The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

x, 182pp. Pink cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine label. 8vo. Bumped spine ends. Boards sun-faded at edges and where there is jacket loss. Top text block edge sprayed red, faded; bottom edge stained. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine and front sun faded, has loss, light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. One of France's earliest prose works, this is the book that made his name as a novelist, previously best known for his poetic endeavours.  It is the story of Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly and highly respected scholar, who encounters unexpected problems when he sets out to fund an ancient manuscript.