Description:
Old Father Goriot by Honore De BalzacCollins - Clear-Type Press, n.d. circa 1920s. Hardcover 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Crimson cloth, gilt titles design on the spine. With illustrations by J. E. Sutcliffe. 344 pp, with a list of Collins' titles in the rear. A vintage book, unmarked and in very good condition, with a slight lean to the spine.
About the book: Weaving a compelling and panoramic story of love, money, self-sacrifice, corruption, greed and ambition, Old Man Goriot is Balzac's acknowledged masterpiece. A key novel in his Comédie Humaine series, it is a vividly realized portrait of bourgeois Parisian society in the years following the French Revolution.
