The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes)
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, [1946]. Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). First Edition Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. xix, 306. Green cloth, Futura bold titles stamped in gilt on the spine. In the Alvin Lustig illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($1.50). Cloth spine ends rubbed. Dust jacket with slight edge-wear. Please see photos. Near Fine / Very Good+. Item #5726 With Lustig jacket illustration and lettering in earth tones. Please see Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, p. 25. Dust jacket now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Issue number 16 in the New Classics Series, "$1.50 reprints of important modern works of literature," in this instance the classic 1913 French novel of first love and romantic idealism. First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1928, reprinted here with a few alterations to the Delisle translation and to the introduction by Havelock Ellis.
Price: $90.00