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DROLL STORIESby Balzac, Honore De
Book desription: New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1928 Hardcover without dust jacket. Two Volumes in One. Publisher's full brown cloth, spine in five gilt-bordered compartments with gilt lettering on black panel and intricate gilt decoration in all compartments, gilt borders, decoration and medallion on cover, TEG (red). 8vo. (xxvi), 291, (ii), 266 pp. Illustrated with 32 duotone engravings by Ralph Barton. The volume is in excellent condition, with no ownership marks, light shelf-waer to edges and corners, else fine. NEAR FINE. Here, in one volume, are Balzac's famous thirty short stories, the first ten of which were first published in 1832, the second ten in 1833 and the final ten in 1837. They were first published together in 1853, and since that time have taken their place with Rabelais and Boccaccio, The Heptameron of Marguerite of Navarre and the Cent Nouvelles attributed to Louis XI, as enduring works of erotica. . Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Ralph Barton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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