Editore: Bobbs-Merrill (1971), Indianapolis, 1971
Da: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Condizione: VG in G DJ. Author photo DJ back (illustratore). A collection of reminiscences never before published in English about some of the places Colette lived and visied. She chats about her friends, cats, travels, esp. to her beloved France. Her preoccupation with the human heart, the aimal mind, birds, plants and trees for her earthly paradise. Her adventures and misadventures with moving as she launches into her brilliant description of the perils, pleasures, and the people she has met in her many moves from place to place in Paris. Also her maiden voyage on the Nomandie and places she has visited: Rome, Algeria, and Morocco. DJ some edge wear.
Editore: Peter Owen, London, 1971
Da: Wheeler's Bookshop, Midhurst, West Sussex, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. First Edition. First English Edition. 8vo. Pictorial jacket. 156 pp. Clean and bright. No inscriptions. VG+ / VG+.
Editore: Peter Owen Ltd, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0720604419 ISBN 13: 9780720604412
Da: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket by Keith Cunningham (illustratore). 1st Edition. First UK (British Commonwealth) edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to white parts of jacket, corners very slightly rubbed, price clipped and price replaced with publisher's sticker (£5.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age, looks almost unread. 155pp. This is a collection of articles (published long after the author's death), which were once (1911-1914), contributed to Le Matin dealing with almost anything. Most of them are fairly transient, comments on the ascent and fall of a balloon or two trial cases or restaurant music or the theater or one or two public figures long forgotten (Briand, Jaures) or a dinner or a party or a cemetery in Montmartre, 'so many dead. . . so lightly clad with wood, with lead and earth'. In the closing one sided dialogues between Colette and her godchild or her hairdresser or her corset maker (particularly this one) she is at her sophisticated ingenuous charming best. By French author and woman of letters Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1873-1954).