Year/Century: 20th century
Language: French
Subject: Illustrated
Binding: Hardcover
Description: Blackeyes, Sadie (Pseud. de Pierre Mac Orlan)'s Petite Dactylo Roman Jean Fort, Paris, n.d. (c. 1930) Dimensions: 5 1/4 by 8"; 299 pages + Table; Malteste frontispiece thirty-two drawings by Gaston Smit Hard bound (not original; later binding) A little binding wear. Excellent interior design. Written in French First published in 1914 by Jean Fort and reprinted here in his Collection des Orties Blanches (White Nettle Collection), Petite Dactylo (The Little Typist) is set in a typing school that uses a correction technique that predates Tippex. Pierre Mac Orlan wrote it under the pen name Sadie Blackeyes in this instance. Mac Orlan, real name Pierre Dumarchey (1882–1970), was a well-known French novelist and songwriter. Among his works was Quai des Brumes (1928), which was filmed in 1938 by Marcel Carne and starred Jean Gabin. It is still regarded as one of the most important pieces of French cinema history.
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