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BiblioBazaar, 2009-12-17. Paperback. Good.

Louis Conrad, , 1927. Hardcover. Good. Paris, 1927; French text; rebound in blue cloth library binding; mild edge and corner wear; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; marbled end papers; only indication of ex-library is pencil notations on title page; interior pages in very good condition; interior clean and unmarked; 393 pages

Paris: Levavasseur, 1830. FIRST EDITION. 197 x 127 mm. (7 3/4 x 5"). Two volumes.. Appealing rose-colored morocco by Fletcher Battershall (stamp-signed on front turn-in with his distinctive bat device), covers with mitered frame of double gilt rules, topiary cornerpieces, raised bands, spine compartments framed in gilt with leaf cornerpieces, gilt titling, turn-ins with gilt rules and leaves at corners, top edges gilt. Front pastedowns with large wood-engraved bookplate of the binder. Vicaire I, 181. ◆A dozen leaves spotted (four of these noticeably so), scarcely perceptible uniform fading to spines, but IN FINE CONDITION, the text otherwise clean, bright, and fresh, and the bindings with lustrous leather, glittering gilt, and virtually no wear. This is a pleasing copy of an early work in Balzac's celebrated multi-volume "Comédie Humaine," offered here in excellent amateur bindings by scholar, collector, connoisseur, and binder Fletcher W. Battershall. A lawyer by trade, Battershall (1866-1929)… Read More