Red and Black: A Story of Provincial France

by de Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle

$2,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

London: Downey and Company, Limited, 1900. First British trade edition. vi, 439pp. Original black cloth lettered in gilt with red decoration. A Near Fine copy with light rubbing along bottom edge, offsetting from long-gone bookplate or slip on paste down, otherwise intenally clean and bright. Lengthy gift inscription from former owner on front free endpaper in remembrance of mutual service in World War I British munitions

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