Search Results: droll stories collected from the abbeys by honore de balzac

UsedGood. No dust jacket

Printed Exclusively For The Bibl, 1907T. hardcover. Acceptable. . Cover shows heavy wear, tear, soiling, partially detached spine. Loose/torn hinges. Pages are lightly tanned with some tidemarks. A copy in poor but readable condition.

Paperback. Very Good.

Hardcover. Good. Sold by the Charity Langdon: Supporting men & women with Disabilities. Some tearing to dust jacket. Some page discolouration.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1874. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Poor Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Gustave Dore. Size: 8vo. xxxii + 646pp. Hinges cracked. Spine cocked and worn. Previous owner's book-plate laid in and address in ink. Edges browned and marked. Top edge gilt in good condition. Final pages absent. This copy ends at p. 646, contents notes epilogue begins at p. 649. Covers marked. Corners bumped. Illustrated. Illustrator: Gustave Dore. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; 19th century; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 37605. .

Privately Printed, 1900-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Privately Printed, London, 1900. Hardcover, no dustjacket, lightly shelfworn. Minor wear to spine ends & corners of boards. Binding firm, text & images bright.

Published for the Trade. Hardcover. USED Fair/No Jacket. NOTE THAT 'DROLL STORIES' HAS WORN OFF THE SPINE, and it just reads 'Collected from The Abbeys of Tourain'. No jacket. Binding badly cracked before the translator's preface. No publication or copyright date given, but appears to be late 1800s to early 1900s. Cover price is ten shillings and sixpence.

Publisher, 1874. Hardcover. Acceptable. Fair hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1874 EDITION. Ex-Library (college) with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Book rebound with newer covers by library and shows edge wear with rubbing. Hinge cracked but binding intact. Book shelf-cocked. Still very readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Published for the Trade, London. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. No DJ. No date found.....c.1900. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers (red boards with title label on spine) show edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Front hinge loosening but binding is still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London: privately printed. 1st Edition thus? . Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Siegel. Printed circa 1925. Thick volume. Gold-stamped black cloth, light-struck spine. No names, clean text. Handsome b/w artwork. 17,000 PB shelf

London: For the trade. hardcover. Book: Good. 12mo.. 293 pp. 5 1/2 x 7 7/8. Red cloth covered boards with printed white title pastedown on spine. No dj. Cloth a little faded at spine; pastedown label a little scuffed. Ownership markings ifc.

Unknown Binding. Fair. NO DUST JACKET. SPINE BIT FADED. Sold by the charity Langdon: Supporting men & Women with Disabilities.

Bell Publishing Company, 1977-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 7x5x1. Hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear. This book has been affected by damp basement storage conditions and has a slight musty smell with light foxing/dust dulling on page edges. Presented with protective clear book jacket cover. Previous owner's name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Garden City: Garden City, 1942. hardcover. fair. Ralph Barton. Missing dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards with gold botannical design on spine, and gold letters. Spine is somewhat darkened and gold is worn. Boards and spine are bumped. Front hinge is starting, webbing showing. Pages have no markings, but do have the occasional spot or fingerprint. Faint smoke smell. Illustrations are printed double sided on glossy paper and are tipped in. Garden City Publishing hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1942 edition, later printing (print code CL); 291 + 266 pages. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. 8vo (5.75"" x 8.5"") Edited by Ernest Boyd. This is an omnibus reprinting of a two volume edition originally printed by Liveright in 1928. French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799 -1850) was a founder of realism in European literature. An inspiration to Proust, Dickens, Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, and countless others, Balzac wrote works that were hailed for their multifaceted characters and exquisite… Read More

New York: Bell Publishing Co., 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6 x 9 in. Red paper boards. B&W illus. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor shelf wear, covers very clean. Binding tight and text unmarked, foxing to sides of text block. DJ is VERY GOOD ; price-clipped, edges worn with chips, overall rubbed and sunned. Fiction. Stax.

London : privately printed, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 468p. Subjects; Short stories, French ; Translations into English. France Social life and customs ; Fiction.

Bibliophilist Library, 1907. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original red cloth, paper spine label, top edge gilt (heavy wear; hinges loose and binding shaken, paper label chipped; ink name).Gustave Dore.

New York: Bell Pub. Co., 1977. (1977), 650pp, illus., red cloth w/ gilt design to cover & gilt desing & lettering to spine, corners bumped, slight shelfwear to cover, some smudges to fep, sun fading to dj spine, a couple small tears to dj, slight edgewear to dj, contents clean.. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good -/Good +. Illus. by Gustave Dore.

London: London: William Mitchell & Company, 1901, 1901. First Thus. Very good in thick red cloth Hardcover with tissue-guarded frontis engraving. 490 pages, untrimmed paper with many line drawings and full-page engraving plates throughout. Original paper p aste-on label on spine. Rear hinge weak.. Very Good.

London: Privately Printed/Limited Edition Bound in maroon cloth. No Date. Volume 2 only. Gilt on top edges. Paste-in bookplate of previous owner on the inside front cover. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.