DROLL STORIES; (Contes Drolatiques) / By Honore de Balzac / Edited by Ernest Boyd / Two Volumes in One
by Balzac, Honore de
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Lake Forest, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. The Black & Gold Library. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. Thick 8vo (8 3/4" x 6 1/8" x 1 1/4"), black cloth has gold lettering on spine with elaborate decorative scrollwork, translation & Introduction by Ernest Boyd, archival polyester-protected decorative tan dust jacket (unclipped with price $3.50 present & bevelled corners), pictorial endpapers with cartoon Balzac overlooking many of his characters, xiv + 266 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 2 oz. Honoré de Balzac (1799 - 1850) was a great 19th century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus is the La Comédie humaine, a series of many novels that present a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life. His widely acclaimed and lively "Droll Stories" were originally published during the 1830's as 30 tales in three sets, which are here gathered in this handsome volume.<br/><br/>Handsome edition and excellent translation. Tight copy with clean pages and plates. This 1" scrape near Methuselah's cheek; <br/><br/>SUPERIOR CONDITION: Tight, bright, clean copy. Dust jacket is remarkably well preserved with traces of soil on its back panel.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6393
- Title
- DROLL STORIES; (Contes Drolatiques) / By Honore de Balzac / Edited by Ernest Boyd / Two Volumes in One
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- The Black & Gold Library
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Horace Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- France, Paris, comedy, villages, price possibly $2; illustrated, lithographs,
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Borg Antiquarian
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Lake Forest, Illinois
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