Ten Droll Tales: Being The Story of the Fair Imperia, The Venial Sin, The Merrie Diversions of His Most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories making up the first decade of the droll tales of Master Honoré de Balzac
by Balzac, Honore de
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London: The Abbey Library, Undated. Hardcover. Very good. Jean de Bosschère. Translated from the French by J. Lewis May with an introduction (printed in English and in French) by André Maurois. 24pp b&w plates by Jean de Bosschère. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Light tanning to the text paper. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket.
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- Ten Droll Tales: Being The Story of the Fair Imperia, The Venial Sin, The Merrie Diversions of His Most Christian Majesty King Louis the Eleventh, together with certain other quaint and piquant histories making up the first decade of the droll tales of Master Honoré de Balzac
- Author
- Balzac, Honore de
- Illustrator
- Jean de Bosschère
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- Hardcover
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- The Abbey Library
- Place of Publication
- London
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- Undated
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