Balzac's Contes Drolantiques. Droll Stories, Collected From the Abbeys of Touraine.
by Balzac, Honore de
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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By Dunblane, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Privately Printed, 1915. Half-Leather. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Robida, A.. Half pale tan leather with red leather title label, green cloth covers, unusual blue floral endpapers. Titling slightly offset, in good condition, minor rubbing etc, hinges in good order. Tidy internally, toning to the pages, light browning to the title and frontispiece. Black and white full page illustrations throughout by A. Robida, original owners stamp at the top of the title of Captain C. Gentry-Birch (Royal Berkshire Regiment) who is listed in George V's birthday honours for military distinction. No date circa 1915. Pages; (4), VIII, 366.
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- Bookseller
- Bensons Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016400
- Title
- Balzac's Contes Drolantiques. Droll Stories, Collected From the Abbeys of Touraine.
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Illustrator
- Robida, A.
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Fiction, short stories,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian Fiction 1900-1940;
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Bensons Antiquarian Books
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About the Seller
Bensons Antiquarian Books
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By Dunblane
About Bensons Antiquarian Books
We specialise in history, roman and greek classics, books dating from the 17th and 18th century, fine bindings and general second-hand stock.
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...