Search Results: droll stories collected from the abbeys by honore de balzac

UsedGood. No dust jacket

Printed Exclusively For The Bibl, 1907T. hardcover. Acceptable. . Cover shows heavy wear, tear, soiling, partially detached spine. Loose/torn hinges. Pages are lightly tanned with some tidemarks. A copy in poor but readable condition.

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 ten shillings and sixpence.

Published for the Trade, London. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. No date found.....c.1900. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (red boards with title label on spine) show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Front hinge loosening but binding is still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

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

Garden City: Garden City, 1942. hardcover. fair. Ralph Barton. Missing dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards with gold botannical design on spine, and gold letters. Spine is somewhat darkened and gold is worn. Boards and spine are bumped. Front hinge is starting, webbing showing. Pages have no markings, but do have the occasional spot or fingerprint. Faint smoke smell. Illustrations are printed double sided on glossy paper and are tipped in. Garden City Publishing hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1942 edition, later printing (print code CL); 291 + 266 pages. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. 8vo (5.75"" x 8.5"") Edited by Ernest Boyd. This is an omnibus reprinting of a two volume edition originally printed by Liveright in 1928. French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799 -1850) was a founder of realism in European literature. An inspiration to Proust, Dickens, Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, and countless others, Balzac wrote works that were hailed for their multifaceted characters and exquisite… Read More

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.

London Balzac's Contes Drolatiques. Translated into English. Volume 2 only. Privately Printed. 309 toned pages. Several tiny spots on outside pages. Bumped corners and wear to head and heel of spine. Gilt titles and decoration on spine are dull. Several circular depressions on front cover. Undated. Our guess is circa 1890s. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Privately Printed.

Bell Publishing Company, 1977-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 7x5x1. Hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear. This book has been affected by damp basement storage conditions and has a slight musty smell with light foxing/dust dulling on page edges. Presented with protective clear book jacket cover. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

New York: Bell Publishing Co., 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6 x 9 in. Red paper boards. B&W illus. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor shelf wear, covers very clean. Binding tight and text unmarked, foxing to sides of text block. DJ is VERY GOOD ; price-clipped, edges worn with chips, overall rubbed and sunned. Fiction. Stax.

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.

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1977. 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dore, Gustave. Book is in VG condition with light rubbing to edges, bumping to spine ends & corners else a bright and solid copy. Dust jacket is in G condition with rubbing & chipping to edges, bumping & chipping to spine ends else still bright and intact. FOLCAS 4/21

London: Privately Printed, 1915. Half-Leather. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Robida, A.. Half pale tan leather with red leather title label, green cloth covers, unusual blue floral endpapers. Titling slightly offset, in good condition, minor rubbing etc, hinges in good order. Tidy internally, toning to the pages, light browning to the title and frontispiece. Black and white full page illustrations throughout by A. Robida, original owners stamp at the top of the title of Captain C. Gentry-Birch (Royal Berkshire Regiment) who is listed in George V's birthday honours for military distinction. No date circa 1915. Pages; (4), VIII, 366.

New York: Bell Pub. Co., 1977. (1977), 650pp, illus., red cloth w/ gilt design to cover & gilt desing & lettering to spine, corners bumped, slight shelfwear to cover, some smudges to fep, sun fading to dj spine, a couple small tears to dj, slight edgewear to dj, contents clean.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good -/Good +. Illus. by Gustave Dore.

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: Privately Printed/Limited Edition Bound in maroon cloth. No Date. Volume 2 only. Gilt on top edges. Paste-in bookplate of previous owner on the inside front cover. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

No place: Privately published. Soft cover. Very Good. No date. Paper covers. 348 pp. A solid copy with only light wear.

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!

UsedVeryGood. Minor shelf wear

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