FIRST EDITION, Bonjour Tristesse, Francoise Sagan, 1st American Printing, 1955

New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1955. VG/G. Stated First Edition. The book is tight with solid hinges and red boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Pages lightly toned. Endpapers toned and smudged. The dust jacket is unclipped ($2.50) and Good. Chipped at corners and edges. Small tears to upper front and back and six-inch vertical semi-closed tear to front edge and front flap (see photos). Rear cover lightly toned and scuffed. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 128 pages. 5½ x 8".

Francoise Sagan was only 18 when “Bonjour Tristesse” was published to enormous international success. It is a story about an amoral teenager who sets out to keep her philandering widowed father from marrying again. The novel was originally published in France in 1954. The following year an English translation reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list.