MARIA CHAPDELAINE

by Louis Blake Hemon, W. H., Thoreau . Eayres

$2,500 · Offered by Johnnycake Books

First edition · Signed

Toronto: Macmillan, 1938. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. The first reprint edition 1938 reset from the first translated, MacDonald illustrated edition of 1921, fine in fine dustajcket. Regarded as THE French Canadian novel, this copy is inscribed by Eva Bouchard, who claimed to be the person on whom the title heroine is based. Inscribed by her in French on the half title, with the inscribee's name erased: Mes hommages

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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