 Author Name: Steinbeck, John
Title: The Short Reign of Pippin IV
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Publisher: Netherlands The Viking Press 1957
Illustrator: Du Bois, William Pene
Seller ID: 006137
188 pp., brownish orange cloth boards with yellow spine with copper gilt lettering. DJ in protective Brodart plastic wrap. DJ's spine is sunned, a little shallow chipping at spine and flap ends, small spots at ends of front flap, 1" closed tear at back flap edge. Text is clean and light. "The unpredictable Mr. Steinbeck has been having himself a ball with some of his contemporaries. This frothy extravaganza about French politics - and various other matters - is so full of fun and good natured satire that it almost bubbles over. It's clear that he has had a wonderful time writing it; and readers who don't hold it against a writer for changing his type will have a wonderful time reading it. There's a story here - of what happens to a retiring middle-aged astronomer suddenly drafted to rule the unruly French; of his teen-age, glamour-struck daughter and her American swain, son of the Egg King of Petaluma, California; and of sundry members of the ancient nobility, art dealers, nuns, guards, gardeners, politicians, and plain people. But it would be criminal to try to tell more, or to pretend that the story makes the book. This is the French Revolution upside down, and Steinbeck at his most original."
Fiction, Vintage, Illustrated Fabricated story, France, M. Pippin Arnulf Heristal (fictitious character)
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