La Confession d'un Enfant du Siècle; aquarelles de Robert Polack
Paris: Éditions Nilsson, 1930. Paperback. 268, [4] p., [6] leaves of color plates (pochoir on glassine, tipped onto leaf with printed caption); 24 cm. Glassine wrapper with pochoir illustrations over paper. Wrapper title in red. "Collection Lotus" -- on back wrapper. Half title in red; title page in red and black. No year of publication; 1930 is the year assigned in library records. The author, Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (1810-1857), was a French poet, dramatist, and novelist. This autobiographical novel, first published in 1836, is based on his love affair from 1833 to 1835 with George Sand (French novelist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (1804-1876)). In Very Good- Condition: glassine wrapper is fragile (as is typical), with some loss at corners of front section (not impacting printing or illustration) and one larger section lost along lower fore-edge and lower corner of back section; minor loss at spine ends; old repair along spine; front and back wrapper illustrations are intact; 2-cm. closed tear from lower edge of 1 leaf; another leaf has separated from one tipped on corner, without loss; otherwise, clean and bright. Very Good -. Item #004060
Price: $75.00