Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Thus. Support Small Business by buying this book! HARDBACK - 1st Edition THUS / 1st English Printing (Peter Owen - 1988) - No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. . . . . . . . . Ferdinand Fabre was at one time regarded as the founder of the French regional novel yet his best book, The Abbe Tigrane, was never available in English until this translation appeared. A dramatic and shadowy novel, full of Name of the Rose-like intrigue, Fabreâs extraordinary novel describes bitter Episcopal rivalries in 19th century France.