"The Works of Anatole France" published by Gabriel Wells, New York:, 1924, special edition limited to 1075 numbered and signed sets, signed by Anatole France in the first volume, this being copy #760. First 10 volumes with France's most important works from the initially 30 volume set.

Hard boards, original maroon cloth spines with paper labels [some labels have damaged edges: see photos]; 6" x 9"; 10 volumes-- c.16" shelf space; the page with the original signature of Anatole France and his photogravure portrait are in the first volume, pages are printed on high quality 'Old Stratford' watermarked paper, rough page edges as issued, very good condition.

Contents:

Volume I--- The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, translation by Lafcadio Hearn

Volume II--- Thais, A Translation by Robert Douglas. Crainquebille and Other Stories, tr. By Winifren Stephens

Volume III--- At the Sign of the Reine Pedauque, translation by Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson, with An Introduction by William J. Locke

Volume IV--- The Opinions of Jerome Coignard, tr. By Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson. The Garden of Epicurus, translated by Alfred Allison

Volume V-- The Red Lily, A Translation by Winifred Stephens

Volume VI--- A Mummer's Tale, Translated by Charles Roche, The Elm-tree on the Mall, tr. M.P. Willcocks

Volume VII-- The Wicker-Work Women, translation M.P. Willcocks

Volume VIII-- The Amethyst Ring, translation by B. Drillien

Volume IX---Monsieur Bergeret in Paris, translated by B. Drillien

Volume X-- The Aspirations of Jean Servien, translated by Alfred Allison. Balthasar, translated by Mrs. John Lane

Anatole France (1844-1924) French journalist, and successful novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Academie francaise, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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