About Catherine De Medici by Honore De Balzac

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1915. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1915. Reprinted. 350 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound brown leather with brown cloth covered boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Textblock edges dyed brown. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate peeling and splits to spine and corners. Minor wear marks to boards.

USA: P.F.Collier & Son, 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Type: Hardback Collier, NY, c 1900. The first complete translation into English, Honore de Balzac, in Twenty-five Volumes. This is Volume Twenty-four. Hardcover in Good Condition. No jacket, as issued. Green cloth binding with bright and clear gilt lettering on spine. Boards scuffed, heavily rubbed at corners, edges also rubbed. Yellow and green endbands. Sewn binding tight, solid and square, backstrap loosened. Frontis photogravure, "CHRISTOPHE", tissue protected, with red print on tissue, tissue is loose. Text pages clean, unmarked, no tears, toned. flexible not fragile. 16th century France was a tumultuous time of civil and religious warfare, the whole time of Catherine's reign. As King Henry II spouse, she wasn't politically involved; her reign as Queen of France was from 1547-1559. When Henry II died in 1559, her political power grew and held sway during the reign of three sons,… Read More

The Home Library Book Co., 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 350 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to half title page. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.

New York, George D. Sproul, 1903. Octavo (8.5 x 5.75), xiii + 392 pages. Red 3/4 leather binding with gold lettering and design and mottled paper cover and endpapers. Brown 3/4 leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers and gold lettering and design on spine; the top surface of the text block is gilded. The interior is spotless and the binding is solid, but the cover shows wear and tear consistent with its age (see image). Contains interleaved images and an Introduction by William Peterfield Trent.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-02-21. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-02-21. Paperback. Good.

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1925. This book is in very good condition. This is #419 of Everyman's Library. The ordinary edition is bound in cloth with gilt design and coloured top. There is also a library edition in reinforced cloth. This particular book has been rebound in beautifully decorated leather by A. Genova - Venezia. The tops of the pages have the gilt design. The spine has some wear from handling. There is a notation of where and when this book was purchased on the first white page. The interior is clean. Along the outer edges are staple marks from rebinding.. Reprint Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Fiction, Classics.

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Paperback / softback. New.