Claire de Durfort
Ourika, 1977
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor
One of 500 copies.
3137
Octavo. 65pp. Printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press is the first French novel to feature as the protagonist a Black woman of complex character, a move...
Octavo. 65pp. Printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press is the first French novel to feature as the protagonist a Black woman of complex character, a move which John Fowles in his introduction the edition notes was highly influential in his writing of The French Lieutenant's Woman. Bound in blue pastepapers over boards backed in blue morocco with gilt details. Fine. Laid in is a letter with the prospectus and a note from one pleased reader to another.
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