 Author Name: TARKINGTON, BOOTH.
Title: THE GUEST OF QUESNAY.
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York: The McClure Company, 1908.
Seller ID: 5333
This novel was written during Tarkington's return to Paris in 1907, it would be the last novel produced until 1912. Serialized in Everybody's Magazine Nov, Dec 1907, Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr 1908. With a color frontispiece and four duo-tone plates by W. J. Duncan. It begins: "There are old Parisians who will tell you pompously that the boulevards, like the political cafes, have ceased to exist, but this means only that the boulevards no longer gossip of Louis Napoleon, the Return of the Bourbons, or of General Boulanger, for these highways are always too busily stirring with present movements not to be forgetful of their yesterdays. In the shade of the buildings and awnings, the loungers, the lookers-on in Paris, the audience of the boulevard, sit at little tables, sipping coffee from long glasses, drinking absinthe or bright-colored sirops, and gazing over the heads of throngs afoot at others borne along through the sunshine of the street in carriages, in cabs, in glittering automobiles, or high on the tops of omnibuses." The main element is about the reconciliation and rematching of husband and wife. Larabee Harmon, the most profligate rich American in France, is involved in an open affair with a Spanish dancer Mariana, a well known harlot. The pair is critically injured in an automobile accident, after which Mariana disappears. Harmon follows with a slow convalescence under the care of a a famous psychiatrist, and returns to the world as Oliver Saffren. Newton Booth Tarkington, 1869Ð1946, American author, playwright b. Indianapolis. Pulitzer Prize winner for, The Magificent Ambersons, and Alice Adams.
Red cloth boards, decorative gilt title panels to front board and spine. Mild bumping of spine ends. Smudge of soil to tip of upper right corner. Very clean, solidly bound. sm 8 vo., 334 pp. First Edition
The Guest of Quesnay first edition, Novels of Paris turn of century Booth Tarkington first edition, extramarital affairs, illustrated novels W.J. Duncan illustrations, American in Paris 1900's Paris, American Novelists, Novels- 1900, First Edition
Price =
22.50 USD |
