1944 ZBe

Copies examined

Curwen Press:

F58

Title page

[A]2^r

Imprint

[A]2^v

Collation

[A]⁸ B-N⁸.

Pagination

[5] 2-4 [5] 6-14 [15] 16-26 [27] 28-33 [34] 35-9 [40] 41-50 [51] 52-60 [61] 62-6 [67] 68-75 [76] 77-89 [90] 91-9 [100] 101-4 [105] 106-13 [114] 115-24 [125] 126-8 [129] 130-5 [136] 137-41 [142] 143-9 [150] 151-8 [159] 160-1 [162] 163-5 [166] 167-9 [170-1] 172-8 [179] 180-3 [184] 185 [186] 187-91 [192] 193-4 [195] 196-201 [+3].

Technical description

Crown 8^o: 7½" × 5", trimmed, white wove, no mark; 10(+1)pt. Garamond; paper wrappers printed in black and blue, up spine: ‘ANATOLE FRANCE : LES DIEUX ONT SOIF’, upper cover: ‘[36pt. ruled border including 8pt. rule in blue; within] ANATOLE FRANCE | [lines 2 and 3 blue] LE DIEUX | ONT SOIF | ÉDITIONS PENGUIN’, and on lower wrapper an advertisement for Éditions Penguin.

Notes

Anatole France is the pseudonym of Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault; Les Dieux ont soif has been published in England as The Gods are athirst.

Ascribed in Curwen index to 1944; probably not deposited at B.M.