{"product_id":"mood-indigo-boris-vian-translated-by-john-sturrock-grove-press-first-english-edition-1968","title":"Mood Indigo - Boris Vian, translated by John Sturrock (Grove Press, First English Edition, 1968)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis Grove Press first English-language edition (1968) is of interest to collectors of Boris Vian, French surrealist fiction in translation, Grove Press imprints, and 1960s avant-garde literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout: \u003c\/strong\u003eVery Good copy in the original white dust jacket with striking surrealist dreamscape illustration to front panel and portrait of Boris Vian to rear; dust jacket with some rubbing and light wear to extremities and a small closed tear to head of spine; boards clean and binding firm; pages bright and clean; a handsome and collectible copy of the first English-language edition of Vian's most celebrated novel, with the Raymond Queneau blurb — “The greatest love novel of our time” — to front panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitle: Mood Indigo (L'Écume des jours)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor: Boris Vian\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslator: John Sturrock\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Grove Press, New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublication Date: 1968\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdition: First English-Language Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDust Jacket Condition: Very Good (some rubbing and light wear; small closed tear to spine head)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSynopsis:\u003c\/strong\u003e Grove Press first English-language edition, 1968; translated by John Sturrock; original white dust jacket with surrealist dreamscape illustration; Raymond Queneau blurb to front panel; Boris Vian portrait to rear; appealing to collectors of French surrealist fiction, Grove Press imprints, and 1960s avant-garde literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview: \u003c\/strong\u003eBoris Vian's Mood Indigo (L'Écume des jours), first published in French in 1947, is a surrealist love story set in a fantastical Paris where a water lily grows in a woman's lung and the world contracts around the lovers as her illness progresses. Widely regarded as Vian's masterpiece, it was championed by Raymond Queneau and Jean-Paul Sartre and has become a cult classic of 20th century French literature. John Sturrock's 1968 Grove Press translation brought the novel to English-language readers for the first time, and this first edition — with its distinctive white jacket and dreamlike cover art — is a significant and increasingly sought-after collectible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53994203742548,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/5972\/1556\/files\/mood-indigo-boris-vian-1600x1600-0128.jpg?v=1774202868","url":"https:\/\/www.alexanderdavidfinebooks.co.uk\/products\/mood-indigo-boris-vian-translated-by-john-sturrock-grove-press-first-english-edition-1968","provider":"Alexander David Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}