Item #121952 The First Temptation of Saint Anthony. Gustave FLAUBERT.
The First Temptation of Saint Anthony
The First Temptation of Saint Anthony
The First Temptation of Saint Anthony
The First Temptation of Saint Anthony
The First Temptation of Saint Anthony

The First Temptation of Saint Anthony

New York, Ives Washburn, 1930.

Large octavo, [viii], 255 pages plus 11 full-page illustrations by Ilse Bischoff ('printed from the original wood engravings').

Black cloth lettered and decorated in silver (albeit now barely visible); top edge dyed, leading edge uncut; cloth a little dusty, spine lightly sunned, top edge a little marked; a very good copy.

One of 2000 copies. Provenance: the bookseller Mary Maydwell Martin (1915-1973), with her signature, dated 1939, the year 'she won the Tormore prize for English Literature' ('Australian Dictionary of Biography'). The later armorial bookplate of L.S. Walters is on the pastedown: Lance Walters, an industrial chemist, was head brewer at the South Australian Brewing Company in the 1950s.

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