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G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1972. Hardcover. Good.

London: Hart-Davis, Macgibbon. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0246107421 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Hardcover is clean and tight. There is a small inscription on first endpage and slight soiling outer edge of pages. Jacket has light edgewear, a few tiny edge tears, light scuffing, not price clipped. The unexpurgated memoirs of the authors (fictional? ) distinguished ancestor, the swashbuckling and charming Court Anaxagoras Gramont, and his rise in the world from the provincial second son , to courtier in the court of Louis XV, to a slave trader, to a prisoner in the Bastille, to eventually Marshal of France. ; 8vo; Told in a racy, ironic style by the author of THE FRENCH and EPITAPH FOR KINGS. This is his very entertaining second novel with many fascinateing oblique references to 18th century French court manners and slang. (700? ) .