Cheri (The Folio Society)

London: The Folio Society, 1963. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Jullian, Philippe. First thus (Ford-Smith, Folio 76 #180). Includes publisher's slipcase. Fore edge lightly foxed. 1963 Hard Cover. 160 pp. Red and black cloth imitating silk, gilt titles. Translated from the original French into English by Roger Senhouse, with seven collotype plates from dry-point etchings by Philippe Jullian. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 - 1954), one of the most popular and best loved of modern French writers, became known simply as Colette when she married in 1893. Her husband, a Parisian man-about-town and the son of a major publisher, made use of her literary talents by publishing her first several novels under his own name - his only changes, evidently, being to make them more prurient. But eventually she broke free of this unhappy marriage and took flight on her own, as a fiction writer, a journalist, and an actress. By the time Cheri was published in 1920, Colette had become well known both as a writer and as a personality and was entering a period of rich personal growth and happiness. (Inventory #: 2347325)