Robida Balzac (61 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. A. Robida (illustrator). Red cloth with beige pasted paper spine label, black lettering. Translated into English complete and unabridged. With forty-eight illustrations by A. Robida. Light general soiling and spotting to boards. Thick red remainder mark to lower closed outside edge. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Hinge cracked but not broken at Contents page.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No date. Paper covers. 348 pp. A solid copy with only light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Robida, A. (illustrator). 'Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine' by Balzac. Illustrated by A. Robida. Privately printed. Slight rubbing and marks to boards. Good. No dust jacket 0.

Condition: New.

468pp. 8vo Illustrated in black and white by A. Robida Green cloth with paper spine label Preface dated London, 1874. This is a later printing. Hinges beginning to crack, light edge rubbing: VG/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robida, A (illustrator). Undated, circa 1920s. viii, 366pp; fifty black and white engraved plates all by A Robida. Red cloth-covered boards, blind embossed border on front, gilt titles on spine. Top edge gilt, remaining untrimmed. 8vo. Spine sunned, bumped at ends. Light staining to covers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. No dust jacket. 8vo. The first English version of the Contes Drolatiques.

Condition: New.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. A Robida (illustrator). None Stated. The first English translation of a collection of 30 stories portraying French life and manners in the 16th century. Contains 48 illustration by a Robida. Privately printed in London circa 1874. Half-leather binding w/gilt on the page tops. Some wear to the boards. A good to very good copy.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. A Robida (illustrator). dust jacket is in fair condition, age related minor nicks and rips, dulled, frontispiece with tissue guard, 366pp, pages nice and clean and overall very good condition.

Condition: Very Good-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A. Robida (illustrator). 1st Edition. Privately Printed, no date - circa 1874. Unabridged English Translation. Illustrations by A. Robida. Octavo. viii, 366pp. Original maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. Spine slightly faded, minor rubbing and fraying to extremities. Slight staining to head of text-block. Some off-setting to end papers and occasional marginal foxing within. Overall a 'Very Good' copy.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A Robida (illustrator). Reprint. Original maroon cloth, pp.viii, 366. Bw ills by A Robida. Privately printed. Spine gilt dull but legible. Otherwise a clean and sound copy. VG Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Robida, A. (illustrator). 'Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine' by Balzac. Illustrated by A. Robida. Privately printed. Very good in slightly torn and faded jacket. 0.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Halbleinen. Condition: Gut. Robida, A. (illustrator). ohne Jahresangabe, Exlibris, schön illustriert Size: gr. 8 °. Buch.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A. Robida (illustrator). A complete and unabridged English translation of this short-story collection by French writer Honore de Balzac. A complete and unabridged English translation of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.Undated, dated from a copy held by Hathi Trust.With fifty full-page illustrations by French artist and novelist, Albert Robida, who also edited and published 'La Caricature' magazine for twelve years. Collated, complete.'Droll Stories' is a collection of humorous short stories by French novelist and playwright Honore de Balzac, largely influenced by Francois Rabelais and set in medieval and Renaissance France. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Rebacked with the original spine laid down. Externally, smart, with slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting and the odd spot to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. WITH FORTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. ROBIDA (illustrator). Brown cover with paper spine title. Secure binding with a top spine shift and clean pages. Undated circa 1920. 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 with 468 pages. Illustrated. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Tallandier 1929. 3 volumes in-8 brochés, illustrés par Robida. Colelctions les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'esprit. Bon état.

Half Leather. Condition: Good. A.ROBIDA (illustrator). French Text.Half Light Brown Calf Leather with marbled paper sides four raised bands to spine, black title slips with gilt titles and decorative gilt compartments, 3 vols complete. 255 x 170 mm approx. 100 full page Illustrations (incl. frontispieces) by A.Robida as called for + many other unspecified illustrations in text.Published by Jules Tallandier. Undated but printers code at rear would indicate Feb 1925 for vol I and Feb 1927 for vols II & III. Marbled end papers, Applied two colour head and tail bands,Green silk markers. Good (Heavy Rubbing to extremities with loss to tail of vol I and Head of Vol III, Mild to moderate bumping to some corners, binding otherwise sound with no cracks to end papers. No previous owner names. Some pages un opened. A total of 8 of the full page illustrations have been hand coloured in watercolour by an accomplished hand. An attractive set despite the stated faults). Please see our images of the actual set offered for sale.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. c. 1900. 3 parts in two vols. III,(3),396; 376 p. Halfleather with marbled boards, top edge gilt, 4to. Bound with original wrappers. Unnumbered copy. Spine with mild rubbing, else good. [BW.1.34].

Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. no date (c. 1900), odd volume, in half-leather and marbled boards, spine decorated in the French style, marbled endpapers, original coloured wraps bound in, very good. Approx. 300 illustrations in this volume, some as plates, some in text.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Couverture souple. Illustrations de A. Robida. (illustrator). Livre en français. Illustrations de A. Robida. Broché. 254 pages. Rousseurs. Littérature : 19e siècle. Livre.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. A. Robida (illustrator). 3 tomes en un grand volume in-8 de III-262, VI-252 et VII-252 pp.; demi-basane marron, dos à cinq nerfs (reliure légèrement postérieure). Collection Les chef-d'oeuvre de l'esprit. Illustrations en noir in et hors texte d'Albert Robida. Quelques légères rousseurs.