La Conversation
MAUROIS, André
La Conversation
[n.p]: Librairie Hachette, 1927
Small 8vo., black cloth-backed paste paper boards featuring a tessellating pattern in black and brown; leather label gilt to upper left hand cover with decorative gilt border; pp. [viii], 5-54, [vi]; decorative floral basket device to title; a very good copy; small patch of rubbing to upper edge of front board; text block lightly, and evenly toned, with the odd spot.
An unnumbered copy from an edition also published on Japanese, Chinese, Dutch and Madagascar papers. This copy inscribed by the author to one of the front free endpapers “...”. An essay on the art of conversation and the uses of silence, by the French author who served as an interpreter for a young Winston Churchill during the First World War.
MAUROIS, André
La Conversation
[n.p]: Librairie Hachette, 1927
Small 8vo., black cloth-backed paste paper boards featuring a tessellating pattern in black and brown; leather label gilt to upper left hand cover with decorative gilt border; pp. [viii], 5-54, [vi]; decorative floral basket device to title; a very good copy; small patch of rubbing to upper edge of front board; text block lightly, and evenly toned, with the odd spot.
An unnumbered copy from an edition also published on Japanese, Chinese, Dutch and Madagascar papers. This copy inscribed by the author to one of the front free endpapers “...”. An essay on the art of conversation and the uses of silence, by the French author who served as an interpreter for a young Winston Churchill during the First World War.
MAUROIS, André
La Conversation
[n.p]: Librairie Hachette, 1927
Small 8vo., black cloth-backed paste paper boards featuring a tessellating pattern in black and brown; leather label gilt to upper left hand cover with decorative gilt border; pp. [viii], 5-54, [vi]; decorative floral basket device to title; a very good copy; small patch of rubbing to upper edge of front board; text block lightly, and evenly toned, with the odd spot.
An unnumbered copy from an edition also published on Japanese, Chinese, Dutch and Madagascar papers. This copy inscribed by the author to one of the front free endpapers “...”. An essay on the art of conversation and the uses of silence, by the French author who served as an interpreter for a young Winston Churchill during the First World War.