At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, and other Stories. [Translated by Clara Bell. Introduction by George Saintsbury.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
by BALZAC Honore de
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- Hardcover
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Dent,, [1914]. 8vo., front free endpaper lightly browned; original series binding of red ribbed cloth, upper board framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, red top, pictorial endpapers, backstrip lightly sunned else a very good, bright, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. First published in EL in 1908. EL 349; Seymour 54.0. SCARCE.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48644
- Title
- At the Sign of the Cat and Racket, and other Stories. [Translated by Clara Bell. Introduction by George Saintsbury.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
- Author
- BALZAC Honore de
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dent,
- Date Published
- [1914]
- Keywords
- everyman's library, everymans library, balzac honore de balzac
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- Gilt
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