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Pere Goriot
by Balzac, Honore De
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Handsomely bound in full deep blue leatherette lettered and decorated in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread, good hinges, firm text block, clean pages, no names or other markings. . Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy . Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils , Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 042787
- Title
- Pere Goriot
- Author
- Balzac, Honore De
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- CLASSIC LITERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History; Fine Bindings, Distinctive Press, Early Printing;
Terms of Sale
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East Granby, Connecticut
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Glossary
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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
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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