Nobel prize-winning author André Gide's work has been described as a novel within a novel, with many characters and complicated cross-plots. First published in France as "Les Faux-Monnayeurs" in 1925. This Modern Library reprint edition translated from the French by Dorothy Bussy, and with an introduction by Raymond Weaver. --- In Toledano spine 8 / red cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / volume lacks the dust jacket. Likely published c.1945 (though 1931 date appears in book). ML #187.1. --- With conspicuously darkened spine, dulling to spine gilding, chafing & mild soiling to extremities of cloth, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound and unmarked copy (but with light age-toning to leaves).; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xx, 372, (8, ads) pages
Title: The Counterfeiters (Les Faux-Monnayeurs) (Modern Library #187.1)
Location Published: New York, The Modern Library / Random House: [c.1945]
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good with no dust jacket
Categories: >>Classic Fiction, Literature, >>Modern Library Editions, >>Pulitzer, Nobel, Booker, Nat Book Award Prize
Stock No.: 87354
