential ennui. The translator died before he could finish the job, we're told on the copyright page, forcing the publisher to hire a replacement: did this job finish him off? - Robert Eldridge. A fine copy in fine dust

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