Rabelais; Auguste Comte; Pierre Laffitte (being volumes XVII of 25)

Hardcover. Very Good/Not relevant. Legrand, Edy (gravée par Baudier, A and P, et Dill, R). Oeuvres Complètes Illustrées, Calmann-Levy, Paris, 1928; 4to, 200 x 260mm, pp 600, 478, including bibliography of the story; illustrated with several wood engravings; bound uniformly with the other separate volumes of the set listed here, in quarter maroon morocco, colour matching linen sides, titled and numbered gilt on the spine, untrimmed and with the original paper front cover bound in at the end; old, light water staining of the lower edges of the second volume but still a handsome volume in good condition; complete in itself. ... ... ... ... ... NOTE that although the volumes are listed individually, or at least to provide sensible linking of volumes, we're happy to discuss with you groupings up to the complete present collection at appropriate discounts. France, earlier a journalist, became a writer of a range of stories, many characterised by their ironic and sceptical tone. A firm socialist he was also a strong defender of liberal causes such as in the Dreyfus affair. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921 and the following year his entire literary output was put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a matter he considered a distinction.