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Good. ATTN: EX-LIBRARY COPY>>>> Former Library book. Paperback This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. War-hero and diplomat Romain Gary's fifth novel, which won the Prix Goncourt. It was made into a film by John Huston. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition (stated "First Printing"). In an intersting binding: bottom half is an orange cloth, with the upper in a turquoise paper; gilt titling on spine and front cover. Translation from the original French by Jonathan Griffin. Clean text; 372 pages; red topstain. Hints of bumping and a slight cocking; else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is Very Good; unclipped, showing some chipping around the margins. In an archival plastic protector.
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Fine in fine jacket. Translated from the French by Jonathan Griffin. 8vo, cloth, d.w. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1958. First American Edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Prix Goncourt novel.
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First edition in English of this novel, which was awarded France's Prix Goncourt in 1956. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor on the front free endpaper. Leigh Fermor co-wrote the screenplay for the 1958 film. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. The Roots of Heaven is a novel by the Lithuanian-born French writer and WW II aviator, Romain Gary. It received the Prix Goncourt for fiction. Set in French Equatorial Africa, the book is the story of a crusading environmentalist, Morel, who labors to preserve elephants from extinction, but which narrative is actually a metaphor for the quest for salvation for all humanity. He is assisted in the task by Minna, a nightclub hostess, and Forsythe, a disgraced British military officer seeking redemption. John Huston directed and Darryl Zanuck produced a 1958 Hollywood film with the same title based on the novel, with the screenplay written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and Romain Gary. It was actually shot in the malaria-infested Belgian Congo and starred Trevor Howard as Morel, Errol Flynn as Forsythe, and Juliette Greco as Minna, with a cameo by Orson Welles that was filmed in a Parisian studio.