Les Contes Drolatiques Colligez ez Abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumbered par le sieur de Balzac pour l esbattement des pantagruelistes et non aultres

De Balzac, Honore

Published by Librarie Garnier Freres, 1926

Condition: Good Hardcover

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Les Contes Drolatiques Colligez ez Abbayes de Touraine et mis en lumbered par le sieur de Balzac pour l esbattement des pantagruelistes et non aultres, Nouvelle Edition, Illustree de 425 dessins de Gustave Dore, Librarie Garnier Freres, Paris, 1926, No. 1335 out of 1500, 612 pp, quarter vellum, 9 x 7 , 4to. In good condition. Lovely and unique painted spine lightly faded, but clean and legible. Really quite amazing! Light toning and spotting to vellum, otherwise without flaw. Light chipping to marbled covers, minimal fading. Light scuffing to extremities. Marbled end papers clean. Text lightly toned at edges. Minimal foxing, if any. Binding tight and intact. Free of known ownership or markings. Please see photos. Dore illustrated edition of Balzac s Contes in an unusual quarter vellum binding with a wonderful pen and ink portrait of a Balzac character on the spine. The artist was R. Penault. The execution of most such painted bindings are much cruder, and without fine artistic quality of this example. Quite rare. Seller Inventory # COLI1926DJKN

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Title: Les Contes Drolatiques Colligez ez Abbayes ...

Publisher: Librarie Garnier Freres

Publication Date: 1926

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore.

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Chosen as Publishers Weekly's 2023 Bookstore of the Year! Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore. ... A buyer is eligible to receive a full refund if a book is not in the condition described.

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