The Droll Stories Of Honore De Balzac de Balzac Honore De:

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1932. Boards have light edgewear, spinecover tanning. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Watson-Guptill Publications, 1985. Jacket and boards have only light wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Blue Ribbon, 1932. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated by Steele Savage. Good hardcover. Pages light brown, clean text. Corners on cover rubbed and bent. Spine and edges of blue cloth cover faded and browned. Spine ends bumped. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

The Book League of America, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 371 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Some underlining. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned. Gilt lettering to spine is very heavily dulled.

London: Blue Ribbon Books, 1874. Pictorial front with decoration spine on brown cloth boards with pictorial end papers. Wear to spine head and tail. Internally contents are slightly shaken, as front hinge is cracked, pictorial endpapersbut generally a clean copy. Good+. xi + 553 pages. Contains the translator's preface stating that 'the present is the FIRST ENGLISH VERSION ever brought before the public', dated January 1874, although the translator is not named. Not dated but does not appear to be the first of this new edition with new illustrations specially made for this edition by Steele Savage. which are profuse. Written between 1832 and 1837 and inspired by Rabelais. B2B. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Savage, Steele. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Book League Of America [1946], 1946. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked decorative cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 371 pages; Description: x, 371, [1] p. Incl. Front. , illus. , plates. 22 cm. Subject: Short stories, French -- Translations into English.