THEY CALLED ME CASSANDRA

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First American edition. Frontispiece. 436pp. 8vo. Red cloth. A very good copy in very good clipped dust jacket; jacket has moderate wear, and light creasing, at tips of spine, rubbed at extremities of front and rear panel, else quite bright. First American edition. Frontispiece. 436pp. 8vo. Inscribed: "Vive l'Amerique, Vive le France... Genevieve Tabouis"
(with letter about American assistance to France during WWII). Inscribed, and signed, by Genevieve Tabouis, ten lines in French, concluding with "... Vive l'Amerique, Vive le France... Genevieve Tabouis" (on the half-title page). Laid into the book is an autograph letter signed by Tabouis, to Gareth L. Pawlowski, and the author's business card, also signed by her. The long, typed letter (in French), one octavo page (twenty lines, in five paragraphs), on Genvieve Tabouis' engraved letterhead, Paris, "Le 2 Aout 1971," has fine content. The warmly written letter, agreeing to sign her book, also wants to let the American recipient know, "... Je veux vous dire aussi combien la reconnaissance de tous les Francais pour l'Amerique demeure en nos coeurs a tous, et ne s'eteindra jamais, car l'Amerique nous a non seulement aidee sur les champs de bataile, mais encore elle nous a permis de sauver l'Europe en suavant economique et financierement notre Pays..." ("I would also like to tell you about the thankfulness of all the French people towards America which dwells in all of our hearts, and never fades, for America not only aided us on the battlefields but also permitted us to save Europe through economic and financial aid for our country..."). A moving letter, in memory of American assistance to France during the Second World War. The letter is boldly signed by Genevieve Tabouis (it is in fine condition, folded, in original mailing envelope, , and laid into the book).

Genevieve Tabouis (1892-1985) was a French journalist and diplomat; the National Portrait Gallery (London) has a number of photographic portraits of Tabouis among their holdings. The dust jacket states: "As foreign editor of the Paris newspaper L'Oeuvre, she travelled almost constantly between the great capitals, and had a place behind the scenes in all the great crises of European politics for twenty years past." She warned of the expansion of fascism, and the dust jacket states, "Hitler taunted her-- 'As for Madame Tabouis, that wisest of women, she knows what I am about to do even before I know it myself.' He shouted those words in an address carried by radio round the world. He didn't know how close he was to the truth!" (from front panel of dust jacket). For the inscribed book, letter and signed card:.