Kéraban le têtu

First edition illustrated with 101 drawings by Benett as well as a map.
Publisher's polychrome boards known as "A l'éventail et à un éléphant", all edges gilt, original blue endpapers, second cover type Engel "i" according to Jauzac.
Spine lightened, upper corners slightly frayed, blue endpapers marginally lightened as usual.
Adventure novel in a humorous vein rare for the author. The action takes place around the Black Sea. A tobacco merchant, Keraban, refuses to pay the tax imposed by the sultan to cross the Bosphorus strait, so he decides to reach Constantinople by going around the Black Sea.
Handsome copy.