A Versailles Christmas-tide

Mary Stuart Boyd

An attractive First Edition in gilt stamped blue bevelled board in Near Fine condition, top edges gilt, offsetting to endpapers. In Very Good+, lightly chipped and spine-tanned dust-wrapper with Robert Louis Stevenson ad on back. Rare in dust-wrapper;

"No project could have been less foreseen than was ours of wintering in France, though it must be confessed that for several month our thoughts had constantly strayed across the Channel. " - Boyd's account of her emergency trip to France at Christmas.