FRANCE, ANATOLE (LANE TRANSLATION) — Balthasar

UK, Bodley Head (John Lane). 1924. Hardcover , 21.5cm. Book, 225pp & a whisker under 500g to post. A collection of 7 short stories. Anatole France (1844-1924), born Franois-Anatole Thibault, was a French author. He studied at the Collge Stanislas and after graduation he helped his father by working at his bookstore. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1921 "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament." , Very Good/No Jacket.