Limited printing 323/1000. Dark maroon cloth over boards, paper spine label; gilt top edge; untrimmed fore and tail edges; laid paper; tissue-guarded frontispiece and interior etchings. Clean, square, lightly scuffed covers and spine; spine label is faded with some foxing; tightly bound; owner bookplate on front free end paper; clean interior with some light foxing; many leaves unopened at fore edge - never been read.. This novel, complete in one volume, is number 1 in 'Country Life' volumes of Works of Honore de Balzac. 8vo, 352 pp; illustrated with etchings.

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Bookseller: Madden Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19042
Title: The Country Doctor
Author: Honore de Balzac (Ives, trans)
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Philadelphia: George Barrie and Son
Date Published: 1898
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction, Literature;

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Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Spine Label: The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fore Edge: The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
Tail: The heel of the spine.
Unopened: A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...