Adrien Linden — Le Magot de la Chine
Paris, Librairie Ch. Delagrave, c1889. Cloth. A scarce, presumed first and only edition of this illustrated French children's novel about world travel. Featuring numerous illustrations. The front pastedown has a prize presentation label from the Ecole de Jeunes Filles, rue de Buffon, Paris, dated 1910, for Yvonne Larsson. In French. In a decorative cloth binding. Externally, some shelfwear, with some dampstaining to extremities. Spine darkened, with splitting to cloth at top. Front hinge weak. Internally, generally firmly bound, although strained in places, with a number of pages working slightly loose. The pages have browning, with intermittent light foxing and marks. Good . Ill.: None. Good .