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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English Language Edition. Xi,339 Pp. First English Edition And First English Translation (1818), Following The 1817 First Edition Published In France. Half Calf, Colored Morocco Spine Labels, Gilt (One Recent), Calf Tips, Over Peach Cloth, Marbled Endpapers, 5 Bands, Gilt Spine With Center Tools, Top Edge Gilt. Light Wear, Fraying At Tips, Small Repaired Chip At Lower Left Edge Of Spine, Refurbished. Stendhal's Too Frank Travel Observations, Scarce In This First English Translation. His Observations At Geneva Begin "The Prudery Of The Women At Geneva Is Incredible And Truly Ridiculous. I Have Observed That They Say Exactly The Same Thing To Every Stranger Presented To Them. To Repeat A Certain Formula Taught Them By Their Nurses. I Would Fain Know Who The Traveler Is That First Asserted There Was Such A Thing As Liberty In Switzerland. At Geneva And Berne There Are Four Hundred Surveillans. If You Offend Them Only By The Manner In Which Your Cravat Is Tied, You Immediately Become An Object Of Their Persecution." Further Observations Made The Likelihood Of A Further English Translation Small Indeed: "Nothing Can Equal My Admiration Of The English Legislature, Unless It Be The Repulsion I Feel From English Society. They Are The Most Unsocial Of Beings; Perhaps For That Reason The Least Happy. To Be Held In Consideration By An Englishman, The Most Perfect Air Of Coldness Must Be Assumed." I Don't See Such Observations In My Michelin Or Lonely Planet Guides, Perhaps We Have Evolved, Or, Perhaps We Are Too Terrified To Speak Out.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Later half calf leather binding with marbled boards. Spine with five raise bands and leather title label. Marbled page edges. Excellent solid binding. Offsetting to corners of endpapers, title page and final page of text. Scattered foxing to text, staining to a few pages. Two bookplates to front pastedown endpaper: Sir John Hollams, and Panof Grafsos Skinos. The rare first English language edition. This was the first of Beyle's works to use the pen name Stendhal. Includes the preface that was omitted in all later French editions. Overall condition is Very Good. Size: 5.25 x 8.5 inches (14 x 21.5 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xi, [1], 339.