The deputy from Arcis /[tr.] by G. Burnham Ives. v.1. Volume v.1. 1898 by Balzac Honore? de - - 2020

The Caxton Publishing Company Ltd., 1898. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1898. No Edition Remark. 353 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Contains uncut pages. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Frontispiece is detached. Heavy tanning to free endpapers. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Baltimore: The Medical & Standard Book. Good; Outer Covering of Spine Missing. 1897. Hardback. Limited to 500 sets of which this is No. 19 - Volume 2; 355 pages .

London: E. R. DuMont, 1901. From an edition of 40 copies identified as "The Immortals Edition. 355 pages. Full red leather with gilt stamped lettering and decoration. Gilded edges of text block. Color frontispiece and four additional b/w plates, all tissue guarded. Leather covers are a little rubbed, and show light wear at crown. There is a fairly small chip seen at the foot. End leaves are a little darkened and lightly soiled. The last signature shows about an inch of separation, though remains solid and even with other contents.. The Immortals Edition. Full Leather. Good/No Dust Jacket.

George Barrie & Son, 1898. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes, very good blue cloth hardcovers with pasted on labels to spines and gilt top page edges shows some rubbing and fading to spine labels, soiling and bit of rubbing to covers, soil at end papers and page edges, name stamps at various places, along with some other light trace wear. Combines for 718 partially uncut pages translated by George Burnham Ives and illustrated with four etchings. Still a solid copy of this edition of the classic works now for the first time completely translated into English.

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London: Caxton, 1898. COMPLETE TWO VOLUME SET. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards are clean and unmarked apart from a very small mark to spine and front corner of Vol.II with no wear apart from a pinprick size mark to spine of Vol.I. Internally there is age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. Military and Political Life. Volume I - 362 pages. Volume II - 353 pages. [Of the three divisions of this story, as published in the Edition Définitive, upon which this edition is based, only the first - The Election - is by Balzac, the rest is by Charles Rabon. Much of the portion added by Rabon, including the whole of La Famille Beauvisage, is omitted in the Edition Définitive, as will appear by reference to the articles in Cerfberr and Christophe's Repertory, relating to Dorlange-Sallenauve, Cécile Beauvisage, Philéas Beauvisage… Read More