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Very Good condition aesthetically pleasing complete six volume set, small 4 x 6 inch red cloth hardcovers, gilt lettering and decoration to front and spine. Top edges are gilt, bindings tight. Vol. II Flaubert has rubbing to cloth of front and back covers, else minimal shelfwear. Frontis portraits with protective tissues intac for all six volumes I, II, III, IV, V, VI. Note: the red cloth boards of Vol V Alphonse Daudet slightly lighter in tone, page edges are trimmed as opposed to the untrimmed other volumes, and there is no gilt signature present on front board indicating a possible different printing of the same edition. All are copyright 1903, and all but Daudet have 1905 on title page, with Daudet not dated. Each volume begins with an introduction, followed by the authors' works. Balzac: The Unknown Masterpiece, Seashore Drama, An Episode Under the Terror, La Grande Breteche, The Conscript, A Passion in the Desert; Flaubert: A Simple Heart, The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller, Herodias; Gautier: Tales: The Fleece of Gold, Arria Marcella, The Dead Leman, The Nest of Nightingales, Poems: Love at Sea, Ars Victrix, The Cloud, The Poet and the Crowd, The Portal, The Caravan, The Marsh, Earth and the Seasons, The Yellow Stains, The Chimera; Daudet: Letters from My Mill: The Beauclaire Diligence, Master Cornille's Secret, The Goat of Monsieur Seguin, The Pope's Mule, The Lighthouse of the Sanguinaires,The Cure of CuCugnan, Old Folks, The Death of the Dauphin, The Legend of the Man With the Golden Brain, The Three Low Masses, The Two Inns, The Elixir of the Reverend Father Gaucher; Monday Tales: The Last Class, The Game of Billiards, The Child Spy, Mothers, The Siege of Berlin, The Little Pies, The Pope is Dead. Book #2563. Size: 16mo - 6.5 Inches Tall. Seller Inventory # 2563
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