The Romance of a Child

Pierre Loti. First edition. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, 1891. Published without a dust jacket. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition. No writing or markings found in the book, other than previous owner's signature on flyleaf, 179 pp. Translated into English by Mary L. Watkins. 

This copy is preserved in very good+ condition: the cloth boards remain bright, the spine tight with a small area at end of book showing slight separation, and the pages remarkably clean for a book of this vintage. A collectible piece for those who admire French literature, 19th-century translations, or rare Chicago imprints.

A scarce 1891 hardcover edition of The Romance of a Child by Pierre Loti, published by Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago. 

Step back into the late 19th century with this elegant first U.S. hardcover edition of The Romance of a Child by French novelist Pierre Loti (pseudonym of Louis-Marie-Julien Viaud).