Translated Duff Cooper (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. New Edition. 2003. 156pp. B&W frontispiece portrait of the author. Excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean. "An elegant fable for the modern age, Louise de Vilmorin's novella Madame de is a poignant tale of honour, deception and fate. This is the story of Madame de -'s earrings. It is a story of jewellery, of love, of denial, of pain, of delight, of society, that has the simplicity of a fairy tale, the elegance of an eighteenth century roman-a-clef and the particular echoing loneliness that is a phenomenon of the twentieth century: the circle of deceit that society allows proves fatal to the honesty of intense passion. This novella became The Earrings of Madame de, a 1952 film directed by Max Ophuls. Translated from the French by Duff Cooper, Louise de Vilmorin's Madame de is published by Pushkin Press. Louise de Vilmorin (1902-1969), born in her family's château at Verrières-le-Buisson, Essonne, was a French novelist and poet, and the most extraordinary of women. Married to a Hungarian count, her lovers included Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Orson Welles and André Malraux. But it was Duff Cooper, British Ambassador to France, during the 1940s, who was the love of her life, and the translator of this novella. John Julius Norwich, his son, describes in his moving afterword the ménage à trois that he remembers as a child at the British Embassy in Paris.".

hardback, 8vo, 64pp illustrated by Ian Ribbons, owner's inscription on endpapers,slight browning, text clean and binding sound, red quarter-cloth, boards unevenly browned, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, with DJ. Quarter bound in orange patterned paper and blue cloth over boards. Black lettering to the spine. Multi-colored illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. Dated 1954 on copyright page. No date on title page. 54 pages. Good condition. Binding is tight and square. A bit of rubbing to the cloth at the head and foot of the spine. Cover is lightly toned. Pages lightly toned throughout. Foxing to the endpapers and page edges. No writing or notes to be found. Dust jacket has been wrapped in a protective mylar cover. Jacket is toned and foxed. Light chipping at the corners and spine. No other tears or creasing. Overall good condition. Please email with questions or to see any photos.

Collins. 1952. First edition. Hardback, with DW. Bosrds very lightly foxed, lightly soiled. Pages lightly browned. Front endpapers have pencil ownership signature and date. Colour frontis. Illustrated throughout in b/w. A lovely copy in a beautifully illustrated full colour wrapper, with foxing. Not price clipped.