Monsieur Beaucaire.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1900.
Price: $250.00
About the item
First edition, with the publisher's seal at the back measuring one-half inch. Illustrated by C. D. Williams. 128 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, decorated endpapers. Boards slightly soiled; Very Good. Flyleaf inscribed: “‘I wish you dreams of roses--’/ Booth Tarkington”. Merle Johnson page 489.
Item #221233
Tarkington's amusing tale of Eighteenth-century Bath and the young French Duke of Orleans who, while impersonating a barber, is presented to Bath society as a duke, all in pursuit of romance.
