ROMAINS, Jules. Salsette Discovers America. Trans. from the French with an Introduction by Lewis Galantière. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1942. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Martinot. A fine copy, gilt just a trifle dulled, the binding tight and the contents fine with Carmel bookshop label to rear pastedown. The dust jacket unclipped and fine. A super copy.
An interesting standalone novel by the author of Men of Good Will, a twenty-eight book cycle exploring the European continent in the inter years and leading into the Second World War. This in many ways semi-autobiographical; Romains fled France amid the outbreak of war, first to the US and later to Mexico, and in the novel here a character called Romains, who has already settled in America, assists in his friend Salsette’s acclimatisation. Uncommon.
ROMAINS, Jules. Salsette Discovers America. Trans. from the French with an Introduction by Lewis Galantière. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1942. 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Martinot. A fine copy, gilt just a trifle dulled, the binding tight and the contents fine with Carmel bookshop label to rear pastedown. The dust jacket unclipped and fine. A super copy.
An interesting standalone novel by the author of Men of Good Will, a twenty-eight book cycle exploring the European continent in the inter years and leading into the Second World War. This in many ways semi-autobiographical; Romains fled France amid the outbreak of war, first to the US and later to Mexico, and in the novel here a character called Romains, who has already settled in America, assists in his friend Salsette’s acclimatisation. Uncommon.
