Zazie Dans Le Métro

Paris: Olympia, 1959. Duodecimo in green, matte wrappers in pink, purple & yellow, laminated, pictorial wrappers; illus.; 219 pp., 18 cm. Fine copy in very good(+) dust jacket. DJ is lightly edgeworn with some light sunning to edges more obvious on the back side of jacket; light aging to a very charmingly illustrated jacket; wrappers are clean with only a wee bit of signs of age around the edges; no tears; insides are like new: pages are crisp, clean, bright and free of marks, creases, notes and foxing; binding is tight. A gently loved copy. in very good dust-jacket. Paperback.

In English. Series: The Traveller's Companion Series No. 74; illustrations by Jacqueline Duhème. "Provincial pre-teenager Zazie stays in Paris with her Uncle Gabriel (a female impersonator) for two days, while her mother spends some time with her lover. Zazie manages to evade her uncle's custody, and métro strike notwithstanding, sets out to explore the city on her own." -Wikipedia plot summary.