Search Results: Authors starting with K from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

2 vols., 12mo, pp. viii, 261; 208 + errata leaf; one gathering misbound, half-title to volume 2 only (as always); a very good copy in French contemporary quarter mottled sheep over pink marbled paper boards, spines gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces, green vellum corner-pieces; slightly rubbed and minor chipping to heads of spines.Rare first edition of Valérie, the most famous novel by the Russian mystic and novelist Madame de Krüdener (1766–1824), who for a time exerted an influence over Tsar Alexander I. The novel created a literary sensation, and became one of the classic novels of the pre-Romantic movement in France, receiving translations into a number of languages (although not apparently into Russian until 2000). Written partly as a roman à clef, it is largely inspired by the author's romantic liaison with Alexandre de Skatieff.Carteret I, 459; Vicaire IV, 723.