A Woman's Life [Une Vie]. Translated from the French by Marjorie Laurie; with an introduction by Edmond Jaloux, and illustrations by Edy Legrand. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1952.
One of 1,500 numbered copies. This being copy no. 540.
Octavo. xiv, [1]-216, [1, blank], [1, signed limitation page] pp. Publisher's quarter white sheepskin over French marbled-paper boards, gilt-lettered wine leather label to spine, hand-colored frontispiece. A fine copy with very lightly sunned and rubbed original slipcase.
"Tolstoy, who was introduced by his friend Turgenev to Maupassant's writings, went on record as finding 'Une View' not merely the best Maupassant novel, but 'perhaps the best of all French novels after Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables.'"
Newman & Wiche, 226.
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