FRANCE: FIN DE SIECLE
Written by Eugen Weber.
Stock no. 1831412
Published by Belknap Press. 1st 1986. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In Eugen Weber's France, Fin de Siècle, statesmen and treaties are set aside in favor of the stuff of everyday existence. We learn about bathing, smells, sanitation, domestic quarrels, underwear, sexuality and the bicycle as they evolved during the last two decades of the nineteenth century… Terracotta cloth spine with gilt title on blue to spine, beige cloth boards. B/w illustrations. x and 294 pages including index. ISBN: 0674318129. Boards clean. Light foxing to text block. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and a little grubby to rear panel which also has a barcode label stuck over last three lines of writing.