Droll Stories Collected From the Abbeys Of Touraine

London: Privately Printed, 1901. This handsome, uncut two-volume set of Balzac's humorous and erotic goings-on during France's Middle Ages is illustrated with six laid-in photogravure plates with tissue guards. The books are in Very Good condition. Although the Translator's Preface from 1874 states that this is the first English translation of Balzac's comic masterpiece, the books themselves were… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, London, 1874. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Poor Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Gustave Dore. Size: 8vo. xxxii + 646pp. Hinges cracked. Spine cocked and worn. Previous owner's book-plate laid in and address in ink. Edges browned and marked. Top edge gilt in good condition. Final pages absent. This copy ends at p.… Read more about this item

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.

London: John Camden Hotten, [1874]. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5.5". Gustave Dore. The collected humorous short stories of Honore de Balzac, here translated into English, with over four-hundred engravings by Gustave Dore. A complete and unabridged English translation of Balzac's 'Droll Stories', a series of Rabelaisian, lively short stories.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and over four-hundred full-paged… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, 1874. Hardback. Very Good. Gustave Dore. English illustrated edition hardback in Balzac’s Contes Drolatiques series, 1874, with no jacket as issued. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - marbled-paper boards quarter bound in tan leather, the spine with five raised bands, gilt decoration and maroon leather… Read more about this item

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.

London: Published for the Trade, 1874. First English edition illustrated by Gustave Dore of Balzac's Contes Drolatiques. Translator's Preface dated London, January, 1874; only date present and stating this is the first English translation. Spine label w/original price of Ten Shillings and Sixpence. Brick red full-cloth boards, label at spine, moderate corner, edge wear, label chip, rub. … Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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

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: 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. … Read more about this item

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!

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.

London: William Mitchell & Company Translated into English, complete and unabridged. (No date, 1890's) 26 engravings by Dore. 489 pp. Yellowed endpapers, with previous owner's name on ffep. Red cloth with gilt titles and black line drawings. Corners bumped, spine slightly faded with head and tail lightly worn. VG. Illus. by Dore, Gustave.… Read more about this item

Cornell University Library, 2009-06-01. Paperback. Good.

William Reeves, 1874. First Edition. Hardback. Fine. Full red cloth. Not dated. Illustrated with 425 designs by Dore. 651 pp Fine fresh copy.

Hardcover. Good. Sold by the Charity Langdon: Supporting men & women with Disabilities. Some tearing to dust jacket. Some page discolouration.

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.

HardPress Publishing, 2013-01-28. Paperback. Good.

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.