Franklin Library leather edition of Andre Gide's "The Counterfeiters Fate," a Limited edition, Translated by Dorothy Bussy, Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca, one of the GREATEST BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY series, published in 1979.  Bound in pea green leather,  the book has green moire silk end leaves, a satin book marker, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges----in near FINE Condition---except for minor fading on edges of moire silk. 22 Pages of NOTES FROM THE EDITOR is included. Andre Paul Gide, who lived from 1869-1951, was a French author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics.  His writings expressed the conflict and eventual reconciliation of two sides of his personality and a transgressive sexual adventurourness. "The Counterfeiters" opens in the Luxembourg Gardens with Bernard and Olivier.  The novel is full of passion and adventure, from a clandestine love affairs to madness and murder. Edouard's journal makes up a large part of Gide's novel. The gang of boys who pass counterfeiter coins are only a few among many "counterfeiters" in Gide's novel.  Passavant counterfeits his Parisian wit by plagiarizing  fashionable ideas.  Edouard tries to make a novel out of other people's suffering.  The older people in the novel loudly uphold conventional morality and secretly break all the rules.  And many of the youths in the novel affect arrogance and vulgarity in protest against the lies their parents live. He was awarded the NOBEL PRIZE in 1947.  The New York Times described Gide as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and judged him "the greatest French writer of this century." 387 pages.  I offer combined shipping.