Search Results: droll stories thirty tales by honore de balzac

The Heritage Press, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Heritage Press, 1939. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Heritage Press, January 1939. Hardcover. Used - Good/No Jacket.

The Heritage Press, January 1939. Hardcover. Used - Good/No Jacket. Spine softening

New York: The Heritage Press, 1939. (1939), 507pp, illus., slight shelfwear to cover, no dj, contents clean.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Boris Artzybasheff.

Heritage Press, 1939 reprint. Illustrated. HARDCOVER. NO SLIPCASE OR DUST JACKET. Cover is a little edge worn. Text is unmarked. Binding is strong and square. NOT ex-library.

New York: The Heritage Press. 1939. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Minor age-tanning to pages. Pencilled price on ffep. Heritage Club newsletter inserted.. "The translation copyright 1932 by the Limited Editions Club, the special contents of this edition copyright 1939 by the Heritage Press. " Bibliography: p. [xxiii] .

New York: Heritage Press, 1939. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover - in Slipcase. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. Artzybasheff, Boris (illustrator); 65 b/w Illustrations. Tall 8vo. xxvii, [3], 507 pages. Translator's preface, plus the forewords of the original French publications (dated 1855). In original publisher's heavy stock slipcase.

The Heritage Press. hardcover. Very Good. 8x6x2.

The Heritage Club. 1939. Hardcover. UsedGood. Hardcover; translated into modern English by Jacques Le Clerq, and printed with illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff for members of The Heritage Club; fading to spine and front edges; light staining at bottom edge of back cove r; otherwise in good condition with clean text, firm binding. Includes The Heritage Sandglass, Number 9B. No slipcase. .

New York: Heritage Press, 1939. Cloth, xxvii, 507 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Slipcase with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Printed with illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff.. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Artzybasheff, Boris. 8vo.

Heritage Press, 1939. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: The Heritage Press, 1939. F/VG. Translated into modern English by Jacques Le Clercq. Illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff. A very nice book with a sunned slip case.

NY: Heritage Press. Very Good. 1932,1939. special ed. HARDCOVER. 6x9". VERY GOOD CONDITION , CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT BOOK,..has SANDGLASS .in complete, GOOD but edgeworn original dark red case box. ; GOLD SPINE TITLES & 2" ILUST....all on dark Red Cloth hardcovers..; 507pg pages; LE CLERCQ, James trans....IN GOOD ORIGINAL BOX...INCLUDES SANDGLASS promotional newsletter (2-K...no date) .

The Heritage Press, 1/1/1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Chipping to slip case. Slip case sunned. <br> The Heritage Press operated from 1937 - 1982 and was created by George Macy. Heritage reprinted the lovely volumes of the Limited Editions Club. Heritage was established to give these works a wider audience by making them more affordable and widely available. Every book was selected by Heritage's editors as a classic in its field, chosen from the world's best-known and most enduring literature.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1939. Hardcover. Maroon cloth over boards with gilt lettering and gold knight drawing on spine. Illustrated with dozens of semi-erotic black and white illustrations. Heritage Club notes (Sandglass Number 2K) laid-in. A Very Good book with no dust jacket or slipcase. Impression seal with prior owner's name to FFEP, no other markings observed. Spine straight, corners and spine ends lightly frayed. No jacket. Not from a library. xxvii + 507 pages.
Set in medieval Europe, the Droll Stories were Balzac's attempt to write in the great tradition of Rabelais and Boccaccio, to render the Middle Ages with a touch of raunchy humor, and to provide a delightful portrait of medieval France. Balzac took the old themes that had delighted his ancestors—the tales of faithless wives and confiding husbands, of monks incredibly endowed for amorous athleticism, of lusty wenches and adventurous lads, and of great bouts of eating and drinking.
Contents: The First Ten Tales: Prologue; The… Read More

New York: Heritage Press. Good. No Jacket Very Good. No Jacket 8vo-over 7Ã,¾"-9Ã,¾" tall. Very good no slipcase on this special edition printing by Heritage Press in 1939 of Balozac's famous Thirty Droll Stories. Clean and tight thoughout, personal lib stamp inside cover, boards with extremities only rubbed a little, spine with personal library # ( from large estate) and light sun coloring, nice copy! . Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 1939.

New York: The Heritage Press, 1939. Copyright 1939, this edition most likly printed in the early 1960s. Maroon cloth with spine printed in black, gray and gilt, 507 pages, maroon slipcase. Minor spine fading, good hinges, firm text block, some age-toning to endpapers, pages very clean and unmarked. The slipcase has some very minor rubbing, structurally sound.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Heritage Press. Very Good+. [c.1960s-70s]. Hardcover. A handsome reprint edition of 30 amusing (sometimes bawdy) stories by the acclaimed French author of "La Comédie humaine." Translated from the French and with a preface by Jacques Le Clercq, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff. Volume bears 1939 date but more likely published c.1960s-70s. Sandglass leaflet laid in (New York, no. VIII: 29). --- In full maroon cloth, gilt titling & illustration on spine; red topstain. Volume housed in maroon paper-covered slipcase. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy though with slight soiling to cloth. Slipcase with small tears and scratches, else structurally sound. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.); Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); xxvii, 507 pages .

New York: Heritage, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good. Special. Very good Light browning of pages. Cover rubbed. With a stain. 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.