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“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris": Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Finely Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe
FLAUBERT, Gustave.
Madame Bovary: A Story of Provincial Life.
London: John Lane/The Bodley Head LTD, 1928.
The Bodley Head edition of a seminal novel in literary realism, renowned for its psychological depth and critique of bourgeois society. Octavo, bound in full pictorial morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe/Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, top edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, with black and white illustrations by John Austen. In fine condition with several pages uncut. Translated and with an introduction by J. Lewis May. A beautiful example.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 148368
