Un Enfant de l'Alsace Kleber
Paris: Librairie Delagrave, 1916. Hardcover. This copy has an ex-libris stamp (inside of front board) by Robert Florey:
Robert Florey (1900-1979) was a French screenwriter, director of short films, and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. Florey worked as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg, Frank Borzage, and Victor Fleming before making his feature directing debut in 1926. He turned out more than 50 movies over the next 23 years, from the first Marx Brothers movie "The Cocoanuts" (1929), to horror movies such as "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1932) starring Bela Lugosi, to skillful low-budget crime programmers like "The Crooked Way" (1949).
Large 4to. 46 (1)pp. Original gray cloth with full-page color paste-down illustration to cover (with black and red lettering). Grayish blue endpapers. Ex-libris Robert Florey (see above). Illustrated title page. Printed on special thick paper. A wonderful work of French literature, this work tells the heroic story of the French soldier Kleber, a "child from Alsace" (a.k.a. Elsass-Lothringen). Magnificently illustrated with 8 full-page color paintings, protected by tissue guard and b/w illustrations throughout, all by R. de la Neziere. Spine faded, minor scuffing, rubbing to boards, minor browning to pages, minor tears to some tissue guards. In French. In good condition. g. Item #15681
Price: $175.00