The Red and the Black (Modern Library 157.1)

Stendhal's magnum opus is centered around a young man of simple means who attempts to rise in elite society. This unabridged English-language Modern Library reprint edition features C. K. Scott Moncrieff's translation from the French. Two-volumes-in-one. Volume wrapped in maroon and black jacket variant. --- In Toledano spine 8 / green cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 365 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1953 (though 1926 date appears in book). ML #157.1. --- With previous owner's inked info. to front endpapers, otherwise a clean, tightly-bound and unmarked copy. Fair-only price-clipped dust jacket with large open tear to spine, other chips and tears, but remains mostly intact and wrapped in new removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; (8), 9-288, vi, 9-350, (2), (6, ads) pages

Product Info

Publisher: The Modern Library / Random House

Year: [c.1953]

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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