Description
First edition thus of A Man’s Place by Annie Ernaux, with a signed card laid-in.
Octavo, 99pp. [1pp ad]. Blue hardcover, title in white on spine. Stated “First Printing May 1992” on copyright page. Solid text block, touch of foxing to top edge, otherwise fine. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $15.95 retail price on front flap, shelf worn, near fine.
Includes a laid-in card signed by the author: “11 June 2015 / Dear —, Thank you so much for your kind letter and the photo of your family. Your hometown, —, is very beautiful under the snow! / Very friendly to you. Annie Ernaux.”
A Man’s Place was originally published in French as “La Place” by Gallimard in 1983. This copy is the first Four Walls Eight Windows edition, one of the earliest with the English translation.
