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COLETTE : A Taste for Life
by Mitchell, Yvonne
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0156185504
- ISBN 13
- 9780156185509
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. First Edition, First Printing . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/Near New w/trace soiling to pgs 10 & 11. Illustrated soft cover/VG w/light rubs to leading edges, & faint creasings to spine and upper back corner. Biography of French novelist and writer Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954). Colette was named Grand Officier de la Legion d'honneur (1953) and is the only Frenchwoman ever to have been given a state funernal. A free spirit in the full sense of the word, she was denied Catholic burial rites --- that the Church should withold prayers at one's hour of greatest need, Graham Greene publicly decried as being short on charity. This excellent work, supported by photos, is also the story of Paris from the 1890s through World War Two.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004217
- Title
- COLETTE : A Taste for Life
- Author
- Mitchell, Yvonne
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0156185504
- ISBN 13
- 9780156185509
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Biography/French Author/COLETTE 1873 1954/LITERARY CRITICISM
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