The Climates of Love.

(Schiff.) MAUROIS (André)

The Climates of Love.

[Translated from the French by Violet Schiff and Esme Cook.]

Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, pp. 213, 8vo, original blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, the boards bowing a little and with slight lean to spine, a few spots to fore-edge, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket by Biro with a couple of short closed tears and faded backstrip panel, good

Publication Details: James Barrie, 1957

Notes: Inscribed by the translator on the flyleaf, 'To dear Marjorie, with fond love from Violet, July 1957' - the recipient was Marjorie Wells, daughter-in law and secretary to H.G. Wells; the inscription speaks partly of the association between the Schiff and Wells families, but probably rests more on their common friendship with S.S. Koteliansky, whom Marjorie had cared for during the period of illness leading up to his death in 1955.

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Price: £80

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: 1957

Stock Number: 60689

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