Robert Baldick [ed.] — Pages from the Goncourt Journal

London, Oxford University Press, 1962. Cloth. A bright copy of this historical work, containing extracts from the Goncourt brothers' journal, forming a fascinating look at the Parisian art scene. The first edition thus containing these pages from the Goncourt Journal. In the publisher's unclipped dust wrapper. With a frontispiece and eight monochrome plates. Collated, complete. The Goncourt Journal was a diary written by the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, offering an entirely candid insight to the artistic Parisian world in which they lived. These extracts of the journal were compiled, edited and translated by Robert Baldick, a British scholar of French literature and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.  In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with slight fading to the cloth edges and light bumping to the extremities. Dust wrapper is smart, with wear and light chipping to the edges of the wrap. A few small marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.