Les Adieux by Francois-Regis Bastid | 1958 FIRST EDITION | Prix Femina Award | Translated into English from the original French

A FIRST ENGLISH EDITION of the Prix Femina award-winning French novel Les Adieux by Francois-Regis Bastid was published by Simon & Schuster in 1958.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR (Courtesy of allpoetry.com)
François-Régis Bastide (1926-1996; Paris) was a French writer, diplomat, politician, and radio host. Bastide published his first book, the novel Lettre de Bavière, in 1947. He continued to publish books regularly and won the Grand Prix de la Critique for his 1953 biographical essay Saint-Simon par lui même about Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon and the Prix Femina for his 1956 novel Les Adieux. In 1953 Bastide began a parallel career as a book editor working for the Éditions du Seuil where he worked for close to thirty years. Bastide also wrote for the theatre (Siegfried 78) and for television (most notably Le Troisième concerto which won the grand prix de la Télévision in 1963 and L'Éducation sentimentale, a mini-series adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's novel Sentimental Education). In 1981 Bastide received the Pierre de Régnier Prize of the Académie française for his lifetime achievements.

BIXLEY NOTES
• Les Adieux
• Written by Francois-Regis Bastid
• FIRST ENGLISH EDITION
• Published by Simon & Schuster, 1958
• 244 page hardcover with dust jacket
• Measures 8 1/4" x 5 1/2"

VINTAGE NOTES
• In very good condition
• Binding is nice and tight
• A tiny bit of shelf wear on the corner edges and corners
• Dust jacket has some smudging. A few creases and small tears along the edges
• Pages have yellowed but otherwise are clean and unmarked
• Inscribed on the inside front page

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