Leviathan

Green, Julian

Librairie Plon, 1929

Bound in contemporary leather over marbled boards. Marbled end pages. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Edges chipped. 345 p., 19 cm. 

Julien Green (1900-1998) was a French American writer of somber psychological novels that show a preoccupation with violence and death. Green was the first person of American parentage to be elected to the Academie Francaise (1971).