Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

$5,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

London: Vizetelly & Co., 1886. First British edition. Very Good with cloth rubbed at rear cover and extremities, with spine ends a bit bruised, spine cloth darkened. Inner hinges repaired. Pages toned with scattered foxing to prelim and terminal pages. A rather sharp copy, in nicer shape than commonly found. The author's debut novel, a breakthrough in the craft of literary narration that helped create the modern

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