Ten Droll Tales
by BALZAC, Honore De
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rarity Press, 1931. Hardcover. Introduction by Andre Maurois. Translation by J. Lewis May. Illustrations by Jean de Bosschere. Small 4to. Lavender cloth with silver spine lettering and decoration. xvii, 218pp. Color frontispiece, full-page illustrations (some color). Very good. Faint binding edgewear. A tight and nice copy of these saucy French tales with racy line drawings. To cite subtitle: "Being the Story of the Fair Imperia, the Venial Sin, the Merrie Diversions of His Most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, Together With Certain Other Quaint and Piquant Histories Making Up the First Decade of the Droll Tales....
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46328
- Title
- Ten Droll Tales
- Author
- BALZAC, Honore De
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rarity Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1931
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; World Literature;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.