Alain Fournier – The Wanderer – First Edition 1929
£450.00
A first edition, first printing of the UK edition of Fournier’s masterpiece, published by Constable in 1929 – printed using the American sheets from Houghton Mifflin and Co. (with their name present to the foot of the spine as called for). A very good book with one neat name to the head of the endpaper – some bubbling to the spine and darkening. A little wear and some small marks to the boards.
Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), often called The Wanderer in English, is a lyrical novel of adolescence, longing, and the pursuit of an almost dreamlike lost happiness. Narrated by François Seurel, it follows the charismatic Augustin Meaulnes and his obsessive search for Yvonne de Galais after a magical encounter. In English, it first appeared as The Wanderer in 1928, translated by Françoise Delisle, with an introduction by Havelock Ellis and published by Houghton Mifflin. Later English versions adopted other titles, including The Lost Domain, The Lost Estate, and Big Meaulnes, reflecting translators’ difficulty with the French title.
The first UK edition of The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes) was published by Constable & Co., London, in 1929, and bibliographical descriptions identify it as the London issue of the 1928 American sheets.
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A first edition, first printing of the UK edition of Fournier’s masterpiece, published by Constable in 1929 – printed using the American sheets from Houghton Mifflin and Co. (with their name present to the foot of the spine as called for). A very good book with one neat name to the head of the endpaper – some bubbling to the spine and darkening. A little wear and some small marks to the boards.
Le Grand Meaulnes (1913), often called The Wanderer in English, is a lyrical novel of adolescence, longing, and the pursuit of an almost dreamlike lost happiness. Narrated by François Seurel, it follows the charismatic Augustin Meaulnes and his obsessive search for Yvonne de Galais after a magical encounter. In English, it first appeared as The Wanderer in 1928, translated by Françoise Delisle, with an introduction by Havelock Ellis and published by Houghton Mifflin. Later English versions adopted other titles, including The Lost Domain, The Lost Estate, and Big Meaulnes, reflecting translators’ difficulty with the French title.
The first UK edition of The Wanderer (Le Grand Meaulnes) was published by Constable & Co., London, in 1929, and bibliographical descriptions identify it as the London issue of the 1928 American sheets.
