The Story of Manon Lescaut and the Chevalier des Grieux.
New York: The Heritage Press, [1935]. Hardcover. Translation by Helen Waddell. Illustrations by Pierre Brissaud. Small 4to. Leatherette spine with gilt lettering and marbled paper over boards, slipcase. xi, 155pp. Color frontispiece and full-page color illustrations. Very good/very good. Spine sunned on otherwise near fine volume; slipcase a tad edgeworn only. Item #45654
Tight and attractive "poor man's LEC" trade edition of this scandalous, once-banned and often-pirated 1731 French fiction about illicit love in early 18th century France and Louisiana. Appropriate "Sandglass" issue laid in.
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