The Temptation of Saint Anthony … Being a Translation into English

by René Francis from the 1849-1856 Manuscripts edited by Louis Bertrand by Gustave Flaubert

$450 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First Edition thus. 8 , 296, 3 pp. Page 296 is numbered 269. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth and boards, uncut. Newspaper clippings on flyleaf and back endpapers. Item #366381 With a curious cosmopolitan and catty note on the front pastedown, “Given me by René Francis, once of E.S.R., Cairo. Known as the 'Educated Ass' by people less clever than him. After came into money, marrying an Italian Girl, who did

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