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Old Goriot (Le Pere Goriot)
by Balzac, Honore De
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
NY and London: The Heritage Press & The Nonesuch Press. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. N.D.. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over printed boards, gilt lettering on spine, nd (c. 1950). Illustrated with color drawings by Rene Ben Sussan. Translated from the French by Ellen Marriage. Introduction by Francois Mauriac. . Spine sunned, former owner's name on ffep, small black stain on title page, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Color Illustrations. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. XV, (iii), 317 pp .
Synopsis
The son of a civil servant, Honoré de Balzac was born in 1799 in Tours, France. After attending boarding school in Vendôme, he gravitated to Paris where he worked as a legal clerk and a hack writer, using various pseudonyms, often in collaboration with other writers. Balzac turned exclusively to fiction at the age of thirty and went on to write a large number of novels and short stories set amid turbulent nineteenth-century France. He entitled his collective works The Human Comedy . Along with Victor Hugo and Dumas père and fils , Balzac was one of the pillars of French romantic literature. He died in 1850, shortly after his marriage to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska, his lover of eighteen years.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27502
- Title
- Old Goriot (Le Pere Goriot)
- Author
- Balzac, Honore De
- Illustrator
- Rene Ben Sussan
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition Thus. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Heritage Press & The Nonesuch Press
- Place of Publication
- NY and London
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Keywords
- Heritage Press;, Nonesuch Press;
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Round Table Books, LLC
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Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- ND
- no publisher's date given
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Title Page
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- Sunned
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- First Edition
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