Port Tarascon: The Last Adventures of the Illustrious Tartarin

First Engish language edition. Translated by Henry James. With frontispiece of Daudet. 359 pages with additional, tipped-in 32 page publisher's catalog. Pea sized black ink stain to bottom edge, visible primarily at the bottom of the first 40 pages. A second smaller stain visible on the last 30 pages. Decorative cloth with soiling and rubbing evident in phtograph. Sturdy binding. The exploits of the bragging hero of Midii, his character Tartarin was popular in translation, echoing Dickens with a gentle, satirical distance.