The Country Doctor; The Vendetta; Colonel Chabert by Balzac, Honore de; introduction by William P. Trent - 1903: Works of Honore de Balzac, Tours Edition; Volume XVIII

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.. Fair with no dust jacket. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, B&W frontispiece. . Spine sunned, covers slightly soiled, hinges starting, front quire loose, ffep slightly torn. FAIR. . B&W Illustrations. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. (xv), 407 pp .

The Caxton Publishing Company, 1899. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1899. No Edition Remarks. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Rough cut textblock edges. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning to free endpapers and pastedowns. Thumb-marking present. Light tearing to hinge. Light creasing to gutter. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Some splits to spine ends. White marks overall.

The Caxton Publishing Company, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. Caxton Edition. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to front and spine. From the Comedie Humaine. With illustrated frontispiece. Rough cut pages. Upper text block edge gilt. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and rear pastedown. A few edge tears and creases, as expected with rough cut paper. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Gilt is bright. Transparent sleeve.

George Barrie & Son, 1899. Hardcover. Good. Good + blue cloth hardcover with pasted on label to spine and gilt top page edges shows rubbing and fading to spine label, light rubbing with faint staining and soil to covers, light soil at end papers, name stamp at front end paper, open chipping with missing pieces stuck to pages opposite where reader did a messy job of separating uncut pages, along with some other light trace wear. 351 pages translated by George Burnham Ives and illustrated with four etchings. Actually, this remains a solid and perfectly readable copy of this edition of the classic work now for the first time completely translated into English.

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd. Hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: Macmillan & Co, 1901 Green cloth on boards with gilt titles on cover and spine. Top of folio edges are also gilt. Some off-setting on FFE otherwise clean contents with occasional light foxing around margins. Rough-cut pages.

ReadHowYouWant, 2007-01-03. Paperback. Good.

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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.

New York: G.W. Dillingham Co, 1898. Very Good. Later. Very good. Book shows rubbing at spine ends, corners, and edges, corners bumped, gold top foredge, pages faded with browned edges. 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.