Title: Aventures par la Lecture — Contes, Comédies, et Civilisation Française.

Author: Arthur Gibbon Bovée; with editorial collaboration by Julien J. Wavrinek.

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company (hb colophon), New York and Chicago.

Publication year on title page: 1934; copyright 1932.

Format: Blue cloth hardcover with gilt lettering; no dust jacket shown.

Language: French; designed as a reader/textbook for French study.

Decorated endpapers feature a "Carte de Paris" map.

Illustrated with black-and-white photographs (e.g., Cathédrale de Chartres; L'Église St‑Germain l'Auxerrois).

Contents include recognition helps, short stories by André Theuriet, Jules Claretie, Jean Bouhier, André Maurois; a one‑act play by H. Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy; sections on French civilisation and history; and a French‑English glossary.

Markings: vintage Ex‑Libris label on front pastedown with owner name written.

Notes: 1930s Harcourt school reader; review photos for more details.