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Droll Stories: Thirty Tales By Honoré de Balzac
by BALZAC, Honoré de (Boris Artzybasheff, Ralph Barton, Sangorski and Sutcliffe)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
[New York]: The Heritage Club, 1939. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated from the French by Jacques Le Clercq. With illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff. Extra illustrated with color plates by Ralph Barton taken from a limited edition of *Droll Stories* published by Boni & Liveright in 1928. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in green morocco over boards, with pictorial designs stamped in color on both boards and the spine, inside gilt tooling, all edges gilt. Bookplate of Saul Shapiro on the first front fly leaf. Very slight sunning to the spine, a fine copy in a maroon goatskin wrapper with interior silk pastdowns and yapp edges and the title lettered in gold on the spine; housed in a slipcase in quarter maroon goatskin and cloth. There is a light corner stain on the silk pastedowns on the inside of the maroon goatskin wrapper (not affecting the book), thus near fine overall. A rare edition with extra illustrations by Ralph Barton, in an exceptional Sangorski and Sutcliffe binding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 429291
- Title
- Droll Stories: Thirty Tales By Honoré de Balzac
- Author
- BALZAC, Honoré de (Boris Artzybasheff, Ralph Barton, Sangorski and Sutcliffe)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Heritage Club
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Art/Illustration, Bindings, FrenchLiterature, Humor, Sexuality
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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