Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine by Balzac, Honore De

Published for the Trade. Hardcover. USED Fair/No Jacket. NOTE THAT 'DROLL STORIES' HAS WORN OFF THE SPINE, and it just reads 'Collected from The Abbeys of Tourain'. No jacket. Binding badly cracked before the translator's preface. No publication or copyright date given, but appears to be late 1800s to early 1900s. Cover price is ten shillings and sixpence.

London: privately printed. 1st Edition thus? . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Siegel. Printed circa 1925. Thick volume. Gold-stamped black cloth, light-struck spine. No names, clean text. Handsome b/w artwork. 17,000 PB shelf

London: For the trade. hardcover. Book: Good. 12mo.. 293 pp. 5 1/2 x 7 7/8. Red cloth covered boards with printed white title pastedown on spine. No dj. Cloth a little faded at spine; pastedown label a little scuffed. Ownership markings ifc.

Bibliophilist Library, 1907. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original red cloth, paper spine label, top edge gilt (heavy wear; hinges loose and binding shaken, paper label chipped; ink name).Gustave Dore.

London: London: William Mitchell & Company, 1901, 1901. First Thus. Very good in thick red cloth Hardcover with tissue-guarded frontis engraving. 490 pages, untrimmed paper with many line drawings and full-page engraving plates throughout. Original paper p aste-on label on spine. Rear hinge weak.. Very Good.

Publisher, 1874. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1874 EDITION. Ex-Library (college) with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Book rebound with newer covers by library and shows edge wear with rubbing. Hinge cracked but binding intact. Book shelf-cocked. Still very readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London: Privately Printed Book. VG+. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Complete in two (2) volumes, uniformly bound in dark green cloth, paper title labels mounted on upper spine panels, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. Very minor shelf wear, with labels somewhat toned and chipped. Firm bindings, clean interiors. ix,343 + v,311 pp., each volume illus. w/ (3) photogravure plates with captioned guards. Privately printed, no publication information provided, translator's Preface dated 1874..

Privately Printed, 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Privately Printed, London, 1900. Hardcover, no dustjacket, lightly shelfworn. Minor wear to spine ends & corners of boards. Binding firm, text & images bright.

Australia: Lansdowne, 1974. 193 pp, signed by the author on the front endpaper with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This book depicts those young offenders who have been 'sprung', sentenced not only by courts but by a society which either does not understand or does not want to hear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

J.C. Hotten, 1874-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1.3000 8.0000 5.8000. A beautiful binding in full leather with gilt decoration and raised bands on the spine, top board is detached but can be easily repaired. Decorative endpapers, all edges gilt. Pages with minor scattered foxing.