The Devil's Pool by George Sand (1901 Little, Brown Ed)

No dust jacket. The green cloth boards are beautifully decorated with gold art nouveau flowers, corners are lightly worn, spine darkened with wear head/tail, some text worn. Bookplate inside front cover, pen name front endpaper, first and last few pages foxed. Frontis from an etching by Eugene Abot. 1846 pastoral novel by French author George Sand follows Germain, a 28-year-old widowed ploughman urged by his father-in-law to court a wealthy, vain widow. During his journey with his young son and Marie, a young shepherdess seeking work, an overnight stay near a sinister woodland pool changes his heart. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.