The Village Cure by De Balzac, Honore - 1899

The Caxton Publishing Company, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. No Edition Remarks. 371 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Binding remains firm. Boards are slightly bowed and tanned.

The Caxton Publishing Company, 1899. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Boards are shelf worn. Binding is secure. Stains on the top right corner of all pages. NO inscriptions or annotations. JHK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

London: Caxton, 1899. green cloth faded in part towards foredges (bad storage in past), otherwise nice and fresh, sound copy, gilt lettered on spine, gilt decoration on front panel, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, illustrated, part of a 53-volume complete works edition issued between 1895 and 1900. This is vol 2 in the series Country Life. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

The Caxton Publishing Company, 1899. Hardback. Good. Caxton Edition hardback, 1899, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - green cloth boards a little shelf-worn and spine darkened. Internally clean. Binding tight; no annotation or inscriptions; gilt upper-edge to page-block dust-dulled with toning to page-ends, but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

London: The Caxton Publishing Company, 1899 The book is bright and firm, evidently unread - some pages uncut, the dj is reasonably bright with some browning to the spine and some wear to the edges

London: Caxton, 1899. Caxton Edition with illustrations. Gilt title and motif on green cloth boards. Boards are clean with some minor marks to rear. Internally there are some small removals to the edges of two pages (probably from bad opening of previously unopened pages)but not affecting the text, age darkening to endpapers, the occasional spots of light foxing else clean, tight and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Fore and lower edges uncut. 371 pages. Country Life. Balzac's magnum opus of novels, short stories and plays which present French life after the fall of Napoleon I in 1815. A founding work of 'Realism' in literature which influenced many writers including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James. La Comédie Humaine remained unfinished at the time of his death in 1850 as Balzac had planned to include more works. A1B. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.