Giono, Jean; Johnson, Phyllis — The Straw Man

North Point Pr First edition, trade softcover. Published San Francisco: North Point Pr, 1983, first printing. 8vo. wrappers in dust jacket,viii+461pp. Translated from the French by Phyllis Johnson. Band of toning on verso of front cover from newspaper clipping, else near fine in very good dust jacket with sun fade at the spine and a closed slit. From the Translator's Foreward: "Two plagues ravaged Europe in 1848: Asiatic cholera and the fever of revolution. Giono, who in The Horseman on the Roof exposed his hero, Angelo Pardi, to an earlier cholera plague in France, now sets him wandering in the 1848 epidemic of revolution in the north of Italy. Near Fine Very Good 1st Edition 1st Printing San Francisco 8vo 461