The Road Back to Paris
London: Michael Joseph Ltd, [1944]. Second printing. Hardcover. 260 pages. Hardcover, in good condition, in a poor jacket. Bound in black cloth with silver lettering on the spine. Corners bumped, minor wrinkling of cloth on spine, pages yellowed though legible and not brittle. Inscription in black ink on front free endpaper: "Vik Ronningen/June 1945/Rue de Rivoli/Paris". Jacket: spine browned to illegibility, significant wrinkling from moisture damage, chipped at top of spine and front panel affecting much of the author's name in both places. Not attractive, but still it provides the jacket copy and a general idea of the design of the English edition. Jacket enclosed in a clear, archival-quality, removable protective cover. Item #720
The New Yorker sent Liebling to Paris in 1939 to report on the war; this book is a collection of his articles from that time. Laid in is a two-page, October 26 (1944) New Yorker article by Liebling, also in rough shape but mostly legible, in which he describes the poor health of French people, book shortages, and the recently issued death sentence, for collaboration, of journalist Georges Suarez.
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