Author: MAUPASSANT, GUY DE
Title: The Best Stories of Guy de Maupassant (Modern Library #98. 4)
Description: New York: The Modern Library, [1959]. Hardcover. A selection of 45 short stories by the master French storyteller Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), written from 1883 to 1893 in this Modern Library reprint edition. Selected, and with introduction by Saxe Commins. --- In Toledano spine 8 / grey cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style h / verso advertises 344 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1949 (though 1945 date appears in book). ML #98.4. --- A Very Good copy: clean, sturdy and unmarked but with prior owner's signature to verso of ffep. Unclipped dust jacket with two full-length, complete vertical tears; some chips and small additional tears but otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo (7 to 7-1/2 in. tall); xiv, 551 pages. Very Good in Poor dust jacket .

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