Funck Brentano Franz Sutherland Edwards (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First U.K. edition. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4" high. 350 pages. Green cloth with gilt lettering & decoration. No dust jacket. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Gilt lettering dull on spine, small slits at top & bottom of spine, ffep detached & yellowed. Text & illustrations are very clean. 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. [352pp]: foliated [iii]-viii, 1-343, [iii] ads; filled crimson cloth stamped black, jacket (2/6 net on face & spine); 190 x 129 x 31 mm. Undated reprint of the first edition in English (originally 1901: MacQueen, London; 1901: Lippincott, Philadelphia); the French author's fictionalized account of the infamous fraud surrounding an irreplaceable diamond necklace, perpetrated in the name of Marie Anoinette, which contributed to the downfall of the monarchy four years later. Originally published under the title, L'Affaire du Collier (1901: Hachette, Paris), the book resulted from the author's appointment as curator of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal (where he was privy to the documents from the Bastille). The double-sided jacket alone identifies the title as the 53rd volume in the publisher's 2/6 Novels series (within); while the latest volume among the ads appears to date about 1926. A tight clean unread copy with top edge dusty & fore-edge lightly so; in a remarkable jacket whose white background is only slightly dusty, with light wear confined to crown of spine & tips. The arresting jacket painting of Cardinal de Rohan remains vivid. A scarce jacket; exceptional thus.