New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2345567

Dedicated to Edith Foster Dulles and Eleanor Lansing Dulles (relatives of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing - these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him), with handwritten note for ELD laid in. No jacket. Front board soiled, page ridges lightly foxed.

xvi, 206 pp. French text. Author was Eleanor Lansing Dulles's husband. Edited with Introduction, Notes, Exercises, and Vocabulary by D.S. Blondheim. An Iceland Fisherman ( Pêcheur d'Islande, 1886) is a novel by French author Pierre Loti. It depicts the romantic but inevitably sad life of Breton fishermen who sail each summer season to the stormy Iceland cod grounds. Literary critic Edmund Gosse characterized it as "the most popular and finest of all [Loti's] writings."

Price: $20.00