De La Fouchardière (G.) The Turn of the Worm.
£575
Translated from the French by E. Ibbetson James
London, Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
The first English edition of the first novel by the French humorist and journalist Georges de La Fouchardière (1874–1946). The source for two landmark films: Jean Renoir’s La Chienne (1931) and Fritz Lang’s American noir Scarlet Street (1945). It’s a mordant Parisian tragedy of a downtrodden middle-class man (an amateur painter) besotted with a young prostitute and destroyed by her and her pimp – each character narrating his own part, as the “He / She / The Other Man” indicated by contents page. La Fouchardière was a celebrated L’Œuvre columnist and creator of the ‘Bouif’ series. This English edition is genuinely uncommon
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Cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket chipped with loss at corners and spine ends.
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