One Deadly Summer (First American Edition)

Sebastien Japrisot (author) (pen name for Jean-Baptiste Rossi); ; Alan Sheridan (translator)

ISBN 10: 0151693811 / ISBN 13: 9780151693818

Published by Helen and Kurt Wolff (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), New York, 1980

About this Item

First printing of the first American edition, with full letter line (BCDE, customary for HBJ at time of publication). A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($9.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Remainder line and light foxing on top edge. Jacket has a couple short closed tears (and a small chip at head of jacket spine). Translated from the French by Sheridan. ONE DEADLY SUMMER was awarded the Prix des Dues Magots in 1978. F4300.

Seller Inventory # FLAHIVE-2539

Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Deadly Summer (First American Edition)
• Publisher: Helen and Kurt Wolff (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), New York
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151693811
• ISBN 13: 9780151693818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • French Literature

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Synopsis

In the provincial French town to which her family has moved, Eliane is the object of fascination and obsession. She is as voluptuous as the photo of Marilyn Monroe she treasures, and is both lusted after by the men and feared by the women.