FATAPOUFS & THINIFERS

San Fran. Cal: Henry Holt & Company, 1940 Book. Illus. by Jean Bruller. Fine. Hard Cover w/ Jacket. 1st. American Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. First American Edition,1940 , Hardcover with the dust jacket in a clear protected mylar cover, with 92 pages.This is a FINE condition pictorial hardcover book in a dye-stamped blue coth boards,with the DUST JACKET ( extremety rare with the jacket ).Endpapers decorated with armorial bearings of the Thinifers and Fatapoufs houses. Colors in this book are clean and brillant with no marks rips or any damage. The boards have some edge ware and light bumps at the corners and the pages have the very lightest of tone to the edges. This extremety rare book is in the best condition of any copy you will find . Now for the condition of the , dust jacket it is complete, with age and damage to the edges and spine ,the front bottem and spine is missing a piece about 1.5"x 2" , and at the top a small missing piece about 0.5" x 0.25" . This beautiful book authored by one of France's twentieth century literary giants .The Thins and the Fats have already had one World War -- can a Second World War be averted? Read Maurois's thinly veiled picture-book parable for the European political situation just prior to 1940.see image..